AN: Now, Today - Day Twenty-One

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Last Friday Night (TGIF) - Katy Perry - 3:50

His head throbbed. What had happened? He cracked one eye open and winced, the light shooting needles through his eyes and past his brain. "Ow…" Sephiroth groaned rather deadpan and draped his arm over his eyes. An answering groan to his right alerted him to another presence.

"Seph?" Gen's voice was scratchy. Sephiroth muttered a vague one word answer, not moving. Images flashed through his mind of last night. "What happened?" The redhead rolled over with another groan, only to be met with a slight yelp and a whimper. Sephiroth managed to keep his eyes open this time and looked over, spotting the young blonde sandwiched between him and Genesis. His only answer was another whimper. Sephiroth met Genesis' squinted blue eyes and answered his earlier question with one simple word.

"Alcohol."

Genesis sighed. Of course. What had he expected? Only, he didn't remember much of anything at the moment. He repeated his question. "What happened?" Sephiroth gave a sigh of his own, but recounted. Curse his brain's inability to black out completely in the face of insane amounts of liquor. Even then, he didn't remember all of it. Fortunately, a stumbling puppy staggered into the room, obviously hungover as well.

"What is it, Zack?" Sephiroth forced himself to sit up. Zack just passed over a laptop. Sephiroth took it. Genesis and Cloud had gotten themselves up as well and all of them looked down at the computer screen. Various pictures met them.

"I don't remember doing that," Genesis mused when he saw a picture of himself dancing naked in the bed of an unfamiliar truck.

"I do," Cloud groaned, seeing himself swinging from the chandelier in one of the empty ShinRa ballrooms, also naked. "How did I even get up there?" he muttered. For that matter, how had they even snuck in there?

"Who took these anyway?" Genesis wondered. Zack gave a nervous laugh and turned his head away, trying to seem less conspicuous. Something caught his eye.

"Uh, Seph? Why is there purple glitter in your hair?"

Sephiroth did not want to know.

Hakuna Matata - Disney's Lion King Soundtrack - 2:34

"Hakuna Matata."

"Hakuna Ma- huh?" Cloud looked at Zack like he was off his rocker. Which he might well be, if he thought long and hard about it.

"Hakuna Matata."

"It means 'No Worries', yo!" Reno grinned at the confused blonde. Cloud gave him the same look he'd given Zack.

"Ok…" He looked around, trying to find some way to get away from these two before he was infected with whatever it was that made them as odd as they were.

"No worries, Spike," Zack was suddenly right beside him, one arm draped over his shoulders. "It's our motto."

"What's a motto?" Cloud found himself asking despite himself.

"Nothing! What's a motto with you," Reno laughed. Zack laughed, too. Cloud hoped someone would save him from these two soon.

I'm So Excited - The Pointer Sisters - 3:49 (SephirothxCloud; implied Mpreg)

"Weeeeee!" Loz bounced happily in his seat as they descended a slightly steep hill, the truck moving fast enough that it caused that weightless feeling to ball in the pit of their stomachs for a few seconds. On the other side of the backseat Yazoo grinned, also enjoying the impromptu 'rollercoaster' ride. Kadaj giggled in his booster seat between them.

Sephiroth chuckled, eyeing his boys in the rearview mirror. They were headed to the amusement park and it was obvious they were excited. They could hardly stay sitting in their seats. Cloud had to keep turning around to make sure they were sitting down.

"Are we there yet?" The five-year-old in the middle asked them. Cloud turned with a smile.

"Nope," He smirked. He enjoyed seeing their pouty faces. It always reminded him of when Sephiroth would pout, which was rare, but equally as cute when he did it. As predicted, all three silver-haired children pouted. Kadaj went so far as to cross his arms.

The minutes passed.

"How about now?" Loz asked this time. "Are we there yet, now?"

"No." Sephiroth deadpanned. Cloud snickered beside him, knowing the man only had so much patience and enjoying every moment of this.

"Are we there now?" Yazoo chirped another few minutes later. Cloud could tell by the smirk on his face that he had caught onto Cloud's game. Cloud smiled at the boy over the shoulder of his seat. Sephiroth growled.

"We'll get there when we get there!"

Laughter filled the truck's interior.

Dance Floor Anthem - Good Charlotte - 3:50

"Happy Valentine's Day, yo," Reno toasted, holding his glass to the air. The others followed suit. It was the annual 'who-gives-a-shit-about-valentine's-day' party. Well, annual meaning 'just suddenly decided to get together today of all days because our boyfriends suck but this might turn into something annual'. "So," Reno looked across the table at the others sitting there. "What did your boyfriends do, yo?" He paused then turned to his right. "Or did you's wanna go first?"

Aerith shrugged. "Tifa's working." She tilted her head over to where they could all see the bartender/waitress serving drinks behind the counter. The other four gave her looks of understanding. Their significant others had done that on many occasions.

"At least Tifa's in the same room," Elena muttered, taking a sip of her drink. "Cissnei's on a mission in Corel." Elena scowled. "She doesn't even bother to call." Another round of sympathetic nods and gestures.

"Seph does that all the time," Cloud muttered. "But today he's 'too busy'. Genesis, too. Paperwork, a quick mission, meetings," he put emphasis on the last word. Both Reno and Zack groaned at that.

"Meetings," Reno uttered the word like it was a curse. "Tseng and Rufus have got meetings, too. Then they have to be off to some shindig of ShinRa's and a joint mission with SOLDIER in Junon."

"Yeah, that's Angeal's mission. Some terrorists or something ShinRa wants him to check out with the Turks in Junon," Zack frowned. "Man, Valentine's Day sucks."

Another round of cheers acknowledged those words.

Cancion del Mariachi - Antonio Banderas; Los Lobos - 2:06

Rude walked into the bar like he owned the place. Slick, smooth, calm, collected. He sat himself at the bar with a nod to the woman bartending. It wasn't even a minute before he had a drink in his hands. Tequila. He smirked and slammed it back. He poured himself another glass.

"So," Tifa, the woman behind the bar, leaned forward just slightly, absently drying a glass. "What're you here for?"

Rude tilted his head back a millimeter, eyeing the woman from behind his ever-present shades. "Deepground."

The bar was suddenly dead silent.

Rude raised an eyebrow. Tifa did the same. "What do you want with them?" Rude fiddled the shot glass between his fingers, saying nothing. Tifa scoffed but nodded over to a table in the far corner of the bar where a shadowed crimson clad figure sat. "You want information? You ask him."

END DAY TWENTY-ONE

AN: Well. As it turns out, I had no internet yesterday. But I promise (and I really can promise this time) that that was the last time I will skip a day uploading. Now!

Repeats: Last Friday Night - in which I recycled an old theme but wrote it out a bit better. I liked it x3 AND I'm So Excited - another recycled theme. But with the remnants as children! I love them. I love them as Seph and Cloud's kids. Though I also thought they'd fit more as Seph and Gen's kids. But whatever. I love it either way.

Favorite Today: Uh, well, I'm not sure. I think I liked writing the last one most~ I enjoy watching the movie reel in my head.

Short author's note. As always, please keep reading and following and enjoying this! Review/PM/comment~ Much Love to you all!