His face softens, and for a moment, the old Genesis, from before the accident, shines out. Sephiroth's heart leaps again. Maybe he could be saved. Maybe the two of them can do it. Maybe Sephiroth's cells really could help him - maybe that injustice two years ago, when he was barred from donating blood, was another of Hojo's little atrocities.
But wing or no wing, Genesis can't very well fly them directly out of a sealed room in the heart of a mountain. In fact, it's hard to say if Genesis could fly them anywhere at all - with his degradation, did he even have the strength to bear the two of them (with Sephiroth's size and weight) anywhere? On one wing?
Sephiroth squeezes Genesis's hand. "Let's leave," he agrees, and turns, one hand still in Genesis's, holding hands as though they were children. (As though they were...)
Zack Fair stands in the doorway to the outside.
Sephiroth pauses. He wasn't sure whether Zack would have regained the ability to stand at this point, after a head injury like that. Perhaps his skull is thicker than the average SOLDIER. He watches the man carefully, warily. Zack...
Zack...
...replaces his sword at his back, and holds his hands up, in a soothing gesture, as though talking down a flighty chocobo. "Alright," he says, "I get it."
He gets it?
And then, of all things, Zack exaggeratedly winks. "I get it. You're pretending to join Genesis to get him to let his guard down, and then we'll arrest him. Good thinking, Sephiroth!"
Sephiroth opens his mouth, he thinks to correct the man, but the strangeness and audacity of this interaction stuns him into silence, leaving his mouth open like some slack-jawed idiot.
Zack glances at a point over Sephiroth's shoulder, possibly making eye contact with Genesis, and then continues: "It's a good thing he agreed to come quietly, so we can keep Cloud and Tifa safe on our way back down Mt. Nibel, too. Especially since I'm still a little dizzy. I might be so dizzy that I'd have to lie down immediately after we get back to town, so it would be up to the ranking officer on this mission to take him formally into custody." He gives a smile, one that is calculated to look innocent but shows too many teeth. "You didn't say anything that would change that about a minute ago, did you? Because I didn't hear anything."
It is in this moment that Sephiroth realizes how Angeal came to be so enamored of this kid.
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But wing or no wing, Genesis can't very well fly them directly out of a sealed room in the heart of a mountain. In fact, it's hard to say if Genesis could fly them anywhere at all - with his degradation, did he even have the strength to bear the two of them (with Sephiroth's size and weight) anywhere? On one wing?
Sephiroth squeezes Genesis's hand. "Let's leave," he agrees, and turns, one hand still in Genesis's, holding hands as though they were children. (As though they were...)
Zack Fair stands in the doorway to the outside.
Sephiroth pauses. He wasn't sure whether Zack would have regained the ability to stand at this point, after a head injury like that. Perhaps his skull is thicker than the average SOLDIER. He watches the man carefully, warily. Zack...
Zack...
...replaces his sword at his back, and holds his hands up, in a soothing gesture, as though talking down a flighty chocobo. "Alright," he says, "I get it."
He gets it?
And then, of all things, Zack exaggeratedly winks. "I get it. You're pretending to join Genesis to get him to let his guard down, and then we'll arrest him. Good thinking, Sephiroth!"
Sephiroth opens his mouth, he thinks to correct the man, but the strangeness and audacity of this interaction stuns him into silence, leaving his mouth open like some slack-jawed idiot.
Zack glances at a point over Sephiroth's shoulder, possibly making eye contact with Genesis, and then continues: "It's a good thing he agreed to come quietly, so we can keep Cloud and Tifa safe on our way back down Mt. Nibel, too. Especially since I'm still a little dizzy. I might be so dizzy that I'd have to lie down immediately after we get back to town, so it would be up to the ranking officer on this mission to take him formally into custody." He gives a smile, one that is calculated to look innocent but shows too many teeth. "You didn't say anything that would change that about a minute ago, did you? Because I didn't hear anything."
It is in this moment that Sephiroth realizes how Angeal came to be so enamored of this kid.