"Where are we going?" Dick asked Reno as he watched the miles flew by in the helicopter.

"To the nearest bar." Reno replied. "We both need a drink."

"And what am I supposed to drink? I'm a robot, you idiot!" Dick snapped.

"You're modeled after me, aren't you? I had Cid make another alteration to you. You can drink antifreeze." Reno revealed.

"What else did you have done to me while you had me turned off?" Dick asked suspiciously.

"Like I'd tell you." Reno smugly replied, wondering if he should lie and say he had a self-destruct feature added to keep the annoying little punk in line. "Here we are." he said as they approached the outskirts of a small town and he landed in an empty lot. "Now let's party!"

"That was a great birthday party, wasn't it?" Tifa asked Cloud as they walked in the door of their apartment.

"Sure was." Cloud replied indifferently as he checked their answering machine for messages.

"Alright, what's bothering you?" Tifa demanded to know. "You've been acting like you're throwing one of your passive-aggressive temper tantrums since Dick showed up there."

Not for the first time, Cloud regretted agreeing to go to couples' therapy with Tifa to help them be happy together, since the dolls' arrival had put extra strain on them, and she kept using psychobabble terms on him since then. "I'm tired of everyone bringing up the Don Corneo thing. I only did that to save you cause you were getting in over your head. It's not like I enjoyed wearing women's clothing."

"Oh for Gaia's sake, we all know that. We're not insulting you, it's a shared joke. Just like we tease Yuffie about being a 'princess' and Vincent about his coffin. Quit being a big baby and suck it up!" Tifa snapped, feeling insulted herself that he persisted in believing that she had needed rescuing. Cloud frowned, knowing better than to say out loud that their therapist had told Tifa that the events at Nibelheim had given her abandonment issues which she compensated for by being overcontrolling.

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"Cloud's a big baby?" Storm and Tina asked simultaneously. "Does that mean he wears diapers?"

"Is this stool taken?" A buxom blonde asked Reno as he sat at the bar downing his scotch.

"Not at all." Reno replied with an appraising smile, gesturing for her to sit down.

"Oh my, what's that?" she exclaimed, pointing towards Dick, who was sitting on the edge of the bar, sipping his drink from a thimble. "He looks just like you." She leaned closer to get a better look, and a smirk appeared on Dick's face as he got a good look down her low-cut top.

"He's a very advanced robotic surveillance device." Reno said with a similar smirk on his face.

"Wow, really?" she asked in an astonished voice.

"Yeah, but I shouldn't have told you that, so please don't tell anyone." he pleaded with fake urgency.

Dick watched Reno's successful play for the blonde woman, half-studying his technique, and half-wondering why he couldn't find some decent robot chick and get laid.

"Hey hot stuff, you wanna buy a lady a drink?" a female voice said, and Dick turned his head to see Ellen climb up onto a bar stool and jump onto the bar right next to him. "My name's Ellen. So, do you have money to buy me a drink or not? The night's young and I'm not getting any older!"

Reno watched the scene out of the corner of his eye, hoping maybe they'd both get lucky tonight, he was still rather embarrassed that Dick was a virgin.

Elena frowned when Tseng's phone rang, waking them up. When it stopped ringing, hers started. Her frown intensified and she grabbed it, noticing it was Rufus. "Yes, sir?" she answered politely.

"I want you and Tseng in my office in twenty minutes." Rufus said and hung up.

"Time for us to take a quick shower and get dressed." Elena told Tseng. "We need to be in Mr. Shinra's office in twenty minutes." She got out of bed and headed for her bathroom to get the shower water to her preferred temperature. Curious about how he knew Tseng was with her, she didn't bother enjoying her first shower with him as she had planned, and simply cleaned herself up while he did likewise.

"You're fifteen seconds late." Rufus informed them when they arrived.

"I'm sorry, sir." Tseng apologized while Elena merely stood at attention, both of them with still damp hair.

"That was not an accusation, mind you, merely an observation." Rufus reassured him. "As I'm sure you're wondering why I called you in this morning, it has come to my attention that certain fraternization rules have been broken."

"Not if I quit, sir." Elena stunned herself by saying. She really didn't want to leave the Turks, still feeling like she had to prove herself better than her sister, but she had wanted Tseng for far too long to give him up after finally landing him.

Rufus raised an eyebrow at her remark and Tseng's red face. "No need, I just wanted to let you know that as long as the quality of your work is not affected, what you do off-duty shall remain your business."

"Thank you, sir." Tseng said as his blushing subsided. He was quite relieved by Rufus' response to his and Elena's union. He had been beyond shocked when she went all dominatrix on him, but he had finally given in to her demands of him, justifying it by the excuse he was coerced. Coerced into a wonderfully satisfying sexual union with the women he had desired for so long…

"That's all. Dismissed." Rufus waved his hand towards the door. "Oh, and Elena?"

"Yes, sir?" she asked.

"Try and keep your curtains closed next time." Rufus suggested with a smirk similar to Reno's, unable to resist teasing her, and making sure she never suspected how he really knew what they had done.