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Title: Cold At Night Without Wings to Set Me Free
Cloud woke up when he realized someone was standing over his bed. Instinctively (and not really fully awake yet), he lashed out with his arm. Another hand caught it, fingers wrapping tightly around his wrist. "Cloud!" he heard whispered, "It's me!" "Zack?" Cloud sat up and squinted into the darkness. "Can you come with me?" the hand holding his wrist tugged a little, and Cloud obligingly got out of the bed. He stopped at the place where his uniform was stored, but Zack tugged at his arm again, and Cloud figured that whatever Zack wanted, it was either something where Cloud would not be seen—or that Cloud would be seen, and embarrassingly. Zack stopped when he'd pulled Cloud into the harsh fluorescent lighting of the hall, and turned to look back at Cloud, who had started to shiver in his nightclothes. Pale blue, with the Shinra logo stamped on the upper right. Shinra even dictated what the troopers wore to bed. "Zack," Cloud started, "please don't tell me you need me to deliver something this late in the night." Zack shook his head, "Sorry, delivery boy," he cracked, grinning a little. He'd taken to having Cloud deliver his reports when his pet trooper was around and Zack was in a hurry. It was pretty funny, now that he thought of it. Zack stepped closer and wrapped his arms around Cloud, noticing (and ignoring) Cloud's look of surprise. The trooper was pretty cold. He hadn't realized the halls got so chilly at night. Then again, there were a lot of things SOLDIERs didn't tend to notice. "Let's go to my room," Zack said, letting go and taking Cloud's elbow, instead. "It's warmer there." "Your—? Zack!" Zack didn't let go as Cloud squirmed in his grasp. Thankfully, after another couple of steps, Cloud seemed resigned to his fate, padding through the halls in his bare feet. But the hall right outside the SOLDIER rooms was particularly cold, and Cloud winced at the feel of them before Zack ushered them into his room. The door had closed behind them when Zack scooped him up from behind, and before Cloud could utter another startled "hey!", Zack had taken two strides and dumped him on the bed, pulling the covers up over Cloud's head a moment later. Cloud sank into the bed, unmoving for a moment, relishing in the warmth, before poking his head above the covers. "Zack?" Zack paused in the middle of undressing and looked over. "Hmm?" "Needed someone to warm your bed?" Well, that was…surprisingly blunt. For such a shy kid. But with the covers drawn up to his chin, and a mischievous glint in his eyes, Cloud looked rather…pretty. "I'll be right there," Zack said, and walked over, sitting on the edge of the bed. Cloud looked up at him a moment, before impishly pulling the covers over his head again. Zack laughed, unprepared for the juvenility of the gesture, and reached out to tickle the blonde. Cloud laughed, and squirmed. Zack didn't let up until the covers fell back off Cloud's shoulders, and then, seizing his opportunity, pressed his mouth to Cloud's neck. Heard the sharp outtake of breath. Zack pulled out the little bottle of lube he'd pocketed before taking a stroll to the trooper barracks, and finished undressing, unbelting his pants and kicking them to the end of the bed. Cloud had turned his head to watch him during that brief lull, fingers moving down to the hem of his Shinra nightshirt and pulling it over his head. Zack pulled the covers out of the way, and tackled Cloud's pants himself. With that out of the way, Zack let his hands roam over Cloud's body, listening to the sounds Cloud made and feeling Cloud's body react under his hands. And since Cloud's mouth was invitingly parted, Zack leaned down and kissed him. And then trailed his mouth down Cloud's body, before taking the trooper's erection in his mouth. Listened to Cloud's breathing get more erratic as he teased and sucked, and then a sharp cry as Cloud came, clutching at the sheets. Well, at least Cloud wasn't cold anymore. Zack crawled up and put his mouth to Cloud's and sensed rather than saw Cloud's eyes go wide as he tasted his own seed. Zack nipped at Cloud's lower lip as he finished it off, felt Cloud's hands on his back as Cloud pressed their bodies closer. Zack reached for the lube and prepared Cloud with a patience he didn't feel, until Cloud was squirming under his fingers and making pleading sounds. Obligingly, Zack pulled Cloud's legs up and entered him slowly, setting a quick pace afterward. Felt Cloud's fingers scrabbling at his back, his heavy breathing, the texture of the words he didn't realize he was mouthing, and decided he wasn't cold anymore, either.
"Cloud?" "Hmm?" "I should kick you out." Cloud turned around in the bed to face Zack. "And make me get back out into the cold?" He wriggled into the sheets, drew the covers up so that Zack's shoulders were covered, at least. "I can leave in the morning. I'll wake up early so they won't know I'm gone." Zack reached out and gingerly stroked Cloud's hair. Straggly, like it had weathered a number of climates and temperatures. Zack knew he must, since Shinra troopers were sent everywhere, without regard to where they had been before. Angeal had told him of a time long past where things had been different, where Shinra soldiers were assigned specific regions and their missions appointed accordingly; this meant less sicknesses caused by a sudden shift in climate. But that all had changed with mako. SOLDIERs were injected with mako in large amounts, but it was exposed to all the troopers as well, making them more hardy, more—"durable". Angeal had told him a lot of stories like that; where the people in the military became less people and more expendable resources. Zack had, of course, not told Angeal that they were, in fact, expendable—he didn't think it had been worth a fight over. Not when Angeal sounded so…hurt when he said it. But now Zack finally understood why— "Zack?" Cloud was looking at him, curious expression in that strange, non-expressive face Cloud had. Angeal had somewhat been unreadable, too— But that hurt too much to think about. "That's fine." Zack rolled over onto his other side and pulled the covers up to his chin.
Diaryland
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