Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters mentioned in this work of fanfiction; they are the ownership of Square Enix and Tetsuya Nomura.

AN: Well guys, its been a blast so far, but, I just thought I give a heads up, Chapter 12 is gonna be pretty long, to kind of tie up loose end then 13 will be a kind of Epilogue, kind of tying up just a little bit of happy endingness since...well...let's just say Sephiroth is gonna get his just desserts. But I'm not gonna give away what happens to our devious, sadist character of this story. See ya guys in Chapter 12! Hopefully in a couple days or so it should be up as well as the Epilogue. Nearly finished w/this fanfic. And I'll be getting around to working on more of the sequel to Tides: Stormy Weather and possibly post up my other ZackCloud fanfic: "Wolves Mate For Life"

Chapter 11-Come Find Me

The drive seemed to be taking longer then he assumed, it could have been the fear of losing his life at the hands of a gun toting masked captor, fear that in the end all his promises to keep Cloud safe would be worth nothing, that his wife would become a widow or at best, the captor's next victim as well as his son and Cloud. His ribs were becoming sore from the barrel of the revolver being pushed into his ribs as he kept his eyes peeled to the road, keeping a watch for police in case the situation arose for it. But thinking about trying to seek help was out of his hands at the moment for the sake of keeping his family safe.

"Why are you doing this? I have my wallet in my jacket pocket and whatever you can find in it is yours, you don't need me and you don't need to this," Zack flinched as the barrel dug harder into his ribcage.

"Just shut up and drive, you aren't going to get out of this by smooth talking me, if had wanted your wallet, I could've taken it at anytime, just drive, and turn right up here at this next light," the captor's voice was muffled under the stocking cap as Zack did as he made the turn pulling into a spot under a light, "Get out and go over to the shadows near that cargo over there."

Zack put his hands up as he climbed out and moved ahead of the captor as he walked with the feeling of cold metal buried into the middle of his back as they stopped, the captor turning him around as the gun returned to pointing at Zack.

The captor pulled off the cap, staring up at him, "Didn't think it'd be me, did you, Mr. Fair?"

Aerith sat at the dinner table with Cloud and her son as she played with her food, her eyes were watching the clock as it was getting later and yet, Zack had not made any attempts to call home to let her know he would be home late. Cloud could see it in her face as he cleared his throat, pushing his chair out; he pulled Denzel along from the table as they put the dishes in the sink and then upstairs.

"So, Denzel, what do you want to do?" Cloud was trying to give Aerith a sense of that there was nothing wrong while hiding his Mother's fear from the boy.

"Let's play…Go Fish!" Denzel raced up the stairs ahead of the blond, "Come on, Mr. Cloud!"

Cloud softly sighed, smiling at the boy, "Well, go get the cards ready and I'll be up shortly."

Denzel tore off as the sounds of him rooting around in his room for the illusive cards could be down at the bottom of the stairs, "Thank you for doing that…"

"It's the least I can do…his dad has done a lot for me and I just can't sit by and let his son watch his Mom sit around worried that Dad isn't coming home," Cloud's smile was feigned as he gave a soft chuckle.

"And I said; I thank you for doing that…" Aerith finished clearing the dishes away from the table as she put them in the kitchen sink.

Denzel popped his head out of the bedroom door, calling out like a typical little boy as his voiced reached down the stairs, "MR. CLOUD! YOU COMING UP TO PLAY GO FISH!"

"Well, I guess I've got a date to go play Go Fish," Cloud turned on his heel as he headed upstairs to play with the boy, all the while Aerith laughed softly as she watched the man ascend the stairs to go play with the boy.

You really choose an interesting…and caring person, Zack…I hope…when all of this over…you two can be happy

Zack stood in utter shock of the person standing before him as he started to adjust his eyes to the shadows of the shadow he was standing in as his voice nearly rose to a screaming pitch, almost ready to attack the short stature woman that stood before him. Fire burned in his eyes that seemed to cool down as he saw the woman trying to cool him down as she pulled out something from her pocket; he had half expected it to be another gun, but it wasn't.

"If you're going to kill me now, then I guess the Pier is only good place to get rid of the evidence," Zack was being sarcastic as his voice shook with a nervous tone as he saw something glinting against the simple lighting at the Pier.

Yuffie shook her head as she held the item out, "Mr. Fair, you don't need to worry, I'm Officer Kusaragi, I'm with Midgar P.D.; I think you and I have a mutual person of interest in Mr. Cloud Strife."

"What?"

"I haven't told you completely who I am, I've been working undercover as a Tabloid Reporter, I found out that Mr. Sephiroth Lockhart is working as not only a High Power Executive for the Company you were meeting with during your visit to Midgar, he is also into the workings of Male Escorts."

"A profession condemned illegal within Midgar, not to mention what else he is planning to do, I stumbled upon his plans to use his Escorts to visit some of his Clients overseas packed with illegal drugs, planted on the Escorts in a less then discreet way," Yuffie put the badge away and holstered the pistol, "And I guess I got cocky, got caught and he figured out that I was a cop and he has proof I am and is willing to sell it to other Crime Bosses that I've put away. It's a danger to me, and in order to maintain the silence…I unfortunately…placed my brother, Zell Kusaragi in harms way, more like a bargaining chip."

Zack bit onto his lip as he scoffed, "You left him with that madman as a Male Escort and the replacement fuck toy since I've got Cloud with me, right?"

As much as Yuffie didn't want to justify or answer that question, a simple nod told it all.

"Great, just great."

"Mr. Fair, I don't have much time, Mr. Lockhart is going to be flying here shortly because I told him I had proof that Cloud was here, but it's all a set up to catch the man in the act…and I need your help."
"Why should I help you or trust you? How do I know that you aren't working for him?"

"You want to save Mr. Strife from anymore pain and suffering…I was honest when I said I knew his wife and him when his wife alive and know what kind of sadist Sephiroth can be…Isn't that enough reason to help and trust me?"

Zack was getting headache from all of it as he pinched the bridge of his nose as he leaned against the cargo shed, "When does all of this mess go down and where?"

"He should be here in a day, and I just need the day to set up the trap to catch him, all you have to do is gain Cloud's trust…I'm going to plant a wire on him and then when Mr. Lockhart tries to make any move towards proving he's planning to use the Escorts for Drug Export, then we'll make our move to arrest him."

"I don't like putting Cloud in the crossfire, I'm afraid of him getting hurt…"

The young woman placed a hand on his shoulder, "You have to trust me…and you must make him trust me…I've worked it out with the Hotel to rig up a two way mirror in the room so that when the bust goes down, we can watch to make nothing goes on and so we can pull him out if things get hairy."

With a soft nod, and a soft embrace from the smaller framed woman; it was settled, "Thank you, Zack…you don't know how much this means to me…three of my best friends can be free…Cloud from Sephiroth and the same for brother…"

"And the third one, who was the third person?" Zack was confused by the woman's reasoning there.

"I figured that would be obvious…"

Zack was still confused.

"Tifa…she can finally rest in peace that her brother's evil ways will be set to rest; she always had terrible nightmares about that man, even till her death, but now, after he's put away, she can rest easy in peace."

Sephiroth was throwing things around in his room, knocking, opening and slamming doors open and shut in his anger as things found themselves roughly being thrown into a suitcase. His "pets" as he put them, were cringing in their cramped quarters as they heard the sounds, it reminded them of far too many times they had heard the sounds of one of them being thrown against a wall, floor or other hard surfaces and suffering under their employer's hands. Psychological terror had been torn through their mentality and it was feared that no one of them would ever be able to adapt to normal life again after being so brutally tortured, mentally, physically, and emotionally by the monster.

A man with short, cropped blond hair, a scar crossing across his face in a diagonal propped himself against the doorway of the man's room, watching the man tearing about like a three year old that lost their favorite toy, "Going away for a time, Seph?"

He was met with a small form katana hitting the doorframe, inches from his face, "Why so tense, Seph, I would figure you wouldn't be so uptight since you're going to go get your favorite toy back," the man's hands rested on the man's shoulders, cautiously massaging the man's shoulders, "Relax…just think, in just a short time, you'll be enjoying that heat you enjoy so much as you watch that little blond squirm, writhe and fight against your advances as you slam him again and again. Come on, you know he likes it, he just won't admit it."

Sephiroth seemed to calm down as the man lead over to the bedside as for some other reason, known only to the two men as to why they seemed it right for two friends of similar business to leave kisses on the other. The blonde's lips caressed against Sephiroth's tense neck as his hands wrapped around the man's waist, resting on the man's package as he gave it a slight squeeze.

"Come on…let little old Seifer help you with some of that pre-flight tension…you know I'm the only one who can give you the best head…" his hand started kneading the man's growing hard on as he felt the man bucking back down on the man's lap as Seifer fought a moan that was ripping through his throat, "Such a cheeky thing you are…going to make me hard if you don't stop the bouncing…but I guess that's the only way to make you stop…"

Sephiroth knew the man had caught him as Seifer's pants were dropped and his hand brushed, cupping the man's entrance, a finger diddling up inside as he heard the man panting harder and harder, "Got any lube, Seph…? It's going to hurt more if I don't properly ready you…"

Seifer saw the man point over to the side table as he lubed himself, the entrance and traced it around the unclothed the man's member which just made Sephiroth shiver, "Time to for some tension relief…"

Cloud snapped awake as he thought he had heard someone screaming, but it was just the movie on T.V. he had fallen asleep watching, it was nearly 4 a.m. by the time Cloud turned the T.V. off, flopping back onto the sofa as he fought to close his eyes again, but there was no use to it. His footsteps started to pad into the kitchen, but when he saw a soft light was on in the kitchen; he stopped for a moment, thinking it had to be Denzel getting a late night snack and as he softly rounded the corner…

"Zack, what are you doing up at this hour? Don't you have to leave for work in almost a few hours?"

Zack turned around with the Milk carton still pressed to his lips, "I got sometime off from the Boss; he said I should spend sometime with the family," he put the Carton down as he walked over to Cloud, "What are you doing up?"

"Let's just say, falling asleep to a scary movie isn't the best thing for sleeping people," Cloud softly chuckled as he saw a soft milk moustache had formed on Zack's upper lip.

"Yeah…I should've warned you about that, it seems that Denzel has managed to figure out to make up a Favorites list and have it that the scary movie was to come on," Zack saw that Cloud was staring at him, "What?"

The milk moustache on Zack's face was tempting as Cloud moved towards Zack till he was standing in front of him, his thumb brushing over it as he lowered his lips in against Zack's, reluctantly as he felt nothing in return. His soft lips pulled away from Zack's, slightly crushed that maybe Zack's feelings for him may not be there anymore now that he was home, but, he was caught off guard as Zack's hand rested around Cloud's waist as the other curled around Cloud's chin. Tipping his head up to his as his gaze caught him like a masked phantom.

"You could've just said I had something on my face…you didn't have to be so secretive about it…" Zack captured Cloud's lips as his tongue poked at them which made softly squeak under the man's powerful lips, "If you wanted a kiss…why didn't you say so?"

Cloud softly mewled under the man's kisses as he felt the man's tongue prodding at his lips, slowly letting the man entrance as he pushed up against Zack the fridge door but was caught as Zack pulled Cloud up tight to him as his hands wrapped under Cloud's behind, lifting him onto the kitchen counter. His hand bringing one of Cloud's legs up around his hips as his hands threaded the blonde's golden locks, massaging his upper body against Cloud's as they softly mewled against one another. Zack accidentally bucked in against Cloud which made the man gasp out, moaning the man's name out into Zack's mouth. His mouth moved away from Cloud's as their lust filled gazes stared at one another, taking no caution to whether or not someone could walk down and find them with one another, Zack started unbuttoning Cloud's night shirt, it suited him seeing as it had been one Zack's. Soft, teasing kisses seared down Cloud's chest as Zack's tongue swirled around each dimple, dip, and crease of the man's firm body. Cloud was doing all he could to hold himself up as his hips unconsciously rolled against Zack's that made Zack push his hips in between the man's thighs to stop him, but it only made Cloud do it even more.

"…You're hard…" Cloud panted as he sat up, wrapping his arms around Zack's neck as he started to trail his own hot kisses down Zack's neck, nipping softly at his pulse point that was driving the man mad, "I can feel that you're hard…how long has it been since you've gotten any…I would've figured you and your wife would've been going at it to make up for being gone so long…"

Zack softly panted as his face planted itself in Cloud's chest, searing his hot kisses against his chest, nipping at the man's bumps now and again as he felt Cloud rolling down on his hips; just driving his senses wild. It had been a while since he and Aerith had tried to go at it, they had started getting intimate at one time, but the moment he had her open and just gasping for him take her; he couldn't bring himself to not see Cloud, there, in her place, writhing and moaning, just open for the world to behold that she was nearly orgasming before his eyes. She had been trying all she could to just get him to relax and give her some intimacy, but when he refused and said that it just didn't feel right; she would've given up, but she was not going to let it go away.

"You've really changed, Zack…I was hoping to have you make me scream tonight…but I guess, the shoe is on the other foot tonight…isn't it?" Aerith had become a tigress as she lunged upwards at him, flipping their positions as she just planted herself on him as she started moaning his name.

No matter how she looked with her bust exposed and her legs opened against his waist, straddling him, her hands planted on his shoulders as she started bucking down on him just screaming in succumbing pleasure; he couldn't bring himself to enjoy all of this as he finally felt her climax. But he had never been at the ready, there was no climax for him as he laid her into the bed, letting her rest as he had climbed out of the bed and wander on downstairs to turn off the sound of a horror movie playing in the living room.

That's where he had now found himself, overwhelmed by the heat radiating from the blonde, the blonde that was grinding down on him, making the once hard on that may have been there with Aerith, no coming to full salute as he heard Cloud mewl out loud, gasping as he pulled away from Zack.

"Ouch…are you wearing a belt with this bathrobe or am I just feeling the banana in your pocket…?" Cloud's voice was husky as he mewled up against Zack as he suckled at the man's pulse point where a nice colored hickey was forming.

"Wouldn't you like to know…?" Zack panted against Cloud's ear as his hands had slipped down inside of the man's pajama pants, giving the man's behind a faint squeeze which caused Cloud to buck up high on the man.

"…Fucking tease…"

"I take that as a compliment and a suggestion…"

"Then I guess you should take that suggestion…and do something about it…"

Cloud shifted up against Zack which made Zack moan under his breath when he felt Cloud's own banana poking at him as he locked his lips around the middle of Cloud's throat, walking them over to the sofa as he threw Cloud down on the sofa. His hands were still firmly planted on the man's ass as they moved upwards as they came between Cloud's thighs which caused Cloud to gasp out loudly. A shock ran down Cloud's spine as one hand fondled at him while the other started to stroke the hard member, Cloud's hands gripped themselves on Zack's shoulders as his head hung between his shoulders, panting as he felt the man just toying with him now. Zack's face contorted into utter pleasure as his eyes slid half shut as he felt a shutter running through his body as he felt his hard on poking through his shorts as he nearly doubled over on Cloud which made the man wince as the prodding member poked through Cloud's pajama pants, poking under his member.

"Aaangh…Z-Zack…you're really hard, just stop kidding yourself and take me…take me or so help me I'll take you myse--aaah!!"

Cloud's head rolled back as Zack's hand pumped harder on him as Zack worked the pants downwards till the cold air in the cool home brushed over him, making it stand even more erect. Zack was having a hard time containing his poking out hard on as Cloud's half lusted gaze let him see Zack trying to hide it as Cloud's hand started kneading him through the pants. A harsh hitch was heard in Zack's voice as Zack took his turn of holding onto Cloud's shoulders as he felt the man kneading at him until he felt the air hitting at him too, through half slit, lust filled eyes, he saw Cloud hunched over it as his breath coasted over the head.

"N-No…C-Cloud…please…not here…don't do it he--aaah!" Zack leaned back against the arm of the sofa as Cloud, as if he had been trained to do it, lifted up Zack's hips as he held him up, going down on him as soft suckling sounds were heard as he moaned with his head bobbing around it, "God…who taught you to be so good at this…?"

"You learn things as you go along with the job…" Cloud made sure that the man sat with his back resting against the arm of the sofa as he pulled him up, placing him to hover over his erect self, "…Especially tricks like this…"

Zack nor Cloud had a chance to scream out as Cloud found himself buried in the tight heat of Zack, both man shuddering as after what seemed like a long period of time, a natural rhythm was gained as skin slapped against skin until soft screams ripped the room as both came after one another, resting tired, upon the sofa. Dawn came none too later for the pair as Cloud found him self covered in a blanket and a new pair of sleep wear but, the one thing that was missing was…

"Zack, you're going to be late to take Denzel to school!" Aerith called out from the kitchen as the sounds of a pair of running feet came racing down the stairs as a muffled conversation happened and the front door was shut, once.

"Just wait in the car for me, Denzel; I have to talk to Mr. Cloud about something and then we'll be off."

"Okay!" Denzel waved from the car as he climbed into his usual spot in the car; Zack's eyes turned back to Cloud as he nodded him over towards the kitchen.