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Tifa and Reno were making plans for their new Shinra.

"This is crazy, we'll never be able to do all of this." Reno sighed.

Tifa took his hand in hers "It's going to take time, but in the end it will be worth all the work."

He stared into her redish brown eyes. Tifa blushed and looked down. "Why am I feeling like this?" Tifa thought to herself, she couldn't figure it out, Reno had done really bad things. Her thoughts were interrupted by a huge smash on the door.

They ignored it and continued talking.

"What about money?" He asked, followed by another smash on door.

Tifa looked concerned, "Money isn't a problem, I assure you, But what is that noice?"

Suddenly the door broke and opened to reveal a beaten up Elena, she ran into the house and lunged at Reno.

"Why Did you do it you stupid bastard!!" She flew at him knocking him off the chair and onto the floor.

She straddled him and began slapping him across the face.

Tifa got up and raised her fist, she had to help him, that's what she had promised.

"NO! Don't hurt her." Reno shrieked, he grabbed Elena and rolled over so he was on top of her, Tifa couldn't stop, she punched Reno in the shoulder. He winced slightly but it didn't hurt to much.

Tifa was so confused.

Reno got up and picked up Elena.

"Wutain guards came and attacked us! They're saying that you raped their princess!" Elena shouted.

"Where are Rufus and Rude?" He asked.

"They got rid of all the guards, then Rude said that we all had to stay away from you because you are bad news, so I ran off!" Elena spoke up in a small voice.

"I'm glad you're safe, but this is all my fault." Reno clenched his fists. "Rude will be so worried about you!"

She scoffed, "He treats me like a child! I got here all on my own, I don't need him smothering me, I can't stand it!"

"I know, but he loves you, he'll blame me for all of this and you have to calm down okay?." Reno sat back down on his chair, Tifa had got him an ice pack for his lip, Elena had cut it when she attacked him.

"It was my decision to leave ......................I'm sorry I hit you sir, I was just so angry." Elena sat down in the chair that Tifa had been sitting in.

Tifa pulled up a chair and sat in silence.

"You don't have to call me sir now." Reno replied, he wasn't worthy of her respect anymore.

Elena was holding the ice pack against Reno's face, She half smiled.

"Do you want me to get you anything, I mean like a potion or something." Tifa spoke up.

"No I'm alright, but could you get some for Elena." He replied, noticing that she had acquired some wounds of her own, probably from the guards.

Tifa smiled and nodded, she was feeling surprisingly jealous of the attention that the young blonde woman was receiving.

"What is all this." Elena asked as she noticed the paper's on the table.

"Tifa had an idea, we're going to rebuild Shinra." Reno said, he hoped Elena would help.

"Really! Oh that's great! Can I get a job working for you?" Elena's bright brown eyes sparkled with the excitement and eagerness that she had when she was in the Turks.

It bought back memories for Reno, Elena would always be so psyched before missions.

"Yeah, You can be vice president if you want to!" He couldn't help smiling at her.

Tifa was taken back by how gorgeous he looked when he smiled like that. It was a strange sight for her, her former enemies, the feared assassins, smiling at each other as if they were the best of buddies.

"I guess there is more too people than meets the eye." Tifa thought again.

"Really, you'd trust ditzy lil' Elena with a position like that?!" She asked.

"Of course, I think you'd do a great job." Reno assured her.

"What about Tifa, what do you want to do?" Elena asked.

Reno felt bad, he had been showering attention on Elena and had forgotten about Tifa's kindness to him. He turned to look at her.

"Um I don't really know, what sort of things could I do." She replied.

"How about Head of weapons." Elena spoke up.

"Hmmm, I don't think that that one is right for Tifa, and we could always get Scarlet back." Reno concluded.

"Ohh, did you not hear about what happened to Scarlet, It turns out that the affair she had with Tseng landed her pregnant, So she has to raise the child all by herself. She eventually moved to Wutai so Tseng's sister could help her out and now she denies having any connection to Shinra." Elena said.

"You knew about Scarlet and Tseng, I always tried to keep that from you." Reno reflected.

"I know you did, but we're going off the point, we need to find the perfect position for Tifa."

"What about head of catering? people always talk about your legendary cooking abilities." Reno asked.

"I like the sound of that! and do people really talk about my cooking?" Tifa was flattered.

Reno nodded.

"What da Blazes happen' to my door!" Barret shouted as he came into the room.

"Oop's, I'm so sorry, I'll get it fixed and pay for all the damage, really I'm so sorry." Elena panicked and tried to apologize, Her rage had caused her to act irrationally.

She looked up at Barret, the poor little, blonde woman was terrified.

"What's she doin' here! we got enough Turks already." He asked Tifa.

Marlene playfully punched Barret's leg. "Don't shout papa, you are scarin' her." She scolded him.

"Barret, Elena's here to help, and you know she's harmless." Tifa whispered to him.

Elmyra also came into the room.

"Are you alright dear? he may act tough but he's a puppy under it all." She whispered to Elena, she smiled gratefully.

"Me and Myra have to go do grocery shoppin, so would you mind watchin' Marlene?" Barret asked, he decided to drop the Elena situation, Elmyra would force him to let her stay anyway.

"That's okay, she is no trouble." Tifa replied.

"Thanks Tiff, but are you going to be okay with red and blondie?" He asked.

"I'll be fine!! Now go and don't forget to buy something for lunch." She smiled. The two of them left.

" 'Scuse me lady, but will you come play with me?" Marlene asked as she tugged on Elena's hand.

Elena looked at Tifa to see if it was alright, Tifa nodded.

"Sure I'd love too." Elena lifted up Marlene.

Tifa sat back down with Reno.

"I'm sorry she caused you so much trouble." He said.

"It's okay, the door can be fixed. I'm sorry I punched you, how is your shoulder?" Tifa asked.

"Yeah I'm fine, but lets get back to planning our new company." Reno was excited about it now.

Tifa smiled and they began work.

"So, what's you're name?" Marlene said.

"It's Elena."

"I think that is the prettiest name, do you wanna know why, its because my mummy was called Eleanor, that's like Elena isn't it, but she died." Marlene handed Elena a doll to play with.

"I'm sorry, my mom died when I was little too." the two girls sat in silence a minute.

"So is that man your husband?" Marlene abruptly asked.

Elena was lying on her stomach brushing the doll's hair. "You mean Reno, Hahaha, No we aren't married, we just used to work together."

"What did you do for a job?" Marlene asked.

Elena didn't want to tell Marlene the nasty things that she did as a Turk,

"Um, We sold Ice cream's and milkshakes." she lied.

"Wow, that sound's like a great job, I bet you had lots of fun. But why was my papa so mad at you?"

"Man, you ask a lot of questions!" Elena thought.

"He was angry, because, because....oh one day he came to our store but we were all out of his favourite flavour of ice cream!" Elena covered.

"That sounds like my papa alright! So why did you stop making Ice cream?" Marlene continued questioning.

"Um because soon it will be winter, and no one wants Ice cream in winter." Elena answered, she was coming up with excuses quickly.

"Do you have a boyfriend?"

"Well sort of, but I ran away from him........" Elena remembered how she had abandoned Rude and Rufus.

"Why did you run away, did he not like you're ice cream?"

"No its not that." Elena chuckled, Marlene was so innocent. "He said horrible things about Reno, and us Ice cream making people have to stick together and not give up on each other. That's what I think anyway."

"I think that its nice you came to find your friend, and I bet next summer you'll make even more ice cream together!" Marlene assured her.

Elena could help but laugh, Everything seemed so simple to Marlene, it was so admirable in her eyes.

"Do you think we should head back now?" Yuffie asked Vincent.

"If you want too, I'm not bothered." He replied.

"I think we should check how Tifa's doing, It was harsh of me to dump Reno on her."

"I still don't trust that guy." Vincent said.

"You don't have to trust him, just trust me and my judgement." Yuffie reassured him.

"Alright, if you say so." He gave in, "Come on lets go."

Yuffie held on to his hand as they walked, Vincent smiled, it was good to have her back.

"I bet they're making lunch, I'm starving!" Yuffie announced

"Look its Barret and Elmyra, they've got a lot of bags, lets go and help." Vincent suggested.

Yuffie rolled her eyes, "Oh alright, If we have too." She joked.

They helped with the shopping and walked towards the house.

"Hey, what happened to the door?" Yuffie asked.

"Its long story." Elmyra said, she noticed that Barret was getting a little worked up again, so it was best not to talk about it.

Tifa and Reno were still sitting at the table discussing their idea's she

"We're back." Barret called out. Marlene came out of her room to greet him.

Elena came with her. Barret shot her a cold look and then another to Reno.

"Oh papa, they'll have your favourite ice cream some day." Marlene said as she noticed what he had done.

Everyone looked confused, Elena giggled as she sat down next to Reno.

"What have you been telling her?" He whispered.

"Don't worry about it." She replied.

"What are you doing here?" Yuffie asked.

"I came to find Reno after we got attacked by Wutain guards." She replied.

"Uh-oh, I'll talk to Godo." Yuffie sighed, word of what had happened must have reached him by now, she took her PHS and went into her bedroom.

Vincent walked over to Elena, "Look, I'm really sorry about earlier, I just had to make Rude see that I needed to find Yuffie."

"It's alright really, I knew you wouldn't really hurt me, You aren't a bad guy." She replied.

"So where is Rude, I want to apologize to him as well." Vincent looked around the room.

"I ran away from him." She said quietly.

" May I ask why?" Vincent asked, Rude acted so protectively of her earlier.

"It's none of your business! But if you must know its because he's a backstabber and he's kinda boring." she snapped.

Vincent was surprised. "I thought you loved him?"

"No way! He hardly ever says anything and he always smothers me, but not in the good passionate way, In the boring cuddly way."

Reno laughed at this, "You'd never guess that by looking at him."

Vincent's attention was lost in this conversation. Yuffie came out of the room looking incredibly triumphant.

"I told him it was all lies and that he's soooo gullible!" She sighed.

Reno and Elena were privately talking about something, It seemed important so Tifa decided to start making lunch for everyone.

She was happy that she could help Reno, she looked over at him as she started to cook the soup Barret had bought.

Elena seemed to be trying to convince him about something, He looked thoughtful for a while and then nodded. Elena seemed overjoyed about this, she leapt up and hugged him tightly, She then sat down on his lap.

Tifa frowned, "What a floozy, she just abandoned her boyfriend and now she's all over his ex-best friend."

Tifa felt bad, Elena had been so nice to her and she'd kept Marlene amused while they worked. But it didn't change the fact that she was sitting on Reno.

"Elena could you help me serve this food please." Tifa called out.

Elena nodded and got up. "Where do you want me to put these." She asked as she picked up the tray with all the bowls of soup on."

"Just put them on the table in the dinning room please." Tifa said with a smile.

Elena smiled back, she carried the tray carefully through to the dinning room, She didn't know that Red XIII had came into the house and was sleeping on the floor. Poor Elena tripped and the bowls went flying. They crashed down around her, covering her in soup.

She bit her lip, she was going to be so much trouble .

"I'm sorry Miss." Red XIII spoke up, She screamed at the fact the large dog was talking.

The others came into the room and stood their with shocked looks on their faces.

Elena hung her head, she got up and began to clean up.

"I'm sorry." She murmured.

Aeris walked up behind the group that had formed around Elena, she peered over Yuffie's shoulder and burst out laughing.

Cloud was still inspecting the broken door, Aeris waved him over.

"It look's like we missed an interesting day." She commented.

"Don't worry about it." Elmyra said to Elena, "You go and take a shower and get cleaned up, I'll take care of this."

Elena thanked her and quickly exited the room, looking terribly embarrassed.

Luckily they had wood flooring and it took only a matter of minutes to clean up.

"I told you she was going to be trouble." Barret whispered.

"Oh leave the poor thing alone." Elmyra replied.

Tifa went back into the kitchen to make some more food.

Elena showered and wrapped a towel around herself. She would have to go and ask if she could borrow some clothes as she had not packed any.

Tifa agreed to lend her the blue dress that she had worn to Don Corneo's mansion, It wasn't totally appropriate but it was all she had to give her.

They all sat and ate together, switching stories about what they had done that day. Tifa chatted away about all the plans they had made.

Cloud was happy that Tifa had cheered up, she'd been really quiet for along time now.

Elena entered the room, she kept a careful eye on where Red XIII was so she didn't trip. Everyone seemed to have forgotten about what she had done, so she tried to sneak in unnoticed.

"Come and sit with me!" Marlene waved her over.

All of the boys gawked at her in the dress, this made her feel terribly uncomfortable.

Elmyra smacked Barret's arm, Aeris smacked Cloud on the head, Yuffie elbowed Vincent, Tifa felt left out so she clipped Reno round the ear.

Everyone laughed out loud. Elena crossed her arms around her chest and blushed deeply.

"Don't you the food?" Tifa asked Cloud and Aeris.

"No its delicious as always Tifa, its just we ate a lot on our picnic." Aeris replied.

Cloud was staring at Aeris, it still felt like a dream to him, seeing her again, hearing her talk.

She turned to face him and smiled. Everybody looked so happy as they sat around the table, it was a complete contrast to the party that they had had where everyone was being cruel to each other.

After Lunch Reno stepped out for a cigarette, Elena shortly followed as she felt intimidated by all of the AVALANCHE members.

"Rude will come looking for me." Elena spoke up sadly to Reno.

"He can't take you, you don't belong to him." He said confidently

"I know, but if, if, things do turn ugly will you help me, I feel like a jerk asking you to help me and betray Rude." She felt weak and pathetic.

"Elena, listen to me, you came and found me and although you gave me a good pounding I know you did it to stand by me, even after all I've done........" He trailed off.

"Doing bad things doesn't mean you are a bad person, Sometimes things just happen. But it doesn't change the fact you are Reno, and Reno saved my butt on many occasions." She philosophized.

"That didn't make any sense, but I understand what you're trying to say. I'll promise I won't let Rude take you away, if you promise to stop acting like a princess that needs protecting, because you're better than that and I know how strong you can be." He held out his hand to signify that this was a deal.

Elena nodded and shook his hand. "It's a deal!"

"Lets go back inside, I think Tifa is waiting for me and you'll get cold if you sit outside in that outfit." He teased.

"Hey Reno, you didn't smoke?" Elena noticed that he had not lit his cigarette.

"It's strange, I suppose I just don't feel like it now." He shrugged and put it back in the box.

She was surprised, all Reno used to do at the warehouse was smoke and drink. Maybe getting away from that place was the best thing for the both of them.

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