A/N:

Sorry about the wait. I didn't manage to get the first half of the chapter onto my laptop, so I had to make the whole thing up again. I hope it's alright, since I had a lot of distractions, and i ain't been too well lately.

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Chapter 6

"So then…" Reno sat himself down on the side of Elena's desk. "What do ya wanna do today?"

Drake didn't reply, he just merely shrugged his shoulders and looked at the two Turks with an expression of pure distaste on his face. Reno's eyes narrowed and he gained an angry look in his eyes; a tell-tale sign that he was about to say something unsuitable.

"Use your imagination, Reno." Elena said before Reno could speak. "What would you usually do to keep a child entertained?"

"An idiot like him?" Reno asked. "Give 'im a piece of paper with 'please turn over' written on both sides." He crossed his arms and smiled evilly.

Elena bit her lip to stop herself from smiling. "Shut up, Reno…" She turned to Drake and kneeled down to his level. "What do you want to do? You're only here for a few hours…"

"I wanna go home…" Drake said looking at the floor. "I don't like it here."

"Ya know, we must have more in common than I thought… I say the same thing most days." Reno said, standing up straight and stretching out his back.

"You can't go home, I'm sorry Drake." Elena pleaded with the little boy. "You have to wait for Rufus or your mom to come and get you."

"Or social services…" Reno suggested.

"I'm sorry about Reno, but you don't have to stay with him…" Elena decided Reno probably wasn't helping the situation. "He's just not very happy today."

"Me? Unhappy?" Reno raised an eyebrow. "Please, I'm so happy I could shit rainbows."

"Reno, don't swear." Elena sighed. "He's only a kid."

"I'm not stupid you know," Drake said haughtily. "There's not need to talk to me like I'm a baby."

"No one's sayin' ya stupid." Reno said sardonically. "They just say ya only just learned to wave goodbye."

"Shut up!" The blond Turk said loudly. The two other people in the room fell silent. "Now… Reno, if you're gonna be an idiot then you can just go do something else-"

"An' miss out on that fun? Nah…" Reno grinned. Suddenly he gritted his teeth and rolled his eyes as though he was thinking hard about something. Suddenly, he looked straight at the door, before making a swift exit. Elena stared after him confusedly.

"When am I going home?" Drake asked, Elena noticed he was also staring at the door. "I don't like him, he's scary."

Elena couldn't help but laugh slightly. "Come on Drake… if you think of something to do, it'll make life a lot easier. Time will go quicker if you're doing something."

"I don't know." Drake said quietly. Elena was pleased to see the boy was starting to calm down quite a lot now that Reno had left the room. However, both of them jumped as the office door swung open forcefully, hitting the wall behind it, and from the sounds of it, knocking several bits of plaster off. Reno entered, with a very sheepish look about him, and the way he was holding himself was very familiar to Elena.

"Reno…" Elena remembered when she had Reno walking with one hand tucked inside his jacket before. "You haven't…?"

"What?" Reno said defensively. Sighing, he pulled his hand out of his jacket, holding the small brown ferret he had christened Buster.

"Ugh, what's that?" Drake said in a disgusted tone.

Reno smirked and scratched the ferret behind the ear with his index finger. It yawned, then nuzzled it's tiny head into Reno's chest. "What?" The redhead said mischievously. "Don't ya have wildlife where you're from? C'mon, he won't hurt ya."

Reno tapped Buster gently on the head and he craned his neck around to look at the other people in the room. Elena smiled as Drake reached up and stroked the animal gently on the head.

"Ya see?" Reno put the ferret into the little boy's arms, and surprisingly, Drake took it willingly. "He's alright, ain't he?"

Drake didn't reply, he just smiled and sat down on the floor, putting the little ferret on his knee. Buster wandered around, sniffing Drake's clothes, and then yawned, laid down and closed its eyes. Elena had to admit, it was quite a strange sight; even though Drake was a little boy, she never thought she'd see such a soft side to him.

"Ya see? Everyone's got a heart…" Reno said amusedly looking at the little boy. "Just some peoples is better hidden with the Rufus disease… I call it 'bastard-ism.'

"You must be a critical case then…" Elena smiled. "Don't let him hear you say that." The blonde motioned in the direction of Drake, but Reno merely shrugged.

"What's he gonna do?" the redhead said carelessly. Elena was about to argue back when they were interrupted by a loud ringing sound. Reno sighed and pulled his PHS out of pocket. "Yeah?" he said answering it. "Um… no. Fine… whatever."

"What?" Elena enquired as Reno hung up the call.

"Rufus… he said Dot called-"

"That's not mommy's name…" Drake said looking up.

"Shut up." Reno said, clearly not listening to him. "She wants us to take him home… as in now."

"Now? Why?" Elena asked, slightly irritated. "And why do we have to take him back?"

"Hell knows…" Reno reached into his pockets and pulled out a set of keys. "But I guess we don't have anythin' better to do at the moment… c'mon brat."

Drake looked up from the ferret sadly. He took the animal back in his hands and stood up, reaching up to hand it back to Reno. The redhead sighed and slouched his shoulders. "Ya know what brat, keep 'im. He don't get looked after properly by me anyway."

Drake grinned and held Buster to his chest. "Thank you." He said. Elena had to stop her jaw dropping. How had Reno managed to have such an effect on the little boy in such a short space of time? On top of that, he'd managed to actually bring out the good side of Drake… something seemed wrong somehow.

Smiling cockily, Reno shrugged his jacket back onto his shoulders, and tossed his keys into the air, catching them again. "C'mon then brat… and you Drake." He turned and smiled at Elena mischievously. He left the room, with Drake at his heel, holding his new pet. Elena shook her head; it couldn't be good for Drake to take a liking to Reno. It would be like Reno raising a minion of his own, and she didn't imagine that either Dorothy or Rufus would be very happy. Still wondering what the outcome of this new found friendship would be, Elena followed them.


Reno slammed his car door shut and slung his seatbelt around his shoulder, clicking it into place. He checked behind him in the back seat to see if Drake was ready.

"You doin' alright with Buster there?" he asked grinning. Drake nodded happily, looking down at the snoozing polecat.

Still looking incredibly pleased with himself, Reno pushed his key into the ignition and turned it, so it started with a jolt. Elena swallowed; a driving experience with Reno wasn't usually a pleasant one.

The redhead pushed his foot down on the accelerator pedal and began driving surprisingly steadily. It didn't last long though, as he pulled out into the main road, he began to speed up.

"You know Reno, you're probably the cause of half the pollution in Midgar." Elena said, noting how much he was revving the engine.

"Yeah, so's your face." Reno said irritably; he was stuck behind a slow driver. "Moove, I've seen mobility scooters move faster."

"Reno, not everyone is as much of a dangerous driver as you are." Elena said, praying that he wouldn't overtake the car in front.

"I ain't a dangerous driver…" Reno said, opening the window.

"Oh yeah? How come you end up in fields and places like that then?" Elena asked matter-of-factly.

"It's always for a reason…" Reno shrugged. "Last time it's 'cause I swerved to miss a sheep… or it could've been a fluffy rock."

Elena smiled and sighed. Reno seemed to have given up on overtaking the driver in front. Drake was sitting so quietly in the back seat Elena could have quite easily forgotten he was there. All this added up to one thing; there was something going on inside Reno's head, and Elena wanted to find out what it was. She still hadn't forgotten about the pregnancy tests, and as soon as Drake got out of the care, that would be the first thing she mentioned. She was still angry about it, and as she sat waiting for the journey to finish a plan was forming in her head of how to get the redhead back. He had taken advantage of her, and now was going out of his way to annoy her, and now Elena was finally going to get her revenge.


A/N: And there ya have it. Hope you all enjoyed. Make sure you let me know what you think, and if you have any suggestions or ideas, they're always welcome. Please Review