Divide and Conquer

The next day Sephiroth felt more uneasy than he’s ever been sitting in Hojo’s office. Too many bad memories were associated with the man and the place but for some reason this time it felt stronger. Zack was inducting some new cadets, introducing them to the facility and outlining the run down of their lessons for the year.



Only his mind on Zack could keep the General’s thoughts from straying…mainly to decapitating a certain slimy scientist. Both his arms and legs were strapped down to a semi reclined chair and he gazed at the man as he moved about, getting his equipment together.



“So, my boy…” Hojo started and Sephiroth’s brows knitted, he hated that name because he wasn’t anybody’s boy. Especially not Hojo’s, despite him using? his…thing?…to get his mother pregnant?



That thought was wrong on so many levels.



“…How have you been lately?”



“….”



“I have a new formula I want to try on you.”



“….”



“You don’t mind? No objections today?”



“….”



Hojo decided to push his luck. “I also want to try it on your friend, Lt. Fair.”



>:(



The scientist turned around when he heard the sound of the restraints snapping. The look in Sephiroth’s eyes would have affected him if he was a lesser man. Fortunately he wasn’t and he raised a brow questioningly at the silver haired man.



“Zack Fair is off limits,” Sephiroth said in a tone so cold Hojo faltered for a second.



He then scrunched his nose before pushing his glasses up on it. “Lt. Fair cannot be off limits, he is a first class SOLDIER.”



“I don’t care,” Sephiroth sneered, cold cat slit eyes staring the man down.



Hojo smirked before twisting the six inch needle he held behind him.



Sephiroth screamed.



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It was near the end of the induction and Zack gave the newbies a final welcoming speech. He didn’t miss the star struck glares he received from some and grinned widely. There was one in particular that sparked his interest because the cadet resembled a wet, baby chocobo. He loved chocobos, was very fond of the big birds. He had managed to find out the kid’s name from the files piled on a desk close by.



Cloud Strife.



He rounded them all up and issued the teens bunk numbers and other general information they would need to settle in.



It was by the end late evening and Zack decided he needed a bath, some rest…or better yet a good fuck. Walking back to both he and Sephiroth’s apartment, he hummed lightly to himself, excited at the thought of seeing his lover again. He knew Sephiroth had an appointment for his mako shots earlier and he did feel a little worried but deep down he knew his lover could take care of himself. There was never a time he had seen Hojo do anything to deter the man, other than making him angry and letting it be known he hated him. He also couldn’t wait to tell him about this sweet, new cadet.



Reaching the door and finding his way inside, Zack shouted his lover’s name loudly.



“Seph, where are you?” The apartment was eerily dark and Zack’s enhanced hearing picked up the sound of breathing. It must have been Sephiroth but the place was dark, his lover hated the dark.



Fumbling with the light switch on the wall, Zack turned it on before noticing silver hair from behind the couch. He walked over to his lover and gasped, his eyes going wide when he saw that he was unconscious and there were huge puncture marks all over his arms and welts on his skin.



“Sephiroth, Fuck! who did this to you?” He knelt before his lover and felt for a pulse. It was faint and he listened for a heartbeat and found one but that was faint too.



“Fucking….,” Zack cursed, desperately trying to pull himself together. Panicking, he ran to where Sephiroth kept his materia. He fumbled around in the box until he found the heal materia and ran back to his lover, casting level two Cure and Esuna for good measure. Only Gaia knew what kind of shit Hojo could cook up most times and put into people’s body.



The wounds on his arms disappeared and Zack breathed a sigh of relief when Sephiroth began to stir.



“Zack?” Sephiroth blinked the blurriness away from his eyes before taking in the state of his lover. He didn’t know how he got back to his own apartment but that was secondary to waking up to a scared and trembling Zack.



“S…Seph, you were….and I thought…..” Zack mumbled into his lover’s chest in a scared tone, trying hard to calm himself.



“Shhh, I’m ok Zack, I’m sorry you had to see me like that,” he tried to console, running his fingers through the soft black hair.



“I don’t know what….” Zack started but was cut off when Sephiroth placed a finger lightly on his lips. He brought his head up and his violet eyes met the green of his lover and he melted when the man locked his lips on his, kissing him passionately.



Sephiroth pulled Zack up to straddle his lap while their kiss deepened. The worst thing about all this was that Zack had seen him so vulnerable, so weak and that is how Hojo had hurt his lover. The look on Zack’s face cut deeper than any of the scientist’s sharp scalpels.



The slime would pay.



Breaking apart a few minutes later Zack buried his head in his lover’s chest while wrapping both arms around him and holding him close.



Sephiroth relaxed while he held his lover also, enjoying the companiable silence going on between them both.



There was just so much on their minds.



Zack took a deep breath and Sephiroth could hear the rumble of his stomach. “Are you hungry?”



“Yeah, I’m starved,” the brunette admitted. He had lunch hours ago.



“Want me to call for something? What do you want?” Sephiroth asked, reaching for his phone nearby.



“Just tell them to send everything they have,” Zack groaned.



“Everything it is,” Sephiroth answered before picking up the phone and dialing the auxiliary staff. When he was through he turned to his lover and gave him another passionate kiss. He could never do this enough because Zack was like his drug and he would gladly overdose. There was just something about the young SOLDIER that pulled him in more than any other previous lover ever had.



“Oh!” Zack gasped when they broke apart, a wide grin on his face and Sephiroth raised one eyebrow in curiosity.



“I met a new cadet today, looks just like a chocobo with bright yellow hair all over the place! His name is Cloud and he’s a sweet kid Seph….”



Sephiroth had to chuckle at how hyper and animated Zack was being over his intro of this new cadet. He had to pull him into a kiss to shut him up some minutes later.



Zack melted and Sephiroth was so in the mood but just then there was a knock on the door.



“Food!” Zack shouted before bounding out of Sephiroth’s arm and making a beeline for the door. When he opened it three trays of food were wheeled in and he took a deep breath, savoring the delicious smell.



“Thanks,” Zack beamed and the men left. He and Sephiroth brought the trays over to the table and began eating.



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Hojo balled his fist in anger while watching the monitor. Sephiroth was never suppose to recover so quickly, nor was the two suppose to take this so lightly. He realized Zack must have had a stronger hold on Sephiroth than he originally thought, a hold so much stronger than his it seemed unbreakable and this did not sit well with him at all.



Sephiroth’s his experiment, his to mold and his to break, not some slut of a SOLDIER 1st. ‘I’ll get rid of Lt. Fair if it’s the last thing I do.’



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Zack swore when he saw Cloud get knocked on his butt by a bigger cadet. Everybody was a bigger cadet compared to Cloud but that wasn’t the point. Zack knew the kid must be feeling just like he looked… small and he didn’t like the way his instructor shouted at him for it. He stood on a balcony over looking the training rooms below, wanting to see how Cloud was faring his first month in ShinRa. He wished he could have helped the blonde but he knew nothing good would come of him sheltering him from the harshness of military life. Well, not the basic of it anyway.



His thoughts drifted to his lover, the man sitting some twenty floors above him in an office with paperwork up to his eyeballs. He knew he should be helping but he wanted to see Cloud, make sure the small blonde was alright and somehow the aura that Sephiroth emitted at his statement to go felt awkward, a bit weird like he was contemplating something important… or wanted him to stay.



Overreacting maybe? There was just something there in Sephiroth’s behavior whenever he mentioned Cloud lately and he just couldn’t place a finger on it.



But that aside, since thinking too much hurt his brain Zack watched the cadets pack up to leave. Their training had ended for the day.



Zack caught up to Cloud before the cadet could slip away.



“Hiya Spike!” Zack beamed when the others had filed out and he walked up behind him.



A bit startled, Cloud turned around and smile when he realized who it was. “Hi Zack, what are you doing here?”



“Just came to see if…SPIKE!” Zack shouted, his eyes wide when he saw the blood in Cloud’s hair. He immediately held the crimson tresses in his fingers, trying to determine if the damage was severe (even though Cloud seemed fine)



“Zack, go easy…please,” Cloud grinned while ducking his head and pulling his hair out of the man’s grasp. He did find Zack to be similar to a restless puppy like the rumors said. In the one month he’d gotten to know the older man he was the person he was closest to. A friend.



“B…but,” Zack stammered, feelings rising in him at the thought of Cloud being hurt. He thought of him as the kid brother he never had and wanted to be close to and protect.



Cloud broke out into a laugh at the look on Zack’s face. “It’s not serious, honest.” The 1st Class SOLDIER was the only one who got him to smile and just be himself with his own bubbly persona.



“Why you…” Zack started, raising a finger threateningly that had Cloud backing away and grinning.



Cloud tried to run, but he wasn’t fast enough to get away from the brunette who was on him in a flash with his fingers tickling his side. It was the worst when Zack found out he was afraid of his sides because the man always tried to punish or cheer him up by getting him to laugh.



Zack yelped when he was grabbed by the collar and pulled off Cloud before he was crushed against a strong, muscled chest. The next thing he knew his hair was grabbed to keep him in place while Sephiroth ravaged his mouth with a possessiveness he hadn’t shown since the first time they met.



Cloud looked on in horror. The General and Zack?



Zack was aware of the shuffling of feet behind him, of Cloud getting his things to leave and no matter how hard he tried to get Sephiroth to ease up, to let go the man wouldn’t budge an inch, and he honestly didn’t want Cloud to leave like this. He had to listen to the sound of the blonde leaving while struggling in Sephiroth’s arms.



“STOP!” Zack shouted, panting harshly when Sephiroth finally decided to let him breath. He looked deep into those green eyes he loved so much and noticed they were a darker shade, a sign that whatever emotions was running through him was extremely strong.



“Why did you have to scare Cloud like that?” he asked in a low voice, not understanding why Sephiroth felt the need to claim him in front a cadet he barely even knew. He didn’t get an answer, but Sephiroth grabbed him by the arm tightly and dragged him away to their quarters.



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“Wha…!” Zack shouted when he was unceremoniously thrown on their bed. Sephiroth was on him in a heartbeat, pinning him to the bed with his body weight and giving him a very intense stare.



Zack struggled to sit up but was effectively held down. “Seph, why are you…?”



“You are mine, Zack Fair.” And that’s when the man kissed him demandingly once more, nearly tearing his tongue with how hard he was being. Confused, Zack just allowed the man to do what he wanted because sometimes that was safer.



Sephiroth kissed along his jaw, working his way down to his neck where he bit him, causing a cry to leave his lips. The man was rough, like they always were but this time felt different. In a few seconds he was minus another uniform with Sephiroth buried deep inside him and him closing his eyes from the pain. His lover didn’t even prepare him properly.



“S…Seph,” Zack moaned before he was lifted and turned on his hands and knees. Sephiroth had a hand pressing against his face, burying his head into the pillow while the other held his hip in a bruising grip. All he could do was grab the sheets and cry out, moan and curse while his lover marked and claimed him over and over again.



Fast, hard and perfectly painful Sephiroth fucked him in the doggy position, not relenting until he had loads of sperms inside him.



Breathing harshly, the brunette was rolled over before Sephiroth took him into his mouth and gave him a blowjob that had him coming in minutes from the intensity.



“W…what was that…for?” Zack panted while he lay on the bed, boneless, sore and satiated.



“You belong to me,” came the possessive reply.



“I know, so what the hell was that for?” Zack narrowed his eyes at his lover.



Sephiroth looked away before answering. “Stay away from Cloud Strife.”



Shocked? No, there must have been a stronger word that could explain what he was feeling. “What?” the brunette asked bewildered. Sephiroth was jealous of… Cloud?



Hello Bellevue.



“Why…?”



“You’re becoming too attached, I want you to stop seeing him,” Sephiroth said with an air of finality.



Luckily for Zack that had never scared him.



“Stop seeing….. him? Too attached…?” Zack started confused. “ Seph, are you listening to yourself?”



“You talk about him way too much, you leave me alone to go be with him and whenever you see or hear him your body temperature rises.” Childish. Sephiroth knew, but it was the truth. He was jealous of Cloud.



“You’re…” Zack laughed a sort of manic laugh, a far cry from the loony grin he normally sported because he honest to Gaia could not believe this was happening, that he was hearing those words passing those soft lips. Sitting up he cupped Sephiroth’s cheek and forced his head around so he could look him straight into those cat like eyes with all the love he held for him in his own.



His features softened incredibly when he started speaking. “It’s you I want to spend my life with, only you I’ve wanted Seph. Cloud is like the little brother I never had, somebody I can be friends with, laugh and cry with but will never sleep with. Please Seph, I know you might not understand the concept of family but think about what you had with Angeal, you loved him, right?”



Sephiroth nodded his head once. If it was something similar to that he understood, he just never thought it was the same.



“…And you never tried to sleep with him even though you loved him, right?”



Another nod.



“Well it’s the same with me and Cloud, k? Please understand,” Zack said softly, pleadingly.



“I do,” Sephiroth muttered under his breath, a bit of regret coiling inside him. He just couldn’t explain the rage he felt when he was walking pass to see Zack with the blonde in his arms. They looked so happy together it hurt when he saw them.



“I’m glad you do,” Zack responded before planting a chaste, loving kiss to his lips. The kiss deepened and before they knew it they were both tangled together in bed once again.



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Hojo smiled darkly to himself at the latest exchange in the bedroom. He remembered to wash his hands this time before grabbing his things because he remembered having to throw the sticky pen away from before.



He saw the perfect way to get Zack Fair out of his prized experiment’s life for good and that cadet would help him do it.



“Finally, finally!” Hojo cackled in the dimness of his office, the room mostly illuminated by the light from the monitor. There was now an obstacle he could wedge between the two.



The scientist rolled his eyes in disgust when Sephiroth jumped Zack once again.