It was late and Squall and Zell decided to grab a bite to eat at the mess hall. It was completely empty except for them. Zell was happy about today's earlier event with Ravi. Nothing could bring him down. Squall was equally happy about their success. In terms of the mission, things were going better than expected. Ravi trusted them so it would be easier to get him out when it was time to blow up the base.
As they ate their chocobo hot wings and fries, Remy once again made it over to visit them. "Evening fellas, how are you?"
"We're fine Remy and your self?"
"I can't complain, Shane."
"So what brings you here so late?"
"Well, I normally come here to think. You know be alone with my thoughts and all that rubbish."Squall understood wanting to be alone with his thoughts all to well. "Would you like us to leave?"
"No, my friend. You might as well stay. You haven't finished your food yet." He pointed to their half full plates. "I should be asking you do you want me to leave. I really don't want to bother you with my troubles."
Squall knew the hazards of keeping everything bottled up inside and definitely didn't like the results. "Well, we're all friends here." He made a sweeping motion with his hands. "Tell us what's wrong and maybe we can help."
Remy looked at them. His unusual purple eyes studied them for a moment. "Well, mates, it's like this. I'm worried about my future, once this job is done I'll have to move on but as you know the pay isn't all that great. I would barely have enough money to make it off this continent before I was broke. I can't go and ask my family for help because they won't have anything to do with me."
"I'm sorry to hear that Remy, I mean you're a good guy and all and I'm sure you'll find a way out of here. Me and Shane are in a similar predicament. Being that we lost our family in the war and all."
"Looks like we all had a rough life. Well no more of that, let's liven things up a little."
"How so?"
"I'm glad you asked Derek." Remy flashed him a toothy grin and his eyes seemed to sparkle in mischievous glee. Squall saw that look and immediately felt sorry for Zell. Well, better him than me.
Suddenly, Zell felt very uncomfortable. "Remember you owe me one for roughing me up the other day?" Squall took a swing of his drink and watched the exchange.
"Yeah, I always keep my word."
"Well, I want a date with Shane with your permission of course."
Squall's eye twitched. To his credit, he did not spit his drink across the table. He was able to swallow it without breaking into a fit of coughing. He did, however, drop his cup. Its content spilled all over the floor.
Zell was speechless. Hyne, how am I going to get out of this? Think think think. How would Seifer answer that? Suddenly a light bulb went off in his head. "Humph, is that all. I'd thought you'd be smarter and ask for money or something. Oh well, your loss my gain. You can take him out today if you want."
Remy seemed to think it over. His brow was knitted in concentration. "Sure." They shook on it.
"Well mates, see you later, especially you Shane" Remy left the mess hall.
"Shane man, are you okay?"
"Oh Hyne…"
I think I better get out of here before Squall tries to cook me. I can just see Seifer now talking about fried chicken wuss.
Zell stood up and quickly left the room.
AN: Extra Extra read all about it. There's a special one-shot story on my website, called Hot Summer Knights that takes place right after this chapter. The link to my site is in my profile. It's a comical look at the date between Shane and Remy. Now, as I've stated before. This story doesn't have any actual shonen ai or yaoi or any citrus flavored content. So if you're a little leery about that kind of stuff, don't worry. It's PG –13 all the way. It's also posted on fanfiction.net. BTW, I fixed the broken links to the fiction so the alternative chapters are up.