Title: That's what Christmas is all about
Pairing: OT4, but later.
Rating: PG15 for cursing and mentions of outdoor sex.
wordcount: 200 ish
ff7 crackfic the second. I have a timeline. This worries me.
warnings of religious blasphemy, cursing and abuse of characters not mine.
Aeris watched from her uncle's lap, her hands grasping the leather gauntlets to bring the shiny metal fingers closer. They were soothing, cold in her mouth against the sore gums. She made happy nomming noises, pleased at the fifth hidden smile her uncle gave her that evening. She looked up at her other uncle, the loud one that made such interesting sounds. Aeris couldn't quite match them, but she was stubborn according to her Sephy. She would learn the sounds.
"And there were in the same fucking country shepherds fucking in the fields," her uncle proclaimed.
"Cid." Oh, her uncle didn't like that word. She gummed the metal finger harder, her tongue moving in what she thought was close enough.
"It's the goddamn truth, let me finish! And those shepherds, damn cocky bastards the two of them!"
"What about Cloud?" Aeris squealed. She knew that word! That was her golden Cloud!
"He's okay, king of the chocobos you know, keeping watch over the flocks by night. And lo, a Captain of Midgar came upon them-"
"Interrupted them," her uncle interjected, his sixth hidden smile. Aeris loved how his eyebrow moved like Sephy's when he smiled.
"And the glory of the Sierra shone round about them and they were sore afraid!"
"Irritated is more like it. Sephiroth did not look pleased."
"As I was sayin, I shouted down to them, I'm bringing them good news, of great joy for everybody, except that bastard Hojo. For unto them, this day is born in the City of Midgar, a Saviour, which is your King."
"Some King." Aeris grinned. Everyone used that sound around her and looked so unnerved by it. Aeris the King. She loved it.
"And this shall be a fucking sign unto them, you shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a... church, wasn't it? Sector six?"
"Correct."
"Then blam! There was the Sierra and a multitude of the heavenly SOLDIERs, praising Gaea, and saying Glory to Gaea, and on Gaea peace, good will towards men."
"And women."
"And women! What other fucking thing did you want goddamn will towards? Next it will be the goddamn Chocobos!" Oh! Oh! Aeris knew that one!
"Wark!"
Her uncles looked at her, that unnerved look. She giggled and swayed like the big golden turkeys.
"She does spend a great deal of time with Cloud in the stables." Seventh hidden smile, she counted.
"Bloody fuck, Queen of the world and she's speaking chocobo first-"
"buu uuhck!" Her mouth didn't quite know how to make the sounds, but given startled look from her uncles and her Sephy approaching with a slight frown, she supposed it was close enough.
"Cid."
"I know, I know, drink my ... tea."
"That's what midwinter is all about, little Aeris. According to your uncle Cid." Aeris smiled up at her uncle Vincent and nommed on the cool metal of his hand.