Warnings: AU

Disclaimer: I do not own FFVII or its characters. I do not make any money from this fiction.

Summary: Found a prompt…don't remember where. If it's yours…surprise! Prompt: Aeris/Sephiroth/Zack/Cloud: harem - They were beautiful in her garden.

They were beautiful in her garden.

Silver, black, gold. So pretty together. The courts could only watch, unable to ever touch, ever know what it would be like to own them. They were hers.

Cloud laughed, head tilted and beautiful blue eyes alight with joy. The slave bracelets glinted in the bright sunshine as her dark haired Zack kissed a pale, supple neck. Sephiroth lounged nearby, draped across a stone bench. The dark metal of his slave bracelets didn't gleam like Cloud's silver or Zack's gold, instead they seemed to suck the light from the very air.

Zack chuckled as he tickled Cloud's sides. Sephiroth rolled over to face the other two slaves and smiled at their antics. His long, silver hair spilled everywhere and it made him seem like nothing more than an extension of the snow-ball bushes on either side of him.

Her harem. Silver, black, and gold. They belonged to each other long before they had belonged to her. Aeris knew the only reason they stayed was that she allowed them to be together. They were all powerful in their own right, each could have up and left without a word. But here, they were happy. In the harem, their only job was to love each other. She never asked to join them as she enjoyed watching them more.

Some day she figured she would need to choose one of them to bed to breed the next generation of royalty to govern her empire. Would she choose quiet, intelligent Cloud? Powerful, exotic Sephiroth? Charismatic, charming Zack?

Maybe she would want one child from each.

Until then, she would watch. They were so beautiful in her garden.