Mission (GenesisxReader)
Chapter 2: I’m sorry... am I?
You narrowed your eyes on the table in front of you, your hand hesitated, rising and falling two or three times, uncertain “will you do your choice?” “Shut up, Sephiroth, I’m trying to concentrate” you murmured, finally moving one pawn “the move wasn’t worth the wait” he chuckled “did anything happen yesterday?” you frowned and looked away from him. Yesterday evening you came back from your mission with Genesis, you felt bad for what you asked him, and this was aggravated by the fact that he hadn’t talk to you since you climbed the helicopter to come back, you decided to not think about it and went directly in your bedroom, without bothering to greet anyone. That night Zack saw you in your bed, but preferred not waking you up, so basically you hadn’t see anyone since yesterday evening, until this morning Sephiroth showed up to ask if you wanted to play chess with him: it was what you two sometimes did to keep up on your friendship. “Not really” you sighed “but you hoped for it, didn’t you?” he smirked, moving his bishop “uh, no… or… yes…” you trailed off, a bit embarrassed “I-I don’t know” you shrugged, proceeding to move your only tower remaining “and…?” he suggested “I may or may not have asked the wrong question” you murmured “like?” he asked, eyes narrowed, seeming to try and analyze what your problem could be, even if he seemed more concentrated on the game when he moved one of his pawns “I asked about his childhood” you sighed and moved, with a small movement of your index finger, one of the pieces that were on the edge of your side “Oh” he exhaled in a chuckle “I understand” “what are you laughing at?” you raised a bit your voice and your head, frowning “my dear, how possibly could you have known that this was a sensitive topic? You don’t have to blame yourself.” “Well, how do you know about this?” “I don’t” he moved another pawn “I just never heard him talking about it, so I figured I shouldn’t either” “so should’ve I” you pouted and let yourself fall on the backrest of your chair He raised an eyebrow “it’s like you’re searching for an excuse to not talk to him anymore” he watched your head also falling back to look at the ceiling “because he still want to talk to you for sure” “but he’s not talking to me since yesterday!” you threw your arms in the air, exasperated “did you give him the occasion, at least?” You quickly regained your posture to plant your palms on the table and looking at him with one eyebrow raised “what do you mean?” “well… maybe he was upset, but not directly for what you said, but your question made he think and he didn’t even thought about the fact that he wasn’t talking to you” “so… in your opinion he didn’t even realize?” you asked eagerly He nodded than smirked “I mean, did you hear him the other day, at dinner?” You tilted your head to the right, trying to remember, you narrowed your eyes, almost shutting them, until your face lighted up “you mean the ‘it’s my hometown so it will be easier’ thing?” you chuckled a bit “yes” Sephiroth chuckled with you “I’ll go talk to him” you said, starting to get up “ah-ah” Sephiroth scolded you, interrupting your movements “after finishing the match” You sighed and looked down, before smiling and moving an horse “check-mate”.
You were currently outside Genesis’ room, glaring at the door, you took a breath then knocked on it and waited, almost one minute, before knocking again “Genesis, hey, it’s me (y/n)” you tried calling for him, before pouting and lifting your hand to knock again, when a voice stopped you “(y/n)” it was Genesis “were you searching for me?” he smiled softly at you, before wiping some droplets of sweat from his forehead, you then noticed that he was wearing the usual 1st class uniform, instead of his usual bright red clothing. You opened your mouth to say something, but was interrupted again, this time by another voice “I’m going to my room and take a shower” Angeal, who was coming from behind the red haired, patted his back when he reached him “oh hey (y/n)” he greeted, noticing you “are we still up for tonight?” he then asked the other man, without even waiting for your ‘hello’ “yeah, sure” the other 1st class murmured, looking at Angeal’s hand, still on his shoulder “okay, then” the raven haired man smiled “see you tonight!” he waved while going away “what was it?” you asked, looking between Genesis and the retreating form of Angeal “Uh nothing” he waved off, before opening the door to his room “come” You followed him inside and looked around when he switched on the light, as always his bedroom was neat, well, it wasn’t like he had other people sleeping in with him to make a disaster of all his properties. You chuckled a bit when you thought about how he might’ve loose his mind when he was in the lower grades and had to share a room with someone else. “I’m going to take a shower” you heard the male’s voice interrupting your thoughts from the bathroom “Uh sure… go on” you murmured, unsure of what to say “we’ll talk once I’m out” he chuckled “because… I suppose you came here to talk” he smirked, poking his head from the bathroom door, you blushed at his words and saw him retreating once again in the other room. You sat on the bed when you heard the sound of water. You didn’t know what to do: you didn’t want to touch anything without permission, so you laid down on the bed, looking at the ceiling, thinking again about Sephiroth’s words, maybe you thought a lot about it, because at some point you weren’t able to hear the pour of water anymore and saw Genesis coming out from the bathroom, with only his pants on and his hair still wet. You looked at him, studying his form and all his muscles’ moves when he reached the other side of the room for his turtleneck “I’m all ears” his voice came muffled from the shirt he was still pulling down “umh… just wanted to make sure everything is okay” you said, looking back to the ceiling “between us” you added He finished to put on his shirt and looked at you, before lowering his head and sighing “I take your talking about yesterday” he said, before approaching you, you scooted a bit to make room for him and he sat down, near your shoulder “I’m not angry at you” he smiled, I was just thinking” his answer made you smile and taking a mental sigh of relief “is this why I didn’t even got a ‘goodbye’ yesterday?” “you’re saying that as you could’ve noticed” you scoffed “touché” he chuckled “I suppose that Sephiroth was right, then” you said, to which Genesis tilted his head “today we played chess” you started to explain “and I talked to him about this, then he told me what he thought about it and gave me some advice” “what?” Genesis laughed “was really Sephiroth giving you advice?” You chuckled nervously along with him, while trying to avoid his gaze “y-yes… I mean… he’s pretty good at it, since it worked” you muttered the last part “well, okay” he raised his hands as if surrending “maybe you’re right” he stopped his laugh, but with a smirk still present on his lips “but it’s still funny” you rolled your eyes and fixed them to the ceiling, when you felt some weight shifting beside you and saw the 1st class lie down beside you “I want to fix my mistake” he said softly, also looking at the ceiling “for having worried you” he answered when he turned his head to look in your confused eyes “you know there’s no need, right?” you chuckled “but I want to” he looked deeply in your blue eyes, filled with Mako energy, he always wondered what your natural color could’ve been. You shifted your gaze away from him, when he started to actually stare at you “and what do you plan?” you asked, blushing a bit “I want to bring you one dumbapple” he smiled brightly “I promise I will!” you laughed seeing his enthusiasm and ran the tip of your fingers on his hair, which was still drippling “your pillow will get all wet” you said absentmindedly, before you realized what you were doing and retreated immediately your hand. There was a moment of silence, before he spoke again “you should do this more often” he smiled, closing his eyes “it’s relaxing” “are you referring to me petting your hair?” you chuckled “not only this” he frowned, his eyes still closed “coming to my room, talking, staying near each other” he opened his eyes when he heard your chuckle “you know… what will it look like when I’ll start spending so much time in your bedroom?” “no, what will it look like?” he teased “well, like I’m your lover or… worse, your girlfriend!” you emphasized with the random movement of your hands “yeah” he laughed “what could be worse then be my girlfriend?” he laughed louder “I didn’t mean it like that, I-I meant it more like-” you were interrupted when someone knocked on the door “(y/n), time for exercise, Angeal told me you were here, I hope you’re here, because otherwise Genesis will beat the crap out of me for waking him up even though it’s almost lunch time” you recognized the voice of Zack and rolled your eyes at his extremely long explanation “I should go” you got up and headed to the door “bye” “bye” he whispered in reply The sound of the door shutting could be heard along the greetings you and Angeal’s puppy were exchanging. By the time Genesis couldn’t hear anymore voices he was taking his left arm over his eyes, preventing them from seeing, and started to think about the words you spoke before: ‘or worse, your girlfriend’. He then scoffed, before shifting to rest before lunch.
After finishing your training with Zack you headed together to the mess hall for lunch, your eyes searching for a red head, but finding nothing. You then parted ways with Zack to sit with some other friends of yours as you promised them. “Who are them?” Angeal asked Zack who was sitting in front of him and the grey haired 1st class “friends of her” Zack smiled looking in your direction “she’s quite popular, you know” he added, looking back to his food and starting to eat “of course, she’s almost the only female here, of course every man would throw himself at her” Sephiroth frowned “not to mention she’s beautiful too” Angeal added “hey hey” Zack scolded “it’s (y/n) we’re talking about, she’s a grown up girl who is also fully able to distinguish true friends from other shit” The two 1st class scoffed, both at the same time, but only Sephiroth was the next to talk “we know, we just hope for her best” he said firmly, looking towards you, sighing when they saw another 2nd class encircling your shoulders to pull you to him and laugh along with you. They knew someone would definitely be unhappy to hear about this. When you finished your lunch you left to search for Genesis, starting from the place where you left him, so, for the second time that day, you were in front of his room’s door; you knocked softly, but the door opened under the pushing of your knuckles, so you decided to just go inside. When you got in you saw the red head sleeping, his form sprawled on the bed, with one arm hanging from the side of the bed and his hair shading his face, you smiled softly at the sight, it wasn’t usual seeing him without composure, even when battling or angry he always wore that look of poise. Not wanting to disturb him you decided to switch off the light and go out, but you stopped when you heard him shifting and saw him open his eyes, in a reflex you immediately switched the light on again, making him squeeze his eyes “I’m sorry!” you immediately shrieked “don’t worry” he murmured, still groggily from sleep “why are you here?” he asked, after sitting up on the mattress “I didn’t see you at lunch, so I came to check” you smiled “it seems like I overslept” he said, rubbing his forehead “yes, that’s why I” you started, lifting one white paper bag to show it to him “brought you the lunch” He smiled and got up to take the bag from your hands “thanks” he whispered, opening it to watch what was inside “also” you started, and Genesis looked up at you “I came here because you said I should’ve come here more often” you lowered your gaze, not so sure if he was serious before “Thank you (y/n), again” he smiled, stretching one arm past you to close the door. You smiled back at him.