A/N: Lemons ahead in this chapter…in a flashback, but it'll be a lemon all the same, so do read and review would you kindly?
"How long do I have doctor?" asked Vincent with fear lacing his voice, upon hearing of his condition, "Ideally, we'd already be fortunate if you lasted almost six months," said the doctor, hesitation and reluctance clear in his eyes, "but that's assuming that things are going well as far as your condition. I don't really know—I've never worked with your case before. Geostigma, I could handle…mako poisoning, I can work with…but a case such as yours Mr. Valentine, is a case I have never seen before. But rest assured, I'm not giving up…not just yet…I'll see if there's anything else I can find that may help you. But first I'll need to take samples from you so that I can see what I can find out."
Upon seeing the hint of terror in Vincent's eyes as soon as he pulled out a syringe for drawing blood, Dr. Edwards sighed. "I know you're scared now, after reading your clinical chart, I wouldn't blame you. But I need this sample if I am going to be able to help you…I want you to see that child of yours…and to do that, I need something to help me get a hint as to what's happening."
"You may also want to lend a hand to both Reeve and Red," said Yuffie, with a dead tone in her voice, "they're both doing what they can as well. I can give you their phone numbers…just call them when you find something." Dr. Edwards knew that tone…he hated to do this, but it was his responsibility as a physician to break the news to the patient and their family be it good or ill. "Would you like some time with your husband alone Mrs. Valentine?"
She didn't answer for a bit…she didn't know. "Yes."
Dr. Edwards understood. "I'll give you two a moment while I find that syringe." With that, he opened the door as Vincent looked at the doorway as the doctor left the room, closing the door behind him. He then focused his attention on Yuffie.
"Are you all right Yuffie?"
She was shaking in sadness…but she was trying not to show Vincent how much it was affecting her. "Yeah Vince…I'm fine…it's just…"
"Yuffie?"
The tears had finally broken through the dam…she just couldn't take it anymore. "It's not fair…IT'S NOT FAIR! I only get you by my side for two years…TWO YEARS! We were supposed to be happy for the rest of our lives! I thought you'd finally get a break—that fate would be kind enough to give you more time for happiness after all you've been through…and now…now, OF ALL TIMES, when we're about to be parents, this has to happen! And it seems that everyone I love or care about tends to leave me…first my mom, then Aeris, Shalua, and now you're leaving me too…why does it have to be you Vince? Couldn't life throw you a bone for once?"
"I'm guessing that my symptoms have had something to do with Chaos leaving my body…I've had him in my body for so long that it has added his DNA to my genetics, and he had been making it stronger for a long time…and now, after a while of trying to compensate, my body cannot compensate any longer for the loss of Chaos—it's rejecting itself to death; similar to a withdrawal syndrome."
"Did you know this would happen?"
"No, I only guessed just now that this was possible. I had my doubts that I was completely free of Chaos' hold on me, I just never thought he would be taking me away from you. Yuffie, I'd ask you to love me, but instead I deserve to be hated for doing this to you…knowingly or not, I've put you in a bad spot, and that is unforgivable."
There was a bit of anger in her tone, but she softened herself immediately. "No Vincent…don't blame yourself. If you love me, then don't even think those words. Please…don't do this to yourself…not when I've saved you from that fate. I'll always love you, no matter what happens."
"But Yuffie…the baby…"
"I'll manage—she'll be your gift to me to remember you by. I want her to know what sort of man her father was…to understand that she will be loved even while you're waiting for us at the Lifestream."
"What are you going to do Yuffie?"
Yuffie's frown turned upside-down with a hint of mischief in it…but even then, Vincent could see the sadness in those coffee-colored eyes of hers. "I don't want to see you frowning anymore Vincent…so I'm going to make the last few months of your life the best you'll ever have. And I know what you're thinking mister…you're not going to help me…you're getting your beauty rest and you're going to enjoy it!"
Vincent simply smiled…he knew that once Yuffie set her mind to doing something, there was no stopping her…although she did also sneak a Sleep materia into her purse, and cast the spell on him. As he slept, he dreamed of the moment that they first confirmed their love—that they first revealed to each other how much they loved each other…
Flashback…roughly four or five years ago…Northern Crater…
Vincent and Yuffie had been traversing the underground catacombs that were under the crater for the past day or so now. When they had jumped into the Lifestream with everyone else, they were thrown in the wrong spot and found themselves lost. "You think we're ever going to make it out of these caves Vinnie?" asked Yuffie, the tone of her voice sounding hopeless, "I won't lie to you Yuffie, the prospects of escaping now are bleak at best," he stated, "but I wouldn't give up just yet. I smell fresh air—which means that there is an exit somewhere in this cave. I won't let you die here…not when you have such a long life ahead of you."
She then looked to Vincent in order to argue, but she felt nothing leaving her throat upon seeing something…she rubbed her eyes, and found that what she was seeing was not an illusion! It was light! They now had a reference point as to where they were! The two of them ran forward, toward the source of the light, and found themselves standing in a naturally-formed underground chamber in the surrounding a pillar of glowing bluish-green light that could only be the Lifestream. There were no exits around…just a hole in the ceiling where the Lifestream was flowing upwards…no, they can't go back…there was nothing back there that they could leave through…when she turned her head, she saw Vincent standing there—he was looking upwards. What was up there that he saw?
The drop in his shoulders told her what she needed to know…there was no other way out. "Can't we just jump into the Lifestream again?"
Once he turned to look her in the eyes, she saw the despair in them. "The Lifestream can have mutagenic effects if you find yourself exposed to it for long periods of time. If you're lucky, it'll kill you before you mutate into a monster or worse…we were lucky enough to have gotten out with nothing happening to our bodies whatsoever, but if we jump into it again, there's no guarantee that we'll be lucky again."
The tears in her eyes had already burst out…they were going to live here for all eternity. She could not help but to run up to him and grab him in a hug that would normally break a person's ribs, which he reciprocated with a gentle caress using his claw as she sobbed into that denim shirt of his. She let out her sadness and her despair out upon him. "Vinnie, I don't want to die yet…I…I just…"
He sighed as he stroked each strand of hair on her head gently as he felt the spasms of her sobbing with his right hand. The electricity he felt when she made contact with him had been surging around his abdominal area where she was grabbing him so tightly. "Shh…shh…don't worry…don't be scared…"
Vincent's comforting words were cut to a stop when he saw Yuffie quickly climbing up his leg and squeezing his face to hers in a passionate kiss while she locked her legs around his body. She tasted sweet…much like those peaches he so enjoyed in his youth back at Wutai…only this peachy taste was laced with the drugs known as passion, innocence, and love which mixed into the most potent of all drugs—purity…oh he was getting addicted. He was getting so addicted that he reciprocated by pulling Yuffie's head closer to his to match with the movements of her tongue…he so enjoyed the taste of purity that Yuffie put in his mouth that he didn't notice that she had shifted her weight onto his chest, and pushed him backward before breaking the kiss and sitting astride his arms and panting over him. "I don't want to die a virgin Vinnie…I want to at least feel what it's like to love before I go…"
The look on his face was enough to tell her that he was about to protest, and he had good reason to. "To hell with the law! To hell what everyone else thinks if they find out! To hell that I'm going to be punished for losing my first time to you! I don't care…I…I only want you Vincent…only you…and don't even think of trying to get out of this by lying to me! What, you didn't think I noticed the way you looked at me?! How I feel your heartbeat increasing while I'm touching you? Or even the way you seem to take comfort around me?! If you're trying to save me from falling in love with you, you're too late! I already love you…I think I've fallen head-over-heels for you when I first met you…I just never realized that up until now."
"Yuffie, do you even know what you are asking of me? Do you realize that if you do this, and it is discovered that you have been deflowered, you would also be punished for allowing this? I love you, but I cannot have you…I am too old and too burdened with sin to deserve you. I…" His protest was cut short when Yuffie kissed him again…this time with even more ferocity behind it…and it was very close to breaking his resistance. The motions of her tongue were circular, and it forced his tongue to dance along…he had become helpless to her…she would have him, no matter what anyone else says. "I know what I'm asking of you," she said, after breaking the kiss again, "and I'm well aware of the consequences if people find out. But like I said, I could care less if you were a thousand years older than me…I could care less that my father would be angry with you…all I care about is you Vincent…"
"Are you sure Yuffie? For once we start this, there is no going back…you will no longer be a girl, but you will be a woman; and once you become a woman, you must hold to the responsibilities of one. If your father finds out about this, if he finds out about us, there is a good chance that you could die at his hands—and I do not wish that of anyone…not upon you, and most definitely not upon him. Are you willing to risk having to live in the shadows in front of your own father just to bed me? Do you want to risk forcing your father to execute you for this?"
Yuffie knew what he was talking about, and saw the genuine concern in both his voice and his eyes as she started taking off the cloth covering over her left arm and then following through with the fishnet armlets and fingerless leather gloves before she started to release the buckles on Vincent's cape ever-so-slowly. In Wutainese law, a peasant deflowering the princess will be met with torture for both parties involved…the consequence of raping the princess on the other hand is only forgiving to the princess in question but the perpetrator would be tortured even worse than if the contact was consensual. As soon as she reached the collar of his denim shirt, she hooked her hand inwards and pulled herself up to his left ear…whispering in an oh-so-slow and sultry voice, four words: "I'll deal with it." With that said, and in one quick motion, she unbuttoned his shirt all the way up to where her legs and his chest met while sitting up ramrod straight and then moving quickly to take off her green turtleneck to reveal her size 38A breasts held up by a clasped one-piece bra—they were small now, but if she gets older and the rate keeps up as it is, she would probably grow into a size 36B at least.
She wasted no time in her movements—she saw her chance to strike; Vincent was fast and a damn better shot than her, but it would seem that his time in that coffin had made him slower, and so Yuffie had no problems placing her hands on his chest, and then sliding her entire body along the scars crisscrossing his well-muscled body, before he had a chance to push her back with both of his hands, and pulling his mouth to hers in order to kiss him again. There was no more escape now…no more resistance…no more protest…no more hesitation…she had smashed through all his barriers, and from the way he froze the second she locked lips with him, she knew it! She now had power over him, the great Vincent Valentine, the man who befriended her parents…the man she loved…and will love forever if they live through this.
As Vincent's tongue danced around with Yuffie's once more, he realized that resistance was futile—she had blown away all barriers he had surrounding himself, and so she was going to have him on this day one way or another…she was resolute in proving her love to him, and she would not take no for an answer. He allowed instinct to take over when he slowly relaxed into her motions, slowly landing his hands on the small of her back, and then running them in around in gentle circles as her body rose and fell while she continued to kiss him. He then found his way to the clasp of her bra, and opened it before running his hand down and across her short shorts to rub her ass, and then spank her gently, eliciting a yelp of both surprise and pleasure from her that drowned in his throat upon contact before she broke the kiss, and started moving backwards to continue unbuttoning his shirt. The next target for her sensual assault was his throat as she started planting a hickey on his neck…the only thing he could do now was to lock her head onto that spot—because he didn't want it to stop!
Yuffie then continued her assault with moving downwards on his body with her tongue—tracing over each scar and bulge of muscle on Vincent's body. He thought that they made him ugly (he told her himself once when she caught him accidentally taking a bath under a waterfall), but to her, when combined with the catlike frame that distinguished the Wutainese from the rest of the people of the world, made him look like a tiger. She wasted no time in unbuckling his belt, releasing the button and unzipping his leather pants. From what she saw under that red pair of boxer shorts he wore, he was not too big, and not too small, but the perfect size for a man of his height and body type…and he wasn't even completely hard yet! It was clear to her that this was her next target as she found herself putting her mouth over the g-string of his boxers, and pulled his cock out of them using her teeth…before targeting his scrotum with a single pull, moving her tongue up and down his cock and then engulfing the thing in her mouth while stroking it with her tongue—it was then after ten seconds of stroking that he let out a moan as his first release down her throat.
It was then that she slid and laid back with her legs spread out…nervousness was electrifying her spine…she had heard from her friends back in Wutai once or twice about losing their virginities, and wondered if it hurt as much as they said. And that look in Vincent's eyes as he slowly removed her shorts increased the feeling of nervousness in her spine…they were a filled with a sort of hungry look in them, mixed in something else she couldn't identify. Oh she was sweating in fear all right…sweating so much that she placed her sneaker on his bare chest. "Wait…Vince…you'll be gentle…right?"
Upon seeing that moment of hesitation in her eyes, he froze momentarily…he just remembered—Yuffie was a virgin…he couldn't take her the way he did with his previous one-nighters. It was then that he started moving the shorts back up her legs before she spread her legs apart and kicked both arms apart gently. "I was only asking because…I never did it before…and I heard from my friends that it was gonna hurt…"
"I'm not going to lie to you Yuffie, it is in fact going to hurt…or so I've heard. To be honest with you, this is the first time I'm doing this with a virgin…"
"But you have done this before right?"
"If you want to stop here, then we will. I'm so sorry it's just…"
"No, it's not that…it's just that I'm nervous, this being my first time and all. But maybe you can show me how it's supposed to feel."
Vincent smiled slightly this time…this was the first time she had seen this, and it made her feel good. Whether it was because this smile was sincere, or because it simply turned her on, she didn't know. "Since this is your first time ever," he began, running his right hand through her hair, touching her ear, and then caressing her cheek I will not let you regret it…but first…to pay you back for torturing me with those oh-so-delicious, peach-flavored kisses of yours oh White Rose of Wutai." She received no warning as he paid her back for her hickey on his neck by devouring hers while using his clawed digits to slowly run down the middle of her breasts, and then creeping them under her white underwear speckled with pink sakura petals before using his middle claw to touch her clit and rub it gently ten times, eliciting a moan from her throat from each full rotation before he slid three of them into her nether lips and causing a pleasured yelp to escape her mouth. The frequency of her panting increased while Vincent moved his fingers in and out of her at the same rate, until he felt a sudden sensation of moisture seeping through the silk covering under his claw with a grunt coming out of her—she came. The next thing to come off after he broke the hickey was her soaked pair of underwear as he moved on in to land a passionate kiss on her mouth before he licked down her chin, followed through with her neck, and then stopped at her left breast to tease that hardened nipple with his tongue, then moved back up to kiss her in the mouth again, before repeating that motion again with her right breast, causing her pleasure to increase as he teased both nipples one at a time with each repetition of the kiss in her mouth…afterwards, he felt it time to move even lower, and so after another kiss in her mouth, he moved his tongue back down her neck, between her breasts, down her belly, and then began teasing her clit with his tongue—she was getting close to coming again, and as soon as he shoved that tongue of his into her pussy, she locked her legs around his head, and then came hard in his mouth before the orgasm weakened her legs.
Yuffie could not believe it…two times she got wet, and from the looks of things, the best was saved for last as Vincent got back up on his knees, and fitted his manhood into her pussy before lifting her hips up with both hands on her ass. "I'm going to do this quickly so that you have more time to adjust," he said, "are you ready?" Yuffie was too weak to respond…she could only nod in approval only to have her face contorted in pain as she let out a pained moan that caused her to sit up ramrod straight as she looked up into the ceiling with her mouth open while Vincent's hands moved up the small of her back quickly to catch her before she fell back down.
The second Yuffie had become quiet Vincent moved one of his hands to have her head face him. "I'm sorry Yuffie…there was no other way…" Before he could say anymore, Yuffie finally found the strength to reach Vincent's neck from the back and shush him with the index finger of the other hand. "You made this as painless as you possibly could…and I'm adjusting to you now…just please, take me…help me forget the pain of knowing we're going to die."
His smile this time was a sad one…she knew what his fear was…that this moment would become a dream…for if anybody found out the truth it would be the death of both of them…she knew this because this was her fear as well. "I'll take this slowly for now." When those words left his mouth, he kept his promise…his movements were all slow and deliberate…they were gentle so as to avoid causing pain. Yuffie felt the motion within her pumping in and out as she grabbed onto his shoulder while bucking her hips in rhythm with his ministrations…at first, she felt apprehensive about there being more pain, but in actuality, she found that she wanted this pain in the first place, especially when it felt so good afterwards.
"Faster Vincent!"
The motions got slightly faster with his ministrations…although the brief look of wonder on his face was in fact fun for her at the moment…
"Faster!"
He complied…his motions gradually increased…she was getting near…and the gyration of her hips had increased the likelihood of firing off another load into her before she continued to get pounded at high speed.
"Please Vinnie, oh please…harder!"
The pounding had increased in strength so that tapping could be heard.
"Please Vincent, I'm so close…I want to come with you…let me take you to heaven…I want you to go even harder!"
The speed and strength of his ministrations had increased to the point that the gentle loving that Vincent had been giving was replaced with a jackhammer. It was getting to that point…no, it was too late! Yuffie gripped Vincent in a bone-crushing embrace and locked her legs around his hips while Vincent held on tight.
"VIIIIINNNNNIIIIIEEEEE!"
The two of them came at the same time…it was a feeling that neither would forget. Their love for each other had been confirmed with that one moment as Vincent pulled out after firing his last spurt, and the two of them fell backwards with weariness overtaking them momentarily. Their bodies drenched in sweat, they were weakened at the moment. As Yuffie lay there on the ground, she began to sort out her feelings at the moment—and at the moment, she settled upon contentment…that is until she looked on at Vincent's member, she noted that it was still hard…and then she saw him sit back up that her feelings of desire made her flip over, and then get up on all fours, shaking her behind to Vincent as she spread her nether lips while looking at him.
Her voice was weakened, but the sexiness was still there…and the desire was very much clear in her tone. "Care to go another round?"
She noted the slight blush on Vincent's normally stoic face. Upon hearing those words coming from her mouth, Vincent simply crawled on over, and positioned himself in the doggy position while bending forward to Yuffie's ear. "Only if you're ready." Yuffie decided to silence that cheeky mouth of his by pulling his head into a kiss with her, letting out a moan of pleasure as he penetrated her again, this time, the ministrations were coming from behind as Vincent moved his hands from Yuffie's hips, and then firmly grabbed her breasts gently so that his claw did not scratch her as he massaged them oh-so-slow and torturous rate in rhythm with each moment that she bucked her hips into his ministrations. Eventually, Vincent broke the kiss, and planted a hickey on the other side of Yuffie's neck while the two of them increased the rate of their motions…oh they were getting so close! The final thrust shot out two hard spurts of cum into Yuffie as she let out a pleasured "OH LEVIATHAN!" as the two of them came in sync this time before they fell forward with Vincent kissing Yuffie's jawbone, before moving back down her neck, and then finally ending at her shoulder and then the two of them blacked out…before Yuffie let out a soft "I love you Vinnie", which he heard, but was too tired to respond, to reciprocate, to say "I love you too Yuffie".
When the two of them woke up, they found themselves in the ruins of an inn…overlooking Midgar. They wasted no time in calling Cid to tell them where they were so that he could pick them up. Yuffie was the first to leave the room, and Vincent moved to follow, but he paused when he felt something behind him. He turned to see a very familiar person behind him—she wore a red-colored version of the kimono that all the empresses wore, and even her stance was very regal while the golden chopsticks in her ebon hair shimmered like a halo around her head. Upon looking closer at the person who was looking back at him with a smile, he realized who this person was. It was strange to be seeing her, but then again, it shouldn't be surprising considering that he was dead before. It was clear to him even before he learned of her surname where Yuffie got her beauty from…it was like looking at her almost ten or twenty years from now.
"Vincent, please take care of Yuffie."
"Don't worry Michiko…I'll make sure of it. And I'll make sure that Godo does the same."
Kisaragi Michiko giggled lightly—that was another thing that Yuffie seemed to have inherited from her mother in addition to her beauty. "I know you will…by the way, your mom says hi, and that she'll be waiting for you in the Lifestream with your father."
"Please give her my regards."
Michiko bowed before Vincent before she dissipated before his very eyes—that was the last time that Vincent ever saw his old friend and Yuffie's mother…
Present time…
When Vincent awoke, he found a clipboard holding a lined sheet of paper with a yellow sticky-note posted on it laying right there on his lap and with Yuffie nowhere in sight. He then read the note on the cover of the lined sheet of paper.
"Vincent,
Sorry I couldn't find anything for you to do…but I tell you what…write down on this piece of paper all the things you wanted to do before you die. Don't just put anything light on that list so that you humor me :(—put something that you actually wanted to do, something really exciting. Won't this be fun? Ah yes, before I forget, the doctor said that you'll probably be needing a wheelchair as you'll most likely be weakened, and Cid said he's in on this.
Love,
Yuffie"
Vincent sighed…he felt happy inside that he had friends that cared. But what made him really happy were the antics of his wife…even though outwardly in the past he had never laughed at her, but inwardly, he was doing so—she made him happy even before their first hot moment, he just didn't know how to tell her until they said their vows to each other in front of Godo…well, he'd better get started on that list…
A/N: Oh man, the first lemon while making it the longest one yet, but I promise you, after this chapter, we'll be adding more romance in the past while Yuffie does what she can to make the last five or six months of Vincent's life the happiest she can. The list idea was taken from the movie "The Bucket List" starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson…a rather touching movie actually.
Songs Played:
"The Real Folk Blues" by "Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts": Lemon scene, and yes, I think that song is always good for a sex scene.