( None of these belong to me. They are owned by Squaresoft/enix so I would greatly appreciate it if you don't sue me please thanks) This is my second time writing a fic so bear with me, there's prolly a lot of mistakes in here. Lol no flames please. This is a Vincent/Aeris fic. This is a great fic for all you Vincent or Aeris fans out there... ' oh and another thing.. I know that I'm kinda rushing things and I'm telling the story really fast, but bear with me... I swear, I'll go more into depth and the later chapters will get better! ' I hope...

Red Death's Love

-LMG-

/Lyrics by Billie Joel/

These are the times

to remember

cuz they will not

last forever

/

When he got there, he went to Cid Highwind's home, only to find that he didn't live there any more. An old couple now occupied the place they told him where to find Cid. Cid now lives across town with Shera. They had been living together for quite some time...

Although Cid could be verbal to Shera at times, Vincent knew that the couple was meant to be together. It was obvious to anyone, that they were in love. Vincent wondered if they ever got married. He followed the old people's direction, and found the house in no time.

It was a nice two story home. The outside of the house was painted white. There was a little wooden fence surrounding it. Vincent notice a small garden in the front when he walked towards the house. The window frames were painted pink so were the shutters. There were flower troths at each window. They were completely covered in flowers. Cid lives here with Shera? He couldn't imagine foul-mouth Cid living in such a delicate place like this. It was too feminine. There was a huge warehouse behind the home. Vincent stared at it for a minute. That's probably where he keeps the Highwind.

Vincent returned his gaze towards the house, and eyed the place cautiously, not expecting any kind of welcoming party, he headed up the white stairs and knocked on the door. Vincent heard the pounding of several feet rushing towards the door. Vincent saw the door knob twist and the door was flung open.

Cid was standing before Vincent with a cigar in his mouth, there were three children hanging from him. One on his arm, another hung on his left leg, and there was another one dangling from his neck.

They were all giggling. "Daddy, we got you!!"

Vincent's crimson eyes blinked wide open.

Cid took one look at Vincent and for the second time in his life, dropped the cigar from his mouth. "What the Fkin #&&!& how did you get here?!? How the F$%& are you doing man?"

All three children gasped. "Uh oh.. Daddy.. you said a bad word..."

"No, he said a lot of bad words...."

"I wanna tell mommy when she comes back..."

Cid shook the children off. "Alright, ya mangy miscreants.. get on down.."

He leaned over and picked the cigar off the floor. He quickly pat the children's behind as they ran from him. "Get on outta here... BRATS!" He called out after them.

Cid chuckled in spite of himself. Vincent looked and felt out of place. Cid turned his full attention towards the mysterious man. Cid was wearing a white undershirt, and blue sweatpants.

Vincent noticed a little gut protruding from Cid's abdomen. Apparently, Shera can cook well. Cid was standing in the doorway with bare feet and he didn't have his goggles on. He still had a scruffy look about him and a mischievous twinkle in his eyes.

He scratched his stubbly chin. "So.. you're not gonna drink my blood or anything if I invite ya in or anything are ya Nosferatu?"

Vincent gave him a dull look and frowned. Cid punched Vincent in the shoulder playfully. "Come one Vinnie, why the long face... come on in why don't ya?" He nodded his head towards the house.

Vincent bowed his head forward slightly. "Thankyou.. Cid.." and entered the home.

Cid closed the door behind them. "So, I see you saw my kids..."

Vincent nodded and made room for Cid to pass by. Cid walked him through the house. After that, the two men sat down in his living room while Cid rambled on about his life after he left Avalanche.

After the threat of meteor had been eliminated, Cid came back to Rocket town. He asked Shera to marry him and she accepted happily. It was two years later into their marriage, that he wanted to restart the space program. Reeve had become Midgar's new president and he was making a lot of changes to rebuild the floating city. Reeve agreed to reopen the space program.

With Reeve's help, Cid nearly succeeded in re-institutionalizing the program, but then Shera got sick. Cid took her to the hospital. As it turned out, Shera wasn't sick at all, she was pregnant.

Cid was upset at first. He had wanted to go back to space before having children, but there was nothing he could do. When it was time to go up in space, Shera was due for labor, Cid left to be by Shera's side.

The pregnancy was a difficult one, and Shera almost didn't make it, but as lady luck would have it, the child came through, with no problems. Both baby and Shera were fine. After that, Cid gave up on his dreams of going out to space. Instead, he decided to become a full-time trainer in the astronaut program that Reeve and Cait sith helped sponsored. It was Cid's job to train the "noobs" and get them qualified to work in the space station when they're out in orbit. Cid made a great instructor. He always made sure that the boys new what they were doing before they did anything stupid and blow something up.

Over the course of time, Cid and Shera decided to have more kids. They could afford it, and it turned out that Cid was a pretty responsible father. (minus the cussing and all that) Cid's three children were upstairs making all kinds of noise.

Cid screamed up at the ceiling. "Hey, you kids, pipe it down why don't ya? If yer gonna cause some racket, ya might as well go outside!"

He looked back at Vincent, took out his cigar and said, "Kids... man.. take my advice Vinnie, don't ever have kids, they drive ya nuts.."

Cid had one boy and two girls. The boy Cid jr, who was named after Cid, was the oldest, he was wearing his father's famous goggles. The boy was eight years old, next was Mya who was six, and then Katie who was four. All three of them drove their father insane. But Vincent could tell that Cid wouldn't trade them for the world and he would die for them.

Vincent didn't stay in Rocket Town for long. He stayed for one night and left in the morning. Before he left, Vincent asked Cid about the rest of the members from AVALANCE. Cid told him that he really didn't keep in contact with anyone except for Reeve. Cid ran into Cait every once in a while, but he was too busy with his job to keep in contact with the rest of AVALANCE. Cid told Vincent that Shera kept in contact with Tifa, but that was about it. As a matter of fact, Shera was visiting Tifa in Kalm this instance. Vincent thanked Cid and bade him fare well.

Before he left, Cid stopped him. He told Vincent that Barret and Marlene lived in North Corel and that Cloud had given Marlene his gold chocobo on her 13th birthday. "I'm sure if ya asked her, she'd let you borrow the damn bird... I mean it ain't like she's using it or nothing..." Cid's children gasped again, and giggled when he cussed. "I figure you got a little bit a traveling to do.. and you'd get around quicker with that thing...."

Vincent was astonished by Cid's genuine actions. Vincent could recall a time when he and Cid couldn't stand each other's presence. But now ... he's changed. I guess marrying Shera really helped Cid out. Vincent mused for a brief second. He thanked Cid for the information. Cid and his children waved to him as he left. Vincent started for North Corel.

-End-