stain of my love, pt II
ffvii, reno/aeris, pg-13, many words, written for stephie
notes; I know it's taken a forever. But here it is! And more is going to be written in the future. They'll have their tiny sordid affair. This is just as angsty as I think my dear Stephie would like it. :D Looked over by rubykate. PS. I re-wrote bits of part one and edited the entry so check that out, as well.
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Nights off work mean alcohol; mean spending your paycheck on beer and double Scotch, mean getting fucked up just so you can forget all about work - all about life. Reno knows this is all much too stupid but he also considers that most people don't work in a job like his. Most people don't see what he sees daily. It's not pretty, but it's a job and somebody has to do it. He deals with it in his own way. As stupid as it may be.
His Mako-infused brain too tired to think, Reno heads outside, fresh air, he thinks, fresh air is good. There's not much fresh air, so Reno has to compromise and he breathes in cold air with the scent of dirt and he guesses it's good enough. In all honesty, he's quite used to it. He stays outside for a while, considers smoking a cigarette, a bad habit he picked up from Rude; one of the many bad habits he picked up from Rude.
He's just about to light up, when he sees the girl. The girl, still dressed in the same light shade of pink, her curly ponytail still swinging from side to side as she walks. It's dark, so she doesn't see him and walks on, probably to the safety of her home, Reno thinks. He smiles a lop-sided smile and forgets about the cigarette.
Silly girl from the slums, shouldn't be out so late, he thinks and decides to follow her, not to scare her (well, maybe a little), not to harm her (we'll see), but to observe her. He hasn't forgotten what a pretty little thing she was (still is), so he tells himself he just wants to watch.
But when she notices him tracing her steps she tries to run and he has to run after her. To his luck, she's not a very fast runner, but after catching her, Reno finds it quite difficult to hold her still. She spits words at him and struggles to free herself, but he doesn't let go of her shoulders, trapping her to face him.
And she's still so incredibly pretty. So fragile, too. Reno always liked that sort of thing in a girl. Petiteness. But this girl's something extra. She's a good girl. Reno knows this because Reno's a bad guy. The beauty of the whole thing is of course that good girls don't fuck bad guys, good girls don't actually fuck at all, they've got nicer terms for these things. But it doesn't end there. The thing that Reno finds very amusing is that bad guys don't really give a fuck about whether good girls normally fuck bad guys, they do it anyway.
This is why Reno kisses her. Her mouth doesn't taste like anything, but soon he tastes flowers and it's too typical, so he figures it's a scent rather than a flavour. Aeris responses to his kiss, but only to bite his lower lip a second later. She doesn't bite gently like to say it's her kink, just what she does whenever she kisses someone. No, she bites hard and Reno gulps down a tea spoonful of his own blood before he pushes her away. Then he's spitting and cursing and calling her all things you shouldn't call a lady, especially on a first date.
She's standing there against an ugly wall (such contrast), her hands behind her back, his blood on her lips and dress and she could run away, here's her chance, but she's too good for that. Or too stupid, or too horny. Reno isn't fit to tell. He never understood women anyway.
"Bastard," she breathes out. Reno smiles, blood still dripping from his lip and he thinks blood looks sexy on her.
Reno takes a few staggering steps toward her and attempts to clean the blood from his chin, but failing at this, he walks forward. And then he's against her and she gasps, but doesn't push him away.
Kissing hurts this time, but Reno muses it's worth it. It's worth anything to know that the charm's still there. The same old story; the good girl hates the bad guy, but wants him and can't really help herself.
It could go on a forever, but Reno decides it doesn't. He pulls away and maybe he wants to be the good guy tonight, take her home, give her a goodnight kiss and ask her out. Maybe they'll date and end up married eventually, maybe he'll hide her from Shin-Ra, maybe he'll run away with her to somewhere where the company's grasp doesn't reach.
Reno laughs at this and looking at Aeris, he sees she's got this hesitant look on her face. She just might run away and Reno doesn't really know what to do with her anymore, so he just might let her go.
Or then not. Why would he make the same mistake twice?