They only encounter a few Shinra employees who pass them in the hall, some of them pretending that they aren't watching Rufus and Aerith making their way down the hall. He doesn't look at any of them, he wants to get away from the labs as soon as possible.

"This way," he doesn't stop before they're in a deserted side corridor on the next floor, opening the door of a small storage closet and pulling her inside before anyone comes across them. He had used this particular storage closet on the floor of Urban Development since he had learned no one really used it first to get away and escape for a few minutes and then to plot his father's downfall.

The storage closet isn't big, there are cleaning and office supplies stacked against the wall and he turns on the one dim lightbulb hanging above on a wire so they don't trip over the mops propped up against the water heater. "No one can hear us here but we don't have long before we have to meet my father."