Chapter Four
Disclaimer: see chapters one and two
"Tsengwillyougooutwithme." Elena stammered going beetroot and eyes cast down to the ground, to put it lightly she was completely scundered.
The wutaiian man froze in the process of taking an aspirin, he let his eyes sweep the room…every single occupant, save Elena, was staring at him. Reno just looked like a kid who was told Christmas had come early or a hungry wolf, something between the two anyway. The rest were staring expectantly.
"Well…?" Rufus asked the condemned man.
Virtually all the colour drained from his face, all of a sudden he didn't feel so good so he did the first and only logical thought that had passed through his confused mind all day. He fainted and collapsed in a very undignified heap on to the floor.
The president sighed loudly, "Coward," he murmured under his breath. "Well as Tseng has decided to leave our uhhh what's the word-," he paused, "ah ha board meeting I suppose we can carry on, let me see how about you…Reno?"
"Y'know I've been wonderin' about some stuff…like what's Scarlet's deal with Heidegger, so do tell us." Reno said with his usual impish smirk in place.
The woman smiled in a very devious manner, not unlike Reno then answered in the same way.
"Simple I'm a hungry gold-digger and all I need to do is clean this guy out and I'm set for an early retirement," she replied to Reno's question which raised many eyebrows at the conference table, even the un-reactive bald Turk was staring at her with surprise. It took a few seconds before she realised what had left her mouth, she secured her hand firmly over her mouth and intending on not letting it move until the end of this meeting.
"My, my everyone's so honest, has anyone got any confessions before this meeting ends…in which case that should be in around two minutes," Rufus said with his own smile in place. By this stage everyone had probably ingested enough truth serum to make them 'spill their guts to any question' as Hojo had put it. "Reeve?"
"Yes unfortunately I do…I have a chronic fear of going bald," he confessed which earned him an extremely dirty look from Rude and a series of laughs from the other executives.
"Rude?" Rufus asked.
"I sleep with a stuffed animal and have a very nasty allergy to cats," he confessed sending a nasty look again to Reeve who was still scundered by his own confession, Rude paused suddenly before thudding his head off the table.
"Elena?"
She clamped her hand over her mouth and shook her head.
"Honestly?"
She nodded vigorously, hand still over her mouth.
"Well that seems to be it, I will see you at the next meeting," Rufus said, standing up and going for the door with phoenix in tow who was still giggling and laughing away.
A loud moan stopped them in their tracks; Tseng sat up hand on his now throbbing head.
"Nice of you to join us again…have anything to say to Elena?" the blonde president asked with a grin to rival the red-headed Turk's at present. The wutaiian Turk didn't even dignify that question wit a verbal answer. For the second time that day he passed out.
Rufus sighed and shook his head.
"Just leave him there." He said before leaving his and Reno's 'truth comes out' meeting.