A/N: Morning after...and this isn't nearly as long as the previous chapter. But there is A LOT of cursing. A lot.

Disclaimer: I offer this dialogue for the disclaimer:

Me: Squall, is anything regarding Final Fantasy mine in any way, shape, form or fashion?

Squall: (snort) Whatever.

Niki rolled over and squealed as she fell off the couch and landed and the floor, nearly missing Kandi's glass coffee table.

"Mornin' Sunshine!"

Niki moaned and covered her eyes with the closest thing she could pull to her, which happened to be Akalara's foot. "Let go of my leg, Nutjob," Akalara teased, pulling her limb back. Kandi leaned over the edge of her couch, grinning at the two girls. She held up an orb of materia.

"Esuna, anyone?"

"Oh gods, yes," Niki moaned. "My head feels like its about to explode."

Kandi cast the spell on both girls, laughing as they sighed with relief. "If you guys are hungry, I'm making breakfast," she told them.

"Hooray! Breakfast!" Niki exclaimed, jumping to her feet. She flinched as her cell phone rang. Reaching to the waist band of her skirt she grabbed it, squealing in delight as the name flashed on the screen. "Hey Reno!"

Akalara rolled her eyes and went to the kitchen with Kandi to get some coffee. "Is it weird that I like her but I hate her?" the green-haired woman asked.

Kandi grinned. "With you," she said beating some eggs in a bowl. "Nothing is weird."

Niki bounded into the kitchen. "Sorry, can't stay for breakfast," she said, beaming. "Reno'll be here any minute. He's taking me Christmas shopping today!"

Akalara gripped her coffee cup harder as she raised it to her lips.

"Okay," Kandi said, kicking her green-haired friend slightly. "You better get me something kick ass."

Niki nodded and giggled as Kandi's front door opened and Reno stepped in. None of the Turks bothered knocking on her door. They just used the retinal scanner and came on in. That was the way Kandi liked it. But one of her favorite things to do, was torture a red-head.

"Reno, what the hell?" she shrieked. "I have a housefull of girls over and you just walk in? What if we were all still naked from the massive girl orgy we had last night?"

Reno gripped the back of the couch to steady himself, his other hand grabbing his heart. "Massive girl orgy?!" he choked out. "And I wasn't invited to serve as voyeur? I'm crushed! You better have fucking footage of this, Vending Machine!"

Kandi smirked. "Sorry, I was too busy eating out your girlfriends," she said. "By the way, they say I'm better at it then you are."

"Fucking bitch," he growled moving into the kitchen. He kissed Niki on the lips in greeting and then turned to Akalara, nuzzling her neck before kissing her as well. "How are my girls this morning? Where's Brit?"

"Still out," Kandi answered. "So are Nina and Wid. Randak picked Nilto up earlier."

Niki started dancing, pushing her thighs together. "I'll be right back," she squealed, running down the hall to the bathroom. Kandi and Akalara laughed at her.

The green-haired woman set her coffee cup down and gave Reno a searing kiss. "You better get me something nice for Christmas," she purred. "Or I'm going to take back what I got you."

Reno smirked. "What'd you get me?" he asked.

Akalara whispered something into his ear that made the red-head's face turn as bright as his hair. "Fuck," he groaned. "I'm getting you something real nice."

"Good," she said, turning to her friend. "Can I borrow your shower?"

Kandi nodded. "Sure," she answered. "Towels are in the cabinet above the toliet. Help yourself."

Akalara kissed Reno again and headed into Kandi's room to the master bath. Once the door had closed, Kandi turned and hugged Reno. "Did I ever thank you for being there for me nine years ago?" she asked, running her fingers through his hair.

Reno smiled and squeezed her tightly. "You didn't have to," he told her softly, rubbing his nose against hers. "I needed you as much as you needed me. I needed to be there with you."

Kandi kissed his cheek sweetly. "I love you, Reno," she said. "Not romantically or anything, but I absolutely love you."

The red-head grinned and kissed her forehead. "Yeah, I know," he replied. "For the record, I love you, too."

"Okay, so for the record," she said, turning back around to finish cooking breakfast. Reno wrapped his arms around her and rested his head on her shoulder. "Which one of the three babes are you going to pick in the end?"

"Ah, don't make me pick," he said with a grin. "I need all three of them."

"Reno, realistically, you know you can't do that to them or yourself," she told him, chopping some mushrooms and sauteing them in a skillet. "It's all fun right now, but one of these days, they're going to get tired of you stringing them along. Hell, two outta three already have other guys. And I know for a fact that Revan is head over hills in love with the Green Bitch."

Reno was taken aback by this. "For real, yo?" he asked. "I knew he was into her...I just didn't know he was that into her. Does she return it?"

Kandi sighed, and shook her head. "She trusts him," she said softly. "That's a hard thing for Ak to do, you know? Her feelings for him are pretty solid. No one will ever replace Seph in her heart, though. Not even you, Re. And you know that."

"I know, I know," he said, squeezing her tighter. "Damn it, I hate you sometimes. When did you become the voice of reason?"

Kandi tilted her head back and grinned at him. "I've always been bitchin' wise, ReRe," she smirked. "I just never displayed it on such a level before."

"Don't call me ReRe," he glowered.

"At least I didn't call you ReRe-chan like I normally do," she snickered before kissing his chin. She popped some food into his mouth over her shoulder then elbowed him softly in the ribs. "Better back up before one of your girls comes in and thinks somethings going on. I really do not want to be caught in the crossfires of Operation: FFR."

"'Operation: FFR'?" he asked, releasing her and hopping up on the counter. "What the hell is that?"

"'Fight For Reno'," she answered. "It's what me, Trina and Ram call this little feud for your attentions."

"Clever."

"I know, right?" she said, hopping up next to him with an omelet on a plate. "I think I'll put it in my memoirs when I retire."

Reno opened his mouth when she held a fork full of food to it. "That's good," he said, chewing the bite of omelet. "That's damn good."

Kandi linked her right foot with his left and swung them back and forth playfully. "Reno?" she began, batting her eyelashes playfully. "Do you know what Rude is getting me for Christmas?"

Reno laughed. "You little brat!" he said, poking her nose. "Butter me up with food and then drop the bomb. No, I don't know what he's getting you. I know what he got you."

"Whoa, wait," she exclaimed. "He already got it?"

"Yep."

"Well, what is it?"

Reno hopped down from the counter and stepped between her legs, resting his hands on her thighs. "I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you, and then Rude's present will be wasted. And it's pretty expensive."

"Kandi!"

Kandi about dropped her plate at the sound of her name being shrieked. Niki walked into the kitchen in nothing but her skirt and bra, glaring at her red-streaked friend.

"What's up, Niki-chan?" she asked, taking another bite of her breakfast.

Niki was twisting around, trying to look at something behind her. "There is something on my back," she said, turning around like a puppy chasing it's tell. "I can't see what it is and I couldn't make it out in the mirror." She spun around and showed both Kandi and Reno. "What is it?"

The shattering of Kandi's plate echoed throughout the kitchen. "Oh Shiva," Kandi whispered, looking at Reno as he too read the words scrawled across Niki's lower back. Instinctively, Kandi wrapped her legs around Reno to prevent him from going bat shit. "Niki, how drunk were you last night?"

"Pretty drunk," she giggled. "Why? What is it?"

Reno's jaw worked as he traced the lettering across Niki's skin. "'Razor Worthington hit this'," he read softly.

Niki gasped. "What?!" she shrieked.

"You fucked Razor?!" he yelled at her as Kandi tightened her grip around him with her legs, grasping the edge of the counter for better purchase. Reno was pulling at her viciously, trying to get closer to Niki who had smartly stepped away. "You actually fucked that worthless piece of shit? You couldn't find someone better to fuck around on me with? It had to be him?!"

Kandi gritted her teeth, pulling the red-head back to her so she could wrap her arms around him as well. "Reno, calm down," she said against his ear. "Chill out, okay?"

"Not fucking okay!" he yelled. "Don't you remember all the shit you guys went through because of that dickweed and then he ends up fucking my girl?! I hate that godsdamn motherfucker!"

"I know," she said trying to soothe him. "Just...let's be rational about this, okay?" She looked up at Niki. "Did you, Niki?"

Niki was crying by this point. "I didn't..." she said shaking her head, her loosened hair swinging around her tear streaked face. "At least...I don't think I did."

"You don't think you did?!" Reno bellowed, causing Kandi to tighten her grip again. "How the fuck can you not know, Niki? Did you fuck a sleazy looking fucker or not?"

"I don't...I can't remember!" she cried out.

Reno finally broke away from the hold Kandi had on him. He glared down at Niki, hurt and anger clear on his face. "You betrayed me in the worst possible way you could," he snarled. "I can't...I can't look at you the same anymore. I can't be with you knowing that you've been with him."

Niki gasped, tears beginning anew. "Reno, no," she said, grasping at his shirt as he stalked toward the door. "No! I don't know if I did! And if I did, I didn't mean to!"

"The evidence is on your back, SweetCheeks," Reno growled, throwing the door opened. "Which is where you were while you were FUCKING HIM!"

Kandi's door slammed and Reno was gone, a broken, crying Niki collapsing to the floor, clutching her shirt to her chest. Kandi walked over to her slowly, wincing at the condemning words written across her back. Kneeling down, she took the sobbing girl in her arms, trying to comfort her. The door to Kandi's bedroom opened and Akalara stepped out wearing Kandi's robe and toweling her hair.

"What happened?" she asked, going over to them. She stopped when she saw the writing on Niki's back. "Oh gods," she whispered, backing away. She remembered doing that, but she didn't remember writing his name! "Oh my gods!"

"Shut up!" Niki shrieked, clutching her shirt tighter. "I don't know what happened!"

"Oh gods, oh gods," Akalara said, sitting down on the couch and burying her hands in her hair. "Oh gods! Did Reno see it yet?"

Kandi nodded. "He just stormed out," she said, kissing the top of Niki's head.

"Fuck!" Akalara exclaimed. She flopped her arms down on the sofa, her hand hitting the Sharpie she had used the night before. She looked at it and flung it across the room, hitting the opposite wall. "Gods damn it!"

Kandi glared at her as she watched the Sharpie flying through the air. "You did this?!" she exclaimed. "After everything that bastard has ever done to us, you wrote his name on Niki's back?"

"I didn't realize I was writing Razor's name," Akalara said, pulling at her hair. "I was too drunk."

Niki lept to her feet and attacked the green-haired woman. "I hate you! I hate you! I hate you!" she shrieked. "Why are you so jealous of me? Why?! I love Reno and you just ruined any chances I ever had with him!"

Akalara fended off the attack and dumped the younger woman unceremoniously to the ground. "I love him, too!" she snarled. "And no one takes something that I love away from me."

Niki jumped back up and started pulling her shirt back on. "Guess the smear tactic didn't work with Jenova, did it?" Niki snapped back. "When she took Sephiroth from you."

Akalara's fist connected with Niki's jaw at that and Niki hit the floor. "You godsdamn bitch," Akalara seethed, blinking back angry and hurt tears. She didn't cry. She had to remind herself she did not cry. "Don't you dare talk about him like that."

"Listening to a headless, alien freak was better than a lifetime with you," Niki hissed, pulling herself to her feet. "And Reno will soon see that you are so not worth the time he has invested in you, you godsdamn fucking whore."

Niki turned and left the apartment, slamming the door as she left. Kandi rounded on Akalara. "How could you do that?" she yelled. "How?! After all he did, knowing how much Reno, Zack and Seph hated the guy, how could you do that? He groped Lily, he taped you and Seph having sex, he tried to fucking rape me! Why would you bring him back like that?!"

"I didn't know I was writing his name," Akalara said calmly. "Like I said, I was too drunk to think coherently."

"Yet you were sober enough to come up with this ingenious plan to get Reno to hate Niki," Kandi scoffed. "Well, it fucking worked."

Akalara wrapped her arms around her stomach and sat back down on the couch. Burying her face in her hands, she allowed a few of the tears caused when Niki had mentioned Sephiroth to fall, quickly wiping them away before she brought her face back up. "I'll make it right," she said softly. "I'll tell Reno what I did and hopefully he'll forgive me. I know it hurt him as much as it hurt Niki."

Kandi's face softened. Even though her green-haired friend tried to hide it, she knew she had been crying. "That'd be good," she nodded. She pulled the other woman into a hug. "And I'm gonna get Niki for saying that shit about Seph," she whispered. "He was my godsdamned friend, too, and I don't take lightly to people talking shit about my friends."

Akalara nodded and broke away from her embrace. "I'm going to get dressed and get Az," she said heading back to Kandi's room.

"Ak."

Cranberry red eyes turned to the friend she'd had the longest. Kandi crossed her arms and flicked her eyes around before setting on Akalara's. "Don't you think this thing has gone on long enough?" she asked.

Akalara merely shrugged and went to get her clothes. Kandi sighed and flopped down on the couch. She had a bad feeling that things were just getting started.

A/N: A fist fight! HOORAY! And the massive girl orgy was inspired by maniacm1990's fic 'Cue Rebounds'. Razor Worthington is a total skeeze. To read more about him, visit dantesdarkqueen's fic, 'Evidence of Sephiroth's Humanity' and I believe it is after chapter 80. Total skeeze and long time rival of Reno's. Check it out and, as always...REVIEW!