Stained Souls
Chapter 18: Life in Reno
Beads of water dotted along Reno's bare back and droplets dripped from his drenched skin. Cloud's skin had the same effect as since both were wet in the shower no matter how little bathing they did while the two were together. Cloud stretched his neck towards the heavens while he felt Reno's tongue glide down his throat and over his Adam's apple.
Both of their gasps came short and hushed under the constant hiss of the shower. The blonde pulled Reno's hair a little more as the Turk began thrusting deeper into him. His hands caught Cloud from his knees as the shower wall held them both up. Skin against skin, they slicked and slide with one another as much as their tongues when they kissed.
"Vincent?" Scarlet eyes looked up from the crumbling sidewalk of Midgar's trashy areas. "It's been almost two months since Cloud left and I was wondering…" Her thoughts ran away from speech.
"That I could go back and find him. One more time." The Ex-Turk finished.
"Maybe this time he will stay, and things will be different." Hope brightened those darkened eyes. She couldn't count the hours of sleep she missed over worry of her secret love. A similar fire burned in the center of her iris where for the longest time stayed cold.
"No Tifa." Vincent's speech was barely audible. "A second chance won't erase the pain he felt that made him leave. We just have to cope with that." Tifa's patience worn thin enough to rip from Vincent's words.
"Do you have any idea how much he means to me! He's all I got from home. Everyone else is dead and if he's gone… then I'm alone." At this Vincent turned to face Tifa wearing her true face. A face of worry and tears.
"There is nothing I can do." He sounded sorry as he felt for Tifa. He began his way past Tifa. "The only advice I have is to hold on to those pictures in your album. Because faces like that don't exist in Midgar."
After Reno quickly packed his stuff in a case and ran off with Cloud did Rude come back to find the place vacant of the fiery redhead. You could imagine how much the silent Turk threw his fist against the wall hard enough to crack or the hours of time that was spent in silence with just him alone, pondering of where Reno would be now.
At the beginning Rude played the hermit for a good while. Ignoring his calls from several of contacts he and Reno worked for, and surviving only on the taste of alcohol and bar peanuts. He knew there was an ending for everything, including him and Reno. Even after the event that broke them apart they were still together, just not in each others arms during the night. But slowly his plans of how to respond when it ended eventually faded and now he saw himself in a state he tried hard to stay away from.
A sopping puppy who lost its home is what you would call Rude. Moping around aimlessly through downtown Midgar not caring the world around him. Until one day, when sorrow was unbearable, he managed to hire a detective for Reno. And guess what: he found him and not alone.
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