(i will have you know that zack is a name impossible to feminize yet leave recognizable. yet it wasn't given out of symbolism -- her parents likely knew they were naming a girl! so I have decided that Zack-girl's real name is Jackeline, and she hates it with the fire of a thousand suns.) ---
"You want to have sex?" Gray brows furrowed, he looked the picture of puzzled annoyance. "Why didn't you say so? I seem to remember you being fully able to make yourself understood on that topic in the field. Mostly by barging in my shower stall and offering to wash my rear end for me."
Groaning, Zack slumped in her chair. All that gorgeous innuendo, wasted. She sneaked Aeris a glance and they both started giggling like mad.
"Oh god, Seph. We were --" It was hard to speak and giggle both, but she managed to choke the words out somehow. "We were flirting all day..."
"Should I have taken you seriously? I thought your relationship with miss Gainsborough was exclusive."
Zack's hilarity died down, replaced with a softer, more melancholy sort of feeling. Yearning. She wanted this man, who amongst his many, many bouts of social weirdness, would not even think briefly that two bisexual girls together might merely be decoratively passing the time. "It's... not casual, no," she said.
But she didn't want it to be casual with him either.
Aeris smiled, with dimples, and reached over the table to take her hand for support. "It's mostly exclusive in the sense that we're both really, really picky."
Sephiroth gave a slow, wary blink. Zack smothered a snicker in her hand.
"And I have been... picked."
"Yep."
"Should I feel flattered?" he asked, an eyebrow arched high and immensely doubtful.
"That'd be nice," Zack replied drolly, "but not necessary." Ah well, flirting was fun, but it was still a way not to commit. She looked at Aeris; who gave her a little nod, 'it's still fine, go ahead'. "We want to have sex with you. But not only that. It wouldn't be Zack-and-Aeris, plus Sephiroth sometimes in bed. It'd be... Zack-and-Aeris-And-Sephiroth. Or at least Zack-Aeris, Zack-Sephiroth. I dunno. Depends on what you want. What do you think?"
"I prefered it when it was merely juvenile innuendo," he replied, and he didn't sound sarcastic, he sounded subdued. "This is... not an easy question."
"There, there, we won't ride you to exhaustion," Aeris teased, but so gently it was clear as day what she meant; 'we'll be careful with you'.
She reached across polished wood and took his hand too. He stared at it for a long time, but he didn't pull free.
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"You want to have sex?" Gray brows furrowed, he looked the picture of puzzled annoyance. "Why didn't you say so? I seem to remember you being fully able to make yourself understood on that topic in the field. Mostly by barging in my shower stall and offering to wash my rear end for me."
Groaning, Zack slumped in her chair. All that gorgeous innuendo, wasted. She sneaked Aeris a glance and they both started giggling like mad.
"Oh god, Seph. We were --" It was hard to speak and giggle both, but she managed to choke the words out somehow. "We were flirting all day..."
"Should I have taken you seriously? I thought your relationship with miss Gainsborough was exclusive."
Zack's hilarity died down, replaced with a softer, more melancholy sort of feeling. Yearning. She wanted this man, who amongst his many, many bouts of social weirdness, would not even think briefly that two bisexual girls together might merely be decoratively passing the time. "It's... not casual, no," she said.
But she didn't want it to be casual with him either.
Aeris smiled, with dimples, and reached over the table to take her hand for support. "It's mostly exclusive in the sense that we're both really, really picky."
Sephiroth gave a slow, wary blink. Zack smothered a snicker in her hand.
"And I have been... picked."
"Yep."
"Should I feel flattered?" he asked, an eyebrow arched high and immensely doubtful.
"That'd be nice," Zack replied drolly, "but not necessary." Ah well, flirting was fun, but it was still a way not to commit. She looked at Aeris; who gave her a little nod, 'it's still fine, go ahead'. "We want to have sex with you. But not only that. It wouldn't be Zack-and-Aeris, plus Sephiroth sometimes in bed. It'd be... Zack-and-Aeris-And-Sephiroth. Or at least Zack-Aeris, Zack-Sephiroth. I dunno. Depends on what you want. What do you think?"
"I prefered it when it was merely juvenile innuendo," he replied, and he didn't sound sarcastic, he sounded subdued. "This is... not an easy question."
"There, there, we won't ride you to exhaustion," Aeris teased, but so gently it was clear as day what she meant; 'we'll be careful with you'.
She reached across polished wood and took his hand too. He stared at it for a long time, but he didn't pull free.