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Battery Acid Included Crew
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 Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:50 pm
The President leaned back in his chair, “We’ll have to get you outside more often. More missions, or maybe some free time just to ‘accidentally’ bump into these people. It’ll be good for you and for the rest of us.”
“Good for me?”
“You can’t stay inside forever,” Lazard commented, “Even if you’re 1st class.”
Sephiroth gave a slight chuckle, “You make it sound like I complained about the village I stayed in.”
Zack had then butted in, “You did in your own special way.”
Lazard laughed at that but Sephiroth just glared at Zack. Stupid….boy. He couldn’t even think of a good comeback in his head at the moment.
“He is unique for a reason,” the President commented before nodding, “That’s all I summoned you for. You may leave.”
Sephiroth, after leaving, headed for Hojo’s lab deciding that Genesis and Angeal were probably too busy to come see him. That wasn’t such a problem, was it? It kind of was, it made him feel like no one cared about him…just that he was helping the company.
Once he reached there he could hear the old man cackling over some type of odd creation that probably turned pigs into sea urchins.
“Hojo.”
The man turned from his spot with a grim look on his face but it instantly turned into his usual creepy smile, “Ah, my magical school girl, how was your trip to the blizzardous village of idiots? I do hope that you lacking manhood had nothing to do with the actual village itself, because I for once do not want to see another man do the YMCA song for as long as I live.”
Sephiroth had no idea what that meant, “Could you keep it down? I don’t know who’s listening!”
“Just myself in here, along with you, my little powder puff! This way, let’s find out what all has happened to your scrawny body. Have you forgotten to eat? You look absolutely pathetic for being 1st class. Then again it must be because you’re a girl now, silly inferior things.”
“Hojo…”
Sephiroth sighed as he followed the mad scientist over to a more private area of the lab.
“Go ahead and strip,” Hojo mumbled as he began to prepare a few things, this time sounding like an actual doctor and not a creepy *****, though, did not budge, “Um…do I have to?”
Hojo’s eyes glared over at him, “Don’t make this difficult, Sephiroth, I cannot cure something I cannot see.”
Okay, back to being a creepy a** *****, “Why can’t I just take the pills again and be over with this?”
“Well, depending on the stage that you’ve reached in this conversion I do believe that the pills might not completely return you to a male state. As in, you might be ripped with wonderful abs but you’ll still have a v****a.”
He wished Hojo would never say that word again, “Why is this even happening to me in the first place??”
Two question marks. There he goes again with the freaking out. Soon he’d be erupting in tears or something…
“I’ll explain everything once we finish this, I’d rather not have you blubber and sniffle while I’m figuring out your structural changes.”
Sephiroth exasperated loudly before letting his eyes zoom about to make sure the room was well confined. It was; there would be no way that anyone could see him. He stripped down completely bummed that he had to do this. It wasn’t really the first time that he had been naked in front of a scientist, but it was the first time that he was lacking something to brag about.
During the entire thing Hojo only muttered and scribbled a few things before finally letting Sephiroth put his clothes back on.
“So…can I take the pills or what?”
Hojo was writing a few more things on his chart before grumbling, “There is only a 23.74 percent chance of it working and changing you back to the way you were.”
Sephiroth felt broken hearted right there. This sucked.
“What am I supposed to do?”
Hojo kept his eyes on his chart, “Well, live with what you have now is my simple solution.”
Sephiroth stared at him until Hojo finally turned to see the look he was being given, “What? Is that too simple?”
“I’m supposed to be a man, not something that got ******** up in an experiment!”
Hojo took his glasses off and rubbed at them, “Sephiroth, sit down.”
Sephiroth took a seat after awhile and watched as Hojo finished cleaning his glasses and inspected them before setting them on his nose, “I was there when your mother gave birth to you, and I must tell you that you weren’t a boy when you came out. As soon as you got out a sex change happened and you became a boy. At such a young age it was hardly noticeable as things are still developing when you’re first born, so no one could tell.”
Sephiroth at first thought this was some type of joke, but noticed Hojo had a serious tone about him. His entire world came crashing down on him. He…was a girl…? He was supposed to be one? But….
“W-why…why was I…changed?”
“Your parents wished it to be so.”
“What good did it even do?? They didn’t even keep me!!”
“Calm down. Your parents had agreed in using you for science before you were even created, it wasn’t something they decided after they had you.”
Sephiroth looked at the ground as he felt like he was choking up. He had never felt this upset before in his life…
“For science? What was I even used for?”
“Wellll…I am not authorized to tell you details about what you are and why you were created, really…”
Sephiroth glared, “I demand to know!”
“Of course you would. I’ll only tell you a few things, the general side of it. Your real mother’s cells were put into a carrier since she couldn’t physically have you herself. After the carrier had you she left and you stayed here under close watch to make sure you developed perfectly. And you have, of course.”
“That’s it? That isn’t even experimental! What are you leaving out? I was messed with somehow, something had to have happened!”
“Keep your voice down, Sephiroth, you’re overreacting. JENOVA is your true mother, as you’ve known that before. That’s all I can say, really. You’re just unique thanks to her.”
Sephiroth shook his head, “What about my father?”
“Him? I don’t know. He was just someone to fertilize the egg was all, nothing besides that. And the carrier was his wife. I wouldn’t even know if they’re alive or not.”
“So…is…my mom still alive?”
“Most likely, though her location is unknown.”
“But I could find her, couldn’t I?”
“I wouldn’t suggest going on a scavenger hunt for her. That’s like finding a needle in a haystack.”
Or you know, an alien in the crevices of the world.
“What about a picture? Or anything that was hers?”
“Highly confidential materials that you wouldn’t be able to get your hands on—“
“But—“
“Sephiroth, there is no point in what you’re talking about. You were created, that was it.”
“You’re telling me that my existence doesn’t even matter expect to serve Shinra. As if I’m not human enough to be thought of anything else otherwise! How can I even accept that? Does Jenova even know that I’m alive? That I’m hers?”
Hojo had to think that one over. Did the alien know she had a son that was walking about for about..ooh…19-20 years?
“It is extremely doubtful she knows about you or even knew that you were being created. We’re finished with this discussion, I’ve told you more than you even needed to know.”
Sephiroth started crying right there. It wasn’t a full out bawling fest, just the tears. He felt so…depressed. His heart ached terribly and all he could think about was this family that he’d never see, of a mom he’d never know, of a past that he couldn’t remember…He didn’t have photos, letters, any materials. It was as if he had no childhood, he was just there.
Hojo was at first surprised at his reaction to all of this but soon remembered that Sephiroth’s emotions were tripled thanks to the different hormonal balance he now had. Right, about his little situation…
“Look, you were here because of a different problem. I can give you two options. We keep you this way but find a way to counterbalance some of your hormones to make you appear like a man or I can give you surgery and fix everything. I will not do anything else since everyone here only knows you as one thing, and that is a boy. I’m not jeopardizing the President’s ideals and the media’s glorious hero for a wish to be a girl, if that’s what you’re thinking.”
Sephiroth shook his head, “I don’t want to think about it right now.”
“Take your time, come to me by the end of the week with a decision if not earlier.”
Sephiroth wiped at his eyes as he tried to forget about it all, just trying to calm down so that he could at least face everyone else. Though…he wondered what he looked like in their eyes? Was he some type of experimental freak? A lot of people had said things…especially Genesis…
After awhile he moved to leave and Hojo made one last comment that struck him as odd, “Oh, and don’t be sexing up anyone.”
“What…?”
“You’re emotional level is haywire because of your hormones, and that means your lusty sleaziness is probably at its fullest. I am telling you right now that you are not allowed to go around and screwing everything you see.”
How would Sephiroth even…
“Or, to be literal, be screwed.”
Oh thanks.
“Why?”
“It’s something about your blood, hmm? We’ll have to do further testing to see exactly what happens when you do transfer blood with someone or something, but not right now. So as I said, be good and keep things out of your pants.”
Sephiroth wondered what type of hellish creation had made him even possible. Was Jenova some crackwhore with special powers? And he had some freaky STD that was never heard of before? God…what…was wrong with him?
He finally left to go to his room only thinking of one thing. To take a shower. That would always make him feel better…until he would have to see his lower half. But still, getting clean always made someone feel somewhat better about themselves.
Once he entered he found the room empty. Good, he wouldn’t have to face them in this state of mind.
Slowly he grabbed clothes and went into the bathroom. After showering and dressing he moved over to the bed and sat down, sighing at how comfortable it was. He hated sleeping on the ground, it made his body angry. That was probably another reason why he had migraines…
His phone went off and he grumpily pulled it out, “What?”
A slight chuckle was heard before he got a response, “You sound ecstatic.”
Angeal.
“I’m allowed to be bitter. Why did you call?”
“Wondering where you were at. No, let me rephrase that. Genesis was curious and the moron left his phone in your room.”
There was some whining in the background and Sephiroth smiled slightly, “I’m in my room.”
“Oh, about your room. Might want to take those sheets off before you touch them. In fact, might as well demolish your entire place and start over.”
“Was he that bad?” Sephiroth commented as he stood up wondering whether sitting on his bed was a good idea or not.
“You should have heard him last night—“
Sephiroth heard more shouts from Genesis in the background but couldn’t make out what he was bitching about, “Oh..boy. Where are you?”
“Picking up mail, rented a movie, just finished eating. We’ll be back in a few minutes.”
“Good, I can get you two to clean my room then.”
As it was a terrible pigsty right now. He knew he hadn’t left it in this condition.
“Genesis would love to help.”
Finally Sephiroth heard Genesis, which was a loud ‘help with what?’
Angeal responded with, “Anything and everything.”
Sephiroth glanced about at his room as it was rather trashed and messy. Jeez, who would have thought that it’d get this bad while he was gone? He didn’t move to clean any of it, of course, because it wasn’t his problem. Genesis would have to clean it all.
“All right, we’ll let you have some alone time before Genesis ruins it with his presence.”
“I’ll take that as a ‘see you soon’.”
“Of course.”
They hung up and Sephiroth checked his messages as usual. He had received another message from Zack, which basically told him he was amazing once again. This time he had to reply, just because he didn’t want Zack thinking he was being stiff.
‘I must admit, Zack, your messages never cease to make me smile.’
Especially at a time like this…when all he could think of was how unloved he was. His own mother didn’t know of his existence, the couple that had carried him around hadn’t given a care about what he’d become, and everyone in Shinra only thought he was just some creation for SOLDIER. He felt like a toy; something unwanted besides for company benefits.
He paced and poked around at his things. He noticed Genesis left his clothes on the floor. After glancing about as if someone would see him he bent down and rifled through his stuff.
Um. Underwear. He stared at it somewhat as it was frillier than he had ever seen before. He wondered if this had ever touched his bed before.
Eeck…
He dropped it back on the pile and stood up. But that was when something hit him. Not physically, for once.
Genesis…was attracted to him. Strongly attracted to him. The man had literally declared love to him and even asked to be more intimate with Sephiroth. So…he wasn’t completely unloved, was he? Genesis was the only person who actually…thought he was human, right? Something that could be cared for instead of used.
Why…hadn’t he realized that before? He just thought Genesis was being disgustingly whoreish because he wanted to fulfill his hormonal needs.
He hoped that he hadn’t pushed Genesis away too much. If Genesis stopped liking him he wasn’t sure what he’d do…
He needed SOME love…
His phone went off again and he looked to see Zack had replied to his message. Oh goodie.
‘I make you smile? I would have expected more of a laugh.’
Hmmm, how wonderful. He replied with ‘Did I laugh after I kissed you?’
Heh heh heh.
Zack replied quickly with ‘What kiss? That clearly never happened. ;D’
Did he really just put that face there? It was even winking at him. This only made Sephiroth realize how childish and dumb Zack was, which actually made him laugh loudly.
‘Maybe I should refresh your memory?’
‘Oh no, once was enough. Besides, you need to save those for Genesis.’
Sephiroth bit his lip, God this guy really knew how gay Genesis really was. He wondered if anyone else knew about it?
‘What makes you think he’s that type of a person anyway?’
‘I saw him one other time when I first started. Locker room. He was on the phone with his dad I believe who was screaming at him about his son being gay. It was interesting to say the least.’
Wow, talk about awkward. ‘I see. Was he crying?’
‘No, but he kept telling his dad to quiet down since I was right there listening.’
Ahaha, that was great. He wondered if Genesis even remembered what Zack looked like.
‘Did he recognize you at all when he gave you that letter?’
‘Don’t think so, which is probably a good thing. I was expecting him to ask me out or something.’
Okay, now Zack was being entertaining for once, ‘I see. Well I have to go, he’s going to be around soon.’
‘Good luck!’
He put his phone away and that was when the door opened. Hm, how did he time that so perfectly? They both came in with their hands full, Genesis was carrying a box while Angeal had a video, mail, and something else.
‘Sephiroth! You have to tell us about your trip!” Genesis said perkily. After having such a wonderful conversation with Zack all he could think of was how gay Genesis was. Well, that was a good thing, wasn’t it?
Not really, since he was a girl.
But he could get that fixed, and Genesis would never know.
“Um. Like what?”
Genesis set the box down on the bed and pulled out a pocket knife, opening it up, “Everything. How was it going there, staying there, who’d you meet, what’d you do, etc.”
Angeal rifled through his mail, “Or, the more important question, who did you do.”
Genesis glared, “I doubt he went around sleeping with everyone.”
Angeal laughed, “Right, he’s reserved for you.”
Genesis thought it over before shrugging, “I wouldn’t mind.”
Sephiroth blinked. Okay. Outright claiming him and all he did was show up from a mission. This was interesting. He wondered what it would be like at nighttime, whether Genesis would get clingy on him as usual. He…wouldn’t mind if he did.
“It was tiresome and a lot of work. That’s about it.”
“Reconstructing an entire town, fighting a monster, and watching over villagers does sound like work,” Genesis opened the box finally and smiled, “Oh! Mom sent me apples!”
Sephiroth moved over to see what he was talking about and noticed the purple and white colored apples sitting neatly in the box amongst other things, “Apples?”
“Yeah, THE apples.”
Angeal snorted, “Also known to Genesis as Orgasmic Fruit, but I’d rather refer to it as Dumb Apple.”
Sephiroth frowned, “You’re not allowed to eat them in my room if you get excited when you eat them—“
Genesis glared at Angeal before looking back at Sephiroth, “He’s making that up. I just like them a lot, I don’t get overwhelmed with lust when I eat them. You should try one!”
“Why does she have apples at this time of the year?”
Angeal sighed, “They’re actually called Banora Whites, but because they bloom at odd times of the year they’re normally called Dumb Apples. It seems they decided to grow a batch right now.”
Sephiroth looked at the apple that he was handed before glancing at Genesis, “Oh, this was the fruit that guy always stole that you tried to sleep with, right?”
Genesis looked away from him, “I wouldn’t put it THAT way, but yeah.”
Sephiroth pulled out a knife and sliced off a piece before tasting it. Reminded him of his shampoo. Oh boy, he better not use that bottle for awhile if Genesis got excited over these things.
“They’re interesting.”
Tasted like…you know…apple.
“You know what this means? We can finally play our knife throwing game again!” Genesis said excitedly.
Sephiroth blinked, “Your what?”
“You set an apple on your head and throw sharp objects at it, and whoever hits the target wins.”
“That sounds,” really dumb, “dangerous.”
Angeal nodded, “It is, because Genesis has bad aim.”
Genesis scoffed, “Just because you’re twitchy when I throw knives at you.”
“You almost impaled my heart with a knife, I deserve to be twitchy.”
Sephiroth wondered whether this would even be worth playing. He was good at aim, but did he want to get stabbed?
“Maybe we’ll play later…” put off his demise for now, “what else did she give you?”
Genesis pulled a few things out and squealed, “Oh!! She sent me LOVELESS!”
Sephiroth vaguely remembered that. Oh yes, Genesis had a tattoo that said that…
“Oh boy, I can’t wait to hear you quote it,” Angeal commented unhappily.
Sephiroth plucked it right out of Genesis’ hands, “Is it that bad?”
Genesis gave a romantic swoon, “It’s absolutely riveting.”
They stared at him.
“Wow, you really are gay.”
Genesis slapped Angeal’s arm hard, “Liking a play has nothing to do with sexuality!”
Sephiroth flipped through it somewhat seeing the word ‘gift of the goddess’ several hundred times or something. Hm. Reminded him of his dream…
Oh boy, Genesis in a tutu…
“Why is there handwriting in the back? Oh, is this your journal combined with this book?”
Genesis stared and went to grab it, but Sephiroth pulled away, “Oh it is! Hey, this is getting interesting now.”
“Sephiroth! Don’t read that, it’s personal!”
“That’s what makes it worth reading,” Sephiroth said as he pushed Genesis back to read what was on the page. Something about kisses and feeling extremely horny. Wow.
“Sephiroth! How’d you like it if I read your journal??”
And still failing at receiving his journal, “I don’t have one.”
Genesis finally stopped, “Stop reading it! You can look at that later!”
“Later? Why?”
“Because I rented a movie and you need to see it.”
Sephiroth closed the book, “Oh?”
Genesis showed him what it was. A Christmas Story. “You told me you never saw it, so I rented it so you could see it!”
Sephiroth grabbed it from him and stared at the front cover before flipping to the back to look it over. It looked…odd. Then again, he hadn’t watched many movies, just ones that were provided in classes about educational things.
“Okay. But you still need to clean my room. I heard that you did THINGS in here that could make old women blush.”
Genesis gapped and glared at Angeal before sheepishly returning his eyes to Sephiroth, “I didn’t do anything! I’ll clean your room, though, while you’re watching the movie. Okay?”
“Sure.”
And so he watched the thing without any breaks, utterly silent and concentrated on the video as it played out the entire story. It was somewhat heartbreaking…seeing the family together and seeing the presents, being around and even fighting. And the kids at school being friends. And…oh god, the licking the pole part almost made him slap his hand to his face. But once it was all done he was utterly lost.
“What’s Christmas?”
Genesis, who had finished cleaning somewhere in the middle of the movie, was sitting next to him with a content smile on his face until he asked that question. He gave him this horrified expression as if he said the small child should burn.
“You don’t know what Christmas is?”
Sephiroth and Genesis stared at each other for a few minutes before Angeal broke in, “It’s a holiday celebrated by some people. You basically give gifts and receive gifts and are thankful for having a family and such. It’s a very family-oriented holiday, in short.”
Sephiroth looked at Angeal and finally looked away. Ugh, he was starting to feel bad again, “Oh.”
Genesis could tell he was upset, “Hey, this year we could celebrate it together! It doesn’t always have to be family, it’s friends, too!”
“Maybe…” though he wasn’t sure if he’d want to celebrate any holidays. He never had before. “Are there more holidays besides Christmas?”
“Yeah! Valentine’s Day! Where you spoil your loved one with gifts! And Thanksgiving, where you eat turkey!”
“Which is also very family-oriented.”
“Yeah well…the Indians and the Pilgrims weren’t family, they were friends. So there.”
“Whatever.”
Sephiroth stared at Angeal and Genesis before sighing, “Maybe it’s best that I just not find out about these things.”
“Don’t say that, they’re really fun! You’ll enjoy them, I promise.”
Sephiroth played with a piece of his hair before picking up Genesis’ LOVELESS book again, “So what else should we do today?”
“You didn’t tell me any specific details about your trip!”
“I had a major bloody nose at one point.”
“Oh, and I called you then, too.”
“Yes, and after that phone call I passed out for two days. It was nice. And I got this necklace from some little girl named Sophie.”
He handed it to Genesis who looked at it with interest, “It’s cute.”
“And….I was hugged.”
Genesis looked at him, “Yeah?”
“It was the first hug I’ve ever gotten, actually.”
Genesis and Angeal both looked at him as he was staring at the book. He finally felt their eyes on him and he looked, “What?”
“Your first?” Angeal said with some disbelief.
“Yeah, why?”
“That’s….you know…” Genesis mumbled, “depressing.”
“Hugs are depressing?”
“No…” he paused, “that it was your first.”
“How is that depressing?”
“You should get hugs…every day.”
Sephiroth fell silent before glancing over at Genesis. The boy looked completely serious, “Do you hug people every single day?”
“Well…no.”
“Do you get hugs every single day?”
“No, but—“
“Well then it isn’t that depressing,” he went back to looking at the book.
“But as a little kid I’m sure you got a lot, right? It really couldn’t have been your first.”
Sephiroth brought his eyes back over to him, “Wait, why would you give kids hugs?”
Genesis blinked. Angeal was speechless.
“Uhh..well. Parents hug their kids a lot. You must have had someone around to take care of you as a kid, right?”
“The nurses worked in shifts in watching over us, but that’s all I really remember about them. They never came in contact with us unless we were trying to kill each other.”
“Sephiroth, that’s terrible!”
“I don’t actually mean we’d try to kill each other—“
“No, that you were neglected.”
“I wasn’t neglected—“
“Yeah, you were! Gosh, you weren’t given hugs or kisses or anything as a kid. You grew up without holidays! Did you even get presents on your birthday?”
“I’m supposed to?”
“Oh my God. Sephiroth, you’ve missed out on so much…”
Sephiroth didn’t respond, just kept his eyes on Genesis. How much had he missed out on? And all because he lacked a family… Did…that mean that he really was the odd one out of everybody?
“Of course, it isn’t like I was made to enjoy life,” he was becoming spiteful now, hating that Genesis and Angeal were allowed to live normally.
“I doubt that’s true—“
“My mom doesn’t even know I exist, I think I would know.”
They fell silent again and Genesis sighed, “Who told you that?”
“It doesn’t matter. I don’t want to talk about it.”
Genesis growled, “You never want to talk when you should! Fine, we’ll drop it. But we should—“ he paused when he saw what page Sephiroth was on, “NO DON’T READ THAT PAGE!”
Genesis pulled the entire thing from Sephiroth’s hand since he wasn’t expecting that. He watched as the boy got up and shuffled through his clothes before pulling out a thong and wrapped it around the book before showing it to him, “Don’t touch.”
Angeal stared, “Unwrapping that underwear would be like taking it off of Genesis himself. Not worth the time and not that enjoyable.”
Sephiroth watched as it was stashed away, “Why can’t I read that page?”
“It holds my virginity.”
Sephiroth and Angeal both laughed and Genesis glared at them in anger, “Not funny.”
Sephiroth smiled, “But…you ARE still a virgin. So are you saying someone would have to steal that page to get your virginity?”
Genesis kept his icy eyes on Sephiroth before smiling, “You know, last time I checked you were still a virgin, too!”
“Very true, but I have different circumstances than you.”
“Which are?”
“I’m not allowed to sleep around—“
“Not allowed? Oh God, you make it sound like you’re under lock and key.”
“I am. There’s something ‘unique’ about my blood that can’t be shared with other people.”
“Oh? And what would happen to them if they happened to get in contact with it?”
“I’m assuming they’d die a terrible death, but I’ve yet to test it out on anyone.”
Genesis laughed slightly before shaking his head, “You can’t be serious.”
Sephiroth nodded, “I am, Hojo told me the details.”
“You believe what he says?”
“Sometimes. If he’s talking in a completely serious tone I do.”
Genesis frowned, “So…you really could kill people by sleeping with them?”
Angeal laughed, “The best kind of rapist kills their victims that way.”
“ANGEAL!! That’s terrible!”
“I only say those things just to see you yell like that.”
Genesis sighed before looking at the box of apples, “Who wants to go throw knives at each other?”
Sephiroth looked over at Angeal before shrugging, “Whatever keeps you entertained.”
And so they snuck into the training room with their box of apples. Genesis threw an apple up in the air and caught it, “We should bet!”
Sephiroth laughed, “If I win do I get to steal your virginity?”
Angeal couldn’t help but laugh, “Don’t make him cry. Then again, he’ll be dead by the time you’re done.”
“Not funny!!!” Genesis stomped and crossed his arms over his chest, “Think of something less disgusting.”
“Anything involving you is disgusting,” Sephiroth commented as he stared at the knives that were provided.
“Thanks. Maybe the loser should have to do something with me if I’m that terrible?”
Angeal’s eyebrow raised, “Do what in particular?”
“I should decide that once I find out who the loser is, hmm?”
Sephiroth blinked. If he lost he knew Genesis would want to do something with him, but would he do anything to Angeal? He couldn’t really risk letting Genesis getting attached to Angeal…but could he really lose this?
“Fine.”
Angeal smiled, “Whoever hits the apple five times in a row wins.”
Sephiroth shrugged, “Sounds simple enough..”
“Ladies first,” Angeal commented and Sephiroth wanted to punch him, but didn’t. He didn’t need to start freaking out about his body right now.
He picked up a knife and watched as Genesis had already balanced one delicately on his head. Carefully he aimed and threw it. Genesis moved as it almost stabbed where his face was.
“Okay, could you aim a little higher???”
Sephiroth gave a nervous laugh, “Um..sorry…”
Wow. He sucked at this.
Angeal pulled the knife out and smiled, “I take it you’ve never done this before.”
“No, I haven’t.”
Angeal chucked the knife and it hit the apple right in the middle, “That’s one for me and none for you.”
Sephiroth grabbed another knife and threw it, watching it stab right above where Angeal’s knife was, “We’ll see about who loses and who wins.”
They continued throwing knives until it was Angeal’s turn. He had to make this to win. But….would he?
He threw.
Missed.
“Oh ******** on a stick.”
Sephiroth burst into laughter, “What the hell? That’s the first time I’ve heard you use that term.”
“Shut up and throw.”
Sephiroth aimed. He could totally win!!! He went to throw and felt something pull on his hair. He missed terribly almost taking out Genesis’ kneecap.
“Ouch!”
Angeal threw his knife and hit it, “You know, playing dirty is an accepted rule.”
Sephiroth glared, “Glad you told me…”
Genesis moved off and smiled, “So that means Sephiroth’s mine!”
Angeal looked at the silver-haired man, “Lucky you.”
Sephiroth thought it over before looking at Genesis, “What exactly are you thinking?”
Genesis shrugged, “I’m still planning it out right now.”
Angeal shook his head, “I hope you’re prepared for bodily destruction.”
“Shut up, I won’t hurt him!”
“He’ll probably murder himself once he’s finished with you.”
Genesis pouted before grabbing Sephiroth’s arm, “All right, I know what I want. Come on!”
Angeal watched them leave before he grabbed up the box, “Is he going to risk their friendship for something Hollander asked for?” He shook his head, “Genesis…you’re getting in way over your head…just to become a hero.”
Sephiroth watched as they had gone outside into the dark. Man, it felt like only a few minutes ago that it was light out…. He noticed Genesis was pulling him to the dumb cave area that he still wanted to explode in a frustrated anger. What were they going to do anyway? He hoped it wasn’t…anything…too risky. His heart was pounding with worry as they continued inward and finally made it into the darkened place. Genesis turned the light on and grabbed Sephiroth, pulling him into a kiss. They did this for who knows how long before Genesis started to get grabby, pulling at clothes as Sephiroth knew he was in the mood…
And…he would have to break it.
He pushed Genesis away from him, “Stop.”
Genesis was breathing heavily, “No, Sephiroth, don’t stop me.”
“You’re going to get hurt.”
Genesis smiled and shook his head, “Don’t worry about it, I’ve got that covered.”
Sephiroth kept him at bay, though, and stood up finally, “Look, I…can’t do this.”
“Yes you can—“
“No. Just…listen. Hojo told me a few things about my family today…”
“So?”
“So a few things he told me…were…well…”
“Sephiroth, let me love you—“
Sephiroth turned to stare at him, “Genesis I’m a girl.”
Yay for bluntness. Genesis at first didn’t get it before he frowned, “What?”
“I wasn’t going to say anything because…well that’s extremely personal. But… Okay, so you threw away those pills I had, and Hojo told me I needed them, but he was hospitalized. And I went from being a boy to a girl over the course of…a month or so…and…I went to Hojo as soon as I got here and questioned him. He said that…I was born a girl…but I was altered at a young age because the people who had me wanted it so….”
He bit his lip somewhat and looked at Genesis, “So…yeah…”
Genesis kept his eyes on Sephiroth for the longest time before he stood up, “Wow…” He turned from Sephiroth, “So…what are you going to do about that?”
“Hojo gave me two options. Either stay this way but take drugs so no one notices or to get surgery to permanently switch me to a boy. I have no other choices.”
“You’re not allowed to choose?”
“No. I have no control over my life….if I did…would I even be here?”
Genesis nodded, “I…see.”
Sephiroth sat down and put his head in his hands, “I’m…sorry.”
Genesis turned to him and went over, sitting down next to him, “For what? You told me the truth, that’s all that matters. I’m…sure you’re really confused right now…what with not knowing about any of this. I want you to know that I’m here to support you. If you need to talk just say something…sometimes I think you’re hiding things from me because you’re afraid that I won’t like to hear what you have to say. But…no matter what you say I’ll be here. Okay?”
Sephiroth looked at Genesis and sighed, “Thanks. Hojo said that he wasn’t authorized to tell me anything about my parents, just that my mother’s name is Jenova. But…I already knew that. So he explained about how I was actually born, from a carrier and some other person, but that was all they did. After I was born they were gone. Hojo says he doesn’t know where my real mother is at, and said that she most likely doesn’t even know that I exist. I don’t understand, though…how it makes me so different from everyone else. I was created for science. Something unique about my blood thanks to my mother…but I don’t even know what that is. I…wish I could visit her to find out. But with an unknown location how would I? And besides…Hojo said it was classified information and that I wouldn’t be able to access any of it.”
Genesis didn’t say anything as he already knew about Sephiroth’s true identity. He shrugged, “I wouldn’t know where to start…”
Sephiroth looked at Genesis, “I thought you’d know more than what Hojo told me…I mean…you did say I was an ‘experimental toy’ as I recall.”
Genesis shook his head, “Everyone knows you’re an experiment…doesn’t mean we know what exactly you are…”
“So much for being perfect…”
“No one’s perfect I suppose…”
“Hollander.”
He lifted his head, “Hollander said he knew things….and he was going to tell me everything, too. Perhaps if I…ask…”
Genesis grabbed Sephiroth’s arm, “It’s not worth going to Hollander’s, Sephiroth. He’ll try to dupe you into doing something dumb…something that could hurt you.”
“What do you mean?”
“He’s messed around with Angeal and myself before. We came out unharmed, but it was quite a shock to both of us that he’d abuse our trust like that. I don’t want to see you get hurt…”
“But…”
“It’s not worth it…”
“Why does everyone tell me that? It IS worth it! I have to know! All of my life I’ve wanted to know why I’m kept around here, and who it is that made me this way. I can’t give up that dream….it’s the only thing I’ve ever wanted.”
Sephiroth had stood up and was moving in no particular direction, unsure of what to do.
“You were right…” Sephiroth mumbled.
“Right about what?”
“It is depressing…”
“What is?”
“That I’ve never been hugged before. For once in my life I felt like someone cared for me as a fellow human being and not something made to just save the world…as if I was a robot. I’ve lived my life completely unloved and I didn’t even notice it until now. As if I was raised to be a machine and to die as one. To go through life without feeling emotions because no one ever bothered to raise me to have them. You have no idea what it’s like to be me…”
Genesis nodded, “Sephiroth…are you wearing the ring?”
Sephiroth turned to stare at him before nodding.
“I…gave it to you…because I love you. When others are around I can’t outright say it, it’d draw too much attention. But…I gave you the ring because it symbolizes the same thing. Don’t ever think that you’re unloved…”
Sephiroth moved back over to him, “Do you…really love me?”
Genesis nodded, “I’d give up everything to be with you.”
Sephiroth watched him stand up and they began to kiss again. Genesis pushed him down onto the couch and got on top, pinning him down. He stabbed something right into Sephiroth’s side and made the man growl.
“Calm down, you’ll be fine once you wake up.”
Sephiroth blacked out once Genesis said that. Slowly Genesis stood and pulled out his phone.
“Hollander? He’s out.”
“Good, bring him on over. You won’t regret this one bit.”
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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 6:57 pm
Genesis stood next to the passed out Sephiroth as his eyes fell on Hollander, “Are you sure this will work?”
Hollander grunted, “Look…I know what I’m doing, stop questioning me about it. We’ll take some of his blood and some of yours and mix it together in a dish and see what happens. I am positive that your issue will easily be resolved.”
Genesis glanced down at Sephiroth again, feeling somewhat guilty that he had taken advantage of him so easily. There was probably a better way to go about doing it…and yet he chose this way. Why? He felt so cruel…
“I still don’t understand what’s wrong with me…”
Hollander pulled out a needle and moved over to Sephiroth, rolling up his sleeve, “It’s called Degradation. You’ll basically start to age faster than normal, and you’ll become extremely weak. You’ll end up dying if we don’t do anything about it. I’ve concluded that the Jenova Cells in Sephiroth’s body will reverse your process,” he stared at the blood that he had just withdrawn and smiled, “nothing like having an alien mother to make things better for you.”
Genesis stared at Hollander like he was a freak, “Sephiroth still doesn’t know anything about his family, really. He told me Hojo gave him some hints, but not enough to make it obvious. He was going to come here to ask you…”
Hollander smiled, “Me? Ah…just because I said something the first time I met him. He must be desperate in finding out.”
“He is…”
Hollander grabbed another needle and nodded for Genesis to roll up his sleeve. He took his blood and walked off with the two samples. Within a few minutes he came back, “All right, we’ll see how it works out in five minutes.”
They passed the time hardly speaking to each other. Genesis was wondering how the test would turn out and he wanted to know quickly. Hollander was off testing other things to even care about Genesis or gabbing. When it was time to check Genesis followed Hollander back to the test area to see everything for himself.
Hollander brought the tests up on the screen of his computer and nodded, “Hmm…would you look at that.”
Genesis frowned, “Is that porn?”
“Actually, it’s not. But you’re close.”
Genesis scoffed, “Put the REAL thing up, please.”
“All right, don’t get so huffy about it. There we go.”
Genesis stared at the screen, “So….what’s going on? I don’t know what blood is mine and what is his.”
“I colored his green. As you can see it is combining with your blood. In fact, some of it is eating your blood.”
“Is that bad?”
“Not necessarily. Those are the degrading cells, right? Then you want them to be taken over. If it changes all of your blood then you won’t turn into an old fart before you’re 30.”
Genesis smiled, “So I just need to get blood transfusions from him, right??”
“Yeah. But you’ll need a lot more than what you’re thinking—“
“Hypothetically speaking…if I had sex with him enough times would it all work out?”
The place fell silent.
“I said hypothetically, I didn’t say I was going to.”
“Well…yeah, if you did it enough times. It’d be easier to just take his blood through transfusion, though.”
“But if I took too much wouldn’t I get really sick?”
“Well, yes because your body is trying to kill his blood, which wouldn’t work.”
“So a little bit at a time is the best route….”
Hollander stared at him, “You just want to toy around with him, don’t you? As long as it’s not in my lab I could care less what you do with him.”
Genesis nodded, “Of course….” He turned and paused, “Do you…have anything I could give him to make him more…willing?”
Hollander snorted, “Sure, but if you give him too much at a time it’ll make him really sick. Here,” he had grabbed something off the shelf, “just a drop is all that’s needed.”
Genesis took it and moved on off, seeing that Sephiroth hadn’t moved from his spot. Good.
He had taken him back to the cave after that and watched as Sephiroth slowly started to wake up looking rather angered at whatever happened.
“Sephiroth?? Are you all right? You hit your head on the ceiling again.”
Sephiroth sat up, “What? I did? Wait…but…” he tried to think what was going on, “I thought you…and I…ugh. Do I seriously have to relive that all over again?”
Genesis played dumb, as he was good at it, “Relive what?”
“Just…nevermind. What did you bring me in here for?”
“Oh, you lost against Angeal and now I get to do what I want to with your body.”
That…came out wrong.
Sephiroth stared at him, “Um….what? No no, because I told you that…wait, no you don’t know, do you?”
“Know what?”
“Dammit…” he put his head in his hands and sighed.
“Hey…are you all right? Maybe you should lay down…in fact I demand that you do so. I’ll make you feel better.”
Sephiroth did as Genesis ordered and laid down, sighing as Genesis’ lap was now his pillow.
“Here, take some of this, it should make you feel better,” Genesis whispered and showed him the drugs. Sephiroth wasn’t sure how to react, but didn’t want to bother freaking out at the moment. He had a headache. Maybe he did hit his head again?
“All right..”
Genesis let 3 drops fall into Sephiroth’s mouth and smiled, “How’s it taste?”
Sephiroth shrugged, “It’s kind of sour.”
Sour? Well…Hollander never did say what it would taste like. He put it back in his pocket and let his hand land on Sephiroth’s chest, giving it a gentle touch.
Sephiroth looked up at him curiously but didn’t do anything, just let the man be gentle with him at the moment. He closed his eyes and tried to relax, the headache was slowly going away, but something more intense was replacing it. Finally the wave of emotion hit him and he sat up, gasping for breath.
“Sephiroth?”
Sephiroth was breathing so hard and yet he hadn’t done anything. His eyes landed on Genesis yearning to kiss him…and so much more.
“Are you—“
“Shh, Genesis, don’t talk,” Sephiroth hissed and pulled him close, kissing him deeply. Genesis obeyed him without hesitation and played with Sephiroth’s clothes, ready to take them off of him. He was glad the drops worked, he’d have to use them more often. And he’d be cured in no time!
He just hoped he could keep up if he did it more than once a day….oh who was he kidding? Of course he could….right?
Ten hours later.
“God…I’m…soooo…dead…” Genesis groaned as he had lain down in bed, unable to move. He was utterly exhausted and could hardly do anything. Maybe doing it 4 times in a day was a bit too much?
“Oh, about time you disgustingly horny puppies were back. I’ve got a job for you two to do,” Angeal comment, coming out of nowhere to surprise them.
“Does it involve a p***s?” Sephiroth asked, also being terribly sore in regions he thought he’d never be sore in.
Angeal stared.
“Uh. No. Do you want it to involve one?”
Sephiroth and Genesis BOTH groaned in agony.
“I’ll take that as a no. Now come on, you lovebirds, it’s only your own fault that you’ve been gone for the past 24 hours trying to see who could go the longest without stopping.”
Genesis grunted, “That totally wasn’t what we did.”
Sephiroth nodded, “It was more like, ‘I can’t stop these motions, so you’ll have to wait until I’m done’ type of thing.”
Angeal put his hand to his eyes, “Thank you for the imagery.”
“You’re welcome.”
“Just get up, you’ll enjoy this. And no, I don’t mean up the a**.”
They sighed and moved to get up, Genesis almost falling over as he got up.
“Come on, you two, this way.”
Sephiroth and Genesis warily followed Angeal before finding out what the real impending doom was. There stood Zack with a gleeful look on his face, some blond with funny hair was beside him.
“Uh…babysitting?” Sephiroth commented as his eyes went over to Angeal wondering what kind of a sick joke this was.
“Bingo. I was told to get someone to look over these two and I remembered the perfect couple that would love to have children some day together.”
All of them stared at Angeal like he was insane.
“What?”
“I don’t want kids,” Genesis commented and Sephiroth nodded.
“Suuure, that’s what they all say. Just wait until one of you gets pregnant.”
“That isn’t possible!” Zack barked. Oh ********, Sephiroth was already doing it again.
“We’re in ShinRa Building…anything is possible,” Angeal replied before walking off, “Later.”
“Did he really sucker us into this?” Sephiroth asked after Angeal was completely gone. Genesis nodded grimly before turning his head to get a better look at Zack and the blonde. He stiffened slightly as he was slowly remembering Zack. Oh s**t.
“I…don’t think we’ve ever met,” Genesis said cheerfully.
Zack shook his head, “We have, I’m Zack. Uh, we’ve met a few times. And this is Cloud!”
Cloud stood there bashfully and stared at Sephiroth a bit before glancing back at the floor. Genesis noticed this and wondered how possessive and whore-y he could get and yet still look straight in front of these two? Hmm…
“Oh? Nice to meet you, I’m Genesis and…well he’s self-explanatory.”
“That’s an interesting name,” Cloud commented before Zack nudged him and whispered something. Cloud blinked and his eyes got big, “Wait, he’s Sephiroth?” Zack nodded. “Oh…”
Sephiroth smiled, “Have you heard of me?” He was rather famous.
“Actually…yeah…our village talks about you a lot…”
“Oh?” Yes, he was feeling the ego boost even though his body was screaming for him to sit down and take a nap.
“You’re a hero in everyone’s eyes there…”
“I try my hardest,” Sephiroth bragged before Zack had to interrupt, that mutt.
“Uh…if I remember correctly—“
“Your memory is a lie. Now what should we do to keep you two entertained? I’m afraid to fight both of you…I don’t want to accidentally slaughter you,” no, he just was in so much pain at the moment that fighting would only make it worse.
“Oh…yeah…Angeal was just trying to get rid of us….he said it was something about ‘an orgy for four’ or something before he left to get you two.”
Did…Zack literally say that in front of Sephiroth and Genesis? Yes, he did.
“Well…we’d love to have an orgy, but you know what they say about code restrictions and regulations about age….I mean, you look like you’re a minor,” Genesis nodded at Cloud.
“Uh…” Cloud was kind of lost why they were talking about this.
Sephiroth smiled, “What Genesis means is he’s not going to sex you up even though Angeal fantasized about it.”
Genesis nodded.
“Anyway, we’re both really tired, but if you want to join us in my room I suppose you could.”
“You sleep together?” Cloud questioned.
Um. What an odd way to say that. Zack nudged Cloud again.
Cloud blinked, “I mean…like…share a room.”
“Yeah, it’s the newest fad,” Genesis yawned clearly having no idea what he was talking about. Sephiroth nodded and then shook his head. What? Was Genesis on drugs?
“Like I said; we’re tired. And I’m assuming when Genesis is tired he has no idea what he’s talking about. This way,” Sephiroth nodded his head in the direction to go and the two followed. It wasn’t really because they wanted to see them sleep but to check out their room.
As they arrived Zack and Cloud took it all in. Messy. Terribly messy, though it felt nice and lived-in. Zack was thinking Sephiroth wouldn’t have this much feeling to his room…especially if Genesis and Angeal didn’t room with him. He could already imagine half the crap being gone and the 1st class SOLDIER hardly using his room, let alone cleaning it.
“This is a nice room, the other ones are a lot smaller and crammed. Have you roomed together for long?” Zack asked and watched Genesis crash on the bed, almost passing out on impact. Sephiroth was a lot more graceful and respectable about sitting on the bed.
“Oh…for awhile now.”
Cloud sat on the edge of the bed, “Are you allowed to have pets here?”
Sephiroth smiled, “Why, would you like to be mine?”
Silence fell over them. Genesis didn’t move from his dead slumber while the lower class boys kept their eyes on Sephiroth.
“I was joking.”
“Oh. I thought you were serious.”
“That would be very inappropriate of me to keep another human being as a pet,” though he didn’t entirely object to the idea.
“I don’t think the President or Lazard would take kindly to that,” Zack added and Cloud shrugged as he didn’t seem to know a whole lot. Hmmph, Sephiroth wondered if he’d even make it past what he was now. Whatever that was. He didn’t really care.
“Play with whatever you want, I don’t really care. Most of it’s Genesis’s.”
Genesis’s? That was a lot of…sussessss..ss..s. Ahem.
Zack picked up the DVD rental that they never returned…because they were smart like that. Angeal probably would get a fine, and then he’d b***h to them for forgetting to tell him about it. Blah.
“You watched ‘A Christmas Story’ after what happened to you?”
“Remember what I said about your memory being a lie? Let’s continue to apply that for this conversation. I don’t want to think about that day.”
Zack blinked and smiled, “All of it?”
Sephiroth stared and then remembered the kiss, “All right, most of it.”
Cloud sat there clueless before frowning, “I…hope you two don’t have a history together.”
Oh god. Why was this kid making Sephiroth sound like a creepy pervert?
“Depends on what you mean by ‘history’,” Sephiroth commented. Cloud fell silent as he shrugged and looked away. Man, this kid looked so pathetic.
A pathetic dog. Oh ho, more mutts on the house. They should just ooze puppies together. Wait, what? What was Sephiroth thinking? He wondered if the medicine Genesis gave him was affecting him finally.
“I meant like sex-wise,” Cloud finally spoke up. Sephiroth was surprised he said it. This kid was definitely something else.
“Oh all the time, every single night that we were fixing up villages and fighting monsters. You couldn’t break us apart.”
Genesis heard this in his sleep and brought his head up, “Really? Why didn’t you tell me this?”
Sephiroth stared at him, “Because it’s not actually true? Go back to sleep.”
Genesis blinked and thought it over before turning, getting closer to Sephiroth, and closed his eyes, “Whatever.”
“Anyway…what were we talking about?” Sephiroth asked as his eyes returned to Zack and Cloud, forgetting what was going on already. Ugh. Learn to memorize things, dammit.
“Hot sex,” Cloud mumbled.
Yeah, this kid was something else, “Oh of course. So, is it okay for me to assume you two are together?”
Zack laughed, “No! I have a girlfriend. Would it be fine with you if I just assumed that you and Genesis were hooching it up?”
Genesis and Sephiroth glanced at each other before Sephiroth replied, “Only if you want to get hurt.”
Genesis nodded, “In the a**.”
That didn’t help his argument.
Zack smiled as he was now targeted on Genesis, “Really? Would you like to try that?”
Genesis propped himself up, “Are you getting at something..?”
“That you would ******** guys.”
“Is that what this is about?” Genesis finally sat up completely, staring at Zack with his newfound energy.
“Well…I’ve heard and seen the worst of you.”
“Mmm…I don’t think you’ve seen it all.”
Cloud blinked, “What kind of a sex talk is this?”
“A bad one,” Sephiroth commented, “Maybe you two should kiss and make up and pretend you both hadn’t offended each other?”
“Offended? I didn’t offend anyone,” Genesis commented, eyes still on Zack.
“Yeah, what are you talking about. I’m only speaking the truth.”
Their eyes connected and both glared slightly. Cloud gave a pathetic sigh, “Why are you guys fighting? Is it because you haven’t had any in a long time?”
Genesis smiled, “Actually that’s where you’re wrong. I had plenty today.”
Zack cocked his head to the side, “With your hand?”
“No!” he paused and glanced at Sephiroth, his smile coming back on his face. Sephiroth shook his head, “Don’t look at me like that.”
Zack raised an eyebrow, “Sephiroth is sleeping with Genesis?”
Cloud shook his head, “Didn’t we already go over this? They’re just rooming together.”
“No, I mean…seriously this time! Are you two—“
Sephiroth glared at Genesis. Way to go. Waaaay to go. Genesis could only smile back at him, “Of course. It can’t be helped that we both like each other.”
“Jeez, should have seen that one,” Zack commented before Sephiroth glared.
“Excuse me? Don’t say that I’m obvious, because I’m not…” yeah, he wasn’t going to take any of this s**t. Or he might. Well, he wasn’t really gay, but he couldn’t just say ‘woo, I have no p***s’ out loud to them. Yeah, what a sick joke. He was going to have to take the humiliation and pretend it didn’t matter.
“Oh, it wasn’t obvious on your part…I was just thinking of the times when it should have been kind of obvious. The phone calls…the letter…a ring…”
All of them fell silent before Sephiroth glared, “How do you even know about that??”
“Uh…I snooped.”
“You! How? The letter was sealed!!”
“Hey, if I told you my secrets I’d have to kill you.”
Sephiroth got up, grabbing onto Zack’s neck, “I think I’ll murder you first before that happens!”
Cloud got up and grabbed Sephiroth’s arm, “Whoa!! Calm down, Sephiroth, this isn’t something to get upset over. So Genesis ******** dude, you fell into his trap, and we found out. Let’s not jump to each other’s throats…okay? We’ll pretend this conversation never happened.”
Sephiroth glared before sitting down, “Fine.”
Genesis put his hand on Sephiroth’s thigh for comfort, “Besides, we know these two are probably ******** around, too.”
Zack shook his head, “I already said—“
“Yeah, and its not very believable.”
“How is it not believable? Is it because I didn’t drag her into ShinRa building and tote her around like an award? That would look really weird if you think about it.”
“I bet you have no proof that you have one!”
Zack pulled out his phone and showed several pictures of her and him together, “I think I do.”
Sephiroth nodded, “Yeah, it looks like he does, Genesis.”
Genesis glanced at Sephiroth before shrugging, “It was worth a shot.”
Cloud scratched the bridge of his nose, “I thought you two were tired or something. Maybe we should leave you alone to sleep?”
Zack laughed, “If we left them alone they’d ******** each other. I think Angeal purposely set this up so they couldn’t.”
Cloud nodded, “I wouldn’t blame him. If I had to walk in on two people having sex all the time I think I’d shoot myself.”
Sephiroth sighed, “Why are we having this conversation in the first place?”
Genesis shrugged, “I don’t know. But really, does Angeal think two boys are going to stop me from getting what I want? I wouldn’t really care if there’s an audience.”
Sephiroth thought that over and glanced at Genesis, “I think I would mind.”
“Mr. All Powerful is shy of a crowd?” Zack questioned this.
Sephiroth glared, “Yes, because if I went about sexing everyone up I think my ‘hero’ title will be bumped to ‘drunken slut’. I can’t really afford that…at least ShinRa Company can’t.”
“Yeah…but that’s if you do it in public. The two of us would most likely be ridiculed for making up stuff,” Cloud pointed out before playing with a lock of his spiky hair.
Genesis smirked before straddling Sephiroth, pinning his pelvis to the bed, “I think I’m ready for round five.”
Sephiroth now felt like he was in a bad position. Well, not physically. In fact, he kind of enjoyed Genesis’ aggressive behavior, it made him feel like he almost had a challenge going up against him. Aside from that pleasurable thought, he knew that if Genesis pulled anything he’d be in some serious trouble. The two boys couldn’t find out about his situation. It was bad enough Genesis knew…but hey, at least he got a boyfriend out of the deal. And it was clearly okay to have a boyfriend since he was a woman! Er, well, part woman. He was something, he just wasn’t sure what.
“Already?” Sephiroth asked, though now he felt like he was whining. Jesus, you should be glad that Genesis is whoring all over you! What was wrong with him? No no, remember what Hojo said? Augh, who cares about Hojo, the guy completely ******** his life over.
But his reputation was in jeopardy right now. If he just let Genesis take advantage the two might find him really slutty and could tell everyone. Though who would believe him? Everyone might. They were a gullible lot… s**t, he couldn’t let this happen.
“I mean, aren’t you TIRED from all the other times?”
“I recover quickly,” Genesis boasted about himself before pulling at Sephiroth’s shirt, “besides, you know you want more.”
Oh ******** heavens, act quickly!! Do something, Sephiroth!
He grabbed Genesis and threw him to the side, getting on top. Okay, showing dominance was going to help only slightly until they got naked. Wait, were they going to get naked in front of people? He hoped not. Maybe just kissing and acting slutty was fine, but doing it completely was a bit far…especially since he had a secret in his pants.
Oh god, is that what he was going to start calling it? Then again…better than what Hojo kept screaming at him. If he had to hear the ‘v’ word one more time he’d scream.
Zack got up from the bed, “Yeaaaah, on second thought I’d rather not see you two in action.”
Cloud shrugged, “Couldn’t be that bad.”
Zack pulled Cloud up from his spot, “Maybe next time when its expected, eh? Come on, Cloud…this way…” Zack dragged the younger member out and they disappeared.
Genesis listened to the door close before he pulled Sephiroth closer to him, “I love you.”
Wow. It…felt weird receiving those words from anyone. He didn’t feel like he’d ever get such a thing from anyone else, especially this.
“Really?” he asked, eyes connecting with Genesis’s.
“Absolutely.”
Two weeks had passed and Sephiroth had completely buzzed off going to Hojo to correct his issue…he probably should have done something, but he was too busy with Genesis. They were together every single minute of the day it seemed, which only made Angeal not want to be around them. It was a rare moment, one day, that the three were out at lunch together.
Angeal had finished his meal and watched as Genesis picked at his food while Sephiroth watched the crowds of people walk by them curiously. Talk about no privacy….
“So…what are you two doing today?” why’d he even ask? He already knew the answer.
Genesis and Sephiroth glanced at each other, a smirk coming across both of their faces.
Yup, more sex. How lovely was that? Eugh.
Angeal played with his scruff before sighing, “Besides that are you doing anything productive?”
Genesis finally looked up from his salad, “Oh, I’m supposed to meet up with the President, I forgot,” Genesis glanced at the clock and calculated how much longer he had to wait, “I should leave in about 10 minutes.”
Sephiroth gave a curious look, “What does he want?”
“I don’t know, we’ll find out.”
When Genesis left it was Angeal and Sephiroth left. All right, maybe he could talk some sense into the guy before he did anymore dumb s**t with Genesis.
“Sephiroth…we should talk.”
“About?”
“Genesis.”
Sephiroth threw his drink away and didn’t look at Angeal, busying himself with putting his hands in his pockets, “What about him?”
Now how to put it nicely, “I…don’t want to come off as some jerk trying to ruin your fun, but I don’t think Genesis is really loyal to you.”
“What gives you that impression?”
“I wasn’t given details, but I think he’s just using you for sex.”
“Who told you that?”
“Genesis and Hollander.”
Sephiroth stopped in his tracks, “Hollander? Why are you even talking to him?”
“Don’t get so defensive. Genesis asked me to go with him back there two days ago to have some…blood test or something. Hollander said something about...how remarkably quick he was recovering from something. And Genesis said that in two more weeks he’d most likely be finished with you.”
Sephiroth glared, “What’s that even supposed to mean?”
“I’m guessing it means he’ll dump you in two weeks. But I’m just giving you a heads up, I don’t know what’s going through that man’s mind. Maybe I interpreted everything the wrong way…”
Sephiroth fell silent as he puzzled over it and then shook his head, “No, I doubt Genesis would do that to me. He likes me too much. You probably just got the wrong impression.”
“Yeah..” ugh, what an idiot. He was trying to be nice and look at how it turned out. Oh well, Sephiroth would learn soon enough.
They had made it back to ShinRa building slowly, returning to their room. As soon as they set foot in Genesis came bursting in with a triumphant look on his face.
“I’m a 1st class SOLDIER! Can you believe it?” he glanced over at Angeal, “Why haven’t they promoted you?”
Angeal snorted, “They already did a long time ago.”
Sephiroth and Genesis gasped. Yes, gasped. How…awkward. Ahem.
“Why didn’t you tell us?” Sephiroth asked.
“Is it really that big of a deal? The three of us were going to make it into 1st class somehow. Besides, you two were having too much fun together that there’s no point in saying anything. Genesis would get bitchy and you, Sephiroth, would have to deal with it. I think not telling you was a better option.”
Genesis glared, “I would not have been upset, I would have been proud of you. It’s something you’re supposed to tell others!”
“Hmmph, I think that’s more to boost an ego than to deal with pride.” Angeal moved to the door, “Anyway, I’ll talk to you guys later.”
He went on out and left them together.
“Maybe he’s just upset that we’re together all the time?” Sephiroth questioned.
Genesis moved over to the bed and sat down, pulling Sephiroth over to him, “Jealousy can be quite a bad thing. Let’s not allow him to ruin our evening, hmm? I think we should celebrate.” If you know what he really means. Bang bang, bow chicka wow wow.
Sephiroth smiled and sat down next to Genesis, “How do you want to celebrate?” Yes, he had suddenly become oblivious to all the hints. It was almost as if their daily routine of sex had wiped itself from his mind.
Genesis stared at him like he was dumb, “Sex, duh.”
Sephiroth frowned, “Oh, I thought you wanted to do something else for once. Switch it up a bit?”
“What? What gave you that idea? I like what we’re doing now.”
“W-well, yeah, I like it to, I just…thought—“
“You thought wrong. So what position do you want today? I’ll let you pick.”
Eh. Sephiroth thought it over and wasn’t sure how to respond. Was….Angeal right about Genesis? Jeez, he hadn’t even noticed that all they did was have sex…
“Uhh…let me think about it?”
“Take your time.”
Sephiroth went to the bathroom to brush his hair a bit wondering what he should do about this. Maybe bring it up? No, Genesis would get defensive about it and he might actually break up with him. What if he…subtly said that Angeal mentioned it? Augh, why would he bring Angeal into this? Or maybe just…say that he noticed he left two nights ago? Oh, yeah, that might work!
“Genesis, two nights ago you and Angeal left at night. What were you up to?”
Act casual. Hope he doesn’t suspect anything.
“We went out.”
“To where?”
“The mall.”
Eh…what kind of a lie was… “So late at night? Why?”
“I wanted to buy you something, be a surprise and all.”
Surprise surprise, you’re lying! “Oh?”
Genesis walked in and showed Sephiroth a box that was wrapped. Holy s**t, he did buy him a gift.
“You…you really mean it?”
“Yeah, open it up!”
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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 6:58 pm
Sephiroth put his brush down and moved to sit on the bed, delicately opening up the package. He lifted the lid and stared at the items inside.
He picked up a bottle and read it over, “Oooh, shampoo!”
“Not just any type of shampoo,” Genesis said as he got closer, kissing Sephiroth’s neck, “you and I should take a bath together, hmm?”
Oh. A ‘special’ type of shampoo. His gifts were even laced with sex.
“Okay.” What else could he say? At least he got a gift, right?
It was during their lusty bath that Genesis finally realized that Sephiroth wasn’t working at his fullest potential.
“Is something wrong? You seem really inactive on your part…”
“Wellll…you know I was talking to Angeal earlier today while you were with the President…”
“What about?”
“You. He…said that…” Sephiroth shrugged, “it’s not really important, I don’t really believe it.”
“No, tell me.”
“He said that you were just…using me…but you wouldn’t do that, would you?”
“Of course not! I can’t believe you’d consider it.”
“No, I didn’t! He just mentioned it and I got worried, but I didn’t believe him!”
“Hmmph. I don’t see why you’d even worry, do you think I’m really up to something?”
“No, I—“
“Look, if you really don’t want to do this we can stop—“
“Genesis, it’s fine. I’m over it, let’s continue.”
Genesis stared at him for a bit before smiling, “All right.”
Another week passed. Sephiroth was waiting outside the cave for Genesis. Where was he? They normally met here on Tuesdays…maybe he just got caught up with Angeal or something? Probably. He tapped his foot slightly and waited for another ten minutes before Genesis arrived.
“Where were you?”
“Does it matter? Come on.”
Sephiroth glared, “Yeah, it kind of does.”
“Why are you getting so defensive? I was just stopped by someone is all.”
“Who?”
“That blonde kid. Cloud? Yeah, him.”
“What about?”
“You seem really upset right now, maybe we should just—“
“I SAID what about?”
Genesis stared at Sephiroth, “You’re getting really defensive. He wanted to know what I was doing later tonight.”
“What’d you tell him?”
“I said I was busy tonight. Is something wrong?”
Sephiroth shook his head, “No, it’s nothing. I just don’t like waiting.”
“Right, now let’s go.”
They headed in and took their clothes off, getting on the bed. It wasn’t but five minutes in that Genesis’ cell phone rang.
“Don’t answer it.”
“Hush, Sephiroth, it’s probably important.”
“Genesis—“
Genesis picked up the phone before Sephiroth could say anything else.
“Yes? Yeah…oh really? All right, I’ll be over right away.”
As Genesis shut his phone he got up and off of Sephiroth, grabbing his clothes, “I have to go, sorry.”
“Where?” Sephiroth asked confused. He had never been like this before…
“Orders are orders, Sephiroth, I’ll fill you in later!”
He was out before Sephiroth could object. What was going on? He quickly dressed himself and went to follow just to see what he was up to. It had to be important, right? Genesis wouldn’t just leave him hanging like that…
He lay low and watched Genesis get farther away until he was just a red leather dot in the distance. Sephiroth maneuvered unseen by everyone to reach another safe position and continued to watch. Genesis was looking around before he took a right to some trashy alleyway. Wait, this place looked familiar. Was it…Hollander he was going to? Why was he going to Hollander during this time of the day??
Sephiroth slipped closer and watched Genesis vanish into the building. Damn, he wished he could sneak in and see how it was going. His eyes glanced about before he jumped to the rooftop and waited there. It was at least a half hour before Genesis exited the shabby place with a smirk on his face, pulling out his phone. Sephiroth flinched, he hoped he wasn’t calling him or else he’d know he was there. But his phone didn’t go off at all.
“Cloud? Hey, you know I changed my mind…if you’re still willing.”
What??
“Yeah, I’d love to. Don’t worry about him, I’ve got it covered. Yes. Then I’ll meet you there.”
He clicked a few buttons before he called someone else.
“Angeal? Is Sephiroth with you? Oh, okay, good. No, I was just wondering. Why? Well…I’ve got some good news and bad news.”
Sephiroth stared at the roof he was lying on and listened intently. He wished he could hear what Angeal was saying…
“Of course you’d want the good news first. The degrading has finally stopped thanks to Sephiroth. I know, I didn’t think it would happen…at least not this early. Bad news is I’m breaking up with him tonight.”
Sephiroth felt his heart drop and he bit his lip. What? But…
“Yeah, I’ll let him know soon. Well...maybe you should be there to witness it, just in case he tries to kill me. Of course you’d like to see him hurt me. Whatever. Look, I have a date later tonight, I don’t want to look like a complete mess. Yeah, so? Well…he’s cute. I’m sure Sephiroth will understand. All right, later.”
Genesis hung up and Sephiroth moved on off quickly before he could notice him. This…wasn’t really happening. He was just imagining it all. Please tell him he was just making it up, please…
He had gotten halfway back to ShinRa building when his own phone rang. Good thing he had moved, right?
“Yes?”
“Sephiroth, hey, can we meet up soon?”
“I thought you were busy.”
“Oh, it ended up being solving itself practically. Why don’t we meet in our room?”
“All right, should I prepare for something good?”
“Ahh…no, I’m thinking of something new.”
“Okay…”
The phone clicked before Sephiroth could say much more. Oh…no. It…was true. Wake up, Sephiroth, wake up! This was all just a dream and he was not actually going through this.
He reached his room and sat down on the bed, glancing over at Angeal. The man curiously gave him a look back before going back to reading his paper. Hmm…he wondered if Genesis had told him to meet back there and pretend nothing was going on? Ugh…wait…why was he even doing this? Why couldn’t he just leave and prolong it? But…what would be the point in that?
The door opened and Sephiroth’s heart fluttered. “Genesis.”
Genesis walked in, giving a small smile, “Good, you’re here.”
“Where else would I be?”
Genesis didn’t respond, just stood there.
“What?”
Genesis sighed a bit and glanced down at him, “I think we need to talk.”
Talk? Was this a talk? What did that even mean? He could tell this was going to be a lot worse than he was leading up to, “About what?”
“I…think…you and I…you know, need to get away a bit more.”
“What?” Make sense, dammit.
“I mean, we…should…break up.”
“Break up?”
“Yeah. Stop dating.”
Sephiroth felt those words stab at him. God, he had never felt this type of pain before in his life, “Why? What made you decide that?”
Genesis shrugged, “Ohh…well…you know, I don’t think…we’re ready for a real relationship. We should see other people before we really decide.”
Sephiroth glared. Oh, yeah, ******** around with as many people as you can, “That isn’t what you really think, is it?”
Genesis shook his head, “If I told you what I really think you wouldn’t like it.”
Sephiroth glanced at the floor before up at Genesis, “Would it matter how I feel? You’re breaking up with me, after all, might as well tell me what’s going on in your head.”
Genesis at first didn’t reply before laughing, “God, you’re so...stupid.”
Sephiroth frowned, “What?”
“I can’t believe you went with everything I told you to do. Seriously, you don’t know a thing about relationships. You just obeyed me because you thought I loved you. All you wanted was some love, am I right?” He let out another laugh, “You’re pathetic.”
Sephiroth felt that really hit him. Why…was he saying these things to him?
“I used you. You suspected me when Angeal spilled last week, but you quickly threw that idea away when I said I cared for you. To tell the truth I never liked you. All you did was ruin my day with your haughty attitude and always showing off how you’re better than everyone else. I’m sick of it.” Genesis moved closer, eyes glaring down at him, “And then I became plagued. The only way I could cure myself was to get your blood into me, so I thought…what a more perfect opportunity to abuse you and leave you scarred for life than this? That’s why we slept with each other so many times a day. I didn’t actually care for you or your stupid feelings about being unloved. I just needed a cure. And now that I’m fixed I don’t need you anymore.”
Sephiroth still didn’t say anything. It…was hurting a lot worse than he expected.
“No one would ever love a monster like you. I can’t believe you’d ever think anyone would, Sephiroth. You’re just an experiment in everyone’s eyes, nothing more.”
That one hit hard. No one loved him? Was that…true?
“That’s why your parents didn’t even stick around to see how you would turn out. That’s why no one wanted to take care of you. And that’s why you’ll always be alone in your life.”
Genesis moved back finally, “What, are you speechless? Surprised that this would happen to you? Bet you don’t feel like a ‘Hero’ anymore, do you?”
Sephiroth looked away. Don’t cry, it isn’t that bad. You’ll get over this.
“And don’t think you can go around and make a mockery of me. Remember, I know your secret, and it’ll become public news if you cross me.”
Sephiroth glared at him, “You’re really low, you know that?”
“Am I? I feel like I’ve got the upper hand, here. Watch yourself.”
Sephiroth stood up, eyes piercing into Genesis’, “If that’s what you think then fine. I don’t care if you tell anyone anymore, you might as well! That’s all you’re good at; making everyone feel like they don’t matter.”
Genesis smirked, “Oh? Did I strike a nerve?”
“The next time I see you, Genesis, I won’t stop myself from killing you.”
“Hah, why not try me now? Afraid?”
“I like to give my targets a head start.”
Sephiroth moved out of the room and went to Hojo’s. He kept calm until he made it in there. He found Hojo writing down in a notebook, whistling to himself when he approached him. Hojo turned and noticed the look on Sephiroth’s face.
“Oh boy, something bad happened, I’m assuming. Come on, let’s get you in the office before anyone sees you.”
He pushed Sephiroth into the concealed office and sat him down, handing him a tissue to dry his tears, “I think this is the second time I’ve ever seen you cry, boy. Is this going to become routine? I need to ask for a bigger supply of tissues, then…”
“Why doesn’t anyone love me?”
Hojo stared at Sephiroth like he had asked him the most insane question ever.
“What are you talking about, boy?”
“No one…loves me…I’m just some experiment…”
“Who told you that?”
“Who cares…it’s true.”
“Don’t tell me it was that idiot who wears pink. He’s about as bright as a screw in the dark, and I am still refuting why they let that imbecile in 1st class. They said he could memorize things well, clearly that’s all it takes to become the top of your class.”
Sephiroth glanced at Hojo, “Genesis…it was him.”
“And why does it upset you that he even said anything?”
“Because…” Sephiroth trailed off. He…wasn’t sure if he could tell Hojo the details.
“Oh don’t tell me you were screwing around with him. I told you not to do it, but did you listen? Of course not, Professor Hojo wouldn’t understand a thing! Pah. Did you learn your lesson?”
Sephiroth nodded his head.
“Well, that’s all that matters. Now what did you come here for?”
“I…want you to fix me.”
“You’re already fixed, kid, I can’t make you less reproductive than you already are.”
“No! I mean…make me into a boy.”
“Oh. So…permanently change your va—“
“YES. Just…get it over with.”
“All right, if that’s what you’ve decided. You’ll be feeling better in no time, and this emotional issue will be finished. And who knows, maybe once you’re changed you can rip Genesis a new hole? Wouldn’t that be nice?”
Sephiroth thought it over. Hey…he was right. If he was a boy wouldn’t he have more anger issues, so clearly destroying Genesis would be on the top of his list…
“All the more reason to do this.”
The procedure started up and Sephiroth felt himself go into the unconscious state.
It was probably the worst time of Sephiroth’s life. It was mostly because of the cynical dreams that kept interrupting his peaceful and drugged sleep. He remembered seeing Genesis dressed as another flamboyant ballerina, going about in a prancing way and curtseying to the higher ups. He was ranked the best ballerina dancer ever, and was given a 1st class BALLERINA SOLDIER button. That made Sephiroth so freaking jealous. HE deserved those types of things. And what was worse was the fact that he had to try and outbeat his performance, but then his hair kept getting in the way, and once he tripped and hit his knee on the ground, making him cry out in the worst agony possible. Not only did he get a bad score, but then he had to suffer the walk of shame back to the locker room to change out of his own ballerina outfit. The ending part was probably the least favorite of his, with Genesis walking in and telling him that he was a failed experiment.
Hmmph, stupid dreams…they were all just a sack of lies!
When he awoke he found Hojo looming over him in a very creepy manner. Not only was Sephiroth cold and mostly naked, but he felt like he was on the greatest high of his life, which also induced pain that he couldn’t even describe, as it was in a region that he wished to never hurt from ever again.
“Oh goodie, you’re waking up, my beautiful experiment, how do you feel?”
“Baked pie?”
What the hell did that even mean?? He couldn’t even think correctly anymore. It was probably that dumb dream about Genesis. Urgh, that pissed him off.
“Yes yes, in due time you can bake all the pies you want and eat to your hearts content. But at the moment you must endure bodily pain in regions I’m sure you don’t want to feel pain in. Don’t worry, you’ll be fully recovered in a week’s time. I’ve informed the fat cats that you’re under my care for an in depth experiment on dream monitoring and will be unable to attend any missions. I’m sure the word will catch wind soon, and that pink flamingo ex-boyfriend of yours will hear about it. I’ve set up a replicated area if he happens to come flocking in, so don’t worry about having to see him. Any questions?”
“My d**k hurts.”
“Yes. It probably does. Now I’ll let you sleep.”
Sephiroth watched Hojo disappear and he soon blacked out.
When the week passed and Sephiroth was finally released he headed to his room. Everyone smiled and said hi to him, giving those cheesy ‘we missed you’ sayings that only made him want to vomit and stab someone. He still didn’t feel good. Hojo did tell him, in the creepiest way possible, that he would still feel bad for the next week or so and that he might have severe side affects of nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach…but thankfully not diarrhea. Then he got a giant lecture on sex and how abstinence is best, and how babies are formed. He wasn’t exactly sure why Hojo gave him that talk, but he was pretty sure it was only done to scar his mind forever and to make him never want to ******** anything ever again.
It was working.
Sephiroth opened the door to his room and heard singing. Yes, singing. And it wasn’t a whiney nasty voice that he could only relate to the one person that he really hated, but to a man that he never thought would ever sing.
“Look for the bear necessities, the simple bear necessities, forget about your worries and your strife…”
Sephiroth watched Angeal continue his lovely rendition of the Disney song before aheming.
The man crinkled his paper and stared at him, unsure of how to explain what he was doing.
“Bear necessities, hmm?” Sephiroth commented with a devilish smirk.
“Why do you always arrive at the worst times? Couldn’t you have come three days ago when Genesis was complaining about his hair or something? Anyway, you look well rested and slightly uncomfortable.”
“I’m suffering from post-sleeping syndrome. It’s where you become extremely discomforted when grown men sing children’s songs.”
Angeal glared and then grinned, “Good to know that you’re feeling better. How was your sleep cycle? Any interesting dreams?”
“If you like ballet, than perhaps.”
“Do I really want to know?”
“Probably not.”
Angeal sighed and nodded before folding up his paper and throwing it in the pile that had been collecting in the corner. Typical Angeal.
“I hope you’re not going to seek revenge on Genesis for what he did to you. Sure it was heartless and ignorant of him, but…did you really expect much else from him?”
Sephiroth gave a haughty ‘hmmph’ and flicked his hair, “No, I’m over it. The experimentation helped.”
Angeal nodded, “I bet it would. Well, if you’re going to avoid Genesis then I say leave now. He’s coming back soon from the band room.”
Sephiroth raised an eyebrow, “Since when did he go there?”
“When you left. He said he wanted a theme song…whatever that means.”
“I see,” that moron completely ripped that off from him. Whatever, nothing could outdo his amazing song.
He heard the doorknob turn and he didn’t move from his spot as he heard the door swing open, Genesis’ voice ringing out, “Angeal, I think Cloud and I are—“ he dropped his sentence. Sephiroth smiled and finally turned to see the man as if he didn’t already know he was entering.
“Genesis,” oh how he wanted to slaughter him. His stomach hurt right now, and all he could think about was vomiting anger upon this fool. But no, he kept it in and decided to do it the gentlemanly way.
“Sephiroth…you’re back,” Genesis muttered before getting a smile on his own face, “finally done moping? I didn’t think it’d take that long for you to get over me. Then again, what can I sa—“
“If by moping you mean finished with experimentation on dream pathways, then yes.”
Genesis was taken aback at how quickly he was to correct him. He looked away and moved over to his things, “Oh, and what did you find out about your research?”
“REM only happens in certain phases. The eye movements actually do relate to what is being visualized during a dream. It may look differently due to the eyelids are normally closed, but when an eyelid is kept open the movements correlate perfectly. Different doses of chemicals can affect REM and the sleep cycle, especially those with high doses of melatonin.”
Genesis stared at him wondering what any of that meant. Sephiroth hadn’t a clue, he just bullshitted the whole thing. He knew that if he sounded intelligent Genesis would most likely buy it.
“What have you two been doing while I was gone?”
“Sleeping normally,” Angeal replied as he got up and brushed himself off.
Genesis pursed his lips and glared, “I’ve been helping citizens, like the way a real Hero would.”
Sephiroth chuckled, “Oh yes, thanks for filling in. I’ll be picking up the work now so you don’t have to bother with it. What would I do without you, Genesis?”
Angeal cracked his back, “Oh, you’d probably ask me to do your dirty work. Not that I’d actually do it, mind you.”
Genesis scoffed and brushed his hair out of his face, only to have it fall back dramatically the way it had just been, “Don’t think that because you’re some top dog experiment that you’ll outshine me. I’ve been doing actual work, you’ve been sleeping away your life feeling sorry for yourself. You’ll see, I’m the one that everyone wants and not you!”
Sephiroth shrugged, “Then so be it. I was never one to want the spotlight,” he then noticed something different about Genesis, “What did you do to your hair?”
Genesis glared, “I did nothing to it.”
Sephiroth raised an eyebrow, “You’ve got a gray streak. Getting old already? That’s sad.”
Genesis at first didn’t think about it before going to the bathroom to take a look himself. At first it was utter silence before Angeal and Sephiroth heard him cursing.
“Hmm…doesn’t sound like he’s enjoying it,” Angeal muttered and moved to leave. Sephiroth followed him.
“Maybe he’s so stressed that his body is breaking down? That’d be a shame.”
Angeal kept walking with him before speaking up, “He’s degrading.”
“Degrading? Didn’t he say he cured that?” with Sephiroth’s bodily fluids.
“Hollander spoke too soon, he failed to do a full body count. His immune system overrode it and basically made him really sick. All he did was get rid of it through lovely excretion by the kidneys. If he wants to live he’d need a blood transfusion again. This time in a more practical way, I can assume.”
Sephiroth laughed, “Then he’ll degrade away.”
“Payback’s a b***h.”
“Indeed.”
Sephiroth spotted the blonde that Genesis had been crushing on. Oh, now he was getting some good ideas.
“Excuse me, Angeal, I have important matters to deal with.”
“Enjoy.”
Sephiroth walked up to Cloud and gave him a deadly smirk, “You’re Genesis’ boyfriend, aren’t you?”
He had said it rather loudly which caused people to stare. Cloud at first didn’t know how to respond before he shrugged, “I suppose you could say that.”
“Yes, of course. Come with me.”
Cloud followed Sephiroth to a more private area, “Um…what do you want with me?”
Sephiroth smiled, “Nothing at all, who do you think I am?”
“Um…Genesis’ EX-boyfriend…”
“Ah, of course. I don’t play like that, what happened has happened. I’ve only brought you here for more important matters.”
Cloud glanced at him and then nodded, “Okay…”
“Has Genesis said anything about me while I’ve been busy?”
Cloud nodded, “Yeah, that you’re a woman.”
Sephiroth laughed. Yes, he actually laughed this time, “That’s a good one. Anything else?”
“Not really…just…bad-mouthed you about how worthless you are and crap.”
“Of course. Has he told anyone else?”
“Um...I think so…but I’m not really sure.”
“If you could name anyone that he might have told who would it be?”
Cloud stared at him. Well…if he really wanted to know….
Sephiroth soon found himself searching for the one person that he hated more than Genesis. Reno. Of all people to tell, he had to go to THAT rat b*****d.
He spent a good hour hunting him down only to find the loser was sitting in the most obvious spot ever. He was insanely tired of playing cat and mouse, considering within that entire hour he had vomited 5 times. Sephiroth approached the man with a furious and grumpy look, but kept his cool at the moment.
“Oh hey, it’s the he-she!”
All right, when he said ‘keep his cool’ he really meant ‘strangle that b***h’. Sephiroth raised an eyebrow curiously and kept a straight face, holding his fists to his side, “Pardon?”
“We’ve all heard about your little secret. Keeping a cooter in the pants and all,” Reno laughed and slapped his knee, “I never thought you were a woman. I mean, why didn’t they just make you one sex instead of two?”
Everyone else around him was listening in, though trying not to act interested.
“Reno, what are you talking about?”
Yes, act clueless.
“Genesis told us your little secret about having a vag—“
“Genesis?” Yes, interrupt him before he could say that ******** word. He HATED that word.
“Yeah, he said he ******** you three times over a day and how you were his little b***h and such.”
Sephiroth laughed. Yeah, he laughed again, “He actually said that? Oh boy, and when did he come up with that story?”
Reno thought it over and shrugged, “He started talking about it last week.”
“While I was gone?”
“Yeah.”
Sephiroth smirked, “Figures he’d talk behind my back when I’m gone. I hope you don’t actually believe anything he said.” You better not you little cow or you’ll be ripped to shreds!
“Pssh, no! Do you know how DUMB ShinRa company would have to be to actually goof up like that? I mean…I know sometimes things are a bit on the dumb side, but taking someone like you and doing some odd gender bender just doesn’t make sense.”
The rest of the people nodded in agreement to their friends that were around them.
“This is very entertaining, I should talk to him about his little rumor he started.”
Reno nodded, “Show him not to ******** around with the best.”
Sephiroth smirked again before walking off. Oh yes, everyone liked him too much to believe stupid Genesis. Now all he wanted to do was kill him. Oh, but he’d like to prolong it in such a manner that Genesis would be begging for forgiveness.
Now what to do. Oh yes, talk to the President might be helpful.
Sephiroth made his way to the President’s room when Zack showed up, “Hey, Sephiroth, you’re back! It’s good to see you.”
Oh boy, act happy, “Yes, of course.”
“You’re looking good, get enough sleep? I heard you were dozing for the past 2 weeks. That’d be a great vacation.”
“Undeniably enjoyable.”
“Have you seen Genesis yet?”
“Unfortunately.”
“Yeah. This is between you and me, but I think he’s getting old. Did you see his hair?”
“Graying like a fogged morning.”
“Yeah! I wonder if he just ran out of hair dye or something.”
“I’ll tell him to contact his beautician, then.”
“Haha, he would have one of those. What are you up to, anyway?”
“I was going to talk to the President.”
“Oh, he’s gone for something. Not sure what. Lazard is the only one in there at the moment.”
“What a pity.”
“You doing anything right now?”
“Not in particular.”
“Why not come with me for a drink?”
Sephiroth was about to decline when it kind of struck him that…Zack was just trying to be nice. The kid respected him, unlike Genesis. Why was he pushing that away so much?
“Sure, why not?”
He followed Zack on out of the building, noticing it was getting a bit colder out. Maybe it’d snow soon? That’d be nice.
“How’s life treating you?” Zack asked as they kept walking. A few people noticed Sephiroth and waved at him. He smiled back at them and nodded at a few.
“I don’t know. Truthfully? I…think things have hit rock bottom.”
Zack glanced up at Sephiroth, “Oh? I wasn’t expecting you to say that. How so?”
Sephiroth shook his head, “Being an experiment doesn’t have any ups.”
A group of teenaged girls came flocking over, giggling and blushing at the sight of him, “Sephiroth, we were wondering if we could have your autograph.”
His autograph? What was he, some celebrity? Eh, whatever, “Do you have a pen?”
The girl brought out a permanent marker, “Could you sign my chest?”
Zack about died at that while Sephiroth gave a slight laugh, “Uh…really?”
“Yeah!” The girls laughed nervously and one practically ripped off her shirt for him. Oh heavens.
“All right then…” Sephiroth signed her chest. Wow. Boobs. Ahem. And did the same for the other girl. Wow, that felt so great. Too bad he was actually a girl…gosh. He needed to stop reminding himself that. He had the surgery, he was no longer a woman at all.
They thanked him and rushed off happily.
“That was hot,” Zack whispered and Sephiroth shrugged, “All in a day’s work I suppose.”
“Sign my chest?” Zack mocked and Sephiroth smirked.
“You’d enjoy it too much.”
They reached a small café and got coffee, sitting down at a table together.
“Zack…I want to go see my mother.”
“What? What made you decide to do that?”
“I don’t know. I feel obligated to. I think it would be the right thing to do.”
Zack nodded, “Yeah, you’re right. But…I didn’t think you knew where she was at?”
“I still don’t…I suppose I’ll have to find her.”
“I could help!”
“Yes, that’s why I’m telling you this. I would like you to help me search through ShinRa’s files to figure out anything about my parents. Any type of link or hint could be extremely helpful to me.”
“Your mom’s name is Jenova, right?”
“Yes.”
“Hmm…shouldn’t be too hard to find. How are we going to access ShinRa computers and hack into them without getting caught?”
“We do it through Hojo’s computers. I have a connection with him, he’ll possibly let us get through. We’ll cover it up with different research though. We just need to find something to targ—“
He stopped and put his coffee down, “Genesis.”
“What about him?”
“Angeal told me that he’s got this condition where his body continuously degrades. It’s like aging faster than normal. If we pretend to be researching that Hojo will let it slide, he won’t know what we’re really looking for.”
“Oh, that’s a good cover up! How do we get into the system, though? Everything is always restricted.”
“We’ll have Hojo let us in. If he thinks we’re doing anything for science he’ll support us and help us. He’s odd like that.”
“Obviously…what should we do when we find the information?”
“I’m not sure yet. We should wait and see what we get.”
Zack nodded, “All right.” He took a drink of his coffee and glanced at the 1st class SOLDIER curiously, “You probably don’t want to talk about it…but…how did you take the breakup? I know Cloud told me all about it…but it probably isn’t the same.”
Sephiroth looked away, “It went fine. He told me why he used me and that was that. No need in fighting it.”
“Harsh. Why’d he do it?”
Sephiroth shook his head, “Because he wants a cure…and he knew he could use me without any problem.”
“You really thought he cared about you…huh?”
Sephiroth hesitated in responding before nodding, “I wouldn’t let myself think otherwise. Not if I could be happy for once in my life.”
“What are you going to do about it?”
“There is nothing I can do but wait for my wounds to heal and forget about it.”
Zack frowned and tilted his head to the side, much like he usually did, “I’m surprised. I thought you’d break his neck or something.”
“Maybe later. I’d rather build up all the anger, first.”
“Yeesh, I hope I’m not around when you go off. You’ll probably destroy everything in your path.”
Sephiroth glanced at the sky as it was bleak and gray, “That’s the plan.” He looked back down and pulled off his glove, taking the ring off, “Here, take this.”
Zack glanced at the ring before looking back up at Sephiroth. He wanted an explanation.
“The only way to break away completely is to lose all connection,” Sephiroth informed before standing up, nodding for Zack to follow him. They both continued their walk, plotting for when they’d talk to Hojo about Genesis…
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Hojo leaned forward in his seat and adjusted his glasses, mouth gapping and eyes squinted at his new subject. “So very fascinating, I wonder…” He pulled out a pen and paper, scribbling down everything he was seeing. “Subject is starting to fumigate.” The slamming of a door caused him to jump and spin around, “What imbecile is bothering me at this hour?? Can’t you see I’m in the middle of terribly drastic experiments?!? Shoo before I throw toxic waste on your feeble mind and turn you into a toad!”
“It’s me, Hojo.” Sephiroth appeared and flicked his hair with two fingers to rest against his back.
“Oh…I didn’t see you.”
“What are you doing?”
“It’s rather fascinating, actually. You see, this sea urchin in this tube has started to react to a deficiency in—“
“Nevermind, don’t tell me what you’re doing. It sounds boring and complicated.”
Hojo sniffed. Kids these days. “I could tell you the process of how I created your p***s.” OH ******** GOD. WHY?
“NO. Ahem. No.” Yeah, don’t bellow that out, Sephiroth. “I came here on different matters that do include scientific research.”
“Oooh! Science!” Hojo clapped his hands together like a child and got closer to Sephiroth, “What is it you’re trying to find out, my boy? This old man has thousands of scientific experiments floating about in the brain, I can tell you everything you need to know! I’m a great source to cite, too, in case it needs to be in paper form.”
“I was thinking more along the lines of using your computers.”
“What? To use the…dare I say it…internet? Are you insane? They could put up anything on there and you would use it over my well educated brain?? Sephiroth, I think you need to learn a lesson in true research!” Hojo began to start a rant, but Sephiroth had to cut him short.
“No. Not the internet. The archives of ShinRa Company. I’m doing research on a condition called degradation. I’m not exactly sure what it is, but I’m trying to figure out more about it.”
Hojo’s face fell and he glared at Sephiroth, his beady eyes taking in the man in front of him. “You will not use my computer for such foolery, princess. In fact, I don’t want you even speaking of it. Your research on degradation would have to go through the President first and he would have to decline your request.”
“But why?”
“Because, you ninny, the fact is degradation has a link to your past! If you started researching the archives you could find out things you’re not supposed to! I will not be held responsible for such an incident. Take your stupid ideals and throw them out the window, Sephiroth, and get out of here.”
Sephiroth wasn’t expecting that at all. He…was linked to degradation? It would explain why Genesis needed his blood, but then again…had it something to do with his mother more than him? “All right…if I can’t use the archives than I’ll use you. Tell me as much as you can about it.”
Hojo shook his head, “I’m not telling you a thing, child. Here, have a sucker and get out of here.” Hojo held out a sucker for him to take. “Go on, take the damn thing before I unwrap it and jam it down that fragile throat of yours.”
Sephiroth took it and turned to leave before he stopped. “Fragile throat?” That…sounded wrong.
“Yes, you got it from your mother. Now get out of here.”
“My mother? But…”
“I said get out! Need I get out a paddle and spank you with it each time you disobey my orders? I’m going to need to get body guards in here. A giant bouncer would be nice…one that likes scrawny boys such as yourself. Hehehehee. I bet you’d like to deal with that.”
Sephiroth sighed and exited the room to find Zack outside. He was waiting for him. Stupid idiot. “You could have come in with me. What are you, scared of Hojo the mad scientist? All he can do is lick light bulbs and sign papers, both of which are useless in comparison to what other scientists are doing in there.”
“Uh…well I thought it would be more convincing if I wasn’t around considering I look like I’m an idiot compared to you.”
“Good point. For once you used your brain.”
“Hey!”
Zack followed him as Sephiroth twiddled the sucker in his fingers. He could tell the man was plotting things over, trying to figure out their next move. “Why did he decline?”
“I never told you he declined,” Sephiroth remarked.
“I was eavesdropping.”
“Ah, of course. Then you would already know the answer to that question.”
“True…I was just trying to make conversation.”
“Don’t, it makes you look like a moron. You should go back to your duties, I need to talk things over with Angeal for a minute.” Sephiroth paused in leaving the kid. He jammed the sucker in Zack’s armor, “There. Have a sucker.” He then walked off to find where Angeal had gone.
Zack stared at the sucker and pulled it out. What the hell…
Sephiroth walked through the hallways and corridors. He knew exactly where Angeal had gone. He went into the training room and soon found the man by himself. “Hiding from me? That isn’t very nice.”
“Ha, you? Why would I ever do such a thing to such a cherished icon? What do you need?” Angeal got up from his spot and dusted himself off.
“I thought some small talk would be beneficial for the two of us.”
“Oh boy, what is this, a sex talk? I’m not the one who’s sleeping around.”
“No, it’s a bit different than that, but you’re close.”
“Oh goodie. All right, tell me.”
Sephiroth brushed his fingers through his hair and began to explain what he was doing with Zack. The entire process, too. Angeal listened intently without any interruption and nodding his head as Sephiroth continued his speech about his mother and how he’d find her.
“Sadly Hojo has refused in helping me.”
“Because degradation relates to you, and what relates to you is your mother.”
“Precisely.”
“Anything else that he said to you while he was going on his odd antics?”
“That I have a fragile throat.”
Angeal stared and played with his chin hairs. At first he was about to say something but shook his head, dismissing the reply. He thought it over and nodded, “How would he know you have a fragile throat? What has he been doing to you while you’ve been ‘sleeping’?”
Sephiroth winced. He did not want to think about it like that, “He said I got it from my mother.”
“That’s funny, how did he know that?”
Silence fell over them again before their eyes met each other. What a disturbing thought, but…
“Do you think…” Sephiroth mumbled. No, it couldn’t be.
“That Hojo screwed your mom? Possible. He did say he knew her. Heavens, what an interesting thing to find out. But maybe it would make sense? Your mom having an affair and then your real dad went away, Hojo is left with taking care of you since your mom is crushed about what happened. Then you become a God here at ShinRa.”
Sephiroth shook his head, “No, I don’t think that’s possible. That’s just disturbing and dramatic. Do you really think Hojo has ever been involved in any type of drama before? All he can do is screw with people’s minds and call them nicknames.”
Angeal nodded, “You’re probably right.”
They fell silent again. Sephiroth stared at Angeal, “You know, don’t you?”
“That your mom’s throat was fragile? Possibly.”
“Not that, idiot. About who my mother is…and where she’s at.”
Angeal shook his head a few times and scuffed his boots against the floor. What was he to say to that? Sephiroth was quite the inquiring boy, though. “I know about her but her whereabouts are unknown.”
“Then why don’t you just tell me about her?”
“Because none of us are authorized to do that, Sephiroth, you know that.”
“When did you even find out about her?”
Angeal paced and grumbled, thinking back when he first found out. “Let’s see…I believe I was called in one day to the President’s office and told specific top secret details about you. That was the day that we met, actually. It happened sometime after we went out to eat and everything.”
“They told you everything…because we met?”
“Yes. They didn’t want us to go uninformed into a friendship with you without knowing the entire consequences we’d be dealing with. Genesis was freaked out about it, he kept telling me that perhaps we should forget you and bail. I had a different look at it, though. They told us because they wanted us to know, of course…but they were testing to see if we’d alienate you. A 1st class SOLDIER wouldn’t be stupid enough to get afraid of someone else because they have ‘cooties’ so why would we do the same to you? If I hadn’t convinced Genesis to grow a pair I believe he wouldn’t be around.”
“Oh darn, you should regret that.”
“Ha, I almost do.”
Sephiroth sat down and stared at the metal floor near Angeal’s scuffed boots. “I can’t believe it…everyone knows what I am except for me…why is it such a big secret? If I knew would it make anything different?”
“Why do you have to know?”
“Because it’s my life! I think I deserve to be well informed about what I am…don’t you? If I knew my mother and father…at least their names…I wouldn’t bother with this ever again. I’d drop it, forget about it. All I have is her name and that’s it. Not a photograph, not a letter, I don’t have anything. What if that’s just a cover up? What if her name isn’t even Jenova but…I don’t know…Susan or something? What if she worked here and we knew each other?”
“Calm down, that’s a lot of ‘what ifs’ coming from you. I can tell it bothers you…but you won’t be able to find anything out here at ShinRa.”
Sephiroth shook his head before letting his eyes slowly rise up to Angeal. Not at ShinRa…but….where? “You mean go somewhere else to find the information…”
“Yes…possibly. Look, I’ve said too much—“
“Some place that would have all the archives I need, all the information on her…and I wouldn’t be suspected.” He was thinking Hollander’s…but that was suspicious…and he hated the man to death. His computer was filled with porn, not useful information. That was probably why he said Genesis was cured way too early. What a moron. “I should discuss this with my lackey.” They moved out of the training room and found Zack within the vicinity. “Oh good, you didn’t go very far. I think I’ll keep you and name you something cute. Would you like a collar, too? Maybe a chew toy?”
Zack pouted, “What’d you find out?” Yes. He ignored Sephiroth’s comments.
“That Hojo screwed my mother. Now let’s start thinking, Zack. If I were an archive that could be found by anyone…but I wasn’t here at ShinRa…where would I be?”
“A library?”
Sephiroth thought this over, “Yes…but what kind of a library?”
“An archive library? I don’t know. One that was once owned by ShinRa I suppose.”
“Hmm…I like your thinking.” Sephiroth pet Zack’s head. Yes, make him feel special. “You must have gotten smarter from eating that sucker.”
“It was cherry flavored.”
“That’s good.”
“Oh, Genesis is coming this way.”
Sephiroth glanced and saw the Barbie doll strutting about talking to people as if he was important. s**t, he had to do something that would exclude him. Quick, think of something. Duh, form a circle. He grabbed Zack and swung him into a different position, the circle enclosed itself, “Play along and I’ll give you a better treat.”
Genesis started to approach them. “What’s going on over here?” He was acting like some type of policeman. What a dork.
“We’ll discuss this later,” Sephiroth said to Angeal and Zack before glancing at Genesis, “Nothing, really. What do you want?”
“What…were you talking about?”
“If it was meant for your ears I would have included you into the conversation.”
Genesis glared, “Very cute. If you’re trying to be a d**k you can stop now.”
Sephiroth knew he’d feed right into that. Oh, but maybe he should take this to his advantage? Ah, he had the perfect plan. “Calm down, Genesis, I was only kidding. We’re actually talking about going out tonight. Why don’t you come along? You can bring Cloud, too.” Zack and Angeal glanced over at Sephiroth. What the hell was he plotting?
Genesis shuffled a bit, unsure of whether to accept or not. What if it was some type of a setup against him? Was there an alliance out to make him feel like an idiot? No, Angeal wouldn’t do that to him. Not if he knew it’d really hurt his feelings. Wait, why was he so worried anyway? Sephiroth was once his b***h, he could handle the man now. “Yeah, I’d love to come along.”
“Good. Angeal will fill you in on the details.” He watched as Genesis turned to leave. “Hey….make yourself pretty.”
Genesis frowned, “What do you mean?”
“Ohh…” Sephiroth flicked his hair dramatically, “I think you know what I mean.” Genesis touched his own hair. Ugh, the gray! That’s what he meant. He glared and walked off, playing with his hair as he continued to saunter off.
Angeal rubbed his chin some more and raised an eyebrow, “What are you planning?”
“Nothing, do I look like I’m planning something?”
Zack nodded, “Yeah…because you’re smirking…and your eyes are all freaky looking.”
Sephiroth glowered. His eyes didn’t look freaky. “You’re just jealous. Now we’ll meet at…”
And so he plotted a location and a time, letting Angeal know that he was to make sure Cloud and Genesis came along. After he made sure Angeal understood everything he went off, Zack still following him.
“I don’t like this…I’ve never been on a dinner with you three. Not to sound like I’m a scared kitten, but I have a feeling it isn’t going to be pretty.”
Sephiroth laughed at him. A scared kitten? Oh he should be. “Come along, Zack, I’ll show you what I’m really planning.” He went into a private room for calls and he grabbed a phone book, flipping through it quickly before reaching the correct page. His finger dragged down through the numbers before stopping to the correct one. His fingers snatched up the phone sitting there and he called it.
“Good evening, this is Le Trés Beauchique, how may I help you?”
“I’d like to make reservations for tonight.”
“All right, what time and how many people?”
“Around eight, and we have 5 people.”
“Smoking or non-smoking?”
“Non-smoking. Oh, and this is for the 1st class SOLDIERs, so if you could place it somewhere nice…”
“Oh! Of course! We’ll have the best spot ready!”
“Good.” Sephiroth finished up the conversation and hung the phone up before flipping through the phone book again. Zack got closer to see what he was doing.
“Now who are you calling?”
“The media, of course.”
“W-what? Why?”
“So they’ll know we’re going to be eating out.”
“So? That…doesn’t seem exciting. And why would you want people staring at us eating anyway?”
“Because I’m going to make an idiot of Genesis, that’s why. Now let’s see…I’m sure that restaurant girl is calling up all of her friends right now…and they’ll get the normal people…let’s find someone a bit sleazier to watch us eat. Someone who is snooty and asks hard questions…”
Zack blinked a few times. This was the weirdest revenge he had ever seen. Whatever, it was Sephiroth, it was to be expected.
Sephiroth dialed a number and this time handed it to Zack. The boy panicked. “What are you doing?”
“Just tell them what you know.”
“Y’ello, this is Tittle-Tattle Magazine, where we see all and tell all. How may I be of service?”
“Uh…I…just heard news about ShinRa SOLDIERs are going to be eating at…Le Trés Beachique.”
“That’s it?”
“Well…three of them will be 1st class!”
“So…Sephiroth and who else?”
“Angeal and Genesis.”
“That’s cute. Are they just eating or is it something a bit more?”
“Oh…I’m sure one of them is going to cause a scene.” Zack stared at Sephiroth not even sure he should be doing this. Sephiroth nodded for him to continue.
“What time will they be there?”
“Around eight. They have the best seats reserved for them.”
“All right, boy, would you like to remain nameless in giving us this information?”
“Yeah.” Zack finished up, too, and hung up. He gave a sigh and glared at Sephiroth, “Whatever you do don’t make me look like an idiot. I don’t want my name dragged down with Genesis’s.”
“Don’t worry, Zack, just sit near me and they’ll completely forget about you.”
“What is this anyway? A freaky date? You asked Genesis to bring his boyfriend along.”
“You don’t see Angeal bringing anyone, do you? It’s just a tea party.”
“Whatever…”
Sephiroth stood up and grabbed Zack’s arm. He dragged him away from the door so no one could see, “You play along and don’t say anything. If you’re a good boy—“
“You’ll give me a treat, yeah I know.”
Sephiroth slipped his hand down onto Zack’s hip and pulled him inward, crushing the boy into his pelvis. “It’ll be worth it, I promise.”
Zack’s look was of complete and utter shock. Did Sephiroth just…but… He coughed slightly and looked away. How was he supposed to react to that? Finally Sephiroth let go and went to the door. Victory! That boy would follow his orders like a lamb. And he did. When it came time to leave Sephiroth walked with Zack there. He noticed one of the reporters was already there. She was dressed oddly so he assumed it was the smut one. Good, she could keep an eye out on them.
“Don’t forget to smile for the cameras, Zack.”
“Ha, like they’d point any at me. Remember I’m sitting next to you, so I won’t have that problem.”
“I suppose, but don’t make any stupid faces just in case.”
“Wow, you’re looking out for me? I’m almost blushing.”
Sephiroth chuckled, “Oh I’ll make you blush.” SEX SEX SEX. RAWR. Did he just think that? Yes. He did. Considering he was a man now it was all that was on his mind. But it was well worth it, he hated being that emotional idiot. ShinRa had done the correct thing in making sure he was a boy.
They went inside and found the three already at their spot.
“You’re late,” Angeal smugly pointed out as he took a sip of his drink.
“Sorry, my dog got lost,” Sephiroth replied and pointed for Zack to sit on the inside. Zack glared at the comment but took his spot and noticed the nice window view he got.
“Hey, I like this spot…look at everyone walk by.” Zack was now fascinated by the window. Cloud, who was also sitting at the window, had turned his head to look out, too. What easily distracted morons. Sephiroth sat down and watched as Angeal, who was on the end, scooted out to give him leg room. That’s right, b***h, respect my legs.
They then rammed into Genesis. The man glared slightly but Sephiroth didn’t care. He couldn’t help it. “Oops.”
Genesis moved his own legs toward Cloud, “It’s all right.”
Cloud glanced back at Genesis and the two smiled at each other. Oh how freaking cute. Not. Sephiroth wanted to break up their cheesy romantic moment but Angeal nudged him to keep calm. Of course. Wasn’t like he was going to break their legs or anything. Then again why shouldn’t he?
Oh yes, because the reporters would make him look like the crazed loon and not Genesis.
They ordered food and had small talk. Which was mostly Cloud and Genesis exchanging idiotic glances and a few kisses when no one was looking. Pathetic.
“You know…if you keep that up someone is going to see you,” Angeal finally remarked. Genesis shrugged and grabbed onto Cloud’s hand under the table. Zack, of course, gagged a bit.
Sephiroth stared at him, “Are you all right?”
“Yeah. Sorry. I always get choked up around romance.”
“Heavens.”
Genesis glared at them, “Just because we love each other doesn’t mean you boys need to get jealous.” Jealous? Oh, Sephiroth was far from it. More like angered. He wanted to tell Cloud he was better off ******** himself than being with that egotistical crybaby.
Their food was brought over and Sephiroth thought their romantic crap would stop so they could feed their pieholes. Unfortunately he was wrong and forgot that eating was something crazed hormonal boys liked to do. Especially when they could feed each other.
“Cloud,” Genesis whispered and Cloud looked. The man had put part of a fry in his mouth. Cloud smiled and leaned over, biting off the other half…kissing him in the process.
Zack, of course, snorted while he was drinking and almost died.
“It’s a good thing I don’t have a gag reflex or else we’d be seeing my food a second time around,” Sephiroth commented.
Angeal laughed, “Are you sure you don’t? You do have a fragile throat after all.”
The entire table went silent while Sephiroth laughed, “Oh…boy…I’m going to kill Hojo.”
“Haha, just because he got you on that one and you didn’t even catch it.”
“Whatever, Angeal, at least I’m not a hermit.”
Angeal raised an eyebrow, “Are you calling me a loser because I didn’t bring a boyfriend along? Hey, I’m not like Genesis. Besides, where’s your partner? Don’t tell me it’s Zack.”
Sephiroth smiled, “Of course not, he’s my dog. Wouldn’t that be a bit weird to date my dog?”
Zack barked. Literally barked. Everyone glanced at him, even the disgusting manwhores. “What? I want to be petted, not bragged about.”
Sephiroth shook his head, “Maybe later. You still need to be a good boy to get love.”
“I haven’t bit anyone yet.”
“You might. And who knows if you’ll pee yourself, we can’t have that.”
“I’m good at holding it in, I promise.”
Angeal shook his head, “This conversation has destroyed my mind…but not as bad as the images those two are giving me,” he nodded his head in the direction of Genesis and Cloud. They were making out now. Sephiroth glanced around and noticed the crazed woman with her camera. Sweetness.
“Oh let them have their fun. You’re just missing the enjoyment of a good ******** snorted, “Right. A good ******** only comes in one thing, and that’s a woman.” He saw something that caught his eye and frowned, “Well look at that, the media.”
Genesis and Cloud pulled apart quickly at that. Angeal stared, “Hey, I know how to make them stop. That was cool, it’s like a magic trick.”
Sephiroth chuckled, “I wonder what the media wants now?”
Genesis sighed, “You, of course.”
They were approached and were surprised at how big the group was. How lovely.
“Excuse me, Sephiroth, but we heard that your group was going to be eating here. Would you all mind answering a few questions for us?”
Sephiroth smiled, “Of course not.”
That was when their smut girl came up from, “How’s about you, Genesis, you’ve been pretty active for the past week.”
Genesis blinked. Uh. What? “Me?”
“Yes. Went to the play LOVELESS on Wednesday, didn’t you?”
“Oh…yes I did,” Genesis nodded slightly. He looked stunned that someone had asked him a question.
“You brought Cloud along with you, that blonde sitting by your side, right?” Genesis glanced at Cloud and then back at her.
“Yes, we’re friends.”
“Friends? Really? My sources told me that the two of you were up in front kissing the entire time.”
Everyone else stared at her. Genesis was utterly speechless. He couldn’t even deny what she just said because he was that shocked.
“Pretty convenient, though. It says you asked to have the place to yourself to see it without any media trouble. And also the fact that it is your favorite play…so you wouldn’t actually have to watch it, you know the entire story. Cute, though, that you brought your boyfriend along.”
Angeal had his hand over his mouth, he was refraining from smile. This was just too rich.
Genesis finally got his nerve back to talk and he sounded furious. His voice waivered as he tried to keep calm. “I don’t know where you got that information from, lady, but none of it’s true.”
“Really? Odd. All the actors and actresses were complaining about it. How they seemed to have wasted their time in trying to impress someone who was too interested in making out instead of watching them.”
Genesis glared at her, “I think it’d be in your best interest to leave now.”
“What are you going to do, kill me? That wouldn’t be very good for ShinRa ratings.”
Angeal shrugged, “There’s always an insane one in the bunch, can’t stop that.”
The lady smirked, “Angeal, how nice of you to back him up. You know, I heard an interesting story about Genesis and your childhood.”
“It’s true, my father did throw apples at me whenever I misbehaved.”
The group laughed a bit but the reporter shook her head, “No, not that. A story about finding your friend in a shed with a dirty thief. How’s about that one?”
Genesis was about to smack the b***h but Angeal spoke up quickly, “Oh yes, the thief was about to steal a bag of fresh apples that were picked when Genesis caught him. Good story, that one. Genesis was pretty weak, so fighting against a man who could carry off 80 pound bags wasn’t easy. By the time I came in he was a bloody pulp practically. He cried like a little girl.”
Genesis glared but felt thankful that he covered his a**. Dear God who released this information to her? His eyes went to Sephiroth. Probably him.
“That wasn’t the story I got.”
“Please, lady, I’ve known Genesis my whole life. I saw the fight with my own eyes…”
“He is your friend, so you would cover for him.”
“Right.” Angeal laughed, “It’s every man for himself here.”
Other questions started to come up from the rest of the reporters, really odd ones, too. It probably intrigued them how this woman had made Genesis so upset.
After awhile the crowd had died down, especially after a few autographs were signed, and they could get back to eating. Then again, only Cloud and Zack had finished their meals while the whole thing happened.
“So which one of you contacted the media, hmm? Who told that b***h all of my secrets!?” Genesis was clearly upset. Couldn’t blame him, though, no one was expecting that to happen.
“I don’t think any of us did,” Angeal replied and finished his drink.
“Don’t ******** lie to me, I know one of you had to do it. No one knows about those things expect for all of you.”
“I didn’t do it,” Zack quickly said. Yeah. Saving his own a**.
Cloud shrugged, “Wasn’t me.”
Genesis stared at Angeal and Sephiroth. “What now?”
Angeal and Sephiroth exchanged looks. One of them would have to fess up, and clearly Angeal wasn’t the person who did it. But if Sephiroth was pinpointed it would cause an all out war with Genesis. Tricky tricky.
“Well?”
Angeal sighed, “I did it because I’m tired of hearing you b***h. Now stop your blubbering. Who’s paying?”
Sephiroth raised his hand, “I will, it was my plan after all.”
Genesis continued to stare at them with seething anger. “Why would you cover up for him?”
Angeal growled, “I’m not. Didn’t you hear me with that interviewer? Every man for himself.”
Genesis kept his eyes on Angeal as Sephiroth pulled out money. It was a lovely awkward moment considering the man was loathing everyone’s existence right there. Finally he stood up and started to walk away, Cloud scrambled to follow him.
“You’re lucky I did that,” Angeal commented. He got up and pushed his chair in while Sephiroth and Zack slid out from their spots.
“I’m still wondering why you did it.”
“Because he’d b***h about it for a thousand hours straight to me while having sex with Cloud. At least now it’ll just be the sex and no talking. I did it more for myself than you.”
Sephiroth opened the door for them and followed them out, “How thoughtful of you.”
“Shut up, now I have to win him back over. Then again…why should I? Not like he’s much of a benefit.”
“He’s wonderful entertainment.”
“Only when you can make fun of him…now I have to pretend to be a nice guy and make up for it just so I can get back to that point. Hell, might as well cut off my nuts and give them to him if I’m that desperate to be his friend.”
“That sounds painful,” Zack commented.
“Almost as painful as listening to him talk,” Angeal mumbled. Hmm…something was wrong with Angeal. It didn’t seem like him to be so…down.
“Are you all right?”
Angeal chuckled, “Ohhh…if only. Why don’t you kids go have fun? I’m going to go drink myself to death.”
Sephiroth stopped and watched him continue walking, “Don’t drink and drive!”
“I don’t even have a car, idiot.”
“That’s not what you’ll think after your fifth shot of whiskey!”
“Then I’ll write myself a note.” He went off with that.
“Weird,” Zack murmured and glanced at Sephiroth, “You guys sure hate each other a lot.”
“I think…we’ve lost touch. No matter…I’ll deal with it tomorrow. Now, for your treat.”
Zack glanced at him before looking away, “Uh…I…want to know. Will it hurt?”
“Well…if I’m rambunctious enough it will.”
“Oh God. Why don’t we just…play nicely?”
“Afraid I might break your tailbone with my pelvic thrusts or something?”
Zack shuddered, “Whoa whoa, I don’t need images.”
“We’ll do your favorite position: doggie style.”
“Hey, would you cut it with the dog jokes? People might start calling me your b***h.”
Sephiroth laughed. Oh, now that was a good one. “But first before we do anything…I want to check out something. This way.” He started to head for the cave. Bwhahaha, he knew Genesis was in there with Cloud. He’d be pretty pissy if they were doing it in his bed. Oh no, pissy didn’t describe what he’d be like. More like ready to smack a b***h. Two bitches. Because both of them were too wimpy to even be called men.
They came to the entrance and Sephiroth held his hand over Zack’s mouth, giving a soft shushing noise to make sure he kept silent. The boy nodded before they moved inward slowly. Sephiroth ducked, remembering the retarded ceiling, and reached back to pull Zack down before he clobbered himself. Damn. He wished he could see the kid knock his own damn brains out. Then he’d at least be satisfied with life.
“Watch,” Sephiroth whispered into Zack’s ear. Before them was Genesis stripping. Oh hot damn, a show! It was like live porn for free.
“I can’t believe Angeal did that…” Genesis mumbled and struggled with his pants. Cloud went over and started to help undress him. “I mean it…we’re friends, why would he do that? I was expecting it was Sephiroth. God…I was humiliated in front of all of those people. I’m hoping they don’t believe that wench.”
Cloud finally rid the member of his pants and started to work on the underwear…which wasn’t too hard since there wasn’t anything really there.
Zack almost snorted at the sight of this. Genesis’s underwear basically topped it all off.
Cloud pulled the blankets up and sat down, motioning for Genesis to do his work.
“Do you think she’ll actually make an article out of that stuff she said?”
Cloud shrugged, “If you don’t overreact and deny it then they’ll just think it’s a lie. Now could we…get back to business?” Genesis nodded and got in bed, the covers were pulled up over him so that only Cloud’s upper half could be seen. Cloud went from his emotionless face to a giant smile.
Sephiroth and Zack were holding in their laughter. This was rich. Cloud was ordering Genesis around so easily.
Cloud sighed and moaned a bit until he frowned and grumbled, “Why are you stopping?”
“Because I think Sephiroth actually did it and Angeal was just covering for him. Angeal wouldn’t waste his time calling up people. And besides…we had reservations made by Seph—“
“Look…we can either talk about this with our clothes on or we could forget about it for awhile and have sex. What do you want to do more?”
There was silence before Cloud shouted, “Oh…God…keep going.” After awhile Cloud patted Genesis’ back, “All right, let’s do this, I’m ready.”
Genesis finally surfaced and took in the fresh air, “Good, I’m running out of saliva.”
“Yeah yeah, whatever. Hurry up.”
Genesis got onto his stomach and Cloud got on his back. It was about then that Sephiroth and Zack couldn’t hold it in any longer. They were laughing. No, it was a lot harder than laughing. They cackled and snorted so much it caused the two on the bed to jump and grab the sheets around them for safety. Finally Sephiroth and Zack immerged from the shadows to stare at the two pitiful naked beings before them.
“This is so pathetic, especially seeing you reduced to this, Genesis,” Sephiroth commented.
Genesis was about to get up and get his clothes on but he was pinned to the bed. “Cloud, stop, they’re right THERE.”
Cloud shook his head, “Uh no, unless you want to restart me. This baby is staying in for another 10 minutes or so.”
This made Zack and Sephiroth start to laugh again. This was so ridiculous…and yet way too enjoyable.
“Get out of here! This isn’t the time to bother me!”
“Well if you weren’t always ******** someone you wouldn’t have this problem. Besides, it isn’t like you’re doing anything right now. Your boyfriend is the one who needs to keep it up.”
“Shut up!”
“What’s the matter? Don’t like the harassment?”
“Get the hell out.”
Sephiroth laughed and brushed fingers through his hair, “What if I said no? What are you going to do? You’re pretty pathetic, Genesis. In fact, I’m glad we’re over. Angeal explained to me what’s wrong with you…and now that I know, I’ll be sure you never get cured.”
Genesis glared and looked away, ignoring the fact that Cloud was still on top of him.
“Did you really think you could use me and get away with it? Ha, you’re a fool. And you also thought I’d let you have your spotlight, too. That’s what really tops it all off. What hero is a bottom feeder and a backstabber? Tell me the answer to that one.”
Genesis still kept his eyes diverted from Sephiroth.
“I think it’d be best if you remember where your spot is and where mine is. Don’t get them confused.”
He turned and nodded for Zack to follow him. He heard the dog speak, “Nice tattoo, by the way,” before they went out. “Wow, you really ripped into him…he probably won’t enjoy the sex anymore.” Zack stretched and had a smile still on his face. He thought it was pretty funny to see Genesis put on the spot like that.
“Good, perhaps he’ll cry. Now where were we before I decided to do this…”
Zack shook his head, “Hey hey…uh…you know, that was a treat in itself…but I don’t think I want to go through with this. Just…not because it’s you, but…”
“I completely understand.” What the hell. Zack refused him? Eh, whatever. He soon left the kid to go to his room and found Angeal laying there on the ground. “Something wrong?”
“Perhaps.”
“You can tell me.”
“I already know that you went to go see Genesis…so what did you do to him?”
“Watched him have sex and I laughed at him. Why?”
“Because….he told me next time he saw you he was going to tell you about your mother.”
Sephiroth froze. What? “Why would he do that?”
“Revenge I suppose.”
“How would telling me what I’ve always wanted to know be revenge?”
“I’m not saying details. Now that you’ve probably made him cry he might not. Then again…he’ll only get worse. Much worse than how he’s doing right now.”
“He wants my blood and he can’t have it.”
“Yeah…I know…” Angeal sat up a bit, “I gave him some of mine to buy time.”
Sephiroth frowned, “What do you mean?” Angeal got up and brushed himself off. He picked up his large sword and touched the unused blade softly. After several minutes he set it back down.
“I’m infected, too.”
“You mean…you’re degrading?”
“Yes. Look…while you were gone we went to Hollander to help him out. Genesis panicked when he wasn’t getting any better and Hollander said if I gave him a blood transfusion it would hold off the process. It just was a lie, though. Now I’m degrading.”
Sephiroth was speechless. Was he supposed to stand by and let Angeal degrade, too? “You’ll die, won’t you?”
“Yes…but Genesis would be first.”
s**t. Just as he imagined it would be. Save one and he’d have to save the other. “I’ll help you out—“
“No. Genesis deserves it more than I do.”
“No he doesn’t!”
“Look…it’s got to deal with pride and honor—“
“Don’t give me that bullshit. If you’re hurt I can help.”
“I’m not hurting…Genesis is. You want to know why? It’s because of you.”
“Yeah? And I hurt because of him. We’re even.”
“Right, if you say so.” Angeal picked his sword up again and hooked it on his back, “Look, I’d stay and chat but—“
“Why should I help him when he hasn’t given anything to me in return?” There was silence. Angeal paused at the door and a small sigh escaped him.
“Would it surprise you if I said he still likes you?” Sephiroth frowned. What the HELL. Why did Genesis dump him then? It…didn’t make sense at all. “He panicked, as he usually does, and he got rid of you. Sure, he thought he was cured, but he didn’t want you getting too obsessed with him. He was afraid that if he became your everything and he somehow died that you’d go insane.”
“Why didn’t he just say something?”
Angeal glanced back, “Because I’m actually making all of this s**t up, as I normally do. But hey, I’m usually right.” He left Sephiroth then.
Sephiroth was gapping. So Angeal would just LIE and assume that it was right? But dear god, he had done it so many times before that he knew he had to believe him. Dammit, Angeal, why couldn’t his lies just be lies? Now he was curious about Genesis again. If the man really did love him…and wanted to be with him…he would forget about what happened and hook up once more. But what Angeal said was that Genesis was afraid of him becoming obsessed…
And he’d go insane? What did that even mean?
Zack smashed open his door and left a giant dent in the wall. The boy freaked and pet the wall, watching parts of it crumble.
“You could knock,” Sephiroth snarled as he went over to see the damage. The idiot! He’d never be able to repair that unless he actually tried!
“Sorry, I just…I…” Zack was catching his breath and finally shook Sephiroth.
“What?? What is it?”
“I know where your mother is at!”
Sephiroth blinked. He…what?
“We can’t discuss it here, though, someone will know. Come on!”
Sephiroth followed him without question. If Zack was going to tell him now he’d like to know instead of waiting for Genesis to fess up over it. After leaving ShinRa building and walking for who knows how long Zack sat down near a roaring fountain.
“Here?”
“No one can hear us over the water!”
“Hmm. Tell me.”
“Cloud is the key.”
“What?”
“Cloud told me once that he knew a lot more about you than most people did. I never questioned him on it, but one night he came to me and said ‘I’ve made a deal with Genesis.’”
“A deal?”
“Yeah. Cloud said it was to keep him silent from talking to you.”
“Talking to me? Because he knows where my mother is at, right?”
“Not only knows, but he lived there. The place where your mom resides is his hometown.”
“Nibelheim.”
“Whoa, how’d you know?”
“Records that ShinRa once kept are there…ones that are unattended to. A backwater place, too. Perfect.”
Zack nodded, “You can thank me now.”
“I’m not quite done with you yet…you’re coming with me. Yes…you and Cloud.”
“Uh…” Zack scratched his head, “Are you sure about that? I mean…that’s a more personal issue—“
“If I went by myself they’d get suspicious. We’ll make it look like I’m there for other reasons…but what?”
Zack shrugged, “I dunno. You sure you shouldn’t just…accidentally slip off in a helicopter that is conveniently going there…and accidentally happen upon your mother?”
Sephiroth thought it over, “That would definitely be nice…but who in their right mind would go there?” He hesitated and smiled, “I should have thought of him before.” Reno. That tard. He just had to convince him to go to Nibelheim…and he could easily find his mother then. “I’d still need Cloud, though…I don’t know what my mother is like.”
“Uh. Um. Well he said it’s kind of…obvious.”
“Does she look like me?” Zack shook his head. Sephiroth glared, “You’ve seen her? Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Hey…we’ve been a bit too busy to discuss what she looks like. Look, I’ll go along with you instead—“
“No. You AND Cloud are coming with me. I demand it.”
“Aren’t you being a bit too snappy and all powerful right now to know what you really want?”
“I want to have sex with you.”
“What? No. We can’t—“
“Oh, but we can.”
“I don’t want to—“
“Than you either come along with me on this trip with Cloud or I’ll rape your a** so hard you’ll develop your own menstrual cycle.”
Zack’s lower lip quivered. Not only was he extremely violated by those words, but he had a really bad feeling that this was going to go much worse than what he was imagining. “Fine…but…you have to stop calling me a dog! If you do that then I’ll go along.”
“Fine, we have a deal.” That little pooch thinking that would stop him. Once he got that sucker on the plane he would rip him a new hole with all sorts of insults. Ahaha, he was in for a ride, that mutt.
Zack sighed and stood up, glancing around at the scenery. So far it seemed no one had noticed them. “Now let’s pretend we never had this conversation.”
Sephiroth stood up and began to walk away. Amazingly Zack didn’t follow. Oh wait, false alarm. Tsk. For once he was thinking the idiot would get a new hobby. “So…I have to ask. Do you think she’ll recognize me?”
Zack shrugged, “I think Cloud would know the answer to that question better than me. Ask him tomorrow—“
“Why not now?”
“Because…he’s ******** Genesis? You’ve already interrupted their love making once today, I think it’d be better if you just let them be for a few hours.”
“Hmm…fine. But only because I feel like being nice for once.” Actually it was because he didn’t want to see Genesis. After what Angeal had said to him…even if it was probably a lie…he didn’t want to hurt the man more than he already did. Why was he so obsessed with getting revenge on him? Well…he only did it because he had been hurt so severely… “I’m going to the Chorus room.”
“Uh…why?”
“Because I want to write you a love song.” Zack gave him a confounded look. “I actually want to hear my theme song be played before I go to bed. It really stimulates the senses.”
“You have a theme song?”
“Yes. You should hear it.”
“Well…”
And so off they went to the chorus room. Sephiroth entered in and heard the saddest song that even made his own heart falter slightly. What…a beautiful sound. His eyes swept over the large orchestra of kids and his eyes caught on one person.
“Angeal?”
Angeal was leaning against the piano listening to the band when he heard his name. He glanced over curiously and smirked. “Oh boy, you’ve caught me red-handed.”
“I’m surprised to see you here…what are you doing?” Sephiroth glanced as the song went through its soft play before ending.
“Listening to music. It’s kind of what I do when I’m bored.”
“I thought you were going to train.”
“I did warn you that I lie.”
“Obviously…” Sephiroth watched the music teacher burst from his office and shake Zack’s hand before beaming up at Sephiroth. Was this guy ever in a bad mood?
“Oh, Sephiroth, it’s good to see you. Have you come to listen to them practice, too? Quite a wonderful band of kids, you know.”
Sephiroth nodded, “They’re extremely talented.” He watched as the faces of the entire band lit up at his appreciation of their work.
“Would you like to request anything? Perhaps the one we wrote for you?”
Angeal glanced at Sephiroth, “They wrote you a song?”
“I can’t help it that I’m loved. Sure, let’s hear it.”
And there came his theme music. Ooh, he could feel the power coming over him already. Ah yes…he could slaughter a thousand men with one blow listening to this music. His eyes landed on Angeal who was fixated on watching the band get into the full boom. Zack looked somewhat terrified at how loud and surprising it was. Then came the electric guitar solo. The boy jumped from who the hell knows where and started to play his entire soul upon the guitar. All three of them watched his fingers fly until it calmed down more, and at last stopped.
“Wow. That makes you sound like…” Angeal trailed off, unsure of how to describe the music.
“An insane boy who has an alien for a mother and wants to kill the entire planet?” Zack added. Sephiroth glared at him. And where did he get that idea?
“I was going to say…an evil villain….but I suppose that works. Maybe it’s the electric guitar that gives it the…uh…scaring effect.”
“I think it sounds perfect,” Sephiroth mumbled and clapped. The other two joined in numbly and the band people smiled and took it all in. For once they felt like the heroes.
Angeal stood up and glanced at the two before frowning, “So…what brought you two here anyway?”
“Just came here to hear my theme song before I went to bed. It’s always nice to sleep with comforting dreams.”
Zack frowned, “I feel like I’m going to have nightmares…”
They moved out of the chorus room to continue their talk, the hum of music slowly fading as they walked farther off.
“Why are you two still together, is more of what I wanted to know,” Angeal asked and his eyes switched from Sephiroth to Zack.
Sephiroth smiled, “I had an epiphany and decided to gather up Zack so he could hear how appreciated I am before I went to bed.”
Angeal stopped in his tracks, turning to face them, “What are you planning?”
“Hot sex.”
“Aside from that.”
“A road trip.”
“A road trip?”
Sephiroth pulled Angeal close and smiled, “If I told you the full details you’d have to report me in for going against the rules.”
“I’m not liking this.”
“Of course you don’t like it, you’re out of the loop. Don’t worry…I’ll fill you in on it later. I’m taking Zack and Cloud with me to a very special place. Nothing nicer than visiting home.”
Angeal’s frown deepened, “You…don’t have a hometown, though…I hope you’re not taking a shovel and killing Cloud to get revenge on Gene—“
“No, it’s nothing like that. I’ve hurt Genesis enough as it is…”
“Since when did you start saying things like that?”
“Since I’ve decided that…perhaps I should forgive and forget instead of make a wounded man suffer.”
“Oh, such an odd thing coming from a man who had no heart.”
“I know. I’ve also learned how to roll over, too.”
“Jeez, and they said you couldn’t teach an old dog new tricks.”
“If I’m old than what are you?”
“Handsome of course.”
Sephiroth laughed and watched as they entered into the buzzing hallways where people walked about in their bleak uniforms. A few were sitting around chatting, and others were carrying paper work. “I just need you to distract Genesis for me…so that when I take Cloud he won’t know he’s gone. All right? I’ll tell you the specifics later…but we can’t discuss this right now.”
Angeal nodded and stopped again, “Did you only change your mind because of what I said?”
“….Yes.”
The man sighed, “I should become a motivational speaker instead of being here.”
Zack smiled, “You’d be really good at it.”
“Yeah yeah. You know what I really think? That you should change your hair. There. I said it. Now I’m going to bed…today’s been way too long.”
Zack watched as the two 1st classes went off and he touched his black locks, “Change my hair? But…I thought this look was nice on me…”
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“Angeal…I’ve waited long enough.”
“No, Sephiroth, if you go now you’ll only be stopped and questioned.”
“But I don’t think I can last any longer! This is killing me.”
“Yes, I’m sure it is. But hey…I think you look kind of great like that.”
“Angeal!”
“What?” Angeal glanced back at Sephiroth. His attire was shredded from the battle they had in the training room. He looked somewhat…pathetic. Then again, it was hard to make Sephiroth look pathetic, so Angeal felt like he completely one-upped the man. It would have been much more entertaining to have Genesis there, because he would probably be half naked and crying over the fact that Angeal would pull such a trick on him. Ahaha, he loved using magic when it was least expected. Then again, he had his honor and pride to think of. Using moves like that made him feel like he was being a cheapskate. Ah oh well, he could repent for it later.
“I have to go to the bathroom, too. Really badly.”
“Why didn’t you go before our epic battle?”
“Because…it didn’t come to mind. You know what? Why not we shred your clothes a bit and it’ll look like we had an even battle—“
“Oh no, we’re not touching my garments. I won that battle, Sephiroth, and you know it.”
“Ugh. I’m not sure what’s worse. Hearing you gloat or feeling this agony in my bladder.”
Angeal smirked and kept watching as stragglers walked by. He had to time this perfectly. “Let’s go.”
Sephiroth gave a sigh of relief and walked out following Angeal. That was when a giant throb of people came right at them. Sephiroth hissed, “Dammit, Angeal, I knew I couldn’t trust you!”
“Ahaha, I know, right? I almost love myself sometimes.”
“Urgh. Shortcut!” Sephiroth slipped to the left to avoid the mob and went down the hallway with his haughty walk going on. Angeal followed. Wasn’t like he wanted the man to slip away when this could get very entertaining.
“You should wear holey clothes more often, it makes you look your proper age.”
“You don’t even know how old I am so don’t speak.”
“I know you’re Genesis’ age and that’s all that I need to know.”
Sephiroth groaned, “Why is the Director out of his office? Don’t see me, don’t stop me, pretend I’m not here…”
“You sound insane, Sephiroth.”
“That’s what your mom said last night…”
“I could believe it. I’d hate to be around you in bed. Genesis told me you have cold feet.”
Sephiroth glared. Why was he continuously bringing him up? He didn’t want to talk about Genesis. At least…not anymore. Not after how much he had bashed him. It really made him feel a lot worse than it should have what with the media. Reports flew all over the place and ShinRa company really hit hard with the news. In fact, someone had stuck up half of the reports all over the walls. Sephiroth wasn’t sure who, but every time he saw one he’d rip it down. Each report seemed worse than the first. They ripped into Genesis like he was a stuffed toy given to a rabid dog. And that wasn’t even the worst part…the way the head honchos dealt with it…
Sephiroth got all the information from Angeal on what happened to Genesis. He was severely reprimanded for his conduct and behavior, he was suspended from duty for 3 weeks, and he was given mandatory lessons…on what, though, Angeal never revealed. Sephiroth could only imagine that it was hellish. Not to mention that Cloud and Genesis weren’t allowed to see each other…at least on ShinRa grounds. Which, to Sephiroth, meant the entire world.
“Sephiroth, what happened to you?” Lazard had actually caught him. Dammit! What was worse, Lazard seeing him like this or the crowd? Eh…probably the crowd, Lazard would just giggle behind his hand and pretend it didn’t happen.
“Angeal did a cheap shot on me. Don’t worry, I’m perfectly fine.” That’s right, pretend that it was Angeal being a sore loser.
Angeal snorted, “It wasn’t cheap. He was clearly not on track and I took advantage of that. His enemies would have done the same.”
“If I had any enemies that thought like you, but I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t considering they have more dignity than to set their foes clothes on fire.”
Lazard put his hand up and chuckled a bit behind his hand, as Sephiroth predicted, and then adjusted his glasses. “I’ll let you go change, then, before I bother you any further.”
Sephiroth frowned, “What’s wrong?”
Lazard lost his smile and became serious with the two of them, “Genesis…has gone amiss.”
Angeal and Sephiroth both stared at each other. What? He was missing? That seemed really weird for Genesis to just…vanish.
“I was hoping the two of you knew where he was at. I was given reports that he was last seen leaving the building at 7 this morning.”
Sephiroth shook his head, “I haven’t seen him all day.”
Angeal shrugged, “I talked to him last night and that was it. I could call him up and leave him a message?”
Lazard nodded, “He might listen to you since you are his friend. Unfortunately, if he takes too long to return here it may get much worse for him then suspensions.”
“You mean removal of his title?” That would definitely suck…Sephiroth wouldn’t want that to happen to Genesis just because his plot against him went a bit out of hand. He wasn’t expecting this much s**t to fly at the guy.
“Removal of himself from ShinRa quarters, actually. The President is rather angered that Genesis has been such a big hit in the news…a large amount of it being on his…relationship with Cloud. We’ve had several conferences with the media trying to explain the situation that has been going on, but there are still those out there that only see it in black and white.”
Sephiroth frowned, “What did you say in those conferences?”
“We were told to say that personal information will not be held against our SOLDIER members, and that all acts outside of ShinRa time are not in any way linked to us.”
“So you’re basically throwing Genesis to the dogs,” Angeal growled. “He’s completely defenseless in that position. ShinRa won’t protect him for his choices. They’re saying that they’d rather not get involved because they don’t want to lose any ratings based on a SOLDIER who was caught with his hands on another guy. It’s to be expected from any business, though, so I can’t entirely blame the company. Still…he has to make a choice in saying if it’s true or not. And it’ll be on his shoulders for the rest of his life…”
Wow. Sephiroth couldn’t have said it any better. Angeal really should become a motivational speaker. Now he almost felt like bashing ShinRa for letting Genesis hang out to dry.
Lazard nodded, “Yes…well…it’s always ‘do what’s best for the company’ instead of ‘do what is truly right’. We all can’t win.”
Sephiroth turned from the two and wondered where he was at anyway. Hollander? But should he even bring that up in front of Lazard? Probably not…it would raise some odd suspicions…
“If you two do find him please contact me directly.”
They nodded and watched Lazard move off. Angeal and Sephiroth entered their room. That was a wonderful way to ruin a day.
“If you were Genesis where would you be right now?” Sephiroth asked, snatching up a new pair of clothes from the floor so he could change.
“Hollander’s possibly…but Genesis wouldn’t go there if he knew he had to be here for something. Especially in how much trouble he’s in right now…” Angeal sat down and puzzled over it as Sephiroth got changed. “It definitely isn’t like him…”
“Call him, you said you would.”
Angeal pulled out his phone and gave it a call. No one answered. “I had a feeling it would be like that. That’s odd…if his phone was off or on silent it would have gone straight to his voicemail…”
“So…it’s on him..but he’s ignoring the call.”
“Exactly.”
“Unless…” Sephiroth grabbed his hair brush from the bathroom and started to comb through his hair quickly, “Unless he’s unable to get to it.”
Angeal frowned, “What do you mean?”
“Well…what if he’s hurt or something? It’s doubtful, but—“
“Call Zack, I’m going to call Cloud. If neither of them know then we’ll start looking for him.”
Sephiroth pulled out his own phone and went through the contacts, getting to Zack’s name. It didn’t actually say Zack, is said ‘Puppy’. Ahaha. He listened to it ring a few times before Zack picked up.
“Sephiroth?”
“Zack, have you seen Genesis at all lately?”
“Uh…no. I haven’t seen him since our dinner party.”
“That was a week ago…”
“Yeah. I know. Is there something wrong?”
“Yes, I can’t find him.”
“Did you call him?”
“Yes.” Sephiroth flicked his hair a bit and sighed, “I’m assuming he has a good reason to be skipping out on his duties….”
“Did you check the cave?”
“Not yet. That’s our next destination. If you see him give me a call.”
“Okay. Hey, Sephiroth.”
“Yes?”
There was some hesitation on the line before Zack finally spoke up again, “Uh…when are we supposed to…you know…take Cloud and all that stuff?”
“Not for awhile…though if Genesis doesn’t show up…”
“You could use that as a reason to go searching.”
“Yes…”
“I’ll let you think that one over.”
Sephiroth hung up and glanced over at Angeal, “Anything?”
“No. Cloud says he hasn’t talked to Genesis since the day all the reports showed up. I’m guessing Zack knew nothing.”
“Yes. We should check the cave out, and if he’s not there—“
“We’ll check Loveless Avenue.”
“What? Why?”
Angeal smirked and sighed, “Because I know Genesis too well. Come on, let’s go.”
Together they headed for the cave…but Genesis wasn’t there. The place was messy, though, and feathers were all over the floor.
“Did someone murder a bird in here or something?” Sephiroth remarked as he picked up one of the feathers.
“That’d be one big bird if they did,” Angeal noticed the length on it. Man. That was pretty big…
“Yeah…but it’s a real feather. What are we doing? Let’s go to Loveless Avenue, Genesis has to be around here somewhere.”
Angeal nodded and they left the chaotic mess, escaping to the streets. There were a few crowds here and there of people, but they didn’t find Genesis around any of them. They slipped on over to Loveless Avenue and searched the area thoroughly.
“I’m not seeing anything at all. Are you sure he’d be here?” Sephiroth craned his neck to look up at the buildings. Was he up on the rooftops?
“He might be at the theatre.”
“I thought they hated him there because of his intolerable acts.”
“Up on the roof, Sephiroth. Let’s go.”
Sephiroth sighed and followed Angeal. This was getting them nowhere. They could murder down a thousand monsters, they could destroy an enemy’s base camp within seconds, but they couldn’t even find their own comrade. Pathetic.
They clambered up the ladder steps in the back and glanced around at the rooftop. “He’s not here.”
“Looking for someone?” Their eyes snapped over to the chimney and Genesis came out from behind it. His hair still had its gray look to it, but the rest of him seemed fine.
“Genesis, we’ve been looking all over for you,” Angeal growled, “Why haven’t you been at ShinRa?”
“Infinite in mystery is the gift of the Goddess.”
Sephiroth frowned, “What?”
“We seek it thus and take to the sky. Ripples form on the water’s surface, the wandering soul knows no rest. Tell me, Sephiroth, have you ever seen LOVELESS?” Sephiroth shook his head. What was he getting at? “There’s a gift from the Goddess, one that I need. And it’s within you, Sephiroth.”
“What are you talking about?”
“I need your cells, Sephiroth. To stop the degradation process…you need to give them to me.”
“Give you my cells? Genesis, we’ve talked about this—“ Genesis came forward and grabbed onto Sephiroth, pressing into him. Sephiroth backed up quickly, pushing Genesis away, “Would you stop? Someone’s going to see you acting like this.”
“I don’t care anymore. I’m ruined either way. At least let me live.”
“No, Genesis…get a grip first. You’re acting really off…”
Genesis laughed, “Am I? I suppose it’s because I’m jealous of you…jealous of a pathetic monster like yourself! You don’t even know what you are! I’ll tell you, Sephiroth, I’ll tell you everything!”
Angeal grabbed onto Genesis and smacked him. The poetic brunette fell to the ground and snarled. Angeal scoffed, “Stop your nonsense, Genesis, and get your a** back to ShinRa. You do have a chance but you’re ruining it right now.”
Sephiroth frowned, “Wait, let him explain himself.”
Genesis glanced at Sephiroth and laughed, “I won’t say anything more…not until you give me what I’ve yearned for.”
Sephiroth thought it over. Give him what he wants? No. He shouldn’t…not yet. He could go and visit his mother anytime he wanted. He…wanted to do that now. “I don’t need you to tell me…I already know.” His eyes went over to Angeal, “Take Genesis back to ShinRa’s. I’m leaving.”
Angeal frowned, “Now? But Sephiroth—“
“Don’t fret over me, worry about our crazed loon of a friend over there.” Sephiroth moved off and called up Zack and Cloud, “Get ready to leave. We’re heading out now.”
He didn’t explain himself. Zack already knew and he had a feeling Cloud would have already picked up on it. They met at the base with Reno.
“So…where am I taking you, sugar?” Reno smiled at Sephiroth. Egh, this kid still made Sephiroth want to punch him in the face.
“Nibelheim.”
Reno glanced at the group and raised an eyebrow, “Why do you want to go there?”
“It’s part of business, Reno, that’s why we have to go.”
“Oh really?”
Sephiroth grabbed Reno by his neck, choking him to death, “Yes, really. Get us there or you’re dead.” He released the redhead and watched him gasp and gag for air.
“All right…don’t have to get defensive about it…”
Sephiroth glanced at the others, “Get in.” They scurried to their seats and Sephiroth got in last, “Hurry.”
“I can only do so much at once. Everyone buckle up…” Reno started to flick and switch things, setting his headset on tightly before the helicopter turned on, its blades started to spin. “What kind of business is this?”
“The type that you don’t need to stick your nose in.”
Reno chuckled and glanced at the blonde and black-haired boy, “I hope this isn’t some type of crazed threesome.”
Sephiroth smiled, “We could make it a foursome if you’re dying to get in.”
Reno’s laugh came out nervously and he shook his head, “That’s creepy. Don’t say those things.”
“Why not? I thought you enjoyed it when I talked like that.”
“Only if I know you’re joking.”
“You think I’m telling the truth?”
Reno shrugged, “I’ve heard some interesting stories…”
Sephiroth crossed his arms over his chest as he leaned back into a comfortable position. “Really? I think you want to tell them to me.”
Reno fell silent as he clicked a few more buttons and let the helicopter go into autopilot. “You really want to know?” He glanced back at Sephiroth. “All right. Words been up that you’ve been screwing that dog right there.” He nodded his head in Zack’s direction to point out which one, though the dog reference already gave Sephiroth the cue on who it was.
“We’ve never done anything like that. Besides, I’m not into bestiality.”
Zack glared at Sephiroth, “I told you not to refer to me as a dog anymore.”
“What are you going to do, jump off the helicopter? Shut the hell up and stop pouting.”
Reno shrugged, “Hey, I only got the info from a few infantrymen.”
Cloud perked up slightly, “Do you know their names?”
“Haven’t the slightest. Turks don’t need to get into that type of biznaz, eh?”
Sephiroth’s eye twitched. Reno needed to die if he kept talking like that. “That’s all they said? Was that we were sleeping with each other?”
“Yeah. And that Cloud is upping it up with Genesis, but that was all over the magazines and crap. I looked at a few of them just because it’s funny that it made the news so much. Can you believe it? Someone jumps out of the closet and all the reporters are standing there with their cameras ready. Kind of pathetic, but its great entertainment. So what were you guys doing anyway? Having a double date with Angeal as your extra to make it look normal?”
Sephiroth smiled, “Not in particular. I invited Cloud and Genesis to come with us to eat since we’ve all been on bad terms. Things just went downhill from there, though.”
Reno laughed, “Was it because Cloud and Genesis couldn’t keep their hands off of each other?”
Cloud sighed, “No, it’s because the reporters came up and revealed all of Genesis’ secrets.”
Reno shrugged, “If he handled the situation with care it wouldn’t have made much of an impact.”
Zack shook his head, “That’s the thing. He didn’t. Not to mention she got pictures of it and everything.”
Reno nodded, “Did any of you look at it? Pretty great photography going on right there.” The three glanced at each other before shaking their heads. They didn’t want to feed into it, considering Zack and Sephiroth were the reason it happened. Reno grabbed up something from under the copilot seat and handed it back to them, “Merry Christmas.”
Cloud held it in his hands and opened it up. “SOLDIER: 1st is Worst.” He flipped to the page number given and gapped. There were so many pictures of Genesis and him kissing and flirting it was mindboggling. “Wow.”
Sephiroth shrugged, “You’d both make great porn stars.”
Zack shook his head, “I don’t even remember all of that happening.”
“You were looking out the window, that’s why.”
“True. Probably because seeing two guys make out in front of me is a bit awkward.”
Sephiroth nodded, “Especially when they don’t have any control over their hormones.”
Cloud pointed at the article, “Listen to this! ‘It may seem that Genesis is the dominate one in this frisky relationship, but outside sources have revealed that Cloud has the upper hand. Why, then, does Cloud pretend to be the lap dog? “He’s doing it only because Genesis wants to look like he’s stronger and better than he really is,” says a member of SOLDIER who has decided to be left unnamed.” Cloud stared at the two beside him, “I want to know who knew that. It wasn’t like we said anything to anyone…at least I didn’t.”
Zack shrugged, “I don’t see why Genesis would tell anyone either, especially if he’s trying to look like the man in it all. He’d have to be really dumb or drunk to just let it spill.”
Sephiroth brushed hair away from his shoulder, “I think, perhaps, it’s because you weren’t careful enough. If you acted like it the whole time then no one would notice, but I have a feeling Genesis would lose his confident air once he sees people aren’t around, and someone might have seen.”
Cloud sighed, “Yeah. That makes a lot of sense, actually.”
Reno let out an interesting laugh, “Jeez, that’s pretty sad.”
“What?”
“That he’s such a little girl.”
Sephiroth snarled, “Shut up.” Silence came from everyone. Eh. Sephiroth was still touchy on the girl thing, so hearing him say that made him react more than he should have. He couldn’t HELP that he was supposed to be a woman! “Sorry. I don’t appreciate you clumping Genesis into a girl category.”
“Why? He is one—“
“No he’s not. If he was he’d be wearing dresses.”
“Why are you getting so upset over it? Still have some feelings for him?”
“That’s not the problem. The problem is I have more respect for women than Genesis, so when you add them on the same level you make it sound like they’re as dumb as him.” There. b***h.
Zack smiled, “I didn’t know you respected women. I’ve never really seen you talk to any.”
Cloud shrugged, “How many girls do you see around ShinRa corridors anyway?”
Silence.
“We need more, they’re valuable assets,” Sephiroth commented and repositioned himself so he could face away from the others.
“You don’t even like girls,” Zack muttered and Sephiroth shot a death glare in his direction. He was going to take his scrawny little neck and break it in two. No no, not only will he rip his head off, but he would feet it to a dog, just to really spite him.
“I have reasons not to like girls. Don’t ask why, it isn’t any of your business.”
“Is it because you’re gay?”
“That’s not even part of it. I’m not gay.”
“Then why did you date Genesis?”
There was more silence. Sephiroth smiled, “If I told you I’d have to kill you. All of you.”
More silence ensued. Reno glanced at the coordinates until something came over his headset. “Bird 49, come in, Bird 49. Marked coordinates have you out of ShinRa building.”
Reno sighed and clicked a few things, “49, here, I’m not at ShinRa.”
“49, why are you out? You have not been assigned any missions. Please return now.”
“Sorry to say, but I’ve got other things to do.”
“If you don’t turn around there will be severe consequences—“
“Yeah yeah, I’m escorting some SOLDIERs for something, buzz off.”
“Personal matters are not to be applied within ShinRa time, please return—“
“There’s nothing personal about it, it’s more for duty than anything else.”
“Your coordinates are being copied, please refrain from going further—“ Reno turned off his GPS and shut down autopilot. He switched a few other things and the helicopter literally stopped.
Sephiroth grabbed Reno’s shoulder, “What are you doing?”
“Don’t worry, I’ve done this a million times before. Everyone buckle up!”
They all reached for their buckles and waited to find out what Reno was doing. The helicopter started to descend, tilting forward as it fell closer and closer to the ground. Zack grabbed onto Cloud while Cloud grabbed onto Sephiroth. Right before they all thought they were done for Reno hit them back on again, “Did you enjoy that?”
“Are you ******** insane?? Why’d you do that?”
“Calm down, Sparky, I’m testing your reflexes. Now they’ll never find us.”
“Explain!”
Reno let the helicopter glide smoothly in the air, “We’re too down low for them to track us, and I reset the entire GPS when I turned off the ‘copter. They can only track us to this town up ahead, and from there they won’t know which direction to go.”
Sephiroth sighed and shoved Cloud off of him, “Next time give us a warning.”
“Hey, I did tell you to buckle up.”
“Hardly the same thing.”
The rest of their ride went in silence. It wasn’t too far off that they had reached Nibelheim. Sephiroth was anxious and he wanted to get off quickly and go see his mom. Where was she? What’d she look like? Zack said she was pretty easy to pick out, but they didn’t look alike. So how was she unique? He wanted to ask Cloud questions, but couldn’t find a way to word it. He didn’t want to sound desperate, but he didn’t want to go completely unknowing.
As they landed he got out and glanced around at the strange town. It was interesting. His eyes peered about at the people who were walking around in a clueless demeanor, hardly registering who they were or what they were doing there. Sephiroth turned to Cloud now, waiting for him to say something. The blonde, though, was glancing at the ground almost as if he hated the place. Was he ashamed of this place being where he grew up? Quite possible.
“You know something I don’t, Cloud. Lead the way.”
Cloud turned his head to Zack, their eyes meeting. It was…a look of worry. And why were they worried? Ten minutes ago they were perfectly fine.
“Well?”
“Yeah, okay. This way.”
Sephiroth watched the blonde trudged before him with Zack following in his tracks. He brought up the end and made sure Reno stayed at his post. A girl, rather naked looking, came bounding up and smiled, “Hello! Who are you guys?”
Cloud hid his face by looking the other way. The girl instantly recognized him, though, “Oh my God, Cloud? Is that you? Oh my GOD!” She leapt over and hugged him, his spine cracking several times with her deadly hug. Sephiroth wondered what was going on until he registered that they must have been friends at some point. Either that or she was just a creepy stalker. Or both. Both sounded good.
“Tifa, let me go. I’m not here for family visits…I’m here on orders for ShinRa.”
“Oh, yeah? Where are you guys going? I can bring you there! I’m a great guide!” She gave a cute pose, which caused her cleavage to show tenfold. Zack chuckled slightly and nodded. He wanted that tour guide all right. Sephiroth, on the other hand, wanted to slap her naked and steal her clothes, then give her some decent ones.
“We don’t need a guide,” Sephiroth commented.
Cloud shrugged, “She could tell you what you want to know?”
“And you can’t?”
“She’s better at it than I am.”
Sephiroth grumbled and waved his hand, “Fine. Lead the way.”
She gave a joyous grin, “Where do you boys want to go? Everywhere?”
Cloud nodded, “Yeah. Um. Head us straight through and up to the Mako Reactor.”
Sephiroth winced, “Mako Reactor?”
“Yes.”
He didn’t push it any further, but he felt his emotions start to skyrocket again. What did that even mean? Why were they going there? Did his mom live in there? That wasn’t safe at all… Maybe she just lived behind it? Yeah, wasn’t like there couldn’t be housing around the place.
Tifa bounded around, boobs doing their…thing accenting each movement she made. She blabbed about worthless crap and moved about showing her naked body off to all of them. It was disturbing watching her. Sephiroth started to wonder what it would have been like if HE were a girl. He’d be more conservative, right? Wasn’t like he’d be a whore and be 1st class. Would he have even made it to 1st class if he was a woman? Oh god…what if…he would have just been some cute secretary that couldn’t do anything? Ugh, how terrible.
“Oh my God, someone wants to take a picture of us! Hurry, pose!” She fixed her hair, and so did Zack, and they took the picture of them.
Sephiroth ignored this and continued to walk forward, “Can we continue?”
“Right! The Mako Reactor is up ahead! Why you boys want to go there, anyway?” She turned around, boobs whooshing with her movement, and gave Sephiroth a curious look. Heavens, if he had boobs he hoped they would never move like that. Someone could get a black eye with those things.
“Business matters. You’re not allowed inside.”
“Why not??”
“Because it’s a harmful and terrible place. Now scram. Cloud, make sure she stays out here.”
Sephiroth moved up the stairs and into the reactor, Zack following him. “Why here?”
Zack shrugged, “I guess you’ll find out.”
Sephiroth hesitated in continuing but decided it was much better than not knowing…
As they entered they saw pods here and there containing monsters in them. Up a long set of stairs was a doorway, and right above it said ‘JENOVA’. Zack made a few noises, mostly ‘whoa’ and ‘eeh?’ combined together before he turned to face Sephiroth. “So. She must be in there.”
“But…why in there?” He stepped forward and glanced at the creatures within the pods, “If this is here, what’s up there? Were….they created from her?”
Zack glanced at the thing and smiled, “It’s got your eyes!” Sephiroth gave him an offended look. “Uh. Sorry. I mean. Hey, Sephiroth, it’s nothing to get upset over? I’m sure whatever is behind the door isn’t as bad as you’re thinking.”
“Is that what you think?”
They both turned and watched as Genesis descended from the beams above. “Genesis, what the hell are you doing here? Didn’t I tell Angeal to—“
“Keep me at Shinra? He let me go and said that he would explain to Lazard what you’re doing. I’m here to take you back home.”
Sephiroth glared, “I don’t have a home.”
“Don’t be angry at me, you should say something like that to your mother. But you don’t even know anything about her, do you?”
Sephiroth thought it over, “Well. She has a fragile throat.” Silence fell over the three of them and Genesis coughed, trying to get back into his character. He kept thinking about that and he finally turned to Sephiroth, crossing his arms over his chest.
“Seriously? Who told you that one…”
“Hojo.”
Genesis’ face fell, “Hojo was sleeping with your mom? Wait. That’s impossible, she’s an alien that was excavated from a 2,000 year-old rock! There’s no way that he could have done that.”
Sephiroth grabbed Genesis, “What do you mean she’s an alien??”
Genesis smacked at Sephiroth’s hands, “Hey hey, watch the leather it wrinkles if you do that!” But Sephiroth didn’t let go, only brought him closer to explain. “All right, all right I’ll tell you. She’s an alien abomination that landed on this planet a long time ago and created a crater in the earth. After everyone got all ‘holy ********’ about her they chased her back in her hole where she lay dormant for years.” He swished his hair to the side and coughed, striking a pose as he pulled out an apple, “Now let me retell you that in a more noble tone.”
Sephiroth blinked. What the hell was Genesis…
“SOLDIER, 1st class Sephiroth. I don’t know what images you’ve conjured up in your head, but let it be known that your mother is anything but human. She’s a monster, a monster like you and me. But you, Sephiroth, are the perfect monster. With your mother’s cells—“
Sephiroth groaned, “We’ve been over this already Genesis, you’re not getting any of my cells.”
“Why not? If you share your cells with me, I’ll be cured…” he held out his apple in front of Sephiroth. His eyes went to the Banora apple and he smacked it away watching Genesis’s expression quickly change from ‘I’m almighty’ to ‘ho muh gawd, muh apple!’
“You will ROT.”
“That’s hot.”
“You’re not.”
“….Smoke some pot.”
Zack scratched his head, “I’m confused.”
“That doesn’t rhyme with pot, idiot,” Genesis snarled before he elegantly corrected his posture and smirked, “A perfect monster indeed.”
Sephiroth shook his head, “I don’t understand you at all. What are you doing, Genesis.”
Genesis raised an eyebrow, “What’s there to question?”
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“Your…um…new…attitude or whatever…”
Genesis flicked his hair away from his face and did another dramatic pose, “I’m actually trying out for a part in a kickass band, and I’m working on how I should act around the ladies.”
“You mean men.”
“….” Genesis flicked his hair again and pulled out his sword, “No matter, we’ll end this here and now. Why don’t you go visit your mother and see what a hideous creation she is. I’m sure you’ll thank Hojo for making you suffer such a horrible existence after this.”
Sephiroth glared. Back to being a snotty b***h, eh? He could easily ignore that…. Sephiroth moved past him and went up the stairs, going into the vault and waiting to see what it was his mother really turned out to be. The things he had conjured up in his head were really off, as Genesis had pointed out. In fact…..there was nothing human about her. There she floated in her tank with her odd colored skin and interesting looking eyes on her…um…
Sephiroth was NOT looking at his mother’s chest.
“Mother?”
She did not reply, though it almost seemed as if she could if she wanted to. He touched the glass slowly and got closer, letting his eyes look into her own. Or…well…try to without being completely freaked out. This was his mom? She didn’t even have…legs. Or…whatever.
“Mother….”
A small sigh escaped him and he put his head against the glass, much like a child at the zoo watching the sharks and fish swim by. She only floated, though, and didn’t say a thing to him. Maybe she just didn’t understand him since…well…he wasn’t speaking in alien tongue.
“She doesn’t want to talk to you, Sephiroth,” Genesis commented as he elegantly came in waving his hand dramatically. He tripped on the step and smashed his knee on the metal ground, a flow of curses escaping his mouth. He got back up and shook his head, “That didn’t happen.”
Sephiroth stared at him completely ignoring how stupid he was, “What do you mean….she doesn’t want to talk to me?”
“Because you’re not her child!”
“I am, too!” Wow, sound childish enough?
Genesis let out a laugh and moved closer so he could get a glimpse at Jenova, his own eyes widening at the interesting assets she had on her…um…boobs. He shook his head slightly and let his eyes fall on Sephiroth, “You’re not who she gave birth to! You’re a boy.”
“So..”
“So Jenova gave birth to a beautiful girl, not some transgendered fool. That’s why she doesn’t want to talk to you. You’ve gone against nature’s intentions and have showed her that you want nothing to do with her.”
“That’s not true..” Sephiroth stared at her and shook his head, “I didn’t have a choice…”
“You do have a choice. Either be a boy or be a girl and reconnect with your mother. What will it be, Sephiroth? Are you willing to give up who you are to be with the one person you’ve always wanted to be with? Or will you throw it all away because everyone told you to be a boy…a 1st class SOLDIER.”
Sephiroth’s eyes lingered on his mother and he was unsure what he was even supposed to pick. He didn’t want to be a woman, but he wanted to be with his mom. Was she even…able to talk to him? Or was it just a ruse? As his eyes went back to Genesis he felt rage build up inside him. Genesis just wanted to hurt him again, didn’t he?
“I’m not changing.”
“What an interesting choice, Sephiroth.”
“You just want me to be weak and vulnerable.”
“No…” Genesis shook his head and flicked his hair again like a model. That was getting really annoying. “I want you to be who you really are.”
“I am who I am, you can’t change that.”
“You’re….imperfect this way….so very imperfect. Look at all of your flaws…”
Sephiroth hit Genesis and watched him fall to the ground, the look of fear striking his face. “Hojo believes I’m perfect. He knows a lot more than you do, and I’ll go with his words rather than from a promiscuous whore like yourself.”
Genesis got up and drew his blade, moving to strike Sephiroth when Sephiroth’s own blade came out. They began to spar for awhile until Sephiroth stabbed Genesis in the arm and listened to the man scream and fall down.
“What are you intentions, Genesis? You don’t want to help me at all.”
Genesis shook his head, “I….wanted you to do the surgery….so that I could take your cells….I want to be cured, Sephiroth.”
Sephiroth laughed, “You’ll never be cured. You’ve ruined my life, and I’ll ruin yours. It’s called payback.”
Genesis got up and grabbed onto his enemy, slamming him against the wall, “You’ve ruined MINE first! Always being the top dog and making it look like you don’t care, but you do. I wanted that glory! I wanted to be everything you were! And then I found out all of your dirty little secrets and I knew that I could be so much better than that. I could be what the world really wants. A normal person that grew up with a family and reached the top, not a stupid alien creation that a scientist made!”
Sephiroth’s rage consumed him and he hit Genesis again, shooting magic at him. The man lay limp on the ground. At first he wondered if he killed him, but Genesis slowly started to get up, holding his wounds. “I loved you at one point….”
Sephiroth felt himself shake at those words but he swallowed it down and let him continue, watching the leather clad figure move for the exit.
“I didn’t think you’d want me to die after all we’ve been through. But the more I talk to you, the more I see you….” Genesis grabbed the doorframe and shook his head sadly, “I’ve realized that you want me gone.”
“Genesis…”
“Say no more.” He moved and lifted his hurt hand, though he didn’t care, “Even if the morrow is barren of promises, nothing shall forestall my return.”
Sephiroth then watched him leave. What was he even supposed to pick anyway? Zack, of course, had heard all of this and was staring at Sephiroth with wide eyes. “You’re a girl?” He had that pathetic look on that said ‘why didn’t you tell me’ as if Sephiroth always spewed his secrets to that mongrel.
“Shut up.” Sephiroth turned from Zack and looked up at Jenova, still brewing in her tank completely silent. He felt so shitty right now he wasn’t even sure what to do. His mother meant a lot to him right now, and yet he couldn’t even connect to her. She was basically a dead animal stuck in a jar. And what about Genesis? He cared about the guy….but he knew he couldn’t give in to temptations no matter how strong they were. To heal Genesis might just mean a worse life for himself.
“You could have….said something. I mean, we were kind of rude to you about liking guys because—“
“Shut up!! Just….leave me alone…” Sephiroth glared at him, sword posed. Zack backed up at the sudden advancement, but he shook his head, black hair swaying slightly.
“I don’t mean to upset you. You’ve….learned a lot about who you are today. I’ve learned a lot, too. And…I don’t want you to do anything crazy. So your life was far from perfect—“
“Perfect doesn’t exist in my life, Zack. If anything were perfect, I wouldn’t be here staring at this!” He waved his hand toward his mother, “I wouldn’t have to stand here and stare at what I came from, I wouldn’t have to feel like s**t because I don’t have friends because I’m different…because I’m not who I should be. I don’t even know who I am, and I never will. I’m some abomination that causes pain on this planet.”
“That’s not true! You’re a hero—“
“I’m nothing like a hero. I’ve plagued this planet with my impure blood. Hojo said I was perfect because….he was hiding the truth from me. Everyone wanted me to be on their side because they were scared of me, of what I could do. They knew what my mother had done once…and they didn’t want it to happen again.”
“Well….she did kill the s**t out of a lot of people…”
Sephiroth glared and moved back over to the tank, “I didn’t know it’d hurt this much…”
Zack crossed his arms over his chest, “Well…the truth always hurts.”
Sephiroth shook his head and laughed slightly. He slammed his fist into the glass and watched it crack, creating a spider web of cracks as the liquid began to leak out. Zack jumped back and flailed his arms, “What are you doing?”
“She’s dead, she can’t do anything…”
“No she’s not! She’s just….not awake….Sephiroth, if you awaken her she could—“
Sephiroth ripped the glass open and angrily sliced her head off. Zack fell silent for several minutes as he tried to understand what in the hell just happened. “Dude. You just. Sliced your mom’s head off.”
“Get over it, she didn’t feel a thing.” Sephiroth took her head up and started to move down the snaking tube.
“W-What are you going to do with that?”
“Wear it as a necklace.”
“W-what??”
“I don’t know….I might just throw it over the edge…or…” he glanced at the head and thought it all over, “Take it to Hojo…”
“And why would you do that?”
“Because….he’ll have to tell me more about her if I just brought this to his face. He can’t lie to me, not if I have proof…” he started to move off and Zack followed him slowly, not wanting to get too close to the crazed Sephiroth.
“Not to sound like I think you’re insane…..but you’re insane.”
“If you’re scared then find a new ride home.” Sephiroth stopped in his tracks. Genesis needed help because he had Jenova’s cells in him…it would cure his ailments. If those cells could work miracles such as reverse degrading…then what else could they do? Sephiroth touched the rim of his mother’s neck, watching a nice oozy mess come onto his finger. Couldn’t hurt, right? He put it in his mouth and swallowed. Tasted kind of weird.
Zack gagged, “Oh sick, you just ate part of your mom! What the heck, Sephiroth, that’s just weird!”
“Hmm…” Sephiroth went back to walking. Time to see how Hojo will react to this one, eh? He hoped the guy would have a heart attack as soon as he saw this lovely souvenir. “Zack. Fetch me a bag to put this in.”
“You’re…not actually taking that with you…are you?”
“I. Said. Fetch. Me. A. Bag.”
Zack slowly turned away from Sephiroth and rushed off to get one, unsure of whether he should come back or not. In the end he did return because he knew Sephiroth would hunt him down and probably kill him by bludgeoning his head open with his Mother’s decapitated skull. Eugh.
Sephiroth put her head gently into the bag and tied it close, “Now we must return…”
“Are…you sure…you’re stable enough to get back on the helicopter?”
Sephiroth snarled, “Don’t question me and my intentions! Obey orders or else I’ll rid of you, Zack!”
Zack saluted, “Yes, sir! Sorry, sir!” He began to move quickly, finding Cloud outside with Tifa smothering him in her bosom.
“Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud!!” she giggled and continued to hold him. She ignored the fact that he was probably suffocating.
Sephiroth saw this and snapped his fingers, “Let go of him, we’re leaving.”
Tifa dropped Cloud, “Already? But we just started having fun!”
Cloud lay on the ground and gasped for breath, “Face. Needs. Washed. Too. Much. Boob. Smothering.”
Sephiroth ignored the comment, only grabbed up Cloud and slung him over his shoulder, “Go ******** yourself, we’re not here for fun. And why don’t you go put something decent on for once, you disgusting whore.” With that Sephiroth moved off, leaving Tifa blubbering to herself.
As they returned to the helicopter Zack frowned, “You didn’t have to be so mean to her.”
“Shut up and get in,” Sephiroth ordered and watched the two get in the helicopter. He sat down slowly and put the head down, eyes glaring up to Reno. “Let’s go.”
Reno frowned, “What’d you bring back?”
“My mother.”
“She fits in a bag?”
“It’s just her head.”
“Great. Who are you giving it to?”
“Hojo.”
“…I see.” Reno whipped back around and started up the helicopter. Was…Sephiroth being serious? He never knew what to expect with that man. “Home, here we come.”
There was silence all the way back home. Cloud and Zack didn’t want to talk about their experiences, and Sephiroth was so insane at the moment they weren’t sure whether talking would be acceptable or not. Every now and then Reno would ask a question, but they’d just mumble and stare at each other, wondering when the ride would be done.
Once they got closer to headquarters they were surrounded by Shinra affiliates.
“What a nice, warm welcome,” Sephiroth commented and grabbed the bag up, “It’s a pity they won’t be escorting all of us straight to the President. Isn’t that right, Mother?” Sephiroth stared at the bag as if it was…talking to him.
Cloud grabbed onto Zack, “W-What’s he talking about?”
Zack turned to face Cloud, “I’m…not..sure?” His head whipped back to Sephiroth and finally saw what he was doing. The door was opened and the man made a lovely leap to his death. “Holy s**t!! Reno! Sephiroth just dived out of the helicopter!”
Reno looked down and shook his head, “That guy is insane. He’ll break his legs on impact.”
Alas, Sephiroth fell and did a nice somersault, landing gently on Shinra building without even a scratch. He moved over to the door and slipped in, quickly heading for Hojo’s lab. Past SOLDIERs, guards, and even Turks. His feet continued to move even when he wasn’t sure if he should stop or go. No one stopped him, no one bothered to ask what he had. Their eyes landed on him in curiosity, but not a single person approached him on his interesting behavior.
Finally he entered into Hojo’s lab and found the man discussing things with a simpleton scientist. Sephiroth pointed at him and then pointed at the door. “Get out.” The peon quickly rushed off as Sephiroth set the bag down, “A souvenir for you.”
Hojo blinked, “What?”
Sephiroth pulled the bag open and revealed the head, “Isn’t it wonderful…how you LIED to me! Hid this from me ever since I was little…weaving tales that didn’t exist. Telling me I was something perfect…when I really am nothing but some terrible abomination! You had something to do with this….you made me a monster…isolated me on purpose.” Sephiroth set the head down and glared at Hojo, eyes burning with rage. “Why would you do such a thing to me?”
Hojo stared at Sephiroth and shook his head, “No no, Sephiroth…don’t get so upset! Your mother is…indeed this head. I did tell you her name—“
“That’s it! That was ALL I had to go off of! You never thought I’d question your simple answer, did you? You thought I’d never wonder who my parents were. You believed I’d never want to know.”
“I did because you are a strong man who doesn’t need a foolish family to lean on. You have yourself, and that’s all you need.”
Sephiroth pushed all the potions and concoctions onto the floor, screaming angrily. “You kept it from me! I always trusted you with everything! I never had anyone to look up to, so I had to find someone that wouldn’t take advantage of me…who I could find support in. And you backstabbed me the way everyone else did!”
Hojo sighed, “I wanted to protect you…”
“From what?”
“From yourself.”
“There’s nothing wrong with me!”
“If you had known earlier in life you would have made different decisions. Probably asked to change sexes earlier on, or treated differently. You wouldn’t have worked so hard to be on top and noticed, you would have piddled yourself away and asked to be hidden because you would be afraid people would find out about what you are and how you came to be.”
Sephiroth felt the rage dismiss into sadness, “Am I…really that unlovable?”
Hojo came forward and grabbed onto Sephiroth’s arm, “There’s more you still don’t know of….but are you certain it is worth hearing the truth?”
Sephiroth turned his attention to Hojo, an eyebrow rising, “What…else is there?” Did he have a brother, a sister, perhaps an alien that was sitting in a tube that was created from him? A clone? What could they be hiding?
“I’m your father.”
Sephiroth stared at Hojo in disbelief. This. Man. Was. His. FATHER!?? But he was so…and he was…and then he…
“But…”
“I had taken my cells and Jenova’s and inserted them into the womb of my wife. With a constant insertion of Jenova cells, you were slowly created. No one knew you were different because no one could tell. Sure, you don’t look like anyone else that exists, but your unique physique and ability to adapt to everything presented to you won the eye of Mr. President.”
Sephiroth glared, “Why…did you change me?”
“What do you mean?”
“I was a girl!”
“Girls are inferior beings! They are stupid and useless! I told you that a millions times! Remember when you started to change your thoughts were filled with emotions and garbled messages, your entire willpower to go on was shot, and you fell in love with some naïve fool that can’t even tie his own boots!”
Sephiroth put his hand to his face, “Genesis doesn’t even have ties on his boots.”
“Nevertheless, you were used and you felt like s**t! Before when you were a boy you didn’t give a rat’s a** and you ordered everyone around! You had power and strength! Why would you want to turn into something so weak?”
Sephiroth turned away from him, “Because…I…want to be…who I really am.”
Hojo shook his head, “That person still exists, and they’re standing right in front of me. Even if you were a girl, you probably would have been a tomboy. Why bother with being a girl when you could easily just be a boy?”
“Do you think…if I were a girl…right now…that I’d still be in this position? Still have this power…this strength?”
Hojo shrugged, “It’s unknown. I brought you up as much as I could without controlling you or sheltering you…it was Shinra that gave you limits. Shinra has put you on a pedestal and ordered you be a certain way. Not once have I interfered with your goals. I supported you much like you needed, and made sure you didn’t get yourself into some stupid mess!”
Sephiroth leaned against the counter, “I…never thought…it’d be this way.” Sephiroth paused and then turned his head to Hojo, “You…said you were married. Your woman…she’s my mother, too…whatever happened to her?”
“She left.”
“But why?”
Hojo gave a small sigh and took his glasses off, wiping at them gently before putting them back on the brim of his nose. “Lucrecia was terrified of what you were and what you may become. She believed you were a terrible abomination and you’d ruin the planet. With that fear she left…and I don’t know where she went from there. I haven’t talked to her in 20 years.”
Sephiroth felt absolutely terrible. His human mother rejected him, his human father had messed around and created him into something a company liked, and his alien mother couldn’t even take care of him. He was alone…
“I…wish she could have seen me…instead of refusing me…”
Hojo nodded, “Of course. If she were here I believe she’d see that you are far from a destroyer, and more of a savior.”
Sephiroth looked at Jenova’s head and then over at Hojo, “I’m…a savior?” He thought that over and stood up straight, “I have to go.”
Hojo folded his arms across his chest, “Where to?”
“I have to go help someone.”
As Sephiroth left Hojo grabbed up Jenova’s head, “My, what big eyes you have. Let’s find a nice jar to stick you in!”
Sephiroth pushed past people and found Angeal in his room, “Where’s Genesis?”
Angeal raised an eyebrow, “Not here? He sent me a message not too long ago that said he didn’t want to be bothered.”
“Did…he tell you where he went?”
“I’m assuming the cave if he used that tone.”
Sephiroth moved off without explanation and made his way past guards and security again, giving the excuse he was on a very important mission whenever he was stopped and asked what he was doing. Out the door he went, trekking quickly to their hiding spot. As he reached it he hesitated. Would Genesis actually be in there? He took a deep breath and headed in.
Genesis was sitting there with his head in his hands, hunched over on the couch. He looked defeated with his grayed hair and molting wing.
“Genesis.”
The man jumped as he heard his name, “S-Sephiroth?”
Sephiroth went over and grabbed Genesis, pulling him into a kiss. After awhile Genesis pulled back, “W-What are you doing? I don’t understand…”
“I talked to Hojo…I…I realized my mistake. You don’t deserve to die. Not like this. I wanted you to know that…I still love you.”
“But…”
“I don’t want you to die…”
Genesis looked over at the cave entrance and then back at Sephiroth, “So you…want to save me?”
“More than anything.”
Genesis gave a smile which Sephiroth returned. The light, coincidentally, went out as they got down on the couch and ‘saved’ Genesis from his predicament.
Twenty minutes in their love-making the light flicked back on, as if the lightbulb had cured itself, and the two found themselves surrounded by other SOLDIER members…along with Director Lazard.
“You two are finished here. The President has called an immediate meeting and you both are needed. Get dressed.”
Sephiroth winced and looked down at Genesis, “What’s it about?”
“You’ll find out soon enough. We’ll give you a moment to make yourselves decent.” Lazard snapped his fingers and the group moved out, trying to keep quiet as they had caught the two messing around.
Sephiroth and Genesis quickly got dressed and took a moment to think about what they had just done. What had just been revealed.
“You’re going to get in trouble because of me,” Genesis mumbled and held onto Sephiroth’s hands.
“I don’t care. I’m worried more about you.”
“Aww, really?”
“Of course.”
Genesis and Sephiroth kissed when they heard a cough come from the entryway. Lazard was watching them. “It’s time to go.”
They glanced at each other before following him out, a few heckles escaping the lower class SOLDIERs. They ignored them, more curious as to what they were going to be punished about more than anything. As they entered into the meeting room they found themselves in the middle of a giant meeting with all the fat cats. Sephiroth knew this couldn’t be any good.
“Finally. The two of you are on very thin ice right now!” Mr. President growled and Genesis felt himself tense up. This was going to be a giant explosion of ‘you did this and this’ and he’d have to try and defend himself. It had happened once before…but he didn’t defend himself then….
“SOLDIER 1st class Genesis and Sephiroth. You both have violated Shinra orders. Sephiroth, you left Shinra boundaries with a helicopter, a pilot, and two hostages. You lost contact with us and disobeyed us in returning back to headquarters. You returned with a foreign object and avoided confrontation when you knew we wanted to see you. Your behavior was completely out of line and irrational! What’s more we could have needed you back here and you left us high and dry. Genesis, you have broken your curfew by leaving earlier this morning and not returning during your scheduled time. You disobeyed our orders once again, and have continued to ignore our constant warnings that you will be thrown out if you continue this. You have yet to listen to us! And what’s more, you had Angeal tell Lazard you went to go find Sephiroth, when you did absolutely nothing beneficial nor helpful to find him. You ran off on a whim and didn’t bother returning here.”
Genesis was shaking slightly, but Sephiroth was as still as a board. He didn’t really fear the President that much. This was the first time he had disobeyed orders.
“Sephiroth, you are under watch for a month, your duties are suspended for two weeks, and you will follow a strict schedule until you realize how foolish you are being. Genesis. Your title is suspended and your work here is done. Get your things and get out of Shinra.”
Genesis gasped and shook his head, “No! Don’t do that! I did go visit Sephiroth! We talked! Zack even saw me there! I didn’t leave on purpose!”
The President shook his head, “Get him out of here.”
Sephiroth glared, “You don’t have any right to remove him from Shinra. He screwed up in not staying on schedule, but he isn’t lying when he said he came to see me. I’m the reason why he never returned to Shinra headquarters. I told him to meet me somewhere else.” Oh god. Lying. Lying is bad. Why was he doing this? “Do you really want to lose a good fighter just because of a small slip up like this?”
The President sighed and rubbed his head, “What I don’t understand is why you’re defending this man.”
“He’s my friend…why wouldn’t I? And besides that, he deserves another chance.”
“He got his chance after he screwed his boyfriend in a public restaurant! He’s out of chances!”
“That had nothing to do with Shinra!”
“It had everything to do with us because he dragged the media right into our company doors!!”
“He’s innocent! I was the one who did it!”
Everyone fell silent. Finally the President turned his eyes to Sephiroth, “You did it?”
Oh s**t. Oh s**t. What was he going to say? His eyes went to Genesis who was still standing there absolutely mortified. Looked like he was alone on this one. “I set it up because I wanted Genesis to feel like an idiot. It wasn’t supposed to turn into a huge thing for Shinra to settle.”
“Obviously underestimated the media. Odd, coming from the world’s greatest Hero.”
Sephiroth shook his head, “I’m not a hero, so don’t call me that. I do what I’m supposed to do, whether Shinra orders me to do it or not.”
The President frowned, “You’d go against my orders?”
“I would. That’s why I left Shinra so I could attend personal business.”
“And what was the reason you left?”
They fell silent, Sephiroth unable to even say the words. Finally Genesis spoke up for him, “He went to see his mother.”
The entire table started to mumble and babble about that. Sephiroth? A mother? Never. Not in a million years.
“You don’t have a mother, Sephiroth, what kind of an outlandish tale is that?” the President asked him.
“It’s the truth. My mother is an alien that was encased in the Mako Reactor placed in Nibelheim. JENOVA.”
The President nodded, “I see….so you finally found out about that.”
“Yes, along with other things that were kept from me. I don’t appreciate that you believe you can hide my past from me and think that I won’t find out.”
“Understandable. And have you talked to Hojo?”
“Yes. I’m his son, he’s distorted my entire being, he’s used me in countless experiments, and somehow I’m still living.”
“Yes…indeed.” The President sighed and shook his head, “The two of you are off the hook. You still are going to be watched, though. Genesis, you will go back to attending your classes, and Sephiroth…you will begin yours tomorrow at 6 o’clock sharp.”
They were dismissed and they both moved out of the room. Holy. s**t. Hooooollllly s**t. They saved their asses somehow.
“My heart is pounding so hard,” Genesis whispered and moved toward their room.
“Yeah, I’m surprised I talked us out of that…”
“No s**t. I felt...doomed until you said something.”
“I couldn’t just leave you hanging…that would be terrible.”
“Yeah…I know.”
They went in and saw Angeal there, waiting for them. “Odd, the two of you are together.”
Sephiroth thought it over and nodded, “We’re back together again.”
“Oh. I hope this time it won’t get insane and over your heads.”
Genesis looked up at Sephiroth, “I don’t think it will…” he paused, “Will it?”
“No…I’m pretty sure it won’t.”
And at first it almost seemed as if it was all coming to an end, so happily and mushy and all that jazz. But it wasn’t, because endings were too cliché in Sephiroth’s book.
Hojo slammed open the door causing all three of them to almost have a heart attack. “Holy s**t, Hojo, you could at least knock! My god…” Sephiroth growled, holding his chest feeling his heart pound to death. Especially after that terrible meeting, his heart was going to explode at some point from all of these surprises.
“No time! We have to get you fixed and soon!”
Sephiroth frowned, “Fixed? What are you talking about?”
“I’ve made a terribly grave error in calculations! When I first made you a boy everything was going perfectly, but due to the fact that you started to switch back, and I had to redo the procedure, I forgot a very important factor!”
Genesis frowned, “Did you forget his p***s?”
Sephiroth shook his head, “No, I clearly used it on you not too long ago.”
Hojo shuddered, “My ears are bleeding.”
Angeal nodded, “Welcome to the club.”
“What’s wrong with me, if it’s not that?” Sephiroth asked curiously. As if he needed anymore problems happening with his…region.
“Aside from the fact that you’re gay right now, there is an odd reaction with Jenova cells when your hormones secrete more testosterone than estrogen. As a scientist I find it rather fascinating that—“
“Just tell me the problem!!”
“If you stay as a boy you’re going to die.”
Sephiroth stared at him and then at Genesis before looking back at Hojo, “W-what?”
“Jenova cells cannot react correctly with testosterone. You hadn’t had much problem before because you were originally a girl, and you were taking medicine only to hold that structure and not much else. Now that you’re a full blown male, you’re going to slowly degrade and die.”
Genesis blinked, “Wait….wait a minute.” Genesis pointed at himself, “Is that why I’m degrading?”
Angeal stood up, “It makes sense. The blood transfusion was of Jenova Cells most likely, which caused the degradation. When you slept with Sephiroth it got better before it got much worse.”
Hojo nodded, “Exactly. The Jenova Cells hit the immune system first and up your antibodies, but then it starts to eat itself as it tries to rip apart and reassemble with Jenova. Her cells have an interesting way of trying to gather together once they’re taken away.”
Sephiroth grabbed Hojo, “Then what am I supposed to do??”
“Stop shaking me you damn ape and I’ll get you fixed!”
Genesis flailed his arms, “Wait, what about me?? We’ve had so much sex I’m flowing with Jenova Cells!”
Hojo blinked, “Are you a male or a female?”
Genesis glared, “I’m a man!”
“Oh, it’s hard to tell what with all your girly features. Aside from the fact that your anatomy fails, I suppose I’ll have to turn you into a girl, too.”
Both screamed, “TURN US INTO GIRLS??” loudly.
Angeal stared at them and frowned, “Wait a minute….” He pointed at himself, “I had to help Genesis and Hollander infected me with his blood..”
Hojo shrugged, “Looks like a giant slumber party of sex changes, then.”
All three men stared at each other before a scream came from all of them. It could be heard in Lazard’s room as he stopped staring at the picture of Sephiroth on his computer and blinked. “Odd…I swear I heard someone screaming just now…” He paused and shook his head, going back to staring at the picture. “Oh Sephiroth…why are you in love with Genesis? This is a giant soap opera. Just wait, I’ll find out that I’m actually related to the President or something. Ha.”
And back to the other three.
“I’d rather DIE,” Angeal growled and shook his head, “I’m not sacrificing my honor and my pride to live.”
Genesis pouted, “I…I like being a boy.”
Sephiroth shrugged, “********, might as well do it just for the experience.”
The other two glared at him before shaking their heads, “We don’t want to!”
Sephiroth crossed his arms over his chest, “Seriously. Get a grip. It isn’t THAT bad.”
“Will I have boobs?” Genesis questioned rather pathetically toward Hojo.
Hojo stared at Genesis, “You might as well have some to finish your looks.” Genesis snarled and turned from him in anger.
“Look, if you can do the procedure and not make us look like girls….then I think we’ll all be fine. No one will know, and we won’t have to tell anyone,” Sephiroth suggested.
Angeal groaned, “My honor and pride!”
Hojo blinked, “You named them?”
“The more he says it like that you’d think so,” Genesis mumbled.
“No, I didn’t. It’s just….rather defacing and humiliating that I got stuck in this situation. You two are the ones who are supposed to suffer, not me!”
Sephiroth and Genesis turned on Angeal, “OH THANKS.”
“You’re welcome.”
Hojo looked at his watch, “Well I’d love to stay and chat, but I’ve got a lot of important things to do. Either get on my table or die. I don’t really care.”
Sephiroth moved to follow Hojo, “Let’s go.”
The three sat on a bench together, all with a grave look on their face as Hojo went on a giant babbling fest on what was to happen. It was filled with graphic words and images, but after Hojo was done explaining he gave them a big smile, “Now I’ll get the table prepared. Who wants to go first?”
Genesis shuddered, “I…I guess I will.”
Sephiroth slapped his a** as he stood up, “Taking one for the team!” Angeal also cheered and they watched as he disappeared. “So…how much you want to bet that Hojo turns him into a complete girl?”
“Oh I already know he will, and Genesis will just go with it. The man is a push over.”
“So true.”
After several tedious hours of poking, prodding, cutting, and other such things…They were fixed.
They all three sat in the training room as the room changed to a hill with a tree on it. The wind blew in their hair and the sun was behind them, slowly rising to give the affect of a new day starting.
“That wasn’t as bad as I thought it’d be,” Angeal commented.
Sephiroth shrugged, “I knew that Hojo wouldn’t do anything stupid. He’s good at keeping everything intact.”
Angeal nodded, “My pride and honor thank him.”
Genesis stared at them and raised an eyebrow, “I’m confused.”
Angeal sighed, “We still have dicks.”
Genesis frowned, “You do?”
Sephiroth smirked, “I knew it. Genesis…you don’t have anything, do you?”
Genesis looked down, “Uh…”
Angeal laughed, “You’re not serious, are you?”
“Hojo said it’d be easier to wear thongs if I just got rid of everything…so I just agreed.”
The other two fell silent. Wasn’t expecting THAT. “You wanted to look great in a thong…so you got rid of your manhood? That’s insane,” Angeal commented.
Genesis bit his bottom lip, “I dunno…I like looking good.”
Sephiroth thought it over and smiled, “You wanted it all along, didn’t you?” Genesis only hid his face from him. “You’re so submissive it’s not even funny. Though I’m not complaining…I think I’ll like it better this way. We can face each other better now when we’re having sex.”
Genesis blushed a little and put his head down, “I can’t believe I even went through with this.”
Angeal shrugged, “You were close enough to a showgirl, might as well complete the rest of you, hmm?”
“Shut up,” Genesis grumbled and kept his head down.
Sephiroth rubbed Genesis’s shoulders, “You’re touchy today. Are you just sensitive now or is it something else?” Genesis burst into tears and grabbed onto Sephiroth for comfort. Angeal gave a confused look to Sephiroth but the man only shrugged and held onto Genesis. “Go ahead. Tell me what’s on your mind.”
And then came the string of events bothering Genesis. After 3 hours of Genesis blubbering his voice got so hoarse he couldn’t even say another word, which both of them were thankful for. “You should get some rest…you’ve lost your voice. Why don’t you two go..uh…drinking or something or other…I’m heading for bed,” Angeal mumbled before he left them. He needed to go stab his brain and try and get Genesis’s voice out of his mind.
Sephiroth continued to hold onto him, rubbing Genesis’s back every now and then, playing around with the guy’s hair. “Feeling better?”
Genesis nodded and sighed, “Much.”
“You know what we should do…” Sephiroth paused and waited for Genesis to say something.
“I’m not really up for sex if that’s what you want.”
“No, I wasn’t going to suggest that.”
“Oh. Then what were you thinking?”
“Star gazing.”
Genesis hesitated and blinked, “Why star gazing?”
“I’ve never done it before.”
Genesis smirked and watched as the setting changed to stars. They lay on their backs and glanced up at the sky. “I still feel bad…about everything I did to you.”
“Don’t worry about it. Things happened and you couldn’t control yourself. Everyone has to do something wrong to get something right.”
Genesis smiled and grabbed Sephiroth’s hand, “You think so?”
Sephiroth shrugged, “Better than anything else I’ve got.”
They faced each other and kissed softly, the night sky gleaming happily…
While Angeal was back in the band room listening to his theme music proudly. “I could die a happy man right now….especially with my pride and honor.”
Zack was next to him as he listened to the music, “Could you?”
Angeal chuckled, “I’ve got a word of advice for you, kid. Protect your honor.” He winked and walked off, whistling the theme music to himself. Zack continued to stand there and wondered what that meant before smirking.
“I think I can do that.”
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TEH END
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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:51 pm
A lullaby for you.
Don't you worry baby, I'll be here by your side
May tomorrow be wonderful too.
Close to you I hope to stay,
Endlessly from today,
Even through cloudy days, You are not alone.
You write Sephiroth so well. xD
Wonderful physique? Hojo? I think not. xD
Lolz the P word was uttered a lot in on of the chaps on pg 1.
"Sephiroth listened as Hojo was now either buttering toast or sanding something. He wasn’t sure what the ‘mad scientist’ did in the morning. Wait, why the HELL was he drinking in the morning? Oh god, did he go to work like that? No wonder he was ******** insane!!"
That was the best. I should totally put that on my profile.
Yes I am commenting about a million things before hand.
Also Reno hitting on Reno was great. xD
"That was a lot of…sussessss..ss..s. Ahem."
That also made me laugh.
UGH I really like Genesis, but I wanted to slap him in part of the story.
A lullaby for you.
Stars will always gracefully watch over 'til it's bright.
May tomorrow be wonderful, too.
Take my hand and promise me that we'll be alright.
Finding a place to feel at home, You are not alone.
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