Invasion of Kadaj
After the visit of Cloud, Reno, his girlfriend Athena, and Rude all went into the sitting room of Rufus's lodge. Reno always said Cloud had such a large stick shoved up his ass because how grumpy he was but Rude never laughed at that sorry attempt for a joke. Athena merely chuckled and always told him to shut up because he didn't know what Cloud had been through. Recently, the three learned that people who used to work for Shinra were coming back to work but the loss of Tseng and Elena stung the three. When Reno and Athena got back to the lodge, they engaged in a mad round of sex and discussed what they would do for Rufus later.
"Now we just gotta find Laney and the Director," said Reno as he plopped down on the couch, pulling Athena down atop of him. "Any of the employees give you any leads?" He looked directly at Rude, who stood near the window to look out at the wilderness.
"No, nothing yet," answered Rude promptly, still staring out the window.
Reno let one hand rest behind his head but let the other one rest on Athena's waist. "Who'd have thought? A lot of Shinra's people actually returning to work. Now that's dedication!" He sat up a bit to look at Rude but still kept a nice touch on Athena. "I'm tellin' ya this could be a fresh start!"
Oh Reno, always optimistic, Athena was thinking as she smiled at the red headed Turk.
"Well," said Rude gravely, "those left alive still have a lot to atone for."
That deflated Reno's joy a bit because he knew that all the employees still had to atone for the sins they had committed on the world. "Two years already," said Reno, laying back down. "Seems a lot longer than that. What a nightmare. The world was nearly obliterated and we were the obliterators."
When Athena swerved to look in Reno's seafoam eyes she saw all the regret and sorrow that the Meteor left on the planet and she touched his chest gently. He looked down at her tenderly before resuming his talk.
"Seriously, though," he said seriously as he sat up, holding his lover close to him still. "How're we ever gonna atone for that? It's too bad the Director's not around, yanno?"
"Elena too," whispered Athena, truly missing the blond haired woman because she didn't like being the only female in the team.
"Hope they're alive," whimpered Reno, looking to Rude helplessly.
"They are," said the bald man intuitively as he sat down on the couch with them. "Tseng is just like the president; they're kinda like cats. Nine lives, you know." A faint trace of teasing colored Rude's tone as he turned to look at his friends.
"You got that right!" exulted Reno about to lay back down but stopped when he heard something at the door.
He, Rude, and Athena stood immediately at the sight of black mist filling the room and a sinister voice said before knocking them down, "Found ya."
"Athena, run!" was the last thing she heard before blacking out.
A/N: Just a little drabble of ACC with my OC Athena. I hope you enjoy and comment!
