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Don say the bed and felt her cheeks burn slightly. Wowza. Was this for Angeal's use or was this purely on accident? Awkward. She wasn't sure what to even say right now besides to stare at it. She wanted to do one of two things. Either compliment the idea that yes, it was a nice bed and shouldn't go to use or to do something wild and crazy like shout 'kinky!' and jump on it.

Don decided being subtle would possibly work better. Genesis was so scared of ever thinking or mentioning sex as it seemed..

Down the path she went before she neatly sat down and her eyes went over to him, "Come join me, it's nice. It's actually really comfortable." Yeah. Pretend like it's just a big, comfy chair or something.

Don kicked her shoes off to swing her legs up and she laid back in the pillows. Oh baby, these were realllllly nice. "I could get used to this."


Angeal watched as the bottom came closer and the chocobo took another bounding leap until finding its path back on flatter grounds. It swept into another wonderful valley and Angeal moved his hand so he could rub Death's momentarily, "We're at another place it seems..." He got off and helped her down. They arrived at an interesting place made of stones, piled into a nice looking little castle area. "Are you hungry or thirsty?" As a big guy he had a big appetite. Though he never ate as much as Sephiroth did. That guy was insane when it came to food. Genesis and him always made fun of the guy for his eating habits, but it wasn't like Angeal was that much better.

What could he say, he did a lot he needed to eat a lot!

Don thought about punching him in the kidney, just to see how he would react, but decided not to. He'd probably kill her and leave her there.

"Does it really matter? We either use it or we don't. If he didn't want us going this way or finding this spot, he probably would have given us a heads up. Or at least you a heads up about it. Besides, if he did plan it for us that would mean he would have had to push us toward this way, because it wouldn't seem like such a thing would happen on mere coincidence if he planned it this way."

She moved up and grabbed onto his shoulders, kneading his muscles gently. "I don't see what's so awkward about a bed." It's what was characterized with a bed that could make things awkward.


Angeal shook his head at her words. "No, you're fine. Everyone has their moments." She was never a ditz before, it was probably just the shake of the chocobo ride that got to her. "Let's go inside, all right? You can sit down and rest a bit, I'm sure the ride was quite the new experience."

She could jump waterfalls, but chocobo rides seemed a bit on the frightening side it seem. Not that he cared, it was nice to know what she liked and might not like.


The following day Sephiroth snapped to attention when he heard the doorknob open. Who was it? What time was it? Had he overslept? His eyes dashed over toward the clock before resting back toward the door as Angeal finally appeared. It was already the next day and he was returning now? "Where have you been?"

Angeal was in a pretty good daze, like things had gone wonderfully for him. He almost didn't catch Sephiroth's words, but he snapped back to it. He had just said goodbye to Death after they had quite the lovely date, especially sleeping in the beautiful world he had created. He really never wanted to leave, but all good things had some type of ending.

"On a date, I told you that." He moved toward the bathroom and watched as Sephiroth had followed him. "I don't need help, but thanks for the offer."

"No, I need to talk to you."

Angeal stared at him, "Right now? Is it really that important?" He testily leaned against the counter of the sink wondering what Sephiroth had to say.

"Yes it's important, I wouldn't bug you otherwise. Look, let's not argue. While you were gone last night Xemnas revealed...some untangible plot to hurt and kill everyone in this building that he didn't like." He noticed the look on Angeal's face growing skeptical. "He used Vilt against me, look," Sephiroth brandished the bruises. "Xemnas said he'd cause Darkness to lose all sense of himself and then would use the boy against all of us so he could...do as he pleased." He could tell what Angeal was going to say to him.

The man shook his head, "Sephiroth, I think you didn't get enough sleep last night. You're dreaming. And I'm not sure where you got the bruise, but you should just put some ice on it and it'll be fine."

Sephiroth glared, "If you were here last night you would have known I'm telling the truth! You're just too caught up in your ridiculous fantasies about marrying some woman to focus on what's important."

Angeal snapped at him, "What's important? Oh please, don't tell me my entire life is meant to keep my eyes on you. Sephiroth, get a grip. You're pining for attention. I know you're used to Genesis and myself focusing around you, but you need to understand we have our own lives as well."

Sephiroth felt irked that he said that. He wasn't doing this for attention. What the hell happened to Angeal? "You always told me that your friends were the most important thing to you. Death, Genesis, and Don obviously seem like top contendors, but I don't make the list, do I?"

Angeal pushed Sephiroth from the bathroom, "Go play father. I'm not in the mood to talk to you right now." He closed the door before Sephiroth could say anything else.

Go play father....

Sephiroth left the room pretty upset. Angeal never seemed that rude to him before...

As his long strides took him down the hallway he found Meona sitting on the steps waiting for him. "What? Why aren't you in bed?"

She was getting better and better at escaping her crib. She stood up, better than she ever had before, and reached her hands out to him. "Hi daddy."

He wondered if maybe Swan was awake. Or what if this was some sort of...trap set up by the others? He picked her up and winced as his ribs shifted uncomfortably. "Let's go...see if your brother's are up."

Vilt watched from the shadows before he moved off to Davien's room. He found Lina and him sleeping in there, but he easily picked up the sleeping boy and carried him out. He plopped him down in a chair in his room and slapped the boy harshly awake. "Good morning." He pulled out a small box he was carrying and opened it up, "Hey Davien, we haven't had a party in a long time."

That was the weirdest way to wake up. How long had he been sitting here? He stared at the offering and felt the craving start to skyrocket. His fingers twitched and his mouth watered, his nose burned as it took in the light scent coming from the box. "I-I-I can't, Vilt, I've got to be faithful to Lina. She's got my kid and everything and....well...I just don't--" He felt Vilt hit him hard with the box and he fell onto the ground. Blood started to string itself up on the new cut he just received. His heart started to pound in his chest. His eyes whirled toward Vilt, "V-Vilt..."

Vilt stood over him with a needle in his hand, "I have a present for you....and it's something very very toxic. When it goes into your system, it's just like getting high...except you'll never be able to escape the delirium. You'll be sent into paranoia after awhile, so scared of what's going on around you. I won't be surprised if your body shuts down afterward...but hey, it's all in the name of what your father wants for you..."

Davien's eyes grew wide with fear, he tried to move, to escape, to turn invisible.....


Darkness moved his way to the living room to read for awhile until his father and brothers got up. But he was soon interrupted by BAI. He gave her a friendly smile, but did not say anything until she spoke first.

"So....you like her..." BAI remarked, sitting down right beside him. She gave him a gentle nudge, smile spreading onto her face. "You like her a lot, and she likes you a lot. Such sweet, innocent love...." She leaned into him, "And you know, it can be so tainted...and so painful."

"I...don't understand what you mean?"

"Well..you should try and kiss her, try and find out what it's like to be a real couple. Just a kiss, it doesn't have to be anything big. And a sweet girl like that would love something so simple." She gave him another nudge, as if to prompt him to get up and do it. "Think of how nice it will feel to wake up knowing someone loves you, instead of falling asleep each night wondering if you should leave this world because not a person in the place understands you."

She had talked about leaving. Would Atheta actually make such a move? He...hoped she wouldn't. Maybe BAI was right? A small kiss could easily be made up for if she didn't like it. "Welll...I..."

"You should do it before your dad wakes up. You've got freedom right now...."

And why not? She did mean a lot to him. It was moving a bit quick but...one small kiss didn't mean the entire world....

He got up and went to Atheta's room, finding her still asleep in bed. He felt rather riled up, his heart beating harder and harder. Why did he listen to BAI? But then again, he was always thinking of those things...

He approached the side of her bed and gently sat down on the edge, turning her head slightly to face him. She looked like an angel while she slept, so peaceful and dream-like....

His eyes concentrated on those lips and hoped that, if she awoke, she would kiss back and enjoy it. Besides, it'd be the first time he'd ever kiss a girl like her. Ixas was...was nothing in comparison...

He bent forward, lips close to hers....

Then he felt as if a force had rendered his entire body useless. He had closed his eyes when the power had struck him, and when he opened them back up he was smashed against her wall, her window broken by his impact. Darkness felt himself fall into the dark state of his mind, as her light force was sending the dark powers back into where they belonged. Far away from her.

He was floating in that never-ending pool of emptiness, feeling like he could never open his eyes. And his heart, he could feel it physically. His chest felt like it was pried open, and his heart was beating like mad, but it continued to slow down.

I think I'm losing it...

When his eyes opened back to the room he could sense only that the side of the room she was on was blinding white, it burned his eyes and he had to close them again. And himself, when he caught but a glimpse. The blackest smog that he had ever seen, and his chest, for some reason now exposed, was smoking black. It hurt. It felt like she scorched his chest. Maybe...that's what heartache was?

He felt himself slipping out of consciousness again, if he had ever actually been awake, and found Ansem in his presence.

"What's going on?"

The sneering figure could only but laugh. "Her purest powers against your darker ones. What do you think happen?"

Darkness shook his head, "No, I...I don't understand."

"You try to dwell within the realm of normalty, you try and push the darkness away by acting with emotions and letting it run wild...but you see, when you try and play around with the light, it will take all that darkness within you...and press it so hard into one, small, compressed place. Don't you see? Her blinding purity, her virginal light brightened the entire area and casted your shadow into the place of your heart. Your heart will disappear, your darkness will take over....and you'll realize what a fool you've been for trying to push it away for so long."

Darkness stared at him in horror. No, it couldn't be...


Saix came busting into Atheta's room. He had heard the shattering of glass and screams. He wasn't sure what was going on, but by the time he entered Darkness was on the floor completely out. He grabbed up his boy, feeling the stings of the darkness burn him. "Darkness! Darkness, wake up!" His eyes turned to Atheta, "What happened? What did you do?" He had felt the surge of the dark aura in his sleep, and that violent tremor when the noise of the window had broken. He wasn't expecting something like that to wake him up...and to actually be real...

Darkness coughed slightly and tried to rise up again, this time the area normal and Saix was holding onto him. Though he felt...sluggish almost. So...tired, in a sense. "D-Dad?" He called out, eyes hardly opening to him.

Saix felt relieved. He was moving..."Darkness, it's me, are you okay? Keep talking to me."

Don woke since she was a light sleeper, but didn't move as she felt that someone was obviously on top of her, inbetween her legs, and was moaning and saying dirty things in her ear. She opened an eye and realized that yes, it was indeed Genesis. Quicky she wrapped her legs around him tightly and nipped the side of Genesis's neck. See who could freak who out. "Heeeey baby, you should wait until I'm awake to get started!"


Entity pulled himself up from Marluxia's bed, eyes glowing practically as he wondered what he should be doing right now. His attention was brought to Marluxia's exposed skin and he pulled himself away, slipping on his clothes.

He moved out of the room and toward Swan's, feeling that she was awake. He stared in at her. "Good morning, sister."


Sephiroth felt the immense shock as well and he took refuge in the boy's room, seeing that both were now wide awake. He could see that Emerot was terrified of what was happening while Rathe looked rather normal. "Something odd is happening out there," Sephiroth remarked to Rathe.

"I know," Rathe replied coolly. "I can feel the darkness. I...can control all of it as well. But I don't see why I should...it's never benefited me any..."

Xemnas had came into the room then and closed the door, "I knew you'd be in here." He smirked and looked down at Rathe before turning his eyes to Sephiroth. "Good...it's like everything is working wonderfully." He strode forth and turned his eyes down to Rathe, "Rathe...you can sense Darkness, can't you?"

Rathe nodded, "He's fading fast, the power is taking him in."

"Excellent. Now...remember what I told you...how you'd get rewarded for participating? Well, what I need you to do is to take that power and make it engulf him completely."

Sephiroth stood there with Meona in his arms. What...could he even do? One false move and someone could get hurt...

"What about the others?"

Xemnas was caught by this. "Others?"

"I feel them. There's others...who are dwelling in the darkness."

"Hmm....we'll deal with them in a minute. Focus on Darkness for now."

Emerot scooted from his bed over to Sephiroth, grabbing his feathers tightly and trying to hide as Xemnas manipulated Rathe into doing his dirty work.


Vilt had dumped Davien into his room, dropping the needle into the boy's hand. "And let it play out, the very enduring drama of your life. When she loses her temper and gets rid of you for someone much better. And you'll never be able to tell her you want her back, because you're so dreary and lost in your new state of mind." He moved out, feeling as if sweet revenge never tasted this good.

But Davien could hardly understand any of it. He wrestled with trying to get up and tried talking, or anything, but it was just a blur and unknown garble that existed his mouth. He fell to the ground and dizzily tried to get up, but he felt really tired.


Saix stared at Atheta. Kissed...her? His attention went back to Darkness. "How could a kiss..."

"Well isn't it obvious?" BAI remarked from the doorway. "She's light, he's dark, she pushes him away, and his mind slips." BAI gave a small smile, "It's interesting to watch him fade so quickly, those beautiful emotions, now becoming a hardened, angry shell."

Saix snapped at her, "Shut up you wench! You probably influenced him to act so irrationally! You're a damn monster!"

BAI nodded, "I am, indeed." She walked off, like it was nothing.

Saix shook Darkness as the boy was in and out, "Come on, Darkness, don't give in like this...."

But he kept losing him. In and out, losing fragments of it all. And then he opened his eyes and it'd start all over. It was one last hard shake from Saix that he jerked into the world around him, and soon the place started to ooze into a darker setting aside from the place around Atheta. He rose up, pushing Saix off of him, and straightened his clothes that had changed themselves. His blazing orange eyes looked icy and lost, but had that powerful air. He held up his hand and Saix rose up like a puppet. "Well hello, Saix, it's such a delight to meet you like this..." He moved forward and Saix moved a step back forcibly. "I've been waiting for a long time to be set free like this...and who would have thought it'd take a measly kiss from that mediocre daughter of that foul woman Thetic? Hmm..." Darkness touched his lips and smirked, "Though, a delight to feel such a shock, I never felt anything like that before. Very satisfying..."

Saix stared at Darkness. He couldn't even tell if his son was in there anymore or not....

Don twitched slightly at the touch on her side, how sensitive and ticklish that felt, but she enjoyed the challenge. Challenges were good, it meant strengthening a friendship. Or just pissing someone off big time. "Good question," she asked, now that her hands were free she quickly brushed down his sides as well, and then grabbed at the front of his pants. "I wonder who will chicken out first. Me...or you?" She tugged on his belt to loosen it, hard enough as it was since he was on her.


Entity turned his eyes toward the hallway, "I think...we should start making things more exciting." His hand went up and the doors and rooms all started to shift madly.

Roxas heard the building start to shudder and he began to open the doors madly, but each one was just a wall behind it. "What's going on?!"

Asi stepped away from the doors thinking they were going to swallow them up or something. "Doesn't Entity have kooky powers with doors and s**t?"

Oh god. "Entity....oh boy." He kept opening doors to try and find anyone, but he couldn't. "They have to be here somewhere!"


Davien was trying to get up, to stop them. He wanted to talk, to straighten it out, to explain, but he couldn't. He laid there writhing about lost in his world...


Darkness glared at Atheta, prepared to destroy her, but he felt something odd....

Right before Saix and Atheta they could see almost...a split down the middle of Darkness. One side the person they knew, the other the dark aura of Ansem and the others he had absorbed.

The room started to shake, the blast of his splitting abilities taking a toll onto the building. He let out a powerful scream, and everything went into darkness.

Saix tried to struggle to stay into the light, but found he couldn't, and when he opened his eyes he could see fragments of his son before him.

"Darkness!"

Darkness looked at him pitifully and shook his head, "You'll have to fix all of this....without me."

The entire world was blackened....


Don had blinked and felt as if she was getting major vertigo.....but when she opened her eyes everything was....dark....

Color rushed in suddenly and she took a moment to figure out what she was doing. She was in bed....but not the one she was just in. Her eyes moved over the place and found she was...using Angeal as a pillow? Why was his shirt off? Her eyes moved and found Sephiroth against her side, Genesis on her other side, and Xemnas positioned over her.

She ******** belted a scream and scrambled to sit up. Hollllly ********. She noticed she was at least in her underwear, but...STILL. "What's going on???"

Sephiroth wished he knew. One minute...he was clinging to his daughter and Emerot listening to Xemnas's wicked plans, and then it was complete darkness until...now. He sat up and brushed himself off slightly, wondering where most of his clothes were. He didn't like being this naked in front of this many people.

Of course, Angeal let out a 'What the hell??' as well as he moved to make sure he was wearing something. "Why are we all in bed together?" Awkward question. "I mean, how?"

Don was still spazzing s**t and she scrambled over Sephiroth and tried to cover herself with her hands, even though she was in underwear still. She felt super naked right now. "Stop staring at me!!" She shouted at Sephiroth who had just been practically molested by her.

"Stop yelling and no one would look at you," Sephiroth growled, though really had no comeback to why he was looking. Probably better then focusing on the others around him. He got up and watched as Angeal abandoned his spot just as quickly. "How did we get here? We were dealing with....mass destruction not too long ago." Or whatever was happening.

"I think...I remember this, actually..." Xemnas was still in bed, since it was his, and he nodded. "Right. This was the night that...." He looked around at the others before stopping his eyes on Don. "That Adonia was conceived."

Don stared at him in disbelief. "Please....tell me that you know...this is the point in time AFTER the whole...sex fest...." Since she remembered hearing about it from someone in the group.

Xemnas looked at the time. "No, it just started."

Angeal shook his head, "Wait, Adonia came from Genesis and Don. Why are we all here?" Since the three others didn't get that side of the story.

"The other Don was somewhat...of a whore. She slept with all of us the night that Adonia was conceived, and then the day that Adonia was born she revealed to us that it was Genesis's child."

Don frowned and glanced at Genesis and then quickly away. Awkward. "Um...oh. Well..."

Sephiroth had found his pants and was putting them on, glad to get out of it all. "So in order for Adonia to live, Genesis and Don have to actually have sex together." His eyes went over to Genesis, "You two wouldn't want to take away Adonia's chance to live by saying no....would you?"

"Very true...you'd have to get pregnant since the other Don doesn't seem to be here, otherwise you wouldn't be in this position. But before we get in on that, why warped to this very time? Does anyone know?" The looks were clueless. "We should discuss with anyone else we find. It's important. Besides, Don and Genesis don't start on each other until a whole half hour from now. You have some time."

"I vote we go back, that sounds like a plan," Don remarked. "Let's find someone who can jump back to our time and this wouldn't be a problem."

"Hopefully we can do that..." he didn't want to live in this unstable era.

"What...exactly was going on back in the castle? I was um...asleep during the commotion..." Don lied.

Xemnas smirked at her, "Well..."

"Xemnas went insane, tried to take over the group through Darkness, and now we're here. Needless to say, I think Xemnas failed, and if this is a pasttime from Xemnas's group, then clearly Darkness wouldn't be the right age anymore for world domination. Meaning we should all kill Xemnas and this problem would cease to exist." Sephiroth blatantly remarked.

Xemnas rose up finally and shook his head, "If this for real, and we're stuck in the past with Darkness as a young boy...we'll never get back. He never had powers when he was younger."

Don's face fell, "Oh s**t." She searched the floor for her clothes. She wanted to go talk to everyone. Maybe if they left the room they'd be back in their normal place??


While this was going on, Marluxia was thrown out of his sleep and into a different room. He was standing at the end of a bed, almost evilly staring down at his prey, but the dark feeling seemed to simmer and he noticed Death was there before him. He had his hands on her legs to pin them down, and had her splayed open, but it seemed he hadn't done anything yet. It took a long while for him to register where he was and what his intentions were. When he let go of her he noticed he wasn't wearing clothes. What. The. Hell. He covered himself and felt somewhat embarrassed. "S-Sorry?" What was going on?

And Saix was on the floor in a different room. He felt dizzy and nauseated. But when he looked at the place he saw the claw marks, the broken items around him, the children's books....

It was familiar.

Only...he could solve it? Darkness....

He rose up and opened the door and went into the one across the hallway, seeing Marluxia naked and Death on the bed. He didn't remember this, but his eyes spotted the claw marks on the surrounding items as well, and the flowery vines that covered the place.

Wait....maybe he did....something familiar...

"We're...in the past?"

Marluxia felt even more embarrassed and awkward that Saix would burst in like that. Hello, shut the door he was naked. He found a blanket on a chair and he covered himself up quickly, "What's going on?"

"D-Darkness..." Saix whispered and then left the room without saying anything and moved down the hallway. All of it familiar. He opened the door and saw Darkness snuggled in bed, sleeping soundly. He was a small child with big chubby cheeks and a large stuffed animal cuddling into him.

He closed the door and opened Lina's. Cute little girl completely passed out in bed. He opened one more and found Veziell inside. All tiny and cute-looking.

He felt completely stumped until he saw the group leaving Xemnas's room looking embarrassed and awkward.

And then it made sense.

"Evante....Adonia.." He opened the rooms that they were supposed to be in, but found that they were just play rooms for now. They...weren't existing yet.

Don stared at Saix and had a bad feeling about this. "Do...you know what happened?"

Saix nodded. "Darkness sent us back....so we could fix him and all of our problems."

Don didn't know what to even say anymore. Genesis and everyone else pretty much made her speechless. It took her awhile before she turned to Genesis to say what was on her mind. "Uncomfortable or not, Adonia has to live, we can't just say no to her existence." Though giving herself up like that felt weird. She didn't know if they were poisonous or not. Didn't they produce a weird...smell kind of from the poison? She sniffed her hand and her hair to see if she could find that scent there.

Marluxia had came out after covering himself up pretty well. "So if we're stuck here...we have to make sure our kids are still born, but at least raised properly..."

Don looked over at Marluxia curiously, "What if...we were sent back so those kids weren't born? Because of all the problems it caused for their parents?"

Saix snapped at her, "I'm not going to let Siot and Evante be wiped away from me like that. Darkness would have never meant to do this. He simply wanted us to fix things and let the kids live better lives, and to let him grow up without that dark and evil influence. We can't time travel so we'll never leave this place. We have no portals and no cards to work with, and a new building altogether. That means we can't jump and ******** everyone up."

Don fell silent after that.

"But...is tonight the night that...you know...." he nodded at the two girls. "They get knocked up? Are we going to actually do that?"

"I could care less about us being stuck here in the past, but I am not going to go through life without Evante. He meant too much to me, I can't let this minor screw-up mean his existence was nothing."

Angeal gave a small nod, "They...still deserve to live." His eyes went to Don and then Death. Oh Death, what problems this could come to. What of their growing relationship? Could it still work even with this newfound problem? "But...can this really be forced on the girls?"

Don spoke up again, "Well...I wouldn't call it force. As frightening as this may be, I'm not going to be selfish and just...put myself before Adonia's existence. I'll...go through it because...without her things would seem too boring and lost." Oh god. Sacrificing self again. She needed to stop doing this.

Saix was surprised that Don would go ahead with it like that. No time to even work around it. They were limited. Things had to happen soon. His eyes turned to Death. "What about you?" Was she willing to go through with making Evante live again?

Sephiroth felt somewhat....lost. Not in the subject, but lost at heart. Emerot and Meona....were no longer in the picture. He wasn't a father to anyone anymore...

Besides Rathe. Rathe, was he alive right now? His eyes turned to Xemnas who seemed almost...amused by the happenings. "Xemnas, has Rathe been born yet?"

"Oh yes...Rathe." Xemnas looked over toward the basement door. "Xehanort had created that underground system where he kept Thetic, remember?" He recalled to them. "And he was going to take over all of us, and wanted to use Rathe's powers to kill us or something. That's when he started to time jump. But we didn't find out until a few years from now."

Angeal wasn't surprised to hear that Xehanort wanted to take over the group. Did anyone ever NOT do that?

Sephiroth went to the basement door and opened it up, moving down it quickly to see where the boy was at. He grappled around, but had found the secret entrance and had gone in quietly. He heard some crying and he turned on the light to see better. The boy was on a mattress that was situated in the corner of the room, crying softly. There was an empty spot beside him, where Xehanort probably used to lie beside him for comfort. "Rathe..."

Rathe stared at him wondering who he was. He had never seen him before. "Daddy...gone..." he mumbled gently, being so young he hardly had been speaking yet.

Sephiroth bent down and picked him up and out of the shabby bed and blanket, seeing his clothes weren't anything special. Just hand-me-downs that were probably stolen from the kids upstairs. If he hadn't thought of Rathe....the boy would have starved and died down here, alone.

That really upset him. "It's okay....I'm here." He wiped away at Rathe's blotty cheeks that were covered in tears. The boy was so plain. He wasn't unique like all the other kids. His hair and eyes just seemed normal, nothing overly attractive on him. He had never thought about why everyone forgot about him. But it seemed he now knew why. All the normal looking kids were pushed away. Atheta had that problem, hadn't she? Now Rathe...

He brought the boy back upstairs from the barren and empty underground world.

Asi stared at the young Rathe. No one had ever seen Rathe when he was a baby, more closely to when he was around 4 or 5. It was odd to see him so defenseless and scared. "Whoa...they really did raise him down there."

BAI glanced at the tiny figure that looked so startled at the sight of so many people. "It seems in poor conditions, too. He looks to be somewhat malnourished. He's probably never seen the sun as of yet. And from the looks of it, living off of someone else's personal items," she noted the clothing, the shirt seemed to be well-worn.

"Good thing Sephiroth remembered, huh?" Roxas muttered, but then frowned. "Wait. What of Swan and Entity?" Were they living with them at this point in time?

Don thought over the circumstances before grabbing Genesis, "Dude, I've had sex before, I think I can handle this." Yeah. She had a husband at one point. She pulled him back into the room, not caring that it was Xemnas's, and closed it. "Okay. Even if we've only been on one, awkward date, I'm sure this will go over really easily." Yeah. Make light of it like this was just...something you did every day. She threw down the blanket and reached back to undo her bra and then stopped, "Do you just want to have sex quickly or do you want a full experience? I mean, I don't exactly know what YOU are comfortable with. Though I mean, I don't know how long we are together in order for Adonia to you know...make her travel to me." What a way to put it. "Do you need help getting it up?" Hahaha. Ah.


Marluxia looked as Death nodded, though rather spacey and not completely there. Damn, he felt so bad...

"Um...I don't remember when exactly the pregnancy came around, because I was...having sex with her this entire week," he muttered, but Eseril came out then and he shut up. He calmly pulled Death to the side and looked at her long and hard, "Death....I really appreciate you doing this, and while this is going on I know it'll be...really uncomfortable and not what you want at all, I can imagine, but I will fully support you through...all of it. I promise. If you grow attached to Evante, which I...think you will, then you can be a big part of his life. In a sense, the other Death and I had a mutual relationship like that, though...she hated me more and things were far more complicated. We can at least make things right for Evante." Which he wanted to do for such a long time. He looked at the time. "We should....start soon."


Xemnas almost responded to Eseril but remembered....she wasn't his daughter at this point. His eyes went to Saix harshly. Saix...had the realm over her, not him.

Saix saw the look and quickly snapped his attention to her. Right. Eseril. Oh man how he missed her and Davien. "Hey," he picked her up and brought her back into the room, "A bad dream huh? Well I can make that all better." She'd probably be surprised that he wasn't...beastly anymore.


Rathe looked around at everyone before shyly turning his attention to Sephiroth. "W-Where....daddy?"

"Your dad is...." what happened to Xehanort, really? What to say? "Your dad isn't here..."

"Where?"

"Someplace....far away."

Rathe pouted a bit, "Oh." His dad always left during the day. But....never at night. Far away? "Who...are you?"

"I'm Sephiroth." He thought quickly about what else to say. "Your dad didn't want you to be all alone while he was gone...so we're here to take care of you."

Rathe looked at the group and saw Eseril before Saix had taken her away. Was....that another...child? Like him? He had never seen someone his size before....ever. Then again, he had never seen this many people. "Tired," he muttered into Sephiroth's neck as he tried to hide away from everyone. Though, it didn't seem like anyone was really paying attention to him anyway.

Sephiroth wanted to go to his room but didn't know where his other self had lived. He turned to Xemnas, "Where's my room?"

Xemnas smirked at him, "You and I shared a room, we were a couple." His eyes turned to the door. "Though it seems its...being occupied." He turned down the hall and waved for Sephiroth to follow. "This was your room, but it's not very well kept. But considering Don and Genesis will be at it for awhile..."

Sephiroth glared at him, "You can't really expect me to stay with you. I'm not....him."

"Everyone knew we're together. If we split up it'll cause quite the commotion amongst the kids. Even Vilt."

Sephiroth set the boy exhausted boy into the bed and he turned his eyes to Xemnas. "Vilt. He's here, too? Where?"

"I think his room was further down this hallway. You know, he'll think your his father...."

That was right...he was a father to Vilt and Anzio in this world. That felt odd to be stuck in that situation...but he could make things so perfect for these kids....

He noticed Rathe had instantly passed out and he moved to find Vilt's room. When he opened the door he found the boy reading something with Davien out of a magazine. "Vilt...Davien." Vilt looked so normal, so....like him. His striking blue eyes looked so brilliant and happy. And Davien didn't look twisted and drugged up. He had a boyish tinge to him. As Davien landed eyes on Sephiroth, though, he looked away shyly.

Vilt stared at Sephiroth wondering what he wanted. "Yeah?"

What...to say? "I...wanted to know how you were?"

Vilt thought it over before shrugging, "Pretty good." He then got some weird thought in his head. "Today I ate 6 huge meals. I mean huge. Davien watched me. You should've seen it, it was cool."

Holy s**t he was stupid. He thought it was an exaggeration on Swan's part, but...no. Clearly all brain particles were lost in the other Sephiroth's children. "Oh. Well, nothing bad about a large appetite." He had one...

Vilt stood up and went over to him, though he was still a few inches short. "See? All this eating is making me taller. Soon I'll pass you. But don't tell Genesis, because he's short and he doesn't like that."

Right. Vilt was raised by Genesis in this era. "Of course. But perhaps we can make fun of him behind his back?"

Vilt smiled, "When don't we?" His eyes spotted Xemnas and then he wondered if Davien was in trouble. "Soooo did you two come here to talk to Davien?"

Davien saw them and panicked, "I-I...I didn't do anything. Okay I ate some of that cake that Don made, but she said I could have a piece, so I didn't actually steal anything this time, which is what you were expecting, which is...totally not what I did." He took a breath. He bashfully turned his eyes away.

"No no, we're not here to attack either of you. Just seeing your faces before we go to bed, hmm?"

Davien thought about the 'bed' term and then winced slightly, "Oh. Um...Have fun." He hesitated. "I didn't mean that in a bad way, I just meant...sleeping. Yeah."

Wow. Davien did know about it. Awkward. "Um...actually, you know....your....father needs to stay in your room for the night. Because. I...found something that needs my support right now." Really really weird way to put it. "A baby." Yeah, put it like that.

Vilt's eyes widened, "You...found a baby?"

"Yes. It's Xehanort and Thetic's but...they are both dead so, I'm dutifully taking him in under my wing."

Vilt was surprised and then felt a bit hurt. Why Rathe and not him? "Oh...that's...cool. I mean, I didn't think you liked kids."

Oh shoot, the other Sephiroth was a pansy with kids. Great. "I...had an epiphany...and realized my mistakes. I want to make up for them, and I want to make up for my lack of interest for caring." Wasn't even him and he had to apologize. Jeez. "I don't want you to grow up bitter and hateful because of me. If...you can forgive me, I'd like to be your father, one that you've really wanted."

Vilt felt somewhat...surprised. Was it a ruse? "If you really mean it then...yeah I'd like that."

Davien didn't know what was going on. This was weird. Sephiroth was never THIS nice. Was he planning something?

Don grabbed the front of Genesis's pants, getting some deja vu at this point, while she listened to him remark about her being 'the one.' She doubted she was ever 'the one' for anyone...human. It just seemed like her fate to never get what she was supposed to have. And in all actuality, Adonia was still not their's and their's all at the same time. It felt weird. "Well...guess we'll have to test that theory..." she remarked after the kiss. She brought him over to the bed and got down on it, pulling him on top of her.


Marluxia listened to her panic about every little detail. He was rather surprised. "It was only at night, and positions won't matter. It's all...the same stuff, just..." He wondered how to explain it all but felt like he couldn't. She'd just get freaked out more if he did say anything beyond that. He brought her back into the room and glanced at the time again. "Just...get comfortable as best as you can. If you're embarrassed or anything we can do it in the dark." Meaning if she was giving him faces of disgust or fright he obviously wouldn't see it. "You could probably keep your nightgown on if that would suit you." Okay. Everything was all good. He'd get his son back in 9 months. Right.


Angeal looked at Zexion wondering what the hell brought that on. "Hard to say, those two were snapping at each other on the date, then flirting jokingly. Or at least Don was, more in a taunting manner." As things seemed to split off and their topic turned to the meeting of discussing how the kids will be split up, Angeal found it a very good idea, and soon the group gathered into one of the living rooms. They were seated in a circle so they could all outwardly discuss everything.

"The other Angeal's kids were Atheta and he was taking care of Anzio."

Saix nodded, "Right. I think Angeal raised those two well, and he did quite a small portion of it without Thetic around. You could definitely take care of them, if you are willing to take them in."

Angeal nodded, "I wouldn't mind."

"Rathe's Xehanort and Thetic's child, but obviously neither are there," Sephiroth remarked.

Roxas nodded, "Right. The only people who took care of him were Sephiroth and Swan. So...I mean, considering you're much nicer and better than the last Sephiroth, I bet you could take care of him. Besides, you were doing pretty well with him before we got warped back here."

Angeal nodded, "Right. What of Vilt? Would you take him in as well?"

"He's attached to Genesis in a way, but I don't think Genesis will know what to do with someone that age. I'll keep an eye on him."

Saix thought about the next group of kids. Davien and Eseril. He didn't want to say it but... "I think I should take care of Eseril and Davien." He glanced at Xemnas to see his friend's expression. Pained. He was expecting that. "Eseril still likes me, and Davien so far has only been exposed to you and Sephiroth as...lovers for awhile. For their sanity and their ability to grow up not being...whore-ish or drug addicts, I think it'd be best that they stick around me."

Xemnas didn't want to let them go back to Saix. All those years of torment and hardwork, that pain he kept feeling. It just came rushing back. His heart felt weak and broken. Old scars were tearing themselves back open again, bleeding out those things he wished to keep inside. "But..."

Larxene shook her head, "No Xemnas. No buts. We're failed parents, time and time again has proven that. You and I cannot take custody of any of them. Let Saix have Davien and Eseril, he'll raise them to be very talented and gifted kids, we've seen his workings before."

Saix looked at his friend, knowing that he was dwelling on the past. "You tried to overthrow the entire castle by ruining them. You pull them close and push them further away. You can't handle it."

He didn't want to say he was right....but he was. "Right. My personal interests keep interfering with my ability to help them. You....will take care of them from now on." And now what did he have left of his life? No kids...obviously no lover since this Sephiroth wasn't going to keep up that facade for long...

Larxene sighed and thought about Ixas. "Ixas. What about her? I wish I could...take her back in but I'll only mess things up. I know it, without a doubt."

Asi, who was toying with his long blue hair that was so perfect and amazing, so proud of his beautiful return, felt more confident then ever in himself. "I think I should raise her. You might have duped me into having her and hoping to blame it on Saix, and I was stupid to let her become nothing to me for so long, but now I really do have a chance to...be a part of her life for once. Underneath both of you she still wound up rebellious." Piercings, hair, tattoos...he had seen the way she had dressed and heard the things she said. It was weird. "I could actually try, for once...and make her life better and fix mine as well."

Roxas looked over at Xaldin wondering what he would say. This could get pretty ugly. And they had only cropped up a FEW of the kids. Damn, so many of them!

Don let him toy around a bit before noticing they were realllllly low on time. She pulled him down and she got on top instead. "We're down to a minute." Aka, she was taking over until she was sure things were going well. Woo, yay for experience!


Marluxia watched her for a minute as he was mentally relaxing, slowly getting himself into the mood. But when he came over to her he laughed a bit at her position. He got onto the bed and pulled her legs apart, "These need to stay open." He noticed how tense she was. Right, he had some time, loosen her up a bit. His hands glided up her arms and he massaged her shoulders. He rested himself on top of her then, remembering how much he had wanted to do this so many times before, and now that he got to it still felt like he could never be satisfied. Every time he ever got near Death it seemed it was always forced. She never liked him. But...such was life.

One hand glided down her chest, grasping her firmly before heading even further down, and further. He hiked up her nightgown before smirking at her, "Just say something if you need to readjust." Then he kissed her, more like a distraction, while his one hand that had hiked up her gown went for an adventure...


Asi was surprised at Xaldin's snappy fit, but he had to defend himself. "What relationships, Xaldin? People used me for my looks. Swan, Larxene, Xemnas, Marluxia. Yeah, great that all of them ended just as quickly as they started. You at least were stable with Larxene until she went insane with Swan once she thought you kicked the bucket." Guh, he felt so...cheated. All the time. "You know, if you just fixed things between you and Larxene you could have your own daughter instead of depriving me of mine."

Saix didn't know Asi even wanted to be a parent. What to say? "No one has ever questioned your parenting, Xaldin, but I think I can see why Asi wants to try. He never had a chance before, you're very....overprotective of what's yours. Hell, you said you were going to ground Ixas forever when she changed her hair. Do you really think Asi had anyway to communicate with his daughter because of your behavior? And Larxene as well, for that matter. I know you're good at shutting people out," he remarked to her and noticed she didn't argue. "We're trying to fix things and make things right. We don't want the kids to question why their parents abandon them or why they're raised differently then someone else, or to ever feel like they're not loved. The reason why our kids suffered was because of our own complicated, messed up attitudes toward each other."

"Why not both of them take care of her?" Roxas suggested. "I mean, think about it. Xaldin has the smarts for it, but Asi is at least willing to help out and to figure things out. It's kind of...a good power group?" Roxas looked at the others, "Or is it too logical to have two people look after one kid?"

Asi wondered if it would work. "I'd do it...but are you willing?" Asi questioned Xaldin.

Larxene turned her eyes to the others on the next group. "Lina and Darkness. Are you raising them by yourself? Because they will think that Death is their mother."

Saix didn't want that. She wasn't thier mom. She never would be, it would feel like betraying his real wife. "I'm going to raise them on my own with Davien and Eseril. The entire feuding between our families and with her has shown me that it's not worth trying to fix it or patch that up."

"And Siot, when he comes along?"

"I'm uncertain. He's my son, but he'll actually be HER child this time. I think....Siot has been always flexible with myself and her, so if we're split...and as long as he has access to the both of us, he won't change much. But the others, I don't want them thinking we're a family with her."

Roxas looked at Saix, "And Evante? He's now Marluxia and Death's. For real. It's like... not even your kid anymore."

Saix felt pained at that but took it in stride. "I think Marluxia will want Evante to grow up with Death as the mother anyway, and him as the father instead of the three-way split. Marluxia always wanted to stabilized things for his kid. If that's what he wants, then I can imagine that's what will happen."

Harsh how Saix would lose a son so quickly like that.

Larxene's eyes went to Zexion now. "And what about Veziell. Of course he's staying with you, but we still have the problem with Don. That boy loved her. Will we be able to split him from her? Or are you going to do that?"

Saix felt bad for Zexion as well. They were in such bad situations. "I think the frightening part is how closely tied Darkness and Veziell are to their mothers. I'm hoping it won't cause too much suffering if they're pulled away from them, especially at an early age."

Roxas interjected, "Yeah but...you know, Darkness always had Death to fall back onto it seems like. He was never separated from her until....she died. Veziell always had a fracture in his life. Wouldn't you think that it'd be repeating all the same mistakes? He'd grow up hating Don because she rejected him as a son and had gone off to have a 'perfect life' with Adonia and Genesis. He'll be all...messed up all over again. You can't wipe the knowledge that Don is his mother from his head. He'll always know that. Just as Darkness will know Death is his mother. This will break all of them down."

Angeal nodded, "He's right. These kids know for certain that these girls are their mothers. No matter what you do...they'll be heartbroken in being split."

Sephiroth had to speak up, though not sure of his own hypothesis. "Well, if it negatively affects the ones that are already here, then we shouldn't do that. But...why not change the ones that aren't born yet? Technically, Saix could go with Death and have all of his kids be happy while Marluxia could remove himself from the picture with his child. Evante would never know who his mother really was. In that case, the same could be applied to Don. If she took care of Veziell and raised Adonia to have Zexion as a father, things would technically work out." He hesitated. "Not so well for Marluxia and Genesis...though. But...it satisfies a majority."

Angeal looked at Sephiroth. He knew that he was only planning to help them, but knew that...satisfying the majority meant hurting their friend. Poor Genesis. "Perhaps...this should be discussed with them...?"