Disclaimer: don't own this stuff
A/N: going to try something different from my usual Yuffentine focused fics, been a long time since i wrote ffvii fic so bare with me.
Tifa wriggled her toes in the sand while she watched Denzel trying to jump over the waves that crashed against the shore, it made her happy to see him getting to be a child for once. Shelke was stood up on some near by rocks just gazing out over the sea, while Marlene looked for little fish in the rock pools. Yuffie had also accompanied them on their day out, she was laying on the sand next to Tifa sleeping, until her phone rang and woke her up.
"Yeah?" she answered groggily "No, not doing anything. I'm at the beach with Tifa, its boring."
Tifa laughed at her friends blunt analysis of the first relaxing day she had had in months.
"I don't know where he is, He's not going to be at the beach is he? Vamps go up in smoke in the sun." Yuffie sat up and carried on with her phone conversation.
"You ring him if you want, he doesn't pick up when he sees my number."
Yuffie let out an exasperated sigh, "Because, I may have phoned late at night and said some deeply sexual things that's why."
Tifa's eyebrows shot up.
"Hahah, well you asked! Its funny you should try it sometime, he gets so mad. I'll come in instead of Vincent if you want, I could do with some excitement." she yawned and stretched her legs out. "Okay then. Reeve-y-pie, be a dear and send a car to pick me up, oh and get the driver to pick me up a cheese burger on the way."
Tifa could surmise from the side of the conversation she had heard that Yuffie was going into the WRO headquarters and leaving her to take care of the children by herself.
"I am not being unreasonable! I'm starving! Tifa only packed a few measly sandwiches."
Yuffie hung up the phone with a huff, "Sorry Tifa, but I have to go into work, I just couldn't get out of it."
"Yuffie, I am sitting right next to you, I heard your conversation."
"Ah, eve's dropper gawd! I could have been discussing confidential stuff!"
"But you were not! You were telling your boss about how you harassed Vincent late at night and then you laughed about it, and finally you tried to order a cheese burger." Tifa shook her head incredulously.
"Yeah that cheese burger is going to be gooooood! Wake me up when it gets here, thanks you're a doll." with that Yuffie laid back down and returned to her nap.
Tifa poked Yuffie hard in the ribs "Hey wake up! If you are shooting off then at least talk with me until then."
"Fine, fine…" Yuffie propped herself up on her elbows.
"So what sort of things did you say to Vincent to get him to ignore your calls?"
"Stuff that would make you blush for sure. I just think that guy needs to get laid and to spend less time hanging around with Lolita over there." She nodded her head towards Shelke.
"Its not like that, you know that. If you think he needs a distraction from Shelke why didn't you let Reeve call in Vincent instead?" Tifa questioned.
"I don't like him being at the WRO, taking all the attention away from me. It's the one place I get to be celebrated for my greatness."
"Other than Wutai you mean." Tifa rolled her eyes, Yuffie spoke absolute nonsense sometimes.
"Yeah well I'm avoiding Wutai at the moment." Yuffie muttered, casting her eyes down.
"How come?"
"Urgh, my father wants me to get married to this idiot guy I knew when I was a kid. Seriously Teef this guy would suck in a position of power. My Wutai deserves so much better!"
"Well so do you Yuffie, you deserve to be with someone you truly love." she put a hand on her shoulder and gave a squeeze.
"Aw Tifa, you are so sweet, still believing in true love after everything you have been through."
"I'm serious, you only get one life, make it a happy one." Tifa brushed a stray hair out of her eyes and tried not to blush at Yuffie's patronising tone.
"Don't you worry about lil old me, I've got some tricks up my sleeve." before Tifa could get her to elaborate her car and cheese burger arrived.
"Later boobs, have fun with the kids, you are like super mom!" her friend said as she dashed off.
Yuffie's words echoed in her mind, she was a mother, just without ever being pregnant. No matter how hard she tried to deny it, there was a part of her that desperately wanted a baby of her own.
Cloud joined her on the beach a couple of hours later, he had finished with the deliveries for the day and had expressed genuine desire to come and spend time with her and the children. This in itself was a welcome surprise, the second surprise was that Cloud had picked up dinner.
While the children and Shelke cleared away the empty Chinese take away packets, Tifa steeled herself for the rejection that surely awaited her. Taking a deep breath she mustered up all the courage she had in her to broach the subject that had been on her mind not only since Yuffie had bought it up, but since things had first quietened down after the battle with Sephiroth.
"Cloud, I'd really like to have a baby." she rushed out.
"Oh, you are already a fantastic mother, a baby would be lucky to have you." he replied with a gentle smile after a few agonising seconds had passed.
"Thank you, ummm, Cloud?"
"Yeah?"
"I was wondering, no hoping, that maybe you would be the father of my baby, well potentially our baby."
Cloud felt an overwhelming rush of affection for her, there wasn't a thing in the world he would deny Tifa of. "It would be an honour." he answered, wrapping his arm around her shoulders and pulling her in close.
Tifa let out a slight laugh and a sigh of relief, she'd envisioned him running off over the horizon never to return.
A/N please r&r XXXX