Disclaimer: Nup. Don't own them. never will.
Warnings: Nothing in particular
Chapter 2: Shooting Star
Aerith woke, her head pounding as the memories of the previous day came back to her. She sat up, rubbing her mind trying to ease the painful throbbing from where she figured she'd hit her head as she fell.
"Sephiroth?" She looked around trying to find the pale haired swordsman.
"There's no need to panic Aerith." Sephiroth was sitting further away, his legs crossed, eyes closed, a look on his face that showed he was concentrating deeply.
"Like hell there's not! I may be 8 years younger than you Sephiroth, but I do know when something isn't right." Aerith stood and walked to the door. "Hey! Hojo! Lemme out! I got jobs to do!" She pounded on the glass with her fist. "Ow..." She nursed her painfilled hand. "What is this glass? Superglass or something?"
"Nobody can break out of the cells here Aerith. Nobody." Sephiroth looked to her, his mako green eyes a felection of her own.
"Oh...You're awake now." Hojo limped over to them, Aerith noticing the blood stain on his right leg of his pants. "Good...Good. I have plans for you both. Since I am not sure how well a clone would mate, I have decided that you two will mate and produce a mako/cetra/jenova enhanced offspring."
"You're a sick bastard..." Aerith frowned. "What makes you think that either of us will cooperate?" She turned to Sephiroth who was still sitting on the floor in a relaxed state.
"I need not worry if you wish not to cooperate. How long can you go without food little Cetra?" Hojo taunted.
"As long as I need." Hojo chuckled and produced a small bottle with pale blue gaseous contents. "What is that?"
Sephiroth shook his head. "Chionodoxa. A natural aphrodisiac. Even I didn't think you could stoop THAT low."
He chuckled. "I have to have my offspring. And if neither of you will cooperate, even without food, you will do it of your own free will...Even if your will has been tampered with."
"Sir, the girl is coming." A Shin-Ra soldier saluted coming in.
"Ah...Good...Good..." The soldier didn't move. "You can go now soldier."
"Sir." He saluted once more then turned and left.
"What an idiot. No wonder he's only a rookie..." Aerith shook her head. "So you've got another 'specimen' coming have you? What are you going to do to her?"
"Oh, I think you will find you have alot in common with her Aerith." He noticed the time on the clock sitting on the far wall. "Oh. I have a meeting with Rufus. I'll tell him you send your regards Aerith. I wouldn't want to disappoint your boyfriend now would I? He might shut my lab down. I'll just leave this here..." He put the bottle on the table then left, continuing to chuckle.
"I'll kill him...Right after I've dealt with Rufus..." Aerith sat back down. "Now what?" Her stomach growled.
"I thought you said you could go for as long as you need without food."
"I haven't eaten for four days. And I WAS going out to a resteraunt last night...Except this mad professor seems to think that you'll be 'mating' with me. If you even come within an arms reach I'll have to kill you."
"That is one less thing you have to worry about Gainsborough. I will not be mating with you either." A look of disgust crossed his face briefly.
"Why not? Is there something wrong with the way I look?" She studied herself. "Am I too fat?" She lifted her shirt and pinched her stomach. "Do I have something on my face?" She rubbed her shirt across her face.
"You are an odd woman." Sephiroth shook his head and closed his eyes.
"Odd...Ha. What would you know." Aerith sat, her back facing Sephiroth, her arms folded across her chest. "I'm not odd." She turned to face him. "Am I?"
He sighed. "You talk too much Aerith. You should take more notice of what Hojo has done."
She frowned. He pointed to the bottle of Chionodoxa. She looked at it to find the blue vapours slowly seeping into the room. "What are we going to do?!" She stood frantically and bashed against the door.
Sephiroth shook his head watching from afar the petite woman's reactions change from terrified to disgusted. She let her hand fall and began hitting her head against the door instead. "Aerith...Stop beating yourself up."
"Why? It's not like I can do anything anyway..." She continued to let her head hit the door.
Sephiroth shook his head. "Aerith, though it may offer you little comfort, I do not think that there is anything wrong with the way you look." She wailed and hit her head harder. "What is wrong now?"
"That's all I am...Something that guys think looks good. I am simply a walking thing of sexual desires. Sure, we like to be told we're pretty, maybe some even like the idea that they're the main object of men's erotic fantasies too..." Sephiroth felt a twinge andlooked to the air vent, the aphrodisiac was spreading faster than he thought. "But I don't. I don't like the way the other SOLDIER guys stare at me, the way they grope, their stinking sweaty bodies...It's like I'm a piece of meat...Especially to Rufus."
"You are a SOLDIER Aerith. One of the incredibly few who have made it to First Class ranks. Still, if I had my way-"
"I know what you think of me Sephiroth. I know you think I whine too much, that I talk too much...I just don't cut it in your opinion. I'm not the perfect SOLDIER." She hit her head once more before stepping back. "You know, you can get quite a headache from doing that too long." She walked over to the bed and sat on it before leaning back.
"Aerith-"
"Don't talk to me Sephiroth. I haven't forgiven you yet."
"What did I do this time?"
She rolled onto her side and stared at him as though he'd grown horns. "Never mind Sephiroth. It isn't your fault..." Her mako green eyes closed and she rolled back onto her back.
[Sometimes...I think she might be in my very mind...]
"Aerith...Do you remember your childhood?"
"Ha..." A bitter laugh. "What childhood? My mother and I were taken from Icicle Village by Hojo. That was when he killed my mother. She tried to escape, he shot her. I was kept away from everybody in a cell, the room was so dark and cold, all I remember was the cell how everyday he filled it with some sort of mako-derived oxygenated fluid...I remember I met you in the labs one of those days... You were such a lost little boy. I felt so sorry for you. I could see even then the pain you held in your eyes..."
"Who was your father?"
"I was told his name was Professor Gast."
Sephiroth looked at her. "Gast?"
"Yeah...He was killed..."
"Oh..."
"What about you? Do you remember your childhood?"
"No." Sephiroth sighed and let his head roll back til it stopped against the glass wall he was leaning against.
"Sephiroth..."
"Hn?"
"Please tell me I'm NOT seeing things..."
He lifted his head and looked at Aerith to find her staring at something. He turned his attention and almost fell(Anime style) upon noticing what it was she was so worried about.
"Let go of me! I have friends who'll come save me!" The girl yelled.
"Ah shut up already." Aerith sumped up and ran over to the door upon hearing Reno's voice.
"Reno-sama!"
"Aerith!" Reno put the girl struggling on his shoulder in the cell then came over to Aerith who stood at the door. "He's got you in here again huh?"
"Yeah... Reno...I don't want to be in here...Let me out. He's trying to get us to..." Aerith indicated with her head toward Sephiroth.
"Oh gods..." Reno looked around for the device to open the door but couldn't find it. "Sorry love."
"Crap...He probably took it with him. Reno...Who is she?" Aerith nodded towards the girl in the cell next to them.
"Her name is Aeris. She's your clone."
"My...My clone?"
"That's what Hojo explained when he told me to get her."
Aerith's head once more hit the door. "Ow..."
"When do you think you'll be out eh love?"
"Oh it's not like you care. You get laid at least twice a day by different women, even if I am your girlfriend."
Reno put his forehead against the door. "Well you're still not giving me any so I gotta get it from somewhere..."
She lifted her eyes and looked at him, a gentle scowl across her face. "Well you more than definately are NOT getting anything til I get OUT of here."
"Don't worry love. I'll have you out soon."
"Oh thankyou Reno. Love ya."
"Love ya too."
As if trained, they pressed their lips against the door at the same time. Sephiroth rolled his eyes and stood approaching them. "Knowing Hojo, he would more than likely be recording this whole process. I would suggest that you leave Reno."
Aerith and Reno broke away from their 'kiss' and looked at Sephiroth. "Later babe."
Reno turned and walked out. "Why do you always have to do that?!" She brought her hand around and slapped Sephiroth across his left cheek.
He caught her wrist and held it tightly. Anger showing in his usual neutral mako green eyes. "YOu are a stupid woman Aerith!" He thrust her hand down and turned away, walking back to his original position.
"Aerith..."
She turned and went across to the 'clone'. "Who are you?" Aerith demanded, putting her hands on the glass.
"Aeris Gainsborough. Flower seller in MIdgar, Sector 7 and 6. Who are you?"
"Aerith Gainsborough. First Class SOLDIER."
"How can you bare to work under Shin-Ra?" Aeris asked in horror.
"How can you bare to sell flowers of all things?"
"Flowers are beautiful, they're a part of the Planet. As a Cetra-"
"As a Cetra, don't you think you should respect the planet by leaving the flowers to bloom and die as the planet desires rather than you cutting them from their life source and selling them? A profit cannot be made off the Planet." Aerith frowned.
"You make such talk of caring for the planet, yet do you not hear it screaming pain whenever another Mako reactor is placed on its surface? When the mako is being sucked from within it?"
"Of course I can."
"Then why do you continue to serve Shin-Ra?"
"Ha!" Bittersweet Aerith's more than well known laugh. "Who do you think protects you from the monsters in the slums? Shin-Ra."
"Shin-Ra put them there in the first place!"
Sephiroth groaned, "Would you both shut up? I am getting a headache from you both talking so much...Not to mention that aphrodisiac over there..."
"Shut up Sephiroth!" Aerith growled. "If you were a little more helpful, I would've been able to get out through the vent and get rid of it. But now that it's in here, I can't!"
"YOu know, I can see why Reno wants you so badly." Sephiroth growled. "Why everyday when he sees you, all he talks about is you..."
Aerith stepped back in shock. "What are you talking about?"
Sephiroth shook his head. "Never mind." He leant back again trying to shut the two out of his mind.
"Reno's sweet. He acts tough, but he's such a sweetie...He took me onto the plains outside Midgar for the first date. To look at the stars. It was so beautiful..."
"Just like Zack..." Aeris muttered.
"Who?"
"Zack. My first boyfriend. He's a SOLDIER too. You might know him if you're such a high ranked SOLDIER." A touch of sarcasm touched her voice.
"Yeah, I know him. He went to Nibelheim with a few others a while back. Such a womaniser he was... He kept telling me how pretty I was blah blah blah...He was just like the others. NO doubt he went for you. Especially if you're my clone." Aerith looked to Aeris. "You were probably easy meat for him."
"Oh like you can talk...Going out with someone like Reno of all people. Tseng never liked him."
"You know Tseng do you? I suppose he's been keeping tabs on you as Hojo asked."
"No...Not Tseng, he was-"
"Your friend Aeris-chan? Tseng doesn't make FRIENDS. You should get to know the real Tseng."
"Ooh...You're so mean!" Aeris frowned and walked to the other side of her cell and sat on the bed in anger.
Aerith dropped back to her bed and continued to think of Reno and her first date. There had been a shooting star...And she wished against all hopes to be free of Shin-Ra. One day, she would be. She'd wished upon that shooting star and it would come true. She knew it would.
A/N
I know...The chapter was a bit lame...Okay. REALLY lame. The next chapter will make up for all your wishes...Even those bloodthirsty ones.
And don't worry about Sephiroth going mad from Jenova...He will...
Warnings: Nothing in particular
Chapter 2: Shooting Star
Aerith woke, her head pounding as the memories of the previous day came back to her. She sat up, rubbing her mind trying to ease the painful throbbing from where she figured she'd hit her head as she fell.
"Sephiroth?" She looked around trying to find the pale haired swordsman.
"There's no need to panic Aerith." Sephiroth was sitting further away, his legs crossed, eyes closed, a look on his face that showed he was concentrating deeply.
"Like hell there's not! I may be 8 years younger than you Sephiroth, but I do know when something isn't right." Aerith stood and walked to the door. "Hey! Hojo! Lemme out! I got jobs to do!" She pounded on the glass with her fist. "Ow..." She nursed her painfilled hand. "What is this glass? Superglass or something?"
"Nobody can break out of the cells here Aerith. Nobody." Sephiroth looked to her, his mako green eyes a felection of her own.
"Oh...You're awake now." Hojo limped over to them, Aerith noticing the blood stain on his right leg of his pants. "Good...Good. I have plans for you both. Since I am not sure how well a clone would mate, I have decided that you two will mate and produce a mako/cetra/jenova enhanced offspring."
"You're a sick bastard..." Aerith frowned. "What makes you think that either of us will cooperate?" She turned to Sephiroth who was still sitting on the floor in a relaxed state.
"I need not worry if you wish not to cooperate. How long can you go without food little Cetra?" Hojo taunted.
"As long as I need." Hojo chuckled and produced a small bottle with pale blue gaseous contents. "What is that?"
Sephiroth shook his head. "Chionodoxa. A natural aphrodisiac. Even I didn't think you could stoop THAT low."
He chuckled. "I have to have my offspring. And if neither of you will cooperate, even without food, you will do it of your own free will...Even if your will has been tampered with."
"Sir, the girl is coming." A Shin-Ra soldier saluted coming in.
"Ah...Good...Good..." The soldier didn't move. "You can go now soldier."
"Sir." He saluted once more then turned and left.
"What an idiot. No wonder he's only a rookie..." Aerith shook her head. "So you've got another 'specimen' coming have you? What are you going to do to her?"
"Oh, I think you will find you have alot in common with her Aerith." He noticed the time on the clock sitting on the far wall. "Oh. I have a meeting with Rufus. I'll tell him you send your regards Aerith. I wouldn't want to disappoint your boyfriend now would I? He might shut my lab down. I'll just leave this here..." He put the bottle on the table then left, continuing to chuckle.
"I'll kill him...Right after I've dealt with Rufus..." Aerith sat back down. "Now what?" Her stomach growled.
"I thought you said you could go for as long as you need without food."
"I haven't eaten for four days. And I WAS going out to a resteraunt last night...Except this mad professor seems to think that you'll be 'mating' with me. If you even come within an arms reach I'll have to kill you."
"That is one less thing you have to worry about Gainsborough. I will not be mating with you either." A look of disgust crossed his face briefly.
"Why not? Is there something wrong with the way I look?" She studied herself. "Am I too fat?" She lifted her shirt and pinched her stomach. "Do I have something on my face?" She rubbed her shirt across her face.
"You are an odd woman." Sephiroth shook his head and closed his eyes.
"Odd...Ha. What would you know." Aerith sat, her back facing Sephiroth, her arms folded across her chest. "I'm not odd." She turned to face him. "Am I?"
He sighed. "You talk too much Aerith. You should take more notice of what Hojo has done."
She frowned. He pointed to the bottle of Chionodoxa. She looked at it to find the blue vapours slowly seeping into the room. "What are we going to do?!" She stood frantically and bashed against the door.
Sephiroth shook his head watching from afar the petite woman's reactions change from terrified to disgusted. She let her hand fall and began hitting her head against the door instead. "Aerith...Stop beating yourself up."
"Why? It's not like I can do anything anyway..." She continued to let her head hit the door.
Sephiroth shook his head. "Aerith, though it may offer you little comfort, I do not think that there is anything wrong with the way you look." She wailed and hit her head harder. "What is wrong now?"
"That's all I am...Something that guys think looks good. I am simply a walking thing of sexual desires. Sure, we like to be told we're pretty, maybe some even like the idea that they're the main object of men's erotic fantasies too..." Sephiroth felt a twinge andlooked to the air vent, the aphrodisiac was spreading faster than he thought. "But I don't. I don't like the way the other SOLDIER guys stare at me, the way they grope, their stinking sweaty bodies...It's like I'm a piece of meat...Especially to Rufus."
"You are a SOLDIER Aerith. One of the incredibly few who have made it to First Class ranks. Still, if I had my way-"
"I know what you think of me Sephiroth. I know you think I whine too much, that I talk too much...I just don't cut it in your opinion. I'm not the perfect SOLDIER." She hit her head once more before stepping back. "You know, you can get quite a headache from doing that too long." She walked over to the bed and sat on it before leaning back.
"Aerith-"
"Don't talk to me Sephiroth. I haven't forgiven you yet."
"What did I do this time?"
She rolled onto her side and stared at him as though he'd grown horns. "Never mind Sephiroth. It isn't your fault..." Her mako green eyes closed and she rolled back onto her back.
[Sometimes...I think she might be in my very mind...]
"Aerith...Do you remember your childhood?"
"Ha..." A bitter laugh. "What childhood? My mother and I were taken from Icicle Village by Hojo. That was when he killed my mother. She tried to escape, he shot her. I was kept away from everybody in a cell, the room was so dark and cold, all I remember was the cell how everyday he filled it with some sort of mako-derived oxygenated fluid...I remember I met you in the labs one of those days... You were such a lost little boy. I felt so sorry for you. I could see even then the pain you held in your eyes..."
"Who was your father?"
"I was told his name was Professor Gast."
Sephiroth looked at her. "Gast?"
"Yeah...He was killed..."
"Oh..."
"What about you? Do you remember your childhood?"
"No." Sephiroth sighed and let his head roll back til it stopped against the glass wall he was leaning against.
"Sephiroth..."
"Hn?"
"Please tell me I'm NOT seeing things..."
He lifted his head and looked at Aerith to find her staring at something. He turned his attention and almost fell(Anime style) upon noticing what it was she was so worried about.
"Let go of me! I have friends who'll come save me!" The girl yelled.
"Ah shut up already." Aerith sumped up and ran over to the door upon hearing Reno's voice.
"Reno-sama!"
"Aerith!" Reno put the girl struggling on his shoulder in the cell then came over to Aerith who stood at the door. "He's got you in here again huh?"
"Yeah... Reno...I don't want to be in here...Let me out. He's trying to get us to..." Aerith indicated with her head toward Sephiroth.
"Oh gods..." Reno looked around for the device to open the door but couldn't find it. "Sorry love."
"Crap...He probably took it with him. Reno...Who is she?" Aerith nodded towards the girl in the cell next to them.
"Her name is Aeris. She's your clone."
"My...My clone?"
"That's what Hojo explained when he told me to get her."
Aerith's head once more hit the door. "Ow..."
"When do you think you'll be out eh love?"
"Oh it's not like you care. You get laid at least twice a day by different women, even if I am your girlfriend."
Reno put his forehead against the door. "Well you're still not giving me any so I gotta get it from somewhere..."
She lifted her eyes and looked at him, a gentle scowl across her face. "Well you more than definately are NOT getting anything til I get OUT of here."
"Don't worry love. I'll have you out soon."
"Oh thankyou Reno. Love ya."
"Love ya too."
As if trained, they pressed their lips against the door at the same time. Sephiroth rolled his eyes and stood approaching them. "Knowing Hojo, he would more than likely be recording this whole process. I would suggest that you leave Reno."
Aerith and Reno broke away from their 'kiss' and looked at Sephiroth. "Later babe."
Reno turned and walked out. "Why do you always have to do that?!" She brought her hand around and slapped Sephiroth across his left cheek.
He caught her wrist and held it tightly. Anger showing in his usual neutral mako green eyes. "YOu are a stupid woman Aerith!" He thrust her hand down and turned away, walking back to his original position.
"Aerith..."
She turned and went across to the 'clone'. "Who are you?" Aerith demanded, putting her hands on the glass.
"Aeris Gainsborough. Flower seller in MIdgar, Sector 7 and 6. Who are you?"
"Aerith Gainsborough. First Class SOLDIER."
"How can you bare to work under Shin-Ra?" Aeris asked in horror.
"How can you bare to sell flowers of all things?"
"Flowers are beautiful, they're a part of the Planet. As a Cetra-"
"As a Cetra, don't you think you should respect the planet by leaving the flowers to bloom and die as the planet desires rather than you cutting them from their life source and selling them? A profit cannot be made off the Planet." Aerith frowned.
"You make such talk of caring for the planet, yet do you not hear it screaming pain whenever another Mako reactor is placed on its surface? When the mako is being sucked from within it?"
"Of course I can."
"Then why do you continue to serve Shin-Ra?"
"Ha!" Bittersweet Aerith's more than well known laugh. "Who do you think protects you from the monsters in the slums? Shin-Ra."
"Shin-Ra put them there in the first place!"
Sephiroth groaned, "Would you both shut up? I am getting a headache from you both talking so much...Not to mention that aphrodisiac over there..."
"Shut up Sephiroth!" Aerith growled. "If you were a little more helpful, I would've been able to get out through the vent and get rid of it. But now that it's in here, I can't!"
"YOu know, I can see why Reno wants you so badly." Sephiroth growled. "Why everyday when he sees you, all he talks about is you..."
Aerith stepped back in shock. "What are you talking about?"
Sephiroth shook his head. "Never mind." He leant back again trying to shut the two out of his mind.
"Reno's sweet. He acts tough, but he's such a sweetie...He took me onto the plains outside Midgar for the first date. To look at the stars. It was so beautiful..."
"Just like Zack..." Aeris muttered.
"Who?"
"Zack. My first boyfriend. He's a SOLDIER too. You might know him if you're such a high ranked SOLDIER." A touch of sarcasm touched her voice.
"Yeah, I know him. He went to Nibelheim with a few others a while back. Such a womaniser he was... He kept telling me how pretty I was blah blah blah...He was just like the others. NO doubt he went for you. Especially if you're my clone." Aerith looked to Aeris. "You were probably easy meat for him."
"Oh like you can talk...Going out with someone like Reno of all people. Tseng never liked him."
"You know Tseng do you? I suppose he's been keeping tabs on you as Hojo asked."
"No...Not Tseng, he was-"
"Your friend Aeris-chan? Tseng doesn't make FRIENDS. You should get to know the real Tseng."
"Ooh...You're so mean!" Aeris frowned and walked to the other side of her cell and sat on the bed in anger.
Aerith dropped back to her bed and continued to think of Reno and her first date. There had been a shooting star...And she wished against all hopes to be free of Shin-Ra. One day, she would be. She'd wished upon that shooting star and it would come true. She knew it would.
A/N
I know...The chapter was a bit lame...Okay. REALLY lame. The next chapter will make up for all your wishes...Even those bloodthirsty ones.
And don't worry about Sephiroth going mad from Jenova...He will...