Through Life

Nibelhiem.



Cloud sighed. It had been so long- and not long enough, it seemed. His promise to himself that he would return as a SOLDIER was broken, but at least he was a step in the right direction. If he could avoid a separate someone...



He stopped and looked around himself. Yup, it had been a long time.



Zack looked back at him. "You okay?"



"Oh- yeah. Sorry."



Cloud was still looking arund from beneath his infantyman helmet as he followed Zack to the inn. The woman at the desk gestured for them to go ahead to their room. Zack nodded as he passed.



Sephiroth was standing in the hallway. Zack stopped briefly. Cloud nervously kept his gaze away from the eldest SOLDIER, but the General showed no signs of...well, anything.



So they continued. Zack opened the door and grimaced. Two beds. Not even a fucking couch to escape to. He grumbled slightly, something that sounded to Cloud like "Shitty inns" and "Backwater towns".



Sephiroth walked in after Simmons. Sephiroth walked to the closest bed and looked expectantly at Zack. Zack sighed and dropped his bag next to the other's. He glanced at Cloud in an apologizing gesture.



The light was outed. Simmons was the first to prepare for sleep and crawl beneath the covers, leaving plantly of room for Cloud. He was asleep before Cloud even decided to follow.



Zack crawled into the bed, back to the other bed. Too late he realized that meant he would be facing Sephiroth. Sephiroth nestled in beside him, throwing one caging arm over him.



Cloud's eyes narrowed as he saw Sephiroth hold Zack to him.



Sephiroth gently stroked Zack's unwilling groin. The younger SOLDIER cursed, trying to escape the man's touch. His body slowly but surely was betraying him.



"I suggest you are quiet if you do not want your blond to hear." Sephiroth murmured.



"Bastard." Zack softly hissed.



All Cloud heard was Zack's curse. Then he saw the General pushing Zack onto his back. He sat over the man, slowly undoing their clothing. Zack held a pillow over his face, stifling any noises in an attempt to not make Cloud hear, to have him listen to this...



But he was hearing it all anyway.



"Fuck." Escaped the guard of the pillow.



Cloud clenched his eyes shut. The sounds remained. He heard them moving beneath the covers. A gasp was emitted froom the older of the two, and Cloud knew he had entered Zack.



He couldn't take it anymore.



"Stop."



The word was so incredibly quietly whispered, but both men heard it. Sephiroth slid out from Zack's body.



"Hmm... You would take your-"



"No!" Zack murmured in distress. He shoved himself onto Sephiroth's cock.



The General moaned in sudden pleasure. Zack looked over at Cloud, shame flush in his face.



"Cloud... I can't let him hurt you... You know that..."



"I..." Cloud wanted to cry. This was wrong, so wrong.



Zack gently smiled. "Go to sleep, baby."



Sephiroth came then, almost as if to remind Zack of his presence. He stroked Zack to completion, but he refused to cry out.



Sephiroth slid from Zack and lay at his side. Zack hesitated before leaving the bed to go to the other. He knelt on the floor, brushing a hand through Cloud's spikes.



"Goodnight."



Cloud looked up at as Zack returned to his bed. Sephiroth held the covers up as Zack climbed in.



"He could always join us..." Sephiroth suggested silkily.



"No."



A chuckle passed Sephiroth's lips. "If you say so."



Zack turned his back on the man. Sephiroth held him to his chest, but Zack ignored him. He winked at Cloud before drifting into sleep.





-T.B.C.-



Hmm.... Events should be in motion now. No more dilly-dallying around the Shin-Ra building.