Tiny Dancer

Title: Tiny Dancer
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Author: Lynsey
Websites: http://lynsey-schadegg.livejournal.com/ and http://lotr.adult-fanfiction.org/authors.php?no=1296789875 .
Mailing List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Fiction_by_Lynsey/
Beta: None
Chapter: 9/?
Pairings: Sephiroth/Cloud
Rating: PG-13 this chapter
Warnings: Very AU, language
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Do not sue, all I got are college loans, and this isn’t helping to pay them off.
Summary: Opening night for Midgar Dance Company’s newest show may be the beginning of something more than just a hot new act.


"What are you doing?"

"There's someone in there."

"...probably the guy that lives with us? You know, Sephiroth?"

"No there's someone else in there. I can smell them."

Angeal sighed. Genesis always had been a nosy bastard.

"Get away from there. Aren't you supposed to be at work already?"

"No."

"You had a conference call at nine. It's now...eleven thirty."

Genesis shrugged and pressed his ear to the door in a different position.

Zack appeared next to him and mimicked Genesis, whispering, "What are we doing?"

"Spying on Sephiroth and the date he brought home."

“You mean Cloud?"

Genesis grabbed Zack by the front of his shirt and shook him. "Tell me what you know!"

Zack yelped and was quieted by Angeal's hand flying over his mouth. "You two fucktards are going to get us in deep shit. I'm going to work."

With that Angeal turned around and stormed to the elevator, hitting the button and waiting for the elevator to get to their level. Seriously. Sometimes he felt like he lived in a middle school and not a SOLDIER compound.

Genesis released Zack and they both went back to listening at the door. Zack whispered, "Well, yesterday, Sephiroth went to see that show again. The Seventh Heaven one? Ya. Well anyway, he told me he was going to ask Cloud out to dinner afterward."

"Why didn't he tell meeee?"

"Because I'm his best friend."

"I'm his best friend, too!"

"No, you're a nosy queer."

Genesis couldn't think of any reply to that statement that wouldn't be a lie. So instead he said, "Wanna have sex?"

Zack looked the pretty man over, critically examining the Commander. "Flattered, truly, but no."

Genesis pouted prettily. "Why not?"

"You're pretty and everything, but...you're just not my type."

"Really? But...I thought everyone loved pretty guys."

"Not exactly."

"So you're straight then?"

This was the longest he had ever talked to the red-head. He didn't know whether to feel accepted or scared. "Bi, actually."

Genesis pondered. "So...who would you sleep with?"

Zack actually had the decency to blush. "Um...Angeal."

Beautiful blue eyes widened, and a sultry, sexy purr escaped his lips. "And he calls you Puppy..."

"...yeaaaa..."

"Oh sweet baby Jesus the cosplay."

Genesis was thwacked soundly.

*****************************

Sephiroth woke slowly, warm and quite content with the world. The object of his obsession for the last couple of years was soundly sleeping, curled up against him. It was unbelievable and completely perfect. Shreds of blond hair that fell across Cloud's relaxed face feathered as he breathed softly in and out. He was on his side, one arm was curled beneath him with the hand balled up under his chin. The other arm lay across Sephiroth's chest, relaxed in sleep.

Earlier, when Cloud had admitted to wanting to use him, he had almost let his heart (what was left of it, anyway) break. So many people had used him over the years. Hojo for his twisted research, Shinra to fight their wars, even his friends to some extent used him. The thought that the one he had secretly crushed on forever wanted to do the same thing almost broke him.

But then he actually listened to what Cloud was saying and his heart heaved a big, fat sigh of relief. Cloud didn't want to use him. Cloud felt terrible for wanting to use him. Cloud liked him.

Cloud liked him.

Cloud wasn't legal.

What the hell was he supposed to do now? He had Cloud in his bed. A Cloud that had already admitted that he liked him and wanted to sleep with him, and he could so go to jail over this. Not that any fucking jail could keep him contained for more than a heartbeat, but it was the principle of the thing. What kind of leader and role model would he be if he took some underage kid into his bed?

Why God does the legal age have to be eighteen in Midgar?

Wait...where was Cloud from again? He searched his memory for the biographies he had read dozens of times in the left over theater programs he horded like gold. Nibelheim. What was the legal age in Nibelheim?

It was time to do some research.

Sephiroth tried to ease Cloud out of his hold without waking him but was entirely unsuccessful. The blond murmured and propped himself up on his elbows. One eye was squinted open and his face was scrunched into a mask of grumpiness. “Where’re you goin’?”

“I have to take care of some work stuff. I’ll just be down the hall in the office. I’ll leave the door open and you can come find me if you need me.”

Cloud humphed and flopped back onto the pillows, burrowing under the blanket.

The General smiled and shrugged on a robe as he headed out the door. The home office set up for the General and his housemates was small in terms of the real offices they had in the administrative area of the building, but it served its purpose. Sephiroth booted up the computer and logged on, waiting for the program to load. He pulled up the Shinra database and accessed the search engine.

Search: Please select search type or enter keyword now

Cloud worked for Midgar Dance Company, which Sephiroth knew was a subdivision of Shinra.

Search-Employees: Please enter keyword now

Strife, Cloud

Searching…

Record not found

Please enter new keyword now or change search type

Well, that was odd.

New search selected

Search-Contract Employment: Please enter keyword now

Strife, Cloud

Searching…

One record found

Open record now? Y/N

There it was. Why the hell was Cloud under contract? Why didn’t the company hire him outright? Or did Cloud want certain stipulations that he required before being hired?

Y

Accessing files, please wait

Please enter password and security clearance code, Level 5

Fucking security clearance? What the hell?

Password accepted

Please select the file you would like to open

There were multiple files, many more than should have existed. He recognized some of the file extensions as financial documents. He clicked through them one at a time, his eyebrows hoisting higher and higher at each one. This kid was screwed.

Cloud made the Shinra company millions of gil every year in income. From ticket and merchandise sales alone this kid should have been a freaking set for life.

But the debt.

He found the original contract Cloud’s mother had signed as well as the original debt amount and the debt accumulated while he was in dance school. He scanned through the debt documents, getting angrier and angrier at every calculation. They also charged hundreds and hundreds of gil to Cloud’s “debt” almost every day. Most of it for random shit the kid probably never even did. Manicures? Hair cuts? Restaurants, clubs, movie theaters, bakeries? What the hell?

Then he started looking back through the recent transaction history. Several purchases had been made last night…while Cloud had been with him.

Shinra was using Cloud as an expense account. They racked up the debt, Cloud paid off the bill, and the dancer got nothing in return. He was their eternal slave, paying off vacations to Costa del Sol and hundred gil hair cuts.

Sephiroth saw red.

Are you sure you would like to transfer account? Y/N

Fucking YES.

Y

Please enter Level 5 security clearance code and password

Processing…

Transferring…

Account has been transferred to:

SephirothPJS001

Would you like to edit account details? Y/N

Y

Please select details you would like to edit

Idiots didn’t safeguard their accounts from the inside. Sephiroth smiled evilly. Several minutes of clicking and typing followed.

Account had been edited. A list of your changes has been shown below:

All access to account is denied-to be accessed by user SephirothPJS001 only
126 files have been deleted
37 new files have been created
52 account debit cards have been deactivated
1 account debit card has been issued
Previous account balance has been deleted
New account balance is $50,000
New account password is verified

Would you like to make any more changes? Y/N

N

Account has been logged out

Search: Please select search type or enter keyword now

Let them stick that in their pipes and smoke it.

Search: legal age of consent, Nibelheim

Now, back to business.

TBC…