Forget this life come with me---

"What?" I said staring at him.

My mind began to race. So many nights I would lay in bed and think of just running off and pretending it all never happened. But there were too many risks. I couldn't leave; they even had tracking devices planted into my body. Why was he asking me these questions? I stayed quiet I didn't want to speak one word about it.

"Elena, you know what I dream about? I dream about running away, far away…getting lots of money and starting my own little business, a small shop…a simple life. No more following orders and chasing down bad guys." He said turning away from me.

My heart raced faster and faster. He wanted to leave here too? I didn't know what to think or to say. I just stood there wild eyed staring at him.

"Reno…what are you talking about? You are leaving?" I said still staring at him

He laughed slightly and smiled at me.

"What do you dream about?" He said staring deep into my eyes.

How could I tell him that I dreamed of the same thing? How if I only could I'd take off running so fast away from ShinRa and all the pain in my life and just start over clean, a fresh new start. That would never happen…that's why it's only a dream. I looked down and shook my head.

"Reno…come on lets go find Tseng." I said walking away.

"No…" He said lightly grasping my arm. "Come on Elena. Forget this life, come with me…don't look back your safe now, unlock your heart…drop your guard. No one is left to stop you now."

I gasped and stared at him. I knew he would leave here with or without me, he was fed up with it all just like me. He was right; I would be safe leaving with him.

"But Reno…How can we just pick up…and go?"

He smiled and I knew he had already thought the entire plan inside his head.

"Well…..first…we die." He said slowly, pulling out a knife.

My eyes widened as I backed up quickly.

"No no no…" He laughed. "I mean, we find a couple of homeless people, kill them, shed our blood across them, our clothing….then burn them. No one would ever know the difference….then we run….change our appearance our names…" He said getting excited about it.

I just stood there staring at him, was I really stupid enough to go through with this? Well…you guessed it. Sure enough here I was dragging a dead homeless woman across the alleyway and slicing my own arm to shed blood across the woman. A few moments later Reno came from around the corner, dressed in commoner clothing. I was astonished. It was the first time I'd ever seen him out of uniform. He tossed something at me.

"Here, go get changed I need your clothes!" He said pointing to me.

I walked around the corner of the building and off behind a tree. I looked at the outfit. A long sleeved white button up shirt and…..WHAT? A tan skirt! I don't wear skirts! Eww. I looked around a moment, and then put the skirt on…sucking in my pride because I knew it would make Reno happy. Wait? What? Since when do I care if he's happy? Ugh, what am I thinking! Anyways, I put on the clothes because I needed to burn the others.

After dressing I slowly walked back over to Reno. He smiled a bit seeing me in a dress.

"Lovely…" He said sticking his tongue out a bit.

I rolled my eyes and tossed the clothes at him.

"Yeah yeah, just get on with the burning." I said leaning against the wall.

After a few moments, the bodies lay covered in soot. I shook my head a little. It was creepy to watch that.

"Well…come with me…" Reno said walking off towards a large building.

"What?" I said following him.

He led me into a closed hospital and back into an old Lab. He looked at me and sat down on a chair.

"We…are going to have to remove our tracking devices…they are implanted in our hands." He said taking out a knife and frowning.

I nodded and walked to him holding out my hand. He smiled a bit and held tightly to my arm as he sliced into the skin on my palm. I breathed heavily as I watched the blood run from my hand across his. He smiled a moment looking down at the small tracking device.

"Luckily the systems are down right now…or they'd already be on our tails." He said tossing it out the window. He grabbed a small towel and placed it in warm water then wrapped it around my hand. "There…just gimme a second to do mine." He said as he scraped across his own hand with the knife.

"All done…now….we need a change…" He said wrapping his own hand and standing up.

He looked at me. "What you think about brown?"

I looked at him a moment. "Brown what?"

"Your hair…come here….I got to dye it…and your eyes…I have contacts for you." He said smiling a little.

I was still completely skeptical about the whole ordeal but I trusted Reno. He was a good guy; he was the only one who had always been nice to me no matter what.

After a few hours of silence Reno spoke the first words.

"Umm.." He coughed. "Look in the mirror…"

I stood staring into a large mirror. My mouth dropped not knowing who I was looking back.

"Well…do you like it?" Reno said smiling at me.

"Who am I?" I said touching my hair.

"Who do you want to be? I always liked the name…Rini…it means Little Bunny in Japanese." He said laughing a little.

"Do I look like a bunny?" I said turning back quickly.

"Uhh…well no. I just meant…well bunnies are totally NOT you Elena….something completely different." He said trying to make it easier. He didn't want to say what he truly thought. Bunnies were cute…and innocent…just the way he thought she looked.

I smiled a moment…

"Rini….My name is Rini…"

I sat down and waited while Reno sat in the back working on himself. A few hours later he emerged. I gasped seeing his new appearance. different." I said standing up and walking to him.

He smiled and stuck his tongue out a little.

"The names…..Dimitri VanBraff…and you…are my…."

"You're what?" I said staring at him.

"Umm…sister…I guess." He said looking in the mirror.

I smiled a bit.

"Yeah…alright….Rini and Dimitri VanBraff!" I said walking over to him. "So…what now?"

A huge smile crossed his face.

"The Gold Saucer…to make money of course!" He said grabbing a bag and filling it with random things he picked up along the way.