Author's notes: Hi guys! Yes, I'm back! I want to thank you all for all great reviews and support! And since everyone wanted a second chapter, here it is! Hopefully I didn't messed this entire thing up by making a second one :S anyway, there's a third one on the way! If you want it fas hurry up and review!
Disclaimer: I forgot one of this in the first chapter ' All the characters and places belong to Square enix. The plot's mine though!
Important notice: English is not my first language so I want to apologise beforehand for the mistakes! This chapter was beta read so hopefully there aren't any:S thanks!
When Reno didn't appear the next day at the bar Tifa got a little worried. The bar was quite empty, except for two older man playing cards in the corner and the same drunk that yesterday didn't want to go back to his wife.
She scrubbed the wet cloth against the hard wooden counter of the bar and rested her head on her left hand. Toughts like 'Where the hell is he?' and 'Why do I care anyway?' were racing trough her mind.
Tifa sighed and her eyes searched comfort in the clock that was hanging on the right wall. She felt her eyes close and the only thing she could hear now, was the hypnotising tic tac from the clock.
"Hey miss?" tic tac, tic tac...
Tifa didn't open her eyes. Tic tac, tic tac...
"Excuse me miss?"
"Hun?" Tifa opened her eyes and excused herself to the old man in front of her. He layed down some gil on the counter and left, raising a hand in salute kind of way. Tifa colected the money and sighed, yet again.
"Where the hell are you...?" She muttered to herself.
"I'm right here you hic hot mamma!"
Tifa turned to the drunken man and shoke her head. "I wasn't talking to you!" She glanced at the clock again. "I'm closing the bar now, so you better leave."
The drunken man made a fit much like yesterday but left anyway. Tifa began cleaning the tables and rinsing the glasses.
"It figures..." She started. "Why the hell did I think he would come anyway?" She scrubed the wood furiosly. "It's not like he'll keep his promises!" The wood was now cleaner than ever but, she kept scrubing it.
"Guys are all the same! You can't trust them one bit!"
Tifa heard the bell on the door chime but didn't bother to turn.
"I don't care who you are or what you want! Get out! We're closed!"
She didn't care if she was being rude! She was pissed of! And she didn't know why she was so angry...
She continued scrubing but then a soft Thud got her atention. She gazed back at the door and gasped at the sight.
There, laying on the ground, was Reno. His face and white shirt were all bloodied and he had lots of cuts and bruises everywhere. What had happened to him?
Tifa stood frozen for some seconds and then rushed to his side.
"Reno! Reno wake up! Come on!"
She kneeled down and grabed his head. His eyes were closed, but somehow his smirk managed to find it's way to his lips at the same time Tifa layed his head on her lap.
"Hi babe. I told you I would come back..." He coughed a little and his eyes tightened with the pain.
Tifa smiled sadly and helped him up, supporting him with her own body.
"Come on, let's go into the back so I can fix you up."
Reno could hardly walk, he was really beaten up. Tifa had no idea how the hell that had happened, but she took a note to ask him, after she fixed him up, of course.
"Geez... you're really heavy!" Reno grumbled in response. "Lay here." She helped him lay down on a small couch she had in the back room of the bar, near the spare drinks and cloths. There was also some broken chairs and tables from the bar fights.
Tifa sighed and started her search for some bandages. "To bad I don't have any materia around here. I would fix you up in a minute..."
She gathered her stuff and kneeled down near him. His breathing was slow and hard. His eyes remained closed and the left one was starting to sweal and it had a nasty colouring.
She looked at him, her eyes filled with worry and her heart ached for him like he was truly a good friend. Why was she feeling this way? He wasn't a friend, was he?
She ripped of his bloody shirt and had to make an effort not to gasp at the sight before her. Reno had a nice body...
"Don't have to hold your breath for me babe... stare away... it's all yours..." Reno smirked with some effort and coughed some more.
"Jerk!"
She tended to his cuts and all his wounds with devotion. After fourty-five minutes, she was done.
"There..." She sighed and admired her work. "Feeling better now?"
He opened his right eye and smirked. "I would... if you could fetch me up a scotch... with plenty of ice too!"
She looked at him and replied in a stern voice. "No can do. You need plenty of rest and no alchool mister!"
"Oh come on... just a little sip! Don't you want to ease my pain?" He winked at her. She tried to hide her smile.
"No." She got up. "Think you can walk?"
He lifted his body with some help from the brunette and winced a bit.
"Maybe... if you help me!"
Tifa nooded and helped him up. He leaned on her more than he had to but she didn't seem to notice it tough.
"Want me to take you to your appartment?" Asked Tifa while locking the front door of the Bar.
"I don't think I'll make it there..." He winced in pain. "Maybe we should go to your house... it's closer..." He tried not to look at her or she would know he was lying, he just wanted to spend some more time with her!
Wait... why did he want to do that anyway?
Tifa stoped sudenly. She took her arm from around his waist and stared at him. Reno lost his support sudenly so he fell down.
He scratched his head. "Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch..."
"My house?" She looked at him quizicaly. "My h-... I think you're fine now! Good night."
And with that she started walking away.
"Aww Tifa! Don't go away! I was serious, I really don't think I can walk all the way to my appartment!" Tifa stoped and looked back, left eybrow raised.
"I don't know if I belive you or not..."
Reno pouted a bit, much like a little kid. "Aw come on... You saw my wounds babe... I think I deserve a good night's rest with a preaty girl by my side..." Tifa looked at him, mouth open and an indignate look on her eyes. "And maybe, a good night kiss... if I get lucky..." He smirked.
"I don't think you're gonna be that lucky mister!" She answered back.
Then she sighed and contemplated on his situation for a second. She did see his wounds, and they were preety serious...
"Fine..." She came closer to him and helped him get up. "We'll go to my house..." They started walking. Reno smirked.
"And... where do I sleep?" He looked straight into her warm brown eyes and he noticed for the first time that her eyes had some sort of glint in them... they were beautiful.
She gave him 'the look'. "Don't push it buddy!"
"Oh! I'm your buddy now? We've made some progress, I belive... this asks for some drinks! Hope you got pleanty at home."
Tifa shook her head, a bit amused by his attitude and his light humour (as dirty as it was...). How did he manage to keep his cool atitude and his stupid jokes when he was in his state? Oh, that reminded her!
"So, Reno, who did that to you?"
He raised an eyebrow. "Hun? Oh! This?" He stared down at some of his wounds. "Aww... don't worry over it gorgeous!"
Oh no! She knew what he was doing! But he wasn't getting out of it this easy!
"Reno, I just wanna know! I mean, who did this beat you up preaty badly! And it's not like you can't defend yourself!"
Reno smirked at her. "Are you worried about me?"
Tifa felt somthing warm on her cheeks. Was she blushing?
"Of course not! I'm just curious!"
Reno chuckled. "I still think you're worried about me... admit it!"
"I'm not!"
Reno definitly got what he wanted... to piss Tifa of and... get away with an easy answer... oh but she wouldn't let it stay that way! Tifa would find out what had happened to him! Eventualy...
They finaly got to her home. It wasn't very big, but at least it was cozy! On her way in she panicked. She looked at her living room and then at her couch. It was a small couch... it wasn't big enough for Reno to sleep there!
She froze on the same spot. The entrance door was wide open and she still held the keys in her hand. Her mouth was a bit open and her eyes had a worried expression.
Reno looked at the living room and then back at Tifa. Then he looked at the living room once again. It looked okay to him, why was she so shocked?
"Erm... Tifa...?" When she didn't responded, Reno slythered his way out of her 'embrace' and looked at her paralised form one more time. He shruged and made himself at home.
He started by looking at the kitchen. It wasn't too big, but it wasn't small. Then he checked the bathroom.
"Ohhh fancy!" He checked all the bathing soaps and gels and all the lotions and stuff. "Just like a hotel!" He smirked while pocketing one of her soap bars.
And lastly, he checked the bedroom. Tifa's bed was a big one! Big enough for two people, maybe three if one didn't mind sleeping a little squeezed. Or maybe if one wanted to have a threesome...
Reno smirked at this tought and layed sluggishly on her big bed. He sighed. "I could get used to this..."
Meanwhile, Tifa was still entranced by the fact that Reno couldn't sleep in the couch so that would mean that he had to sleep in her bed. Wich, of course, she wouldn't let him! Being he the oh so famous Reno, ex turk and a pervert at hand!
Well... maybe not so pervert, but hey! Since she started having civilized conversations with him, she could notice all the hidden (and sometimes not so hidden!) sexual innuendos he managed to slip here and there.
For God's sake! She was being extremly pacient with him for letting him stay for the night! This was her house and he would do as she said! And she could even give him a choise: the small couch; the floor; or the street!
That setteled, Tifa finaly closed the door and placed the keys on the little table she had by the entrance. She sighed and called for her "guest".
"Reno! Where are you?" She stoped and listened. Nothing? She arched an eyebrow. Where the hell was he? "Reno! You better not be doing anything I won't like because you know it's not preaty when I get mad and-..."
Tifa halted on the entrance to her room. There, spraled on top of her bed was Reno, making himself very confortable on her house and on her bed!
Altough she was preaty mad at him, all the anger subsided when she got closer. He didn't look like Reno at all...
His eyelids were closed and, instead of the charming smirk, wait... charming? Since when was his smirk charming? Instead of his annoying (much better!) smirk, there was a small peacefull smile on his lips.
Tifa even found herself smiling. He was like a little kid! She remembered watching Marlene sleep and now she found many similarities between them.
His position was just like hers, arms and legs spraled one to each side, the bed looked like there had been a war on it, much like it happened with Marlene, and then there was the small smile.
Tifa was surprised! After all this time knowing Reno, she never knew that there might be a soft side to him... a new appealing side... wait a minute...? Appealing? Since when was Reno appealing? No wait! His new side was appealing? No... agh...
Tifa shook her head to rid herself of such confusing toughts. She remembered her resulution at the front door. Reno wouldn't sleep in her bed! Then she looked back at him.
Well... he could sleep in her bed just a while longer... She sighed and turned away, closing the bedroom door on her way out.
"Geez Tifa... you're getting soft!"
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