I wrote this today on a whim after remember a fic I scanned a while ago. I'm not much of a reader these days (I blame The Old Man and the sea. Sucked the fun right out of reading) so I didn't really read it. But what I saw was a really well written fic with a really interesting idea. So I blatantly copied the plot haha It was called 'Border of Taboo' and was ZackxAeris

So huur is my interpretation of the plot idea. This is the first time I've written a story in third person, so it kind of sucks balls. But I appreciate it if you read it and I'd love a review.

"I'd been thirteen when I left Gongaga. I was sick of living the same monotonous life, sick of seeing the same sights everyday. I decided, on a whim, that I was going to move to Midgar. I was going to make it in SOLDIER.

"Gongaga had nothing to offer me. Even as a thirteen year old I could see the town rotting away, full of stupid girls who knew too much for their age and boys that solved issues with fists. Parents just didn't care anymore after the reactor blew. They figured that they're was nothing left to Gongaga. And they were right, there wasn't. The reactor, which became a doubled edge sword of work and grief, ironically developed into the towns main source of income after it blew. Shinra Electric Power Company reimbursed us after the accident because it had taken so many lives, but it was just money. So many fathers and brothers and sons had died and the damage had been done.

"But Shinra had switched their eyes from Mako to precious metal and hundreds of mining jobs subsequently appeared. People hated Shinra, but people needed food.

"There was no youth, only the disfigured mess that was my generation. Kids were having sex and kids were dying in mines and kids were fighting and full of rage. The adults gave up on us. People stopped having babies and stopped getting married. The town just ceased to grow.

"I hated it. I hated living amongst the grief. I hated the fucking dilapidated town with its repulsive adults and broken youth. I wanted out."

Zack paused for the first time and looked up at the man in front of him. The SOLDIER smiled, a friendly, genial smile, before leaning back into a gaudy gold and maroon armchair. But the man, Don Corneo, was not looking at Zack's face. His eyes instead were trailing up Zack's exposed arms, raking over the tanned, muscled flesh like Zack was some kind of feast. Zack's smile widened. He wasn't the most clever boy in the world, but he could tell when he was being appreciated.

"So," He crossed his arms, revealing just how defined his biceps really were. "I left and wound up in Midgar. I signed my life away to Shinra and was lucky enough to live up on the plate. It was everything that I thought it would be. It was hi-tech and beautiful and breathtaking."

"Isn't your family worried about you?"

"Its weird, I guess, but I don't really think much about my life before Midgar. I wrote my folks once, but they never got back to me. I figure that if they wouldn't bother to reach out to me, I wouldn't bother to think about them. I guess it worked out for the best because once I gave up on my old life, I was able to concentrate on becoming a first class SOLDIER. I'm a third class now, but . . ." Zack trailed off.

The Pimp smiled, a toothy smirk interrupted by flecks of gold and silver, and dragged his eyes to meet Zack's, almost painfully. "But it doesn't pay the bills."

"Well, the housings free but I get what you mean. No, it doesn't."

"And that's where I come in."

"Yeah."

"Looks like the little Shinra lap dog has come crying to the Don. So, what, you need a job as my body guard? You wanna be security?" He asked haughtily.

"No . . . not exactly." Zack replied nonchalantly.

"Alright, I'm listening," The Don leaned forward, placing his elbows in the dark desk and clasping his hands together.

"I want to work at Honey Bee Manor"

"As . . . ?"

Zack grinned, "As a prostitute"

"I'm afraid we aren't interested in men. Especially not young boys like yourself." The Don answered without thought. He frowned, though, as his eyes trailed the length of Zack's body. "Although you are quite the specimen."

"I'm not young, I'm eighteen." Zack defended, disregarding the Don's flattery.

"No, you aren't"

A pause.

"Fine, I'm not, but what does that matter?"

"Shinra is breathing down my back as it is. I can't have a kid working here as a prostitute and especially not a kid as affiliated with Shinra as you are.

"I need a job"

"So do I."

"Please." Zack begged.

"My body guard will show you out. It's a real shame, but goodbye."

The Don stood and began to walk towards the large, crimson double doors that let to the upper hallway. Just as his pudgy hand reached for the handle, Zack stood.

"I lost my virginity when I was nine."

Don Corneo turned towards Zack, caught of guard by his odd statement. He dropped his hand. "What?"

Zack strode towards the portly Don, placing a stern hand on the door. His lengthy body was more than a foot taller than the Don's. He looked down, his eyes pleading.

"I know how to please a woman. I'll . . . I'll do anything you want." Zack was getting desperate.

Don Corneo scoffed, "I don't doubt you have those little, inexperienced slum skanks squealing when you're inside them. But," He paused to pick a ball of lint off of Zack's shirt. "Women aren't my target audience."

"If you hire me, I can promise Women will come." Zack stared intently down at the short man, his eyes pleading. "I live on the plate, I see how sex is just as important to women as it is to men. I know that women crave affection. They're vain, they want someone to love them and tell them they're beautiful. So many women have busy husbands that don't have time to be with them, so many of them are lonely."

"You seem to be well educated on Midgar women."

"I just give the women what they want, and they give me what I want." Zack said matter of factly. He straightened, shrugging. "I'll be doing the same thing here, only now I'll be making money."

"You slut."

Zack answered with a cocky smirk. "Sex is easy, meaningless. Nothing but a mindless sport to occupy the time of wealthy businessmen and lonely wives."

"And apparently young SOLDIERS" The Don chimed in.

"And short, fat men."

Surprisingly, the Don laughed. "I like you kid. You've got spunk." Zack dropped his hand from the door and smiled, hesitantly. "Alright, you're hired. But I better not be hiring you for nothing, I better be making some money."

"You wont regret it." Zack said excitedly, his eyes wide. The Don opened the door and motioned for Zack to leave.

"Be here tomorrow at eleven. Don't tell anyone, especially not anyone from Shinra."

Zack was still smiling wildly as he left.

Seeing this young boy so excited about something as adult as sex sent a rare twinge of guilt through Corneo's stone heart. He was just a lad who should be worrying about his first time, not a job at a brothel. This boy, you could plainly see, saw no emotion with sex. He was toying with women, manipulating them to do what he wanted. What saddened him most though, was that this boy really didn't think that their was anything to sex but the action itself. Even Don Corneo knew the joy of love behind sex. He stepped out of his office.

"Wait."

Zack stopped and turned, his face full of confusion.

"I don't usually care about the personal lives of my employees, but I need to know something."

He ran a hand through his greasy hair.

"Have you ever loved a woman?"

Zack laughed, as if what the Don said was supposed to be a joke.

"I'm serious."

Zack slowly stopped smiling. No, he hadn't been in love before. He knew the act well, but not the feeling. But it wasn't like he was missing much, right? His friends did nothing but complain about their girlfriends and how much their girls want from them. There's no point in taking the good and the bad when you can just have the good.

Zack backed away from the Don and continued walking towards the balcony staircase. He stuck his thumbs in his pockets and turned his head, slightly, back at Don Corneo. He smirked.

"Why make love when you can fuck?"