Author's Note: This started off as a drabble, but I had so much fun with it that I decided to keep on going, which is why it launches into the story right off the bat. I also couldn't figure out how to end it once I started going, so that's why you get the weird aspirin ending. My memory is also worth crap, so Reno's lines are probably off. Sumimasen...

Tifa was at such a sudden loss for words that her mouth decided to temporarily seize control of the situation while her mind struggled pitifully for an appropriate comeback.

"Dilly-dally shilly-shally."

She could see that she had thrown Cloud for a loop. That was okay, she had no idea what incoherence her mouth had spawned either. At that point, Tifa was willing to say anything, anything at all, to put Cloud back enough so that he would listen to some sense, and since "Oh boo-hoo, I'm a sad emo prettyboy who cries himself to sleep every night" probably wouldn't have cut it… well, she would just have to repeat herself.

"Dilly-dally shilly-shally." She said it confidently this time and was rewarded again with results. Cloud stared uncomprehendingly at her, not sure exactly how he should respond to such blithering nonsense.

"I think she's telling you to move on, man."

Reno's voice made her look up. That was such a lie, and she knew it. She didn't even know what the heck she had said, so what gave Reno the right to lie so blatantly? At least someone was backing her up in her never-ending struggle to make Chocobo Head realize that the world does NOT revolve around him. She sighed inwardly. Think of the children, she told herself, the children are what's important here, not my imaginary relationship with a necrophiliac who can't understand that I love him and it's been two years, two whole years and he still can't stop thinking of Aeris even I'm right here in front of him just waiting for him to get a clue why can't he see that why can't he understand that why why why why why-

Tifa stopped herself short. I need an aspirin.