A/N: Sorry, this chapter's a little short. Sorry guy's but this story is getting pretty close to the end, only a couple more chapters to go : ( I may come back to it though, if I come up with another idea that I can't make into a whole new story, so still keep your eyes on this.

Oh yeah, and as for Reno's little 'speech' it's supposed to be difficult to understand, thats not me being a terrible writer.

And another thing, I had someone mention it, so I'll put it now:

I do not own Final Fantasy VII, Reno, Elena or the Turks, Family Guy, or Drake and Josh

Enjoy

Chapter 25 - Plans

Waiting for Reno to wake up had to be the most boring thing ever. Elena sat and watched him, even thought he'd already been asleep for over 13 hours.

"Reno?" she nudged him. She knew she would regret waking him up, but that was a price she was willing to pay.

"What?" came an unexpected reply. Elena stared at him, shocked. He opened his eyes and sat up, completely oblivious to Elena gaping at him. "You gotta problem?"

"Not at all." Elena said, shaking her head. "Don't you have a headache?"

"What the hell do you think?" Reno said. He opened a drawer next to him and pulled out some painkillers. He tipped two in his hands and swallowed them dry.

"Come on." Elena said, standing up. "We're gonna be late for work."

"I thought you was on vacation?" Reno enquired.

"I was… I only had two days though." She told him. "And will you please learn to speak properly?"

"Shut it." Reno said, making his way to the bathroom. "You might as well go."

"See you later… don't be too late."

At least two hours later, Reno wandered into Elena's office, clutching a cup of something, probably coffee, and looking slightly bewildered.
"What the hell took you so long?" Elena demanded. "Tseng was asking about you."

Reno didn't reply. He simply looked at Elena and drained his drink. Elena stared at him, and was disgusted to realize that he hadn't changed his clothes.

"Reno, you took two hours, and you didn't even put on some clean clothes?"

"I have reason not to." Reno said knowledgably. "Clean clothes help to raise the confidence level, which helps self esteem, which helps you win games, which makes you rich, which leads to greed, which leads to more money, which leads to immense spending, which leads to stress, which causes a heart attack at the age of 31 and puts you in a coma for 10 years while you lose all your money, and you start at the beginning again."

Elena stared at Reno blankly. "I don't think that even deserves a response… no wait, it does. Are you on drugs?"

"Nope. I tried sniffing coke once but the ice-cubes got stuck." Reno said, smirking.

"I'll warn you now, don't waste your energy on clever thoughts today." Elena said, smiling at Reno.

"Wha... why?" Reno said, looking shocked.

"I thought, since you're eating healthily, we may as well take it all the way."

Reno looked at her sceptically. "What's the s'posed to mean?"

"You'll see, just make sure you're ready to leave on time." Elena grinned at him. "Well then, I think you should be catching up on your paperwork, don't you?"

"Yeah…" Reno took the pen he had borrowed from Elena the week before and sat down.

Elena was shocked. Reno had been sitting for 10 minutes and had not said a word. Perhaps he was trying to work out what Elena had meant. The blonde smiled to herself; he wasn't going to like this at all, but there was nothing he could do to get out of it.

"What's the date?" Reno asked suddenly.

"Um… November 3rd." Elena said, looking at him. He seemed to be working something out in his head.

"I knew it!" he cried suddenly. He suddenly looked at excited as a child at Christmas. "I knew there was a reason I was happy this morning!"

"Oh yeah?" Elena said dully. Anything that made Reno happy couldn't be good.

"Yeah. I only have two days left." He grinned.

"Two days?" Elena narrowed her eyes.

"You're slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter, you know that 'Laney?"

Oh yeah, the bet…" Elena smiled. "You know, it's not too late for the pressure of the whole thing to hit you… you could still lose."

"Yeah, but it's not gonna get any harder than this now…" Reno sighed, sitting down and putting his feet on Elena's desk.

"Just you wait…" Elena said deviously.