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Pen Mountain
"Laney."
The young blonde's brow furrowed lightly.
"Lannnnneeeyyyy..."
She groaned as the familiar tone bellowed down the corridor and into her office.
Just ignore him...he'll stop eventually...
Her hand flicked gently as she continued filling out the report that lay open upon her desk.
"Laney, Laney, Laney, Laney, Laney, Laney."
Her eyes shut tightly as she attempted to block out the constant barrage of annoyance that leaked from her red headed colleague.
Elena's brow furrowed further as she was met with nothing but silence. For a moment she didn't allow herself to believe it, but as the seconds ticked by, she let out a small sigh of relief.
Ah finally...
Unfortunately, no sooner had her pen nib touched back down upon the paper, that her name was once again bellowed down the corridor, though this time at twice the force as before.
"LANEY!"
That's it.
Elena slammed down her papers and marched down the corridor; flinging herself through the red head's open door, a scowl set firmly upon her pale pink lips.
"What is it Reno?"
He turned his aquamarine gaze towards her; the calm, indifference to his pestering displayed upon his face only adding to her irritation.
"Can I borrow a pen?"
She could feel her insides clench at his unimportant request; though it wasn't exactly unusual behaviour for him.
For a moment she just stood there; anger flaring in her eyes, but eventually she just sighed, though her teeth remained clenched when she spoke.
"Fine.."
She reached into her shirt pocket and pulled out a plastic biro, before handing it to him, as he gave her a cheery smile of gratitude in return.
As he swung his chair around, Elena finally had a chance to take note of what he was up to.
Hardly surprisingly, he wasn't doing what he was meant to be doing; the reports that he should have been filling in were piled beside his desk, and his attention was fixated on what looked like a mountain of pens beside his chair.
Her gaze flickered uncertainly.
"What...what are you doing?"
He cocked an eyebrow; as if the answer was obvious.
"I'm creating a masterpiece."
She turned her attention to study the mound.
"But what is it?"
Reno joined her in her examination, though after a moment he shrugged.
"It's a...thing!"
The blonde rolled her eyes.
"A thing...right."
A short silence passed between them, as the red head continued his sculpting. Eventually the young female narrowed her eyes.
"And what about your reports?"
The red head smiled proudly
"I've already finished them."
Her brow raised in a mixture of shock and disbelief; her fingers soon reaching out to grab the nearest report, though as she flipped it open her brow raised even further.
True enough, he had filled it out, but where there should have been a full description of the events of his last mission, there was instead just one sentence.
I went, I killed, I came back.
"Reno, this is stupid."
"No, it's simple, precise, and to the point."
Elena cocked an eyebrow in protest.
"It's still stupid."
Ignoring his female colleague, the red head twiddled the pen she'd given him in his fingers and stabbed it directly on top of his 'masterpiece'.
"Finished!"
The only thing that was impressive about the 'thing' was its size; Elena believing that he must have surely used every pen in the building to create it.
After a second he grunted; brow lowering to himself.
"Well, now what am I gunna do?"
"Some work perhaps?"
Reno laughed deeply.
"Good one Laney."
He quelled his amusement abruptly though as he turned sharply to the blonde; a bright smile displayed upon his face.
"Hey, I know! You can entertain me."
Elena sigh tiredly.
"I don't think so...I still have reports to do."
"Pfft, you know I'm much more interesting than paper work."
He flashed her one of his trademark smirks, and although it was enough to make her insides fill with tiny little butterflies, it wasn't enough to persuade her.
"I think you'll find you're much more stressful than paper work."
Sensing a chance for fun, Reno launched himself out of his chair and over the desk; coming to rest a few centimetres from the blonde. She flinched slightly, but soon straightened herself and stared back at him confidently.
He crossed his arms and leant forward ever so slightly.
"More exciting."
She raised an eyebrow.
"Annoying."
"Fascinating."
"Worrying."
"Ugly."
"Gorgeous. Oh, I mean- Shut up!"
The red head chuckled lightly at the small blush that formed on her cheeks. Elena on the other hand stomped her foot and placed her hands firmly on her hips in an attempt to look intimidating.
Regrettably for her, this just made her appear like a cute little bunny who'd ran out of carrots.
"Chill out Laney, I already know you think I'm gorgeous."
He nudged her playfully; a lazy smile curling the corners of his lips.
"Come on, you know you wanna be with me."
Be with me...
She knew he meant it in the sense of hanging out, but still the other possibility wasn't completely disgusting to her.
Elena shook her head; those kinda thoughts could only lead to trouble.
The red head nudged his fellow Turk again.
"Come on...we could go hide all of Rude's spare sunglasses?"
"No."
"Stick pictures of me all over Tseng's office products?"
"No."
"Leave a group of baby Chocobos in the common room?"
"Where would we even-No."
"Go for a coffee?"
"No-wait, what?"
"Coffee?"
Elena's eyes narrowed slightly as she considered his offer for any signs of trickery, though after a moment she seemed to relax.
"Yeah ok."
A wide smirk played across his face as he directed her out of the office, and as they walked down the corridor he draped an arm over Elena's shoulder.
"Then we can go hide all of Rude's spare sunglasses."
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A/N= Not great, but it just sorta came to me. Next update should be out very soon XD