Exposure Desire
by Chocobo Knights
Author's note: This story contains homosexual, so if you cannot bear with it I ask you politely for you to walk away from this story. This the first time I ever write about Final Fantasy 7, so please bear with me if there are many mistakes. English is not my mother language, forgive me for any wrong grammar and structure. And last, I do hope you enjoy the story.
Prologue: First Encounter
The cell doors slammed shut in front of him as two guards left him in one of the cell. Silently Cloud Strife wondered how he had manage to screw up his life so much that he ended in this place. Deep down in his heart, he knew that he wasn't a criminal.
Turning his body around to look around at the cell supposed to be his, Cloud noticed how this cell looks slightly different with the other cell he had saw when the guard guided him here. This cell have a large felt that manage to cover half of the cell, only the cell door and a part of the bars next to it that was left completely bare.
Cloud stepped further into the cell, walking past the large felt and on the left side of the cell that was hidden by the felt, there were two beds. That's when realization hit Cloud that he must be sharing this cell with someone. He had prepared for any possibilities like this, but still the idea of sleeping in the same cell with another criminals that could turned out to be a psycho or a killer didn't pleased him so much. But there's nothing that he could do to change it, so he just have to take his responsibility.
Stonewall covered the three other walls in the cell, but there's a window, secured by bars of course, brought in some daylight into the cell and lit up the entire room. He scooted slowly closer to the window, seeing there's a park below and a large stonewall surrounding the entire prisoner with only one entrance that guarded by four guard armed with gun.
Turning around to look at the bed, he assumed that the upper bed was taken, the sheets were wrinkled and someone stuffs was sprawl over the bed. The one under it seems free though, and Cloud made his way there to sit on the soft mattress. Placing his clothes next to him, Cloud breathed out a deep sigh that he's been holding.
He had expected the cell to be much dirtier and messier, but turned out to be not that bad like he had thought. Even the toilet and the sink in the corner right of the cell was also hidden by a felt, giving it some privacy. There's not much in this room as well, no other furniture than the two beds and couple of shelf next to the beds where you could probably spare your clothes and other possible things.
He also expected that the prison clothes will lamely be a stripped white and black like he had seen in movies and such. Apparently it turned out to be a normal long blue pants and long-sleeve blue button shirt where you could wear something else under it like Cloud himself that wearing a white t-shirt.
Letting out another sigh, Cloud awkwardly lie down on his bed.
What was done is done. There's no way that he manage to go back in time to fix things well except if miracle truly happen. He just had to accept it as a man and move on. He would just have to try to make the best out of everything. Be a better person from the person he is now.
With those thought in minds, Cloud manage to go on through his first day in prison and night time fall by. And when he woke up noticing that he was still alone in the cell, he silent wondered where his cellmate gone off to.
Nobody had disturbed him during the hours he had been there and Cloud had a little nervously waited to see who he was going to have to be roommates with. Was it a murderer? A thief? Maybe some sort of a psycho? Or was it someone like himself; someone who had just happened to get on the wrong path for a short fatal time and taken the fall for it?
Not that Cloud had thought of himself as a saint or anything. He was wrong and he accepted it, but he still didn't felt like he was belong there amongst all criminals. He just hoped that this prison is not the one that put minor crimes and significant crimes together in one cell. He surely don't wanted to be put in together with some disgusting old man who had failed in his life and kill his entire family with an axe.
But now that he thinks about it again, he didn't fail to notice that most of the guys in this place seem to be pretty young, not much older than him. He barely recalled a man in over 50 years. Maybe this place shipped your criminals or something.
In the middle of his thought Cloud suddenly realized how the lights were flicked off. As he peeked out from behind the felt he noticed how the corridors still lit, but all the other cells was also dark. He sat back on his bed and slowly able to take a shape of someone entering the cell. Cloud jumped on his bed, moving backwards until his back was pressed against the wall as he observed a tall, dark figure pulling the cell door closed and it slid just in time before a pair of guars past by the corridor.
"Right on time as always, Mr. Fair."
Cloud wondered what the guards meant when a sound was heard inside the whole prison and cell doors all over were shut and locked at the same time. Cloud concluded that they must have some specific times when they close in all the prisoners into their cell and turns the light off.
"Hey there. First time in prison?" Cloud almost jumped in surprised at the voice, he didn't notice that his cellmate was walking to him.
"Y-yes." Cloud replied, moving away slowly to create more distance between them.
A chuckle left from the other's lips before followed by another replied, "I thought so."
Cloud stare at the stranger sit on the edge of his bed. The man didn't look scary and didn't look to much older than himself, probably a couple of years or more than him. Beside from being older than Cloud, the man also looks taller and builder than him. They both wore the same blue cell clothes, only that this man had the upper shirt tied around his waist, leaving him wearing only a black tank top.
Cloud wonder in what reason the boy was put in here. But the way the older boy behaves somehow left him in a little more ease. It's just that there's this aura surrounding the boy.
"The name Zack Fair." The boy broke the silence, and Cloud didn't missed the friendly smile on his cellmate's face.
"So, what are you in for?" Zack asked, turning to sit face to face with the blonde.
"Hacking." Was the answer from Cloud, "I broke in to some website that I shouldn't have been on and took some information from it."
"Oh, so it's only for a couple of years trip then." Zack said. "I'm here for stealing."
"You're a thief? What did you take?" it was Cloud's turn to asked, and he felt kind of relief that this Zack is not a murderer or some psycho.
"A rare materia belong to our King." Zack answered, "Well, that and for assaulting the King's guard who tried to attack on me."
Cloud stare at his cellmate wide eyes and mouth open, "Y-you mean King Archadia? Our King? For real?"
At the expression on Cloud's face, Zack chuckle, "Yeah, for real."
"I-I see." Cloud only nodded in respond. Still left speechless at the information he just took. "S-so, is this your first time in prison too?"
"Yep. But I've been here for a couple of years already." Zack replied. "I only have a few years left. I thought that I might get out of this slum earlier if I behave, but I doubt it."
"Oh." Cloud mumbled and Zack move closer to him.
"Don't worry. You'll get used to it here as long as you played with the rules of the games here." In a whisper Zack spoke to his ear, Cloud wanted to pull backwards but realized that he was already pressing close to the wall.
"A-and what are they?" Cloud stuttered as the boy lean closer.
"I'll show it to you." Zack replied in a whisper, and suddenly Cloud didn't feel the same reassuring aura from the boy that was hovering him as Zack pushed him to lie down on his back.
"W-what are you doing?" Cloud manage to choked out, founding how his lips trembling a bit as his cellmate climb on top of him, pressing him closed to the bed.
"Don't worry." Zack whisper to Cloud's ear that send shiver down the boy's spine, "I'm always use protection."
With that last sentence from the boy hovering him, Cloud's eyes turn wide when realization hit him and he pushed the boy off of him sprang up from the bed. "W-what? I-I don't… I'm not…" Cloud every attempt to finish what he tried to says had failed and he ended up only to stare at Zack. "I-I don't do that. I-I'm not l-like that." He finally managed to let out and shook his own head gently.
"Hey, relax. And beside, after spending times in a place where there're only men you must feel that way, even if you don't really swing that way." Zack said, and even if Cloud recognize the boy's attempt was trying to calm him down, Cloud never think that he will ever calm down with someone who tried to… do him.
Cloud walked backwards until his back met the wall when Zack rises to his feet and approached him.
"N-no… please don't! Stay away!" Cloud exclaim, wrapping his arms around himself in a failed attempt to protect himself, Zack stop on his track for a sec, but when Zack continue to walk to Cloud, Cloud manage to choke out and slid down into the floor, noticing how his own body trembling with fear.
"Sorry Cloudy boy, but that's not how things work around here." Zack said a bit too softly in Cloud's opinion. "Come on, it'll be easier for you if you just came back to bed." He reached out a hand to touch the blonde, but Cloud interrupted him.
"P-please… don't…" he said those broken words In a pleading toe, hoping that it would stop Zack from touching him.
Zack continue to stare at the boy that curled into a ball and a sigh slipped out of his lips.
"Alright already, maybe tomorrow morning you'll see things differently…" the raven hair boy yawn and to Cloud's surprise, the boy climbed up to the upper bed. Cloud remain there for the longest time before he was convinced that Zack had finally really given up of chasing him.
With cautious step, Cloud make his way to his own bed before laying down there with the blanket covering his still slightly trembling body. For a long time he didn't able to closed his eyes, afraid that Zack would suddenly woke up and attack him in his sleep. But then when he noticed that Zack had seems to be deep in sleep, he dare to thought that he would be left alone for this night, and with that comforting thought in his mind, Cloud finally able to let sleep takeover him.
The next morning, he was left alone in the cell. Zack was no longer in the bed and had gone off somewhere. Cloud was wondering whether last event was just a nightmare or not, but then again the package of condoms that he found on his cellmate's bed made him highly doubt the chance of it all being just one hell of a nightmare.
So, what do you think of my first attempt writing FF7 fanfic? Ugly? Boring? Hideous?
To be honest, this story was inspirited with the fanfic I read a year ago. So I have to thanks the person who inspired me writing this, unfortunately, I forgot where I read it once -_-
Please review, every reviews of critic are welcome. But please do go easy on me, it's the first time I write FF7 after all :)