Authors note: Another chapter, I nearly didn't have time to do this one tonight. Well thanks to everyone who's helped me get over 1000 hits on this story. I tried to get Rude in a bit on this chapter. Nearlt finished now, although, I'm struggling to come up with a good way to end it.
Chapter 14 – Last Chance

"Ten minutes." Reno said, looking at his watch. He was nervous, and he didn't know why. Probably just the suspense of it all, Elena thought. She was nervous too, but she knew exactly why. She couldn't stop thinking that Reno as going to be hurt again. Tseng had given her a gun like Reno's, so even if he was over-confident again, she was ready to take action.

"I hate this." He said. "This is why I am always late for everything."

"Don't be so impatient. You need to make sure you're ready. Something…unexpected might happen."

"Yeah, whatever." He looked around the corner, and checked his watch again. "Hurry up."

Suddenly, they heard someone laughing. Elena peered around the corner. Claudia had just walked out of the back of the building.

"Shhh, it's her!" she whispered to Reno. He pulled his gun out of his pocket and they stepped silently around the corner. Unfortunately, she saw them straight away due to Reno tripping over a loose brick and using a colourful variety of swearwords, some of which Elena had never heard before.

"You again?" Claudia sneered, "You are so hard to kill off. You mustn't be as stupid as I thought, if you worked out what I did to you."

"I definitely ain't as stupid as you looked." Reno repled sharply. He fired a her, hitting her in the neck. Elena stared at him.

"You were supposed to give her one last chance to co-operate with you Reno!" she said

"Tranquilizer." He said bluntly. He walked over to Claudia and rolled her roughly onto her back.

"Come on then. You heard the woman. You gonna stop being a stuck-up bitch nad come with us?"

"Y-you…" she said quietly, "I won't let you get what you want. Not again. I remember you… my mother…"

"Yeah yeah. Well, looks like you're both gonna meet the same fate then doesn't it?" he pulled out a second gun and fired. Grabbing her handbag, he revealed a lot of material and several files, similar to the one Tseng had handed to them.

"All ours." He said, chucking the bag to Elena. He knelt down and put his fingers to her neck.

"Gone."


"Where the hell is Tseng?" Reno said loudly as they walked into the Turks lounge. Rude was sitting hunched over some paperwork on his own.

"Went to see Rufus, I think." He said. He watched Reno as he plonked himself down on a chair beside him.

"Whatcha doing?" he said

"Paperwork, that you made for us." He smiled slightly at the pretend shocked look on his face.

"Me? Never."

"So, how did it go this time?" Rude sounded slightly concerned.

"She's dead. She was being stubborn so…" Elena dumped the bag of material and files in front of Rude.

"And this is what she stole from the headquarters." She said. Rude peered quickly into the bag and pulled out one of the files.

"Have you seen this?" he said to Reno. He looked at it. Printed across the middle was, "Turks, Reno."

"This is my file?" he said, shocked.

"That must be how she managed to get her boyfriend to find you." Elena said.

"That … urgh. How crap is the security here? I mean, my file? My records, everything about me, and she can just walk in and take it. Just great…"

"This is a lot of material she managed to take as well." Rude said, looking in the bag.

"Reno? You've been arrested by Rufus Shinra himself? How does that work?" Elena said. Reno looked up at her. She was reading through his file.

"Do you mind?" he said, snatching it back off her, "That's very personal."

"Sure. I don't think I even wanna know what else is in there."