- A Final Fantasy VII Reno Fanfiction - by Nightcrawler666 -

Not much to say really… Oh yeah, the songs in this chapter are all by Fall Out Boy. I recommend listening to them if you like metal/punk rock because I think they're pretty cool, but hey… U don't have to. Sorry it's so short!

Chapter 3 - Alpha Dog

Music was blaring out of the speakers incredibly loudly when Lou woke up. In fact, she was surprised she hadn't woken up because of it. She heard muffled swearing and cursing from the bathroom, and so that was her first stop.

"Reno?" She asked and tapped lightly on the white wood of the door. He walked out with his uniform trousers on, and a lime green towel round his neck. He looked frustrated.
"Great!" He lied and bit his lip. He'd wrapped a hot towel round his arm, and Lou was guessing that was where the pain was coming from. Leaving him to curse on the sofa, she went in the bathroom to brush her teeth and wash herself up.

There wasn't much blood, Reno knew that. His fingers had started going numb and by then. Lou was looking worried, and Reno's knuckles were looking raw.
"What did you do?" She asked, concerned but laughing at his clumsiness.
"I- No! You've asked me like 6 times already, yo! I'm not saying."
"What did you do, Reno?" Lou asked, squashing his fingers with both of her hands.
"I punched the wall. Do you know someone who's good at plastering?" Reno asked, staring towards the bathroom. Lou stifled a laugh.

Tseng didn't look impressed when Reno and Lou turned up together, but his face changed completely when he stared at Reno's left hand. He'd refused to bandage it up, so that he wasn't making it look 'worse than it really is, yo'. It was horrible to look at, so when she saw it, Elena turned sharply away from it.

"Sir?" Reno asked, and waved the mangled hand in Tseng's face. He stared at it then grabbed it, constricting it to the point where Reno fell to the floor screaming for mercy. Elena and Rude were failing not to chuckle at this. It was funny, after all.

Half an hour later and Reno was all normal again. Normal for him anyway. Loud music could be heard smashing out of his headphones and it was distracting everyone.

"Reno?" Elena said, then gave up when she realised what he was listening to. Rude didn't want to get involved when his partner was wearing his noise-cancelling headphones. He wore them to shut everyone out while he listened to his 'theme songs' as he called them.

Lou rose slowly and walked towards the redhead, currently lashing his head back and forth miming words no-one could understand. She put her hands on his shoulders and was surprised when she didn't see him stop moving. To solve this dilemma, she pushed down, watching as Reno's shoulders hunched to his ears and he threw off his green headphones.

"What the fuck was that for? I was being the Alpha Dog!" He yelled, making little puppy ears on his head at the name of the song. Lou listened carefully to the words echoing out of the speakers on the desk.

We must have the best coach,
Tell the best jokes,
We must make it hard to look so easy doing something so hard.
You must see my way,
They scream when they look at me!
I'm a I'm a star, I'm a I'm a star.
I'm a star, Oh…

Suddenly the music cut out, and so did the lights, and the computers, and the whole building went into lockdown as big metal shutters slammed down on the windows and the elevator outside. Lou clung to Reno despite him still being sat down and didn't let go until she remembered who it was she was holding. She was glad the lights were out.

Somehow Rude and Tseng managed to open the door, and everyone decided it was better for them to take a couple of torches and find a way out than all of them go and get lost. The other three Turks were left with jut the one torch between themselves, and Reno's EMR.

Lou fell swiftly asleep using Reno's legs as a cushion, and Reno brought out his MP3 and some headphones, annoyingly starting to hum to more Fall Out Boy songs. Elena was touched by the fact Reno was letting Lou sleep on him, but confused as to why. She was also pretty frustrated with some of the lyrics Reno was singing now.

"Why don't you show me a little bit of spine,
You've been saving for this mattress?
I only want to think,
In the form of you crawling into bed with me." He sang, leaning his head slowly backwards and banging it deliberately on the desk. He closed his eyes again and let himself fall asleep. When he woke up he was pretty terrified…