Okay this has undergone a change. The scene between Loz and Yazoo is the original one I wrote. Still basicly the same but a little different. And I kind of organized this more.

Loz paced the living room of he and his brothers apartment. He had returned from helping Tseng and Elena redesign the surveillance systems for the new HQ that would be built in Edge. The small blonde Turk had been cold to say the least, she went out of her way to avoid speaking to Loz or having anything to do with him. Loz got the impression it had something to do with how Yazoo and Kadaj had played with them when they had caught them. Tseng, of course, was ever the professional. At first Loz wasn't sure why they would want him there for something that he didn't know much about. Then Tseng began asking him what materials were easier to break through? If Loz had to get from this room to this room without being seen how would he do it?

Hours later the Turks had been satisfied and the plans were sent off to the company that would implement them. When they had returned Loz had seen Rude in the hallway so he knew that Yazoo should be back as well yet his brother was nowhere in sight and it was late. Come to think of it he hadn't seen Reno around either…

Loz sat heavily on the couch and scowled at nothing. He knew Yazoo well enough to know that his brother would do exactly what he wanted to do, when he wanted to do it, but that didn't mean it was a bad idea. The Turk was trouble. A few days ago the redhead would have happily killed both of them without a second thought and now he and Yazoo were…

Loz didn't want to think about it. The sound of the door opening made him turn. Yazoo was shutting it softly behind him. His brother flicked on the light leaving Loz blinking in the sudden glare.

Yazoo gave him an odd look for sitting alone in the dark and went into the kitchen. Loz got up and followed to lean against the door frame and watch his brother. "How was it with Tseng and Elena?"

Small talk? Since when did Yazoo make small talk? "Boring. Where were you? Rude was back awhile ago." Loz tried not to nonchalant but he had the feeling he didn't manage it very well.

Yazoo was filling a glass with water and just shrugged. "Walking. Needed to clear my head. The files that Rude and I brought back were…unexpected."

Loz cocked his head. "What do you mean?"

Yazoo sighed and began to lean a hip against the counter then winced and stood straight again. "Some of them were the security tapes from the labs when we were young."

Loz's mind went from analyzing his brothers odd movement to come to a screeching halt. "What? Where are they now?" The idea of those tapes existing didn't sit with him either.

"Rufus has them. He said they were to be destroyed along with other files containing information on Sephiroth." Yazoo didn't seem at all concerned about the fact that he had just left their entire childhood history in the hands of a man they barely knew. And what a history it was too…

Then Loz saw it. His hair covered it well but his brother had tilted his head back to take a drink and it had been unveiled for just a second. There had been marks on him like that after he and Kadaj had been together…marks that you got from someone's lips and teeth.

"What's that?" Loz asked, pointing and not bothering to hide his accusatory tone. Yazoo put a hand to his neck with a confused expression that gave way to the definition of Oh Shit.

For a second Loz thought he would just walk away when he sneered. "What do you think it is Loz?" He hadn't heard that tone of voice from his brother in a long time. Sarcastic, biting and frigid. Loz didn't want this. It really was Yazoo's business who he decided to take to bed. He didn't want to push his only family away over something like this anymore.

Loz just smirked and gave a short laugh. "Was it good?"

Yazoo almost choked on the water he had been in the middle of swallowing. When all vital airways were clear he looked up at Loz through his fringe with a devilish smile that said it all.


Elena had taken the disks with her when Tseng had come for the shift change. But she had not taken them to the incinerator. Personally she was disgusted with Rufus's decision to take in the clones. After all the trouble that they had caused, not to mention the pain they had caused him and the Turks she had expected them to at least be killed. True, they were proving useful and they were most definitely short staffed but she still saw it as something very close to disloyalty. Whatever was on the disks was upsetting to the clones. She wanted to know what it was.

Of course Rufus would not be happy with her deviating from his orders but he never really needed to know. If she could find something to discredit the clones, show that they were just faking this complacency then maybe she could convince Tseng and Rufus that they were still a threat, better dealt away with.

Safe in her apartment she loaded the disks into her laptop. She clicked through boring text files about the Specimens 18 and 19. Specimen 20 showed up later on and she finally found the video files. A small boy, about three years old was given basic logic and reasoning tests. They were similar to what she had been given when hired by Shinra and was surprised at the high scores that subject 20 produced. At first sight it was hard to tell whether subject 20 was Yazoo or Kadaj but she decided it had to be the later as they were most likely numbered chronologically and Kadaj had been the youngest.

Elena searched forward and found a video of a child, this one obviously Loz and around seven years of age. He was fighting what she found to be at first glance a SOLDIER third class. The SOLDIER was putting up a good fight but she could see that he was tiring. Loz finally took him down by breaking his spine with a kick to his neck. The child had minimal injuries, the worst being a cut from the SOLDIER's knife that stretched across the childs chest. A door slid open in the white room and two scientists entered. One inspected the dead SOLDIER and the other stood looking at the child.

The scientist seemed displeased with the childs injuries but made no move to help him. The video ended and Elena glanced at the text files.

Subject 18 kept in isolation without rations for three days due to failure to perform successfully in combat training.

A seven year old had killed a SOLDIER and it was labeled unsuccessful?

A further investigation into the text files revealed the kind of thing she was looking for.

Subject 19 appears to be extremely talented at manipulation. Results from tests conducted in a live environment (Junon) show that subject does exceedingly well at accomplishing tasks which require the cooperation of a citizen. Subject has learned to use his physical appearance as well as considerable acting skills to charm others into acting for him and with him, even in acts that the citizen would most likely have previously been adverse to.

Further testing will be done on this as so far Subject has completed seven of the 10 listed exercises prescribed for this activity.

Pay dirt. If subject 18 was Loz then 19 was Yazoo. So he was already proven to be a manipulative lying bastard. Would Tseng buy this reasoning though? Most likely not, they had already seen that first hand when he had convinced the orphans to come with him to the forgotten city. She would have to wait for something a little more concrete.

Elena stood and stretched the kinks out of her muscles. A glimmer of movement from beyond her window caught her eye. Reno had been smoking a cigarette and was now looking towards the trees, alert. From her vantage point she was able to catch a glance of silver hair before Reno took off after it. This could be her chance, especially if one of the clones hurt Reno. Elena went to follow her comrade.

As she went running down the hallway towards the outside door she missed seeing Rude who was just walking to his own door. Rude paused as he saw Elena go running in such a hurry she left her door open. Rookie…

Rude went to close her apartment door for her but stopped when he saw the data disks scattered over her table, her laptop still on. Rude closed the door and returned to his own room. He really didn't want to know.

Tracking a Turk who was tracking a clone wasn't easy. She lost time at the point where it seemed the two were now walking together. When she saw the footprints headed towards the guard house she was able to make up for lost time. The guard house was the Turk retreat. Sometimes a person just needed a little space to breath aside from being under the same roof as your boss and the problems of Shinra. It wasn't much but it suited their needs.

Elena pressed her ear to the door and then quickly pulled away as her cheeks colored. The moans and heavy breathing had NOT been what she was expecting. In the space of time it took to take a breath she went from embarrassed to furious. She had come all the way out here to make sure Reno was safe from the enemy and he had taken him to bed. In the Turk refuge no less and from the sounds of it was enjoying himself immensely. Disgusted, she made her way back to Healin.


Reno waltzed into his apartment whistling. He tossed his jacket over the back of a chair, kicked off his shoes and grabbed a beer from the fridge. Yes, Reno the Turk was one happy man. Rude watched all this with his usual stoic silence. His partner flopped into a lazy chair, a satisfied smirk on his face.

Rude had a bad feeling. "Reno, please tell me you didn't."

With an innocent expression usually found in three year olds and puppies Reno looked up. "What?"

Rude groaned. "Loz is gonna kick your ass."

Reno shrugged. "I don't think so. And if he wants he can go ahead and have a crack at it. I wouldn't mind having a go at him myself."

For some reason he had a bad feeling. Rude couldn't really place what it was about or why it bothered him but nonetheless it was there. He knew that Reno would be fine, it might get messy but he didn't think that Yazoo would just let Loz beat Reno to death.

And Elena had been acting so strange earlier…

Rude went to get his own beer from the kitchen. Whatever happened, happened. Turks rolled with the punches.

Days went by and nothing out of the ordinary happened. A few small missions and errands but nothing big. It was making Elena furious. She hadn't been able to help but notice the small things between Yazoo and Reno. They weren't affectionate in public at all, but the small glint in the eyes and the hours when no one could find the two grated on her nerves.

Then Rufus had brought them to his office and it had all gone downhill from there. An old mako reactor that they had yet to disable may have fallen into such disrepair that wildlife was being exposed to the raw mako. Animals were becoming monsters, even plants were being effected. They were being sent, along with a team of technicians and a clean up crew, to kill the effected wildlife and disable the reactor.

Reports from the nearby town said that around twenty people had already been killed by the monsters and the dragons attracted to the substance. In the old day this would have been something SOLDIER would have dealt with and Elena was not looking forward to it. She was even less happy to find that she was being sent with the two clones as well as Reno and Rude. Tseng would be guarding Rufus and keeping in constant contact.

Between the crazed and mako pumped animals, dragons and presumably very angry townspeople she wasn't sure this mission would be all that successful. It would be the perfect opportunity for the clones to try something. They would be far from HQ and already in a high risk situation. Even if they just decided to bail on the Turks it could be deadly.

Neither Reno or Rude seemed concerned, the clones looked indifferent as always. After going through more of the files Elena wondered how they could both appear so stable. Many of the experiments they had been put through had been what she would have called torture mixed in with training sessions and more horrible treatments. If it had been any other children in the files Elena may have been moved to pity or compassion, but there had been video's and photos of the clones where their eyes were so cold they had made her shiver just staring at the screen. They may have been through horrible things, but they had been monsters before that. And here she was, stuck with them watching her back.


He was like a drug. Reno had found this out when he discovered that he made opportunities and reasons to find Yazoo on a very frequent basis. He didn't seem to mind so Reno saw no reason to stop. Loz hadn't come hunting for blood and Yazoo had smiled when Reno had asked about it. Apparently the brothers had smoothed things out between them.

This was put to the test when Yazoo had talked Reno into helping him with the metal plates for the Robo Soldier. They had gotten some of the work done when Reno had pulled Yazoo into the shed for what he called a 'break'.

Loz had accidentally stumbled in on them and with a pretty graceful gesture for such a large guy had promptly turned around and shut the shed door behind him with a small wave that seemed to say 'carry on, don't mind me'.

It was just as well when because Reno was thoroughly addicted to Yazoo. The heat he put behind every kiss, the way he could tease Reno to distraction with just a quick suggestive glance, the way he made up for it all with a warm tongue and willing hands when they were finally alone. It was beyond a high and some of the best damn sex the redhead had ever had. In return he was learning all of the things that would either make the clone gasp in pleasure or growl in annoyance.

The long, deep scars across his skin were sensitive and the mood had to be right before he would allow Reno to touch anywhere near them. The long silver hair was like an erogenous zone in itself and the Turk took full advantage. Although Yazoo hardly ever spoke about where the scars had come from Reno learned enough about his past to get a general idea. Yazoo had seemed more at ease when Reno had told him bits of his not so carefree life.

In result when they were told about the mission they would be going on neither was very worried. They had developed a slow and easy trust that seemed to be spreading to Loz and Rude as well. The two had often exchanged resigned looks over the actions of their more mischievous counter parts. This had become apparent when Yazoo had finally gotten the Velvet Nightmares rebuilt. Reno had gotten his hands on one of the gunblades and disappeared. Yazoo had been furious and gone after the redhead with a tracking ability that would have given a bloodhound a run for its money. Rude and Loz had joined forces to both locate the two and then prevent any serious blood shed.

In the focus Reno and Yazoo had for each other and the camaraderie between Loz and Rude no one had noticed Elena's strange behavior. Everyone took her absence as a lingering resentment toward the clones in regards to the torture she had been put through.

Yazoo had tried to say something to her about it and apparently been blown off. He thought that maybe the upcoming mission would give him an opportunity to show her he and his brother were trustworthy. He knew that the Turks were a tight group and didn't want Reno to suffer grief due to Elena's feelings towards him.

After the briefing for the mission in Rufus's office Tseng had pulled the brothers aside. Apparently there had been word of Strife possibly showing up at the site to kill monsters as a mercenary. They didn't have anything concrete but they would need to be on the lookout. Loz had simply grinned. If Cloud showed up and got in their way, well, accidents happened. Tseng let it go and returned to Rufus.