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Note: This is the last chappie. Hope you all liked the story. I seriously didn't know how this was going to turn out and was a little surprised myself.
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Vision
Feeling a cool breeze, she raised an eyebrow. Opening her eyes, she noticed Aeris and Zack looking at her with smiles on their faces.
"It's been a while guys. Nice to see you again." she said as she struggled to sit up. One of the more annoying habits of being pregnant was the fact that the farther along she got, the more difficult it was to sit up or stand up because of the bulging stomach.
Moving quickly to her side, Zack grabbed her arm and helped her up. "Your coming along nicely." he said with a grin.
Aeris took a long look at the patch of flowers that represented Skye's heart and smiled to see how healthy they were doing. Looked like she was almost fully healed of her anger. "Yes Skye..." she said looking into the sparkling bi-colored eyes. "You are doing very well."
"With a baby that likes to use my ribs and kicking bags." she quipped as she winced a bit. "I swear, he gets his strength from his father."
Laughing lightly, Aeris tilted her head. "He?"
Grinning and shaking her head, Skye put her hands over her belly. "With all the active moving he does, I'm pretty sure it's a 'he'."
Zack raised an eyebrow. "You sure about that?"
Looking at him in confusion, and enlightened look crossed Skye's face. "You guys know what it'll be? Can you tell me? pleeeeeeeeeease?" she made a begging motion with her hands and both spirits laughed.
Aeris walked over to her. "It's a healthy baby girl Skye."
"A girl." she breathed in awe."My own baby girl?"
Zack nodded. "Yes. Soon you'll have the sound of little feet running up and down the hallways." He turned to Aeris and grinned. "Remember when I told you, I told my mom I wanted to hear the pitter patter of little feet?" he turned to Skye and laughed. "She got me a dog."
Laughing with him, she shook her head before her face turned serious. Looking to Aeris, she felt tears in her eyes. "I need to ask you something. Please prmise me you'll tell me the truth."
Pursing her lips in thought, she saw nothing bad happening in Skye's near future so she nodded.
"Does Cloud want this baby?"
Now Aeris giggled. "Definitely. I saw his face when you told him. He actually had to sit on the ground because his legs gave out. He was shocked yes, but he couldn't wipe the smile off his face after you told him."
Sighing, Skye shook her head. "I wish I could have told him face to face."
Zack laughed and both girls looked at him with raised eyebrows. "Don't worry Skye. When it's time for the baby to come out, you can tell him all sorts of thing to his face."
"And like Zack, he'll probably faint." Aeris finished with a raised eyebrow.
Looking at the dark haired warrior with wide eyes, Skye gasped. "You had a baby?"
Shaking his head, he laughed again. "Not me. A friend of mine's girlfriend. I watched as it happened. She had four kids in one go and they had to give birth in a cabin with low lighting. The doctor pulled out a light and told John, my friend, to hold it and then directed Julia, his girlfriend, to help her."
Breaking off his story, he laughed some more before shaking his head. "After the first one, John was about to put down the light when the doctor told him another one was coming. He was shocked but held it up and Julia delivered the second baby. At this point John was happy, until the doctor told him there was ANOTHER one yet, and you know what he said?"
Shaking her head no, Skye laughed along with him.
"He said 'Do you think the light's attracting them little buggers?'." He shook his head, holding his shaking sides as his eyes filled with tears. "That's when Julia started into him and I fainted after hearing just what she was promising to do to him when she could walk next."
Everyone laughed hard at this. Skye collapsed to her knees with tears streaming down her face as she held her stomach. "Oh god!" she said with wide eyes. Looking to Aeris, she mock cried in terror. "I'm only having one right?"
Laughing, Aeris nodded. "Just the one...for now."
"For...now?" Skye stopped laughing and looked into her eyes.
"Well, I can't say for sure but you might have another one later sometime. You never know."
"As long as it's not four at once, I think I can survive." she said as she shook her head.
Zack looked up for a moment. "You should go back Skye. Rem just walked into the room and looks worried."
Nodding, she bid her goodbyes and closed her eyes.
End Vision
Opening her eyes, she noticed Rem at her side, and giggled to see her let out a relieved breath.
Shooting her a slight glare, she shook her head. "It's not funny Skye. I thought something happened to you."
"It did." she said simply. "I got pregnant and just visited Zack and Aeris."
Raising her eyebrows, Rem laughed. "You know, back when I told you, you could ride him around, I didn't mean it in THAT way!"
Laughing with her, Skye swatted her playfully. "Heeeey!" Then she grinned evilly. "What about you? Any little Valentines going to be running around soon?"
"Ya." Rem said with a laugh. "Yours!"
Shaking her head, she pursed her lips. "Nope. Mine's going to be a Strife."
"Do you really want all the gorey details between your brother and I?" Rem laughed.
Thinking about it, she shook her head quickly and slowly sat up. "Umm...no thanks. That's ok."
"Good." said a new voice. "Because I do not wish to give the details."
Looking at the door, Skye tried to jump off the bed, only to lose her balance and fall back on her butt. "Awww! That's no fair!" she whined. "I can't even jump up and hug my brother!"
Hearing a laugh, she looked up and saw Vincent move over to her other side. With Rem helping her on one side and Vincent on the other, she managed to get up to a standing position and immediately hugged her brother tightly.
"You know," Rem began idolly. "Your about six months along, right?" Seeing the nod, she grinned. "You're in for a fun time." she taunted.
Skye was about to launch herself at her friend when Vincent held her back. Turning to pout at him, she noticed him moving away and towards her brunette friend.
"Uhh guys? I was just joking. Really." she said nervously, noticing Vincent working his way to her. Shaking her head, she took off out of the room, Vincent chasing her with a small smile. "III'MMM SOOOOOOOOOOOORRRYYYYYYYYY!" she screamed as she ran.
Skye only laughed and held her stomach some more.
(At the Hospital)
It had been three months since Skye told Cloud and her brother about the baby. In the mean time, Cloud refused any further missions so that he could be by her side, which made her feel special by the way, and Tifa and Yuffie finally hooked up with their respective Turkish delights.
About two weeks after Skye told everyone her condition, Rem made her own announcement. She was pregnant with Vincent, and was about a month along. She was getting sick every morning and the blonde Valentine-Strife pitied her old brother who was forced to deal with severe mood swings. She even had to rush over once when Rem lost it and went after his dick with a knife, swearing to castrate him so he could never do this to her again.
In other news, Cloud had been going out secretly for a while and when Skye finally snapped and demanded to know where he was going, he pulled her to him and kissed her senseless, before going to one knee and proposing to her. Of course, in her condition and the shock of the news, she fainted after managing to weakly mumble a 'yes'.
Now it was time for her to have the baby and she was screaming obsenities at her fiancee for putting her in this condition. Cloud, apparently being a lot like Zack, fainted, and when he finally came around, found the nurses had put him in a separate room.
Running out, he found Vincent holding a pink wrapped baby, Skye never DID tell him what it would be, and stopped to look at the unusually soft look in the vampire's eyes.
"Vincent?" he said softly, realizing the baby was probably asleep.
Looking up, he smiled warmly at Cloud. "Come. Meet your daughter." he looked back at the bundle. "My neice."
Moving slowly forward, he carefully took the bundle and smiled at the tiny baby that lie inside it. She was pale with blonde hair with a few black streaks, and feeling herself being moved, she opened her eyes to reveal stunning deep blue orbs. Giving the blonde man holding her a toothless smile, she gurgled a bit.
"Oh god." Cloud breathed softly. He was in total awe of his baby girl. "She's beautiful." Looking up at Rem and Vincent, he smiled. "How's Skye?"
Rem shook her head with a teary smile. "Resting. The doctors said you could visit her if you want."
Nodding to them, he slowly made his was to the woman he loved, holding his baby girl gently and laughing softly when she laughed and reached for a lock of his hair. Going into Skye's room, he went up and sat next to her. Her hair was a matted, sweaty mess and her face extremely pale, but she had never looked so beautiful in his eyes. Leaning forward, he kissed her lightly, smiling a bit when she kissed him back.
Pulling back, Skye grinned softly at him. "Hey stranger. Feeling better?" she giggled.
"After hitting my head on the tile floor?" he saw her nod and look sheepish. Kissing her softly, he looked into her tired, but loving blue and purple eyes. "I've got a headache, but I'll be fine."
Now she laughed. That seemed to become a trademark statement for their group now. "Awww. I'm sorry love." she said through her giggles and reached up to pull his head down so she could kiss his forehead lightly. There was a coo, and they both looked down to giggle at the baby that was still reaching for Cloud's blonde spikes.
Leaning forward, Skye smiled and kissed their daughter lightly. "Do you love daddy's spikes too baby? Hmmm? Yes, mommy loves daddy's spikes too." she cooed to the smiling baby.
Chuckling lightly, Cloud took a pretend hurt look. "Is my hair the only thing you love about me?" he pouted.
Swatting him playfully, Skye shook her head. "I love daddy's eyes most of all." she said to her baby. "They're so full of life and so pretty. They sparkle and show how he's feeling." Looking up at Cloud, she smiled at his blush. "But I think the thing I love most is daddy himself." she finished.
Leaning forward to kiss her softly, Cloud brushed a strand of her short blonde hair out of her face. "Daddy loves mommy too." he said to the baby while looking at Skye.
"So what do we name her?" Skye had a knowing twinkle in her eyes.
Raising his eyebrows, Cloud shook his head with a chuckle. "Something tells me you already have a name picked out."
Nodding, Skye closed her eyes, still being exhausted from giving birth. "In honor of Aeris, I want to call her that."
Feeling his heart skip a beat at the peaceful look on her face, he nodded. "Aeris it is. Aeris Carehart Valentine Strife?"
Skye opened her eyes and shook her head. "No."
Frowning a bit, Cloud tilted his head.
Now she smiled. "Aeris Valentine Strife is perfect."
Smiling at the woman he loved, and looking again to the tiny bundle in his arms, Cloud nodded.
Laughing, Skye turned a mischievious look at her fiancee. "Now we can get to work on a little Zackary."
They both burst out laughing when they heard an all too familiar voice screaming around the room.
"NOT THE DREADED NAMMMMMMEEE!"
THE END!!
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