Pet

In which Vincent is a vampire and Cid is his pet. Too bad Cid breaks nearly every rule of being a good pet.

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A good pet waits on his master. A good pet is quiet and doesn't argue. A good pet is bound to his master by pain. By all of these examples Cidney Highwind was not a good pet. Instead of walking at least three steps behind his master he walked beside his master as an equal. Instead of being quiet he would loudly rant and cuss! Such language! Despite this Vincent would never even consider giving his "pet" up.

Vincent had found him as a teenager on the verge of death as a casualty of the apocalyptic war of the humans and the vampires. Some low level vampire had cut through Cidney and the teenager was dying slowly. It was just pure coincidence that Vincent had been out walking at that time. Something had attracted him to the teenager. He could see the spark of life the youth possessed and was struggling to maintain. It was a decision that he never regretted when he gave him enough blood to heal and bind the human but not enough to turn him into a full vampire.

When his human had woken up he had taken the situation pretty bad and wrecked The demon's flat by throwing anything he could get his hands on. Vincent didn't punish him for this. He imagined that if he would have woken up in Cidney's position they he might have acted the same way. Cid had claimed that he wanted to leave and Vincent let him. It wasn't barely two days later that Cid had come back beaten and bruised. The humans no longer wanted him as soon as the local psychic saw the bond he had developed with the vampire. They had caught him and tortured him until Cid managed to escape. Cid had ran by instinct and ended up following the bond back to Vincent's place.

The vampire healed his wounds. Slaves and pets weren't uncommon in the vampire world but Vincent despised the way they were treated. They would be tortured if they made the simplest mistake and many of his brethren tortured humans just for fun. Vincent knew he was a monster but he'd be damned if he acted like one. Many of the slaves ended up being blank or robotic. He never wanted to see Cidney like that. He liked his pet to have some life in him.

Vincent had been called to the council many times for his training methods and Cid's behavior. The Leaders said that he was giving his pet too much freedom. The vampire had shrugged and told them that Cidney had just misplaced his collar. He had yet to find one that met his pet's approval. They didn't like that his pet knew how to fight on near equal level with the vampire due to what the vampire taught him. Vincent told them he needed a bodyguard. They told him to rip out his pet's vocal cords so they wouldn't have to hear his foul mouth. Vincent told them that he would withhold cigarettes for one day. They told him that he shouldn't buy his pet luxuries. Vincent told them that Cidney made excellent tea so it was a reward. They told him to make Cid bow when in the presence of others. Vincent made up a knee condition and said it was impossible for his pet to bow.

As you can imagine, this didn't make the council too happy.

As time went by Cid started realizing that not all pets were treated the way he was. When he had first been caught he hated the vampire that dared to make him a pet, but as time went on he began to respect Vincent. Vincent never made him do anything he didn't want to do and seemed to have his best interest at heart. Cidney felt so sorry for the other pets that he had met in his time here. The more he talked to them the more his loyalty to Vincent grew.

There was Hojo's pet Sephiroth who was just this intense, angry, mindless doll who wanted freedom. That man was tortured horribly on a daily basis. There was Cloud who was to take Sephiroth's place once the silver haired man broke, but Sephiroth was very protective of Cloud and Cid had a suspicion they were in love. Angeal the was pretty lax on Zach with rules but that was only because he planned on turning Zach at a later date. Rufus was the President's personal pet and though spoiled he still always had a scared look in his eye. Reno always looked fondly on Rufus and couldn't wait till the President was killed to take the younger man as his own. Reno was the youngest vampire on the council and had spent most of his life among humans.

Many times when the owner of a pet died the pet was either set free, put down to die, or given to the vampire that made the first claim. When the master died the pet's eyes would flood with relief as they prayed to be set free or put down. Vincent never wanted to see that look in Cidney's eyes. He actually relied more of the blond than Cid relied on him. Their conversations were interesting and Cid was always there to distract him from his horrible memories. There had been many times that Cid had saved his life and fought for him when he went walking in war zones.

Pets don't fight for their master, they pray for their master's death. Cid wasn't like that and Vincent liked to believe it was because he was actually loved by his pet. He would have to have been a fool not to notice the strengthening of their bond.

And when the slaves revolted and caught the vampires in a sunny room to melt only two slaves had shown up while the rest of them ran. Cid had shown but only chose to free Vincent, later he was told Rufus had felt guilty and freed Reno, apparently the redhead had always been nice to him. Sephiroth had organized the whole revolt. He had been an experimental slave that had been injected with vampire genes at birth so he would be easier to keep in line and know what the vampire's wanted. Cloud had gone through the same treatment. Ironically this made them like vampires but not completely over the threshold of vampirism.

Vincent later found out that Zack had told Angeal before the revolt started and the two mysteriously disappeared. Angeal never considered the council "honorable" so it was natural that he wouldn't help them. Rufus went with Reno on the condition that he wouldn't be a pet. Sephiroth and Cloud became guns for hire in a small town across the globe where the vampire war wasn't so bad.

Pets that did escape were usually shunned for being around the vampires and accused of being spies. Many were murdered the first week of freedom if they were even set free, but Cloud had Sephiroth to take care of him and the two would be fine.

Vincent Valentine had expected Cidney to leave but the man just looked at him with those sky blue eyes and asked where they were going to go vampire felt like his heart exploded with emotion even if his face didn't show it and the two made their way to the future.

That was it. Please review and tell me what you think!