Unclouded
I lay on the bed, Reno beside me, both of us breathing heavily. I stared at the ceiling as I caught my breath, feeling Reno shift his weight a few times as he was still tired as though he'd never been banged like that before. Eventually the red head lay on his side and begun to play with my hair.
"God I missed doing you," He grinned. I turned to him, then at the ripped nightie I bought when I was out with Nevina.
"Did you really have to rip it?" I asked, knowing his answer.
"What can I say, I was desperately horny," He kept grinning, still breathing quite deeply. I smiled a little, still breathing heavy myself.
"Just give me the money then and we're even," I told him as he laughed and kissed my forehead.
"Cute," He teased to make me glare at him.
"No. Never," I stated bluntly which made him laugh more. Giving in I gave a sigh and gave Reno the hug he was wanting. I was going to say something but instead I ended up yawning and closing my eyes.
"Did I sex you into a coma?" Reno hoped, hugging me tightly. I gave a groan and hugged back more.
"Lack of sleep."
"Nightmares?"
"Just one but the thought of it keeps me awake..." I sighed, pulling away and lying on my back again. "It's three guys with silver hair, one of them grabbed me by the hair and kept asking me 'Where's Mother? Where's Mother, sister?' as if I know their Mother ... I've never seen them before and they look nothing like me," I sighed again as Reno put his arm around me. "Plus they're eyes just scare me a bit... they're like... like Sephiroth's eyes. But they're like Angie's eyes too but their eyes were the same kind of..." Reno hugged me more, and I looked up at him. "And Nevina knows that Rufus is alive. Just thought I'd slip that in."
"Ah shit..." Reno lay on his back while I propped myself up on my arm and on my side. "That means the Boss is fucked..."
"She won't tell," I told him, trying to calm the red head. "I made her promise, she just found out by accident."
"Still now that someone knows we're in shit..." Reno sighed and covered his eyes with hand. "I don't wanna talk about this... I don't want to think about anything work related..." I moved closer to him and kissed his cheek.
"Re-re, what's wrong?" I asked quietly. He looked up at me and I kissed his forehead, running my fingers through his hair.
"... We lost Tseng and Elena..." He frowned, deeply upset by it. I could understand. They were his friends and comrades and I knew what it was like to lose people who were close to you. I could remember how upset I was when I lost Angie and how Reno was mirroring that pain. I lay on his bare chest and stroked it gently. His hand was on my shoulder and we just kept quiet for a good half hour. Occasionally I would hug him tighter but keep quiet the whole time.
At one point I sat up and took off my bandage on my eye, feeling pus leak out onto my face. I really didn't want to clean it again, instead taking a tissue from the bedside cabinet and wiping the black liquid off. It felt rough and sore on my face but I didn't show any pain until Reno took my hand away from the Stigma.
"Show me this more often," He told me, pulling me close to him as black dripped from my eye onto his shoulder. "I need to know now... how bad it is..."
"It's not gonna kill me," I said, pulling away from him and staring at him without blinking. "I'm not going to die. This won't kill me."
"Have you been watching?" Anger was seeping into his voice. "People are gettin' killed by this every day."
"I'm not one of them!" I snapped, getting off the bed and throwing on shorts and a top, walking out of the bedroom and outside. I wasn't mad at Reno, I just didn't want to fight with him. He had just lost his friends though and I acted a little insensitive there but I suppose if I wait a while until he falls asleep I can go back inside.
Sitting on the steps I stared out at the dark, seeing headlights of a motorbike in the distance. I stood up, wondering if it was Cloud until two more sets of headlights appeared. Raising my eyebrow I walked out onto the dirt road as they got closer and stopped in front of me. My fighting instincts kicked in and I clenched my fists tightly as the three men approached me.
"Well if isn't our sister?" The youngest looking one smirked. His short silver hair covered his face... in fact it was like Oblivion's hair bar the colour being different. His one visible eye's pupil turned into a slit. These were the men who were in my dream.
"What the Hell do you want?" I growled, ready to attack if they tried anything. The youngest one approached me and I backed away, Aura warning him not to get near me. He stopped, backing away as did the other two.
"We just wanted to see our sister before we pay our brother a visit," The longer haired one said, smiling the way another silver haired man did two years ago. "Is that so wrong?"
"It is when we're not family," I remarked, the oldest looking one then gasped a bit and I could tell he would cry.
"But you are our sister," He sobbed a little, to which the long haired one rolled his eyes.
"Be quiet Loz, don't make our sister uncomfortable," He ordered calmly. I growled a little more, my eyes darting back to the house to make sure Reno wasn't there.
"I'll ask again... what the Hell do you want?" I built up my Aura and resisted the urge to throw it at them.
"Don't you know? We're going back to Mother," The youngest one smiled childishly but in a twisted way. "And we need to find her sister, doesn't Shinra know where She is?" I froze suddenly. He knew Rufus was alive? Shit.
"... Who is your Mother?" I asked carefully, surpressing my Aura to show them I didn't mean harm.
"You know who Mother is!" The youngest nearly screamed, like he was about to throw a fit at my apparent stupidity.
"Kadaj, calm down," The long haired one, still in a steady voice. The only one who hadn't showed any emotional changes. Also the only one who remained anonymous to me. "Sorry for my brothers... over emotional dispositions."
"Hey! Mother told you not to be mean Yazoo!" Loz yelled. I turned to see Reno's eye peaking through the closed curtains and I got offensive again.
"Get away from here," I ordered. "Now!" Kadaj glared at me, his teeth gritting.
"Fine, if that's what our sister wants we'll respect her desire," He galred, backing off a little. "Even though we can stop the Stigma." With that he and the other two walked away to their bikes. I kept staring at them until they drove off and away. At that point Reno was behind me, his arms around me.
"Who the Hell were they?" He asked me.
"The guys from my dream..." I frowned. "They could be brothers I guess... I mean they all look really alike. Kept calling me sister and they want Mother... who I apparently know..." I yawned before finishing off my answer. "And they know Rufus is alive."
"Shit soon all of Gaia will know..." Reno groaned. I turned to him and patted his chest before putting my hand down the back of his boxers and grabbing his arse.
"Think about something other than work, Re-re," I told him as his eyes widened a bit.
"Fuck Chris your eye," I could feel the pus dripping down my face the entire time I removed the bandages. I wouldn't be surprised if it was all over the left side of my face.
"I'll clean it then I'm going to bed," I told him. "Look, we'll talk to Rufus about this tomorrow and... maybe we can get help from Cloud and the others... gah that'll be fun explaining to everyone..."
"They'll get over it," Reno shrugged, following me inside. "They got over the fact that we're dating, right?"
"Just," I smiled, kissing him quickly then wiping off the Stigma pus from his face. "I'll be in bed in a few minutes. Unless you're too tired we could go for a second round."
"Hmmm, we'll see," Reno grinned and squeezed my shoulder before kissing my right cheek. "Love you Chris."
"Love you too Re-re," I replied, smiling softly. I remember when Reno blurted that out in December last year when we were at Tifa's bar. Yuffie and Omen agreed that we were both too stubborn to say it before the other did, but like to think Reno was drunk enough throw caution to the wind. I was probably drunk enough to say I loved him back but either way I did love the idiot and he loved me so it made us both happy.
But as soon as I woke up tomorrow we'd have to start acting... if my hunch is right then these men... well they weren't really old enough to be men but regardless if they wanted Mother... Jenova? We'd have to stop that... but all that's left of Jenova was stuck in the Northern Crater, if there was anything left of Sephiroth's Mother...
