From last Chapter

“Cloud Strife.” Cloud said as he took the General’s hand and shook it briefly. “Valentine?”

“Yes Cloud I found out that Jenova was never my mother. My mother’s name was Lucrecia Crescent and my father, is Vincent Valentine. My parents were taken from me. Hojo ‘killed’ my father but before she died and was pregnant with me, my mother saved my father’s life and injected him with the G substance and it transformed him into an entity called Chaos. Although he may look young, he’s not. He’s over sixty years old!” Cloud did a double take! He had no idea that Vincent had been through that. So Vincent was not only superhuman, but immortal!

“And what of you?” Cloud asked. Sephiroth looked at the other man evenly and sighed.

“I was altered genetically since I was in my mother’s womb.” He said. “Hojo injected her with Jenova cells and while it killed her slowly, it altered me. It gave me super strength, intelligence, agility, in short, turned me into another superhuman. Since me, Hojo tried to duplicate my genetics and failed. Except the three clones you dealt with. He even wanted you, Cloud…”

“No way!” Cloud yelled. “That dirty old man is not getting me! I’m glad he’s dead!”

“First off, not for him, for me and second off, he is not dead.”

“For you?” Cloud said. “What?” Cloud looked as Sephiroth handed him his medical records.

“Cloud, are you aware that you can have children as women can?”

“What? That’s impossible!” Cloud sobbed. “I’m a freak?! Damned Hojo!”

“Not to stick up for the sick sorry son of a bitch, but he had nothing to do with that.” Sephiroth said. “Cloud, you were born that way.”

“Are you saying…” A deeper baritone voice asked at the doorway. “That’s Cloud can…”

“Childbear?” Sephiroth supplied. “Yes.” As Vincent entered the room, Cloud passed out.

Chapter 6: Healing and Confession

The two Valentines looked at each other then down at the unconscious blonde. They both knew that Cloud had taken in too much in such a short time. First it was being experimented on, escaping with Zack, stabbing Sephiroth, fighting Jenova’s forms, Hojo, saving the planet, dealing with the three clones and now finding out he could child bear? Neither man could blame Cloud for passing out. Instead the elder Valentine gently took up Cloud into his arms and tried to revive him when like an angel of Hell, Tifa burst into the room. “CLOUD!” She cried when she saw him in Vincent’s arms. “What’s wrong with him?”

“Tifa, he’s not hurt, he just fainted.” Vincent reassured her as he exchanged glances with Sephiroth. “Can you be as kind as to get us some ice cool water and a cloth?”

“Sure I’ll be back.” Tifa left and Sephiroth closed the door as he watched his father placed Cloud into bed. He noticed at how tender and gentle his father was to the blond and it made him smile a bit. He wanted his father to be happy. Hell, he’s been through enough; he’s entitled to a little bit of happiness if not more. Sephiroth took a seat next to the bed while Vincent laid on the bed holding Cloud to him.

“Sephiroth,” Vincent’s deep baritone voice said, breaking the silence in the room. The silver haired man looked up at the gunman and knew that what his father had to say was worth paying attention for. Vincent noticed this and smirked a bit. “You seem to have something troubling you.”

“There are so many questions and yet I don’t know where to begin.” Sephiroth admitted, “I was told my parents were dead and yet, I have my father before me.”

“Well I did die in a way.” Vincent said as he removed his cloak and for the first time, Sephiroth beheld the gunman’s features. The crimson eyes, the long black hair, the features of an angel fallen from grace. The skin was fair and although Sephiroth knew that his father was around sixty he didn’t look a day over twenty five! He looked at his father and was about to ask when Vincent beat him to it.

“When Hojo shot me, he left me for dead. I was bleeding to death. Your mother found me and managed to save me from dying completely. However in saving me, she didn’t know that she would be altering me forever. Even if she had lived, in time, I would have lost her.”

“I read that there was an argument.” Sephiroth said. “What was it about?”

“I wanted your mother to come away with me.” Vincent said. “I was at the time, the leader of the Turks. Tseng has nothing on me.” With this he grinned. “But your mother didn’t want to leave, being the ever dedicated scientist as she was.” He sighed sadly and looked at his son. “You look very much like her Sephiroth. But you have my will when it comes to battle and the mind. The things you did, they weren’t you. They were Jenova’s doing. And Hojo, I do want his life over, for destroying my family. He injected your mother with the Jenova cells while she was pregnant with you. I wanted you and your mother with me. I wanted a family and peace. I had a feeling that Hojo had been behind not only my downfall and Lucrecia’s death, but also, my father’s accident.”

Sephiroth’s eyes widened. Dr. Grimore Valentine, his grandfather, was a great scientist. His mother was his assistant at the time. He was in the process of an experiment when it went horribly wrong and it ‘killed’ Dr. Valentine. When Vincent was dying Lucrecia turned to that experiment and had injected it into Vincent’s body. It saved his life, but he was altered genetically. He would be immortal and able to transform to the legendary entity called Chaos. There was no cure for Vincent. There was no cure for Sephiroth either. Cloud too had been altered. His child bearing gene had been dormant but when he had joined SOLDIER and was exposed to the Mako on an everyday basis, it became ‘awake’. Also, Cloud had a special power that Sephiroth had only seen once; where he had ‘killed’ him at the ruins of the former Shinra building. He knew that Cloud would take down whatever came his way. But he knew now, that Cloud was not alone anymore. He had friends and he had won his father’s heart, (which was no easy task). He looked at the sleeping blond in his father’s arms and smiled.

“So how do you feel about Cloud?” He asked. “I mean…”

“Sephiroth are you asking me if I wish to take Cloud for mine?”

“Am I that obvious?” Sephiroth asked with a smile.

“Well, I do.” Vincent said with a smile as he looked at the sleeping blonde. “I always have. With each day, it’s grown more and more.”

“Have you told him so?” Sephiroth asked as he looked down at the blond, trying not to wake him. Vincent looked at his son and sighed.

“I just don’t know how to.” Vincent said. “I mean, how do I tell the one person who stole my heart from the first moment I saw him that I love him beyond anything in this world or the next? That I want to spend the rest of my life with him, if I could, to share my immortality with, to have and raise my children with and to hold for always?”

Neither man noticed that a certain blond was wide awake and had heard the whole conversation. He had the same questions for Vincent and had been afraid to ask them. Now, thanks to Sephiroth, he had his answers. He snuggled into Vincent and sighed. Both men looked at him and while one man was smirking the other man was surprised. Cloud sat up and kissed Vincent softly on the lips and smiled.

“You just did.”

Hmmm…cat’s out of the bag! What’s Vincent’s going to do? And what is Hojo/Weiss up to? And who’s gonna sweep Sephiroth off his feet? Please review!