I don't own any of the characters in this story, but you already knew that…but it would be really cool if I did! Anyway…on with the show!

(cloud pov)

"He's waking up"

'huh' was all I could think. I seemed to be safe. 'What happened?' I slowly open my eyes because they feel like they have lead weights on them. I saw what looked like a hospital room.

"You've been out for quite a while." I roll my eyes over to a man dressed in standard doctor apparel with short brown hair.

"What happened," I voiced my earlier thought. My voice barely worked and it really hurt to talk.

"We found you on Mount Nibel. It seems you fell off of the bridge…Can you tell me your name?"

'Strange that name seems familiar' "Cloud Strife…What do you mean found me on a mountain?"

"You were found unconscious on Mount Nibel about a week ago. What do you remember?"

'What do I remember…there's my name and…uh…' "Nothing" I reply surprised at myself

"Well where do you live?"

"I don't know"

"It seems you have suffered a concussion that has triggered amnesia along with a broken left wrist." The doctor explained to as he figured this out himself.

"What's 'amnesia'?"

"It is in all basics a synaptic misfire in the portion of the brain used for recollection causing a loss of information held there"

'were those words?' I just blinked at him stupidly. 'Does he not know that I'm nine years old?'

"Oh…sorry…you lost your memory."

'I lost my memory? That's just great' I nodded at him "oh…I think ill go to sleep."

"Okay" and he walked out of the room.

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(normal pov)

Professor and lead scientist Peter Hojo walked down the halls of the hospital with a severely pissed off air about him. Apparently someone had administered the wrong drug to a mako poisoning patient and had gone into shock. Normally he wouldn't have cared but the offending physician was a subordinate of his under his tutelage. Having dealt with that, he was back on his way to his lab which he was pulled from in the middle of an experiment to deal with the mistake. 'Gods that if that boy screws up again he will end up as my patient,' Hojo thought already making plans for the inevitable mistake that was to befall the student. That made his day brighter very quickly and just in time too as he walked past his star pupil Harlod Stevens.

"Stevens, how is the boy"

"Hello Professor, he woke up today. Unfortunately he has amnesia and remembers nothing but his name. Why so interested?

"No reason" unknown to the med student it was because Hojo had seen the boys charts and as it turns out the boy, having lived in a mako rich environment, had large amounts of mako already in his blood but it seemed he had more than he should even for people from Nibelheim and Hojo saw it fit to exploit this as it seemed the boy had a high tolerance to it 'I could use him for that new project that I have discovered. He knows his name so he'll try to find the parents, Ill have to work quickly.' Hojo immediately headed for the exit and into his office. He found the transfer of patient forms and filled them out and approved them as he was the head of the facility. 'There, now to page him.'

Stevens arrived at Hojo office about three minutes later "Is there something you needed, Professor?"

"Yes, I'm taking patient number 20643 off of your list of worries considering it is just a boy and we just had a SOLDIER come in that had his leg cut off and I would like you to handle it" Gods he loved serious injuries to soldiers. It avoids other doctors questions about his motivations. If they knew what he did he would have had the death penalty carried out long ago.

"Okay, thank you sir" Stevens hurried out to his next patient already forgetting about the earlier problem.

Hojo phoned his secretary "Have patient 20643 transported to the Midgar lab"

"Yessir" came the prompt response

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okay working title and open for suggestion from pairings to plot but i have a basic premise. constuctive critisism is welcomed