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Starting the Morning - Seraphim210

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Starting the Morning - Sephiroth and Cloud
For:  Seraphim210

The sun rose over the ShinRa tower, and the light filtered through the thin net curtains, softly laying over Sephiroth's plain white sheets.

Sephiroth stretched, his back arching, cat-like as he tried to relax.  He felt that he should have been awake hours ago, should have been busy training, busy doing exactly what it was that he had been created for.  Normally, he would have been in the gym an hour ago, exercising and training the way he had since early childhood.  But today was different.  Today was special.

Last night had been even more special.  He glanced over to his side, seeing the small cadet curled up against his side.  He raised a hand, trying to shade Cloud's eyes from the sunlight, not wanting the younger man to be awoken.  The slight movement however woke Cloud, and he stretched, wide blue eyes looking up at Sephiroth.

"Sir..." Cloud murmured, and then remembered that Sephiroth hated that when they were alone. "Sephiroth... it's early..."
"It isn't that early Cloud..." He wrapped his arms around him, holding him against his chest, a hand running down over his hip to try and calm him.  "Did you sleep well?"
"I did... did you?"
"I did." Sephiroth confirmed, not mentioning the training.  He knew Cloud couldn't stand mentions of the labs, of how Sephiroth had been created, how Hojo had taught him to work.  And he had slept well, with Cloud beside him.  Enough to compensate for the lack of training.

Cloud moved to sit up, eager lips seeking out Sephiroth's own.  
"What now?" His hands edged down Sephiroth's sides, but were stopped when Sephiroth grabbed his wrists.
"We should have breakfast." Sephiroth said simply, rubbing his thumbs over Cloud's wrists in little circles.  Cloud bit his lip.
"Do you find me attractive Seph?" He whispered, voice shaking a little as he voiced the thought that had been haunting him since he first started to flirt with the general - he had been sure Sephiroth did, but last night their sleepover had simply been cuddling, and they were both still wearing boxers.  He adored Sephiroth, desired him, and was afraid that the feeling wasn't mutual.

"I do." Sephiroth answered quickly, instantaneously.  There was a pause, before he continued. "You are very attractive.  But I want to protect you.  You had been saying you wished to sleep with me, I gave you that chance..." He frowned, glancing at their bed. "Did I do something wrong?"

Cloud laughed and cuddled him. "No... just next time I stay over, it might involve...a little more than this did.  Now, breakfast."

Sephiroth handed him a booklet of choices of food, all carefully labelled with calories, protein and fat contents.  Cloud stared at it.
"What's this?"
"You can choose what you want from there for breakfast.  I will have my normal dietary pills, and half of my normal amount of porridge as I didn't train earlier."
"That isn't breakfast!" Cloud protested, staring into Sephiroth's eyes.  "You... really believe that it is, don't you?"
Sephiroth was obviously confused by the question, nodding at him.
"Of course it is breakfast.  It is what I always have for breakfast.  The options are mainly for lunch and dinner, but I thought you might like that rather than dietary pills, because you are not used to them."

Cloud stared back at the menu, then watched as Sephiroth picked a handful of pills.  He stared down at them, and then shook his head.
"Sephiroth, I want us to have breakfast together.  Look, what do you like here?"
"I'm meant to eat 900 calories, with..." He went into a long list of dietary information.  
"Who told you that?"
"Hojo did."
"Forget..." Cloud squeezed his hand. "I know that it won't be easy, but, just for today, let's have proper food for breakfast.  We can choose food that meets your dietary requirements, or at least is close to it, but you deserve better than eating pills."

Sephiroth bit his lip, but he nodded.
"If that is what you want, then we can do that." He was clearly uncertain, but he agreed to try for Cloud's sake.  

The two of them ordered food, and shortly it arrived.  Cloud plated the food up for both of them, and sat down beside Sephiroth, resting his head on his shoulder.
"We're just going to try this today Seph, if you don't like it, I won't ask again, but I hope that maybe it might be nice to try."

"It would be..." Sephiroth nodded, beginning to eat with Cloud.  As soon as the food entered his mouth, he smiled, enjoying the taste.  They had found something quite close to the necessary mixture of proteins, fats and carbohydrates, and it certainly tasted much better than pills.

"This is good..." He nodded, leaning against Cloud.  "Thank you for suggesting it..."
"I want to take care of you Sephiroth.  There might not be much that I can do, but with food at least, I can help you." Cloud kissed his cheek, and smirked.

"I guess suggesting we go to the canteen tomorrow would be too much to ask?"
"I think it would.  But we'll train today, and this evening we'll spend time together the way you want to, and tomorrow morning, maybe we can try and make some breakfast together... would you like that?"

Cloud grinned.
"Sound's great.  I make an awesome sausage omelette."
Very late contest prize for the amazing *Seraphim210 for her entry in the :iconff7-pairings-fanclub: contest - she asked for Seph and Cloud having breakfast, so here we go!

Cloud and Sephiroth are (c) Square Enix
Thanks to *ShadowHaloedAngel for proofreading again!
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Vinvalenwind's avatar
Oh, bless them! This is one of the reasons I love this pairing so much...especially the way you've written them here...both so protective of each other! Beautifully done! :heart: