A week went by, Sephiroth and Soldire didn't speak much, they fought daily, Sephiroth was growing more and more strong and powerful. His speed was growing and becoming unreal.

Soldire was still amazed by the kiss, and how much she'd hoped to let it be more, but she couldn't let that happen to him. She spend every night working on leather pants for Sephiroth, with an inside belt that would appear seamless. She designed boots to fit him specially, and needed to use straps and buckles to hold them in place just above his knees. She didn't have to sew this for him, but she really was trying to avoid eye contact with him, trying to keep her focus elsewhere.

Sephiroth came to her and sat down next to her, watching what she was doing a few moments then she stood up rapidly, "Ok, I'm ready for you now!"

Sephiroth wasn't sure what she was talking about. He looked at her very confused, hoping she'd explain her meaning a little more, though, he knew what he HOPED she meant, but he was pretty sure that wasn't it.

"Try this on!" She insisted with a smile.

Sephiroth exhaled deeply, taking it from her, and he went behind a large rock and began to change into it, first into the pants, sliding the boots over them, and buckling them at his knees. He put on the trench coat and buckled it all the way down, feeling horribly constricted while he tried to move. He came out and modeled it for her, "I like the color… but I'm having trouble moving in it.

"Well, I want you to stand out in SOLDIER, my cloths when I served were similar." She inhaled deeply, trying to keep her eyes off of him only a moment or so longer. "I chose this particular design because you have your heart exposed, showing that you don't fear dying, yet it's intimidating because you don't fear it."

"I squeak when I move…" Sephiroth told her seriously.

She laughed by such a shocking phrase from Sephiroth. She finally looked him and smiled, "I chose leather for you because you'll have to learn how to be stealthy to prevent the leather from making noise when you get used to it." She noticed the buckles all being closed. "Oh, no wonder…" she stood up and walked to him, and started unbuckling the trench coat, leaving one done at the top of his waist where the buckles start, and then unbuckled them all on the way down, until only one was done. "Much better!"

Sephiroth looked at his attire, flexing his muscles, and he liked this new feeling. He lifted his sword and eyed her playfully. "Shall we dance?" he asked her with a wide grin.

She smiled back, "Just a second…" she walked around him, taking his hair down, seeing his gravity defying bangs for the first time, and then she placed the shoulder pads on him, hooking them underneath his arms. He wanted to move, but he didn't mind her being so close… at least she was touching him.

"Your hair looks better down," she explained to him. "And… I noticed your left arm pops out of place when you fight, the pads will make that stop happening."

"You've thought of everything," he told her.

She took up her sword and poised it against him, "Well then, let's dance."

They both stood against each other, holding their swords and waiting for the other to lunge forward first, this time they were going to all out on each other. They were going to use Materia now, but Sephiroth wasn't aware that she had a special, and she was going to use it… her own One-Winged Angel skills… Super Nova.

They moved forward, and began clashing their swords, entering their different gravity defying skills, floating into the air, fighting and then disappearing from the other until the last second before an attack. They landed against each other's sword, and were both pushing off the other one.

"You've become a lot more skilled…" Soldire told him.

"I have a good teacher," Sephiroth agreed with her, but she was noticing his eyes… they were very much snake-like now.

They both went back into the air in opposing directions, and Sephiroth suddenly couldn't find her, he used a Bolt 3 to eliminate any rocks hanging from the ceiling. As they began to fall, he suddenly grew aware of her presence, and turned rapidly to watch a rock slice in half and there she was, coming toward him with speed and persistence, and their blades met again, this time with so much force they both lost balance and landed on the ground, both scraping against the ground, and tumbling into standing again.

Sephiroth stood before her, holding his sword against her neck. Soldire smiled at him, and for the first time ever he noticed her snake-like pupils. She stood up and said "Accept the power of mother…" then a large black wing extended from her back, and he lifted off the ground with it and opened her hand toward the Heavens and cast Super Nova.

The attack subsided, and Sephiroth went down to one knee from the blow of it, but he had already defeated her, she fell to her one knee across from him, and they both glared at each other. Soldire had her upper half's weight braced on her knee using her elbow. She struggled to stand, and Sephiroth was already able to stand. She laughed, aiming her sword once more.

"What was that?" Sephiroth asked her, angry with her for that ability.

"It's an ability you too possess, I wanted you to see it," she told him. "Jenova's cells infused make us able to use her powers, to become more like her…"

Sephiroth aimed his sword to her, and his eyes insisted he was ready to keep wearing her down until she couldn't stand again. She aimed her sword, and they both moved toward each other, this time they both struck at each other with all their strength, and then were both suddenly unarmed, their swords becoming too heavy, too hard to wield for both of them.

Sephiroth and she stared at each other for another moment, neither one sure of if they should move for their weapon or not. Soldire moved first, putting her arm around his waist and coming toward him, waiting for an invite to kiss him. He brought his gloved hands to her face and his lips to hers.

They kissed longly and passionately, before Sephiroth finally was ready to stop just that and lifted her up and carried her to the large bed he wanted to join her in for so long. He started kissing her again while he was lying on top of her, hoping not to get pushed away. Soldire undid his single buckle on his trench coat and unhooked his shoulder pads and let it slide off of him, and onto the ground. He removed his gloves, tossing them to the side with his trench coat. She continued for him, removing his leather straps, belt, and his pants and boots, while he tended to her clothing.

Finally both undressed; they were kissing each other passionately, and exploring the newly exposed parts with their lips. "Sephiroth… I'm a…" Soldire began, bracing her hands on his shoulders, trying to make him stop if need be.

Sephiroth made eye contact and touched her soft hair. "So am I," Sephiroth admitted, but he didn't sound ashamed at all. "At least we don't have any high expectations."

She laughed, "No, I guess not."

She let go of his shoulders, wrapping her arms around his back, permitting him slower to her again. He kissed her lips tenderly now, holding onto her sides, not exactly sure of what was to come next. While kissing, he touched her lips with his tongue, asking for more entry and was granted it with a much wider kiss, and they began passionately French kissing, and before he knew it, he was pressed almost inside her, and her muscles were taking to him rather easily. He slid himself in, noticing her grit her teeth a little. He paused for a moment, waiting for her to get used to him, and then they began thrusting to each other's rhythm.

His moans of satisfaction echoed in her head and hers in his. She clung to him, seizing his shoulders while he braced himself against her, using her hips. They both continued to thrust with each other, until they both could feel their oncoming climaxes, at the same time. Soldire arched her back, while she was reaching her climax, and Sephiroth thrust himself in deeper for his, while they climaxed together.

They both collapsed together, and kissed each other again and she stroked his sweaty hair, looking deep into those eyes of his, her "brother" to an experiment they were both created in. She sighed deeply and closed her eyes and touched her forehead to his.

"I love you," Sephiroth told her. He was shocked to speak those words, but he knew it, he knew it was true.

She looked at him in surprise and smiled at him and kissed his lips once again, "and I love you Sephiroth."

Sephiroth looked at her seriously, "Can I stay with you?"

"You have been staying with me though," Soldire told him, confused some about what he was saying to her.

"I know, I know that… but I mean I don't want to go back to the Shin-Ra. I love you and I want to be with you. You left SOLDIER and I don't want to be in it. I couldn't ask you to go with me back to them."

Soldire and he rolled so she could rest her neck on his shoulder, and she touched his chest, and smiled inwardly, and then carefully spoke to him, "You can stay with me forever, but I think you should go back to the Shin-Ra and tell them."

"Why tell them?" Sephiroth asked her.

"They will find out, and they'll fight us on it." Soldire was very careful about what she was going to tell him. He wasn't aware that he was an experiment, she had to tell him, but she feared how he would take discovering that.

Sephiroth and she fell asleep in each other's arms. Since he was going to the Shin-Ra tomorrow, that gave her time to finish the book she was writing, and would put in the Shin-Ra mansion found in Nibelhiem, she would hide it, and Sephiroth would find it one day… but hopefully he wouldn't snap entirely…