Fic: 50 Episodes-Zack Fair-06,30,34,13,40

[icedark_elf]

Other episodes found here.


This set has warning for gender materia and side effects of said materia.

Title: Books
Author: GW Katrina aka icedark_elf
Fandom: FFVII
Claim: Zack Fair
Prompt: 06-Books for 50episodes
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 505



It had been a long day. Still trying to do everything that he had been up to -before- the incident with Hojo, Zack discovered that having to deal with over concerned and well meaning co-workers had him ready to tear someone’s head off.

No, he didn’t need to sit down. No, he wasn’t hungry. Okay, well, maybe he was, but no worse than he had been before this happened. No, if they didn’t want to spar, he’d find someone else. And they had better not hold back.

Part of it, he knew, was they were more afraid of Seph than anything if they managed to damage him while treating him like normal.

Today had been even longer than most. Zack wasn’t the only one who had ended up in this situation, and one of the others had decided that he wasn’t going to do this. So, after doing some research, Lammer had asked Zack to go with him. Moral support. That, and, really, who else would -get- why he was doing this? Zack was the first of them to have found out what was wrong, and he was also the one who had gone to talk to each of the other SOLDIERs.

Zack had been the only First Class who had gotten changed, and he had taken it on himself to help the others as best he could. Even if it was holding someone’s hand while they had a child they never expected removed.

It was a good solution, really. Zack half considered taking that route himself. Hadn’t ever really researched it before, but he had been sleeping with Seph, and both of them were male. Not too big a chance of either of them getting pregnant.

Until now.

It was a good option, and Zack contemplating talking to Seph about it as he leaned against the elevator wall, heading up after dropping Lammer off with his boyfriend. Both of them had agreed it was good, and Jacs would watch the other man carefully.

Tired as he pushed off the wall when the car finally reached his room, Zack headed for the door. He thought he might suggest it to Seph, just to see how the man reacted. He wasn’t sure what he thought about it, but maybe talking about it would help.

Letting himself in, Zack paused, blinking at the sight before him.

There was Seph, sitting on the couch, focused on a book. Zack couldn’t see what that particular one was, but given the trend of books around Seph, he could guess.

Looking at the various books on what people should expect during pregnancy, Zack paused.

Seph was researching. On what to expect with a child.

Seph, who hadn’t had a normal childhood himself, was working to make sure he could give his child a better one.

The idea of getting rid of the baby evaporated just like that.

Smiling to himself, Zack moved and kissed the top of Seph’s head, settling down next to his lover as the man continued to read.


Title: Love Letters
Author: GW Katrina aka icedark_elf
Fandom: FFVII
Claim: Zack Fair
Prompt: 30-Love Letters for 50episodes
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 245



They didn’t have a normal relationship. Even if he had been raised in a more normal situation when he was younger, Sephiroth doubted that he and Zack would have been anything that could potentially be considered normal then, either.

They were simply who they were. Sometimes, they still received odd looks, as if they simply couldn’t understand how Zack put up with Sephiroth, or Sephiroth with Zack.

That was fine. He could ignore them, and, honestly, Sephiroth was not sure how they had come into this relationship, either. It hadn’t been fast, but, one day he had despised the man, the next, he would have killed anyone who had harmed Zack.

From there, it had been quick for Zack to go from someone Sephiroth called friend to someone he was bedding.

A month later, Hojo had hurt the man in a way none of them got yet. When Sephiroth caught Hojo, he was going to enjoy making the scientist tell him.

They were not a traditional couple, but Sephiroth did know what Zack enjoyed.

“I have a free hour,” he said to the dark haired man, who still didn’t show any sign that he was carrying a child. “Would you care to spar?”

Zack smiled brightly at him.

He would not treat Zack any different for this. It wasn’t much, but it was the only way he could show that he understood without really understanding.

An odd love letter, true, but one none the less.


Title: Months
Author: GW Katrina aka icedark_elf
Fandom: FFVII
Claim: Zack Fair
Prompt: 34-Months for 50episodes
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 133



Months.

Months and months of being fat, hormonal, and Seph.

Glaring down at his stomach, Zack grumbled to himself. Wasn’t even showing yet, and his balance was already fucked. Again.

And it wasn’t as if he didn’t have issues with a female body anyway. It was full of confusing signals and things he didn’t want to think about. To make it even more hormonal seemed insane. How had mankind survived so long?

Plus, he swore, if Seph mentioned one more thing about the “joy” of motherhood, Zack was going to forcefeed him one of those books. A page at a time.

Months of this to look forward too.

He was going to gut Hojo like a fish. Then strangle him with said guts.

Then he was really going to start on the man.


Title: Dawn
Author: GW Katrina aka icedark_elf
Fandom: FFVII
Claim: Zack Fair
Prompt: 13-Dawn for 50episodes
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 168



Some days, they got slightly snarly at each other. No worse than before, but they also were sharing the same bed.

Zack’s quarters had been given to a new SOLDIER, and Sephiroth was just as pleased to have his lover staying in the same rooms as him, not that Zack had spent all that much time in his rooms to start with.

Most of the time, though, they never went to bed mad. Zack wouldn’t let them, even if Sephiroth was inclined to do so during the worse of the fights.

It was nice that Zack did that, though, because otherwise, Sephiroth couldn’t enjoy moments like this. Quiet, Zack asleep beside him, just enough light in the room for Sephiroth to see him. Fingers light, he brushed them over the curve that was quickly starting to form.

A child.

Resting his hand on Zack’s stomach, Sephiroth resettled against Zack’s back, pressing a kiss against his shoulder before shutting his eyes to sleep for another half hour or so.


Title: Restless
Author: GW Katrina aka icedark_elf
Fandom: FFVII
Claim: Zack Fair
Prompt: 40-Restless for 50episodes
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 268



Zack sighed, and ran through the kata again.

He wasn’t carrying his Buster. No, much to his disgust, that was just too bulky a weapon at the moment. He was going to be -worthless- when he went back to being a boy. Or even after he had this kid. Going to have to relearn his balance, the muscles that were needed to heft something like his sword. He liked that sword, it had been a present….

At the moment, he was using one of the smaller practice blades, much like he had when he first hit SOLDIER. Lighter, thinner, he could run through his normal routine without having to worry about knocking himself over. And as he got rounder, that became a more valid concern.

Then he dropped the blade.

Instantly, he had about five other SOLDIERs surrounding him, looking at him with worried eyes, all of them wanting to make sure he was okay.

How he had become the mascot and personal worry for everyone in SOLDIER, Zack didn’t know. He’d growl about it later. At the moment, he was focused on something else.

Though he must have been more distracted than he had thought, attention focused inward, hands resting on his stomach. Because Seph was suddenly there, worry clear in his eyes. Zack didn’t say anything, just grabbed Seph’s hand and set it on his belly.

“Your kid, all right,” he said drily. “Trying to kick out my liver.”

The look on Sephiroth’s face when he felt the baby kick against his hand was worth every night of insomnia that Zack had had since this started.