Many thanks to AlexJ69 for the wonderful betaing^^
Chapter 5
"Close the door behind you please."
Yazoo did as he was told, and quietly walked over to one of the old chairs sitting in front of Vincent´s giant and quite intimidating desk. Vincent observed with some satisfaction that he avoided taking a seat beside Sephiroth on the couch. So they were feeling guilty about what they had done. At least it was something.
Vincent folded his hands on the table, waiting a calculated amount of time to make them uncomfortable, before he finally started. "You know why I called you, I assume."
The two shot each other a quick look, before Sephiroth lifted his shoulders in a tiny shrug that pretended to be unfazed. Vincent was no fool; he read body language like other people read random advertisement placates; routinised and seeing right through the promised lies. He just lacked the desperate need to make himself believe in the fake promises.
"Your mother and I have been thinking about what to do with you two now. Even though I mentioned that there will be no punishment for you, that does not mean that there will be no consequences." Vincent explained gravely, his voice becoming low and authoritative. He did not enjoy putting on this attitude, but in this case it wasn't that hard. This wasn't about playing soccer in the living room, this was about the cohesion of their family!
Another shared, uneasy look.
Vincent´s expression grew a bit darker; he didn't like that they were bonding against him here. Still he firmly sat in his seat, staring them down until they fixated their gazes on the carpet.
"I assume that you are aware that what you did was wrong?"
Yazoo kept his gaze on the ground but nodded. Sephiroth crossed his legs, watching his hands folded in his lap. "Yes."
"Good," Vincent replied flatly, before he continued, his voice going a bit softer as he sighed, abandoning his stiff posture.
"Your mother and I talked about this, and we came to the conclusion that what you did is inexcusable. However," he paused, pushing his papers a bit to arrange them in a more orderly fashion (and to prolong the inevitable,) "we are aware that we are partly to blame for having delayed your sexual education for so long and I decided that we will correct this mistake now."
The aghast expressions of his sons might have been amusing, if Vincent hadn't felt so very uncomfortable and out of his element. If it hadn't undermined his authority, he might have squirmed and cringed to express his misery. There was a reason why he had never given them the talk about the birds and bees! He did not enjoy this and inwardly Vincent suspected that he was the one suffering most right now... Oh, if only he'd had girls, sweet, innocent little daughters, then he could have shoved this talk onto Lucrecia!
"You mean like... now?" Sephiroth peeped up, frowning, and very warily glancing at the books, before daring to suggest, "Because, with all due respect, I don´t think that is necessary and maybe you can just punish us with doing house chores for the rest of our lives an-"
"Shut up and listen! I went through the lengths of buying this damn research material in a public book store and you will listen now and if it is the last thing you do!" Vincent snapped, his morose tone being betrayed by the humiliated blush on his cheeks. It had been so very embarrassing to face that smug book seller and his infuriating judgemental smile - Vincent would make them suffer for doing this to him!
"As I was able to witness yesterday, you are quite knowledgeable about the mechanics of homosexual intercourse by now, so this should be quick," 'Hopefully' he added in thought. Taking a deep breath, the man finally announced, his tortured voice shaking only slightly,
"I have here a banana and a condom." Vincent reached into his brown paper bag, summoning aforementioned objects with a pointed glare at his sons, daring the two to say something about it, and held them up. For a tiny second he hated them a bit for making him do this.
"Oh come on dad, you can´t be serious!" Sephiroth shadowed his eyes with long fingers, lowering his head in a disbelieving, embarrassed manner. Good, at least he still had some shame.
Vincent´s face was stern and relentless, even though he inwardly wished he could just let them off the hook. Girls; girls! "You brought this on to yourselves, young men. Here you go." He held the two items out to his incredulous sons. . "The more cooperative you are, the faster we can get this over with."
Sephiroth still face-palmed but watched through his fingers as Yazoo simply got up, being the brave one this time to carefully take both items from his father´s hands and sit back down in his chair. The condom was opened and rolled over the banana in mere seconds and with an ease that terrified his father quite a bit.
The coated fruit was wordlessly laid back onto the table, where it was stared at like a twelve-headed rhinoceros bird.
Clearing his throat, Vincent muttered, "I see you are quite practiced."
"Sexual education, we had that just two months ago at school," Yazoo explained unenthusiastically.
"I see." It sounded too relieved for Vincent´s own liking. "Very well, now you go."
He fished another condom out of his bag with pointy fingers and threw it at his oldest son, who caught it effortlessly, getting up to retrieve the banana.
In its constricting cage it had started to become mushy and soft and Sephiroth tearing the old condom away to replace it with an obnoxious turquoise one wasn't helping matters. Limply it hung there, shoved into latex again, dripping some yellow sludge onto the carpet.
Vincent didn't want to look at it and quickly hid the impotent fruit in his desk, clearing his throat and gathering his wits again to continue in his no-shit-voice,
"Very well... Now you know that homosexual intercourse is very dangerous and can be painful if you do not take care." The drawer with the banana was shut with a snap. "You can catch many diseases, AIDS being one of the most fatal among them, not to mention the social consequences and exclusions. You will never be able to have biological children with a partner of your own sex, you will be facing humiliation and discrimination as well as the possibility of physical harm." Vincent put on his most warning look before he abandoned it in favour of a slightly pained sigh "If you still decide that you must be homosexual however, your mother and I will not hold it against you and will support you in your decision as long as you keep your hands off of any family members. Are we clear?"
Another very pointed look was shot at the young men.
"Yes, Dad," the boys instantaneously echoed in unison, eager to get out of this living hell ASAP.
"Fine. If you have any questions or want to talk about it, you can always talk to your mother... and I... though you should rather talk to your mother, she is so much more... helpful when it comes to these things! ... Never mind, you can come to us. I have books now, you can read them if you want to, I will not ask any questions. They are in my study, you can get them without asking me beforehand." After his monologue, the tortured daddy took a deep breath, needing a moment to get himself together again. "Any questions?"
The boys shook their heads vehemently.
Vincent couldn´t even begin to describe the feeling of relief that washed over him.
"Fine. Yazoo, you can leave now, I want to talk to your brother alone."Yazoo was out of the room so fast, Vincent hadn´t even time to blink.
Turning towards his oldest, he pinched the bridge of his nose, looking somewhat tired. "I am very disappointed, Sephiroth, I do not think I need to tell you that. I know that you are at a difficult age, but there are limits. You will not take it out on your brothers, you have a responsibility and they trust you! Your mother and I trusted you! If something like this happens again, then as God is my witness, I will draw drastic consequences! Do you understand me?"
"I understand." Sephiroth did look quite demure underneath his cool façade, squirming under the burning look of his father. Eventually Vincent sighed, waving a hand and tiredly rubbed his temple.
"You are dismissed."
tbc
natzilla: Yeah, Yazoo isn´t fully grown yet XD And Vincent is pretty large^^ And Vincent´s bag is full of dirty secrets XD Yeah, chimps might be gross, but they are fun to watch!
Aeriths-Rain: Yay, I´m glad you like it^^ Kadaj and Loz are quite fun to write actually XD
Psycho Steph: Yah, the mysterious paper bag, it all comes down to it XD And Vincent knows his boys. he´s naturally sceptic ^^
Labe: Oh, this time it´s only me writing this fic^^ It´ll be interesting indeed to see how the boys will behave now... will they continue? Hm... XD
PoppetlurvesZexion: hahaha, 50 secret obessions? Oh my, you must be pretty occupied then XD But I´m glad you still like it, and I hope you´ll continue to do^^
oztan: Yes, of course it will include Kadaj and Loz as well! We will see some brotherly action in the next chapter^^
IA1979: Heh, Vincent´s suspicious, he will keep an eye on them all right XD Seph does have some kind of band, but we will hear about it later^^
Thanks everyone for reading and reviewing and I wish you a very happy easter with lots of chocolate bunnies^^