Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy VII. I depend on my daughter, xXxValentinexXx, and on Bjanik for all my information on the subject.
A/N—This chapter contains a lemon. If you don't want to read the lemon, skip it as indicated. In between is sex, so you can go straight to the consequences. Remember, I have a teenaged daughter reading this too!
Originally the story "A Belated Wedding Gift" was a chapter between "Proclamation in Wutai" and "Other Consequences of Sex"—it just got longer and longer until it was a story unto itself. "A Belated Wedding Gift" was the result of thinking about how an electric company could come to dominate the world and what would have happened to the people it stepped on to get to that position. In writing "Belated" I also discovered much about Vincent Valentine's origins. If you don't want to read "A Belated Wedding Gift," then you should know that Sephiroth and Tessa are planning to move to Vincent's house in the country—didn't know he had one, did you?—and that "Other Consequences of Sex" occurs the evening of the same day.
Sephiroth and Tessa had spent the day with Vincent wandering around the Valentine estate in the country, making plans. Vincent had returned them to Shinra then had disappeared to his apartment on the floor below Sephiroth's without eating when the couple had asked him to stay for dinner. Both Tessa and Sephiroth had checked in at their offices before returning home for leftovers. Tessa's leftovers were still better than anything Sephiroth's old caterer had typically supplied him.
"Anything happen while you were gone?" Tessa had talked animatedly about Valentine Hall as they ate. As they cleared dishes from the table, however, Tessa enquired after Sephiroth's late afternoon.
"Actually, I had to sign off on sending Marcus and Nathan to Reactor 20. Zack had already made most of the arrangements when I arrived… I don't like it. I thought I had Reactor 20 under control when Zack and I were there several months ago and cleaned out the administrators, but there are monsters there again. Fortunately not the same ones Zack and I dealt with. If Marcus can't handle it, I may have to go myself."
"When do you expect to hear from Marcus?" Tessa looked her husband with a slight frown. She disliked monster attacks and the possibility that Sephiroth would dispatch himself to deal with them.
"Probably not until tomorrow afternoon. He has to get there first." Sephiroth could see Tessa's concern. "Don't worry. Marcus can handle about any situation."
"All right. We wait…" Tessa changed the subject, "Vincent left quickly. Do you suppose he had had enough talking for one day?" The couple stacked dishes in the dishwasher.
"Yes. I think today was quite an undertaking for him… Did you notice that while he talked about his family's connections to Shinra, he didn't say much about his immediate family? What were the names of his parents again?... My grandparents?!" Sephiroth smiled. He had grandparents!
Tessa smiled too seeing Sephiroth's happiness then turned to close the dishwasher. "Grimoire Valentine was his father—I'm sure I've seen that name in Shinra lab records. His mother's name was Genevieve. The baby grand piano upstairs was hers, and she was a concert pianist! He had two brothers both of whom are gone now. I wonder what hap..."
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Sephiroth had stepped behind Tessa crowding her into the kitchen counter, lightly stroking two fingers up along the side of her body. Tessa giggled. That tickled. She leaned back against Sephiroth feeling his erection. He was still stroking her side and working the clasp of her skirt. He ran his hands inside the skirt, and it and her panties fell to the floor, then he reached a finger into the coppery curls of her pubis. Tessa began to sway to the rhythm of Sephiroth's hands. She lifted her hair above her head as his tongue began an exploration of the side of her neck making small swirls on her pulse.
Sephiroth opened the buttons of her blouse and the hooks of her bra keeping a finger slowly, gently tapping her mound. Undressing her. Naked she turned to face him. He had removed his shirt and slacks (he was so fast at that!), and his erection was in full bloom. She eyed him appreciatively then went to her knees before him.
Cupping his testicles with her hand she ran them gently through her fingers. Hearing his moan she pulled first one organ then the other into her mouth and rolled them over her tongue. Sephiroth leaned back and moaned louder. "Oh, baby. Tessa!" She grasped the base of his rod and slowly ran her tongue up its length, playing with the tip, catching a drop of him on her tongue, then taking Sephiroth full into her mouth and wrapped her arms around his cheeks. He began to thrust, short and quick, into the back of her throat, his fingers runneled through her hair.
Before he came, Sephiroth pulled back away from Tessa's hot mouth, picked her up, and carried her to the bedroom cementing her mouth to his as their tongues mapped each other's mouths. Sephiroth laid Tessa gently on her back on the bed and slid first one finger then two inside her. Tessa rode his fingers in short quick slides and pushed her hips upward to get his fingers in deeper.
"Tess, have I told you that I love you today?"
"I'm sure you did, but you can say it again since I love to hear it."
Sephiroth carefully judged his time to enter Tessa to be soon. He maneuvered his knees between her legs and lowered his head to suck her nub into his mouth. Sephiroth added a third finger inside her, spreading her, pushing her even further apart. Tessa raised her hips even more to help get him yet further inside. He added his thumb then whole fist beginning to twist it gently around, his hand making her jump now from pain in addition to pleasure.
Tessa lifted one leg to drape over his shoulder grasping his hair in her hands, and breathing bits of his name in little gasps, "Seph…i…roth…Seph…i…roth" She was beginning to see light flashes, and her toes were on fire. Her back arched upward. She lifted both feet high and wide above his shoulders.
Sephiroth dipped his head to her opening and laved with his tongue tasting her. Sephiroth then laid his erection along her mound wiping the tip slowly toward her opening. She gasped with the friction. Sliding inside her he stayed shallow and quick on his strokes then felt her vagina pulling on him, milking him into her body. She panted and gasped and her body began its rippling orgasm starting deep inside her and moving toward her extremities. Yes. Now. Sephiroth leaned more forward pushing farther in, grasping her hips and jamming her against him with each stroke, pushing harder against her legs with his full stroke, smashing more violently each time... Suddenly her gasps became screams. "Screaming isn't useful battle information" mantraed at the back of his brain overriding the sound. He felt himself get even larger and harder, filling her more completely, near to exploding.
"What?" Suddenly Sephiroth caught a familiar scent. Tessa's screaming then registered itself on his mind—he never heard her really scream during sex before. Finally something else registered—the liquid feel around his rod was not the normal feel of Tessa.
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"Tessa! TESSA!" Sephiroth ripped himself out of her. Tessa's legs dropped leaden to the bed, and her hands slipped away from his hair. Sephiroth scrambled across the bed, knocked over the lamp in his haste, picked it up and angrily ripped on the light then froze at the sight of blood on the sheets flowing from between his wife's legs and at her sightless eyes.
"Tesss…." Sephiroth's face contorted, and pain, such as he'd never felt at the sight of blood, constricted his heart. He plunged his hand forward to her throat searching for a pulse… There. It was there. But the baby?
He pushed himself away from her to reach for his PHS. Materia couldn't help the baby—have to get her to a hospital. Sephiroth's shaking finger pulled up his phone list. No... NO! WHY DIDN'T HE HAVE AN EMERGENCY NUMBER IN HIS PHONE?!
Zack. Call Zack. Yeah. His finger ached for Zack's familiar speed dial code, but then Sephiroth remembered. Zack was out of the complex tonight… Was it a patrol down in the slums, or had it been a girl? Sephiroth's brain wasn't pointing where he was aiming.
Sephiroth! I'll contact an ambulance and get the crew inside. I'll be there soon. Vincent's mental voice echoed through his mind.
Sephiroth slid a hand behind Tessa's head and lightly kissed her lips. He could just detect her breath slipping in and out. He hugged her gently to him. Blood. What could have happened? Could he have triggered a break in her uterus? In the sack around the baby? What if they weren't all right? What if he had caused…? Caused what? He tried to force his thoughts away from "What ifs?" and "causes." Now there was only Tessa… and the baby.
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Sephiroth!... Sephiroth! We're coming in! As he had brought the ambulance crew up from the Shinra lobby, Vincent had considered what to do if Sephiroth didn't open the door. He might not be willing to move away from Tessa even for the seconds it would take to cross the room. Vincent decided to simply kick down the door. As he and the crew passed Tseng's door, it opened to reveal Tseng shirtless, just pulling a pair of pants up over his narrow hips. An understanding look passed between the two men. Vincent wasn't surprised at Tseng's presence. In fact he rather welcomed it.
In front of the door Vincent raised one knee high. Upon seeing what Vincent was about to do, Tseng raised an eyebrow then also a knee. Both kicked out beating the door with the bottoms of their feet, the door simultaneously flying off its hinges and ripping the locks through the door frame. Vincent lead the crew down the hallway to the bedroom. The look on his son's face caused him to stop short. Sephiroth had managed to pull on jeans and a tee shirt, but rage was on his face, and Masamune lay near to hand.
The paramedics were working on Tessa checking her vital signs, preparing her arm for intravenous fluids. One rose and approached Sephiroth while the others lifted Tessa from the bed to the stretcher wrapping her in warm blankets and preparing an I.V. Sephiroth stared at her face.
"General Sephiroth. We're going to transport her to the university medical center. We'll take her straight into surgery. Please come with us." The group left the apartment heading for the outside hallway and the elevator where Tseng held the door.
Suddenly alone in his son's apartment, Vincent sadly shook his head. At least he could clean up the mess in the bedroom—and call a cleaning crew, blood had probably seeped into the mattress. Looking down at the bloody sheets Vincent stared. There were narrow purple streaks in the blood. What was that? He dipped two fingers into a streak and brought it to his nose. Stagnant mako! How did it get there? Its effects could be dire… In the next instant Chaos took over the body they shared and stretched out his splayed right hand close above the bloody streaks. A low-pitched thrum began to beat in the room, and the bits of blood clumped, rolled, and crawled toward Chaos then floated up onto his hand. Chaos smiled at the treat and licked his fingers clean, his yellow eyes glowing even brighter than before.
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In the ambulance Sephiroth found himself holding Tessa's hand, staring at her face. A stray thought crossed his mind that he should take this minute to call Zack. For a second he wasn't sure he had his PHS. Surprised, he found it in a pocket of his jeans.
"Seph?" Zack's normal sounding voice answered the summons of the caller's ring tone. Sephiroth opened his mouth but nothing came out.
"Seph? Are you there?" More silence. "Seph?! Is something wrong?"
"Zack." The tortured words came out slowly, "something's…happened… I'm taking Tessa to emergency at the university hospital in an ambulance. Could you meet us there? Please?"
Zack's eyes widened. "Seph, what's wrong?! What's happened?... I'm leaving right now. I'll be there just as quick as I can. Keep talking to me!" Sephiroth could hear his friend moving about in the background, and a woman's voice making enquiries.
"We were having sex… then there was so much blood coming out of her… she was unconscious… Then Vincent came with the ambulance, and now we're on our way…"
"Keep talking. When did this happen? Is Tess conscious now? Is Vincent with you? Just keep talking, Seph!" Zack's hand shook as it held the PHS to his ear. Earlier he had been glad he'd borrowed Sephiroth's car for the evening for his date, and now he was glad he could depend on it to get him to the hospital without having to catch the train. His foot pushed down hard on the accelerator, and the car leapt away, the PHS still pressed against his head.
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The rest of the ride was a blur to Sephiroth—pieces of coherence within blurs—snatches of the words he and Zack said to one another. Tessa wheeled through emergency straight into surgery. Sephiroth made to follow, Masamune in hand.
"Sir, no. You can't go in…" a resident stepped in front of Sephiroth trying to stop him. Lighting bolts flicked between his fingers, but Sephiroth simply tossed the poor man into the wall, leaving a body-shaped crack in the wallboard. Nothing could keep him away from Tessa.
"General. Please stop." Tessa's OB/GYN, Dr. Caperton, had stepped in front of him with a raised hand and serious expression. "Please come with me. You can come in, but you'll need to be gowned first in order to protect your wife." Sephiroth's pupils twitched, and he lifted his head slightly. The man had courage at least.
"Fine. Lead the way."
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"I always wondered why doctors kept people out of the surgeries. Now I know. It's not just to keep the room and patient clean. We make them nervous." Sephiroth smirked. The doctors were all surreptiously watching the tall general with the sword who glared at them from the side of the room. He had relinquished Tessa's hand. He wasn't about to do the same with Masamune. His only concession there had been to wrap the blade in plastic.
Sephiroth could tell that the doctors were becoming less concerned about Tessa's life and more concerned about the condition of her uterus and the health of her baby. He hadn't realized that normal medical practice did not include the use of materia by and large. Materia was rare, expensive, and usually reserved for fighting. A tiny amount was used to hurry the healing process within the vagina, but with the baby separated by the amniotic fluid from the mother, materia wasn't of much use.
At one point a man with a mask held over his face stuck his head in through the swinging outside doors and looked about for the silver-haired general. "General Sephiroth, a man named Zack Fair is insisting on seeing you." Sephiroth gave a curt nod and followed the man out the doors and into the hallway.
"Seph, how is she?" When Sephiroth didn't immediately respond, Zack tried again. "Seph?!"
"They think that Tessa's going to be all right." Zack flinched at his friend's cold voice. "It's the baby they're worried about. They're running tests now… but, Zack, I'm the cause of this. I hurt her. I hurt her so much…there was so much blood…The baby too. This is all… my… fault!" Sephiroth's thunderous face alarmed Zack.
"Seph, NO." Zack said firmly. "She'll be okay. The baby, too. You'll see. You can't blame yourself for what's happened. Tessa wouldn't blame you. You know that."
"I know that you're right, Zack, but… I protected her from Londo Shinra, but I couldn't protect her from myself."
"She's going to be all right, Seph. You'll see… Are you going to go back in?"
Sephiroth nodded. "I have to be in there."
"Right. Okay…Why don't you put in a 'call' to your father?"
Sephiroth started. He hadn't thought of Vincent since the ambulance. That's all right. You've had other things on your mind. I've just been cleaning up around your place. I'll be there shortly. "It's okay. He's on his way. Would you watch for him? I'm going back in."
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Dr. Caperton had allowed Zack to use his office to wait in so that the half-crazed Soldier wouldn't alarm the general hospital population, but Zack wasn't a good waiter. He had paced the dark halls of the hospital, had even counted the carpet tiles. He was just considering making a pass to count ceiling tiles when Vincent and Tseng arrived.
"Is there any word?" Tseng asked. Zack noticed even late at night Tseng was wearing a blue suit, at least he wasn't wearing a tie and his hair was loose.
"Seph's been out to say they think Tessa will be okay, that it's the baby they're worried about. That's all I can tell you. Come on in here. Dr. Caperton, that's Tessa's OB, is letting me use his office." Zack closed the door. "Have you had any word from Reno and Rude?"
"Are we having a staff meeting?" Tseng smiled ruefully. "May as well, I suppose. No bugs in a doctor's office at the university. Probably…"
"What? You don't have control of all the bugs in Shinra yet?"
"Working on it… The main word from those two is that they're running into all kinds of dead ends, but one of them is going into that commune undercover as soon as all the details are ironed out. Possibly even tomorrow," Tseng glanced at his watch, "or, today… Seems Londo left a sizable bequest for the commune – we'll just see where this leads."
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"And what was that little side trip about?" Tseng had turned to question Vincent after Zack had left to find coffee for the three men.
"Hm?"
"Don't 'hm' me. When we came in, you had to find the ambulance that brought in Tessa. You got in, shut the door, stayed a couple of minutes. When you got out, you were licking your fingers."
"Nothing."
"You're worse than me." Tseng considered and smirked. "A Turk through and through."
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Near dawn Sephiroth found the trio. "Tessa and the baby are going to be all right."
"YES! Thank Gaia, Seph!" Zack hugged Sephiroth to him pounding him on the back.
"The doctors told me that she'll be out for a while yet, but she's in recovery, and in about an hour she should be waking up."
Tseng stepped forward to shake Sephiroth's hand. "I'd say a visit to the hospital flower shop is in order… and maybe a bite to eat. Shall we?" Vincent nodded his head in agreement.
"No. Thanks anyway. I'm going back to recovery to wait for Tessa."
A/N--About "Other Consequences," when I was carrying xXxValentinexXx, something vaguely similar to this happened to me. I was never more scared than I was that night in my entire life. The next day my husband and I went to my OB/GYN. Had I lost the baby? You know the answer—now she writes fanfiction!