"Tseng, what are you doing back here?" Rufus snarled, pulling himself out of Reno. The redhead whimpered as he curled up into a foetal position.

"Seems I got here just in time, step away from him!" Tseng inhaled deeply his shoulders rising, hoping to cover the tidal wave of fear that just hit him like a ton of bricks.

"I'm hurt that you think he needs saving" Rufus adjusted his belt and did his jeans up. "Do I need to re-educate you too?" Rufus smirked as he placed a hand on Tseng's cheek

"Like hell." The long haired man slapped said hand away the second he felt it make contact with his skin. "I'm going to take him back to his house and we won't speak of this again, and you won't go near him again, do I make myself clear?"

"Ts-Tseng" Reno whimpered

"Shut up!" Rufus kicked the teen and turned back to Tseng. "I don't think that seems too fair on my part, I'm being denied my fun."

"Because your idea of fun isn't always what other people view as fun. I doubt he's enjoying himself."

"You're just as scared of me now as you were back then" Rufus grabbed Tseng's chin roughly digging his nails in for extra grip. "It's either him or you."

"Forget about me Tseng" Reno groaned trying to stand up.

"I told you to be quiet!" Rufus snarled picking the boy up by his hair. The redhead cried out as he clutched his head.

"Rufus put him down!" Tseng gritted his teeth. "I'll take his place."

"What are you doing? I'm used to this, just leave me!" Reno reached out in vain for Tseng

"You're finally going to give into me after all these years Just for this miserable little whore?"

"He's not a miserable whore." Tseng bared his teeth, his body was shaking.

"What was that?"

"I said he's not a miserable whore! And he's not just some toy!" Tseng snapped. Emotions boiled over as he pushed the blonde to the floor, his eyes wide yet pupils tiny "We're here to serve a purpose and that purpose isn't to baby some spoilt little brat. If you didn't want all this power then give it to someone else! Stop acting like a whiny little bitch and taking it out on everyone else! You never know everyone may just disappear if you don't!" Tseng inhaled and exhaled deeply, his body trembling in anger. Rufus was shocked into silence, his mouth opening and closing in shock, he grabbed Reno's clothes and handed them to the teen, his expression softening for a second, then turned back to Rufus. "He's coming home with me, and you can think what I said to you over, got it?"

"No one ever tells me what to do!" Tseng stormed over to the younger man, and swung his fist backwards at him. Rufus coughed as he clutched his face.

"Get used to it. From now on I'm laying down some rules you have to follow, because human resources will have a field day when they find out stuff you do."

Rufus smirked at Tseng's comment, "Wow, so you're going to take responsibility from me?"

"Yes because you can't seem to be mature about your position."

"mmm, I like the sound of that" Rufus purred as he attempted to drape himself over the man.

"Get off! We're going home." Tseng smacked the man in the jaw and picked up the redhead, hastily leaving the office.

"You're going to get into so much trouble for that" Reno stammered, his walk had a limp in it.

"Nah, he's pissed he won't push it" Tseng stopped then turned to Reno "I don't want you to ever repeat about what he did to me, understand?" Reno nodded quickly, scared Tseng was about to turn on him. "Come on, you're not walking like that" the long haired man bent over slightly and gestured to Reno jumping on his back, the redhead took up the offer.

The walk seemed calmer than ever, Reno was dozing on Tseng's back as he looked up at the stars, he was absent mindedly texting as he was walking, sending the message ahead to Cissnei to get Rude into a sober state of mind.

"Tseng...I didn't think you'd come to my rescue again...I'm sorry I'm such a hassle" Reno whispered gently.

"You can't help it half the time" Tseng shook his head "besides, they usually are stronger than you in one way or another. But Sephiroth has agreed to leave you alone; I had a word with Genesis Rhapsodos, he's good friends with him and has managed to get him to calm down."

"Thank you..." Reno snuggled into the back of Tseng's neck, in a strange way the two had finally connected, and the redhead was beginning to think of him as a father figure more and more as the days went past. "What actually happened?"

"With me and Rufus?" Tseng snorked "I wrote it down really, it doesn't go into much detail obviously, but he just wanted something or someone to dominate, you know? He promised me power and that was the catch" Tseng shrugged "I just developed a backbone and told him where to shove it, he gets off on that kinda crap. Dominates in the hope to be dominated."

"Twisted fuck" Cissnei huffed as she stood on the porch, "Hey Ren-ren? You ok?" Cissnei cooed over Reno like a little child.

"Maybe I'll tell you more one day kid. Until then you'd better sleep" Tseng nodded at Reno as he slipped off his back and darted into his flat where a worried rude was waiting.

He flung the door open, the skin head looked up eyes wide from being hunched over a mug of hot chocolate. His expression turned to semi relief when Reno staggered in. Rude launched himself up to catch the boy as he stumbled over his own feet, rude nuzzled in to Reno's neck.

"I'm home" the redhead smiled weakly.

"You did a really great thing for him Tseng" Cissnei poked him in the shoulder smiling.

"I just didn't want him to be exploited like I -" he stopped himself, but Cissnei already knew, she had a way of without any force getting people to just spill their life story to her, she knew what had happened. "I'm going to call her tonight."

"Go for it, I'll see you in the morning" she beamed as Tseng reached for the phone.

"Hi Aerith..."