A/N: Ok this is to my very good friend, Laura (aka Reno-xxxXXXxxx) This is an early for next year Merry Christmas (Because this was supposed to be for this year) but anymoo, I wrote this for you, and I don't rightly know if I got everything right, esp characterization. I hope you like it, and thanks for being a good friend, it means a lot.
Disclaimer: I only own the paper that this is written on, the rest belongs to the man.
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From a shattered home…looking for an open door… Hey yeah… anybody here now? Anyone at all?
any way may be the way out…
a bleeding telephone…razorblade cuts on both arms
911 may be the way out…
Does anybody hear now? Have you come and gone?
Dear Reno…
The paper started. No it sounded too forced that way. She crumpled up the paper and threw it in the trash next to the papers that had the same fate.
Hey Reno…
She scribbled across the top. No that sounded too friendly. Well not that she was unfriendly, but friendly wasn't what she was going for, especially considering what she was writing.
To Reno…
She wrote. Yeah that sounded better, it wasn't too forced or too friendly. 'Ok where to go from here' She thought nervously. After all it wasn't everyday that she wrote to someone, telling them how she felt. She let out a breath, and brushed away a strand of hair. She brought her shaky hand back down to the lined paper.
I've always wanted to tell you…
No that wasn't right either. She didn't want it to come out too fast. She crumpled the paper and started over again. From the top she wrote again.
To Reno…
Do you remember the time that we
She let out a sigh of frustration, why couldn't it just be easy? She crumpled up the paper again. She considered the idea of just giving up entirely. She tapped the coffee table irritably.
"Hey 'Laney" He grinned at her.
"What now Reno?" She asked, looking up with a glare from her paperwork.
He simply grinned at her and threw a paper airplane at her. It hit her in the face. She let out a growl of frustration. " Reno! You've been doing that ALL DAY would you please stop? Some of us are trying to concentrate!" She said, and got back to the paperwork. She didn't mean to snap on him, but it was beginning to annoy her greatly.
"Geez don't need to get so touchy, I was just making fun."
"Hey Laney?" He said again. She said, not looking up from her paperwork.
"What?"
"Can I help you?"
"I think I know what I'm doing, but thanks"
He stood up, grabbed a pen, and a stack of papers, and started scribbling on the top one
" RENO!" She shouted, she didn't want him to ruin the papers, how would she explain the artwork on the paperwork to Tseng? She grabbed the papers from him and hit him upside the face.
"Hey Laney, I was only helping!" He said, but he was grinning.
She sat back down with a huff and looked at the damage. She saw a rather crude drawing of what Tseng would look like as a girl.
"What's so funny?" A stern voice asked from behind. She sat straight up.
"Nothing sir." Tseng glanced down at the drawing.
"Elena, shouldn't you be working instead of drawing what Reno would look like with a sex change?"
The memory brought a smile to her face. She looked back down on the piece of paper, the piece of paper that just said "To Reno" on it. She sighed, she knew what she had to write. Resolutely she put the pen to the paper and wrote. It wasn't long, but when she finished she knew it was everything she wanted to say. 'Now to finish it' she thought, and bent over and simply wrote:
Sincerely, Elena
On the bottom.
She put on a coat and left the apartment and made her way over to Reno's apartment. Her heart felt significantly lighter than it had before. She knew that today was the day she would finally tell Reno how she felt. A smile touched her face.
That's when she saw him. Her face fell in horror. Not because of him, but because who he was with. He had his arm wrapped around a girl's shoulder. He was laughing, and she was laughing.
Her shoulders fell. She stared down at the note in her hand, and suddenly she felt very childish. Reno couldn't possibly feel the same way toward her. She had been foolish, to think such a thing. A twang of pain crossed her heart, and a knot formed in her stomach. She crumpled the paper in her hand, and threw it angrily at the ground. She wasn't angry at Reno, or at the girl he was with. No, she was angry with herself. That she had let her heart be given to someone else. Someone who she could say she didn't really know. Sure they worked together, they laughed together, they talked together. But she didn't know about his personal life, or him about hers. She turned and walked away. Walked away from something she knew she wouldn't have.
With both heart strings torn…looking for true love and more…
Any day may be the day of…bruised and battered bones…
A broken heart an open sore…
911 may be the way of
"Hey hold on a second." Reno said suddenly to the girl. He could have sworn he saw a shadow in the alleyway. He ran over to the alleyway, and saw nothing. His foot stepped on something. He looked down to see what.
It was a piece of paper. With a frown he undid it and read it.
To Reno
It started, some of it was badly smudged, he squinted to read it.
I never got to thank you properly for the time… so Thank you for your help it means a lot to me… never got to tell you how I felt about you. I know sometimes I'm not very… but I want you to know that you mean a lot to me, and that I love you.
Sincerely,
Elena
He closed his eyes and sighed. Did she really feel that way?
" Reno? Is everything ok?" His sister said behind him.
"Yeah everything's fine." He put a grin back on his face, folded the paper, and placed it in his breast pocket, right near his heart. Hey yeah…anybody here now? Anyone at all? Hear me when I scream!! Where is love?
Does anybody hear now? Have you come and gone?
Hey yeah…anybody here now? Anyone at all?
Does anybody hear now? Have you come and gone?
Overtaking me!!! Where is love?
Screaming out in me!! Where is love?
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I didn't want to leave Elena like that all sad and alone, so sorry if it ended kind of badly. But anyway, I hope that you liked it