Zack marched angrily down the hall. She was so frustrated now and not only because she was pregnant . . . okay mostly because she was pregnant. Because so she had to go through numerous tests and it will be like she was a test subject of Hojo's, but it won't be Hojo that will be performing the tests on her. She didn't want to be in this predicament, but she was. There was no escaping motherhood when you were a woman.
Zack couldn't believe being pregnant could be this aggravating. She closed her eyes shut and opened them quickly with a roll of her eyes. She let out a small huff just so disrupted at the moment.
She didn't like being pregnant. She didn't like it how Shin-Ra found out like so—it was embarrassing for her. She didn't like it how they plan on taking so many tests for just her being pregnant. Well she guessed they had a reason—I mean after all she was a man at first and technically . . . oh she was too aggravated to think about all the details at the moment.
She could feel the blood rush to her face in embarrassment, fear, and anger. Oh what strange feelings to be feeling all at once. She had heard before about children and how the effect the mothers attitudes and feelings. She remembered her mother telling her about the time when she carried her and how tense she was because she was such a large baby.
Zack stopped and gasped slightly. 'Inside her' is what she thought. Her eyes darted around until it trailed down to her stomach. Something was alive right now inside her. It just gave her the creeps all over.
She felt a shiver crawl down her spin as she shook her body all over to get the feeling off. Her mind only went back to the movies she stayed awake when she was little to see. The ones about the aliens hatching inside humans only to make them explode. She wasn't going to explode was she?! Oh my!
Her eyes widened and soon scanned her thoughts. She wished she had paid more attention to her mother when she spoke about her pregnancy. What could she say though? She was a boy and boys didn't really care unless they had a younger sibling and so far she was an only child.
"Oh man!" she whispered as she placed the tips of her fingers on her bared teeth.
What should she do right now? Should she go and buy books on expecting mothers? No, wouldn't that be too obvious? Yes it would and she didn't want anyone to know that shouldn't know.
"Oh man this is the most embarrassing time of my life!" she gulped feeling the unknown fear upon her now.
She knew that Sephiroth and the others would find out soon and so how would they act? Especially when they found out who the father was. Oh man she wasn't the only one going down in this heat. Angeal was going to take just as much of the blame as she was about this child that shouldn't be.
She soon felt her heart rate beat faster and harder. She grasp her chest and felt as if she was going to die. Her body began to heat up—especially her head. She felt as if it was going to explode and she just fall over dead, but soon her eyes found their way to a certain man she had a bone to pick with.
"Angeal," she muttered seeing him.
Angeal seemed to not notice her as he walked down a hall and out of her site. Oh he wasn't getting away from this. She took off in a gallop after him. Once she slid past the hall and thrust herself forward she had to slow herself down seeing how she almost ran right into his backside.
She stopped and just straightened seeing how he wasn't going anywhere in a hurry and so she knew he had no place to be. She frowned knowing it was the perfect opportunity to tell him the 'news'. She inhaled and wrinkled her brow as she marched up behind him.
"Come here you!" she said as she grasp his arm suddenly as pulled him into a nearby closet.
"Wha—Zack," said Angeal being caught off guard by her.
Once Zack pulled him in she shut the door with a slam and looked at him with an angry expression. She crossed her arms, but soon found it uncomfortable and so placed her arms back to her sides. Angeal just looked at her confused as to what she was doing.
"What is it Zack?" asked Angeal not understanding why she was so upset.
"You!" she spat waving her arms around her sides. "Have you any idea what you have done?!"
"What?" asked Angeal so confused.
Zack then suddenly grasp Angeal's manhood, which made Angeal give out a quick gasp. Angeal backed up as far as he could against the wall as Zack squeezed him tightly.
"You! Do you have any idea what you have done with THIS?!" She said baring her teeth and twisting it slightly to where Angeal closed his eyes shut to maintain himself and then slowly open them back up to her.
Zack stood there for a moment just starring at Angeal, who starred back at her with confused eyes, but the surprise in them soon vanished and he was no longer afraid of her. After that moment Zack gasp now realizing what all was happening. She let out a quick gasp feeling the hardened object in her hand. It felt so thick and large in her hand that it sent trills down her body and a familiar ache began to emerge from her.
"Tell me Zack," said Angeal in a slightly deeper tone.
Zack didn't know if he meant to speak in such a deeper and sexier tone as to seduce her or not, but it worked.
"Oh god I want you right now!" she grasped out as she quickly jumped on him.
Making love in the closet was something new that Angeal probably didn't even see coming. Well he probably did once Zack dragged him inside that closet. Zack had been acting rather strange lately, but her sex appetite hadn't changed for him one bit. Sure there were time she wanted to do it here, or there, or a certain way, and with a certain mood, and in a certain position, but that was like any other normal woman right? Angeal was the only child and didn't hang around girls that much and so new little about them—but Zack was shedding a whole new light about them on him.
Sure he knew not all women were like Zack, but sometimes it was hard to believe. All the ones he's seemed to encounter seem to be like her—a little. Zack always clung to the man side of her still, but just barely. Even though one could hardly tell she was once a man it was always 'hardly'.
Once Zack was finished with Angeal she had totally forgotten what she was going to tell him. Being that Angeal saw no reason he should linger with her in the closet.
"Well, then I better go," said Angeal straightening his collar and heading outside.
He shut the door to make it look like it was only him inside. Zack could leave a little later if she wanted to. Zack though stayed there for a while until she regained her senses and remembered what it was she had to tell him. She shook her head and then slapped it.
"Stupid, stupid Zack! He needs to know!" she said to herself.
She then sighed and dropped her shoulders. She bowed her head and fixed herself up before she exited. All everyone saw was a downcast Zack. It was very out of norm for her. She's usually always bright, but recently she's been down and one always wondered if they'd ever know why.
Zack had to find Angeal again and try to tell him. She just hoped another distraction wouldn't get in the way. Once asking around and finding out where Angeal would probably be she left to find him and once she did she dropped her shoulders seeing him with Genesis.
"Oh—Zack, it's good to see you," said Genesis turning in his seat to her as he sat and had a drink with Angeal in the lounge area.
"Y-yeah, you too," said Zack with a limp wave.
"We've just been talking about you," said Genesis.
"Oh . . . you have?" said Zack twiddling his fingers together.
"Yes, Angeal's been telling me about you little mood swings," said Genesis. "He is convinced all women act like so. I on the other hand disagree."
"Oh . . .that's all?" she said with a sigh as she came to sit by the two men. "Have you dated before Genesis?"
"I've done my share of seeing women," said Genesis with a slight nod of his head.
"Annnnnnd?" asked Zack.
"And he thinks that you don't act like normal women," said Angeal.
"Well sorry I don't fit into your 'mold'," said Zack with a small chuckle.
"No, it's not that it's just that not all girls act like you," said Genesis.
"So I do act like some women?" asked Zack.
'Yes—just not my type," said Genesis rubbing the back of his neck.
"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?" asked Zack tapping her fingertips on the table.
"Well," sighed Genesis trying to find the right words to say to her without getting his head bit off.
"Genesis, Angeal—let's go practice," came Sephiroth walking in the room.
All heads turned to him as he looked and noticed Zack in the room as well.
"Oh—Zack, I didn't know you were here," he said in a sort of apologizing tone. "Would you like to join us as well?"
Zack then cast her eyes to Angeal and Genesis who had gotten up and readied to leave. There was a brief moment of silence before something came over Zack and she just blurted out—
"I'm hungry."
"Oh—well then by all means stay and eat," said Sephiroth. "We could always spare later."
Zack didn't want to say anything else fearing she might blurt out the 'I'm pregnant' phrase and so just smiled at the men as they left to spare. Once they left she bowed her head and let her forehead hit the table.
"Uh, I miss sparing with them like real men . . . ugh, I need to tell Angeal," she said getting up and grabbing some snacks to eat as she waited for Angeal to get done with sparing.
Zack stayed there for quite some time before Angeal came to her finding her in the exact same spot they left her some hours before. He placed his fists on his hips and shook his head slightly.
"Still here Zack?" he asked with a slight smile.
Zack turned to see Angeal standing near her and just sighed. It had to come out sooner or later it would be better if she tell him before he was bombarded with questions by Shin-Ra whenever they found out.
"Yeah," she gave out a sigh. "Look I need to tell you something, but can we go somewhere private?"
"Look Zack," said Angeal taking a step backwards and holding out his hands before her. "No more closets—not that I minded or anything, but I'd like somewhere a little more private before you do something like that."
"No, no," said Zack shaking her head with a slight giggle. "I won't take you anymore in closets."
"Good," said Angeal with a warm smile.
And so as they walked out of the building together Zack noticed that some of the soldier families had come to greet them. Many of the wives had children and Zack spied one that was expecting. She soon began to sweat and Angeal noticed the strange behavior.
"Zack what's—?" started Angeal.
"I'll be right back," said Zack running off toward the mother.
"Oh, hello may I help you?" she asked as she touched her swollen belly.
"Yes, I mean no, but you know I mean yes," said Zack finding it nervous to speak with her.
"I see," she said with a small giggle.
Zack's eyes darted around wondering if anyone was watching or even listening. The woman's own husband wasn't too far, but just far enough to where he couldn't hear.
"I was wondering what it was like to be preg-preg-pregn—" said Zack, but just found she was too nervous to say the word.
"Pregnant?" asked the woman inclining her head a bit.
"Yes, that's the word," said Zack with a smile as she snapped her fingers and pointed at the mother.
"Well," started the mother as she rubbed her belly. "This is my third child so I guess you can say I'm experienced. But if you ask me it's a time of reflecting and planning."
"But how does it feel?" asked Zack. "Can you feel it inside you?"
"It?" said the mother looking at Zack as if she had done something wrong. "You never refer to your child as an it. It's either a he or she."
"Not if you don't know," said Zack crossing her arms.
"Oh you'll know," she said warmly as she rubbed her belly. "Call it a mother's intuition. When I was pregnant with my first I knew it was a she. My husband could never understand, but when she came to this world he then began to believe. Even my second, I knew him before anyone could tell me he was even a he."
"And now?" asked Zack.
"Hm, She'll be coming soon," she said with a smile.
"So you don't die when you give birth," said Zack. "Then how do you deflate?"
"Huh, you ask like some man would if he were ever expecting," she chuckled. "Is this your first?"
"What?" asked Zack pulling her head back.
"I can see you're some months along," she said looking at her.
"Uh!" said Zack as she looked down not knowing how she was so out of place and how she even looked pregnant. "I look it?!"
"Oh yes, any woman could tell," she said with a smile.
Zack's mouth just dropped as a small squeal/screech came out in horror. Not too long after she took her dumbfound stature Angeal took a few steps towards her and called to her saying—
"Zack."
"You make a fine couple," the woman smiled.
"Uh!" squealed Zack again not knowing how this woman could know so much about her.
It wasn't too long after though that Zack turned and left. She trotted straight back to her apartment where there was nothing but silence, darkness, and Angeal. She sat on the sofa and sighed, but it wasn't long before she realized she didn't get much answers out of the woman and she was still just as clueless as ever. What was she going to do and did she really look that pregnant?!
"Zack is something wrong?" asked Angeal coming closer to her. "You seem strange lately."
"I-I-I don't know," she said trembling all over. "Maybe it's just a phase."
"You look stressed out," said Angeal.
"I am?" asked Zack looking at him with almost bloodshot eyes. "It's just I don't know what to do and I can't no I can't—that'd be bad, and what if Genesis and Sephiroth knew?!"
"Zack what are you talking about?" asked Angeal trying to understand her through this nonsense.
"Hey did you know that sex can relieve stress?" she just blurted out with a mad smile.
"Is that what you want?" asked Angeal tilting his head to her.
"Mhm, mhm," she said shaking her head still covered in stress. "It's just too heavy I guess and I feel like I can feel it."
"Right," said Angeal coming up to Zack placing his arm on her shoulder. "Let me help you get that stress away."
And so Angeal let Zack to the bedroom where he 'relieved' her of her stress. Before long she was sleeping like a baby. Angeal just watched her sleep so peacefully like she didn't have a care in the world. He smiled and gently rubbed the side of Zack's face—there was the old Zack.
It was good for her to be like this. A woman shouldn't have to worry about so much. She already had enough done on her that she needed this rest from all the madness. He just wondered what it would be like when Hojo had finally completed the reverse of this all—this was always on his mind.
Well—he'd better be going. He sighed and got up. Once dressed he left her sleeping knowing she'd get a goodnights rest. He'd be waiting for her tomorrow.
Once morning came Zack woke up with a yawn, but feeling refreshed. In an instance she noticed how alone she felt. She looked around and saw Angeal was gone. He must have left once she fell asleep. She dropped her shoulders and mentally kicked herself for not being able to tell him.
Oh this wasn't good. Today she had to undergo a series of tests for the child and no doubt Lazard will be asking questions about the father. She knew he'd eventually find out and she didn't want to see Angeal upset about all this because she 'forgot' to tell him each time she was with him. Oh stupid her for being so sex-crazed.
Perhaps she could get to him in time though. Maybe she could. Zack quickly got up and got dressed soon heading to training where she was certain she could find Angeal. Once there she found he wasn't there.
Da--! She thought. Where else could he be? She trotted throughout the building before heading to the lounge area. She stopped seeing him with Genesis and Sephiroth. They were laughing and drinking. She didn't really want to interrupt them, but she needed to.
Once she took a step forward though they all got up and headed the other way. She bit her bottom lip feeling something in her gut warn her about this, but she had to do it. She forced herself after them, but was stopped by a few doctors.
"Ah, Miss Fair you are ready for your tests," they said to her with kind smiles.
"Actually I was going to go get freshened up," she said with a nervous smile.
"Don't be silly," came Lazard to her. "You're coming with us and getting everything sorted out if that's that."
Zack couldn't help but swallow hard as she glanced behind Lazard the three 1st class still walking down the hall. Soon Lazard himself turned to them and said—
"1st class soldiers."
All three turned to him and looked. Lazard crossed his arms and said—
"I'd like to see you all in my office. I have a few questions for you."
"Oh no," whispered Zack to herself as they began to lead her away.
She turned her head to see Angeal look at her confused and wanting her to give the answers as to what was going on. All Zack could do was look at him with sorry eyes knowing they were headed for the worst when all her secrets were uncovered.
Hot Shot's girl: Hee hee hee, the 1st class are going to get mighty confused when they hear what Lazard has to say lol. See ya next chp bye :)