Memories of Darkness

A/N: Thanks to my friends who reviewed my story so far ;; I've been so bitchy lately to update that I never really could get my ideas out...and I'm losing that AeriSeph touch in my brain, you know? Probably cuz I play FFVIII too much (that's Final Fantasy 8...) but I still love Sephy. Duh! Umm..anyway here's the sixth chapter you've all been waiting for. I'm pretty much going to shorten the story because it's moving REAAAAAAAAAAL slow...and I just wanna get a head start on other things. Oh and remember, this is a crossover story so all this stuff is OC+Sephiroth, OC+Tidus...you know how it is if you've been reading. Oh yeah don't forget to review afterwards! Much love, everyone :) Oh yeah and I still don't own this stuff, the disclaimer still stands from Chapter Three. Except for owning myself, Rachy owning herself, and same goes for Ashley. By the way this chapter is iffy to me because I'm writing this at 12:21 AM because I can't sleep. Nuff said, uh, ON WITH THE STORY!

Chapter Six - In things I remember, but can't regret

Five months later

"Sephy, honey, where are you?" I asked in the daylight. We were at the beach, Ashley and Tidus with us. Rachel was at her new job. She and Squall had broken up, due to 'personal reasons' Rachel claimed. I knew she'd lost interest in him after she'd found out Rinoa'd been flirting around with him again. Oh well. Rachel was always a free person. She could've been free today but she decided to take an extra shift. Has she purposely been avoiding me lately? I thought. I hoped not, because she was my best friend.

"Clarene, I'm right here, baby." Sephiroth responded. I turned around, Sephiroth was playing in the water a couple yards away from where I was standing. I sighed and smiled. Sephiroth and Ashley pretty much had gotten used to each other in the past few months. They...tolerated...each other at first, but because of Tidus and I forcing them become GOOD acquaintances, they followed. Sephiroth ran towards me and picked me up, carrying me into the surf. I laughed; this wasn't the first time we'd gone to the beach, the four of us, on a nice day like this. We'd usually gone to the mall, or stayed at home. Ashley and I had bought plenty of lingerie that was sure to make our men want us so bad it hurts...right where it counted. I giggled at the thought of that when we bought the lingerie.

FLASHBACK

"Ashley, look at this! It's so PINK!" I giggled.

"Haha, you know you love it. Go ahead and buy it, why don'tcha?" suggested Ash-chan. She always liked to be called Ash-chan.

"But not until I pick up a few more corsets and stuff." I said. Marvelling at my thoughts, we both wondered, just how many corsets did I own by now?

"Here, I've bought some too. Check out this kawaii lingerie set?" That was Ash-chan, all right. She showed me it, and it was blue, one of her favorite colors, I recall.

We'd paid for our merchandise, and headed back home. Days later I'd worry about my condition...was I pregnant?

END FLASHBACK

We were swirling in the water, the two of us, while Tidus and Ashley played round after round of Blitzball. A day off, and we were at the beach near Sephiroth's house. You know, the large mansion outside of town...near the beach? God, it's so obvious. I spent quite a bit of my days there and half my clothes were there already, I'd considered Sephiroth's residence to be my second home. He wasn't disturbed, all right. wink wink He breathed into my ear. "So, how does it feel to take a day off from work, love? Being here, in the sun, at the beach...with me?" I turned my face towards Sephiroth, and found him smiling at me. I smiled back. "Well, what do you think, Sephy?"

"You dislike it?"

I laughed. "No of course not, Sephiroth. I love today, being here, everything. Best of all, I love you, silly!"

He threw his head back in laughter and kissed me.

He pulled back. "That's what I thought."

And all our worries were cast off away for that one day.

FLASHBACK

Running out of the house, our main one, the one Tidus, Ashley, and I shared, I was sobbing. God could this day get any FUCKING worse? I thought. I should have been happy then. I should've...because I thought I had conceived Sephiroth's child. I really should have been happy, but I know I was really young. It was raining, and Ashley and Rachel had tried to cheer me up.

"I...I think I..." I trailed off.

"You're pregnant?" asked Rachel. I nodded.

She stood up. So did Ashley.

"We'll take you to the doctor's now." suggested Ash-chan. We teleported over there...and DAMN was that a big mess. Tidus and Sephiroth had been spying on us, actually thinking that I was pregnant. It was hilarious, but maybe Ashley would someday explain it better than I ever could. Hell I was the patient here!

"I HAVE TO PUT THIS WHERE!" I screamed. Sephiroth and Tidus were in the next room, but that was what Ash-chan, Rachel and I didn't know yet. Rachel put her hands on her hips. "Yes you do, and now Ashley and I will give you some privacy so you can relax." It was the pregnancy tester. A bit weirder than other ones...but do I really need to explain this? I sobbed silently and followed what I had to do. Minutes later, the test beeped and the doctors (yes DOCTORS as in there were TWO) as well as my best friends walked into the room.

"Miss Clarene, you are most definetely NOT pregnant, according to this test." said the first doctor. Dr...Maruno...was it? And his assistant...Dr. snicker TIDE! Little did we know at the time (my friends and I) that the doctors, were in fact, our boyfriends...who suddenly knew how to read a pregnancy test for some reason, and faked being real doctors. They must've stolen the outfits from someone. When we found out that the doctors were Sephiroth and Tidus, we were pretty pissed. Ashley and Tidus though left to go have a little "talk" while Rachel had left to be with Squall (that was when his love was supposedly wavering). Sephiroth and I...well, we separated ourselves in the small patient's room, not saying a word. But we had to though...it was really tough at that time. Still, I should've been happy. I wasn't, either way.

END FLASHBACK

"Sephy?"

He made a sound to make it clear that he was listening.

"Remember that time, at the hospital?"

He paused. "How could I not?" He looked me straight in the eye.

"I...just...I was wondering..."

"Yeah?"

"If we...had stopped seeing each other since then...would we, you know, um," I couldn't find the right words to say.

"Dunno...but Clarene," He put me down in the water, standing, and looked me straight in the eyes, with a firm grip on my shoulders.

"What's in the past, stays in the past. We only have our future to think about and we can't turn back what happened back then."

I looked down. "I understand." There had been a bit of misunderstanding after that hospital incident. Why did I wanna bring this up now? He's probably gonna think that I'm trying to freak him out or something.

"Hey, you guys! Food's ready!" called Tidus from the other side of the shoreline. "All right, we're going!" replied Sephiroth. He took my hand and we ran...or tried to run...through the water and the heavy sand. The two blitzball players had called it quits for now and decided to set up for lunch. So the four of us ate lunch, talked, and had fun at the beach for the rest of the day. We walked back up the hill to Sephiroth's house, where Ashley and Tidus hopped into their car and left Sephy and I standing in front of his house. He smiled. "Tired?" he asked me. I nodded. "'Course I am." We walked inside the house and I lay myself out on the couch. Sephiroth put on a dvd, can't remember what it was called but it had something to do bondage anime hentai and something about vanilla. Heh, what could I expect. Sephiroth was Sephiroth, and I wouldn't have him any other way. He sat back down next to me, and I propped myself up on my elbow to face him. "Aww, baby I didn't know you wanted to do it right now, I mean, aren't you tired from the beach already? We just got back for heaven's sake!" I teased. "Woman, you never cease to observe, do you?" he said, and kissed me. I lay my head on his lap as he wanted to watch his anime and I just wanted to drift off to sleep.

He's probably trying to see how many other ways he can get you into bed.

Oh the voice in my head is such an evil little devil, isn't it?

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End of Chapter Six

Okay I know it was short, didn't have much of anything ya know, but like I said I was writing this WAY early in the morning and it's now 1:02 AM. I'd like to get some sleep please!