Title: Five Assumptions Zack Fair Made While Dating Cloud Strife

Pairing: Zack/Cloud, Vincent/Cloud, dysfunctional Cloud/Tifa

Notes: This was an old project that I wanted to work on, but I never got around to until now. It's basically drabbles/short stories of assumptions Zack, while he was alive, might've made about his relationship with Cloud. I expect to have these all completed by this coming Wednesday. Enjoy.

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Zack, one night, suggested to Cloud that Sephiroth should be invited in their nightly bed sheet tumbles. Cloud refused to have sex with him that night, embarrassed at the idea of showing his body to anybody, even if it was the General, but Zack.

It was almost irony, then, as Zack watched with interest at the little games Vincent and Cloud would play. Zack's least favorite, by far, was "Chase me, Chase me" – or so he called it – where either of the men would pick up and leave unexpectedly and the other would follow after the minimum of ten minutes had passed. Sex usually ensued. When the first time the game was played, Zack couldn't believe what he was seeing. Of course, Vincent wasn't that bad to look at, but, well, Zack was more than a bit envious.

It wasn't Zack that Cloud was sucking off, nor was it Zack that Cloud was directing little needy whimpers too, begging to be taken. It certainly wasn't Zack either that was fucking Cloud in that ally way and Zack was way more than envious at that point.

Sometimes, Zack would close his eyes when Vincent and Cloud fucked. Imagined all those moans being torn from Cloud's throat were for him, not for Vincent; imagined that it was his name that spilled from Cloud's lips.

He missed him. He missed the Cloud that he had when he was alive, that anxious and shy boy that crawled and wormed his way in his heart. More than anything, Zack wanted his body-shy Cloud back, but unfortunately, death always had that twisted way of changing lives.

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They aren't all angst, I promise. The next one is actually supposed to be really WAFF.