Yuffie Kisaragi walked into the break room just as its occupants burst out in laughter.
"What's so funny?" she asked and bounded over to the table the three suits (as the Turks were now ever so creatively called) and one tech-girl-gone-secretary had crowded around.
"Nothing, Yuffie," Elena said, still laughing. "It's an inside joke."
"Yeah," Reno drawled and leaned back in his chair. "It's a Turk thing. You wouldn't get it."
"Well, she's not a Turk!" the ninja cried, pointing at Triss.
"Try telling them that!" the pregnant woman laughed and jerked her thumb towards the other occupants of the table.
"But they're not Turks either!"
"We were, though."
"But you're not anymore! So you can tell me now!"
Reno laughed and looked over his shoulder at the thief, I mean, spy.
"Tol'ja ya wouldn't get it," he grinned.
"You- you're so- STUPID!" the ninja girl yelled and stormed out of the room, slamming the door behind her.
The group burst out laughing again.
"I still can't believe she asked that!" Elena choked out between giggles.
Rude wiped away tears of laughter and threw his voice into a pitch frighteningly similar to Yuffie's, "Are you gonna get married?"
Triss leaned hard on Reno, who had collapsed in her lap, as she to suck air into her uncooperative lungs, wiping away her own tears of mirth.
It really was an inside joke, but it wasn't just the Turks who got it. Rufus got it. Reeve got it. In fact, anyone with the security clearance to access Triss's file would get the joke. Of course, because of some of her work with Shin-Ra and now with the World Regenesis Organization her file was incredibly confidential and not very many people were interested in her background anyway. So the joke was kept secret, which was probably for the best.
You see, the joke is, Reno and Triss are already married.
They had been for a long time. Well, long by Reno's standards anyway.
Eight years tonight, back when they were just nineteen, Reno proposed to Triss on bended knee with the pop-top off of a beer can in the middle of the Golden Saucer. She had laughed and feigned the blushing bride and they ran off to a quickie wedding chapel and got married by a man with an accent so atrocious they fought back laughter the entire ceremony. They got a free hotel room upgrade to the honeymoon suite when Triss had, in jest, squealed to the receptionist that they'd just gotten married.
And so, every year since, Reno made sure they had that room for their anniversary. And, just like that first night, they would stay up and laugh at their idiocy and the insanity of the whole thing.
They would eat and drink and watch bad movies.
They would have raunchy sex in the light of the television.
They would get ice cream and booze and toast the chapel they were married in.
The would wander around hand in hand, secretly mocking the 'lovey-dovey' couples around them, grinning ear to ear and saying, "It's our anniversary," to anyone who would listen.
Of course, the Turks didn't find out until the next day when Reno strutted into the office with a hangover that would have left Odin bedridden, but a huge smile on his face and crowed, "I'm married, yo!"
Cissnei had squealed, Yuuko nearly choked on her drink, Arma and Tseng seemed too shocked to move, Rude and, much to everyone's surprise, Veld burst out laughing and congratulated the redhead. And the other boys? Well, they sat with their faces buried in their hands, mourning the loss of their drinking buddy.
When Elena had found out years later because she threw a fit that Reno got a whole weekend off, she honestly didn't believe it. It took Tseng saying that it was true and that he signs Triss's check, so he would know, for her to very grudgingly accept it.
Of course, now the blonde girl would ask (or harass, depending on who you speak to) Reno about it, making sure he booked the room in time. And, much to the redhead's annoyance, she was always shocked that he made sure to have the room months in advance.
"Well, it's just- the way you are-" she stumbled the first time Reno had confronted her. "It's easy to forget that you're not a screw up. What I mean is," she amended, "sometimes I forget that you really do care about her."
"Of course I care," Reno had replied. "She's my wife."
Elena had smiled and looked up at him, "Yeah, and you're definitely a good husband."
Of course, as soon as she said that, Reno covered her mouth, whispering that she can't just say things like that. He doesn't need the whole world knowing he's a good husband!
Still, every year, he takes Triss to the Saucer and celebrates his anniversary with his wife and he enjoys every second of it. Though, this year, there's gonna be less booze and more food, if that kid of theirs has anything to say about it.
Every family has skeletons in their closet, especially theirs, so, when you find one that makes you laugh, you keep it up front and forget about the rest. Holy knows they need a good laugh now and again. No one was surprised that it was Reno who provided it.
Though, the redhead smirked as he and his wife walked to the airship, he wouldn't complain if he wasn't the butt of the joke and so he sent a silent thanks to the young girl sulking across the hangar who made his family laugh with him.