Author's Warning - This chapter contains explicit sexual content.

Chapter 17 – Pandora's Box

Tifa didn't wait for me. She was already on the chopper when I came out of the doors leading to the helicopter pad. I had hoped to steal a kiss or two before we had to leave. But she ruined that chance when I discovered she had left the apartment while I was taking a shower. What the hell was she thinking? Any minute we had alone was extremely valuable.

As I hopped into the chopper, I noticed this one had more passenger seats in the cockpit. Tifa was sitting in the back row, holding the kitten wrapped in a towel on her lap. I tried to get her attention but she wasn't looking at me. In fact it looked like she was purposely avoiding it.

Now what did I do?

Reno lifted the chopper into the air and we were on our way.

It only took seven minutes to get to the city. Reno landed the chopper on the roof of a nearby building.

I hopped out and waited for Tifa to get out. After harnessing Apocalypse, I leaned back into the chopper. "We should be done in about a half hour."

Reno saluted. "I ain't going anywhere."

I turned around and found Tifa already heading for the door. "Tifa, wait!" She just never learned. I ran after her.

When I went through the door, she was skipping down the stairs like she was in a hurry.

I jumped down each flight until I caught up to her and grabbed her by the arm. "Hey! Will you slow down? What's the rush?"

Tifa whirled on me and yanked her arm out of my hand. "You make me sick!" She looked furious as she turned and continued down the stairs.

I had seen her this pissed before and I knew talking to her when she was like this was a losing battle. As I rushed to follow her down the twenty flights of stairs, I rewound the last two hours. I woke up, had sex with Tifa, ate breakfast, made Aeris cry, took a shower and got in the chopper. So where did I go wrong with Tifa in between any of that?

It couldn't be she was mad at me because I deflowered her…Gods, I hated that word. She smiled and giggled and was so happy when she left my room this morning. She seemed happy at breakfast, when we kept sneaking peaks at each other like two teenagers who didn't want to get caught by their parents for doing something bad. What could I have done wrong after that? I didn't even see her until I got in the chopper.

I sure hoped she suddenly did regret what we did? But she said I made her sick…wasn't that alittle harsh? I mean, she had been a willing participant. I didn't force her.

In the vet's office, Tifa filled out the paperwork as I stood next to her, holding Samurai. Then she took the kitten from me and went to sit down in the waiting area. An elderly lady was sitting in one of the chairs, holding a small white dog on her lap.

I unsheathed my sword so it wouldn't get in the way as I sat down next to Tifa. She immediately slid over one more seat so there was an empty seat between us. I slid into the empty seat and she moved over again. She wanted to play games? Fine with me. I slid over next to her again and again she moved over a seat. From the corner of my eye, I noticed the lady watching us, probably thinking we were strange. It went on three more times until Tifa ran out of seats.

Ha! Now she had nowhere to go.

Tifa got up and moved to the other side, sitting two seats away from the lady and her dog. She was giving me a dirty look, daring me to come and sit next to her.

I placed my sword across the seats next to me and folded my arms. Fine. If she didn't want to sit next to me, then I didn't want to sit next to her. I couldn't figure her out. Why did she always have to be so difficult?

A young woman came out of a door and called out a name. The lady with the dog quickly got up and practically ran through the door. She obviously wanted to get away from us…or maybe just me. The presence of my huge sword often made people uneasy.

I turned to Tifa and leaned forward. "What's your problem?" I whispered.

"I don't have a problem," she whispered back. "You're the one with the problem."

"Now what'd I do?"

"You know what you did," she spat out.

I seemed to recall having this kind of discussion with her before, where nothing was said and it was up to me to figure out what the hell she was talking about. "Tifa, can't you just tell me what's wrong?" I whispered. "I'm getting tired of your stupid guessing games."

"So now you think this is all some big game? Well, I'm tired of all your dirty little secrets."

"What?" I realized too late that I said it too loud. Dirty little secrets? What dirty little secrets? I told her everything…I think.

"Why didn't you tell me you had sex with Aeris?"

I stared for a second and then closed my eyes as I looked away. Shit! I forgot about that one. Who was the fucking big mouth that told her?

"Judging by your reaction, it's obviously true."

I looked back up at her. "Tifa, it was a long time ago."

"You call one year a long time ago?"

"Who told you?"

"Never mind who told me. I feel like such a fool." She looked like she was going to burst into tears. "Did you have sex with Yuffie, too?"

The woman came through the door again. "Samurai?"

Tifa immediately got up and followed the woman through the door.

I didn't even bother following. I stayed in the waiting room. How the hell was I going to get out of this one? This was not the way I had wanted Tifa to find out. I would have told her sooner or later, I just needed the right time to tell her. Well, now it was out.

Who did Tifa have contact with after she left the kitchen table? No one. Who did she talk to while I was taking a shower. Aeris, Marlene, Denzel or Reno? I immediately ruled out the kids because they didn't know about things like that. So was it Aeris or Reno?

Would Aeris really say something to Tifa? I couldn't believe she'd do it to spite me after our conversation this morning. Or would she?

What about Reno? Aeris could have told him we had been together…just the one time. So what would he gain by telling Tifa? It was none of his business. Hopefully Aeris didn't already tell him about me and Tifa. The last thing I needed was for Rufus to find out I was doing his sister. He'd kill me.

Fifteen minutes later, which seemed like an eternity, Tifa came back out holding the kitten.

I got up and walked over to her. "Everything's okay with him?"

"Pay the bill, Cloud."

I walked to the counter and looked at the woman behind it. "What's the damage?"

"Two thousand gil."

I pulled out my credit card and handed it to her.

After Tifa and I walked out a few minutes later, we headed back to the building where Reno was waiting on the roof.

"I didn't have sex with Yuffie," I stated, just to continue the conversation from where it left off.

Tifa skipped up the stairs ahead of me. "What about the rest of your AVALANCHE buddies? Did you do any of them?"

Was she referring to Cid, Barret and Vincent? "That's sick, Tifa." I wanted to wring her neck for even thinking it.

"So is not telling me you had sex with the girl who was kind enough to throw me a surprise birthday party and invite me to stay with all of you. Not to mention the fact that you told her what we did this morning."

Well, at least now I knew Aeris was the one who said something. "I didn't tell her. She figured it out on her own. Besides, you were the one who blurted out that you were in my room. I think you wanted her to know."

"What're you talking about?"

"Yeah, you wanted her to know that we're together."

"Well, why shouldn't I give her that impression? Unless you're still having her on the side? Is that why you didn't tell me?"

"Aeris and I sleep in separate bedrooms. Doesn't that give you a clue?"

"That wouldn't stop you."

"This is so stupid. I only did it one time with her and it was in the middle of an extremely unstable situation. I was just trying to make her feel better." I was digging the hole deeper and deeper. Might as well jump in and start pushing the dirt over myself.

She stopped and spun around and I nearly collided into her. "People are trying to kill us, so that puts us in an extremely volatile situation now, Cloud. Are you just doing it to make me feel better, too?" She turned back around and continued up the stairs.

"No, it's different with you."

"Oh, sure. I bet you say that to every girl you're with." She stopped again. "So how many is that, Cloud? Ten, twenty, a hundred?"

Don't even think about answering that question, Cloud. I focused on something over her shoulder and shrugged. "Well, I never thought to keep count…" This one's going to cost you, you idiot!

Tifa shoved me hard with her free hand, forcing me to trip down a couple steps. It was a good thing she was holding the kitten in her other hand because if she had used both hands, she would have knocked me down the entire flight of stairs.

I chased after her as she continued up. When the hell were we going to be done climbing stairs? I thought it was only twenty flights? It felt more like forty. Were we in the right building? "Do you really expect me to come right out and say, by the way, Tifa, I had sex with Aeris, just so you know."

"Yes, that's exactly what you should have done."

"You would have slapped me."

"And I still might!" She growled in anger. "I can't believe you took advantage of me like this."

I caught up to her again. "I took advantage of you? You came to my room, not the other way around."

"That may be so, but you tricked me."

Finally the top of the stairs. Tifa pushed open the door and walked out.

I followed at her heels. "Explain how I tricked you, Tifa?"

She remained silent.

Yeah, I kinda figured she wouldn't know how to answer that. She made all the moves. I just went along because I didn't want to disappoint her…and maybe because I wanted it, too, but that was besides the point.

I jumped a few steps ahead of her and opened the helicopter door. When I looked inside…no Reno. I unsheathed Apocalypse and quickly grabbed Tifa. Knowing she'd put up a fight because she was furious with me, I pulled her down on the ground. "Stay down." When I was sure she wasn't going to move, I got up and walked around the chopper. " Reno!"

Just then the red-headed bastard came out from behind a large piece of roof equipment. "Sorry, had to drain my pickle."

I went back to Tifa and pulled her up by the arm. She immediately pulled away from me and got in the chopper. My first thought was to punch Reno in the nose for scaring the shit out of me, but then Tifa would probably get pissed about that, too.

The minute we walked in the door of the apartment, Marlene and Denzel assaulted Tifa, wanting to know if Samurai was healthy and did it hurt when he got his shots?

While Tifa went into the den with them, I searched around for Aeris. She wasn't downstairs so I headed upstairs and found her in her bedroom, organizing Tifa's clothes in a drawer. At one time seeing her do domestic chores gave me a sense of home, but now it was just annoying. Couldn't she find something better to do with her time?

"Oh, hi, Cloud," she said. "How's Samurai?"

"Never mind the cat. I need to talk to you about something." I took her by the arm and sat her down on the bed.

"Is everything okay?" she asked, her green eyes widening a bit.

"No, everything's not okay." I closed my eyes and breathed because I didn't want to yell. When I opened my eyes again, she looked worried. "Look, I won't get mad if you tell me the truth, okay? Did you tell Tifa that you and me had sex?"

She bit her lower lip. "I…I…thought she already knew."

"Why did you tell her?" I yelled.

She cringed. "You said you wouldn't get mad."

I walked away a couple steps and stared up at the ceiling in frustration. Why did I feel like everyone was out to get me? Why was everything so complicated?

"We were just talking and…and all I said was that she was lucky because at least you loved her when you did it with her this morning."

This was the first time I ever harbored thoughts about strangling Aeris. I literally wanted to turn around and wrap my hands around her neck. But in the long run, I knew I had only myself to blame. I should have been upfront with Tifa and bit the bullet before getting involved with her.

But there was one thing I could do for now. I grabbed Aeris by the arm again and pulled her out of the bedroom.

Tifa was watching Marlene and Denzel playing with the kitten when I dragged Aeris into the den.

I turned to the kids on the floor. "Go play with Samurai upstairs. The adults have to talk in private."

Marlene and Denzel gave me a confused look, but did what I said and left the den.

Tifa gave me a dirty look and folded her arms. "What do you want?"

I turned to Aeris. "Tifa thinks me and you are sleeping together. Tell her."

Aeris raised her eyebrows as she turned to Tifa. "No, Tifa. Cloud and I aren't together like that. I'm sorry. I was going to explain that it was just one time and maybe it shouldn't have happened, but you left in such a rush this morning."

"It's not your fault, Aeris. I'm not mad at you." Tifa looked to me. "I'm mad at Cloud because he didn't tell me first."

"What's the difference?" I asked her in my defense. "Why are you so jealous? First you flipped out when you thought I made out with one of your friends, then you flipped out when you thought I was with Priscilla and now this. Why won't you trust me?"

"Because I don't want to be just another notch on your bedpost."

"Another notch? Dammit, Tifa. I've only been with four women and that includes you and her. I haven't been with a hundred, or twenty, not even ten. There's never been any time for me to get involved in any kind of relationship because I'm always chasing after Sephiroth. If he comes back one more time, I swear, I'm gonna cut him up into little bite-sized pieces, eat him and shit him down the fucking toilet!"

"Stop it, Cloud," said Aeris.

"Stop it? Yeah, I'll stop it." I looked at Tifa. "Tifa, I love you. But I can't take anymore. I'm done." I walked to the door, swung it open and then slammed it behind me as I walked out.

Why was Tifa so jealous? She had to know I'd never cheat on her. I had absolutely no desire to be with any other woman. I only wanted her. But she was fucking driving me insane!

I struck the ball with my cue stick and it hit the other fifteen balls, scattering them around the table. Two went into the pockets. As I went around for another shot, from the corner of my eye I saw Tifa walk in. Great, just what I needed. More aggravation. I lined up my shot and hit the ball. Except I hit it too hard and the connecting ball flew off the table, struck a wall sconce and shattered it.

"Nice one, Cloud," said one of the guards sitting at the bar as he went to retrieve the ball for me.

"Here you are, Cloud, I need to talk to you," said Tifa as she came up next to me.

The guard tossed me the ball. I caught it and put it on the table to line up another shot. "I'm done talking," I replied as coldly as possible, but I really couldn't pull it off. "In fact, this is the last thing you'll ever hear me say. Starting right now." I hit the ball hard again.

Tifa put her hand on the cue stick to prevent me from using it again. "Don't make me say what I have to say in front of everyone here."

I looked around the billiard room. Besides the one guard, there were a few guards sitting at the bar and playing in pairs at the other tables. Then there was the man tending bar. No, I didn't want any of them hearing what Tifa had to say…in case it was personal. It'd somehow get back to Shinra.

I tossed the cue stick on the table and walked out, hearing her come up behind me. Out in the hall I turned to face her. "Okay, Tifa. Whatta you have to say to me?" I quickly realized I broke my own vow of silence. That didn't bode well for my credibility.

"Not here." She took me by the wrist and dragged me down the hall.

We went up two flights of stairs and went down to the end of the hallway to a door. It opened to a balcony overlooking the lagoon with the waterfall in the background.

Tifa stepped up in front of me. "I'm sorry, Cloud."

I frowned and folded my arms angrily. But I realized I probably looked more like a pouting teenager than an irate boyfriend.

"It's just that…I love you so much, I can't stand the thought of you loving anyone else."

I wanted to be madder than hell at her, but I found myself losing whatever anger had built up until this moment.

"When Aeris said you and her had been together, I just lost it."

"Tifa, I don't love her. I've never been in love with anyone but you. She thought me and her would end up together. I couldn't make a commitment. I felt like there was something missing.." I sighed and placed my hands on her arms. "I was missing you, Tifa." It sounded so sappy and so cliché, but it was the truth. It was how I felt.

Tifa's eyes got teary.

My hands went to her face. "No, no…no tears, please." I bent to kiss her. "I love you. I just want you to trust me."

She slid her arms around my neck and hugged me tightly. "I do trust you, Cloud. I just feel so…inadequate and insecure around Aeris. She's so beautiful and I'm just a tomboy."

"What're you talking about? You're smokin' hot."

She drew back and brought us face to face. "Yeah?"

"Can't you tell I'm having a hard time keeping my hands off you?" I emphasized it by sliding my hands down to squeeze her butt cheeks. I kissed her again.

She kissed me back with a lot more passion than I figured she'd have after being so mad at me. "I'm sorry," she said again and continued kissing me between words. "I don't ever…" kiss, kiss "…want us…" kiss, kiss "…to fight again."

"No, never again." I kissed her harder, feeling relieved that our feud was over.

A few minutes later we went back inside, just to be on the safe side. Anybody could have come out on the balcony or would have been able to see us from the ground if they looked up.

Later that same night, I poked my head in Aeris's bedroom. Aeris was already in bed and Tifa was brushing her hair in front of the mirror. "Goodnight," I told them.

"Goodnight," both girls said at the same time.

I walked back to my bedroom and closed the door. After crawling under the covers, I reached to turn off the lamp, bathing the room in moonlight.

Just as I was about to close my eyes, there was a light knock on the door. I raised my head as the door opened and Tifa slipped into the room.

She quickly closed the door and turned around to face the bed. "Aeris told me to sleep with you tonight."

I frowned. "She did?" That was a shockingly unexpected development.

"I think Reno might be sneaking into the apartment later."

For once I was glad Reno was in the picture. But I wondered if Aeris was doing it just to be spiteful. I didn't care anymore. I pushed the covers aside. "Lock the door and com'ere."

She smiled shyly as she locked the door. Then she walked over and bounced on the bed before laying down next to me. As she curled closer to me, I tilted her face up to kiss her. "Are we going to sleep or…" she trailed off.

"Or?" I knew what she wanted to ask, but I baited her anyway.

She smiled again. "You know."

"Ohhh, you wanna do that."

Her smile went away and she frowned. "You don't want to?"

"'Course, I want to."

Our lips came together wetly. My little angel started drooling as I rubbed my tongue along the inside of her cheek.

I rolled her on her back and palmed her breast over her teeshirt as I kissed her harder. She immediately started grinding against me. I released her lower lip with a slurp. "Hey, slow down," I whispered.

She looked up at me, her eyes alittle wide and worried. "Am I…am I doing something wrong?"

"No, no." I kissed her reassuringly. "I just don't want it to be over so fast. We're not in any rush. No one's gonna interrupt us." I kissed her again, alittle longer. "Just relax. Let's take it nice and slow this time."

"Oh, I get it," she smile shyly. "You wanna do some of the other things, right?"

I smiled back. "Damn right, I do." I kissed her again before tossing the covers aside. As I pulled away and straddled her hips, I got up on my knees. "Let's get you out of these clothes first." I tugged off her teeshirt and bent to kiss her lips yet again. I couldn't believe I was exercising such self-control. My insides were screaming to just get it over with. But I wasn't going to rush through it again, not like this morning. I wanted to touch and taste and feel everything with her.

Tifa caressed my face as I kissed her. As I pulled back, her hands moved along my shoulders and down my arms. Her touch gave me goosebumps. I couldn't wait to feel her touching me elsewhere once I was done taking care of her.

I took hold of her panties and her hands stopped me.

"Don't rip them, please. I don't have very many."

"Sorry." I tugged them down and she bent and folded her legs up as I slid them off. I gently nudged her legs apart to look down at the part of her I had already touched but hadn't exactly seen in any great detail.

Her cheeks instantly reddened and she bit her lower lip.

I thought her bashfulness was needless since we already had intercourse. But maybe there hadn't been time for her to be nervous this morning, not even to really think about what we were doing. And now she was thinking…so her behavior was alittle apprehensive and shy. Unnecessary, but still pretty endearing, I thought.

She lifted up her foot and playfully tickled my earlobe with her toes.

I captured her foot and she looked alittle wide-eyed. Was she ticklish? I kissed her big toe and then ran my tongue down the bottom of her foot, around to her ankle, where I gave her a friendly nibble.

I released her foot and crawled above her, bending to dip my tongue into her warm mouth, savoring the taste. I kissed her face and spent a long time kissing the side of her neck, being careful not to leave any telltale marks on her. She had a hint of perfume on her skin. It was making me delirious. I worked my way back across her face, stopping only to slurp on her lips again and then moved down the other side of her neck.

She seemed to enjoy the attention and shivered when my tongue rolled down between her breasts. As I squeezed her right one, I slowly stroked her velvety soft nipple with my tongue. She slid her fingers into my hair and softly moaned. I sucked and tugged on her nipple with my teeth and it hardened like the pit of a cherry.

Tifa arched. "Aaahhhh…"

I drifted over to her left nipple, rolling my tongue around the bud, loving the way she reacted when I nibbled on it, tugging and pulling and then softly sucking. This was the first time I had ever spent so much time on nipples. I left Tifa's sopping wet by the time I decided to move on.

As I kissed down the middle of Tifa's stomach, I slid my hands down to her thighs, pushing them further apart. Then the uncertainty hit me. What if I didn't do it right? What if I made her uncomfortable? I had never gone down on a girl before. I came close with Aeris that one night when we thought we weren't going to survive the final battle with Sephiroth. But I couldn't do it. It just didn't feel right to me.

When I raised my head and looked at Tifa, she looked back at me with hooded eyes. She bit her lower lip and smiled alittle. "What're you doing, Cloud?"

Everything seemed so right with Tifa. There wasn't anything I couldn't do and wouldn't do for her.

I kept my eyes on hers as I brought my mouth down to kiss her soft belly. My left arm went around her thigh and I drew it close to leave a trail of wet kisses on the inside of it…working my way down. She was shivering in anticipation. My eyes met hers again as I brought my mouth down over her cleft.

Her eyes slammed shut and she arched with a strained cry, immediately slapping a hand over her own mouth to control the sounds.

I slowly brushed my lips across her petals before stroking them with my tongue and tasting the slick juices clinging there. I dabbed my tongue along her clit and she jerked with a gasp in response. Rubbing it with my teeth made her mewl like her kitten. Knowing that this was the one place that would bring her over the edge, I didn't linger there long because I didn't want it to end just yet. Instead I ran my tongue lower and dipped it inside her folds, slurping at the juices oozing out of her and making obscene noises that made her giggle between her soft moans.

Way to go, Cloud. She's digging it.

I didn't want to stop, she tasted so good. But I could tell she was getting a bit frustrated with me, just from the way she was squirming and trying to lure me back to her clit. It was almost time to blow the top of her head off. Not yet, though. One more thing to do.

I brushed my fingertips along her wet folds and briefly rubbed her juices over her clit, checking to see her reaction.

She opened her mouth. "Ooooohhhhh…..!"

When I removed my fingers, she clenched her fists into the sheets and growled angrily. I suppressed my laugh because I didn't want her to think I was torturing her on purpose. Just to make up for it, I slowly slid my index finger inside her.

"Aaahhhh…!"

Yeah, that definitely helped. I added another finger, pushing them slowly into her slick opening. As I moved them in and out in a steady rhythm, I lightly flicked the underside of her clit with the tip of my tongue. She bucked up with a moan.

Her fingers tangled tightly around my hair.

Enough of this. If I didn't give her what she wanted, she'd yank the hair out of my head. Increasing the pace of my penetrating fingers, I latched my mouth around her clit and sucked on it.

Tifa gasped and released my hair to cover her mouth. Her thighs started to tremble uncontrollably and she arched upward. She was cumming pretty hard.

I held her down before she knocked us off the bed. While maintaining contact between my mouth and her clit, I turned my fingers and curled them, seeking her secret button.

She screamed in her hands to muffle the sound and arched again.

Yup, found it. I poked her in that same spot everytime it looked like she was about to come down. I started wondering how many times I could make her cum and tested it.

After releasing her clit, I lightly brushed my tongue back and forth across it.

Her chest was heaving after she came down from the last wave. As much as I wanted her to experience a bunch more, I was ready to bust out of my pajamas. My cock was so hard, I was afraid it'd snap right off if I moved the wrong way.

I pulled my fingers out and replaced them with my tongue, tasting her release. It was nearly enough to make me spurt. Not yet. Wait for the good stuff. After sucking on her juices, I flicked my tongue over her clit, making her spasm.

She was breathing heavily when I crawled up and rested my weight on top of her. "You…you enjoyed that…too much," she gasped out between breaths.

"Yeah, I did," I said with a grin. "I bet you did, too." I captured her lips and she struggled to pull away, but I wouldn't let her. The second her mouth opened a little, I shoved my tongue in. If she didn't sink her teeth into it, I would have had a little more fun, but I released her mouth.

"I can't believe you did that, you creep."

"What? It's just you, Tifa. You taste good."

"I'll remember that when I swallow you and force you to kiss me."

Out of that entire sentence all I heard was swallow you. "Wouldn't bother me."

'We'll see." She surprised me by kissing me hard. Apparently she didn't seem to mind as much as she said she did. Then she shoved me off and pushed me over on my back.

Hopefully I didn't make her too mad. But I kinda liked when she got physical with me.

She crawled on her hands and knees to the foot of the bed, pushing the sheets aside as she went. When she got to my feet, she turned to face me and sat back on her heels.

Seeing her sitting there like that with her thighs spread open...if I could get any harder, I would have. I was already sticking straight up in the confines of my pajamas. It looked ridiculous.

Tifa reached forward to pop the snaps of my pajamas and yanked them down, exposing my erection.

The cool air hitting it nearly made it shrivel up, but I didn't have to worry about it. Not while Tifa studied it like it was a sculpture. It was such a turn on. I folded my arms behind my head on the pillow and smiled at her. "Are you just going to sit there and stare at it?"

She crawled over me on her hands and knees until her face was hovering above mine, giving me a crazed smile. "It's my turn to torture you now."

I accepted her challenge. "Give it your best shot."

Her mouth covered mine in a passionate kiss. She abruptly pulled away and stared into my eyes. "You'll tell me if I'm doing it wrong though, right?"

"If it's anything like what you did to that liquor bottle back at the school that one night, then you'll definitely be doing it right."

"You were looking?"

"I was right there, how could I not look?"

She smiled. "Was it turning you on?"

"Hell, yeah. Why do you think I left?"

"So it wasn't because Sheri told me to moon you?"

I laughed. "As much as I would have loved to see that, I was way too hammered to think straight. It was bad enough we woke up in the bathtub together and couldn't remember what the hell we did."

"Well, now we know we didn't do that."

"Yeah, I'm glad. I would have felt bad if you couldn't even remember your first time."

Tifa kissed my forehead and then the bridge of my nose before moving to my mouth. She roughly sucked on my lips and sank her teeth on my chin.

When she started kissing the side of my neck, I closed my eyes and relaxed to the feel of her lips and tongue on my skin.

I could tell she was also trying not to leave any marks on me. Not like the last time. It made me laugh alittle. But that was short-lived when she roughly assaulted my right nipple with her teeth. "Owww!" I growled. "You wanna know if you're doing it wrong? That, right there. That's wrong!"

She laughed and licked my sore nipple apologetically, moving to the other side and laving it with affection. But I knew she wasn't at all sorry. She seemed to enjoy inflicting pain on me.

When she suddenly stopped, I raised my head from the pillow.

She lightly ran her fingers over the fading bullet scars between my ribcage. Then she brought her lips down to the same place, kissing me hard, as if she wanted to heal the wounds herself.

Just when I thought she might burst into tears, she moved further down, grazing her lips down the center of my torso. At my bellybutton, she playfully circled her tongue around it. I let out an involuntary and very uncharacteristic giggle when she dipped the tip of her tongue inside. It was a good thing she didn't notice.

I closed my eyes and breathed as she traced butterfly kisses down my hair trail. Damn, I needed to slow down or I'd explode before she even touched my dingus. It was difficult though. The last and only time I ever got head was with some girl I hooked up with before I joined AVALANCHE. I didn't give a shit back then who I was with or what I was doing. All I cared about was getting off in a hurry and getting the hell out.

I was with Tifa now. None of that other stuff mattered anymore. She was the only thing that mattered to me.

I groaned as she pressed her soft breasts against my cock. I opened my eyes and watched her squeeze them together, creating an unbelievably pleasurable friction. Where did she learn this? She moved alittle lower and my erection sprang free of her cushiony pillows, standing at attention right in front of her face.

I wondered if she was going to just stare at it again. I flexed a certain pelvic muscle, which made my appendage move on its own. It made her smile, but it also broke her out of her trance.

Tifa repositioned herself to lie on her side next to me, but facing the opposite way so her legs were near my head. She stretched across my thighs and wrapped her hand around my cock, giving it an introductory couple of strokes before running her tongue along the underside, from root to tip and back.

I squeezed my eyes shut, trying desperately to control the need to blow like a geyser. I wanted this to last, not be over in five seconds. Maybe if I kept my eyes open and watched her, I could concentrate on her actions and not on how she was making me feel. It helped alittle because I was fascinated by the way she lovingly worshipped my phallus with her hand and her tongue.

Her eyes met mine as she ran her tongue around my head.

I sucked air through my clenched teeth when she opened her mouth and engulfed me. Shit…shit…shit…shit…why was I so weak when it came to Tifa? She sucked lightly at first and then harder, sending all my blood rushing to that one spot. I was on fire, the heat burning me from the inside out. The pressure of her mouth and the way she used her teeth, it felt so good. "Uuuuuhhhhh….!"

Her hand went down to squeeze my testicles. She wasn't going to let me hold it any longer as she nearly deep-throated me and slid me in and out of her mouth, fast and furious. She was killing me.

So much for making it last long. "Tifa…stop…" I barely got the words out before my tensed muscles snapped like a rubber band. I exploded in her mouth, spurting in continuous spasms, and at the same time trying desperately to keep my groaning down to a low timber.

She didn't let up, her jaws milking my cock for every last drop.

Gods, she nearly had me bursting into tears, it felt so damned good to just let loose like that. Even after I was finally spent and getting limp, she sucked on the side of my shaft, like she was eating a popsicle.

Finally she rested her head on my thigh and sighed as she looked at me with a small smile. "That was fun."

I stretched out my left arm and gently caressed her leg. "You can say that again."

"That was fun,' she repeated and then giggled.

It made me smile. I squeezed my fingers between her knees and coaxed her to bend her leg. Her legs parted and I cupped her still wonderfully wet center.

"Where'd you learn to do that?" I curiously asked, as I lazily slid my fingers inside her.

She closed her eyes and parted her lips in response to my probing digits. "I saw it on a video once. Sara got it from somebody else."

The thought of Tifa watching porn was enough to stir me up all over again. But so was the way she was lightly raking her nails around my stomach and of course, my fingers playing between her legs.

"Can I ask you a question, Cloud?"

I couldn't believe I was actually agreeing to pillow talk of any kind. But I was happy doing anything with Tifa. "Sure."

"The girl you first did it with, did you have any feelings for her at all?"

I pulled my hand away in irritation and frowned at her. "Come on, Tifa, let's not start this again."

"No, I'm not starting anything," she assured and emphasized it by caressing my stomach and sending shivers up my spine. "Honest, Cloud. I just wanna know what it was like for you."

"No, I didn't care about her. I didn't even know who she was."

She gave me a troubled look.

"It was when I first got to Midgar after Zack died. I was depressed and full of rage and I didn't care about anything."

"That's really sad."

"Tell me about it." I frowned and shrugged. "Let's just drop it, please. It's not something I'm very proud of." If I had remembered Tifa, I never would have done what I did. I would have waited to be with her. I regretted the nameless girl…and the other one whose name I didn't remember. I even regretted being with Aeris.

Tifa closed her eyes as I brought my hand back between her legs.

"Sleepy yet?" I asked.

"No…."

I could feel myself getting hard again, just feeling her inside…how hot and wet she was…her face so close to my growing erection. "Tell me you want me, Tifa."

She opened her eyes and smiled again, but didn't say anything.

I flicked my thumb across her clit, making her jerk. "Say it."

"I want you," she moaned.

Without further ado, I sat up and spent a couple seconds repositioning us. Her on her hands and knees and me kneeling at her butt.

I caressed her back as I gently entered her slick opening from behind. She was still alittle tight and mewled in response. I drew back and moved forward again in short, measured thrusts. I didn't want to hurt her again. But she was so hot and wet, it was like a vacuum sucking me in. When I was fully sheathed, I bent forward over her back and kissed her left shoulder. I nipped at her soft skin and groaned in pleasure at the blissful pressure around my cock..

Just then I realized her mouth open and her face was scrunched in pain, but she wasn't breathing. "Tifa?"

The second I pulled out from inside her, she released a deep breath and gasped for air.

I gently turned her around and laid her on her side as I came down beside her. "What's wrong? Are you okay?"

She took a deep breath and slowly released it. "It was…it was alittle too deep."

I should have known better than to try that position on her so soon. This was only her second time. "I'm so sorry."

"It's okay."

When I knew she was alright, I kissed her forehead and laughed. "I didn't think I was that big."

She laughed with me. "Okay, no need to brag."

"Hey, you were the one who said I was this big," I held up my pinky.

She laughed again.

I sat up and grabbed the covers, pulling them over us as I laid back down. "I think that's enough excitement for you for one night."

She tilted her face up. "Are you mad?"

"Why would I be mad?"

"We didn't finish."

"Don't worry about it. We'll have other nights…." I gave her a crooked smile. "…or days." I bent to kiss her on the lips, lingering longer than I meant to. I needed to lose the hard on, not make it grow more.

Tifa curled up against me, cradling her head in the nape of my neck. "I love you," she whispered.

I was exhausted anyway. But it would have been nice to reach completion one more time. Three times in one day. That would have been a record for me.

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