Elena was at her office bright and early and had prepped her office for the day and went to the coffee truck to get her usual order.

"Morning Ming" she said to the pretty Wutaian woman.

"Morning Helen, I'll get you your two double, doubles" she said in a bored sounding voice.

"No that is one large black coffee with a shot of expresso and a medium triple, triple" she corrected her.

"Reno" Ming said in a voice of awe and Elena turned around and sure enough, there he was with his uniform in its usual disarray.

"Ming, Elena" he said in a calm voice and went to give her a kiss of greeting but caught himself and pretended to look at his watch instead. He's asked her if she wanted to continue being with him but she'd said she didn't want either of them to lose their jobs. So he'd agreed to keep his distance.

"I'll get your coffee" Ming said.

"I'll wait, please get Elena's order first" he requested, trying not to look a Elena.

"No it's okay, please get Reno's" Elena said, who was also avoiding looking at him and both focused on Ming.

"Well look at you two playing so nicely together. Did you fuck or something?" Ming sarcastically asked as she marked their cups and they just blushed and looked away.

Elena waited beside him and longed to button his shirt up, not in the fussy way like before but she didn't like how Ming was stealing glances at his half exposed chest. Married men shouldn't dress so provocatively she felt like telling him...and then she remembered. Today's meeting was to have them give a report and to sign the papers for the dissolution of their marriage.

Neither said anything as they went into the same conference room from before where it had all began but Reno was careful to hold the door open for her this time, Rufus and Tseng were already there and questioned them about their mission.

"Yo we looked every conceivable place while not attracting attention to ourselves but could find no trace of human trafficking. The mission was a complete failure and your information proved to be untrue" Reno concluded.

"Well, that's too bad. I have the papers ready if you will both sign them, they'll be filed to dissolve your marriage and in a few weeks, it will be as if it never happened" Tseng said.

"That's such a relief. I should return this" Elena said taking off her wedding ring and was surprised when Reno did as well. She thought he would have removed his as soon as he got home.

"Yes you should return these to the jewelers for a refund" he agreed but Rufus noticed he looked rather reluctant to return it, as did Elena.

Tseng took the bands and inspected them, they were scratched up as to be expected of agents on a mission.

"They have been roughed up and were already paid for, just keep them as a souvenir" he said sliding them back to them and noticed that both people moved to restore them to their ring fingers and then put them into their pockets at the last minute.

"Just sign this document" Rufus said and both people wordlessly did.

"Well you'll soon officially be single" Rufus said in a bright tone of voice.

"I'm glad" Elena said in a bright tone of voice.

"Agreed" Reno said and both avoided looking each other as they left.

They hardly spoke in the office and went out of their ways to avoid each other in their need to remain professional but both people felt the absence of the other.

Elena had gotten home when a chime went off on her PHS and a text appeared from Reno.

"What underwear are you wearing?"

"What sort of question is that?" She texted back.

"You said we can't be together in person but you never said anything about text. So what set?" He texted back.

"The red ones with the black ribbons" she texted him.

"Let's see them" he texted.

Elena blushed when she pushed her skirt up and took a picture of her panties and sent it to him.

"Now that's what I like to see" he texted.

So began another chapter of their lives; sexting. They would go to work and be nothing but professional to each other and then come home to their spicy online lives.

"What are you wearing?" Elena would text.

"Worn jean and that t-shirt you like so much. I'm so glamourous at the moment" he would text back.

"Ah the grey shirt you insist is black? Grrr tiger, your ass looks good in anything" she texted back.

"Oh behave" he would text her.

Or

"What you doing?" Reno would text.

"Watching a video from my current favourite boy band. You should see how one this redhead can groove" she texted.

" .Off and never mention it to anyone" he texted her.

"Sorry but how he shakes his booty, he really has me entranced" she texted.

"I was seventeen woman, are you a some kind of sexual predator? You had better stay away from teenaged boys."

There were countless hours spent texting each other, while ignoring each other in real life. But that got lonely after awhile.

"What did you do with your wedding ring?" She texted to him over lunch.

He glanced at his ring finger where is was buried beneath the leather half gloves that were standard issue with their uniform, that he'd never bothered wearing before. Only Tseng seemed to wear them. He had gotten so used to wearing it that his finger felt naked without it. "It's around here somewhere" he lied.

"I put mine in my jewelry box" she text lied while she fished out the chain it hung from concealed under her clothes. "So any hot dates for tonight?" She added with a lump in her throat.

"No, I'm staying in. Would you like to come over?" He impulsively asked her.

"You know I can't" she texted.

"I miss you" he texted. "This is ridiculous, we deserve to be together" he complained.

"We both signed a contract. I could resign but Tseng needs you" she texted as tears rose to her eyes.

"So you're doing this for Tseng? Good night Elena" he texted and turned off his PHS.

She tried to call him but it was off. "No I'm doing this for your career" she texted back and went to bed to cry herself to sleep. The constant loneliness was taking a toll on both of them.

Elena moaned as she got up and flushed the toilet, she rinsed out her mouth with cold water and splashed some more on her face, trying to stave off her nausea. She had been feeling under the weather for a couple of weeks that seemed to fade by the afternoon and wondered if she had some kind of virus.

"Are you okay? You've looked a little under the weather lately" Reno texted her.

"I must have picked up a bug of some sort" she texted back.

"You sure? You looked like you were going to hurl when you walked by that ramen stand today" he texted her.

"You were spying on me?" Elena texted to him.

"It's part of my job to check up on my subordinates. Actually I was at the restaurant across the way with Rude and happened to see you" he texted.

"Sure, you just happened to be there?" she texted him.

"Go to the clinic tomorrow" he texted to her.

"Yes Dad" she texted, not yet realizing how close to the truth this statement was. "Now I have to go to sleep, I'm awfully tired these day" she texted.

"Good night Elena. Wish I were there to tuck you in" he texted.

"Wish you were too" she texted back with emoji kisses and went to bed.

"Pregnant? But I can't be" she protested to the doctor when he told her the results of the test.

"You're around three weeks along" he told her.

"But he told me he had a vasectomy" she said in confusion.

"He could be lying" the doctor said.

"He would never lie about this" Elena said.

"Then you should tell him to have his vasectomy checked, it might have reversed. A simple sperm test would tell him that. In the meantime, I'll give you some literature to take home. The choice is yours in the end and if you decide to terminate this pregnancy, I can arrange that for you" he said.

Elena walked out feeling stunned and scared. She was carrying Reno's baby! She didn't want to be a mother in a dangerous career. Yet that Reno had(tried to) render himself sterile meant he didn't want children, making this child a burden to him. She thought about running away and changing her name, she would establish another identity and raise this child on her own. But knew that that would never work, her agency specialized in tracking people down. She placed her hand on her flat belly and wondered what to do.

The next morning she was lost in thought when Ming tried to get her attention. "Good morning Helen" she called to Elena from where Ming was opening the truck.

Ming frowned when the pretty, petite blonde walked past her as if in a daze. "Elena are you okay?" She asked her. "I can get your order ready right away" she suggested.

"Huh, sorry Ming. No, I'm kind of off coffee at the moment. I have something on my mind" she apologized to the younger woman. "Have you seen Reno this morning?" She asked her.

"No not yet but...skank alert" Ming said watching Scarlet walk by. "I would give him twenty minutes before you disturb them, he should be done with her by then. Honestly his taste in coffee is a lot better then his taste in women" Ming said.

"You're not suggesting that Scarlet and Reno are...?" Elena demanded.

"Playing hide the sausage? Like a couple of rabid weasels" Ming crudely said. "Are you sure you wouldn't you like your usual?" Ming said to empty air as Elena ran forward in a jealous rage.

Reno was at his desk when Scarlet walked into his office with her high heels tapping and hips swaying, she had a seductive smirk on her face as she locked the door to his office.

"Scarlet what do you want?" He asked her in exasperation.

"What do you think I want?" She said sitting on his desk and crossing her legs so her stocking tops were revealed.

He stood up, "sorry, I've become involved with someone and find myself wishing to remain faithful to that person. My body is not longer your amusement park, please find someone else to entertain you" he said with finality in his voice.

She threw her head back and laughed as if it was the funniest thing she had ever heard in her life "you? Impossible. How you tease me so" she said walking towards and he caught both her hands.

"No means no. The door is that way, please take care it doesn't slam shut on your ass as you leave" he insisted. "I have work to do."

"Come on, don't be like this lover" she said with a sexy pout and took a hold of his gloves and dragged them from his hands. She frowned when her experienced gaze honed in the ring he wore on his ring finger. Reno didn't wear jewelry other then his single gold hoop earring. She was used to seeing the tan line difference left from them, or the indent left from one that tightened as the body shape adjusted and the owner of the wedding ring hastily removed it. Or simply didn't bother to take it off when he coupled with Scarlet. "Why are you wearing a wedding ring?" She asked him with a frown and both people looked up when someone hammered on the door.

"Open this door up now" Elena demanded.

"Elena" Reno said and started forward to unlatch the door and just managed to leap backwards when it fell to the floor with a resounding bang and Elena stood there looking like a vengeful goddess.

Elena walked over the door and pointed to Scarlet and said in a threatening voice "stay away from my husband you skank. And as for you, I'll be damned if I'll have this baby" she snarled at him.

"Baby what baby?" He said thoroughly confused by how she was acting.

"I'm pregnant and your its father. It looks like your vasectomy reversed, go have a sperm test if you don't believe me. I know how to be faithful" she raged at him.

"Nothing was happening, I said no. I want you, not this whore" he yelled back.

"Pardon me?" Scarlet said in a dangerous voice.

"I fucking love you, you happy? As for this baby, that shoe box you call a home won't suit a family so you're fucking moving in with me" he raged back at her.

"You love me?" She said in a startled voice.

"Yes I do and if it means I have to give up my career and pump gas for a living, I'll do it" he calming down himself.

"I love you too" she said and then they were kissing. Rude slid his sunglasses up onto the top of his head in surprise as Scarlet looked equally as surprised and Rufus and Tseng just smirked at each other as they had been drawn by the commotion.

Tseng cleared his throat and both people leaned back "so it appears that you're both ignoring the rules of fraternization. There are dire consequences to be faced if you both continue" he said in a threatening tone of voice.

"So fire us" Elena spat and Reno nodded to her at this.

"I don't care either. I want to be with my wife and child" he added.

"Very well I have no alternative but to terminate you both" Tseng said.

"Wait what about the dissolution of our marriage we signed?" Elena said.

"My receptionist forgot to submit it" Rufus said and handed it to Reno who grinned and tore it up.

"Shall we go since we're both unemployed?" Reno said to Elena.

"Just a sec, just because you can't be TURKS, doesn't mean I can't use you. If you want to come to my office, we can discuss the possibility of alternate jobs for you. I understand Reno is good at hacking..." Rufus said and Tseng put his hand on his shoulder.

"I'm sure they would be happy to discuss this tomorrow. Please call in the morning and make an appointment" he urged them and watched as they hurried off, obviously feeling frisky and longing to be alone.

Tseng and Rufus watched then go.

"You're dismissed Scarlet" Rufus said and both waited until they were alone.

"Two down..." Tseng began.

"One to go" Rufus said and put his arms around his spouse.

"You're such a softy to arrange this for them" Rufus said.

"Why shouldn't they all have a happy ending like us? To simply disband the TURKS after they have given up the hopes of ever having romantic relationships would have just been cruel. Reno would have continued to be a playboy, Elena pining for me when I'm not available and Rude forever carrying the torch for Tifa. By marrying them and sending them to a romantic destination made them really look at each other as a protentional mate. Elena's too much of a romantic not to take charge of someone in the role of her husband and he clearly wants someone to care for him. The rest was just feathering their love nest by sending a sexy dress for Elena that was guaranteed to entice him. Besides we can't enforce a policy where people are forbidden to marry when we have been for years" Tseng explained.

"And having his vasectomy reversed that time he was in the hospital was a good touch" Rufus agreed.

"So what are the plans to get Rude and Tifa together?" Rufus asked his spouse.

"You'll see" Tseng said. "Come let's go pick up Ming and take her to lunch" he suggested.

Ming grinned at Tseng and Rufus, she wasn't a child they had adopted but a child of their hearts. She was the child of Tseng's cousin and Tseng had taken her into their home when her parents were killed out of familial duty and then out of love when she opened her own heart to them. She'd been thirteen at the time and was like a daughter to them. "Whatever shall you do when I go to college and stop spying for you?" She asked them.

"Come on spying on spies is a noble profession, no one thinks twice of speaking in front of a young, sarcastic female coffee truck girl who always mixes up people's orders and hardly gets anyone's names right" Tseng chided her. Shall we go to lunch?"

"Sorry I want to be a Barrister, not a Barista or a spy" she said.

"Thanks for tipping us off that Scarlet was planning to make a visit to Reno" Rufus said taking her arm and Tseng took the other one as they all walked together.

"All I had to do was tip Elena off. It's about time those two got together" Ming added.

"We make a great team" Rufus said.

"Sorry Rufus, college first and then we'll talk about my career" Ming said.

"So where shall we go?" Tseng asked Ming.

"Anyplace that doesn't smell like coffee" Ming sourly said.

Elena giggled when Reno scooped her up and hurried them both to his bedroom and put her on the bed, he hopped around as he speedily removed his clothes while her own were discarded over the side of it. He joined her and briefly kissed her belly and then hovered over her, stroking her cheek with one hand. "Nothing shall ever keep us apart again, Mrs. Sinclair" he said.

"You're not upset about the baby?" She anxiously asked him.

"I got the vasectomy because I have always been too impetuous when it comes to sex to bother with birth control and never wanted to father a bastard like I am. But our child was conceived in matrimonial bonds, so no" he assured her. And leaned down and kissed her and entered her at the same time and her body joyously received him and both felt like they were home.

Rude had been shocked to find Tifa in the briefing room and could feel himself blush.

"As Elena and Reno are gone, I was forced to recruit Tifa Lockhart for this mission" Tseng said.

"You're sending a civilian on a mission with me?" Rude said in an incredulous voice.

"You don't mind, do you Rude?" She asked him looking at him through her large lovely garnet eyes.

"Of course not but..." He said blushing even deeper.

"Miss Lockhart has agreed to go and can certainly pull her own weight, she's a highly skilled martial artist" Tseng explained.

"I won't slow you down" Tifa promised him and gave him a smile that made his heart flutter.

"Okay what's the mission" he asked them.

"You'll be guarding the endangered Tomato Faced Warbler from it's predator during their nesting season. That normally lasts two months" Tseng said.

"Pardon?" Rude said, his eyebrows creeping up so high they climbed above his sunglasses.

"It's an endangered bird" Tseng explained.

"You only have to guard them during the day, they males guard the nests at night. You wouldn't have to do much, count the eggs and how many chicks are produced and report this back to me and make a couple sweeps during the day. There's a cabin near their nesting ground for this purpose. It only has one bedroom, but I'm sure you'll make due" Rufus added and notice how both people blushed

"You want us to guard birds?" Rude said in an incredulous tone of voice. "Why not send a pair of forest rangers?"

"Are you questioning your orders?" Tseng asked him with a frown.

"It is a little odd but I'm game" Tifa assured him.

"I would be happy to go" Rude said.

"Glad to hear it, it's a very remote area. There will be no one around but the pair of you. I hooked up an on demand movie network for you. Send an email of whatever you need and supplies shall be dropped off once a week. There's not much to do otherwise, there's a nice beach and natural springs close by, so bring your swimsuits...and I understand the sunset are particularly romantic there how it sets over the water" Rufus said and Tifa and Rude exchanged glances over the last tidbit of information.

Guarding Temperamental Tomato Faced Warblers

Rude was trying not to pay that close attention to his companion's short shorts as they walked around the breeding ground, instead he read from the file.

"The tomato faced warbler seems almost clownish in it's appearance. They are very friendly and many people have tried to keep them as pets, but they do not do well in captivity. Their name comes from the red pattern on their faces, the rest of their body is a uniform blue, though the males are darker in plumage. They look very similar to love birds only chubbier. Their eyes glow blue and they are said to be connected to the Lifestream as they are well known for landing on people they feel to possess good souls" he paused when one of the same said birds alighted on Tifa shoulder and she giggled as it nestled under her hair and another on top his own head.

"I guess yours must be the male while mine is female" he guessed. "You can stay up there buddy, but I'm not a toilet" Rude said and continued to read aloud, "if they like you, they will make a sound similar to a purring cat and Tifa nodded that hers was.

Tifa spotted a weasel like creature approaching the nest the birds had just come from while the their chicks chirped.

"I see a predator, I'll save you little guys" she said and leaped upwards towards the tree while the bird streamed after her also in defense of their chicks.

Rude blushed and made sure he didn't look up, him being too much of a gentleman to ogle Tifa like that. So he made himself read more and blanched at what he read just as Tifa caught a hold of the tree and started to scale it like a monkey.

"Tifa get down from there" Rude called to her in warning.

"Huh?" She said almost at the nest and then looked on in shock when the female warbler breathed fire into the creature's face and the male's claw extended to razor sharp points and lopped off its head. Tifa was so startled she let go of the tree and plummeted only for Rude to easily catch her.

He still held the book and read to her, "although benign in its actions and appearance; the Tomato Faced Warbler shall attack if feeling threatened or its young are being threatened. The females can breath fire and the male spout extra long, razer sharp claws."

"So are we here to protect them from predators or protect the predators from them?" Tifa asked Rude as they watched the female preen blood from both of their feathers while the male cut up and fed the crisply corpse to their chicks. Both birds seemed to smile down at them.

"So we're making pheasant with wild cherry sauce" Rude explained.

"You're an incredible cook. Where did you learn to cook so well?" She asked him a week later. He blushed to think about the gourmet cooking classes he had taken in hopes of one day being able to impress the same young lady before him, He'd been the only male in the classes and had felt silly wearing a ruffled apron, but he had proven a quick study.

"Just recipes I found on the internet" he explained. "More veuve clicquot?" He asked her.

"I'd love some" she said and he topped up her glass. She wore a fitted red sweater and tight jeans and looked adorable to him. He didn't know she was admiring him in his own black sweater and grey combat pants.

"Would you care to sit in the living room while dinner bakes" he asked, turning the oven on low.

"Sure" she said and joined him on the couch. "So you're handy in the kitchen, any other talents I should know about?" She asked him.

"I've been told I'm a hell of a kisser" he said and then wished he could have bitten his treacherous tongue off.

"I just might have to find that out for myself" she teased him and he blushed so furiously his sunglasses fogged up.

Flash Forward

Tifa's hand slid beneath his t-shirt to explore Rude's rock solid body and he shivered at this and then helped her remove it.

She wore only a long, loose night shirt and her panties. His trembling hands pulled her night shirt over her head, exposing her firm upstanding breasts to him in all their glory. He placed the palm of his hand on the front of her panties, covering her sex and lightly ground his palm on her, relishing the heat of her arousal through the silken fabric.

His own lounge pants he pushed from himself and allowed to see him naked for the first time and she leaned up and took his heavy arousal in her small hands. She glanced up teasingly as she lapped only the head of his dick and he groaned as her small mouth engulfed as much of him as possible. Her small hands toyed with his dusky sacs while his hands went into her hair to stroke it as she suckled on him and small pink tongue brought him further stimuli. He felt like cumming on the spot but wanted their first orgasm together to be inside of her.

"Tifa, I'm going to blow if you continue" he panted.

She leaned back, "do you have a condom?" She asked him.

Rude tried not to blush when he remembered the huge box of them he discovered in his personal supplies.

"Sure" he said and got one and put it on, Tifa looked nervous as he approached."Are you scared?" He asked her.

"Just nervous, it's been a long time" she said.

"Just relax, I'll care of everything" he promised her and pulled her black panties down and leaned down and brought her to climax with his tongue. Then his large body covered her own and her body welcomed his as he entered her heavenly gates and they became one.

A Year Later

Tseng and Rufus watched as Elena came in pushing a baby carriage as Reno held the door open for her. They were going to baby group and she was picking him up because his car was in the shop.

They ran into Tifa and Rude. Both couples greeted each other while Tifa admired Marigold or Mary as they had nicknamed her, she was a good natured child who seemed to take after the calmer Elena and had a tuft of red blonde her hair that would probably darken with time.

Reno now work for Rufus in his cyber crime division and worked more regular hours. Elena was on maternity leave but trained operatives in weapons. Rude was head of security for the President and engaged to Tifa.

So ends our story, except Reno was still a scruffy puppy with the same ratty rattail but Elena was working on him.

The End