Trioverse ficlets

"What the hell are you doing here?!"

"Well, that's a fine hello from one of my lovers," Zack said with an affected pout.

"You know damn well what I'm talking about, Fair. Isn't Cloud supposed to be getting his physical and test injection today?" There. That did it. That wiped the fake kicked puppy look off Zack's face, but...oh hell, now the dejected puppy look was *real*. "Why aren't you over there sitting right outside the door?"

"I'm not supposed to be."

Even that impossibly spiked hair was starting to droop. Reno hadn't seen Zack looking this miserable since Cloud was poisoned. Only because of Zack's friendship with the doctor had they been able to stay with the young blond and comfort him during the worst of it. This time, though, Cloud was willingly subjecting himself to a different kind of poison, and he not only expected his lovers to accept it. He wanted them to be *happy* about it as well. They couldn't even be nearby while the testing was going on. Reno certainly didn't have a ready excuse, but Zack?

"You're still his mentor," Reno said, grasping at the thin possibility.

"No." Zack shook his head. "You know it would still look suspicious, Reno. And before you ask, Ben can't help us, either. Even if he were attached to that department it's still Hojo who gives the injections."

"I could...I don't know...create a diversion or something. Announce that an anonymous bomb threat has been received. They'd have to clear the building and postpone the examinations."

Zack chuckled and reached forward to tug on Reno's long tail of hair. "You would, wouldn't you? Now that the idea's in your head, you'll probably do it anyway the next time you want to get out of something really boring."

Reno smacked his hand away, tossed the hair back over his shoulder and sniffed in disdain. "Are you questioning my professionalism? I do so have a work ethic."

Zack smiled.

"When the situation calls for it," Reno edited.

The smile widened into a smirk.

"All right, fine! When I damn well feel like it, which isn't too often. Happy now?"

Reno subsided into a pout of his own. Zack snickered and tried to pull him in for a kiss.

"You're adorable like that," Zack murmured and flicked a fingertip over the very slightly protruding bottom lip.

"Go to hell."

"Already here, babe, and been courting the resident red haired demon himself."

"Demon, huh? Meanwhile, the closest thing we have to an angel is probably getting shot up with some nasty green, glowing shit right now."

"Not fair," Zack whispered as he visibly wilted again and leaned his forehead against Reno's.

"Sorry." Reno relented and let his arms circle Zack's neck in a hug. "I'm worried, too."

"Really? I didn't notice. I thought all Turks secretly had this Mother Chocobo side to them. I'll bet even Tseng does a head count of all his blue suited chicks after every assignment."

Reno grinned at the image, then his active imagination supplied the vision of his stern, immaculate boss sitting on a clutch of eggs and he fell into slightly hysterical laughter. He cackled and wheezed, completely unable to get out a word of explanation while Zack gave him an amused and pointed look that clearly said he should share the joke. Before he could get himself under control again, they were interrupted by the warbling chocobo wark from Zack's phone that was his ring tone chosen just for Cloud's calls.

Reno's jaw dropped, and he was off on a new round of laughter but he managed to gasp, "Does he know about that?"

"Nope, and he'll only find out if a certain demon plans on sleeping alone for the rest of the year." Zack tried for a menacing glare at his lover and flipped open the phone. "What's up, gorgeous? You all done?"

Reno couldn't hear the person on the line, but he watched Zack's face run through an entire series of emotions. They came in rapid succession from shock to embarrassment to chagrin to concern.

"Thanks for calling me, Garrett. Try to keep him there and calm until I can get there. I'll be less than ten minutes."

"Well?" Reno demanded when Zack slipped the phone back into his pocket.

"He's okay, but I need to go get him before he lets his mouth get away from him. Apparently he was slightly over sensitive to the test mako. The lab assistant gave him a sedative when the sensory overload started to make his vital signs fluctuate," Zack explained quickly to alleviate Reno's worry. "I'll bring him back here so you can help me keep an eye on him. It will make more sense after you see him."

Zack cupped Reno's face for a quick kiss and used his enhanced speed to dash out the door. Reno paced the confines of his small apartment. After twenty minutes, he debated following. Luckily, the door reopened and a blond missile yelling, "Reeeennnnooo!" shot across the room to jump and knock him flat on his back on the couch.

"Reno!" Cloud gushed. "Look at your hair! It's not just red. It's a thousand different shades of red, and when the light catches it just right it makes you look like a flame haired god!"

"Is he...*high*?" Reno asked Zack and yelped when Cloud raised him to a sitting position with just one arm. Shiva, was the young man supposed to be able to do that after just a small test dose? Reno didn't think so.

"I haven't seen you since, oh..., yesterday!" Cloud continued, off in his own little uninhibited world, totally oblivious to the way his lovers were watching him such concern. "I've missed you so much. The test was easy. I feel so light and everything looks and feels so sharp. It's fantastic!"

"I'm sure it is, baby," Reno murmured, trying and failing to reconcile this bouncy, bubbly, squirming, clingy chatterbox of a stoned blond with his quiet, self effacing lover. "Maybe you should lie down and rest for a while."

Cloud laughed and jumped from Reno's lap to try his new strength on Zack. Even with his temporary enhancement he didn't even make his lover so much as sway. Long arms captured him and held him close. Zack shared a concerned and amused grin with Reno that quickly took a pained turn. Cloud was writhing suggestively against him, pawing at his clothes.

"Cloud."

"Want you. Need you. Now. Please?" Cloud murmured between licks to pectoral muscles. He had managed to get Zack's shirt pulled free and bunched up to his neck. "Please, please, please, please!" Cloud chanted and straddled Zack's leg to get some friction.

"He's going to be mortified if he remembers this," Reno said with a laugh. "He'll bury his head so deep we'll have to call him Ostrich instead of Chocobo." Oh shit. Speaking had brought those glowing eyes back to himself. Reno couldn't help but shiver a little at the speculative gleam and intensity focused on him as Cloud slithered free from Zack's hold and stalked, there was no other word for it, back to Reno. "Hey, baby..."

"Reno," Cloud purred, tilting his head back to look at his taller lover through lowered lashes. Reno's body, one area in particular, stiffened in earnest from just the breathy, pleading voice of the mako vixen. "You've never denied me. You're not going to now, are you?"

Cloud accompanied the question with roaming hands that stroked and teased *himself* not Reno. Reno swallowed and lightly held Cloud by the shoulders. His resolve to not take advantage of their young lover's state was slipping fast, especially when Cloud's hands snaked around him to slip down the back of his pants. Reno tightened his grip on Cloud's shoulders and shot Zack a frantic, desperate look for help. Cloud being aggressively insistent for the first time, even if it was the chemical cocktail influencing him, was something he had fantasized about quite a bit.

A resigned sigh, completely at odds with the lustful gleam in his eyes and the too obvious tent in his pants, slipped from Zack's lips.

"I suppose we'll have to indulge him. At least he's safely here with us."

Reno relaxed and tilted Cloud's chin at a higher angle to see his own lust reflected in vibrant blue that was nearly obscured by the dilated pupils.

"Okay, baby. Whatever you want today, it's yours."

"Anything?" Cloud asked. He dared to cup the cheeks of Reno's ass and squeezed, then his newly acquired dominant urge faltered just enough that he blushed furiously and nearly whispered his request. "I want to be...inside you."

Completely charmed, Reno flashed Zack a proud, triumphant grin and pulled Cloud flush with his body so the young man could feel how his words and his touch were affecting him.

"Oh, yes. I've been waiting for you to say so," Reno murmured, deepening Cloud's blush and giving more confidence to the hands exploring his body. "Let's take this to the bedroom."

Zack moved closer to mold himself to Cloud's back. His hands slipped between his lovers' bodies to rub against both erections as he rocked his hips forward. Cloud let his head drop back against Zack's chest with a gasp and unintentionally squeezed Reno a little too forcefully. Reno's quickly stifled sound of pain had Cloud freezing in place, jerking his hands away as if burned.

"I...I," he stammered.

"It's all right," Zack whispered into his ear. "Right now you are stronger than usual. This is where you start learning to control a SOLDIER's strength."

Reno took Cloud's hands and placed them back on his hips, holding them there. "I know you wouldn't ever intentionally hurt me, Cloud." He walked backwards to the bedroom, pulling Cloud along with him. "You can do this. I want you, baby. Very much."

Cloud let Reno pull him down and overtop himself on the bed. The tranquilizer he'd been given was finally starting to affect him properly. He still wanted Reno badly, but the knowledge that he could accidentally harm his lover had tempered his desire and courage. Zack seemed to sense his growing doubts and guided his hands in undressing Reno and showing Cloud all the sensitive places on Reno's body that he had mapped and memorized long ago. It bolstered the teenager's confidence when Reno squirmed and writhed in appreciation of his touch. Cloud had seen Reno that way with Zack, but to have Reno respond to himself was heady stuff.

Cloud was breathing heavily with desire when he dared to trace his tongue around a bared nipple, and he shuddered and fought for control of himself as Reno arched his back and moaned. He was drowning in lust and the new experience of being the one to control the pleasure, and he was barely aware of Zack relieving them of the rest of their clothing. Gliding lips and tongue over Reno's chest and neck, Cloud allowed his body to be moved and maneuvered by his other lover until he was surprised to feel the cool air wafting over his bared skin.

He faltered for a moment when Zack pressed the open tube of lubricant in his hand and nodded encouragingly to the redhead's splayed thighs. He sat back on his heels and squeezed the slick onto shaking fingers to coat himself. The cool gel against the heated skin of his cock and the touch of his hand nearly made him come right there. Nervousness and anticipation were working against him, and Cloud had to choke down the urge to reverse their positions and beg one of his lovers to take him hard.

Like always, Zack was able to easily read Cloud's thoughts and was there to sooth any fears and doubts. He ran a sword calloused hand up Cloud's back to knead the tenseness at the nape of his neck and murmured against his ear.

"You can do this, Spike. You *know* what feels good. Listen to him and watch his face and body for cues if you need them. Look at him, baby. He wants you."

Cloud raised his eyes to Reno's flushed face and gasped at the blatant desire. Reno's eyes had always expressed his emotions, and now they glowed soft and warm for *him*. Cloud coated his fingers again pressed one of the Turk's legs towards his chest to expose his puckered opening. The first finger moved easily into a tight, gripping heat like nothing Cloud had ever felt before. Imagining his cock in the same place had him trembling, but he had to remember to make it good for Reno, too. Another finger joined the first, and he seemed to be doing something right as Reno ground against his hand to try to get them deeper. Throaty moans rumbled from the man's chest when Cloud brushed against the prostate.

Zack kissed Cloud and with a proud smile moved to the head of the bed. He winked at the blond and lowered his lips to Reno's panting mouth, tasting the cries of pleasure. Watching his lovers kiss excited Cloud even more and thrust harder with his fingers, twisting and stroking to wring more sounds from Reno. After a few moments of that Reno gasped and reached for Cloud.

"Now, baby," he rasped.

Cloud withdrew his fingers and placed the head of his cock at the loosened hole. All his love, hope and tremulous desire was reflected in his eyes as he moved his hips slowly to sink into Reno's body. Oh, fuck! Oh, gods, it was incredible. Hot, tight and deep, no wonder the other two were always after him and each other. It was too much, and he wasn't going to last long. Cloud started a fast rhythm, mouthing a quick apology to his lover. Reno waved off the apology and arched against him, wrapping his legs tightly around a slim waist and lifting his hips to meet each thrust.

"Harder, Cloud. I'm not going to break!"

With the relief of permission, Cloud thrust fast and forcefully, his body fast approaching release. His lungs burned for air and sweat plastered his hair to his face, obscuring his vision, but he could still see Reno beneath him. His lover had begun crying out with each deep thrust and his whole face and neck were flushed a deep red. Reno was truly beautiful in the throes of pleasure. Orgasm seized Cloud's body, and his movements became erratic and beyond his control. His hips slapped against Reno's ass as he cried out in awed elation and released deep in his lover's body.

Cloud collapsed forward, spent and heading for unconsciousness until a horrid thought crossed his blissed mind. Oh no, he hadn't... Cloud raised his head to find Zack licking the fingers of his hand clean and Reno relaxed in sated contentment, softening cock resting on a come splattered belly. Zack, wonderful Zack, still watching his back even in this, making sure everything turned out okay. Cloud rolled to his side and promptly slid into a deep sleep.

"Damn, that was great," Reno groaned. "The kid's going to be one hell of a top with just a little more encouragement."

"Yeah." Zack smile was edged with anticipation. He wondered when Cloud would realize he could have *both* of them if he wanted. Even if it was only with the help of the mako induced euphoria, the blond had taken a giant step. Zack looked forward to the day when Cloud was finally confident enough to accept the equality of the three of them. "You better snag a potion, though. If he sees those bruises and scratches he left on you when he wakes up it'll embarrass the hell outta him."

Reno chuckled and stretched, a soft hiss sounding from his lips when he inadvertently pulled against a rapidly darkening bruise on his hip. His hand brushed against Zack's still hard cock. A dark red eyebrow raised in lascivious question.

"Cloud's out cold. How about a long, hot soak?" Reno smiled and ran his fingertips over the head and raised them to his lips.

"You're insatiable," Zack laughed.

"What can I say? You guys bring it out in me."


Cloud slept, a soft smile on his face, and mako enhanced dreams weaving through his head.