Tifa was having a really good time visiting the Rhapsodos family, they were all gracious, friendly hosts that made her feel welcome and endeavored to make her feel like one of the family, as if she was a true potential mate for their wayward Genesis. They kept her entertained by taking her horseback riding, taking her to dinner in town. Arranging for things for them all to do. Elena and herself were fast friends and leant her clothes and took her shopping. Reno would tag along with the twins and the reluctant Genesis who had since learned to change diapers on Tifa's insistence. Every activity involved Squall flirting with her and competing for her attention with Genesis which flattered and amused her, but she only had eyes for Genesis. He was constantly at her side and this just fed her illusion.

She came to love the quirky nature of her hosts and loved to spend time with Barret listening to stories of Genesis and Reno, finding it hard to picture Genesis as anything but the confident young man she knew. She would laugh as Barret's deep baritone spun tales of an awkward little boy and she would take Genesis's long slim hand into her own and give it a loving squeeze as he rolled his eyes fondly at her. It almost felt like she belonged there as she and Genesis played with the twins, it felt magical to see what their future children might look like. She still smiled at the memory of when they had opted to take the twins to town for lunch at a family restaurant and the woman beside them had praised them for having such beautiful children and commented the twins really took after their father. She had silenced Gen's protests with a soft kiss to his lips and thanked her while he blushed but said nothing on the drive back.

There was a side effect going on however that neither one of them had counted on; Tifa's sex drive had gone through the roof. Tifa had no real fetishes, however she longed above everything to be a wife and mother and being in the environment where she was being treated by everyone as Genesis's beloved spouse by all but the man she was actually with nurtured that. That there were actual live children to compare to what their own might look like made her body long to procreate so she was jumping Genesis whenever she could even if the birth control pills prevented conception. Genesis had no clue what was going on but eagerly gave himself to her whenever she wanted him, taking her in his bed, against the walls of little used rooms in his place and in the shower as he pinned her to the lacquered tiles. They were normally given more to slow and passionate love play sessions that could last for hours, but Genesis had no problem with almost brutal fucks as she used his body like he was a whore. He didn't know the cause but welcomed it, not that their sex life was unsatisfying before, her sex drive was on par with his own and their couplings the best he'd ever experienced. But now it was like she needed to couple with him, to be wanted and desired was one thing, but to be physically and emotionally needed was an aphrodisiac onto itself.

He laughed when she attempted to pin him against a tree and kiss him, they had decided to take a solitary long walk around the estate. "Come on hot pants, you've already had me this morning and then again in the shower before we left. I know that you enjoy us going condom free as it open the doors to more spontaneity but how much more do you need, woman?" he teased her as he slowly pushed her away.

"I want you right now and here" she all but panted.

"We could just return to our wing and stay there the rest of the day" he suggested.

"But then they'll know we're..." she said with a blush.

"I think they figured that out already" he said with a laugh at her modesty. "Tifa, it's not that I'm not willing to, but there are estate workers everywhere who could stumble upon us. Besides, I'm not a teenager and would prefer we rejoin everyone without looking like we've been rolling around in the grass" he said.

"There is a way I could pleasure you while just getting grass stains on my knees" she suggested, pawing at his bottom cheeks, practically panting with need.

This gave Genesis pause "wow you're frisky today. The answer is no, you shall have to wait until bedtime" he said to tease her, taking her hand and tugging her forward to walk beside him.

"Come on, I need you for only a few minutes" she said with a pout.

"Just a few minutes? I'm insulted and not easy. You'll have to wait. I have my dignity and am no longer a teenager" he reprimanded her.

"Where did you take your "dates" when you were a teenager?" she asked him.

"To this guest house not far from here" he explained.

"Let's go" she said.

"I can wait" he said.

"I can't. Please" she said and he couldn't help glancing down in appreciation of how her long legs looked in her tight light blue jeans.

He took her arm and led the way. The door was unlocked as ever when they stumbled in already kissing and he shut the door after them. He undid her jeans and plunged his hands down the front of her panties to cup her sex and gave it a small squeeze to a strangled gasp from her. Pushing per pants and panties down to her knees, he got on his own knees before her and ate her needy organ from the top of the slit to the base and then back again, leaving no inch of her untouched by his busy tongue, spiking her need. Her cries were primal as her hands scrambled along the wall splayed on either side of her as her legs trembled. He undid the buttons of her shirt until it hung loosely open at the sides of her ice blue bra, revealing a good portion of her impressive bust and sweetly sculpted feminine muscles. He pushed down and removed her jeans the rest of the way.

He stood up just shy of her cumming. And it was like he was under attack as his own t-shirt was all but ripped from him and his own jeans torn down. He kicked them from himself as he reached for her.

Seating himself on a drop cloth covered couch he quickly arranged her so she was straddling him and pushed her own shirt from her. He unclasped and all but ripped her bra from her.

"Take what you need from my body, it's yours. I'm yours" he said in a voice thick with lust as she stared at him with naked hunger on her face and her heart skipped a beat at what he said.

With a single lunge she impaled herself on him with a strangled cry and started riding him like a woman possessed, each time he thrust into her body struck her sweet spot as if mining for gold until she was keening with her hair flying about her and breasts jiggling like crazy. He wasn't faring much better as he clung onto her slim hips as she clenched and adjusted on him, milking him for all he was worth. Now that they were condom free he could experience everything and it took him to heights of euphoria unknown when he was inside her. She suddenly harshly clenched on him and with a strangled cry, came all over his steely flesh crying out controllably. He stood up and pinned her against the wall while her legs latched onto his waist, tightening her like a vice around him. He hammered within her agitating depths, spiking and prolonging her crisis. "Take me, I'm yours" he panted into her ear over and over again like it was a mantra, fucking her non-stop through two more of her orgasms until his own burst from him like a heated geyser to join her final one. Feeling like his legs would collapse, he set her carefully on the ground before leaning against the wall. She blushed when their combined juices leaked onto the floor to pool at her feet.

"You're the one that suggested condom free" he said, thinking he was making excellent strides in getting used to a new way of having sex. Ask him a month ago to dispense with his condoms and he would have laughed in the person's face. Even after their first time using just her birth control, he had hyperventilated afterwards at the idea of his sperm going into parts of a female they had no business being in, rather than being contained in a neat flushable package. Into her cervix and entering her uterus...

Tifa had gotten him a bag to breath into and then explained to him as she made him breath into it that she started taking the pill mainly to regulate difficult, wonky periods and took them religiously. They prevented her from ovulating and if no egg is released, there's nothing to be fertilized. So therefore his sperm could swim around in her to its heart content until it died and nothing would come of it. After checking up more information about her type of pills and making sure she was up to date with them, he shrugged his mental shoulders and decided it was safe and he trusted her.

Tifa laughed and went to clean up and climbed into his lap when he sat down. "I know it's messy but I prefer us being this way. It makes me feel closer to you. Sex shouldn't be clinical, it should be messy. I want you, all of you because..." she trailed and then bit her lip and looked away.

"Because why?" he said taking her chin and making her look at him.

"I like you" she replied unable to tell him the truth, she enjoyed being with him too much to make him stick to his promise to leave her. She wanted to enjoy the illusion just a little longer.

"I like you too" he said, feeling they were toeing a line that if crossed, they could not go back. He was starting to feel things he never had before when it came to Tifa and it terrified him. "But we should get going" he hastily added.

They got redressed and used a comb Tifa always seemed to have with her to tidy up their appearances. They walked in companionable silence walking in tandem with their arm around each other as they returned to the house.

Genesis frowned so see Sephiroth's van there and Angeal's impala. He opened the door to hear not just two children's voice crying his name in delight of wanting to play with him but four as Jamie joined Alexander and Amelia while one year old Emma toddled towards him.

"Uncle Genesis, you smell funny" Jamie said wrinkling her nose at smell of sex emitting from the two now blushing people.

"Genesis, Tifa it's nice to see you again" Sephiroth greeted them, stepping forward to shake her hand with Aerith in tow while Angeal and Yuffie joined them and Barret, Elena, Squall and Reno looked innocently on.

"What are you all doing here?" Genesis asked him.

"Well since you've been keeping Tifa a secret from all of us, including your friends. I invited everyone to dinner so they everyone would be properly introduced" Barret said coming forward. "And Tifa's not a secret to be ashamed of" he said just to her.

"Thank you so much Barret" she said feeling touched and impulsively gave him a kiss on the cheek. "But we should really shower and get ready if you have a dinner party going on. Separately, not together of course" she stammered with a blush.

They both had showers and got ready and she sensed Genesis was in a rage. "Gen, are you okay?" She asked him placing a hand on his shoulder as he angrily knotted his tie.

"Why do people feel they have the right to interfere in our relationship?" He snapped at her.

"They're your family and friends; they care about you. They're probably curious about me and want to get to know me a bit. It's no big deal we're only here a few more days and then we'll go back to our usual routines. I do enjoy meeting new people however, you know I'm not great at making friend. You were going to introduce us eventually, right?" She asked him.

He opened and closed his mouth at this. "Yes...I thought perhaps later if..." he said with a frown. "I'm not ashamed of you, I just feel that our arrangement is our business and no one should interfere. I mean first my brother all but insists you come here and now the others are getting involved."

"And I enjoyed meeting your family they're all nice people. Sometimes I feel like..." She said and then stopped herself from saying "they're my family too".

"Sometimes you feel like?" He prompted her.

"It's nothing, are you ready to go?" She asked him.

Genesis was fuming at how everyone was interfering as Tifa was sucked into their world of married couples as she exclaimed over children and got excited for the pregnant but still not showing Yuffie. He felt they were betraying him as they treated her like she was their newest addition and his spouse when Tifa couldn't even claim the title of girlfriend. He fumed his silent disapproval as the happy woman at his side was invited to future women's nights and events where he struggled normally to stay awake at. Everyone treating her like she was his Mrs. Rhapsodos. She was smiling and talking animatedly with the others.

"You know that Tifa and I only have a causal relationship" he finally coldly said and he felt guilty when she looked as if he had slapped her. The others looked on in silent disapproval and he could feel the mounting rage of those present.

"How could you embarrass Tifa by saying that?" Aerith asked him. "I was only inviting her out because I honestly like her and thought she might like to come for dinner."

"What's wrong with you Genesis?" Sephiroth said, longing to punch him.

"That was uncalled for" Angeal said standing up but Barret put a hand on his shoulder and said.

"Don't bother, my son's an idiot"

"Uncalled for? I'm not in a relationship, it is just an arrangement. Right Tifa?" He asked her.

She stood up and looked at him in what appeared to be sympathy and leaned down and kissed him right in front of everyone. "I love you Genesis and I should have told you sooner. Yes we have an arrangement but I can't keep my side of the bargain. What your friends have, I want for myself and always have. To be claimed by someone in legal marriage and to bear our children. That is what I want from you but know I can't have it. I will go and not bother you. I have another broken heart as I knew I would but can't cling to what isn't real anymore. Please take care of yourself. I'm going to my father's, I need to be around people who..." She said with a hitch in her voice. Refusing to release the tears that threatened to pour down her cheeks, crying would have to wait for later.

"Tifa I...I care about you, we could continue as we are for as long as you want. You know how much I value your company" he all but pleaded with her.

"You've said enough" he father said with pity in his voice.

"Just let me go; you promised you would" Tifa said.

"I release you" he said wondering why his eyes were burning and throat had a lump in it. .

"Come Tifa, I'll give you a ride to your father's place. It's on my way to my girlfriend's place" Squall said, standing up.

"Girlfriend? But you were flirting with Tifa" Genesis found himself saying.

"I've been seeing a woman named Rinoa Heartilly for over a year now. I was only flirting with Tifa to see how deep your commitment was towards her. I have my answer but I must say you're a miserable coward" he said in sympathy towards him as he put his hands on Tifa's shoulders.

"A coward, how?" Genesis demanded.

"Every man here has stood before a woman and said the most difficult thing to her in the world, something that makes himself vulnerable and placed his naked, trembling soul in her hands. Asking her to forsake all others and marry him, to commit to him completely and become one with him. Yet you never even got out of the starting gate and that is only asking a woman to go steady with you. You'll probably never know how it feels to have a woman look at every man in the world and say; I choose you. Come Tifa, let's get going" he said.

"Tifa, don't leave" Genesis protested.

"I have to, I can't live a lie anymore no matter how pretty. Now kiss me goodbye. When next you see me, please ignore me" she requested and their lips met in a tender kiss and she stepped back wondering at the look of anguish he gave her before composing his features.

"Tifa, please go ahead. We'll have your stuff sent you to. I wish..." Barret said.

"You were kind to me, I'll miss you" she said giving him a hug, "all of you were" she said and left, a slim figure in a black cocktail dress with the tall brunette walking beside her while everyone said their goodbyes and discreetly left. Genesis felt overwhelmed that everything between he and Tifa was over over, his vision blurred and he found himself running towards his childhood bedroom and slammed the door and threw himself on the bed. He was trembling as he fought off tears wondering why he was acting like such a child.

Tifa rode silently beside Squall as he drove her the four hours towards her father's house. "He's an idiot" Squall suddenly said and this caused her to burst into tears. His range rover was pulled over to the side of the road and he held her in a way that reminded her of her first night spent with Genesis.

"Please don't touch me, that's how Gen and I got involved. My long time boyfriend had dumped me..." she sobbed and he sat back.

"Did he take advantage of your vulnerability?" he asked in a dangerous tone of voice.

"No I...he had offered...I sort of-took him" she admitted in a small voice and look up questioningly when Squall started roaring with laughter.

"You jumped Gen? Tiny little you versus..." He said wiping tears of mirth from his eyes. "So what happened after that?" He asked her.

"I tried to avoid him until one night he brought me a package of macrame supplies I'd ordered and...it happened again" she replied with a blush.

"I guess he really delivered his package to you, did he make you sign for it?" He said, struggling to control his laughter.

"There's no need to be crude" she snapped.

"Then what?" Squall prompted her.

"I told him I could only be with someone if they're exclusive to me" she explained.

"So he agreed and then you hung out upon occasion?" Squall asked her.

"At first then we started spending almost every waking hour together. I guess it must have been how closely we lived to each other" Tifa said.

"I know my Cousin, he doesn't really tend to date. Women come and go and most just want a physical relationship with him. It's a lonely life in the end when you don't have a person of your own. It was my life for many years before I met someone who challenged me. We had been dating a week before Rhinoa challenged me that I couldn't date her exclusively for a month. I'm a betting man and took that dare and got to know her, really know her in that time. I realized my other relationship had been so shallow, then I was accused of insider trading and faced jail time. She was there for me whenever my spirits started to flag and she propped me up. The charges were dropped and my name cleared but she remained my constant. I've asked her to marry me a million times but she says I need to grow up first" he said with a grin at her. "I'm telling you this because sinners can redeem themselves and people who fear flying will soar with you if you have the time and patience for them. You're a beautiful woman who could easily find the future you want but you have to be assertive and accept no less than what you want. You want that ring and children, you go and get it. But you have to ask yourself if you want that with Genesis or not, because I can tell you that man back there is crazy about you. I've never seen Genesis act this way over anyone" he said.

"So what should I do?" She asked him.

"Sit tight and let him come to you" he said.

"But what if he doesn't?" She asked him.

"He will" Squall promised her. "You want to know why I was at the mansion? Rhinoa and I had a tiff and she ordered me to leave, so I went there. She texted me that she missed me so here I'm driving six hours late a night like a fool. I probably won't be home until dawn after dropping you off but I will get to see her wake up" he explained and Tifa felt rather envious of him.

Barret knew exactly where Genesis would be and thought nothing of drawing his pallid body against his own and stroking his flame bright his while his body shook with sobs against his. "You got yourself into a right pickle this time, son" he observed.

"I don't want to be without her but..."Genesis said as his voice trembled.

"You have to stop being such a chickenshit and marry that girl then. She doesn't deserve any less than that" Barret said.

"First Squall and now you Dad?" Genesis said sitting up with a sigh.

"Did I tell you how your mother and I got together?" Barret asked him.

"You met at a cotillion" Genesis said.

"Boy how tha fuck shitload o' black thugs yo' every find at cotillions?" Barret said.

"Dad why are you talking that way?" Genesis said in confusion.

"Bcuz' dis be how tha fuck i talked when the fuck i met yo' mutha. I was da mackdaddy shit o' da projects. I got a wack job workin' security fo' tha Campbell hotel family n' on tha advice o' Mr. Campbell i was gettin' a degree in hospitality by goin' ta university part time. N' i had a woman who the fuck looked like a black Barbie doll wit' tha roundest black chocolate melon titties n' an ass like a firm brown peach."

"You were a security guard, here on the estate?" Genesis asked him in shock.

"No shit n' datz where the fuck i met yo' mutha, Kate Campbell. She was a tiny lil' thang wit' tha whitest skin i've eva peep n' but she had curves on her an' bright red hair ta her butt. Kate gave me dis look w' met ' but i thought, fuck dat shit, i ain't da fuck into dat checkerboard shit. N' i was told i was ta be her bodyguard." Barret said.

"You were mother's bodyguard? Please stop talking like that" Genesis requested.

"Very well, I tried to stay away from your mother, only seeing her in a professional capacity but she wanted to know all about me and questioned me about my life. She would go into fancy restaurants and insisted I eat with her rather then poised beside her chair. So I started standing beside the wall to avoid having to sit with her and she would order me course after course of food until I was forced to sit with her or balance platters in my hands. I still wanted nothing to do with her until one faithful day someone tried to kidnap her and I broke my back dragged her from that car. Her father paid all my medical bills, I was in the hospital for a year. In that time my melon tittied peach ass girl found herself someone else to spend all his money on her. Your mother was there everyday, she personally sought out my professors and got my assignments, helped me to complete them and dropped them off for me. That not even five foot tall woman with her pale skin, slight curves and flame red hair became my world. We were married soon after I got out of the hospital" he said.

"Yes and she was a virgin on your wedding night" Genesis remembered.

"No that was a lie too, Reno was already on the way. The good thing was her father approved of me as a match for her. He said he reminded me of a younger him when he was struggling to build his hotel chain" Barret explained.

"So everything you told us about Mom and yourself was a lie?" Genesis said.

"Oh she was a virgin alright until we found an alleyway beside a 7/11. It had been a year and a brother has needs and your mother's petite curves weren't anything to sneeze at, she had some moves on her..."

"Please Dad I don't want to know. Why did you lie to us?" Genesis said.

"Because your mother wanted you to think our meeting as romantic and not about how I struggled to fit into her world. I got rid of the cornrows, changed my look and got elocution lessons because I wanted to change and be a better man because of her. I got my degree, my ideas to expand into not just hotels, but whole resorts under our name expanded our wealth. Your grandfather had no problem when I wanted to change the name to my own because I earned that right.

"Then Reno and I were born and your family was complete" Genesis said.

"Ah yes and I looked at your mother and said. "what the hell?" First with your brother and then with you" Barret said.

"You doubted we were yours?" Genesis asked him, genuinely surprised, of course he knew people did wonder when they saw them all together but his father had been brushing this off as long as he could remember.

"You were the whitest things I had seen outside of your mother. But she raged back at me with that accent creeping in and her r's starting to roll and she said both times; huv a go ony paternity test yi'll waant" he quoted doing a very good imitation of Scottish slang.

"Mom was scary when he accent came out" Genesis agreed.

"I never did take one; your mother never would have cheated on me. I said the same thing to anyone who ever questioned that you and your brother weren't mine. You may both be the second and third whitest things I've ever seen after your mother, but you're mine. What I'm trying to say to you, son, is that love will find you whether you want it to or not and there's no fighting it when it does. A woman good will make you a better man and will support you in anyway you need and will take care of you when you're down. If you want Tifa to be yours, asking her to be is the first step. A ring is just a ring, it's the promise that counts. There's a woman who loves you, why make her wait? Go to her but don't try and make arrangements, love isn't about arbitration. Tell her what you've been hiding. If this family has taught me nothing, it's that love comes in many packages and we have an unnatural attraction to security guards" he joked.

"What if she won't see me?" Genesis asked him.

"She will and you will have to negotiate like you never have before but keep in mind, all she really wants is your heart" he said.

"I need to think about this" Genesis said.

"I would say take all the time in the world but the woman is charming and diamond rings not that rare. Make sure yours gets there first" he advised him and left him to his thoughts.

It was in the wee hours of the morning when Tifa got in but Shera and her father were still up and waiting for her. "Tifa are you okay?" The bespectacled woman asked her, automatically going into mothering mode.

"I'm alright" she tried to assure Shera who cuddled her.

"Like hell you are. You took off in the middle of the night not even wearing proper clothing with some guy and called me from his car to say you were on the way here. What's happened?" Cid demanded, going to light up a cigarette but Shera's glare stopped him short.

"Genesis and I split up" she said.

"Did that idiot dump you? I'm going to kill him for hurting my little girl" Cid said heading for the door, fully prepared to go hunt down Genesis.

"No I left him" Tifa said and burst into tears and Shera cuddled her.

Shera's voice halted Cid, "if you want to kill him I suggest you put some pants on" she called after him and he blushed when he realized her wore only a pair of heart print boxer shorts. "Tifa's had a long night, let's put her to bed and get some rest ourselves. Any killing will have to happen at a later date" she insisted.

"Fine" he agreed. "Fucking lawyers" he muttered as he followed his woman and daughter.

"Swear jar" Shera said as she helped Tifa in the direction of her bedroom with Cid bringing up the rear.