Family
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Pairing: Sephiroth/Cloud
W A R N I N G: This is about male pregnancy (possibly) and male/male relationships. We are letting you know now what the relationships WILL contain. So, if you are AGAINST such pairings, please find something else more to your liking, you have been WARNED.
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Chapter 36: Return
The anxiety was extremely high among the small waiting crowd, as the lookout yelled down to them at the first signs seen of the dust being kicked-up by the speeding return of the black soft top covered jeep that had departed three days ago—Zack was almost home.
The AVALANCHE members that were gathered outside the garage ramp were waiting on pins and needles for the long over due reunion of two of its group.
First to exit the vehicle, once it had parked and the engine had been switched off, was of course Zack. The dark haired man was finally back at home with his friends. He was greeted warmly with a kiss and a hug from his wife. And a sharp smack to his hand was heard as Aerith glared at him coltishly for groping her behind in public.
Next to exit the jeep was the young girl, Selphie. She kept the door to the car held open as Vincent struggled with extracting his son's massive unmoving form from the vehicle. Barrett quickly lumbered over to assist the ex-Turk with his burden.
There were so many burning questions on everyone lips which needed to be explained about the duo and the time that they had been held prisoner. However, talks of their misadventures had to wait. Vincent desperately wanted Sephiroth and Cloud back together as quickly as humanly possible.
Thinking about the little blond, Vincent hugged Sephiroth to his chest and looked around at the others. Where was his son's husband?
"Tifa, please take me to Cloud," he demanded.
The atmosphere became saturated with uneasiness at the mention of Cloud's name.
"Uh, okay, Vincent… just follow me and I'll take to you to his quarters," Tifa meekly replied, without offering any further explanation on Cloud's absence.
Once Vincent was safely out of earshot, Zack pulled Aerith aside.
"Still nothing about Cloud?" he asked, concerned, his face mirroring his worry.
Shaking her head negatively, Aerith signed and said, "No."
"Damn," Zack huffed, running a gloved hand through his spiked hair. "Sephiroth isn't going to wake up without him being here. What are we going to do now?"
"Maybe, just by him being in Cloud's room, it will be enough to help bring him to consciousness," Aerith answered, her voice not holding much hope.
A gasp sounded from behind them, making the rest of AVALANCHE remember their newly acquired guest.
"Something wrong, Selphie?" Zack asked her.
"Well, that depends on if you're going to kill me or not," the girl responded nervously.
There was a pregnant pause as Selphie paced herself in a circle, chewing on the inside of her cheek.
Always in control, Aerith gently stopped the girl, and held her hands, looking deeply at her. Selphie was younger than them by quite a few years at least, but her sad green eyes spoke volumes of battles that had been experienced, and her stare had a hard edge to it that reminded Aerith of Zack's and Sephiroth's cold gaze.
"Go ahead, Sephie, tell us what's on your mind," Aerith urged. "We won't think any less of you. How could we? You're the one that made it possible for Vincent and Sephiroth to escape from Shin-Ra," Aerith hoped her words would encourage the girl to speak her mind.
Blushing like mad, Selphie couldn't tell them the real reason why she had helped them, so instead she said, "I'm a Hunter. I am in a group that is paid to 'hunt' people. I was actually searching for Cloud Strife at the Shin-Ra facility. I was sent on a special assignment to work in Hojo's lab in an attempt to get close to the blond cadet—my employer is very interested in him. And, hearing you ask about him, finding out that he is missing, means to me that Leon and the others have already got him. I just stumbled onto Sephiroth. I didn't even know who he was until I viewed his bio-chart."
"Who's your employer?" Zack asked, instinctively going into SOLDIER mode.
Without hesitating, Selphie answered, "Lazard Deusericus."
"What does he want with Cloud?" Zack enquired, none too friendly.
"It's simple, Zack!" Yuffie cut in, equally as irate. "He wants a child born of a man. And he's discovered that Cloud is a breeder. Isn't that right?"
"Yes," Selphie whispered, hanging her head in shame. "Lazard's wife, Quistis, can't have a baby of her own—she's tried. She was an active member of my team until a couple of years ago. She just teaches at the academy now. Anyway, we had an earlier lead on another breeder named Tseng Kisaragi who we had been ordered to capture for another client. But the fight with him and a female in his company proved to be a bit much for us to handle. Quistis took a bullet in her lower abdomen—rupturing one of her ovaries and damaging her uterus. We didn't know it at the time, but she was pregnant, and lost the baby."
"So, Lazard wants Cloud to…" Zack couldn't complete his sentence. "IT WON'T WORK!"
Startled by her husband's violent outburst, Aerith asked him why he thought that way.
"Cloud and Sephiroth are chemically attuned to each other, because of the Jenova cells and mako in their systems," Zack declared, glaring at Selphie.
"That means…" the young girl began.
"That means, all your boss' efforts are for nothing! Cloud can only get impregnated by Sephiroth. So I suggest Selphie that you call whoever you need to, and arrange to get Cloud back to us before Sephiroth recovers and wakes up."
"Dr. Kadowaki has much of Professor Hojo's research material on Cadet Strife—she's probably already made a successful implant. He will be returned safely, I promise you, once the child has been born," Selphie reassured.
Maniacal laughter broke out in the open space of the garage.
"Don't you get it?!" Zack paused, but continued after receiving no answer from the girl. "Sephiroth is going to kill everyone, and lay waste to everything, to get his husband back. There is nothing to help me keep him in check. He already went ballistic once, when another cadet tried to rape Cloud whilst he was pregnant with Stephanie. You call them now damn it! And you get Cloud back on this fuckin' ship, pronto!"
"Zack, calm down, please," Aerith begged.
Selphie was nearly in tears by the end of Zack's tirade against her. Surely Sephiroth couldn't be that bad, she thought to herself. No, Zack was just exaggerating to scare her. She didn't believe that anyone could be that destructive, it just wasn't plausible.
"Look, we're all tired. Let's freshen up, grab a bite to eat and then, Selphie, we'll arrange for you to call your commanding officer, k?" Zack offered, his voice sounding weary.
Selphie nodding her head quickly in agreement. She prayed that her friend, Squall, could pull some strings to get this messy matter resolved. She didn't want any harm coming to either Lazard, or Quistis.
Aerith lead Selphie quietly to the upper decks and got her settled in an unoccupied cabin just a few doors down the hall from her and Zack's rooms.
She hoped that Tifa was having better luck with Vincent.
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A/N: How's that? Wow, that was a lot of information to take in. So, Tseng's last name is Kisaragi. Is anyone thinking what we're thinking? We hope so. And does anyone believe that Sephiroth will sleep on without Cloud? How do you think Vincent is going to react to Cid? Don't know? Well, stay tuned for the next chapter.
Nemesis and Mitts
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Cat-like eyes narrowed in anger. Sephiroth said nothing as he faded from view.
Neither Seifer nor Squall understood what just happened. There was no way for whomever it was to be a ghost—the heady scent of sex hung thickly in the tiny bedchamber.
They examined the slumbering boy with their eyes as the thin sheet barely covered Cloud. Bruises resembling fingerprints were vivid along they boy's hips. Love bites dotted his throat and chest. Cloud looked as if he'd been fucking all night. There were even wet patches on various parts of the linen.
The Hunters left the room, heading directly to Lazard. They wanted to know what the hell was going on.