A/N: This a collection of one-shots that aren't connected to one another. But, they are one-shots that take place in between chapter of my main fic, Beyond the Sands Of Time. Each One-Shot deals with characters in the fic itself and situations that aren't completely explained in my main fic. They are mostly told in third person. Hope you Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Final Fantasy 7 characters from either the games, the short anime, or the movie. I do, however, proudly own Silvia and Shadow and all ideas pretaining to them except for anything pretaining directly to Deepground.

PLACEMENT: Between chapters 5 and 6.

Chapter 1: Reeve's Secretary

Silvia walked happily down the hallways toward Reeves' office. She had been very excited when Tseng had explained to Silvia that Reeve himself had requested her to be his secretary for the day. Rufus had agreed to let his Bodyguard help the Urban Development Leader for the day since Rufus and Tseng were busy getting ready to introduce a new Turk to their ranks.

Shadow followed sedately behind the teen as she hurried down the hallway to the elevators after leaving Rufus's office.

"I do not know why you are so happy about helping the man, Child." Shadow finally said once they entered the elevator.

"Reeve is a nice man and I haven't really talked to him since the time we delivered that folder to him a while ago. Plus, he has some rather good ideas for improving life in Midgar's slums. If only people would actually listen to the guy." Silvia answered as the elevator began its decent.

Shadow began to laugh making the growl/purring sounds Silvia had come to recognize. The Ex-Tsviet just shook her head at her friend. It wasn't her fault she enjoyed Reeve's company. She loved the way he talked so vehemently whenever he spoke about ideas to improve the lives of those in the Slums. It was nice to talk to someone who actually cared about the people.

Silvia was brought out of her internal musing when the elevator dinged and the doors opened on the sixty-fifth floor. Stepping out of the elevator, Shadow and Silvia retraced their steps from their last visit to Reeve's office. Both were surprised to see his door open when they arrived. Peeking inside, Silvia immediately recognized Reeve staring intently at the full size replica of Midgar situated in the middle of his office.

Knocking slightly on the door, Silvia called, "Sir, are you busy?"

Reeve looked up in surprise but quickly smiled welcomingly when he saw the dark haired teen in the door way with her usually friend, Shadow, beside her. "Hello Silvia! Please, come in!"

Returning his smile, Silvia entered along with Shadow. She noticed smugly that even Shadow was smiling slightly. It would appear this man could make anyone feel welcome.

"It is nice to see you again Silvia! However, I have to run an errand that needs my immediate attention. Will you be okay by yourself for a few?" He explained.

"Of course. Shadow and I can take care of ourselves. Is there anything you want us to do while you are gone?" The blue-gray eyed teen asked.

Reeve nodded and motioned to a desk in the adjacent room. "If you could please tidy up a little and help me sort out the paperwork into piles depending on the sectors they relate too I will be very appreciative."

"Sure." Silvia replied before making her way toward the office. The head of the Urban Development grabbed a few papers lying on the table next to the Midgar model and nodded fair well to the girl. He quickly made his way out of the office but stopped halfway out the door.

"Oh! Before I forget; ignore the cat doll lying on the floor near the door. It is a pet project of mine I just haven't had the time to put away just yet."

"Alright." Silvia replied. Reeve nodded and turned and left the room. Immediately after his departure, Silvia got to work cleaning the desk off and sorting the paperwork into different piles depending on which sectors they entailed. Even Shadow helped clean up pieces of scrap paper and empty paper cups of coffee littering the floor. Both were so engrossed in their cleaning that neither noticed the eyes of the cat doll lying on the floor slowly flare to life with a bright red light.

Finally finished cleaning up the office and separating the paperwork, Silvia stood back to admire her work. "There! That should do it!"

Turning around, the Ex-Tsviet was about to grab the trash bag and set it out in the hallway for the janitor, when her eyes blinked in confusion and she froze in place.

"Uh, Shadow? Wasn't there a cat doll sitting there by the door a little while ago?" She asked completely puzzled.

The Shadow Beast looked over at the door where he had noticed the doll had been laying when they had first entered. But, the space the doll had occupied was now empty.

"The pen is mightier than the sword." A heavily accented voice spoke. Both looked at each other, completely confused. But, noticing the voice had come from either Silvia or Shadow, they slowly looked up in the direction the voice had come from: the ceiling.

Red and blue-gray eyes widened in shock at the scene they saw before them. There, on the ceiling, perched the cat doll that had been sitting by the door. However, the cat doll was doing the crab walk as it scuttled about on the ceiling. But, what was the creepiest thing about the scene before the young girl and wolf was the fact that the cat doll's head was completely turned around on its neck so its head now appeared backwards. The cat dolls red eyes stared down at the two standing on the floor below it.

"Kill two birds with one stone." It said in its strange, accented voice.

"Well….That's definitely not an everyday occurrence, and why is it saying strange sayings for?" Silvia asked staring up at the doll.

"I have no idea, but that last saying it spoke kind of unnerved me." Shadow responded, while also peering up at the doll.

Suddenly, the doll dropped down from the ceiling. Silvia and Shadow easily rolled out of the way and peered at the strange doll as it landed in the place that had just occupied. It scuttled around the floor a bit before realizing the girl and wolf still stood in the room.

Both really didn't know what to think of the doll. They both felt highly unnerved and a little frightened by its strange nature. What had made the doll act this way in the first place? Was it intentional? If it was, it was a very mean prank!

Without any warning the doll threw itself at them screaming, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away!"

Both dodged effectively away, but the cat doll just changed directions and came at them again. Silvia drew two daggers from their sheathes to try and fend the cat doll away. It didn't take much to fend the cat doll off. It just attacked them wildly with no strategy while sprouting its strange sayings the whole time.

"What the hell is this things problem?" Silvia shouted angrily while trying to pull the demented thing off Shadow's tail.

Shadow just growled angrily. "I don't know, but this thing has serious issues."

Finally sucessing in getting it off Shadow's tail she threw it across the room. It hit the far wall with a loud crack and fell to the floor in a heap. Silvia and Shadow sighed in relief. What kind of project had Reeve been working on anyway?

Both were so intent on eyeing the cat doll they both jumped when they heard the door to the office open and heavy footsteps as they moved toward the room they were occupying. A few seconds later, Reeve rounded the door frame and stared at the two in puzzlement. Both stood on the fair side of the room and were wearily watching something on the other side of the room. Puzzled, Reeve turned to see what they were eyeing so wearily. When he saw the cat doll lying on the ground he burst into laughter.

"Are you two seriously afraid of that cat doll?" He questioned through is mirth.

Silvia scowled slightly at him. "That thing attacked us!" She stated pointing accusingly at the doll across the room.

"It also kept sprouting random sayings." Shadow added.

Completely confused as to what the two were talking about, he glanced back and forth between the girl and wolf and the doll across the room.

"That 'thing' is a doll that I created to help me with me secretarial things." He told them. "It doesn't really work at all. It has no battery to allow it to work. So how can it 'attack you' and 'sprout sayings'?"

Reeve began to laugh at their expressions of doubt. Reeve shook his head. He assigned each a task around his office and started to go over the paper work Silvia had organized for him. However, he didn't miss the suspicious looks Silvia and Shadow kept throwing the cat doll from time to time. He just couldn't understand why they would make up such a crazy story about the Cait Sith doll he was making. With a light chuckle, he returned to his paperwork as the other two moved about, completing their assigned tasks.

If only Reeve had been looking a few seconds later, when everyone had their backs turned to the Cait Sith Doll, he would have seen the eyes of the doll light up momentarily before winking out once again.

A/N: This one just popped into my mind while I was typing up my chapter 3. I remember that Cait Sith is always giving people his strange fotunes, so I decided to make the prototype go haywire, and sprout sayings. I only had the saying idea down pat and the rest just wrote itself. Please Read and Review!