Tifa was cleaning up for the night, and when she did her check of all the tables and booths, she was stunned to find Cloud asleep in only real private booth in the bar. And his pants were down. What the hell had he been doing? Tifa wondered, not really sure if she wanted to know the answer. She leaned over him and sniffed his breath. Wrinkling her nose at the smell of whiskey, she was further convinced she didn't want to know whatever he had been doing. Suddenly he opened his eyes and they focused on her after a few moments.

"Your breasts are real." Cloud said as he pulled her down to him.

"Cloud, what do you think you're doing?" Tifa tried unsuccessfully to squirm away.

"I'm a goods expediter wearing a custom made outfit. Have sex with me."

Tifa stopping trying to get away when she felt his penis hard against her thigh. Sighing, she realized that given his behavior since they met each other again when he joined Avalanche for that mission, drunken sex was the best she could expect for the consummation of their so-called relationship. Flower petals, soft music, and champagne was beyond his understanding.

Reno walked into 7th Heaven the next evening, and was disappointed to see Cloud in his same old outfit, sitting at the bar, talking to Tifa.

"What the hell is this?" Reno demanded to know, plucking at Cloud's top.

"Tifa told me I just need to wear whatever I'm comfortable wearing. And that she likes me how I am." Cloud replied.

"You wanted to know how to get women when all you really wanted was to get the woman who's been under your nose the whole time? What-" Reno started to bitch Cloud out, then something occurred to him, and he hurriedly left the bar.

Elena was staying late at the office, typing in old mission files into the computer. She was surprised by a knock on her door. Opening the door, she was even more surprised to see Reno standing there. She let him in and closed the door.

"What's going on?" she asked him.

Reno started to open his mouth to say something, but he couldn't think of how to say it. Elena just stared at him expectantly with those big brown eyes.

"Reno, what is it?"

At a loss for words, he grabbed Elena and kissed her. Stunned, she acted on reflex and backhanded him.

"I'm sorry." Reno said as he let her go and opened her door to leave.

"Where do you think you're going?" Elena asked him, and he turned with surprise as she threw herself into his arms, kissing him back. "What took you so long?"

As they lay naked on the floor of her office, something bothered Reno.

"What about Tseng?" he asked Elena.

"What about him?" Elena replied.

"Aren't you and he…?"

"Hardly. He's having too much fun with Rufus."

"Then why did you always act like you two were an item?"

"I knew your reputation, and I was waiting for you to think you had what it took to steal me from Tseng." Elena snuggled against Reno, content to finally be in his arms.

"You were just waiting for me?" Reno was surprised.

Elena laughed at his reaction. "Yes, but if you had taken much longer, I might have changed my mind." She climbed on top of him. "You've got a lot to learn about women. I can teach you if you want." Elena said as she kissed him.