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Fanfic100: AeriSeph Batch
Got a small bundle this time, mostly angst and crack, with implied naughtiness but generally a work safe batch.
Title: Woman’s Intuition
Characters: Aeris, Zack, Sephiroth.
Prompt: 035 – Sixth Sense
Word Count: 392
Rating: PG-13
Warning: Implied m/m
Zack had someone else. Aeris didn’t have to ask him. There were signs. She could tell. It was in the tired look in his eyes and the fatigue that crept up on him at times. It was the way his phone would ring at the strangest times and the little sidelong glance he would throw her way while he tried to keep her from hearing the conversation. It was how would excuse himself at odd hours, how there was always some ‘Army business’ that his commander needed him to take care of no matter how fresh off a mission he was.
She didn’t say anything at all for a long, long time. Deep down, she supposed she couldn’t really blame him. He was young and full of energy and he knew a thing a two about the world and she was still shy and unsure, not even really loosed from her mother’s skirt tails. Aeris saw the looks Zack got from the ladies. Her mother saw the looks he sometimes sent back. It didn’t help that he was so warmly and genuinely friendly when simply polite would have been just fine.
She stayed silent, caught between her mother’s stern disapproval and her own nagging suspicions, until it finally became too much.
“Zack,” she began quietly, as they shared a pew, “Are you seeing someone else?”
“What?” He wasn’t really shocked. The tremor to his voice spoke more of nervousness.
She swallowed and turned away from his wide eyes. “Is there another girl?”
He did not answer at first. He took enough time recovering his wits for the silence between them to become heavy and uncomfortable. “Why are you asking me this?”
Aeris shrugged. “No real reason, I guess.” She picked at a splinter in the seat. “I know I’m not your usual kind of girl and I suppose, I just thought…”
Zack sighed and slid across the gap that had grown between them. He took her face in both hands and looked her straight in the eye. “Aeris, please believe that I’m telling you the truth. There is no other woman.”
And because Aeris was a slum girl, because she knew about the kinds of things that happened in Wall Market, because the strange scent that sometimes clung to Zack when he came to her was anything but feminine, she believed him.
Title: Grieve
Characters: Sephiroth, Hojo.
Prompt: 018 - Black
Word Count: 429
Genre: Angst
Rating: PG
Summary: One of Sephiroth’s pranks will haunt him all the rest of his days.
A stinging slap echoed down the hall. Its recipient stood defiant despite his reddening cheek.
“Do you have any idea what you have done?” Hojo raised his hand again but the boy did not flinch. The blow came landed hard and Sephiroth went tumbling into his bunk. The scientist fumed. “What possessed you to do such a thing? What the hell did you think you would accomplish by letting them get away?”
Sephiroth said nothing. Hojo was tempted to hit him again but the boy had grown too hard for it to make a difference. “I’m going to ask you one more time, boy. Why did you do it?”
“Because you’re funny when you’re mad.” Sephiroth looked up with a glimmer in his eyes that was a touch too proud for Hojo’s taste.
Hojo sneered. “So that’s it? You just want to provoke me? Well, fine, you do that. But next time, you better think about who’s paying the price of your little pranks.”
Sephiroth shrugged. “Nothing to think about. It’s always me.”
Hojo paused and slowly grinned. “Is it, boy? Didn’t you hear what happened?” Sephiroth knew better than to take the bait, so Hojo continued anyway. “Those military idiots we sent after the specimens got a little trigger happy. The specimens are dead.”
Sephiroth couldn’t stop the gasp. Hojo’s grin grew sinister. “Oh, yes, the mother and the little girl both.” Sephiroth swallowed. Hojo turned his back on the boy and left him to contemplate his deeds. Sephiroth liked to push his buttons but the boy was a mere beginner at the game of manipulation.
Sephiroth stayed hunched on his bed for a long time. He didn’t cry. He had not cried for years and he didn’t think he was able to anymore.
But he hadn’t meant for them to die. Far from it. He had wanted them to escape. Especially her. Because he had been in the lab his entire life and he hadn’t wanted her to grow up that way. Hojo’s words rang in his head again. Sephiroth’s breath hitched but he did not cry. Hojo often lied. But sometimes he told the truth. It was just a matter of which might hurt more.
Sephiroth rolled over and blinked away the brightness of the overhead light. It didn’t matter what was true. He did not cry and no one would even see him quiver. She was free either way and that was no reason to mourn.
But for the rest of his days, whenever he was given a choice in the matter, he wore black.
Title: Distraction
Characters: Sephiroth, Aeris, Cloud.
Prompt: 020 - Colourless
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Something fell out of her hair as she slid down, something that shimmered and glowed. It distracted him with its pale glimmer. It hit the stone with a musical ring that was almost like what her voice had been and caught the rippling reflection of the water on its surface.
Then the perfect, colourless glow was submerged in a swirl of milky green that went right to his heart and sickened him to the core. He brought his eyes back up to the grieving puppet and had to resist the urge to twist his blade in the girl’s lifeless body.
Title: Lost
Characters: Sephiroth
Prompt: 067 - Snow
Word Count: 236
Rating: PG
Sephiroth had not expected much out of the Icicle Village mission. He had only sought something to do before moving down the mountain the next day. The house was truly abandoned, as the rumors had said. It bore the signs of interrupted life. There had been open books on the desk and the bed was unmade, but the equipment still worked. Sephiroth had rolled his eyes at the thought of spending an entire afternoon watching television, but he had been bored and he had been curious. Now he wasn’t.
Gast had fathered a child. Sephiroth wished he had known sooner, though he would not have been in any position to prevent what had happened. He had only been a child himself when Hojo had gleefully reported that the dearly beloved professor had died.
Died. Sephiroth snorted. There was death and there was murder and there was a hollow space inside him at contemplating the difference.
The child might have lived though, Gast’s daughter. Sephiroth could not be sure. He wondered if he would have been like a brother to her if they had been given a chance to know each other.
But there had been no such chance and sentiment had no place in the life Sephiroth led now. He shoved the remnants of it away and began to walk, grinding the last of his long abandoned hopes of family into the snow beneath his feet.
Title: Forgiveness is a B-
Characters:Aeris, Sephiroth, Cloud, Tifa.
Prompt: 082 - If
Word Count: 522
Rating: PG
“You’ve been bad, Sephiroth.” Aeris smirked down at the man. “And I get to punish you.”
All bound up in tendrils of lifestream and restrained by no less than the will of Gaia, all Sephiroth could do was glare. Aeris circled him while she gleefully considered the best way to torment him.
“Now, I don’t believe in really hurting people. I’d like to give you a second chance, in fact, but I can’t just let you off the hook that easily, so, tell you what?” She waited to be sure she had his attention, then smiled at him with all the syrupy sweetness she could muster. “I know what you want most in the world is to see Cloud again. I think maybe you should, so you can get it out of your system. I’ll send you back so you can see your little chocobo and while you’re there, I want you to do me a small favor. If you can manage that, we’ll call it even.”
Sephiroth growled because he really didn’t have much choice in the matter.
***
Tifa sent Cloud over with the fourth drink order to the strange man in the corner. She had been keeping her eye on her odd customer for an hour. She could barely see him. He was all wrapped up in a thick trench coat with the collar pulled up high. There was a hat jammed low on his head and he kept his large sunglasses on even though he was inside. She couldn’t really be sure, but he seemed to be watching Cloud. Thus far, at least, he didn’t seem inclined to start a fight.
The attention was making Cloud nervous though. Tifa didn’t like that much. She tried not to mother him too much, but it was hard not to when he kept acting like a lost little chickabo. Something about this strange visitor was upsetting him. Tifa called him over and with a light smile, suggested he go check on Denzel and Marlene. Cloud didn’t argue.
Tifa poured a mug of beer and carried it over to the strange customer’s corner. He stiffened up when she approached, but eventually seemed to slump into the insides of his too-large coat, as if resigned to something. Tifa set the mug down in front of the man.
“On the house for a first-timer.”
The man cleared his throat and nodded his thanks.
“You don’t say much, do you?”
The man cleared his throat again. He glanced in the direction Cloud had gone before fixing his large reflective lenses on Tifa. “Nice breasts. They real?”
Tifa wasn’t even halfway through the beatdown she was laying on him when he just vanished right out of the clothes he had been wearing.
***
“Well, you’re forgiven, Sephiroth!” Aeris chirped. “I tried to pull you out sooner, really I did, but you know… Oh, and the Planet says we’ll be able to have you back together by the end of the week.”
If Sephiroth had actually had a mouth instead of being a hulking, bruised mass of lifestream and consciousness, he would have called her a bitch.
Title: Middles
Characters: Aeris, Sephiroth
Prompt: 002 - Middles
Word Count: 116
Genre: AU, Humor
Rating: PG
A.N.: Marriage!verse AU
“Honey, be honest with me. Do I look okay in this?”
“You look great, dear.”
“Really? It’s not too snug over here?”
“Not at all.”
“What about from this angle?”
“Stop worrying, love, you’re gorgeous from any angle.”
“You really think so?”
“Of course I do, dear. It’s why I married you.”
“You’re such a tease!”
“Oh, I know it, baby.”
“So this doesn’t make me look fat?”
“No.”
“Do I look even a teeny bit plump?”
“Not at all.”
“Are you sure? Because, you know, I never really lost all my pregnancy weight after the kids.”
“For the last time, Seph, you look fine! Now bring that sweet ass of yours to bed!”
“Yes, Ma’am.”
Title: Lacking
Characters: Sephiroth, Aeris/Tifa
Prompt: Not Enough
Word Count: 145
Rating: PG-13
"Is this your idea of a joke?" Sephiroth asked, one pale eyebrow marginally moving. "Because as seduction it's pitifully wanting. As far as distraction goes, I've seen better in two-gil men's magazines."
Tifa and Aeris glared up at the man. "Guess we were right. We don't have what it takes to catch him this way."
"Exactly so," Sephiroth continued. "It would take far more than two pairs of breasts to sway me, no matter how big they are, Ms. Lockhart."
Tifa was helpless against the urge to blush but Aeris took it in stride. "Oh, we know, General," she said. "You're not looking for big breasts. In fact you're not looking for breasts at all."
"Right! Wait-"
Tifa giggled and leaned in closer to her friend. "Cloud's over there, General. Now why don't you run along and stop interrupting what's got nothing to do with you."
Title: Compromising
Characters: Aeris, Sephiroth, Zack.
Prompt: 042 - Triangle
Word Count: 291
Rating: Hard PG-13
Genre: Humor
“Zachary, I need you t- Damn it to Hades, man! That’s not what the military gave you a desk for!” Sephiroth averted his eyes.
“Why don’t you ever knock before barging in?” Zack growled and kept right on doing what he was doing.
The girl pouted over Zack’s shoulder and Sephiroth stormed out in a fit.
***
“Zack, sweetie, I’m sorry you have to work late. I brought you some sandw- Oh, my goodness!” Aeris dropped the light dinner she had packed and stood frozen in place, staring.
“Shit, Aer, I’m sorry!” Zack whimpered from where he lay on the desk, but he was quite helpless to stop things.
Sephiroth threw her a smug grin and kept right on doing what he was doing.
Aeris gave him a sour look and stormed out in a fit.
***
“I can do things for him you can’t even begin to imagine, little girl.” Sephiroth glared at Aeris across the desk while they waited for Zack to arrive.
“You can’t be that great,” Aeris sneered. “If you were he wouldn’t need to keep me around.”
“I’d prove you wrong right now if I thought you could handle it.”
“What makes you think I can’t?”
When Zack walked into his office ten minutes later, the events taking place on his desk shocked him speechless. He swallowed, fighting a world of pain and betrayal.
“I can’t believe you guys started without me!”
***
Barely two weeks into the new development in Zack’s love life, he found the latest delivery from the Supply Department waiting in his office with a note from a buddy who worked there attached to it. ‘Make this one last. The chief says if you break another desk you’re not getting any more.’
Title: Woman’s Intuition
Characters: Aeris, Zack, Sephiroth.
Prompt: 035 – Sixth Sense
Word Count: 392
Rating: PG-13
Warning: Implied m/m
Zack had someone else. Aeris didn’t have to ask him. There were signs. She could tell. It was in the tired look in his eyes and the fatigue that crept up on him at times. It was the way his phone would ring at the strangest times and the little sidelong glance he would throw her way while he tried to keep her from hearing the conversation. It was how would excuse himself at odd hours, how there was always some ‘Army business’ that his commander needed him to take care of no matter how fresh off a mission he was.
She didn’t say anything at all for a long, long time. Deep down, she supposed she couldn’t really blame him. He was young and full of energy and he knew a thing a two about the world and she was still shy and unsure, not even really loosed from her mother’s skirt tails. Aeris saw the looks Zack got from the ladies. Her mother saw the looks he sometimes sent back. It didn’t help that he was so warmly and genuinely friendly when simply polite would have been just fine.
She stayed silent, caught between her mother’s stern disapproval and her own nagging suspicions, until it finally became too much.
“Zack,” she began quietly, as they shared a pew, “Are you seeing someone else?”
“What?” He wasn’t really shocked. The tremor to his voice spoke more of nervousness.
She swallowed and turned away from his wide eyes. “Is there another girl?”
He did not answer at first. He took enough time recovering his wits for the silence between them to become heavy and uncomfortable. “Why are you asking me this?”
Aeris shrugged. “No real reason, I guess.” She picked at a splinter in the seat. “I know I’m not your usual kind of girl and I suppose, I just thought…”
Zack sighed and slid across the gap that had grown between them. He took her face in both hands and looked her straight in the eye. “Aeris, please believe that I’m telling you the truth. There is no other woman.”
And because Aeris was a slum girl, because she knew about the kinds of things that happened in Wall Market, because the strange scent that sometimes clung to Zack when he came to her was anything but feminine, she believed him.
Title: Grieve
Characters: Sephiroth, Hojo.
Prompt: 018 - Black
Word Count: 429
Genre: Angst
Rating: PG
Summary: One of Sephiroth’s pranks will haunt him all the rest of his days.
A stinging slap echoed down the hall. Its recipient stood defiant despite his reddening cheek.
“Do you have any idea what you have done?” Hojo raised his hand again but the boy did not flinch. The blow came landed hard and Sephiroth went tumbling into his bunk. The scientist fumed. “What possessed you to do such a thing? What the hell did you think you would accomplish by letting them get away?”
Sephiroth said nothing. Hojo was tempted to hit him again but the boy had grown too hard for it to make a difference. “I’m going to ask you one more time, boy. Why did you do it?”
“Because you’re funny when you’re mad.” Sephiroth looked up with a glimmer in his eyes that was a touch too proud for Hojo’s taste.
Hojo sneered. “So that’s it? You just want to provoke me? Well, fine, you do that. But next time, you better think about who’s paying the price of your little pranks.”
Sephiroth shrugged. “Nothing to think about. It’s always me.”
Hojo paused and slowly grinned. “Is it, boy? Didn’t you hear what happened?” Sephiroth knew better than to take the bait, so Hojo continued anyway. “Those military idiots we sent after the specimens got a little trigger happy. The specimens are dead.”
Sephiroth couldn’t stop the gasp. Hojo’s grin grew sinister. “Oh, yes, the mother and the little girl both.” Sephiroth swallowed. Hojo turned his back on the boy and left him to contemplate his deeds. Sephiroth liked to push his buttons but the boy was a mere beginner at the game of manipulation.
Sephiroth stayed hunched on his bed for a long time. He didn’t cry. He had not cried for years and he didn’t think he was able to anymore.
But he hadn’t meant for them to die. Far from it. He had wanted them to escape. Especially her. Because he had been in the lab his entire life and he hadn’t wanted her to grow up that way. Hojo’s words rang in his head again. Sephiroth’s breath hitched but he did not cry. Hojo often lied. But sometimes he told the truth. It was just a matter of which might hurt more.
Sephiroth rolled over and blinked away the brightness of the overhead light. It didn’t matter what was true. He did not cry and no one would even see him quiver. She was free either way and that was no reason to mourn.
But for the rest of his days, whenever he was given a choice in the matter, he wore black.
Title: Distraction
Characters: Sephiroth, Aeris, Cloud.
Prompt: 020 - Colourless
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Something fell out of her hair as she slid down, something that shimmered and glowed. It distracted him with its pale glimmer. It hit the stone with a musical ring that was almost like what her voice had been and caught the rippling reflection of the water on its surface.
Then the perfect, colourless glow was submerged in a swirl of milky green that went right to his heart and sickened him to the core. He brought his eyes back up to the grieving puppet and had to resist the urge to twist his blade in the girl’s lifeless body.
Title: Lost
Characters: Sephiroth
Prompt: 067 - Snow
Word Count: 236
Rating: PG
Sephiroth had not expected much out of the Icicle Village mission. He had only sought something to do before moving down the mountain the next day. The house was truly abandoned, as the rumors had said. It bore the signs of interrupted life. There had been open books on the desk and the bed was unmade, but the equipment still worked. Sephiroth had rolled his eyes at the thought of spending an entire afternoon watching television, but he had been bored and he had been curious. Now he wasn’t.
Gast had fathered a child. Sephiroth wished he had known sooner, though he would not have been in any position to prevent what had happened. He had only been a child himself when Hojo had gleefully reported that the dearly beloved professor had died.
Died. Sephiroth snorted. There was death and there was murder and there was a hollow space inside him at contemplating the difference.
The child might have lived though, Gast’s daughter. Sephiroth could not be sure. He wondered if he would have been like a brother to her if they had been given a chance to know each other.
But there had been no such chance and sentiment had no place in the life Sephiroth led now. He shoved the remnants of it away and began to walk, grinding the last of his long abandoned hopes of family into the snow beneath his feet.
Title: Forgiveness is a B-
Characters:Aeris, Sephiroth, Cloud, Tifa.
Prompt: 082 - If
Word Count: 522
Rating: PG
“You’ve been bad, Sephiroth.” Aeris smirked down at the man. “And I get to punish you.”
All bound up in tendrils of lifestream and restrained by no less than the will of Gaia, all Sephiroth could do was glare. Aeris circled him while she gleefully considered the best way to torment him.
“Now, I don’t believe in really hurting people. I’d like to give you a second chance, in fact, but I can’t just let you off the hook that easily, so, tell you what?” She waited to be sure she had his attention, then smiled at him with all the syrupy sweetness she could muster. “I know what you want most in the world is to see Cloud again. I think maybe you should, so you can get it out of your system. I’ll send you back so you can see your little chocobo and while you’re there, I want you to do me a small favor. If you can manage that, we’ll call it even.”
Sephiroth growled because he really didn’t have much choice in the matter.
***
Tifa sent Cloud over with the fourth drink order to the strange man in the corner. She had been keeping her eye on her odd customer for an hour. She could barely see him. He was all wrapped up in a thick trench coat with the collar pulled up high. There was a hat jammed low on his head and he kept his large sunglasses on even though he was inside. She couldn’t really be sure, but he seemed to be watching Cloud. Thus far, at least, he didn’t seem inclined to start a fight.
The attention was making Cloud nervous though. Tifa didn’t like that much. She tried not to mother him too much, but it was hard not to when he kept acting like a lost little chickabo. Something about this strange visitor was upsetting him. Tifa called him over and with a light smile, suggested he go check on Denzel and Marlene. Cloud didn’t argue.
Tifa poured a mug of beer and carried it over to the strange customer’s corner. He stiffened up when she approached, but eventually seemed to slump into the insides of his too-large coat, as if resigned to something. Tifa set the mug down in front of the man.
“On the house for a first-timer.”
The man cleared his throat and nodded his thanks.
“You don’t say much, do you?”
The man cleared his throat again. He glanced in the direction Cloud had gone before fixing his large reflective lenses on Tifa. “Nice breasts. They real?”
Tifa wasn’t even halfway through the beatdown she was laying on him when he just vanished right out of the clothes he had been wearing.
***
“Well, you’re forgiven, Sephiroth!” Aeris chirped. “I tried to pull you out sooner, really I did, but you know… Oh, and the Planet says we’ll be able to have you back together by the end of the week.”
If Sephiroth had actually had a mouth instead of being a hulking, bruised mass of lifestream and consciousness, he would have called her a bitch.
Title: Middles
Characters: Aeris, Sephiroth
Prompt: 002 - Middles
Word Count: 116
Genre: AU, Humor
Rating: PG
A.N.: Marriage!verse AU
“Honey, be honest with me. Do I look okay in this?”
“You look great, dear.”
“Really? It’s not too snug over here?”
“Not at all.”
“What about from this angle?”
“Stop worrying, love, you’re gorgeous from any angle.”
“You really think so?”
“Of course I do, dear. It’s why I married you.”
“You’re such a tease!”
“Oh, I know it, baby.”
“So this doesn’t make me look fat?”
“No.”
“Do I look even a teeny bit plump?”
“Not at all.”
“Are you sure? Because, you know, I never really lost all my pregnancy weight after the kids.”
“For the last time, Seph, you look fine! Now bring that sweet ass of yours to bed!”
“Yes, Ma’am.”
Title: Lacking
Characters: Sephiroth, Aeris/Tifa
Prompt: Not Enough
Word Count: 145
Rating: PG-13
"Is this your idea of a joke?" Sephiroth asked, one pale eyebrow marginally moving. "Because as seduction it's pitifully wanting. As far as distraction goes, I've seen better in two-gil men's magazines."
Tifa and Aeris glared up at the man. "Guess we were right. We don't have what it takes to catch him this way."
"Exactly so," Sephiroth continued. "It would take far more than two pairs of breasts to sway me, no matter how big they are, Ms. Lockhart."
Tifa was helpless against the urge to blush but Aeris took it in stride. "Oh, we know, General," she said. "You're not looking for big breasts. In fact you're not looking for breasts at all."
"Right! Wait-"
Tifa giggled and leaned in closer to her friend. "Cloud's over there, General. Now why don't you run along and stop interrupting what's got nothing to do with you."
Title: Compromising
Characters: Aeris, Sephiroth, Zack.
Prompt: 042 - Triangle
Word Count: 291
Rating: Hard PG-13
Genre: Humor
“Zachary, I need you t- Damn it to Hades, man! That’s not what the military gave you a desk for!” Sephiroth averted his eyes.
“Why don’t you ever knock before barging in?” Zack growled and kept right on doing what he was doing.
The girl pouted over Zack’s shoulder and Sephiroth stormed out in a fit.
***
“Zack, sweetie, I’m sorry you have to work late. I brought you some sandw- Oh, my goodness!” Aeris dropped the light dinner she had packed and stood frozen in place, staring.
“Shit, Aer, I’m sorry!” Zack whimpered from where he lay on the desk, but he was quite helpless to stop things.
Sephiroth threw her a smug grin and kept right on doing what he was doing.
Aeris gave him a sour look and stormed out in a fit.
***
“I can do things for him you can’t even begin to imagine, little girl.” Sephiroth glared at Aeris across the desk while they waited for Zack to arrive.
“You can’t be that great,” Aeris sneered. “If you were he wouldn’t need to keep me around.”
“I’d prove you wrong right now if I thought you could handle it.”
“What makes you think I can’t?”
When Zack walked into his office ten minutes later, the events taking place on his desk shocked him speechless. He swallowed, fighting a world of pain and betrayal.
“I can’t believe you guys started without me!”
***
Barely two weeks into the new development in Zack’s love life, he found the latest delivery from the Supply Department waiting in his office with a note from a buddy who worked there attached to it. ‘Make this one last. The chief says if you break another desk you’re not getting any more.’
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Heh, this kind of makes me want to take up fanfic100 myself. Oo
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Yeah, I'm probably going to snag Aerith. Mind if I friend you?
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