A/N: This took me forever to get done! Sorry about that. I needed an FFVII refresher. Well, I hope it was worth the wait. Enjoy!
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The body of the last ShinRa personnel slipped from Sephiroth's blade, ending the trail of blood it had left. It lay limply on the floor as the silver haired man, stained in blood, continued steadily on. The deed had hardly been worth the effort he'd exerted. He felt just as refreshed as when he'd started, even more so now that the grand finale was just beyond his reach. Sephiroth stopped outside of the final door leading to President ShinRa's office with an ominous 'thunk' of his boots and simply stood, a manic smile on his normally calm face, while he savored the moment. Then, with his sword dripping blood, he opened the door and entered.
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The last thing Cloud had expected was to fall asleep in the prison facilities. With death, or a worse fate, dangling in front of his face by the very place he'd once served, the one thing he'd least expected was to be able to rest. Still, the day had been strange enough, and there was always room for more oddities. When he woke up, he suddenly realized that he had been wrong. The last thing he'd expected was for the door of the prison cell to be open.
At first it seemed almost like a hallucination. Perhaps the lighting had glared off of the metal of the door, mirroring the wall behind it and creating the illusion of it being open. When Cloud sat up, the lighting stayed the same, and so did the image of the door. Indeed, the light indicating the door's status had turned green. He was free.
Cloud didn't alert the others right away, however. If he'd been taught one thing while at ShinRa it was to never trust something without careful study. He quietly left Tifa where she was sleeping on her cot and edged toward the opening of the cell. He warily looked out, expecting an attack or something just as unpleasant at any moment as he scanned both sides of the hall. Nothing in either direction. He took a step out, and still nothing happened. Moving just a bit faster, he crept to the left along the hallway toward the corner, and was about to--
Strong hands tugged Cloud around the corner and slammed him against a hard wall. Before he could cry out a gloved hand clamped down over his lips and a voice softly shushed him. Cloud looked up, and realized that he hadn't hit a wall, he had hit a strong, hard chest. The sight of the person the chest belonged to was what truly made the blonde panic.
"Srphrrmrph!" He exclaimed, the man's hand still holding tight to Cloud's mouth. Sephiroth, the Great General, gave the younger male what could have passed for an affectionate smile, had his eyes not been glittering with a murderous light and his face not splattered with blood. The man was tall enough that he had to lean down to press his cheek to the top of Cloud's head, a sound similar to a purr emitting from his throat when he did.
"It's been a while, Cloud," he said in his unusually soft yet strong voice. He lowered his hand from Cloud's mouth, who was shaking too hard to even think of yelling, and wrapped both arms around the slender body. "I missed this wonderful aura of yours. We complement each other perfectly, don't you agree?"
Cloud's gaze was fixed on the slapdash patterns of blood staining the man's clothes. "Sephiroth…" he said quietly and shivered. He hadn't been expecting to address the deserter ever again. "…What the hell have you done?"
Sephiroth frowned and lifted his head. "All these years apart, and that's all you have to say to me? I'm disappointed, Cloud."
"Sephiroth!" Cloud's voice was firmer, but still too soft to be anything but frightened. "You're covered in blood, and…" as he caught sight of his surroundings Cloud was just then beginning to comprehend the extent of Sephiroth's purpose there. Blood stained the floors and walls, and the corpses of ShinRa workers lay strewn at random throughout the room. Cloud, though he'd seen countless battles before, felt his stomach twist with disgust. "What is it you're trying to do?" he whispered, shaking.
"What am I trying to do? At the moment, Cloud," Sephiroth traced a gloved finger along Cloud's soft jaw line, "I'm doing you a favor. I have a proposal…"
"Whatever it is, the answer is no." Cloud's stomach twisted even tighter, and he wondered just where his bravery (or stupidity) was coming from. The man holding onto him could have easily snapped his neck with just one twist of his arm.
Regardless, Sephiroth only chuckled and continued to hold him fondly. "I know your strong sense of justice compels you to refuse, but what good is that going to do you in the long run, Cloud? This planet is going to end, and the most you can hope for is an escape route. I can offer you that, Cloud, and so much more. I can offer you a position in paradise."
Cloud felt the other's words, warm against his ear, and shook in the man's grasp. "You're out of your mind," he said shakily. "You have no idea what you're doing, Sephiroth."
"I know exactly what I'm doing." The taller male suddenly took hold of Cloud's shoulders and in one fluid movement he stepped aside and pushed the blonde back roughly against the wall behind them. He whirled on one foot and in an instant had his hands on the wall, one on each side of Cloud's head, and his body pressed to the other's. He grinned and leaned in close. The blonde wriggled beneath him, but when Sephiroth's lips pressed to the soft skin of his neck Cloud's eyes closed and his head tilted back in pure ecstasy.
Sephiroth's lips moved, feather-light, over Cloud's skin, down to the curve of his neck and shoulder and back up to his ear where he whispered softly, "Remember this feeling, Cloud? The feeling of this infestation in our bodies and its undiluted, intoxicating lust. I had a taste of you once and it was the most delicious thing I've ever had in my life. Now I'm giving you the choice of having that feeling forever. You'll only need to do as I say."
Under Sephiroth's spell, Cloud was helpless. His words came out as a barely audible breath. "What is it you want from me?"
Sephiroth's lips spread into a grin. "I want… you. With me. In Eden. Forever."
Cloud's fingers curled into the tight leather of Sephiroth's clothes and he weakly shook his head. "It can't be that simple."
"No, not that simple. I want you, Cloud, in ways you could never imagine. I want you in ways that are not even humanly possible." Sephiroth bit his lower lip and sucked at the droplet of blood that escaped. "I don't only want your body. No, this abnormality within me… the planet's essence… induces me to breed with your body, your beautiful body, while at the same time my heritage compels me to harm you. I want to desecrate your body with mine, I want to strangle you and wash my hands in your blood, and then I want to desecrate you again when you're nothing but a corpse." The blonde shuddered, but the silver-haired man continued to smile and brush against the pale skin with his lips. "And yet… I find I can't bring myself to do so. More than any other primordial desire, I want you at my side when the Promised Land is finally mine."
"You've got to be kidding me," Cloud whispered, though he was still deeply engulfed in the mist of desire which surrounded the two of them. "Who would be with you after listening to that load of shit?"
Sephiroth, despite the insult, chuckled softly and licked a trail from Cloud's earlobe down his neck. "Deny your temptations all you like. Deep inside you know you're the same as me." His lips drifted back to Cloud's and pressed against them lightly.
Cloud frowned, and with a sudden burst of frustration he found he'd bitten down on the lips next to his. Instead of the reaction of pain he'd expected from the other man, Sephiroth's voice burst with and sudden moan and his wounded lips pressed to Cloud's with a crushing force. The older male's hands rubbed down the blonde's hips and thighs and took a strong hold of the backs of his knees in order to lift the legs of a very startled Cloud. The smaller male wrapped his legs around Sephiroth's waist if only to keep himself from falling, and before he knew it the room was moving away and he was being carried off somewhere else.
His back slamming against a hard wooden table was the first signal to Cloud that they had stopped moving. The second was Sephiroth crawling onto the table, towering over him with his silver hair hanging down like a veil on either side of their faces. Cloud shook but couldn't bring himself to look away from those piercing mako-colored eyes. It was as the man had said. The expression in Sephiroth's eyes was of lust and hunger, and Cloud readily believed that both were genuine. He felt his situation was no better than a mouse about to be eaten by a panther.
The silver haired man moved gracefully when undressing the other, despite his obvious overpowering need for the little blonde, and Cloud found himself shivering naked in the chill air within moments. Without the friction of his clothes restraining him, Cloud found it was easier to attempt an escape. He managed to wriggle away from the other man and made for the exit of the ShinRa conference room. It seemed as though he'd only blinked once when Sephiroth, shirtless, with eyes shining hungrily, appeared in his path and wrapped his arms around Cloud's naked body in a vice-like grip. Cloud squirmed, but the mako flowing throughout his body screwed with his hormones just enough to make his knees buckle in the man's strong grip. His overactive mind had already noticed the muscles rippling beneath the other's skin, and had begun to imagine what they could do to his body, in both a violent and sexual sense. Cloud decided, as he was pushed forcefully back onto the conference room table, that he preferred the second option over the first at the moment.
Though Cloud panted heavily from the escape attempt, Sephiroth remained tireless and confident as he reclaimed his position astride Cloud's body. "I'm not opposed to foreplay games, Cloud, but I have been waiting a very long time for this, and I'd appreciate it if you didn't tease me any more." He ground his hips roughly against Cloud's. The little blonde gasped and clenched his eyes shut with the spark of euphoria that spread through him. Sephiroth grinned maniacally and rubbed his hands down Clouds chest, playing with the other's erect nipples with the tips of his thumbs. "Now be a good boy, and I won't have to punish you."
Cloud's breathing became erratic, and he found it difficult to see through the haze of lust which surrounded them. In that instant he realized that was all it really was; primal desire deluding their senses, tricking them into believing that their bodies belonged together. He felt nothing else for the silver-haired man. The school-boy awe and admiration for the man which had gripped him so strongly during his training days eluded him now, and all he felt was overwhelming fear and hatred mixed with a side effect of pleasure. It was while Sephiroth's head was bowed over his body, licking his way up the blonde's torso, that he managed to say the words.
"Sephiroth," he hissed through clenched teeth. "I... I hate you!"
The larger male stopped, and the air surrounding them grew cold and dangerous. He lifted his head slowly, and his eyes gleamed with the same murderous light Cloud had seen when they had been surrounded by corpses. "You... hate me...?" Sephiroth's voice was low, and not unlike the sound heard during the calm before the storm. "You... don't mean that. You can't possibly mean that. After all I've been willing to sacrifice for you?"
"You're a murderer, Sephiroth!" Cloud's eyes filled with tears, not because of the words he spoke, but because even through his painful confession and hatred of the man he still felt waves of undiluted pleasure washing over him with every touch of the man's skin. "You're not the same, and you never will be! And... no matter what you do to me, or what you offer me, it means nothing! This is nothing! It's just a side effect, nothing else!"
Cloud cried out suddenly, so suddenly that at first he wasn't sure why he had done it. Then he realized, Sephiroth had hauled back and slapped him across the face. The man's hand was still raised. He breathed heavily, his eyes wide and wild. "Silence!" His voice echoed throughout the room. "Not another word! No more of your lies!"
"I mean it-!" Cloud's words were stopped by another painful slap to the face.
"STOP!" Sephiroth grabbed the smaller male's wrists and pinned them above his head. "I offer you everything - EVERYTHING - and this is how you thank me?!" He positioned himself roughly between the other's legs, expertly manuvering his way to the blonde's tight entrance. "I'll show you... you need me, Cloud! And I'll show you what it will mean to lose me!" The man gritted his teeth angrily and thrust his hips forward, sliding roughly into the whimpering blonde's body.
Cloud cried out, the pain almost unbearable. He squirmed wildly, wanting nothing more than to be free from Sephiroth's bondage and allure. The man thrust forward again, and this time the mako reacted quickly. The pain suddenly subsided, and soon all Cloud could feel was the sickening rapture of the sex he had been hating only moments before. Sephiroth felt large and perfect inside of him, and to his disgust Cloud was soon moaning like the filthy whore he had become.
They were synchronized perfectly. Sephiroth moved fluidly in and out of the tight little body, and Cloud's hips moved just enough to push the silver haired man deep enough inside of him to make him cry out for more. With gentle, stimulating touches to each other, they managed to know exactly what the other wanted, and give it to him accordingly, enough to slowly climb to completion. Once there, they cried out with pure need, and the room became deathly silent once it was finally over.
The stimulation of the mako subsided, now that their hunger had been satiated. Sephiroth pulled himself away from Cloud, now panting as though he had actually exerted himself to the point of exhaustion. He glared at Cloud and waited for him to speak.
Cloud slowly lifted himself into a sitting position, feeling more naked than just being without clothes. He met Sephiroth's gaze with only the slightest trace of fear in his heart. "This changes nothing," he said quietly. "I know that what we did... what we felt for each other... wasn't real. It wasn't US, and if I stay with you..." He shook his head. "For all I know, it could wear off, and all we would be left with is emptiness."
Sephiroth stared a moment longer, then turned toward the door where his sword was leaning against the wall beside it. He picked it up and gazed at it, contemplating. Cloud, naked and defenseless, took a breath and readied himself.
The man's dangerous aura didn't subside, but after a moment or two he placed the sword back against the wall and began to dress himself. "Go," he said quietly. "Wake your friends and leave this place. I want nothing to do with you from this point."
Wihtout hesitation Cloud slipped from the tabletop and picked up his clothes as he left the room. He dressed himself as he walked, and the further he got from Sephiroth's dark prescence the better he felt about his decision. The planet's essence had simply decieved them, and it would only have been dangerous to provoke their relationship any further. Still, he couldn't help wondering if the emptiness he suddenly felt in his stomach was similar to the one he had been so fearful of before.
He shook his head once fully dressed and made his way back to the prisoner area. He stood outside of the open cell, took a deep breath to calm his uneasy stomach, and stepped inside to wake Tifa.
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A/N: I think this will be the last chapter of this story. I loved working on it, but I'm just out of juice for now. I'm stuck on other games and I have a couple of other fanfictions to work on as well. Who knows though. If I get bored enough I might just continue. I thank anyone who took the time to jerk off to this amateur porn! As always, if you liked it please review! Thank you all and I love you!