Maternity Leave - SOLDIER Style
Chapter 11
Seven Months
At that point, Zack felt suicide had become an option. Not that it really was a plausible one, but yet he felt it was an option. He wasn't sure how it had happened, really, but somehow it had. Zack had become the housewife. Something he never thought he would say.
He never seemed to change out of the apron and the bandana pulling his hair back except for when he slept and that was it. "Zacky!" Someone called. He wished he didn't know who it was.
"Be right there, Sephy." He said, irritation evidently present in his voice. He was already trying to cook dinner, wash the dishes, and sweep the kitchen floor. At one time.
"What is it?" He asked, biting his tongue so that he didn't add, "for the millionth time," to the end.
"Oh, nothing." Sephiroth replied. He was seven months now. Seven months. Zack felt dizzy just thinking about it. "Just, come here for a second."
"No!" He shouted without meaning to. "I mean, the last time I did that you raped me!"
"It was not 'rape'." Sephiroth replied, saying the word as if it was disgusting. "I didn't nearly go that far."
"It was close!" He accused. "I was half naked… and not my shirt!"
"Okay, okay, I won't take advantage of you this time." He promised.
"I don't trust you!"
"You don't trust me?" Sephiroth whimpered. "But why not, Zacky?"
"Uh, I didn't mean it like that, Sephiroth…" Zack said slowly.
"Oh, so now it's just 'Sephiroth' and not 'Sephy'?" He accused.
Zack wished he really could just commit suicide. "I'm sorry, Sephy, now why did you want me?"
"Dinner is burning."
"What?! Why did you take two hours to say that?!" he shouted, sprinting out the door.
Sephiroth smiled smugly as he rushed about.
Eventually the fire was put out and all that was left was vegetables. "Deal. With. It." Zack said, handing him a bowl of greens.
"Fine." Sephiroth replied, all the while pouting about something Zack had no idea about.
They ate in silence as they normally did, and then Zack did the dishes in silence. Sephiroth, feeling useless, dried them for him and put them away, then went back to bed. "Of course." Zack said, crossing his arms.
"I'm so tired!" he announced when he fell onto the bed at nearly midnight. "I just want to sleep forever."
Sephiroth was reading something but the cover was old and torn and Zack couldn't read it anymore. "Go to bed, then."
"Yeah, right, with you reading and the light on? It's impossible. I'm not a heavy sleeper." He said. "I'm a SOLDIER we have to sleep lightly."
"Fine, fine, I'll turn off the light."
Zack was almost sure he'd heard it wrong. "Wait, you're doing something nice for me?"
"If you don't want me to be nice, I can be mean."
"No, no!" Zack said hurriedly. "You can be nice whenever you feel like it!"
"Goodnight, Zack."
"Nighty-night, Sephy."
"Shut up."
Boop. I'unno either, anymore.
I hope to finish this POOP soon but who knows?
(To Past-Self: DONE. To present self: Why are you talking to your past self?)
