Summary: A pregnancy that nobody should know of, a mother who will hide her child for his own protection. But for all her precautions, has she been discovered? Will Akalara's son be doomed live to the same life his father was? Or will she be able to protect him from Hojo and Shinra, the very people she works for?

Disclaimer: Any and all OCs belong to me, Akalara in particular. Seph, Zack, Reno, Tseng, Verdot, and any other canon characters mentioned belong to Square Enix. Kandi belongs to AmazonTurk. Lily belongs to Mysticjc1.

Queen's Quornor: Fic's got me in its jaws... Can't..break...free! The way this thing's going, it's probably going to be over in about a week or so. Damn the muses... Anyway, just a little short blip before the main event. That'll be posted... Tommorrow! I just love making you all writhe in tormented anticipation... Just for clarification, the Sexy Kitties are the Gaian equivalent to the Pussycat Dolls. Several of you already know that this is the universal 'stripper song' in my fics; Kandi and Akalara have been dancing to this tune for several months now.

Out of Dreams Comes Reality

The moonlight sheeted across the figure in the bed, casting the upper body into shadow. The illumination fell only on her distended belly and the hand idly stroking over it. Crimson eyes, glowing from the mako coursing through her veins, were fixed on the ceiling, lost in thought.

She was two days past her due-date, but the baby had dropped lower in her uterus this morning. Birth couldn't be too far off.

Akalara couldn't wait for it to be over and done with. She just wanted to see her baby, to satisfy her curiosity about what she and Sephiroth had created. Would it be a boy or a girl? Would its hair be green or silver, or even some other color? Would the eyes be polished peridot or water-soaked cranberries? Would it be well-built or petite?

What would it grow up to be? A master swordsman and commander like its father? An expert sharpshooter and demolitions specialist like its mother? Or perhaps a combination of the two, equally adept with both firearms and blades? There was little chance of the baby becoming a peaceful civillian, like a postman or a teacher; there was far too much warrior's blood for it to inherit.

Whatever the baby was, Akalara was going to take care of it. She wasn't going to adopt it out, no way on Gaia could she bring herself to do that! This was her and Seph's baby, their flesh and blood; nobody but her was going to raise it. She owed it to her lover to give their child a good life, and besides, she couldn't risk the baby falling into Hojo's hands.

She would continue her training and raise the baby, at the same time, keeping the child's existence secret from her employers. There had to be a way.

She would find it.

Akalara made herself comfortable and closed her eyes, relaxing into sleep.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

The music played in the background, the sultry voices of the Sexy Kitties deepening the atmosphere of the room as the women moved. Sephiroth, Reno, and Zack were seated against the back wall, fidgeting and surreptitiously rubbing at their crotches through their pants, watching their 'personal assistants' dance to "Buttons." The two secretaries had Akalara sandwiched between them, and all three were stripping in time to the music.

This had become a weekly Thursday night ritual; the girls would dance for their men, and when the men had had enough they would grab their respective lovers and have their wicked ways with them, in full view of the others. Friday nights were always wild, and Thursdays were a preview of the coming events.

So far, the girls were grinding against each other in only their bras and panties, their hands wandering freely over each other. The men couldn't last much longer. They never did.

"Come on, get over here." Reno beckoned to Lily. "I love your bellydancing, but I prefer you doing it with my cock inside you."

"You want it? Come get it." The brown-haired woman shimmied her hips and popped her chest, pressing momentarily against Akalara's breasts.

Three jaws dropped, especially when Kandi unhooked the trainee's bra, sliding it forward until it was completely separate from her body before turning her attention upon her own.

Within minutes, all three bras had hit the ground and all three men were on their feet.

Sephiroth pulled Akalara out of her human sandwich, then took her over to the wall and pinned her, already feasting on her luscious breasts. Zack pushed Kandi down on Reno's desk and spread her legs, licking at her through the silky fabric of her thong. Reno took Lily down to the floor, getting a bellydance/lap-dance from the sly beauty as he kissed her.

Akalara looked over at Kandi and the two winked. Tonight was going to be even more wild than usual...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Akalara was torn from her sexy memory/dream by a wave of unexpected pain. She lay in bed, confused, a hand resting on her distended abdomen. Was that...?

The trainee waited for about ten minutes, but nothing happened. She closed her eyes and tried to get back to sleep, to her naughty dream.

Sudden agony ripped through her body, strong enough to make her throw her head back and scream through tightly-clenched teeth. Then it was gone again, and Akalara sat up, staring at her belly. Wondering if it was just a false alarm.

This time, she actually saw her uterus contract a split-second before the burning pain washed through her once more.

It wasn't her imagination.

"HILDA!" she screamed, convulsing as the next contraction slammed into her.