To the healing fountain!

[wickedcultured]

Characters: Genesis Rhapsodos and Angeal Hewley
Progress: Ongoing
Summary: Genesis goes to pick up Angeal and take him to the Evil Forest to be healed by the Healing Fountain, as per Sephiroth's request (not that Genesis would refuse).
Location: Troia then Evil Forest
Date: June 8th
Warnings: None

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[wickedcultured]

That was one thing he wished he had done as well. He wished he had talked to Sephiroth, gotten him to defect as well. He waited too long and strained their friendship to the point of breaking, to the point that when Genesis did finally go for help...

"You will rot." Had been his words and were they really so undeserving? Genesis shook his head. "The company would never have taken us back. They would have done the same as Lazard and Hollander had done. Bribed us, made false promises. Angeal, they never cured me. Over four years, I degraded. My hair was white, my skin was practically in ashes... nothing. I had never been close to being cured until I found the Goddess Materia within the Banora Mines."

Genesis swallowed lightly and looked down into his lap. There was no cure for them. And right now, Angeal was the one degrading. It was why he agreed to go to the Evil Forest. Sephiroth had no reason to lie and really, if the Healing Fountain was as revered as Sephiroth made it out to be, then there was no reason for it to be poisoned either. Genesis may have been mad at Sephiroth, may have hated for a time, if there was one thing the redhead knew about the former General, it was that he never lied.

[boundinhonour]

Angeal laid quietly on the sand listening to the little shifts, or lack thereof, that Genesis made in his his silence before speaking up; making Angeal breathe a little easier. He wasn't sure what the redhead would have been doing, but it was hard to tell with his body degrading.

"They probably wouldn't have. Not as General's anyway." He managed to say despite his stomach twisting and knotting up at the thoughts. "But they would have taken us back to heal us, at least. They wanted super SOLDIERS. They wold have kept us to run tests. That's when we would have left, after we were healed." Where they would have gone after that he didn't know, but it would have been better than dying or being test rats for the rest of their lives.

"..." Which, of course, got Angeal thinking about his own life back home. Or rather, what he was told he would be soon enough. "Sephiroth... told me I was going to die soon." He paused, opening his eyes and looking over to Genesis. "Back home, anyway."

[wickedcultured]

Genesis raised his legs up to rest his arms on his knees with a heavy sigh. "They wouldn't have let us go so easily. I told you, there is no cure. They would promise it, but they wouldn't have kept it. I doubt even Hojo would have known the cure had he wanted to try and figured it out. You put too much faith in a corrupt company, Angeal.

"Zack and Cloud were unlucky enough to experience that themselves," Genesis finished.

When Angeal revealed what Sephiroth had told him, he nodded. "You are. But not by the degradation. Though it is part of the reason." He looked to Angeal, his eyes boring into his friend's. "Zack, as per your orders and persistence, killed you. Now that you have your wings, you feel like a monster and that self-loathing and self-hatred festered in your heart and until you finally decided to end it."