'Saffy!' Ronnie cried as Reno and Saffy burst through the doors of the Turks head office. He didn't hesitate he was off his chair moving towards her wrapping his arms around her waist taken over from his best friend who moved aside breathlessly, Saffy was heavier that she looked.

'Saf are you okay what happened?' Ronnie questioned desperatly looking at the blood on his girlfriend's top. Ronnie was tall much taller than Reno he towered over everyone in the office he also had inherited Rude's frame but he had Elena's hair, which was a blessing short and blonde and her delicate features, which made him look handsome he was the sort of boy girls took home to meet their Mother's.

'I got shot.' Saffy informed simply, as he forced her to sit in his chair.

'I can see that Saf I want to know who did it, who hurt you like this?' Ronnie questioned grabbing a first aid box kneeling down beside his girlfriend who sat in his high backed leather chair pulling up the fabric of her top just enough so that he could see the wound and not enough to give Reno or anyone else a flash of what she had under her clothes he started to treat her.

'Oowww!' Saffy wailed as the anticeptic touched her skin, her gaze darkened.

'Oh yeah this is really going to hurt.'

'You could have prepared me.' She complained through gritted teeth as he quickly bandaged her up.

'It's all part of the job you'll have to get use to this sort of thing when you're one of the Turks it's not as comfortable as you're desk job now.' Saffy shot Ronnie another dark look they'd talked or more she'd screamed her head off about this before, just because his parents had both been Turks and just because they'd happened to be Rude and Elena two of the four most infamous members of that organisation he felt that it gave him the right to lecture her to talk down to her.

'Baby I've just been shot I'm not exactly in the mood for this right now.' She whispered weakly growing accustomed to the pain in her side.

'I'm sorry Saf I didn't think it was incensitive of me.' Usually when his friend acted like that around his girlfriend Reno felt sick but this time he just brushed it off he wasn't even really listening he was to busy trying to make a dission, which would determine the rest of his life and end a part of it.

'You can be so sexist sometimes Ron.'

'Oh Saf you know I haven't got a problem with you becoming a Turk because you're a girl my problem is the fact that you're my girlfriend.' Reaching up her brushed his against against her soft cheek, the concern burned clearly in his eyes. Her bad mood faded as she realised how lucky she was to be alive she was luckier that Molly her mind went back to Hojo's lab to the young woman's body lying on his opperating table all alone.

'I don't wanna fight anymore.' She motioned keeping her voice low so that what she said remianed between just the two of them.

'I know it's okay.' Ronnie nodded back reasuring her as if he could read her mind.

'Lay back try to rest you're gonna need a medic I've patched you up the best I can.' He informed leaning down planting a kiss on her chapped lips, turning his back on her he moved towards Reno who was simply staring into space he'd never seen him like that before.

'I want you to tell me what happened and I know it's going to be hard for you but I don't want you to lie to me.' The sound of his bestfriend's voice snapped Reno out of his dreaming.

'It's Rufus.'

'Rufus shot my girl, why would he do that?' Reno frowned he wasn't explaining himself properly.

'No Hojo did.'

'Why would Professor Hojo, wait scrap that what was Saffy doing...look just tell me what's going on and who I need to hurt.' Glancing up at his friend Reno loosened the tie from around his neck he'd become a Turk to please his adopted parents Rude and Elena, to make the Father he barely even remembered proud he never stopped and thought wheather it was the right thing to do for himself. Reno didn't know what he wanted to do with the rest of his life but he was sure of one thing being a Turk wasn't part of his plan.

'I quit.' He motioned the words rolling simply off his tounge.

'Huh, you can't quit Re has Rufus fired you again is this what this is all about.' Slipping the tie off from around his neck he placed the black material in Ronnie's opened hand, he felt lighter it felt right. For this first time in his life he was looking forward he wasn't following his Father's steps or the steps of anyone else for that matter, Reno could just see himself waxing his surf bored when he learnt to surf that was with some pretty blonde/red head or brunette by his side, wait he scatched that mental image from his mind Aeris Strife by his side in the tightest bikini money could buy. Getting up from his chair he grabbed the bomerang he had inherited from his Mother Yuffie and head for the door.

Without saying another thing he turned his back on his old life and the Turks moving forward to join the fight for the future.