A/N: D'aww guys. My story is doing so well! And I'm so glad Heather likes it too. That must mean I'm doing good, right? Yee!

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"You want us to do WHAT?!"

Reno stared in disbelief of his boss before slamming a fist down onto the desk. Rude, grabbing his partner's shoulder shook his head and got back in formation. "Calm down, Reno."

"How am I supposed to calm down when those damn suits just…decide…to…!" he slammed his fist down again and cursed as the pain was twice what it was before. Tseng, standing by a huge window, raised an arm up and turned around.

"Reno, my orders aren't pleasant ones to begin with. It's not like you haven't exterminated runaway SOLDIERS before," he said softly, his eyes calm and dull. He wasn't too happy with this assignment either.

"Tseng-boss," he said with a desperate edge, "seriously. Think about this. We haven't seen Fair or Strife in FIVE years and all of a sudden we should go kill them? I mean, sure, Turks kill with honor, but how dishonorable is it to kill the weak like that?!" he demanded, fists drawn tight.

It wasn't like Reno to let things like this get to him. But the personal attachment… It was FAIR. He hadn't seen Fair in SO long and now suddenly he was to kill him? That just wasn't fair. Call it selfish, but Reno was more than ready to fight against that.

"Reno…" Rude started warningly. Tseng just grabbed the bridge of his nose and sighed.

"Reno, I know why and understand why you'd be against this. But Reno, even I don't plan to do this. It's that monstrosity, Hojo who did this. If anything, let's call it 'revenge' for the things he's done to us and even a certain turk from the past," he said with the utmost calm.

Reno, taken aback by his boss' huge speech and proposition, relaxed and thought for a moment. Valentine… he thought silently.

"Reno, you are to look for Strife and Fair and try to keep everyone away from them. Try to make false detection signs, if you can. You have an hour break in between searching shifts, so no dilly dallying, try to hang around silently around them. They'll be weary," Tseng ordered before sitting down at his desk and looking at the files on Zack and Cloud.

"They don't deserve this sort of fate. It's not like Zack to get up and die anyways," Reno said softly before shrugging. "Must be the tenacity in him, y'know?" And off he went to go do the mission.

Rude just looked silently at Reno, bowed to Tseng, and followed after.

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A/N: Well. I hope this was alright. It's just, y'know, the conversation I had in mind when they might've been given orders to kill Strife and Fair, and well. I hope I didn't go out of whack. Eeek. But it was fun!