Everywhere

You know I'm Fallin' and I Don't Know What to Say

I don't own Square Enix or anything related to it.

Not really a true timeline but let's say post Advent Children

"Hey." A voice called as she spun around in her chair to face the door of her office.

"Hey, Reno." Elena answered him pleasantly. She put her pen down and pushed her pile of papers aside.

"Since you know how to sail there's no reason for me to read this right?" Reno said handing a small book to Elena.

GUIDE TO SAILING: A 20 MINUTE TUTORIAL WITH PICTURES. The book's cover read. "Reno, honey…you really think you can learn to sail in twenty minutes? You may be the best helicopter pilot there is but believe me all the pictures in the world will not teach you to sail. Leave it all to me." Elena said throwing the book back at him.

"Good, I hate reading." Reno said pitching the book aside. "You are all ready for tomorrow right?"

"You bet. Got the car packed up and everything. I just have to go to the store after work and get some things to prepare." Elena explained.

"I'm sorry we gotta drive separate and all but it's the only way to keep this thing under wraps, ya know? Director thinks we're goin' to Healen for a debriefing of sorts. Shit is he gonna be surprised! God, he's gonna be so pissed! I can't wait!" Reno said. Elena laughed. "'Cept here's the thing...why's he gotta be in to fancy, refined stuff, ya know? I can barely pronounce the name of this shit he drinks, let alone go buy it!" Reno complained.

"What? Sauvignon? It's French. It's a beautiful white wine and it goes with...well almost everything. You know, you should add a Pinot Noir. Oh! Yes! Get a Pinot Noir!" Elena said excitedly.

"How the hell do you know about this stuff? Here, write it down. I'll never remember that. Now, if you woulda said Reno, get beer. That I can understand." Reno said. Elena laughed as she scribbled the names down for Reno. "Okay, you're gonna get there first and get the boat ready, yeah?" Reno questioned.

"Yes. It's so nice of Rufus to let us use it. I swear, he's so spoiled. I mean, how many other people do we know have a sailboat laying around that they only take out twice a season?" Elena asked.

"You better not let him hear you say somethin' like that…but yeah Shinra's totally spoiled." Reno said. "You gonna take the food on the boat or put it in the lodge?"

"I'll put all the good stuff in the lodge, you know…the stuff we actually have to cook. I'll put the easy stuff on the boat." Elena said.

"Alright, Rude is going to distract him from everything while I load up the car tomorrow. We're gonna change clothes once we get to the lodge because we wanna make it look like this is all business." Reno said.

"So, how are you explaining me not being with you?" she asked.

"We're telling him that you…damn…we don't have that part covered." Reno remembered.

"Tell him I had a family emergency." Elena said.

"See, this is why you're a Turk. Way to think on your feet!" Reno said pointing at her.

"It's going to be beautiful tomorrow…and windy! That's what we need! We need windy! And you're right he's gonna' kill us but you know he will also appreciate all the thought we've put in to this." Elena said smiling. Reno laughed.

"You got that right!" he said. The timing for Rude to show up at Elena's door couldn't have been better.

"Are you two talking details?" He asked.

"Sure are. What kind of details do you have to offer?" she asked.

"I'm packed and ready for tomorrow. You should have heard how many lies I've had to make up about why we're being debriefed tomorrow. I'm tellin' you two right now Tseng is so stressed he might throw a chair through the wall by the end of the day. He needs to be away from this place like you wouldn't believe. I mean…he needs to do something to make him forget that this building even exists. He's in his office right now tearin' a SOLDIER 3rd Class's ass for something. Oh and he has twenty-two unreturned voice messages. I saw it on the read-out of his desk phone." Rude said. Elena and Reno laughed.

"To think I thought I had it bad because I have five unreturned messages and three reports to write." Elena said.

"I'm…not doin' shit this afternoon except for hangin' out with you two." Reno said.

"Well, I need to get back to work here. I want to finished by 3:30 today because I have a lot of cooking to do." Elena said.

"You know the only reason you're preparing stuff is because well…we aren't very good and Tseng has said before what a good cook you are." Rude said.

"Really? He said that? He said that about me? He said that about my cooking? He said that about me and my cooking?" Elena said quickly and rather excitedly. It was impossible for her to hide her excitement.

"Yeah, he did. Of course you make weird stuff that ends in –etta and –ini and… -ala. Tseng's in to that sort of thing." Reno said. Elena smiled all over.

"Well, I'm looking forward to everything." Rude said.

"Yeah, same here." Reno said.

"This is going to be so fun. I'll see you both tomorrow." Elena said as both Rude and Reno left her to her work.

The plan was neatly falling into place. For the past week Rude, Reno and Elena had been planning Tseng's 36th birthday. The Director's birthday couldn't have fallen on a better day. The plan was to go sailing on the lake behind Healen Lodge for the day, spend the night and come back to Midgar on Sunday. Furthermore, Tseng knew nothing about it and of all the people on the planet…Tseng hated unpredictability the most. If anyone needed a break from Shinra it was Tseng. Thank god it was a long weekend. If he wasn't glued to a cell phone he was glued to a desk and if he wasn't glued to a cell phone or a desk he was trying to find his cell phone on his desk. There was no one in the department who could better handle the job of Director than Tseng. Sure he worked insanely long hours, was responsible for more than he could truly handle, and was the first 'go-to' whenever something went wrong but somehow he managed to keep his sanity. It could have been because he was simply one of those people who thrived off a high-stress job. The only thing he ever needed to cope with it all was a full pot of black coffee and a bottle of aspirin. Of course, a fifth of straight whiskey always helped at times as well.

Later that day Elena stood in front of her closet. Sure she had told Reno that she was all packed up, which she was but she hadn't taken care of anything last minute that she didn't want to do in the morning before she left. She could feel fluttery nerves overcome her as she threw seemingly a hundred things out over her bed in order to choose what would be best to wear. With everything she picked up, she just changed her mind again. She hoped her heart wouldn't leap into her chest the next day the way it was right now. She had a boat to sail after all, she couldn't let the nerves of being desperately and hopelessly attracted to her boss get in the way of properly manning the helm. She stood there looking at everything on her bed and went through the scenario out loud.

"Hi, President Shinra? Sorry about capsizing your boat. Why did it happen? Oh, I'm just in love with Tseng and I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing because I was too busy panting like a dog in heat over him." Elena sighed as she began throwing thing behind her in a pile. "No, no, no, eew where did I get this? No, no, too slutty" Elena paused on whatever it was that was in her hands that she deemed to be too slutty "…sooo that's a maybe..." she said to herself. "No, no, no…yes! Yes, this…is the one." Elena said finally making her decision.

Next chapter will be longer, I apologize for the shortness of this one.