6. Break Away.
The mirror cracked violently as Reno slammed his fist into the glass. Blood flowed down his knuckles and he choked on a sob. This was too fucking perfect. In all his life he'd had one real relationship, one guy he had called his only.
Too bad the other didn't feel that way. He'd caught his boyfriend of two years with another person. A fucking girl. He had called her 'Baby' like he called Reno all the time. He had been coming over early as a surprise, birthday cake in hand, to find him screwing that skank in their bed.
The cake never got eaten. He'd dropped it, and left. He'd gone to his own apartment, still smelling like cinnamon and chocolate. He'd done his crying, and now he was angry. He was fucking Pissed.
He'd give him a chance to explain himself, then he'd kill him. For breaking his heart like that. He grabbed his uniform jacket and headed for his building. Rude would know what to do. He always did.
He stormed into their shared office like a man on fire, pacing and shouting. Rude listened, and when he was over, just rested his elbows on the table.
"tonight." it wasn't an order, it wasn't a request. It was a statement of fact and they were gonna do it.
Henry Corder never knew what hit him. He hadn't seen Reno after work like he always did. He was slightly worried, 'cause he'd found the cake on his living room floor. That was cleaned up now and was waiting. The door opened and he stood. Then he sat hard as five people came in.
"Hello, love." Reno said mock sweetly. His arms were crossed, various Turks surrounding the room. "miss me?"
"Reno…what is this?" he asked, shaking slightly. Rude was right behind him. A dangerous place for the man to be.
"I should've asked that when I walked in on you and that Bitch." Reno said, crossing his arms. Henry's face went ash white, and he trembled.
"Baby, I can explain…" he started, but was interrupted by Reno.
"explain WHAT? That you and that bitch had sex and you called her Baby and that you fucking betrayed me?" he asked, face going red. He was pacing. Rude cracked his knuckles. Henry looked around in fear.
"look, baby, it was a one-time thing." he said, uneasy. Elena snorted.
"he's lying." she said, drawing her gun. Reno held out his hand, catching it.
"I loved you once, you know." Reno said, checking it softly for ammo. He shouldn't have been worried, because Elena had the best cared for weapon on the force.
"so, any last words?" Reno asked, eyes cold. The man was gibbering now, hands to his lips and shaking.
"so be it." Tseng said in his way, eyes cold. Rufus just watched as his 'little brother' pointed the gun at the man who betrayed him and pulled the trigger.
"goodbye you lying cheating asshole." he whispered as the gun smoked, hot. The man held his leg, face drawn in pain. Reno had shot him in the femur, bullet lodged in the bone.
"maybe the next time you think of cheating on someone you'll remember that." Reno said, tossing the weapon back to Elena, who sneered.
And with that, he exited the apartment, the others following. She was smirking as Reno headed for the closest bar, already planning her version of revenge. By dawn no single in the city would want to date Henry Corder.
A Turk breakup was always entertaining.
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Okay, this one is an almost mirror of real life events. I've changed names, obviously, but yeah. My ex was a lying sack of shit. It wasn't pretty, and my revenge wasn't as neat. But I did do what Elena did. Never piss of a girl, because she will tell her friends. And a gay dude has a LOT if girlfriends to tell. And I fixed the screwup with the italics. heh...;