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"You are here alone again in your sweet insanity, all too far you find yourself from reality."

"Please Sephiroth, don't do this. You know as well as I do that this isn't you."

Jade eyes stared back at Cloud's blue ones. Sephiroth stood; his figure overwhelming Cloud's own.

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It was late at night and Sephiroth had just arrived from work. Meanwhile, Cloud had been preparing himself for bed, having set out some dinner for his lover. Millions of thoughts raced through the blonde's head and he wondered just how Sephiroth was doing, he hadn't been able to get much information from him, seeing as how most of the time he hadn't been home and the other time, he had been unable to speak about the now classified projects. They were no loner working together and Cloud felt very distant from the other man.

Just as he was drifting into sleep, his thoughts quickly dissolving into a dark nothingness, he had heard the front door open and had decided to stay awake and see how Sephiroth was. The silver-haired man had wasted no time in entering the bedroom; he appeared to be hunting something. Cloud had tensed and sat on the edge of the bed, asking what was wrong. When, after a few minutes of anxious silence Sephiroth hadn't responded and had just stared, Cloud had risen. This was his first mistake.

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A dangerous fire burned in Sephiroth's eyes. He looked just as an escaped convict and it was beginning to scare Cloud. As time had passed, Sephiroth had begun to exhibit more and more of this type of behavior. It started when he began to come home later than usual thought Cloud.

But at the moment there wasn't any time to think because just as Sephiroth's eyes had turned beastly, so had his actions.

"Why are you acting like this again Seph, please, tell me."

"Don't speak Cloud; you're more beautiful that way."

Cloud sighed and took a hesitant step towards the bedroom door. At times like these, it was better to leave Sephiroth alone. He remembered all the times he had returned to a destroyed house with furniture turned over and glasses knocked into the floor.

"Where are you going exactly?"

The silver-haired man moved closer to Cloud, effectively blocking his way.

"I'm leaving; you need to be alone now."

"Since when do you decide what I do?"

Sephiroth moved even closer; deliberately suggestive. "Cloud."

"Please, not tonight Seph."

Cloud was being pinned to the wall by each step Sephiroth took and he'd had enough.

"I'm sorry but I have to go."

Cloud quickly tried to escape and Sephiroth countered by pushing him against the wall.

"But Cloud, you're so sexy."

Sephiroth gave him a cynical smile and brushed one of his hands against Cloud's torso and under his loose shirt. He moved his mouth to Cloud's cheek and whispered: I want to take over you tonight.

The way that he said it and his tightening grip on Cloud's arm was frightening, nonetheless Cloud tried to maintain his calm.

"Sephiroth, you're not well. Please let me go, we can talk tomorrow."

"But I want you now."

Silver hair glinting in the darkness of the room, Sephiroth pushed Cloud against the bed aggressively and quickly had him pressed against the mattress.

"Sephiroth!"

Anger rising inside, Cloud struggled against Sephiroth and managed to regain control of his arm long enough to push the other man, but this didn't deter Sephiroth in the least, and in a few movements he had regained control of Cloud.

"What did they do to you! Why are you acting this way?"

Sephiroth smiled and straddled Cloud roughly; making sure to press the lower half of his body deep into the blonde beneath him.

"Nobody made me act this way Cloud, I was planning this since the day I met you. You're just a weak little Cloud."

He gave the trapped body beneath a devilish, twisted smile and lowered his head in order to kiss Cloud. Cloud resisted and turned his head to the side, but Sephiroth's hands were strong and his body forceful. Against him, the blonde was no match, at least, not now that the person he had confided in for so long, the one who had been there to comfort him, and the one person who had loved him on so many occasions had betrayed him. Sephiroth smiled into the kiss now that Cloud was complying, and pulled back. From Cloud's eyes appeared tears and he looked to the side, hoping to hide his sadness, anger, and a sick feeling starting to twist in his stomach. He hoped most of all that Sephiroth would calm down and leave or that someone would knock or call; just maybe he could get out of this. The man above him began to lift his shirt while keeping both of his hands pinned above his head and Cloud knew no one would come to rescue him and that he wouldn't be able to save himself.