Arnvid: Vale, I always disobeyed you.
Vale: …Yeah… but, er, you're disobeying me more often!
Arnvid: …I never obeyed you in the first place!
Vale: *ignoring Arnvid* lol, I was extremely, EXTREMELY tempted to go along with Akira Silveracious Majere's idea. Lol!
Arnvid: All you do is whine how bad a muse I am, and you only think about yourself -
Vale: *ahem* Arnvid, shut up.
Arnvid: No.
Vale: Yes.
Arnvid: … *glare*
Vale: *glare* …
Thor: Hi, Vale. Dropped in for a visit, thought you'd-- Arguing with your muse again?
Vale: *blinks* Thor!! Did I give you permission to drop by?
Thor: No, but it's not like that's going to stop me. Kukukuku!
Vale: _ Thor meet the world, world Thor.
Thor: Hi. Oh yeah, Vince wants to drop by in the next chapter, she says she's not getting enough respect
Vale: But I never give you guys respect…
Arnvid: Yes you do Vale, don't lie
Vale: I do not!
Arnvid: Do too!
Vale: *glare*
Arnvid: *glares back*
Thor: *continues speaking* So since Vince wants to drop by in the next chapter, why don't you just let everyone have their say and then we'll leave you alone (lie) for the rest of the fic.
Vale: … *fidgets for a while* FINE! But that's gonna be the only chapter that you all will be in!
Thor: Fair enough
Vale: *pouts* Go on and read folks, nothing to see here.
Flight of the Angels
Chapter Three
Aren't Hotels Great?
By:
Vale (Saturn Angels)
It was at a quarter to five in the morning when Aeris became half-aware of her surroundings. She was slightly conscious of the comfortable warmth around her; all she knew was she didn't want to get up. Then her mind became more assertive. Her eyebrows furrowed in slight confusion… she wasn't supposed to be this warm, even if it was a honey moon suite they didn't have covers that warm in Midgar… she slowly opened her eyes to see a something black and silky, she trailed her gaze upwards until she saw a face -obviously belonging to a male- the person was breathing evenly according to the steady rising and falling of her temporary 'pillow' signaling that he was still sleeping. She almost fell asleep again when she remembered exactly who's face it must be and exactly where she was.
She looked at their positions more carefully and noticed that basically he was lying on his side, facing her, and his right arm was draped over her stomach, and she was clinging to him like a lifeline: her left leg was draped over his side, her arms were wound around his neck, and her head was resting on his chest. He looked undisturbed in his little dream world and she quickly tried to disentangle herself from him.
He stirred at all the movement and woke up, his icy green eyes; which seemed to be glowing in the poor lighting, staring into emerald ones; both sets of eyes were wide with shock. It was silent for a long time before Sephiroth decided to make a sarcastic comment, "Someone likes to cuddle at night…"
Aeris blushed and felt like slapping the aggravating man, so she brought her hands from around his neck and did just that.
SMACK.
At the loud sound of the slap the lights turned on and Aeris immediately felt guilty for what she did, she'd never-well…hardly ever lost her temper to the extent that she would slap someone. Much less someone she'd only known for a day and a half.
Sephiroth, for one, looked extremely surprised as if it was the first time he had been slapped.
In fact, little did Aeris know, it was the first time he'd been slapped.
So, they sat-or lay- there in silence, Aeris looking extremely apologetic and Sephiroth sort of just staring at her with his mouth slightly ajar.
"I am so sorry! I-I had no right to do that. I shouldn't have done that. I'm so very, very sorry! It's all my fault! I shouldn't have reacted that way-" her rant was cut short when Sephiroth held out his hand to silence her.
"That's enough of your rambling. It's not your fault…" he sat up pausing mid-sentence as he touched his sore cheek, "…entirely."
Aeris made a small noise that sounded something akin to a 'hmph' and sat up as well fighting the urge to attempt in kicking him off the bed. "Some gentleman you are. You know, if I wasn't so nice I would have made you sleep on the floor and none of this would have happened."
"That would have been preferred," was Sephiroth's reply as he got up from bed and went into the bathroom to change.
Aeris gave a small pout and stuck out her tongue when she saw the bathroom door close. She turned to look at the digital clock that was on the nightstand next to the bed, "It's five in the morning??" Aeris asked as she stared at the clock unbelievably, "That's too early to be awake!!" She clapped a couple of times and the light turned off, she then did something that could be described as a nose-dive onto the bed, and pulled the covers over her head.
She wasn't sure exactly woke her up, though she was sure it hadn't even been fifteen minutes since she had fallen back asleep, the only possible reason that she had awakened was that the lights had been turned on from what she could see through the blankets. She was about to pull the covers from her face when she noticed that there was a folded part of the blanket making it so she could see part of the room while staying underneath the blanket.
And what she saw, made her want to drop dead of embarrassment, shock, and maybe a little bit of guilt. But of course she didn't drop dead at all, in fact she continued staring at what she had caught a glimpse of.
She bit her lower lip and was almost positive her face could rival the color of a tomato and win as she pulled the covers down so that only her eyes were revealed. What she was witnessing was a sight any boy-crazy, idol-chasing woman/girl on the planet would die to see.
Sephiroth, completely unaware of his roommate's stares continued to search through his bag looking for a shirt, because obviously he wasn't wearing one at the moment.
Aeris' face grew to an even deeper shade of red, if possible, as she remembered that around half an hour ago her head had used his chest - the very chest she was staring at now- as a pillow. A pillow!! A head rest if you will. Well-chiseled chests aren't made to be head rests-though they are rather comfy- they're made for gawking, staring, ogling, watching, lustful glances, etc. not pillows- though once again she had found it rather comfortable.
'Close your eyes before he catches you staring!' Aeris' thoughts commanded her and she followed her instinct, and not a moment to late because it was at that precise moment that Sephiroth; after getting his shirt on, chose to turn around therefore facing the rest of the room, as he put everything else in his bag.
"You'll miss your flight if you don't get up."
Aeris pulled the covers back up over her head and snuggled deeper into the covers not quite trusting her face to be its normal color yet.
"I had a feeling this would happen." Sephiroth could be heard walking into the bathroom, and when he came out again Aeris didn't have much time to respond before a bucket of ice, ((A/N: Like they have at Holiday Inns)) though it was now better described as melted ice, was dumped over her head.
Splash.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!" Aeris sat straight up in bed and after her rather loud scream, that led Sephiroth to believe he had gone deaf, she began to shiver violently as she glared at Sephiroth. "Wh-Why'd y-you d-d-d~o th-that?"
A shrug, "That's the sort of awakening you'd get in SOLDIER…if you were lucky."
Aeris paused to let this thought sink in, "Y-You were in S-SOLDIER?" She paused and looked at his face closely though still shivering uncontrollably, "Oh…Y-Yeah! No wonder you l-look famil-iar. Your f-f-face was i-in the pa-pers a l-lot. You're that G-General…w-who won that huge war in …Wutai, was it?"
He shrugged lightly as if it was something that he didn't care much about anymore.
"Wow! S-So are you s-still a general?" Aeris asked her shivering slowly subsiding as she began climbing out of bed.
Sephiroth shook his head.
"So what do you do for a living now?"
Sephiroth remained silent.
She pouted at him, "Fine then, be that way! I was just trying to start a conversation so the room wouldn't have such an uncomfortable air."
"That's nice of you. But unfortunately I think it's time I leave, I have a flight to catch. Note the sarcasm implied here."
Aeris then took this time to glance at the clock realizing just how much time had passed since she was supposed to wake up without wasting another second Aeris grabbed her bag and ran into the bathroom.
In the record time of ten minutes Aeris was now completely dry and in new clothes, "Ta-da!" she cried as she jumped out of the bathroom then looked around the room. The furniture was the same, the bed was still unmade, the curtains were open, but something was missing… "Oh!" Aeris sighed frustrated, "How rude! Leaving me here!"
Okay, so he wasn't exactly obligated to wait for her, but it would have been nice. She still couldn't believe she'd slept with a general.
'Oh….that did not sound right…' Aeris thought with a slight cringe before grabbing the rest of her belongings and stuffing them into her bag and running out the door.
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To be continued…
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