Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ Family ❯ Damage ( Chapter 9 )

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Family
Pairings: Sephiroth/Cloud
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Chapter 9: Damage

The test subject known as Cloud Strife hasbeen showing signs of fatigue and weight loss….extreme weight loss. However, due to his current condition, Cadet Strife'sappetite has also increaseddramatically.I suggest waiting a while longer before taking any measures.

After carefully reviewing 1stClass SOLDIER' Zack'smedicaland recent annual check-up files, I see no reason to terminate the pregnancy.He seems a fine, outstandingyoungman.

Butfrom the report givento me by my colleague, Professor Hojo, Zack's role as the unborn fetus's sire is under quite a debate….

“Father?”

Professor Gast paused in his writing when his daughter called his name. He closed the file, and pushed his pen back into the top pocket of his lab coat.

“Aerith, I didn't hear you come in,” he said smiling at her.

“Zack just dropped me off from our date,” she said, going up to her father and giving him a hug.

The smile instantly dropped from his weather beaten face. Zack? Surely not the same one he had just been writing a report about? Why would his daughter be out on a date with him?

“I thought you were going out with that dark haired fellow… the one with combed back spikes,” he said, a little confused.

“Oh, Daddy, that is Zack,” Aerith laughed, ignoring the look on her father's face. “Anyway, I brought you something to eat, since I know you won't have left your office while I was out. And you must be starving by now.”

Noticing the tray of food she carried for the first time, Gast blushed at not having relieved his pride and joy of her burden earlier. Quickly taking the tray from her hands, Gast placed the food on a corner table.

Helping himself to the delicious fruits, bread, and cheese that she had so thoughtfully brought for him, Gast sat down behind his desk once more.

“Daddy?”

“Hmm?”

“Zack is worried about Cloud, and so am I.”

She was gazing up at him, a concerned look marring her pretty features. Her little fingers fidgeted in her lap, pleating and re-pleating the fabric of her dress. She obviously had something on her mind.

Putting his cup of tea on his desk, Gast waited patiently for his only child to continue.

“Cloud is becoming quite defensive, and since Sephiroth's been gone, he's been acting like a lost child. One minute Cloud's fine and normal, then the next he's either trying to harm someone, or he's crying a river of tears,” Aerith explained.

“And I know you, Daddy,” she rushed on. “You know something about Cloud that you're not telling, and as his friend, I want to know what is wrong with him?” she demanded.

“Cloud is fine, my dear,” he said, trying to placate her.

Although, he thought privately to himself, Imust admit, what you are telling me comes as a surprise. Moodswings he thought with a sigh. There was no way to keep those under wraps. But then he thought back to what else his daughter had just told him.

“You mentioned Sephiroth? As in our General?”

Nodding, Aerith replied, “Who else do you know with the same name?”

“What does the General have to do with Cloud acting the way that he is?” Gast asked, surprised to see a blush spreading across his daughter's face at his question.

The color red was not a good one on Aerith, her father decided, watching as her face changed from various shades of the hue. “Well?” he prompted her.

“Cloud and Sephiroth are… they're… you know…” Aerith stumbled to answer, but couldn't bring herself to do so, her fingers tightening their grasp upon her dress, as she squirmed under her father's glare with embarrassment.

“They're what, Honey?” Gast asked with a puzzled look on his face. He wasn't sure what his daughter was trying to tell him.

“They're….. lovers,” she whispered, lowering her burning face from his view.

Although he had to strain to hear her, the meaning of the words she uttered was as loud as could be, and the mental clogs in Professor Gast's brain began spinning into overdrive.

“Oh really? Do you know for how long?” he asked his daughter calmly, casually. If she could answer that, then the question of the sire of Cloud's baby would be solved.

“I think they've been seeing each other for about five, or six months now.”

The tea cup shattered on the desk.

“Daddy, are you okay?” Aerith cried, alarmed at the sudden smashing of china, reaching out to mop the spilt tea quickly with the cloth that had held the warm bread.

“Yes, yes… I'm fine. I—don't worry about this, nothing's ruined. I must be getting old, letting slip of my teacup like that.”

He laughed, suddenly at ease within himself.

“Anyway, how about we invite your friend Cloud, and Sephiroth over to dinner one night? I haven't talked much to the boy outside of him coming to the lab for tests, and it would be a good opportunity for me to study him and see how he's getting along, without the pressure on him of thinking it's just another sort of test. I'd like to see him relaxed and in the company of this…..lover, of his. What do you think?”

“That's a wonderful idea, Daddy. I'll invite him as soon as Sephiroth gets back.”

“Oh, and don't forget about your… um, boyfriend, Zack,” Gast cringed inwardly when he said that. Now, he really was going to do an extensive background check on the SOLDIER.

No one was going to date his little girl without him knowing everything about who that person was.

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Blood… Give me blood

Give me the blood of the one who betrayed you—betrayed us. I can never rest; can never join you, until your death has been avenged.

Bolting upright, his tired scarlet eyes focused in the darkness of his so-called room. It was small, and it was cramped, and he hated it. He had been living here for a few years now, ever since they had found him.

But how he wished that they would have left him where he was. It was better for him, better for everyone…..that he should have stayed locked up.

Lately, his nightmares had been taking on a life of their own, urging him to seek vengeance, to free his tormented soul from the demon that had been placed inside him so long ago.

A fist banging upon his door startled him, pulling him back from the anguish of his past, and bringing him back to his unhappy present.

“Hey… Valentine! Get your lazy ass up! It's almost noon,and you're still pussyfooting around in bed.”

He groaned, and pushed his face back into the musty pillows. Yet another torment in his sad life….

Cid Highwind.

In the short time that it had taken him to come to know the rude, foul mouthed man, he had somehow managed to let him get under his skin—literally—and now he couldn't seem to get the handsome pilot out of his mind.

The blonde haired, fresh faced airman seemed to have awakened a yearning within him that had been sleeping dormant, making him want to tear the clothes from the blonde's taut, firm body, and plunge himself deep within his being. It had been a long time since he had rested his loins within another's warm tight embrace.

Take him as yours.

Between craving the death of Hojo, and lusting for sex with Cid, Vincent Valentine didn't know which demon he wanted to satisfy first.

There had been a few occasions where Cid had openly flirted with him, but Vincent had resisted. Had tried to fight down his feelings for a man who was the same age as his son would have been, the son who had died right after being born, along with his precious lover, Lucreica.

However, that resistance was slowly ebbing away. And he was tired of being alone.

“Come on, Valentine! Don't make me come in there anddrag your fucking ass from that goddamn bed!”

Well, if he was going to take the man, now pounding on his door, as a lover, the first thing that he was going to work on was that dirty mouth of his.

A smirk surfaced behind the high collar of his red cloak.Let the chase commence.

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“We need to go, man!”

“No! I told you if you didn't want to know the truth about that bitch then you should have stayed in the rec room,” the heavier voice sneered.

“What if he catches us? We'll get kicked out for sure,” a third voice added.

“That's not going to happen. He's otherwise got his hands full.”

Hazel eyes glanced down the now empty corridor, where the couple in question had been standing just seconds ago. Rage burned in his blood.

Strife was going to regret making him look like a fool, and for ever thinking he was better than everyone.

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A/N: Vincent Valentine has entered the story as well as Cid even if we only heard him. And it seems that our red eyed beauty has his sights set on a certain pilot. Will he get him? We'll see. What's this? Someone is watching Cloud and Sephiroth. Any guessing as to who it is? Don't know? Well, to find out stay tuned for the next chapter.

Oh, and btw, for those who had guessed: Yes, SG1 was in reference to Stargate-1, but what I was looking for was what the initials meant to Cloud's teacher in order for him to get out of class? Answer: Shin-Ra's General 1. It's the facilities code for the staff and executives that Sephiroth is summoning or requesting something without drawing a lot of attention. Clever? I like to think so.

Mitts & ArchNemesis

oOoOo Teaser for Chapter 10 oOoOo

“Seph?”

“Cloud is having a baby,” came the blunt response.

“What?”

“He didn't know, and I attacked him,” Sephiroth admitted.