Chapter 8: The Nibelheim Project
Cloud woke up to comfort. He snuggled further in the warmth as he was encapsulated in a soft down comforter. It smelled like the way he thought home would smell. He burrowed further towards that scent. His eyes slowly fluttered open, sighing as he snuggled closer into the pillow. He wasn't in his bed. It didn't feel like a hotel bed either. He rolled over, looking around at the room. The comforter was black, the room nondescript besides the dark furniture and tidy desk in the corner.
He knit his eyebrows as he pushed out of the warmth, feet hitting the floor as he stretched. He looked down to see he was in a t-shirt and boxers as he scratched at his blond spikes. Where had he been last night? Out with Reno...but what had happened? His mind flashed to being scooped into strong arms...cradled against a strong chest.
"Sephiroth…" he remembered finally, padding down the hall, blue eyes wide as he saw the General standing in his immaculate kitchen.
Cat like eyes glanced up at him when he spoke, and he squirmed at seeing the appraising look he gave his bare legs. "Cloud," Sephiroth greeted back. "I hope you're hungry."
Cloud opened his mouth to respond to such a statement, before closing it again as he realized that Sephiroth was currently stirring mixture in a bowl. "Are you making pancakes?"
"Yes?" Sephiroth asked, brow arched at the questioning tone. "Is that against the rules?"
"I…" Cloud started, shutting his mouth again as he tried to think of how to word this. "It's just...I never really imagined you as the pancake making type."
"Oh?" the SOLDIER questioned. "And what type am I, little Omega?"
He dared to step closer, feeling like he was playing with fire as he came over to the island Sephiroth was working. "I don't know. I guess I've never thought of you eating at all. I don't think I've ever thought of you as a person." Sephiroth's amused eyes immediately narrowed and turned guarded, chin setting in a hard line, and Cloud knew he had made a mistake. "That's not what I meant!" he tried, but Sephiroth had already turned away from him and towards the stove.
How often must that have happened? Sephiroth, who was the glimmering symbol of good and strength in this world had to always maintain an aura of perfection. Of immortality. Heaven forbid he be allowed to eat, sleep, or even piss. "You should get dressed for your training. You can choose whether or not to eat after."
Guilt ate at him at the cold tone, and Cloud found his feet moving without really thinking about it as he came into the kitchen and grabbed Sephiroth's arm. He was more bold than he probably would have been if he had time to think about his own mortality. "Hey, I didn't mean it like that." Sephiroth glowered down at him, but he ignored the look of distaste at his boldness, keeping hold of that forearm. "I kept posters of you on my walls," he tried to explain, smiling at him. "It's just weird to think that you're making me breakfast."
Sephiroth's eyes flickered across his face, searching for a lie, before slightly relaxing. "All the things that have been happening to you lately, and me making breakfast is what truly has you unbelieving?" he questioned, sounding actually curious.
"Well," Cloud surmised. "I guess this is something I can actually get some answers on. Me being a genetically impossible Alpha cum vessel isn't really something I can control." Eerie green eyes widened at the statement, and Cloud actually laughed as an almost pink tinge trailed down the General of Shinra's nose. "Are you blushing?"
"Alpha cum vessel?" Sephiroth questioned slowly, and Cloud's grin widened.
"Well...kind of…" It was his turn to blush as he realized he was going to have to explain himself. "My body does this thing…" he shakily laughed. "Wow, I should really have never started talking."
"Cloud," he started, voice low and dark. "What does your body do?"
Cloud's mouth set in a firm line as he realized just what he had done. "This is a dangerous situation. I need to get to class." What the hell was he doing here? What was he doing to Zack by playing this game? Had he really just slept in Sephiroth's bed? Why did it feel so right to be here? Why was he flirting when he knew what the result would be?
"Do you?" Sephiroth questioned, moving in front of him and blocking his way.
"Move," Cloud tried, eyes glued to the ground.
"Or what?" Sephiroth questioned, grabbing his chin as he dragged his eyes up towards him. Sephiroth was in black workout pants and a black sweater. He was probably the most normal he had ever seen him. It felt even more like betrayal.
"Zack's your friend," he tried to stress, trying to get through to him why this was dangerous.
"I know," Sephiroth assured him. "Why do you think your neck isn't bleeding right now?" he asked. "Why do you think I'm not currently buried in what you so eloquently described as an Alpha cum vessel?"
"They were a poor choice of words," Cloud conceded. "It doesn't change the fact that I'm his."
Sephiroth let out a low growl, and Cloud's knees buckled as his eyes glazed slightly. The Alpha took full advantage as he grabbed for the blond, spinning him around and slamming him up against the counter.
Cloud gasped as his spikes were grabbed, Sephiroth yanking on his neck as he leaned down into his ear. "You are not his." Sephiroth's scent surrounded him as his body reacted, leaning back against him as his stomach began to cramp, feeling a wetness slide down his legs.
"Seph…" he managed, voice half a moan. "Don't...Please…" he managed, not knowing why he was bothering begging as his hands trailed down those strong hips.
"But this is what you want, right?" Sephiroth questioned, one hand on Cloud's hip, while the other pushed down the back of his boxers. "A fantasy," Cloud cried out as two fingers pressed inside of him, wetness pouring onto the SOLDIER's palm.
Cloud reached back, hand wrapping around Sephiroth's neck as he pulled the other closer as his cock strained inside his wet boxers. "Seph…" he managed again. "You're not just a...gods you're not just a fantasy."
Sephiroth pushed in a third finger, and Cloud screamed as they spread. He fucked himself back on those long fingers, not understanding why he was letting this happen. Not understanding why it turned him on so much being manhandled by the Alpha.
"I must admit," Sephiroth breathed into his ear. "I was curious as to what happens when he's inside you...why you called yourself that."
Another finger slipped inside, and Cloud collapsed forward onto the counter, moaning uncontrollably as slick leaked down his leg. His cock oozed precum. He clenched around those fingers, going to push up, only to grunt as he was shoved back onto the counter, fingers pumping in and out.
A hand on his head kept his cheek pressed down onto the counter as he cried out as he felt his orgasm approaching. He screamed as a thumb slipped in, and Sephiroth's hand slid in to the wrist. He came almost instantly, cock spurting in his boxers as his body convulsed, spasming around that wrist as he tried to milk what Sephiroth hadn't even given him. Tears blurred his eyes as pleasure overwhelmed him, keening as that hand pulled out, and his body continued to spasm.
He felt like a boneless mass as his body was sedated after his orgasm, panting against the counter Sephiroth had just been making pancakes on. Sephiroth pulled away from him, and bleery blue eyes turned slightly to track his movements.
The General's eyes were green and glowing as he walked back over, hand dripping with his essence as he came back behind him. He was a boneless mass as an arm wrapped around his waist, yanking him up and back against a strong chest as those messy fingers pushed into his mouth.
He tasted his arousal, and the flavor of Sephiroth's skin as he obeyed and sucked those fingers clean. He turned his eyes to the side, trying not to shiver at the sharp teeth revealed to him or those glowing Alpha eyes. "I feel like we should get something straight about what's going on between us, don't you?"
Sephiroth pulled his fingers out, not hesitating in leaning down and letting his mouth latch onto the scent gland in his neck, sucking hard as Cloud whined, pressing almost desperately back against him. He struggled to get his hand into that long silver hair as Sephiroth sucked, entrance convulsing with want as he rubbed almost desperately against the rock hard cock.
"Please...please…" he was begging for an entirely different reason now, not able to think about anything other than how much he wanted filled, getting the front of Sephiroth's pants wet with his own need. "Alpha.." he begged, trying to use the commanding whine he had with Zack, but the command didn't come out, only subjugation. "Alpha…" He had scratched Zack's face off when he came near his neck, and yet Sephiroth had latched on at this point, and he was close to begging to be bit.
Sephiroth pulled up only enough to once more press his mouth against his ear. "You are unique. You are so utterly unique it makes me crazy." He bit at the shell. "And do you know what, my little Omega? I am going to have you. I am going to breed you over and over again until you don't know where you start and my cock ends. I am going to drag you to the edge of insanity, and hear you beg for it because you know you can't live without me." He kissed his cheek almost reverently, petting his sweaty locks. "I'm going to make you love me."
A keycard was shoved into his mouth then as Sephiroth pulled away, leaving Cloud to once more collapse onto the counter. "That's my key. When the itch gets too much for Zachary to scratch, feel free to use it." Sephiroth grabbed a bag off the ground, heading to the door. "Feel free to finish making yourself breakfast. I'll see you in training." It was only after the door slammed that Cloud allowed himself to collapse to the ground.
Genesis watched Sephiroth suspiciously as his friend poured over the lab results spread over his desk. "You look different."
"You look annoying," Sephiroth managed, not looking up from his work.
The auburn haired SOLDIER shrugged off the insult, moving closer to examine some of the vials they had taken from the bunker in Wutaii. "How much are you going to pull the thread, Seph?"
Green eyes glanced up towards him, eyebrow arching in expectedness. When Genesis didn't continue, he gave a sigh. "What thread?"
"The one that leads to the truth about that cadet," Genesis replied. "Listen. This whole situation...an Omega...something to make our lives a little less like hell. Do you believe it?"
"Lives?" Sephiroth questioned, and Genesis heard the warning behind the words. "He's not to share."
"Isn't he?" he questioned, knowing he was in dangerous territory, but someone had to bring up the fact that the General of Shinra, their pack leader, was trailing after a cadet that belonged to someone else.
"Careful," Sephiroth warned, and Genesis knew he was the only one that would ever challenge him on this.
"Could say the same to you," he retorted. "What's your endgame? You find out what Hojo did. You find out that he created this other thing that can seduce SOLDIERs, and then what? Is it just to sate your curiosity?"
Sephiroth stopped what he was doing, leaning back to watch him. "Hojo? Did you tell him about Cloud?"
"Do you think I really had to?" Genesis shot back, disgusted with the accusation. "Do you actually think this hasn't been his idea all along. He lives to fuck with us."
"What did you do?" Sephiroth questioned.
"He lives to fuck with you!" Genesis spat back, ignoring the accusation. "Yeah, he asked me to watch over him, and why do you think that is?" the SOLDIER asked. "He's playing you!"
"Hojo?" Sephiroth questioned, and Genesis growled in frustration as his temper boiled over.
"Cloud!" he snapped. "He's playing both you and Zack. How could he not know?" he questioned. "How could he not know what he was before he went into goddamn heat!?"
Sephiroth watched him, and Genesis swallowed against the nervousness he was feeling over angering the most powerful human on the planet. ...If they were human anymore. "What did Hojo tell you?"
Genesis sighed in resignation. "That I had to!" he finally relented. "He said that if I protected him I could have one when they got it right." he gestured in frustration. "Because Gaia only knows that his perfect Alpha pet would get dibs on the first." he smiled sardonically. "But it didn't go that way, did it? Cause Zack's in love with him, and Zack is your best friend." He rolled his eyes. "Maybe you'll get one when they're perfected too."
"You agreed to be Hojo's lackey to get a sex toy?" Sephiroth questioned in disgust, eyes hard with anger. "Have you sunk no lower, Genesis?"
"It seemed entertaining at the time," he managed, defending himself with a shrug. "Besides, I'm obviously telling you for a reason." he rolled his eyes. "The blond puppy is..infectious."
Sephiroth watched him, and Genesis held his breath as he expected the attack to come. Instead, all the General said was, "He's certainly something."
"Don't get me wrong," Genesis stated. "I don't want to fuck him. I'm not you and Zack, but I also don't want to do whatever it is Hojo has planned for him."
"So you're telling me," Sephiroth surmised, and Genesis was once more relieved that his friend was a genius.
"Yeah," Genesis agreed. "What are we going to do about it?" He had watched Sephiroth teach the class for the cadet hopefuls today. He had seen the way he couldn't take his eyes off the Omega. He had also seen the scarf Cloud was wearing around his neck. It was dangerous, this game they were playing. Zack and Sephiroth were going to get hurt because of Hojo. In truth, they probably already were. He had never wanted to betray his own kind. He had just wanted for one second to feel less lonely. He just wanted his Goddess, his other half.
Sephiroth sighed, letting his shoulders sink a little in thought. "We talk to Zack first." Genesis rose an eyebrow at that, not knowing the logic behind that statement. "We tell him what we know about Cloud. We tell him what we know about Wutaii."
"Yeah?" the SOLDIER questioned. "Then what?" Sephiroth handed over a file, and Genesis' amber eyes narrowed in on the project name on the side. "The Nibelheim Project?" he asked, not understanding.
"It's Cloud's hometown," Sephiroth stated knowingly.
"What's Shinra hiding in a small hick town in the mountains?" he questioned, opening up the file as almost every word was redacted.
"Exactly," the SOLDIER agreed. "We can't leave for it now. I'd imagine with everything being put in place that there are eyes on us. But soon."
"Are you going to tell Cloud?" Genesis asked, flipping through the redacted pages.
"No," Sephiroth said without hesitation. "Not until we finish pulling the string, and really see how far this goes."
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