Mission 06: Bagel
"Did he fall asleep?" Denzel pointed at Reno who was sitting at the Seventh Heaven's front counter leaning on it, his face hidden in his arms.
Rude shook his head.
"I'm awake," Reno muttered and looked up. "I'm just in shock," and he was completely unmotivated to work. He would much rather take a nap and pretend all of this was a bad dream.
"Why?" Denzel curiously asked.
Reno wondered if he should dignify that question with a response, he looked at Rude searching for support. Rude nodded as telling Reno to go ahead and answer. Reno grumbled before finally offering his reply. "We were hired by a child."
Denzel shrugged, "even if you think that way, the Turks work for me for today. Marlene and I won the sweepstakes after all. She gets to play with Tseng and Elena for today and I get the two of you."
It was rigged, Reno was sure. Rufus wanted to create a good image for Shinra by having the Turks baby-sit children linked to Cloud Strife and his friends. But either way, Denzel had a point; Reno and Rude were stuck working for him for the day.
"I'm hungry," Denzel informed the Turks. "I want a bagel."
"Of course, you can't boss us around on an empty stomach. Rude, get the kid a bagel," Reno returned to his nap.
"No, you get the bagel and get a bagel for Rude and one for yourself too, then maybe after eating you won't be so grumpy. You could at least try to have fun." Denzel started to feel a little cheated, Elena was always cheerful, and Tseng was serious but he was readily helping with anything Marlene requested. Rude was quietly standing around, blending in so well with the equally silent furniture, one could forget he was even there, and Reno clearly did not want to be there.
"Fine..." Reno got up and went to get the bagels, but realized that Denzel was following him. "Anything else?"
"It should be a lightly toasted chocolate chip bagel with butter!" Denzel cheered.
"Alright, I'll see what I can do," Reno attempted to toast the bagel, Tifa was working in the kitchen and stood back to watch the show. It already had chocolate chips, so the bagel just needed to be toasted and covered in butter. But instead it was burn until it turned black, and a piece of a butter bar was placed on top of it. "Here you go; you know this isn't all that different from working for Rufus."
Tifa tried to hide her laughter while Denzel received the inedible bagel and looked at it. "This is what Rufus eats?"
"Actually, Elena does most of the cooking and sometimes Rude cooks," Reno explained.
"Oh, in that case, Rude could you make us some edible bagels?" Denzel asked.
Rude nodded and made the bagels, they tasted very good.
"So the cooking should be left to Rude," Denzel made a mental note. "What about videogames?"
Reno realized that maybe this wasn't so bad after all. "I'm good at videogames, I'm the best!" It was turning out to be much better than babysitting Rufus, even if his current boss was a kid.
End of Mission 06
Mission 06 was requested by Little Duck. Disclaimer, I don't own Final Fantasy VII.