Cell Division | By : Savaial Category: Final Fantasy VII > AU - Alternate Universe Views: 2025 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1 |
Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy. It belongs to SquareEnix. I do not make any money from these writings, nor do I wish to. The original creators have all my respect, from game designers to voice actors. |
“Sir?”
“Not now, Farady,” Hojo said, carrying me past the orderly and down the hall.
“But sir! You told me to tell you when the abduction team returned!”
Hojo stopped. “Have they returned?”
“Yes.” The ginger-blond panted, as if he’d run to catch up to us. “Willie and Loomis said to tell you they got him.”
“Splendid.” Hojo began walking again. “I’ll be down later. Thank you, Faraday.” He looked down at me. “As you can see, things have not calmed in your absence.”
“More threats?” I hated the thought of raising children so close to such…drama. Still, chaos and danger ruled the world right now. Almost better to camp with the enemy and quietly maneuver around them.
“A group trying to rescue Still really screwed things up for awhile,” Hojo admitted. “Sephiroth’s return made Rufus believe he had a minion, for some reason. Sephiroth didn’t lift a finger to stop the resistance team; Rufus is furious but can do nothing. A nuclear weapon couldn’t hurt my son.”
“I hear that pride,” I teased.
Hojo grinned. “I’ll bet you do, Victoria.”
The proud son himself met us in the corridor to Hojo’s office. He put out his arms. “I’ll take her,” he said. “You have an explosion in SL-17. The alarms malfunctioned. Some poor bastard came crawling up here two minutes ago on the manual lift, burned.”
“Fuck.” Hojo handed me over. “I’ll be back as soon as possible,” he told us. Whirling, he ran down the hall and vanished through the first access door.
Sephiroth’s peerless face pointed toward mine. “He wouldn’t have trusted me to have charge of you a few months ago,” he pointed out in a quiet voice.
“You men are chivalrous,” I giggled, ignoring the direction of his topic. Well-being hormones stripped me of all dignity and I didn’t even care. “I’m quite able to walk.”
He blinked. Humor stole into his green eyes. Like his father, he didn’t have to move his face to project feeling. “Do you feel like taking a walk?”
“Where?” I asked as he pivoted and started toward the main lab.
“Oh, just around the compound,” Sephiroth replied lightly. “You’ve never seen the rest of this enormous place, have you?” He nodded to Hojo’s monitor tech, Deidre. “Would you inform my father I’ve taken Miss Grey for a short walk?” he said. “She needs fresh air.”
“Certainly,” Deidre said immediately. “I’ll catch him on his way up from taking care of SL-17.”
“I like her,” Sephiroth said as he carried me down a long hallway. “She told me yesterday she has eight children.”
“Eight?” I craned my head over his arm to look at the rather plain, older woman. “What nerve, what courage!” I felt awe settle over my shoulders. “But, why so many?”
“Apparently, when my father did his genetic testing on her during her early days of employment, he discovered she has special qualities. He had the husband come in and be tested, too. Their pairing off is unique.” Sephiroth paused to open the door and take us down a stairway. “It seems Cetra DNA hides in a human body when diluted, masking inside of junk DNA. When two, stronger carriers combine, the human is diluted and the Cetra is strengthened. Deidre and her husband are making children nearly one-eighth Cetra.”
“Wow.” I’d read a little of Hojo’s research on the Cetra while transcribing. “The lost race.”
Sephiroth’s grip on me tightened. We still descended stairs. I looked over the side of his arm and almost vomited at seeing the endless, spiral distortion. “Holy Shiva! Don’t you believe in elevators?” I asked, voice squeaky.
“Too slow,” he said.
“Putting me down anytime soon?”
“No.” He almost seemed to smile. “I’m a man of gestures.”
“Oh, indeed?” That seemed a natural thing, for him.
“Yes, I really rue how I treated you.” Sephiroth shifted us sideways to make room for a startled tech on his way up. “I was always nice to women before Jenova. The more time I spent with you, the more I remembered that.” He smirked. “Oh, I was always cold, but never cruel. I knew how to be thankful and generous.” Again he paused, this time for a group of emergency personnel carrying fire extinguishers and cylinder tanks.
“Where was I?” he asked calmly when the rush of people subsided.
“Cold, but not cruel, thankful and generous,” I prompted, starting to feel just a hair nervous about the activity in the stairwell.
“Ah, yes,” Sephiroth murmured. “While inhabiting the simulation, I had a lot of time to think,” he went on. We reached a windowed landing just in time for another herd of running emergency personnel in bright green suits to bypass us. These had on breather suits and carried what looked like harpoons. Sephiroth put me on my feet. A klaxon alarm sounded.
Sephiroth sighed. “Stay shielded behind my coat,” he said. Stepping between me and the window, he put his fist out and shattered it. “Stairs are too slow, too,” he announced, sweeping me off my feet and into his arms again.
“What’s going on?” I shouted as we dropped slowly to the ground, Sephiroth’s big wing making lazy movements behind us. “Is Hojo in danger?”
Sephiroth gave a short laugh. “No.” He sounded very sure. “He’s not a stupid, reckless hero. He’s a cunning, ruthless villain. Get used to that now, before he puts a ring on your finger.”
I knew what he meant but I still worried. Wait a minute. Had he said something to Sephiroth about marrying me? “You think he’ll propose?” I asked.
Sephiroth’s eyes shifted toward mine. “Don’t you?”
“I… didn’t expect him to,” I admitted.
“Why not?’ Sephiroth walked us down a sunny sidewalk, eliciting stares from random Shin-Ra personnel. We passed more and more people now.
“I don’t really know. It just seems like something that wouldn’t occur to him. He’s had one bad marriage already.”
“I’ve had two bad lifetimes. He can suck it up.” Sephiroth took us down a lane of uniform, slate buildings. “These are the barracks. If hell freezes over and I work for Rufus, I’ll still refuse to stay here.”
“You don’t wish to be anyone’s ultimate weapon anymore,” I said. “Why would you work for Shin-Ra?”
“My father. You. Aiko and Kai.” Sephiroth listed us calmly. “I can do nothing for any of you if I’m not here. Additionally, the military is all I know.” He took us to the end of the barracks and turned, walking in the direction of a building made the same way as the others. “What other career is available to me, Miss Grey?”
“Modeling?” I suggested, only halfway teasing.
Sephiroth stopped. Looking down at me, he shook his head. “I refuse,” he uttered lowly. “I’m weary of people remarking on my beauty. It’s tiresome.”
“I guess it would be,” I agreed softly. “I’m sorry, Sephiroth. If it wasn’t for your unique beauty, you might have had an easier time.”
“It hasn’t helped me in any way, shape or form,” he commented, resuming walking. “People make offers. All sorts of people. Women, men, girls, boys, even the elderly. We live in a culture obsessed with beauty and youth.”
“Don’t you desire a relationship with someone?”
He looked into the distance briefly. “I killed the only one worthy.” His eyes flared brilliant green-blue a moment. “Jenova pushed me into it.”
“I’m sorry, Sephiroth.” I reached up and touched his shoulder.
“Thank you, but I don’t deserve any sympathy.” He held his head higher. “There are a lot of things I don’t deserve.”
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