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Even Zack dresses up for Halloween! Can you guess what of two things he's being?

Remember that warning from the last chapter? About not doing as Zack and Reno say or do? That applies to this chapter. Though you can put someone in a dryer and start it with the door open if they're small enough to fit, there's just a thing someone needs to hold down. Not that my brothers and I have ever tried that mind you. Still it isn't safe and you shouldn't do it; I was just saying.

I feel like the story's kinda missing something but w/e. Read and review please!

Inappropriate Work Situations Part 2

Sephiroth stood from his desk and walked to the hot plate on a file cabinet along the wall and began to make himself a cup of tea. Right as the pot started to hiss his phone began to play some new song Zack had programmed into his phone to play when he called. Hojo calling caused the phone to emit some sort of horrifying hamster singing; he was fairly certain he'd seen it in the labs growing up. Sighing he placed the tea leaves into the pot to steep and answered the phone, hitting speaker so he could keep an eye on the tea.

"Hello Zack. What have you managed to get yourself into in the three hours since you left the office?"

"Aw! C'mon Seph! Have some faith in me!"

"I do. I figured It'd take you at least five hours to get in trouble. Now, tell me what happened and did you drag Strife into it?"

"Of course I didn't drag Cloud into it and I was on a mission so don't lose your faith in me yet." Zack laughed, "You know how I was going on a mission to that old, abandoned clothing factory? We were supposed to check for the stolen documents of Scarlet's?" Sephiroth made a wary noise of affirmation as Zack went on. "Well it might not have been as abandoned as we thought."

"What do you mean by that? Were there monsters nesting there?"

"Well no monsters but there were the terrorists that stole the documents in the first place. And giant vats of clothing dye."

"Zack…"

"I didn't try to honest. I was chasing one of the guys along the platforms up near the tops of the vats and I jumped at him to stop him and we both went in. I am now a lovely shade of cerulean. Despite my resemblance to a smurf I'm told my new complexion really brings out my eyes."

"You know that sentence made absolutely no sense to me and I don't think it's because I haven't any idea what a smurf is."

"What? How can you not know what a smurf is?! They're these little blue things that run around in little white hats and little shoes and-"

"Zack!"

"Sorry, hey boss do you think since I'm blue and all I could maybe-" Again, Sephiroth cut off the other man.

"Zack I don't care what color you are, you still have to come into work tomorrow."

"Aw! But Seph, I'm blue! How can I come into work tomorrow blue?"

"The same way you do every day I would imagine. Just make sure the dye isn't permanent."

"How should I do that?"

"Take a bath and use a scrub wash would probably be the best way to start."

"Ooh!, will you-"

"No. Do it yourself." With that Sephiroth nearly slammed his finger onto the 'end call' button.

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An hour later Sephiroth 's phone rang again and, sighing as he saw Reno's name on his caller ID, he answered again.

"Reno," He said impatiently, in the background he could hear loud thumping and hollering. He thought he could hear bets being laid. "What can I help you with?"

"Not Reno, Seph. Just me –ow!" the 'ow' corresponded with a quite loud thunk.

"Zack what are you doing with Reno's phone?" The silver-haired man asked before he could stop himself.

"Mine went out while I was in the washer. So I borrowed Reno's to let you know the dye won't come off." The phone started to fizz out, "Ow! Damn, the phone's getting really hot."

Sephiroth, staring at the phone, couldn't help but feel his eyes grow wide as he linked Zack's comments and the background noise with his new coloring. "Zack? Are you in a laundromat dryer right now?"

"No, even I wouldn't be so dumb as to go in one of those old pieces of crap. I'm in one of the new dryers they got in the SOLDIER locker room. Don't worry; the door isn't closed the whole way."

"Zack, ignoring the dangers of residing in an activated washer or dryer door open or otherwise, you do realize that going in the dryer with the dye still on you will only set it in more firmly, don't you?"

"Shit!" Sephiroth heard and the line went dead.

The man rubbed his forehead and hit the 'end call' button for the second time in the last hour or so. He decided to leavethe phone on to wait for anymore calls from Zack or any others calling about his shenanigans despite his plans for the night.

Which happened almost like clockwork an hour later while he was dozing on his couch.

Making sure the phone wasn't on speaker this time and talking softly so as not to wake the person half sprawled across him, he answered the call.

"Hello? Building security?...Yes I understand, put him on please. Zack what happened?...You tried out all the washers in the SOLDIER and the building security locker rooms? No, I didn't realize we had building security either…" As the other person on the couch with him started to stir he smoothed his hand over their head and back to soothe them back into sleep, "How many washers did you break?...That many?...Well of course they're upset with you…They want you to pay how much to replace them? Huh, and what have we learned from this? That's right, washing machines are not toys."

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