Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ A Hearts Second Chance ❯ Chapter 24 ( Chapter 24 )
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Non Anime: Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Fantasy | Type: Yaoi | Uploaded On: 06.13.2012 | Pages: 2 | Words: 3.2K | Visits: 202 | Status: Work In Progress
Non Anime: Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Fantasy | Type: Yaoi | Uploaded On: 06.13.2012 | Pages: 2 | Words: 3.2K | Visits: 202 | Status: Work In Progress
Vincent walked through the woods, slowly making his way back to the house he had hidden everyone. He had found Cid not to far north and had informed him of the situation, Cid had told him he would pick up his people and meet him at the home in three days. Vincent had then flown the helicopter up into the mountains and destroyed it, knowing that it may have a tracing device aboard. Besides, he needed the long walk to the house. Keeping his gaze on his feet, he thought about Lucrecia and the love he had felt for her at one time, knowing now that it had faded. He thought about how Sephiroth was his son, and had no idea how to create a relationship with the silver haired man. Then he thought about Lilly. He had been in shock when he had seen Lucrecia, but when he held Lilly in his arms that night his chest had constricted painfully when she had looked up at him with an emotion he feared. He knew she had some kind of feelings for him, he had just assumed that it was all hormone based, but when her loving eyes had sharpened, turning almost cold in her response to him, the pain in his chest had taken his breath away. Did she hate him now?
He was so lost in thought, not paying attention to where he was going; a loud moan froze him in place. Looking around he took a deep breath, a slight blush tinting his cheeks at the musky scent that reached him. Another moan reached his ears, this time carrying a name with it, Sephiroth. Vincent realized that the husky voice belonged to Cloud, and he knew he did not want to continue that direction. Turning he walked a wide path through the woods deciding to come up to the house from the other side. It was slow going due to his body’s involuntary reaction to the lovemaking couple.
He listened to his surroundings as he made his approach from the other side of the house. Stopping when he heard a soft gasp. His brows furrowed, he took another step forward bringing Lilly into view. She was sitting on the ground with her back against the tree not far off to his left, stepping forward he froze. With a moan, she dropped her head back against the tree with her eyes closed. She had one hand deep within her pants as the other creped up, pushing her shirt up as it rose. Vincent dropped back behind the tree he stood by, leaning against the trunk for support. Another moan met his ears causing his already hot body to harden.
Chaos stirred within him. Join her, he hissed.
Vincent couldn’t answer; he was having a hard time keeping his breathing quiet. A growl came from the woman behind him and his cock hardened further, straining against his tight pants, demanding attention. Panting he closed his eyes trying to calm his heated body. Chaos chuckled, go to her, you know you want to.
No. He whispered in his head. He had wanted to sound stern with his demon but the desire coursing through his veins tempered his voice.
Chaos whined in his head, Want to fuck her. Go to her.
Images flashed through his mind of Lilly lying on the ground her blue eyes hooded with lust as he surged into her body. With a moan, Vincent dropped to his knees, his hand already holding his weeping cock. Rubbing his thumb along the slit in the end, Chaos changed the image to Lilly running her tongue along the pink tip of his erection. Chaos chanted. Fuck her, Fuck her, Fuck her.
Grinding his teeth together, he dropped his clawed hand to the ground as he thrust his hips into his hand. Lilly’s gasps and moans fueling his raging desire as she pleasured herself.
Vincent dug his clawed hand into the ground as he felt he release approaching, then Lilly screamed his name sending a chain reaction through his body. Throwing his head back, his back arching, he poured his thick come across the ground. Dropping to his ass, he leaned back against the tree listening to Lilly pant.
Her body is still on fire, you could join her. Chaos whispered in his head. Rather than encourage him, the word acted like a splash of cold water. Gaining his feet Vincent ran from the area hoping Lilly was too far gone in her afterglow to realize he was there.
Lilly lay on the ground panting as she buttoned her pants and pulled her shirt down. Rising on shaky legs she walked back to the house wanting to shower the evidence of what she had done off her body. Climbing the stairs, she snuck into the bedroom she had been staying in, stripped her cloths from her body, and stepped into the bathroom to take a hot shower. As she stood beneath the spray, she leaned her forehead against the tiles. Her body was still aching, needing more that what she had given it. Sighing she decided she hated the Mako running through her veins. If it had not been for that blue/green shit, her body would not have been heated with a desire so strong. Sighing, she washed herself quickly, left the normally comforting spray of the shower and headed for the bedroom.
As Lilly stepped from the bathroom, she froze in place seeing Mrs. Strife sitting on the bed staring at her.
“Good afternoon.” She said.
“Good afternoon.” Lilly stuttered.
Mrs. Strife looked out the window towards the woods then said, “Lilly I need to ask you about the General and my son’s relationship.”
Lilly felt her heart skip a beat as a cold sweat covered her body. Stuttering again, she said, “Okay.”
Mrs. Strife turned her disapproving eyes on Lilly “Is their relationship General and Soldier or is it something more intimate?”
“I…I…” Lilly couldn’t come up with anything to say, she felt her cheek heat up as a blush covered her face.
“I see.” Lilly’s head snapped up to look at Mrs. Strife. She was trying desperately to keep a frown on her face but failing as a snort of laughter gave her away. Lilly’s jaw nearly hit the floor as she realized the woman did not disapprove of what her son was doing.
“You know?” Lilly asked, as she stepped forward.
“I figured it out. I knew my son liked men since the day I found him with one of his friends.” She shivered, “still gives me nightmares,” then her features turned serious, “so did the General lead my son out there to molest him.”
“Ummm.” Lilly’s blush darkened, “actually by the sounds of it Cloud molested the General.”
Smiling broadly Mrs. Strife said “Good boy,” causing Lilly to laugh as she sat beside Mrs. Strife on the bed.
“If you don’t mind me asking you look a little, how do you say, frustrated.”
Lilly moaned and dropped her head into her hands causing the woman to chuckle. “The Mako does that.”
“So it makes you horney.”
“Mama Strife.” Lilly gasped.
Laughing again “It is too bad that handsome dark-haired man is not here, I‘m sure he could use a little company.”
Mrs. Strife watched Lilly’s eyes turn sad. “I couldn‘t do that, he is in love with someone else.”
“Oh. Where is she?”
“She died many years ago.” Lilly added turning her head to look out the window. How could she compete with someone who was dead?
“Well then I don’t see a problem.” Mrs. Strife said as she rose from the bed and turned to stand in front of Lilly.
Looking up Lilly felt tears stinging her eyes, “he sees me as a trainee not as a woman.”
“I see. Do you love him?”
Lilly just nodded yes, not able to put it into words.
“Well if you can’t jump his fine ass. How do you handle the situation?”
“I usually spar with Zack or Sephiroth. Sometimes a good fight helps a lot.” Lilly said smiling.
“So either sex or a fight.” Lilly nodded, “well then how about I offer the services of my sons.”
Lilly turned pale and sputtered. “I can’t do that.”
Realizing how it was taken Mrs. Strife laughed. “No, no sweetie I mean fight with them. They are actually not half bad with training from Yuffie and Tifa.”
“Really.” Lilly’s eyes brightened.
“You may have to hold back but I’m sure you could get a good workout.” Mrs. Strife said as she turned to the door.
“Okay.” Lilly said as she rose from the bed and grabbed her swords.
“Boys.” Mrs. Strife yelled. Lilly walked out into the hall as the boys peaked their heads out of the room. “I’d like you to help Lilly here test out her strength. She’s afraid she’s weakened since the Mako poisoning.”
“Yes mother.” The boys chirped in excitement as they dashed from the room towards the front of the house. Lilly followed them at a slower pace.
Exiting the house, she saw the boys pulling wooden swords from a box on the porch. Lilly arched an eyebrow at Mrs. Strife. “I won’t let them use the real thing, not yet.”
Nodding, Lilly put down her swords and dug through the box, pulling out two sticks about the same size of her swords. For wooden sticks they were surprisingly well made. Smiling she twirled them. Then swung them expertly through the air in a series of moves to get the weight and balance right in her head as she walked into the yard with the boys. They stopped and took their battle stances at three corners around her. Twirling the sword in her left hand, he crouched holding it along her forearm. The right held back and down. “Show me what you got. It would be best if all three of you attacked.”
Yazoo looked shocked “but that is not a fair fight.”
“I know but sometimes your opponent will not fight fair and you need to adjust your way of fighting to reflect that. Now come at me.” The boys looked at each other then nodded and charged.
Coming back Sephiroth could hear the sounds of a fight from the clearing by the house. Cloud looked at him with concern so they ran towards the house. As they came into the clearing, they both stopped in their tracks. The tree boys were attacking Lilly with wooden sticks while Lilly countered their moves shouting compliments and advice.
Cloud watched as Loz raised his sword high for a strike, Kadaj went low, and Yazoo aimed for the middle. Lilly jumped twisting so her body spun between the swords landing in a crouched position beside Kadaj. “Good. But you left an opening,” she said striking him in the ribs sending him stumbling into Loz. This time only Yazoo attacked, she met his blow and twisted casing him to loose his balance.
Cloud let out a chuckle. “She looks like she’s having fun. She’s actually really good.”
“Close to my level.” Sephiroth said watching the fight. She was holding back, but not to play with them. As he watched the boys were learning, evolving, he doubted they could beat her now, but one day they would actually surpass him.
They watched Lilly block Loz from behind and Yazoo from the front with her wooden swords and just as Kadaj was about to attack she dropped to a squat letting go of the swords, rolled forward placing her behind an unbalanced Yazoo then she turned giving Yazoo a light tap in the back, sending him tumbling into Loz. They both went down with a squeak and a tangle of arms and legs. Kadaj stood frozen, sword high, staring at his brothers who were in a very compromising position. He let out a snort that turned into a hysterical laughter. Soon Lilly was joining him. Gasping she dropped to the ground on her back. The boys were smiling as they sat on the ground.
A loud thud brought Lilly to an immediate battle stance as she readied for a fight. Vincent had landed in the clearing not far from them. “What are you doing?” he growled.
She relaxed but only slightly, something was off.
“I was just sparing with the triplets,” she said deceptively calm.
“Are you an idiot? You are not experienced enough to fight someone weaker than you. You could have hurt them,” he barked.
Cloud and Sephiroth joined the group. “Vincent its fine. No one was hurt.” Cloud said. In his experience in the other world, he had never seen Vincent loose his temper like this.
“Stay out of this.” Vincent barked. Sephiroth looked like he was going to say something but Lilly held her hand up. Her eyes darkening in her anger.
“I’m sorry but I’m sure I heard you wrong. It sounded like you were trying to scold me like a teacher, but if I remember right you said I learned all I could from you. So back off.”
“What.” he growled. Lilly walked up to the dark haired gunman. Standing mere inches from him.
“I said back off,” she said in a low growl.
“How dare you,” he hissed.
“No.” she screamed. “How dare you. Standing there all high and mighty when you don’t know what I’ve been doing since you left me months ago. Why don’t you pull that stick out of your ass and loosen up, or are you still stuck on that dead chick who…” she never got to finish her statement as Vincent slapped her across the face.
Reaching up she touched the red spot and looked him in the eyes unable to believe what had just happened. After a moment she nodded, “Fine.”
Turning she looked at Mrs. Strife. “I apologize for this outburst. General Sephiroth I’ll meet you at my home when Cloud has recovered.” With that, she grabbed her swords from the porch along with her coat and walked towards the trees, her chest tightening with every step. She wanted to run so badly, but she would not give Vincent the pleasure of knowing he had hurt her.
“Lilly.” Cloud shouted.She stopped and turned “I’ll be fine. Boys you did well today, keep up the practice.” then she disappeared into the trees.
Vincent was shocked. What the hell had just happened? He had come out of the woods to see Lilly sparing with the triplets, he had even been impressed by the restraint she had shown during the fight. Then she had dropped to the ground laughing with them and a sudden, uncontrollable burst of jealousy had rushed through him. Chaos had begun beating at his head demanding he do something as he chanted ‘mine’ in his head. The next thing he remembered was striking her and the unshed tears in her eyes as she glared at him.
He heard Cloud ask, “Mom, how long will it be before I am allowed to leave?”
“Give yourself three more days than you can go.” She said quietly.
“Thank you mom,” he said with a smile. Then turned angry eyes on Vincent. “I thank you for helping in the rescue but don’t you ever go near Lilly again,” he shouted.
Vincent watched everyone go back into the house. He felt like such an ass for his behavior, he wanted to blame Chaos for the entire event, but he knew the blame rested solely on him. He wanted to rush after Lilly and apologize but he stood frozen to the ground as another unwanted emotion surged forth, fear. He was afraid she would look at him with hatred in her eyes, closing his own eyes; he tried to push away the pain in his chest.
“Vincent.” Sephiroth’s deep voice said from beside him. “You do know she is more that skilled enough to restrain herself in a fight with the boys.”
Vincent knew it was not a question but he nodded anyway. Looking over at the man, Vincent did not see hatred or anger in the cyan eyes watching him, only understanding. “Give her some time, and then go apologize for your actions. She has a big heart and I’m sure she will forgive you for what happened today.”
“Thank you.” Vincent said feeling a kind of kinship with this man, no, his son.
Sephiroth gave Vincent a rare smile and turned to the house. Stopping on the steps he looked over his shoulder at his father, if he was not mistaken he knew what the man was feeling in this moment. If the situation had been reversed and he had been watching Cloud having fun with someone else, he knew he would have reacted with the same insane jealousy. Smirking inside, Sephiroth walked into the house to see his blonde sitting at the table with his arms crossed and an angry pout on his face.
Vincent heard Cloud say, “So what the hell was that about?”
Cloud’s question was met with silence. Vincent heard the blonde huff then say, “Boys you were amazing.”
“Of course they were.” Mrs. Strife boasted, as the atmosphere in the house lightened.
“It was nothing.” Kadaj whispered.
“Don’t do that.” Sephiroth said in his no nonsense voice, “you did well. You even began to get better during your fight with Lilly.”
“Thank you,” they muttered in unison. If Vincent was in there he was sure he would be seeing them all blush from the complement.
Stepping away from the house, he started the way Lilly and stormed off them stopped.
You screwed up asshole Chaos said. Vincent didn’t bother saying anything.
Lilly dropped to her hands and knees miles from the house, sobbing she squeezed her eyes shut. She had lost her temper, possibly ruining any chance of gaining affection from the man she had grown to love. How could she have pushed him so far, she knew Lucrecia was a tender subject, but she could not stop the harsh words coming from her mouth. Dropping her head to the ground, she screamed from the pain ripping at her heart.
He was so lost in thought, not paying attention to where he was going; a loud moan froze him in place. Looking around he took a deep breath, a slight blush tinting his cheeks at the musky scent that reached him. Another moan reached his ears, this time carrying a name with it, Sephiroth. Vincent realized that the husky voice belonged to Cloud, and he knew he did not want to continue that direction. Turning he walked a wide path through the woods deciding to come up to the house from the other side. It was slow going due to his body’s involuntary reaction to the lovemaking couple.
He listened to his surroundings as he made his approach from the other side of the house. Stopping when he heard a soft gasp. His brows furrowed, he took another step forward bringing Lilly into view. She was sitting on the ground with her back against the tree not far off to his left, stepping forward he froze. With a moan, she dropped her head back against the tree with her eyes closed. She had one hand deep within her pants as the other creped up, pushing her shirt up as it rose. Vincent dropped back behind the tree he stood by, leaning against the trunk for support. Another moan met his ears causing his already hot body to harden.
Chaos stirred within him. Join her, he hissed.
Vincent couldn’t answer; he was having a hard time keeping his breathing quiet. A growl came from the woman behind him and his cock hardened further, straining against his tight pants, demanding attention. Panting he closed his eyes trying to calm his heated body. Chaos chuckled, go to her, you know you want to.
No. He whispered in his head. He had wanted to sound stern with his demon but the desire coursing through his veins tempered his voice.
Chaos whined in his head, Want to fuck her. Go to her.
Images flashed through his mind of Lilly lying on the ground her blue eyes hooded with lust as he surged into her body. With a moan, Vincent dropped to his knees, his hand already holding his weeping cock. Rubbing his thumb along the slit in the end, Chaos changed the image to Lilly running her tongue along the pink tip of his erection. Chaos chanted. Fuck her, Fuck her, Fuck her.
Grinding his teeth together, he dropped his clawed hand to the ground as he thrust his hips into his hand. Lilly’s gasps and moans fueling his raging desire as she pleasured herself.
Vincent dug his clawed hand into the ground as he felt he release approaching, then Lilly screamed his name sending a chain reaction through his body. Throwing his head back, his back arching, he poured his thick come across the ground. Dropping to his ass, he leaned back against the tree listening to Lilly pant.
Her body is still on fire, you could join her. Chaos whispered in his head. Rather than encourage him, the word acted like a splash of cold water. Gaining his feet Vincent ran from the area hoping Lilly was too far gone in her afterglow to realize he was there.
Lilly lay on the ground panting as she buttoned her pants and pulled her shirt down. Rising on shaky legs she walked back to the house wanting to shower the evidence of what she had done off her body. Climbing the stairs, she snuck into the bedroom she had been staying in, stripped her cloths from her body, and stepped into the bathroom to take a hot shower. As she stood beneath the spray, she leaned her forehead against the tiles. Her body was still aching, needing more that what she had given it. Sighing she decided she hated the Mako running through her veins. If it had not been for that blue/green shit, her body would not have been heated with a desire so strong. Sighing, she washed herself quickly, left the normally comforting spray of the shower and headed for the bedroom.
As Lilly stepped from the bathroom, she froze in place seeing Mrs. Strife sitting on the bed staring at her.
“Good afternoon.” She said.
“Good afternoon.” Lilly stuttered.
Mrs. Strife looked out the window towards the woods then said, “Lilly I need to ask you about the General and my son’s relationship.”
Lilly felt her heart skip a beat as a cold sweat covered her body. Stuttering again, she said, “Okay.”
Mrs. Strife turned her disapproving eyes on Lilly “Is their relationship General and Soldier or is it something more intimate?”
“I…I…” Lilly couldn’t come up with anything to say, she felt her cheek heat up as a blush covered her face.
“I see.” Lilly’s head snapped up to look at Mrs. Strife. She was trying desperately to keep a frown on her face but failing as a snort of laughter gave her away. Lilly’s jaw nearly hit the floor as she realized the woman did not disapprove of what her son was doing.
“You know?” Lilly asked, as she stepped forward.
“I figured it out. I knew my son liked men since the day I found him with one of his friends.” She shivered, “still gives me nightmares,” then her features turned serious, “so did the General lead my son out there to molest him.”
“Ummm.” Lilly’s blush darkened, “actually by the sounds of it Cloud molested the General.”
Smiling broadly Mrs. Strife said “Good boy,” causing Lilly to laugh as she sat beside Mrs. Strife on the bed.
“If you don’t mind me asking you look a little, how do you say, frustrated.”
Lilly moaned and dropped her head into her hands causing the woman to chuckle. “The Mako does that.”
“So it makes you horney.”
“Mama Strife.” Lilly gasped.
Laughing again “It is too bad that handsome dark-haired man is not here, I‘m sure he could use a little company.”
Mrs. Strife watched Lilly’s eyes turn sad. “I couldn‘t do that, he is in love with someone else.”
“Oh. Where is she?”
“She died many years ago.” Lilly added turning her head to look out the window. How could she compete with someone who was dead?
“Well then I don’t see a problem.” Mrs. Strife said as she rose from the bed and turned to stand in front of Lilly.
Looking up Lilly felt tears stinging her eyes, “he sees me as a trainee not as a woman.”
“I see. Do you love him?”
Lilly just nodded yes, not able to put it into words.
“Well if you can’t jump his fine ass. How do you handle the situation?”
“I usually spar with Zack or Sephiroth. Sometimes a good fight helps a lot.” Lilly said smiling.
“So either sex or a fight.” Lilly nodded, “well then how about I offer the services of my sons.”
Lilly turned pale and sputtered. “I can’t do that.”
Realizing how it was taken Mrs. Strife laughed. “No, no sweetie I mean fight with them. They are actually not half bad with training from Yuffie and Tifa.”
“Really.” Lilly’s eyes brightened.
“You may have to hold back but I’m sure you could get a good workout.” Mrs. Strife said as she turned to the door.
“Okay.” Lilly said as she rose from the bed and grabbed her swords.
“Boys.” Mrs. Strife yelled. Lilly walked out into the hall as the boys peaked their heads out of the room. “I’d like you to help Lilly here test out her strength. She’s afraid she’s weakened since the Mako poisoning.”
“Yes mother.” The boys chirped in excitement as they dashed from the room towards the front of the house. Lilly followed them at a slower pace.
Exiting the house, she saw the boys pulling wooden swords from a box on the porch. Lilly arched an eyebrow at Mrs. Strife. “I won’t let them use the real thing, not yet.”
Nodding, Lilly put down her swords and dug through the box, pulling out two sticks about the same size of her swords. For wooden sticks they were surprisingly well made. Smiling she twirled them. Then swung them expertly through the air in a series of moves to get the weight and balance right in her head as she walked into the yard with the boys. They stopped and took their battle stances at three corners around her. Twirling the sword in her left hand, he crouched holding it along her forearm. The right held back and down. “Show me what you got. It would be best if all three of you attacked.”
Yazoo looked shocked “but that is not a fair fight.”
“I know but sometimes your opponent will not fight fair and you need to adjust your way of fighting to reflect that. Now come at me.” The boys looked at each other then nodded and charged.
Coming back Sephiroth could hear the sounds of a fight from the clearing by the house. Cloud looked at him with concern so they ran towards the house. As they came into the clearing, they both stopped in their tracks. The tree boys were attacking Lilly with wooden sticks while Lilly countered their moves shouting compliments and advice.
Cloud watched as Loz raised his sword high for a strike, Kadaj went low, and Yazoo aimed for the middle. Lilly jumped twisting so her body spun between the swords landing in a crouched position beside Kadaj. “Good. But you left an opening,” she said striking him in the ribs sending him stumbling into Loz. This time only Yazoo attacked, she met his blow and twisted casing him to loose his balance.
Cloud let out a chuckle. “She looks like she’s having fun. She’s actually really good.”
“Close to my level.” Sephiroth said watching the fight. She was holding back, but not to play with them. As he watched the boys were learning, evolving, he doubted they could beat her now, but one day they would actually surpass him.
They watched Lilly block Loz from behind and Yazoo from the front with her wooden swords and just as Kadaj was about to attack she dropped to a squat letting go of the swords, rolled forward placing her behind an unbalanced Yazoo then she turned giving Yazoo a light tap in the back, sending him tumbling into Loz. They both went down with a squeak and a tangle of arms and legs. Kadaj stood frozen, sword high, staring at his brothers who were in a very compromising position. He let out a snort that turned into a hysterical laughter. Soon Lilly was joining him. Gasping she dropped to the ground on her back. The boys were smiling as they sat on the ground.
A loud thud brought Lilly to an immediate battle stance as she readied for a fight. Vincent had landed in the clearing not far from them. “What are you doing?” he growled.
She relaxed but only slightly, something was off.
“I was just sparing with the triplets,” she said deceptively calm.
“Are you an idiot? You are not experienced enough to fight someone weaker than you. You could have hurt them,” he barked.
Cloud and Sephiroth joined the group. “Vincent its fine. No one was hurt.” Cloud said. In his experience in the other world, he had never seen Vincent loose his temper like this.
“Stay out of this.” Vincent barked. Sephiroth looked like he was going to say something but Lilly held her hand up. Her eyes darkening in her anger.
“I’m sorry but I’m sure I heard you wrong. It sounded like you were trying to scold me like a teacher, but if I remember right you said I learned all I could from you. So back off.”
“What.” he growled. Lilly walked up to the dark haired gunman. Standing mere inches from him.
“I said back off,” she said in a low growl.
“How dare you,” he hissed.
“No.” she screamed. “How dare you. Standing there all high and mighty when you don’t know what I’ve been doing since you left me months ago. Why don’t you pull that stick out of your ass and loosen up, or are you still stuck on that dead chick who…” she never got to finish her statement as Vincent slapped her across the face.
Reaching up she touched the red spot and looked him in the eyes unable to believe what had just happened. After a moment she nodded, “Fine.”
Turning she looked at Mrs. Strife. “I apologize for this outburst. General Sephiroth I’ll meet you at my home when Cloud has recovered.” With that, she grabbed her swords from the porch along with her coat and walked towards the trees, her chest tightening with every step. She wanted to run so badly, but she would not give Vincent the pleasure of knowing he had hurt her.
“Lilly.” Cloud shouted.She stopped and turned “I’ll be fine. Boys you did well today, keep up the practice.” then she disappeared into the trees.
Vincent was shocked. What the hell had just happened? He had come out of the woods to see Lilly sparing with the triplets, he had even been impressed by the restraint she had shown during the fight. Then she had dropped to the ground laughing with them and a sudden, uncontrollable burst of jealousy had rushed through him. Chaos had begun beating at his head demanding he do something as he chanted ‘mine’ in his head. The next thing he remembered was striking her and the unshed tears in her eyes as she glared at him.
He heard Cloud ask, “Mom, how long will it be before I am allowed to leave?”
“Give yourself three more days than you can go.” She said quietly.
“Thank you mom,” he said with a smile. Then turned angry eyes on Vincent. “I thank you for helping in the rescue but don’t you ever go near Lilly again,” he shouted.
Vincent watched everyone go back into the house. He felt like such an ass for his behavior, he wanted to blame Chaos for the entire event, but he knew the blame rested solely on him. He wanted to rush after Lilly and apologize but he stood frozen to the ground as another unwanted emotion surged forth, fear. He was afraid she would look at him with hatred in her eyes, closing his own eyes; he tried to push away the pain in his chest.
“Vincent.” Sephiroth’s deep voice said from beside him. “You do know she is more that skilled enough to restrain herself in a fight with the boys.”
Vincent knew it was not a question but he nodded anyway. Looking over at the man, Vincent did not see hatred or anger in the cyan eyes watching him, only understanding. “Give her some time, and then go apologize for your actions. She has a big heart and I’m sure she will forgive you for what happened today.”
“Thank you.” Vincent said feeling a kind of kinship with this man, no, his son.
Sephiroth gave Vincent a rare smile and turned to the house. Stopping on the steps he looked over his shoulder at his father, if he was not mistaken he knew what the man was feeling in this moment. If the situation had been reversed and he had been watching Cloud having fun with someone else, he knew he would have reacted with the same insane jealousy. Smirking inside, Sephiroth walked into the house to see his blonde sitting at the table with his arms crossed and an angry pout on his face.
Vincent heard Cloud say, “So what the hell was that about?”
Cloud’s question was met with silence. Vincent heard the blonde huff then say, “Boys you were amazing.”
“Of course they were.” Mrs. Strife boasted, as the atmosphere in the house lightened.
“It was nothing.” Kadaj whispered.
“Don’t do that.” Sephiroth said in his no nonsense voice, “you did well. You even began to get better during your fight with Lilly.”
“Thank you,” they muttered in unison. If Vincent was in there he was sure he would be seeing them all blush from the complement.
Stepping away from the house, he started the way Lilly and stormed off them stopped.
You screwed up asshole Chaos said. Vincent didn’t bother saying anything.
Lilly dropped to her hands and knees miles from the house, sobbing she squeezed her eyes shut. She had lost her temper, possibly ruining any chance of gaining affection from the man she had grown to love. How could she have pushed him so far, she knew Lucrecia was a tender subject, but she could not stop the harsh words coming from her mouth. Dropping her head to the ground, she screamed from the pain ripping at her heart.