Prompt: Blackmail. Written for Past Prompts week.


Don Corneo was kidnapping young girls and selling them off again. Old Rufus would have just laughed or demanded a share to keep him quiet. New Rufus wasn't happy about it – and decided to make that displeasure known with some old fashioned blackmail.

The change still confused Reno occasionally.

"Keep it quiet, understood?"

"Yes, sir." Reno accepted photographs from his boss. "Sure this will work?"

"No man likes to be accused of liking transvestites, especially ones with sexual reputations."

"And if Strife finds out?"

"That's why you're supposed to keep it quiet," Rufus reminded him. "He doesn't need to know."