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Author: GW Katrina aka![[insanejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/ij-userinfo.gif)
icedark_elf
Fandom: FFVII
Claim: Zack Fair
Prompt: 20-Villian/41-Sphinx/33-Moment/12-Curse/26-Happy for![[insanejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/ij-community.gif)
50episodes
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 862(set)
A/N: Kingdom Heart Fusion
Villian
Why the hell am I the bad guy here, Seph? Tell me, huh? It’s not like I asked to know what the fuck was going on, and it would have been nice to have been able to sleep during the last few months without waking up freaking out because I’m seeing things that weren’t real.
And I didn’t. Don’t look at me like that, I didn’t. I thought I was finally losing it. There, happy now? Now you know why I didn’t tell you anything, Seph. I was afraid. Afraid that, if it got out, you’d end up not seeing me anymore. That I would just vanish, like all those other people vanished when Hojo found something interesting about them.
Guess what? I’m still freaked out. People don’t -do- things like I’m doing. Everyone is looking at me like I’m just as bad as the shadow things, and it’s frustrating as hell.
You know what. Fine. Fuck it. You got that look in your eye that says you aren’t going to listen to me. I figured if anyone would stand with me, it’d be you. Guess I was wrong about that, too.
I thought you were my friend. Thought you’d stick around me when I needed someone there.
Guess I was wrong. About a lot of thing.
I’m tired, Seph. I’m going to see if I can’t see if I can get a few hours of sleep.
Maybe, this time, I can get it without the voices.
Sphinx
Whatever it was, it was big, it had claws, and it was targeting Zack.
The black haired man was doing his best to keep away from those sharp teeth and claws that oozed blackness, but Sephiroth wasn’t the only one who had tensed when the creature rose up, then crashed down, almost burying Zack from view. With a laugh, the man dodged, fire flaring up in his wake.
It was getting incredibly frustrating, Sephiroth decided. Ever since Zack had walked away from him after that short attempt to actually talk, he had not gotten the chance to confront the man again.
And now this.
His own attention mostly diverted keeping the smaller shadows off people, those with materia equipped doing the same, but, still, he kept an eye on Zack.
Nor was he along in this effort.
So, when Zack vanished under a wave of black, he wasn’t the only one who made a sound of denial.
That…was not allowed. Zack would never let himself be taken down by something so foolish.
Now the man just had to prove it.
Moment
For a moment, Cloud’s breath froze in his chest. Beside him, Aeris had gone pale, and Sephiroth had faltered. Just for a moment, but Cloud knew what to look for now.
Zack was gone.
There was something so fundamentally wrong with that phrase that Cloud thought it again, poking at it like a child with a bug. It was just surreal, and he couldn’t quite make it fit with how reality was supposed to work.
Zack wasn’t gone. Any second now, he would pop up, grinning that manic grin and dicing the monster to pieces.
It was nice with faith was rewarded.
The creature popped with a sound that surprised Cloud with the bloodthirsty pleasure it gave him to hear.
That had been a long, long moment, waiting, though.
Curse
It was amazing the words the ever so calm General could spit out when he was in the mood to.
Sephiroth was certainly in the mood to.
Watching him stalk towards Zack as the last of the monsters finally died, Aeris felt something in her chest tighten. There was something about Sephiroth that drew Zack, drew in all of the SOLDIERs, and she was always afraid that, one day, it would draw Zack away from her.
The fact she kept seeing Sephiroth with translucent wings in the oddest places didn’t help.
Though Cloud had one as well.
Shaking her head, she watched as Zack grinned up at Sephiroth from where he sat, panting from exertion, looking as cheerful as he always did.
It didn’t take an Ancient to know that he was hiding hurt in his eyes.
Though that hurt seemed to ease as Sephiroth continued to curse Zack out, calling him every name in the book.
She really didn’t get men at times.
Happy
Happy? It was knowing everything was going to be okay.
Oh, he wasn’t sure if they were going to be able to keep outrunning these things. He didn’t know what affects the flames and dreams and shadows of a place long gone were having on him besides changes in hair color and a rather sly sense of humor. He didn’t even know if he was even going to survive the next night, or if anyone else was going to.
But he did know that, in his own way, Seph did care, and he already knew how Cloud and Aeris felt about them.
As he sat there, Cloud rolling his eyes at him, Seph muttering about idiot people who didn’t know their own limits, and Aeris fixing up the clawmarks on his arm, Zack did know one thing.
This? This was him happy.
Girled Zack
Author: GW Katrina akaicedark_elf
Fandom: FFVII
Claim: Zack Fair
Prompt: 25-Intimidated/1-Birth/38-Poison/43-Sunset/37-Nostalgic for50episodes
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1,019
A/N: Non-con gender switching
Intimidated
She was trying so hard to intimidate him. Hojo ignored the woman and continued to unpack the bag he had brought to Sephiroth’s rooms.
He knew the boy wasn’t in residence, trapped in some meeting with Shinra. Which was exactly why he had chosen now to examine the best case scenario of his project.
It was well known that Sephiroth had been sleeping with his SiC, and while Hojo had disapproved, he was also well aware of how Sephiroth would take that disapproval. So he had simply looked for a way to turn the situation to his advantage.
That materia had been a wonderful discovery.
Now, the woman was close to…seven months, if he calculated correctly. Well past time for him to do a checkup.
“Stop your foolishness and strip. I have quite a few tests that should have been run months ago.”
The sudden pain in his shoulder made him pay attention to her again.
“I am not your well trained lap pet, Hojo.”
The growl and look in her eye, well, that did help him ignore the fact she was ill-balanced and fairly round.
“Only the fact you still have the materia kept this,” a gesture of the dagger in her hands, “from being in your throat.”
Then the door slammed open, and Sephiroth was there, and Hojo couldn’t help but admire how well he had put the boy together, even when that perfect anger was focused on him.
He glanced back at the woman, who smirked and held up a phone, panic button pressed on it.
“We will do this sooner or later. I had been trying to make you comfortable.” He put his things away, unhurried, under the gaze of two angry sets of eyes. “I’ll see you in the lab soon enough.”
And he would.
After all, Shinra was his.
Birth
Holding Zack as the other slept against him, Sephiroth’s thoughts were dark as he thought about the situation that had happened earlier. It had taken longer than he had expected for Hojo to make his move, and the fact he had let his guard down disturbed him. Thankfully, Zack was still Zack, and had been able to deal with the scientist long enough for Sephiroth to get there.
If Zack was still in his male form, or even early in the pregnancy in his female, he had no doubt in the other’s ability to deal with Hojo. But with his balance issues, and the fact that Zack couldn’t move nearly as easily as he had once been able to, it was a much more dangerous prospect. Especially if Hojo came back with reinforcements.
And then, there was later. Eventually, in theory, the child in Zack’s stomach would actually be born. It would be outside of Zack, and a much easier target for Hojo than a trained and lethal SOLDIER.
He would have to do something about this. And do it in a way where he could look for and find the materia of Hojo’s later.
Then things would be safe. For all of them.
Poison
Of all the things that could go wrong in this situation, Sephiroth knew that most of them could end up with him strapped to a lab table. Permanently.
And if that happened, it wouldn’t be long before Zack was the same, though Sephiroth was sure that he would never see the man again if that situation occurred.
When he had left their rooms, Zack had just given him a look of understanding, then went to the bedroom, still wearing his blade on his hip.
Poisons were not Sephiroth’s preferred way of killing. The honestly of at least stabbing a man seemed cleaner to him, at least mentally.
Still, he was a lab child, and he had learned early on what was and wasn’t lethal. He knew Hojo’s habits, and he knew the man would never expect this route.
It was not hard to find the mug he was looking for, or the chemicals.
Nobody would look too hard into Hojo’s death. The man had too many enemies.
Sephiroth’s family would be safe.
Sunset
Seph was up to something.
Zack had had plenty of time to learn to read the man by now, and he was sure the man was up to something interesting. Probably not healthy for someone, but interesting none the less.
Leaning on the wall of their bedroom, watching the sunset outside, he rested a hand on his belly, feeling the baby there move.
The sunsets in Midgar were always interesting, light gleaming through the haze left by the sheer amount of Mako used there, plus the filth that always gathered when a large number of people lived together.
Maybe, if he asked nice, Seph would consider moving. There were lots of places that could use a SOLDIER year round.
Ha, it was a nice pipe dream. Still, standing there, looking at nothing in particular, Zack had to do something, or else he was going to go stab something in frustration at this feeling of waiting.
He had never been the most patient of people, but this whole pregnancy thing had made him even more short tempered. Something else he could blame on Seph for no other reason than it was fun. And got him footrubs.
Seph was up to something, and until the man came back, Zack was going to sit here and paint amusing pictures in his mind as he waited for the sun to set.
Nostalgic
When the door opened, Zack didn’t say anything. Instead, he just went out, ignoring the fact that he was waddling, and just went to hug his lover.
Sephiroth seemed just as happy to keep the silence, arms tight around Zack, nose pressed against his temple, focusing on the feel of the other in his arms.
Even with the strange body shapes and eerie silence, it was a good feeling, this hug, for both of them. Something safe, familiar.
Life was about change, yes, but, this, this moment right here felt like it was balanced on an edge.
Just like the rest of their lives.
It was a familiar, and comfortable, feeling.
TurkZack
Author: GW Katrina akaicedark_elf
Fandom: FFVII
Claim: Zack Fair
Prompt: 9-Champagne/21-Flirty/35-Music/23-Gold/49-Treasure/16-Universe/14-Dusk/7-Bound/48-Thankful/2-Death for50episodes
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1,936
A/N: TurkZack AU, OCs
Champagne
Playing bodyguard was probably the best part of the job. Sometimes boring, sometimes not, it was one of those spots you either loved or hated.
The best part when you played bodyguard was you got a spot at all the nice parties.
Zack liked that. It was fun, and he got to see his brother a lot, who was invited as Seph’s SiC. The two of them could trade looks and have their own non-verbal conversations while the people around them droned on and on.
The drinks were nice, too.
And, once, Zack even got to punch someone out.
Fun times for everyone.
Flirty
Funny, Zack thought a bit dazed, he thought spikes like that only came from Gongaga. But he was damn sure that he’d remember that color of hair. Especially when it went with those blue eyes.
“Hey,” he wheezed, picking himself up off the floor with the help of the boy. Who knew someone who looked so little could hit so -hard-?
“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to, but I was having to….”
The boy’s words were cut off when Zack put his hand over it. Bringing out his best smile, he grinned at him. “Hey, I’m Zack, and no hard done. Takes a lot more than a body slam to take a Turk out.”
Those blue eyes were huge. Hmmm, Zack was going to have to bring out the big guns for this one.
Smiling, he started to flirt as if his life depended on it.
Or maybe it was just he liked pretty pale haired people.
Music
Humming to himself, Zack bouncing into Sephiroth’s office with a nod to Aaron. His brother rolled his eyes, but didn’t stop Zack. Which was good, because Zack really didn’t want to start a prank war at the moment. Though dumping ice water on Aaron’s head wasn’t really a prank. Just a brother thing to do.
“Heya, Seph,” he said cheerfully, ignoring the paperwork on the man’s desk. “How’s it going?”
Green eyes were narrowed as Seph was obviously not ignoring the paperwork. However, that did mean he was ignoring Zack. Which was no fun at all. “Seriously considering taking your brother’s suggestion on burning these things.”
Zack grimaced a bit. “Well, I can’t really help you with the paperwork, but I bring you a present.” He tossed the disc on Seph’s desk.
Picking it up, the silver haired man turned it over, looking for marks. Finally, he looked up at Zack, confusion clear in his expression. “Information?”
“Music. I heard it the other day while out with Spike, and thought you might like it.”
“You bought me…a cd of music?”
It was a confused voice, and Zack just gave him a smile. “You’ll like it. Just give it a listen and let me know what you think.”
He slid out before Seph could ask anymore questions.
Yeah, courting Seph was going to be a sloooow process.
Gold
It had been something of a surprise. Seph had given him a call, inviting him over, and Zack had been pleased. It had been months of hard work to convince the man that it was okay to ask for Zack to come to him for the sole purpose of spending time together. Now that he was pretty sure Seph had the concept of friendship down, maybe they could work up to more.
Using the key he had been given, Zack had frozen.
Or maybe he wouldn’t have to do that at all.
For a long, bizarre moment, he wondered if this was something unwilling, but given the way Cloud moved closer to Seph, though Zack wasn’t sure how he had managed that act, it was completely consensual.
And something they had been enjoying, given the way their lips looked.
“I…. Sorry. Let you get back to what you were doing.”
He thought he heard something as he hastily shut the door behind him, but he ignored it. Probably them saying something about his random appearance. Even if Seph had invited him. Just as well he took his leave. Who wanted a third wheel there when you were involved in something else, hmm?
Hitting the stairs, which were faster than waiting for the elevator, Zack took a deep breath. They were both friends, and while he had his hopes, well, he couldn’t really blame either of them. After all, just look at Seph and Cloud. It would be good for both of them and he….
Really needed to talk to his brother.
Treasure
Family was a treasure. They were the one thing someone should always be able to depend on, to go to.
Family should…not want to strangle you.
Aaron wasn’t sure who he wanted to kick, but at the moment, Zack was his only target. He had felt it when Zack had taken the emotional equivalent of a kick in the gut, and had things ready when the man popped up, looking like he really had taken a kick to the gut.
And now he was moping.
Not that Aaron really blamed him. He had seen how his twin had looked at Seph, and at that little blond kid, Cloud. He figured it would be good if his brother got a steady lover, as Zack always did do better when he had someone to watch over.
For both of his prospective interests to go to each other like that, it must have hurt.
Which was why they were sitting here, watching really, really horrible movies, making fun of them and eating horribly unhealthy snacks. Aeris would smack him upside the head for what he was eating, and at the moment, it was really just him making the jokes. Zack was trying, but he was hurting.
After a bit, Aaron just shifted to lean against Zack’s shoulder, feeling the other lean back.
Zack wouldn’t cry, but the shakes he was having was the closest he would let himself have to it.
Okay, so he didn’t want to strangle his brother.
But Seph had better have a -damn- good explanation, or else his office was going to turn into a no-go zone really fast.
Universe
Tired and just back from a mission from hell, Zack dragged himself into his apartment. He had brushed off an invite to Aaron’s, because he knew his brother had plans with Aeris already. No reason for his bad excuse for a love life to smear off on his twin.
It took two steps before he realized there was something wrong, and that more than anything told Zack just how out of it he was. Even as he went for a weapon, a hand wrapped tight around his wrist, and his other arm was trapped by a pin.
“You are incredibly hard to track down,” came a dry voice. It was familiar, but that didn’t make him relax.
“Hey, Seph. What do you expect? I’m a Turk. If we were easy to track down, we’d be dead.” He tried for a cheerful voice, though he was pretty sure he was failing. “What are you and Cloud doing here?”
“We’ve been trying to talk to you,” Cloud said from where he had his arms wrapped around Zack, pinning his own arm. “You are just being stubborn over it.”
He shrugged, as best he could at the moment. “I figured you and Seph would want your alone time.”
Cloud growled, and looked at Seph. “Told you he’d be dumb over it,” he said to the older man.
“So you did,” was the response. After a moment, during which Zack and Seph just looked at each other, Seph dipped down and kissed the slightly smaller man.
That got a muffled yelp, and Zack almost jerked away.
Almost.
After a few moments, when he could breathe again, he was a bit stunned to hear Cloud speaking again. “Idiot. We didn’t want to be alone. We wanted you there, too. Just had to run before we could say anything though. Idiot.”
“Oh.”
Well, that made things much easier, didn’t it?
Dusk
It hit him like a train, and Zack remembered everything sliding sideways, including the startled looks of Reno and Rude as he fell.
After what seemed like forever, he dragged himself out of the pit of darkness, head aching, and something feeling very, very wrong.
The feeling didn’t go away when he saw Tseng sitting next to him.
“What happened?” he asked, voice slurred.
“There was a…situation, in Nibelheim. The entire team is gone.”
That had the bitter, bitter taste of a lie. “No.”
Tseng shifted and sighed. “Zack, Hojo has Aaron’s body.”
“No,” Zack snarled. Aaron wasn’t dead, because he would feel it if Aaron was dead. And he wasn’t.
Whatever had hit him, it wasn’t Aaron dying, it was something else.
And he wasn’t about to sit back and let Hojo do who knew what to his twin.
Bound
It had taken a while for Zack to get back up, and Tseng had helped by keeping him hidden, dummying up reports of him being on a mission when asked.
It didn’t matter how much he did, though. Zack was not going to stay.
“Zack, please. You won’t do him any good like this. We can keep you safe. Hojo would never touch a Turk.”
Tseng felt silent when Zack looked at him. It had been a long time since he had seen eyes like that. “Tseng, it’s not just Aaron. They aren’t dead. I know it.”
So the rumors were true, it seemed. Fair had been getting a little more cozy with Strife and the General than he had let on.
“You are going to go with permission or without, aren’t you?” he asked finally.
The nod was no surprise.
“I suggest you take Aeris as well. She’s in danger from Hojo, and….”
“She and Aaron are engaged.”
Not surprising news. Not welcomed, but not surprising.
“You should go soon, then. Hojo is distracted in Nibelheim at the moment, but who knows how long that will last. He is good at breaking his toys.”
A growl, and he stood, leaving the room.
Fair would do what he had to do.
And so would Tseng.
Thankful
Having Aeris along helped. A lot.
It was good to have the confirmation that he wasn’t hallucinating, that at least Aaron was still alive. Zack was well aware he’d be in even worse shape if his twin was dead, but Aeris was good at reminding him that his brother was alive.
She was smart, and a clever little con-artist when she wanted to be. When they needed it, she could sweet talk anyone into doing what she wanted. Of course, that included him. But that was okay.
They were going to save the others.
He just wished he was as positive about Seph and Cloud as he was about Aaron.
Death
She watches him cut through the guards with ease.
Shin-Ra did a bad thing when they did this, more to Zack than to her. She could tell Aaron was still alive, and there was some comfort to that. Zack, though, while he could feel his twin, and that helped him a lot, he couldn’t feel either of his lovers, who had gone on this trip as well.
She hoped for all their sakes that at least one was still alive.
The planet was humming uneasily, and growing more so the closer they got to Nibelheim.
And now Shin-Ra troops tried to stop them.
Foolish, but it didn’t mean she enjoyed watching them die.
Zack, though, relished it.
He was the opposite of her in so many ways.
Their goal was the same, though.
Get their people from Nibelhiem and run.
AxelZack set
Author: GW Katrina aka
icedark_elfFandom: FFVII
Claim: Zack Fair
Prompt: 20-Villian/41-Sphinx/33-Moment/12-Curse/26-Happy for
50episodesRating: PG
Wordcount: 862(set)
A/N: Kingdom Heart Fusion
Villian
Why the hell am I the bad guy here, Seph? Tell me, huh? It’s not like I asked to know what the fuck was going on, and it would have been nice to have been able to sleep during the last few months without waking up freaking out because I’m seeing things that weren’t real.
And I didn’t. Don’t look at me like that, I didn’t. I thought I was finally losing it. There, happy now? Now you know why I didn’t tell you anything, Seph. I was afraid. Afraid that, if it got out, you’d end up not seeing me anymore. That I would just vanish, like all those other people vanished when Hojo found something interesting about them.
Guess what? I’m still freaked out. People don’t -do- things like I’m doing. Everyone is looking at me like I’m just as bad as the shadow things, and it’s frustrating as hell.
You know what. Fine. Fuck it. You got that look in your eye that says you aren’t going to listen to me. I figured if anyone would stand with me, it’d be you. Guess I was wrong about that, too.
I thought you were my friend. Thought you’d stick around me when I needed someone there.
Guess I was wrong. About a lot of thing.
I’m tired, Seph. I’m going to see if I can’t see if I can get a few hours of sleep.
Maybe, this time, I can get it without the voices.
Sphinx
Whatever it was, it was big, it had claws, and it was targeting Zack.
The black haired man was doing his best to keep away from those sharp teeth and claws that oozed blackness, but Sephiroth wasn’t the only one who had tensed when the creature rose up, then crashed down, almost burying Zack from view. With a laugh, the man dodged, fire flaring up in his wake.
It was getting incredibly frustrating, Sephiroth decided. Ever since Zack had walked away from him after that short attempt to actually talk, he had not gotten the chance to confront the man again.
And now this.
His own attention mostly diverted keeping the smaller shadows off people, those with materia equipped doing the same, but, still, he kept an eye on Zack.
Nor was he along in this effort.
So, when Zack vanished under a wave of black, he wasn’t the only one who made a sound of denial.
That…was not allowed. Zack would never let himself be taken down by something so foolish.
Now the man just had to prove it.
Moment
For a moment, Cloud’s breath froze in his chest. Beside him, Aeris had gone pale, and Sephiroth had faltered. Just for a moment, but Cloud knew what to look for now.
Zack was gone.
There was something so fundamentally wrong with that phrase that Cloud thought it again, poking at it like a child with a bug. It was just surreal, and he couldn’t quite make it fit with how reality was supposed to work.
Zack wasn’t gone. Any second now, he would pop up, grinning that manic grin and dicing the monster to pieces.
It was nice with faith was rewarded.
The creature popped with a sound that surprised Cloud with the bloodthirsty pleasure it gave him to hear.
That had been a long, long moment, waiting, though.
Curse
It was amazing the words the ever so calm General could spit out when he was in the mood to.
Sephiroth was certainly in the mood to.
Watching him stalk towards Zack as the last of the monsters finally died, Aeris felt something in her chest tighten. There was something about Sephiroth that drew Zack, drew in all of the SOLDIERs, and she was always afraid that, one day, it would draw Zack away from her.
The fact she kept seeing Sephiroth with translucent wings in the oddest places didn’t help.
Though Cloud had one as well.
Shaking her head, she watched as Zack grinned up at Sephiroth from where he sat, panting from exertion, looking as cheerful as he always did.
It didn’t take an Ancient to know that he was hiding hurt in his eyes.
Though that hurt seemed to ease as Sephiroth continued to curse Zack out, calling him every name in the book.
She really didn’t get men at times.
Happy
Happy? It was knowing everything was going to be okay.
Oh, he wasn’t sure if they were going to be able to keep outrunning these things. He didn’t know what affects the flames and dreams and shadows of a place long gone were having on him besides changes in hair color and a rather sly sense of humor. He didn’t even know if he was even going to survive the next night, or if anyone else was going to.
But he did know that, in his own way, Seph did care, and he already knew how Cloud and Aeris felt about them.
As he sat there, Cloud rolling his eyes at him, Seph muttering about idiot people who didn’t know their own limits, and Aeris fixing up the clawmarks on his arm, Zack did know one thing.
This? This was him happy.
Girled Zack
Author: GW Katrina aka
icedark_elfFandom: FFVII
Claim: Zack Fair
Prompt: 25-Intimidated/1-Birth/38-Poison/43-Sunset/37-Nostalgic for
50episodesRating: PG
Wordcount: 1,019
A/N: Non-con gender switching
Intimidated
She was trying so hard to intimidate him. Hojo ignored the woman and continued to unpack the bag he had brought to Sephiroth’s rooms.
He knew the boy wasn’t in residence, trapped in some meeting with Shinra. Which was exactly why he had chosen now to examine the best case scenario of his project.
It was well known that Sephiroth had been sleeping with his SiC, and while Hojo had disapproved, he was also well aware of how Sephiroth would take that disapproval. So he had simply looked for a way to turn the situation to his advantage.
That materia had been a wonderful discovery.
Now, the woman was close to…seven months, if he calculated correctly. Well past time for him to do a checkup.
“Stop your foolishness and strip. I have quite a few tests that should have been run months ago.”
The sudden pain in his shoulder made him pay attention to her again.
“I am not your well trained lap pet, Hojo.”
The growl and look in her eye, well, that did help him ignore the fact she was ill-balanced and fairly round.
“Only the fact you still have the materia kept this,” a gesture of the dagger in her hands, “from being in your throat.”
Then the door slammed open, and Sephiroth was there, and Hojo couldn’t help but admire how well he had put the boy together, even when that perfect anger was focused on him.
He glanced back at the woman, who smirked and held up a phone, panic button pressed on it.
“We will do this sooner or later. I had been trying to make you comfortable.” He put his things away, unhurried, under the gaze of two angry sets of eyes. “I’ll see you in the lab soon enough.”
And he would.
After all, Shinra was his.
Birth
Holding Zack as the other slept against him, Sephiroth’s thoughts were dark as he thought about the situation that had happened earlier. It had taken longer than he had expected for Hojo to make his move, and the fact he had let his guard down disturbed him. Thankfully, Zack was still Zack, and had been able to deal with the scientist long enough for Sephiroth to get there.
If Zack was still in his male form, or even early in the pregnancy in his female, he had no doubt in the other’s ability to deal with Hojo. But with his balance issues, and the fact that Zack couldn’t move nearly as easily as he had once been able to, it was a much more dangerous prospect. Especially if Hojo came back with reinforcements.
And then, there was later. Eventually, in theory, the child in Zack’s stomach would actually be born. It would be outside of Zack, and a much easier target for Hojo than a trained and lethal SOLDIER.
He would have to do something about this. And do it in a way where he could look for and find the materia of Hojo’s later.
Then things would be safe. For all of them.
Poison
Of all the things that could go wrong in this situation, Sephiroth knew that most of them could end up with him strapped to a lab table. Permanently.
And if that happened, it wouldn’t be long before Zack was the same, though Sephiroth was sure that he would never see the man again if that situation occurred.
When he had left their rooms, Zack had just given him a look of understanding, then went to the bedroom, still wearing his blade on his hip.
Poisons were not Sephiroth’s preferred way of killing. The honestly of at least stabbing a man seemed cleaner to him, at least mentally.
Still, he was a lab child, and he had learned early on what was and wasn’t lethal. He knew Hojo’s habits, and he knew the man would never expect this route.
It was not hard to find the mug he was looking for, or the chemicals.
Nobody would look too hard into Hojo’s death. The man had too many enemies.
Sephiroth’s family would be safe.
Sunset
Seph was up to something.
Zack had had plenty of time to learn to read the man by now, and he was sure the man was up to something interesting. Probably not healthy for someone, but interesting none the less.
Leaning on the wall of their bedroom, watching the sunset outside, he rested a hand on his belly, feeling the baby there move.
The sunsets in Midgar were always interesting, light gleaming through the haze left by the sheer amount of Mako used there, plus the filth that always gathered when a large number of people lived together.
Maybe, if he asked nice, Seph would consider moving. There were lots of places that could use a SOLDIER year round.
Ha, it was a nice pipe dream. Still, standing there, looking at nothing in particular, Zack had to do something, or else he was going to go stab something in frustration at this feeling of waiting.
He had never been the most patient of people, but this whole pregnancy thing had made him even more short tempered. Something else he could blame on Seph for no other reason than it was fun. And got him footrubs.
Seph was up to something, and until the man came back, Zack was going to sit here and paint amusing pictures in his mind as he waited for the sun to set.
Nostalgic
When the door opened, Zack didn’t say anything. Instead, he just went out, ignoring the fact that he was waddling, and just went to hug his lover.
Sephiroth seemed just as happy to keep the silence, arms tight around Zack, nose pressed against his temple, focusing on the feel of the other in his arms.
Even with the strange body shapes and eerie silence, it was a good feeling, this hug, for both of them. Something safe, familiar.
Life was about change, yes, but, this, this moment right here felt like it was balanced on an edge.
Just like the rest of their lives.
It was a familiar, and comfortable, feeling.
TurkZack
Author: GW Katrina aka
icedark_elfFandom: FFVII
Claim: Zack Fair
Prompt: 9-Champagne/21-Flirty/35-Music/23-Gold/49-Treasure/16-Universe/14-Dusk/7-Bound/48-Thankful/2-Death for
50episodesRating: PG
Wordcount: 1,936
A/N: TurkZack AU, OCs
Champagne
Playing bodyguard was probably the best part of the job. Sometimes boring, sometimes not, it was one of those spots you either loved or hated.
The best part when you played bodyguard was you got a spot at all the nice parties.
Zack liked that. It was fun, and he got to see his brother a lot, who was invited as Seph’s SiC. The two of them could trade looks and have their own non-verbal conversations while the people around them droned on and on.
The drinks were nice, too.
And, once, Zack even got to punch someone out.
Fun times for everyone.
Flirty
Funny, Zack thought a bit dazed, he thought spikes like that only came from Gongaga. But he was damn sure that he’d remember that color of hair. Especially when it went with those blue eyes.
“Hey,” he wheezed, picking himself up off the floor with the help of the boy. Who knew someone who looked so little could hit so -hard-?
“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to, but I was having to….”
The boy’s words were cut off when Zack put his hand over it. Bringing out his best smile, he grinned at him. “Hey, I’m Zack, and no hard done. Takes a lot more than a body slam to take a Turk out.”
Those blue eyes were huge. Hmmm, Zack was going to have to bring out the big guns for this one.
Smiling, he started to flirt as if his life depended on it.
Or maybe it was just he liked pretty pale haired people.
Music
Humming to himself, Zack bouncing into Sephiroth’s office with a nod to Aaron. His brother rolled his eyes, but didn’t stop Zack. Which was good, because Zack really didn’t want to start a prank war at the moment. Though dumping ice water on Aaron’s head wasn’t really a prank. Just a brother thing to do.
“Heya, Seph,” he said cheerfully, ignoring the paperwork on the man’s desk. “How’s it going?”
Green eyes were narrowed as Seph was obviously not ignoring the paperwork. However, that did mean he was ignoring Zack. Which was no fun at all. “Seriously considering taking your brother’s suggestion on burning these things.”
Zack grimaced a bit. “Well, I can’t really help you with the paperwork, but I bring you a present.” He tossed the disc on Seph’s desk.
Picking it up, the silver haired man turned it over, looking for marks. Finally, he looked up at Zack, confusion clear in his expression. “Information?”
“Music. I heard it the other day while out with Spike, and thought you might like it.”
“You bought me…a cd of music?”
It was a confused voice, and Zack just gave him a smile. “You’ll like it. Just give it a listen and let me know what you think.”
He slid out before Seph could ask anymore questions.
Yeah, courting Seph was going to be a sloooow process.
Gold
It had been something of a surprise. Seph had given him a call, inviting him over, and Zack had been pleased. It had been months of hard work to convince the man that it was okay to ask for Zack to come to him for the sole purpose of spending time together. Now that he was pretty sure Seph had the concept of friendship down, maybe they could work up to more.
Using the key he had been given, Zack had frozen.
Or maybe he wouldn’t have to do that at all.
For a long, bizarre moment, he wondered if this was something unwilling, but given the way Cloud moved closer to Seph, though Zack wasn’t sure how he had managed that act, it was completely consensual.
And something they had been enjoying, given the way their lips looked.
“I…. Sorry. Let you get back to what you were doing.”
He thought he heard something as he hastily shut the door behind him, but he ignored it. Probably them saying something about his random appearance. Even if Seph had invited him. Just as well he took his leave. Who wanted a third wheel there when you were involved in something else, hmm?
Hitting the stairs, which were faster than waiting for the elevator, Zack took a deep breath. They were both friends, and while he had his hopes, well, he couldn’t really blame either of them. After all, just look at Seph and Cloud. It would be good for both of them and he….
Really needed to talk to his brother.
Treasure
Family was a treasure. They were the one thing someone should always be able to depend on, to go to.
Family should…not want to strangle you.
Aaron wasn’t sure who he wanted to kick, but at the moment, Zack was his only target. He had felt it when Zack had taken the emotional equivalent of a kick in the gut, and had things ready when the man popped up, looking like he really had taken a kick to the gut.
And now he was moping.
Not that Aaron really blamed him. He had seen how his twin had looked at Seph, and at that little blond kid, Cloud. He figured it would be good if his brother got a steady lover, as Zack always did do better when he had someone to watch over.
For both of his prospective interests to go to each other like that, it must have hurt.
Which was why they were sitting here, watching really, really horrible movies, making fun of them and eating horribly unhealthy snacks. Aeris would smack him upside the head for what he was eating, and at the moment, it was really just him making the jokes. Zack was trying, but he was hurting.
After a bit, Aaron just shifted to lean against Zack’s shoulder, feeling the other lean back.
Zack wouldn’t cry, but the shakes he was having was the closest he would let himself have to it.
Okay, so he didn’t want to strangle his brother.
But Seph had better have a -damn- good explanation, or else his office was going to turn into a no-go zone really fast.
Universe
Tired and just back from a mission from hell, Zack dragged himself into his apartment. He had brushed off an invite to Aaron’s, because he knew his brother had plans with Aeris already. No reason for his bad excuse for a love life to smear off on his twin.
It took two steps before he realized there was something wrong, and that more than anything told Zack just how out of it he was. Even as he went for a weapon, a hand wrapped tight around his wrist, and his other arm was trapped by a pin.
“You are incredibly hard to track down,” came a dry voice. It was familiar, but that didn’t make him relax.
“Hey, Seph. What do you expect? I’m a Turk. If we were easy to track down, we’d be dead.” He tried for a cheerful voice, though he was pretty sure he was failing. “What are you and Cloud doing here?”
“We’ve been trying to talk to you,” Cloud said from where he had his arms wrapped around Zack, pinning his own arm. “You are just being stubborn over it.”
He shrugged, as best he could at the moment. “I figured you and Seph would want your alone time.”
Cloud growled, and looked at Seph. “Told you he’d be dumb over it,” he said to the older man.
“So you did,” was the response. After a moment, during which Zack and Seph just looked at each other, Seph dipped down and kissed the slightly smaller man.
That got a muffled yelp, and Zack almost jerked away.
Almost.
After a few moments, when he could breathe again, he was a bit stunned to hear Cloud speaking again. “Idiot. We didn’t want to be alone. We wanted you there, too. Just had to run before we could say anything though. Idiot.”
“Oh.”
Well, that made things much easier, didn’t it?
Dusk
It hit him like a train, and Zack remembered everything sliding sideways, including the startled looks of Reno and Rude as he fell.
After what seemed like forever, he dragged himself out of the pit of darkness, head aching, and something feeling very, very wrong.
The feeling didn’t go away when he saw Tseng sitting next to him.
“What happened?” he asked, voice slurred.
“There was a…situation, in Nibelheim. The entire team is gone.”
That had the bitter, bitter taste of a lie. “No.”
Tseng shifted and sighed. “Zack, Hojo has Aaron’s body.”
“No,” Zack snarled. Aaron wasn’t dead, because he would feel it if Aaron was dead. And he wasn’t.
Whatever had hit him, it wasn’t Aaron dying, it was something else.
And he wasn’t about to sit back and let Hojo do who knew what to his twin.
Bound
It had taken a while for Zack to get back up, and Tseng had helped by keeping him hidden, dummying up reports of him being on a mission when asked.
It didn’t matter how much he did, though. Zack was not going to stay.
“Zack, please. You won’t do him any good like this. We can keep you safe. Hojo would never touch a Turk.”
Tseng felt silent when Zack looked at him. It had been a long time since he had seen eyes like that. “Tseng, it’s not just Aaron. They aren’t dead. I know it.”
So the rumors were true, it seemed. Fair had been getting a little more cozy with Strife and the General than he had let on.
“You are going to go with permission or without, aren’t you?” he asked finally.
The nod was no surprise.
“I suggest you take Aeris as well. She’s in danger from Hojo, and….”
“She and Aaron are engaged.”
Not surprising news. Not welcomed, but not surprising.
“You should go soon, then. Hojo is distracted in Nibelheim at the moment, but who knows how long that will last. He is good at breaking his toys.”
A growl, and he stood, leaving the room.
Fair would do what he had to do.
And so would Tseng.
Thankful
Having Aeris along helped. A lot.
It was good to have the confirmation that he wasn’t hallucinating, that at least Aaron was still alive. Zack was well aware he’d be in even worse shape if his twin was dead, but Aeris was good at reminding him that his brother was alive.
She was smart, and a clever little con-artist when she wanted to be. When they needed it, she could sweet talk anyone into doing what she wanted. Of course, that included him. But that was okay.
They were going to save the others.
He just wished he was as positive about Seph and Cloud as he was about Aaron.
Death
She watches him cut through the guards with ease.
Shin-Ra did a bad thing when they did this, more to Zack than to her. She could tell Aaron was still alive, and there was some comfort to that. Zack, though, while he could feel his twin, and that helped him a lot, he couldn’t feel either of his lovers, who had gone on this trip as well.
She hoped for all their sakes that at least one was still alive.
The planet was humming uneasily, and growing more so the closer they got to Nibelheim.
And now Shin-Ra troops tried to stop them.
Foolish, but it didn’t mean she enjoyed watching them die.
Zack, though, relished it.
He was the opposite of her in so many ways.
Their goal was the same, though.
Get their people from Nibelhiem and run.
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GirledZack is grumpy because he's a guy, damnit, and Turk is Turk.
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Turk!Zack is neat too, with his connection to his Twin and both Seph and Cloud wanting him.
As for Axel!Zack.... *cackles* Really can't say anything there.
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Wouldn't you want a Zack? Specially a Turk Zack?
*grins* AxelZack continues to be a favorite.
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In the second batch, I feel you've revealed the sekrit weapon of pregnant women everywhere for great foot rubs. Tsk. =D
In the final batch, while it ended with me going all "OHNOES," I did end up gravitation on one line: "Yeah, courting Seph was going to be a sloooow process." I don't know if you read the fict on FF.Net, but allow me to pimp How to Succeed in Blackmail (But Not Really) is all about Turk-ly courting habits. And glorious crack. Now that I pay attention to the author (Thorne Scratch), I realize you may or may not have also had the chance to read this on LJ (as she does have an LJ as well, to knowledge). If you aren't familiar with her stuff, she has some other lovelies as well.
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*snickers*
And that looks like an awesome story. I will have to check it out. *makes a note*
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Turk!Zack is fun, but anything with Zack has to be. I like thinking of him with a twin (whoohoo! TWO of them!), especially with the A to Z names going. ;D
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Yeah, Aaron's name go specifically picked out due to Zack's name. *grins*
Mmm, two Zack people.
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I enjoyed them all and am looking forward to what happens next! XD
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Glad you've been enjoying them.
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Axel!Zack is love, and that scare with the Sphinx was very well done. And yay for Seph and Zack finally working things out again(also love the way they did it, cursing for the win?). XD
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*sweeps shards into box*
Poison. That seems very fitting, somehow. *goes to help*
Turk!Zack didn't already have a plan to have both? Wow. Soldier!Zack is much more ambitious. *nods* Yaay that Tseng is helping!
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also, what are you doing making me want to cry! meanie!
<3
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