ardwynna: (evil sephiroth kitty)
Title: Desperate Housewife
Characters: ???/Aerith, Sephiroth/Aerith
Series: FFVII OGC AU/Diversion
Prompt: Blue
Word Count: 870
Rating: R
A.N: Marriage!verse fic.



“Arbor Vida Plumbing,” came the voice from the porch. “You called about a problem with your pipes?”

Aerith dusted her hands off on her apron and peered around the door cautiously. A young woman home alone couldn't be careful enough and life with Sephiroth had a way of making a body paranoid. The young man on the porch seemed harmless enough.

“Oh,” she said through the screen door. “I thought they'd send somebody... uh...”

“Older?” The man smiled and tipped his cap. “I get that a lot. Don't worry, I know what I'm doing.” He hefted his toolbox and gave her a bright smile.

“Come on in,” Aerith said, unlatching the screen door. “Kitchen's straight down the hall and to your right.” She couldn't help glancing back as she latched up the locks again. Her plumber boy looked like a leggy one but like many kids his age, favored the pants-falling-off-the-hip look. Aerith sighed.

She trailed after him, watching his easy lope. He whistled loudly when he got to the scene of the crime. “Looks like some clog. Do you have a bucket? This could get messy.”

“Just a second.” Aerith rummaged through the storage closet, listening to the plumber set up shop behind her. “I didn't get your name,” she said, turning with a bright blue bucket in hand.

“It's Jody, ma'am.” The plumber picked out a wrench and smiled.

Jody. Just perfect. Aerith passed the bucket over and stifled a wild laugh. Jody turned slightly in place where he had crouched on the floor. Aerith couldn't hold her gasp in then. All the usual talk about plumber's cleavage surely didn't apply when the plumber in question was young and cute and apparently very well-toned under his baggy pants.

Aerith shook her head sternly at herself. She was a married woman and had no business thinking those thoughts, never mind that Sephiroth was away so often with work. She sighed again. It wasn't easy being a military wife, especially since Seph hadn't wanted neighbors. Sephiroth's frequent lengthy trips left her essentially all alone in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do but keep house until he got back. No one could blame her for feeling a little... lonely.

“Shouldn't take too long now that I've got a look at it, ma'am,” Jody said, flipping his ponytail out of the way. His eyes had such a brilliant sparkle and he'd almost managed not to be too obvious about looking her up and down. Aerith hoped she wasn't blushing.

She cleared her throat. “Can I offer you anything, Jody? Lemonade, maybe? It's a hot day and you've come a long way out.”

Jody looked her over again, very quickly. “That'd be wonderful, ma'am. Just give me a second to get this taken care of.” He made one good turn and the sink was gurgling itself towards empty. Aerith clapped her hands in glee.

“Finally!” She stopped herself from acting too giddy. Jody had the decency to to hide his grin. “Oh, the lemonade.” She got the jug from the fridge and poured him a tall glass, adding a lemon wedge to the edge for effect. Jody dutifully washed up in the sink and dried his hands on a paper towel before accepting it.

“Thank you kindly, ma'am.” Jody was all blue-collar diligence and good homestyle training.

“You're welcome.” Aerith tried not to stare at him, at the way his throat moved as he swallowed. She'd been alone too long. “It's just good to finally have somebody else out here.”

Jody set his half-finished glass down on the kitchen island. “You're out here alone?”

Aerith nodded. “My husband's in the military. He's gone a lot.”

“Hmm,” Jody turned his glass slowly in place, watching the water bead on the surface. “Must get awful lonely out here by yourself.”

“That's life,” Aerith said, admiring his hands. She hoped her voice hadn't sounded too breathy to him.

“I've been thinking of enlisting myself,” Jody said brightly, “but you can bet if I had a lady as pretty as you, I wouldn't be leaving her all alone.”

“I know you wouldn't,” Aerith answered, glancing up. Their eyes met accidentally and there was no going back.

Jody was young, clumsy and excitable, but he knew how to whip a girl's underwear off in less than two seconds. Aerith gasped when her back hit the kitchen table. It was going to be rough and quick and dirty, her skirt hitched up around her hips, her young plumber boy not even bothering with her apron. “You like it like this, ma'am?” Jody asked.

Aerith wrapped her legs around him and raked his bangs back. “YES!”

-.-.-.-.-.-

Aerith stared up at the ceiling, feeling the cool tile on her skin. She still had her apron on, but nothing else. Jody lay stretched out beside her, silent and waiting. Poor thing probably still needed time to process.

Aerith stretched and rolled onto her side, admiring the flush in his cheeks and the way sweat had darkened the hair at his temples. “So, you like that, Jody?”

'Jody' exhaled heavily and smirked. “I think I could get used to this roleplay thing.”

Date: 2009-01-19 05:10 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] madcap-minstrel.livejournal.com
And your Aeris would film it. :P
Mine wouldn't get the chance, as Daddy would wake up with all of his kids in one room with him.

Date: 2009-01-19 05:15 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ardwynna-m.livejournal.com
ext_9747: Zack Fair as a puppy, holding a frisbee in his mouth. (Default)
She so would! Then Seph would run off to bitch and moan and drown his sorrows with Cloud, leading to even more secret footage for Aer's stash. XD

Just how many kids are we talking about in your case?

Date: 2009-01-19 05:37 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] madcap-minstrel.livejournal.com
Five sons and two daughters. Keter, Remielle, Aleph, Malkut, Raziel, Samek, and Sera.
Just as well. My Seph and Cloud can't drink.
How long before Tifa goes and bonks Aeris over the head with that secret footage?

Date: 2009-01-19 05:39 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] madcap-minstrel.livejournal.com
Incidentally, how many kids are in your Cloud/Tifa litter?

Date: 2009-01-19 05:55 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ardwynna-m.livejournal.com
ext_9747: Zack Fair as a puppy, holding a frisbee in his mouth. (Default)
Four boys in quick succession and a girl a few years after.

Date: 2009-01-19 05:51 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ardwynna-m.livejournal.com
ext_9747: Zack Fair as a puppy, holding a frisbee in his mouth. (Default)
That sounds like one noisy house! Quite a gaggle! XD The reverse gender mix of what my grandma had too.
Luckily for my Seph and Cloud, they make a point of not usually getting drunk together and even if the alcohol gets to them quickly, they sober up fast enough to avoid anything serious. Tifa's happy enough if they don't feed the tabloids or scar little children for life.

Date: 2009-01-19 06:31 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] madcap-minstrel.livejournal.com
That's why I go for the "unsung hero" motif in my FF7 fanfiction. No tabloids, just peace and quiet...and no instant fortune. Hell- Tifa even got kicked out of her house after "Us & Them".
Yes, it IS a noisy house. The Crescent-Valentine brood are a brawly bunch. And Mommy and Daddy have long since given up trying to break up every fight. Aeris just gets the garden hose out for the really nasty scrapes.
Not that they don't all love each other dearly, but...half of the time, it's like an episode of The Cosby Show on cocaine. :/

Date: 2009-01-19 06:53 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ardwynna-m.livejournal.com
ext_9747: Zack Fair as a puppy, holding a frisbee in his mouth. (Default)
The marriage!verse taking off from the canon like it does, Seph's already too well-known to avoid the media blitz and everybody's keeping an eye on him in case he tries to pull another Nibelheim. >_> Rei and Ari tangle occasionally once they outgrow the peas-in-a-pod phase. The older two keep them in line well enough that Seph hardly ever has to do a thing about it. Most of the noise in the house is Seph and Ari sniping at each other. Plus they live in the middle of nowhere. If they didn't make some noise, the quiet would be creepy.

Date: 2009-01-19 07:05 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] madcap-minstrel.livejournal.com
Ah, and Ella and Ocean have already moved out, hence the breakfast bickering when poor Sephy has to get his blood drawn that one day.
They've got neighbors in my AU-verse, but it's the Strifes, the Highwinds, and Biggs, among others. It's basically the "weirdo" village as far as everyone else is concerned.

Date: 2009-01-19 07:21 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ardwynna-m.livejournal.com
ext_9747: Zack Fair as a puppy, holding a frisbee in his mouth. (Default)
Oh, the boys nip at each other no matter what. It's just how they relate later on. Now physical smackdowns, those they reserve for special occasions. ^^

No neighbors for Seph in the marriageverse so the kids compensate with a barnyard's worth of pets. A 'weirdo' village sounds like it could be kinder. When everyone's strange, you don't feel abnormal. ;p

Date: 2009-01-19 07:55 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] madcap-minstrel.livejournal.com
One day I'll post Keter's third-grade "about where I live" story on Deviant Art. I had to use my other hand to make the drawings appear more childish.
The things that are so normal to that poor boy...
But in the meantime, I'm posting another chapter...and then....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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