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Log; completed
When; May 28th, mid-day?
Rating; G, for general audience
Characters; Reno & Larxene
Summary; Outing in the rain to Cafe Juliet, though it didn't start out raining because we started this before we knew about when the whole rain thing was gonna end. :D;; But there is the icky wet stuff at the end. So let's pretend that the storm let up for a smidge before pourin' buckets, 'kay? :D;;
Log;
"I'm probably going to get into major trouble for this with the misses, but it's harmless so I don't he'd mind. Besides I'm sure he's used to my ways..." Reno sighed running a hand through his untamed bangs. Tapping on his goggles a few times with his index finger the redhead wondered how this even happened. How did any of this happen? Being stuck here was suppose to mean that he was blessed with ungodly amounts of time with his beloved, but somehow he was anything but whoring his honey's time. That itself made Reno rather grumpy, but most of that was due to his enslavement to Cain Nightlord, which wasn't as bad as he thought it would be.
"Whatta mess..." Another sigh and Reno was out the door with his hand shoved into the pockets of his coat. ”Seems like I just can't stop when I'm ahead. Whether it's for the bad or for the good; I just don't do I? Will I ever really learn?" The question floated into the air behind the Turk. Unanswered and asked to no one in particular footsteps drew a path towards the carousel. He'd be meeting his new find in this city today. A woman with a feisty spirit that he didn't see in other women so often, at least, nothing like her's. Too bad his heart was for another. A grin. Actual 'heart' not the usual lust or primal desire? ...maybe.
Larxene watched the city, well, the section she could see from here anyway, go round and round from the carousel. What was the point of leaving this thing going all the time anyway, when there was hardly ever anyone riding it (probably didn't have the skill(z) to hop aboard while it was moving) ... Whatever. A lot of things in this city didn't make sense, and she hadn't seen the half of it yet.
She caught a glimpse of bright red hair. Ah, that must be him. As the carousel spun by, she dismounted, stumbling a bit as she hit the ground. Damn, I hope he didn't notice that. "About time you got here~!"
Blonde hair, blue eyes and with an attitude problem. Great. Reno might have well looked down a barrel of a gun with his finger on the trigger. Raising an eyebrow the Turk watched the blonde fall from carousel and hit the ground. Putting a hand over his mouth, Reno tried his hardest not to laugh. Stifling a few laughs by conveniently clearing his throat he replied, "I had to leave ask Mein Herr, if I was able to go. But that doesn't matter so much as the fact that I'm here now, right?" Another grin.
Why did this feel like a date? It shouldn't. Reno couldn't and didn't date. Though why the hell did this feel like a date? Dates were something that the Turk hadn't done in years, and with a woman at that. When was the last time Reno had a lady as his company anyways? Oh well, he'd figure all of this out later besides this was enough inner whining to last him the rest of the week. "You hungry? I thought we could hit this place near here... Heard it had some specialty desserts that weren't half bad." The redhead raised a hand and with his thumb directed her line of vision to the place in question.
Larxene surreptitiously looked him over. Hmm- even ignoring the resemblance to Axel (whoa, they even sounded the same), he wasn't a bad find. Now the question was, how quickly would he get boring~?
"That works." She shrugged. How very... date-ish, but she'd heard a few things about that cafe and had been meaning to check it out anyway, eventually.
Hands still shoved deeply inside the pockets of his blazer, Reno began his stroll towards the cafe. The weather was nice in comparison to how it was just the other day. Such a random storm, Reno hadn't seen it coming. His mind a drift among the clouds, he felt a bit foreign in this body. Crystalline eyes eyed the clouds floating among the endless sky that had mysteriously brought him here. He almost imagined to see a large dome like structure through the sky. Trapping them. Restricting their ability to leave this twisted paradise. Paradise? Well, at least for the Turk it was. It wasn't boring, and he could spend as much time as he wanted with his honey.
"So what's your world like, Larxene?" Reno turned his gazed upon the blonde giving his a soft yet ever mischievous look. "Is it anything like this place?" Why had his voice been so bloody soft anyways? Ugh. This was slowly becoming a date whether he wanted it to or not.
"Hmm... not really. I like here better," Larxene said shortly. The world that never was, trapped in a dream-slash-nightmare- huh, the way people around here talked her old world and this one had a lot in common.
This place was more colorful, anyway; and she didn't like people, but they were a lot more fun than shadows and Nobodies. "There was a city just below where I lived before, with no one in it..."
A city with no people? That was like an oxymoron if he ever heard of one, especially when Reno heard the word 'city. A city to him and probably the majority of the human population, was a place that was crowded and chock full with all sorts of various bodies doing various things. Had Axel lived there too? The redhead pondered the random thought for a few moments. "How can you have a city with no people?" Reno lowered his head so that he was eye level with the other being, he was very interested and curious now. The Turk almost changed his pattern of step to walk right in front of the blonde to further pressure his interest in the subject.
Never had he been in a city where it wasn't packed to the brim with masses of flesh that took up far too much space for the redhead to enjoy. "I wonder what that'd be like.... a city with no people..." Reno's voice almost sounded distant from his awe.
"Hell, that's what it was like," Larxene snapped at him. "... Sorry. It's a long story. Suffice to say, it was more... the shadow of a city. And that's all that lived there, shadows... It's not worth talking about." Empty streets and neon lights, lifeless lamp like eyes watching you from every corner.
The Nobody wondered for a moment whether real people had ever populated the dark city. Probably not. It made no sense, but she was used to being kept in the dark, even though it pissed her off... Xemnas only doled out information to the lower-ranked members on a need-to-know basis, and not very often.
"Shadows huh?" Reno raised his arms and folded them behind his head. "Heh... then it sounds kinda like my own world then. It's a kind of hell too, but there are people that gave up everything for that hell. Their past. Their friends. Their names. Even themselves." One foot in front of the other. A step at a time. Reno recalled life in Midgar. The Slums filled with those who dreamed of better days. The plate where people we just happy to get by. And then...of ShinRa. What a bittersweet taste that left in his mouth.
And with new things to think about when other believe him to be drunk off his ass, they arrived at the cafe. It felt warm and comforting, even welcoming. Looking around for a bit, Reno helped himself to a table near a lamp post. “Anyway~ Shall we?” The Turk pulled out a chair out from the table bowing a little. Date? Maybe, but it's not like he had to tell the misses about this.
"How gentlemanly~" Larxene slipped into the offered chair and picked up a menu. "They sure are big on candy in this city, aren't they?"
"Sweets make the brain release lots of enzymes that trigger a person to believe that they're happy." The Turk gave his trademark libertine grin. "Kinda fits for this place doesn't it?" Eyes ran over the food options on the menu. There really were a lot of sweets in this place. Reno remembered one of their drinks even being rather sugary. The mere thought of all that sugar entering his body made his blood protest. They've had enough with Reno and his drinking problems; the last thing his body needed was an sugar rush beyond any could compare. Though when has Reno ever cared for what he's body wanted or didn't want?
"Shall we order the special and get this sugar rush started?"
Larxene smirked. "Sounds good to me."
She couldn't remember being on a sugar rush since before she lost her heart. This should be interesting, at least...
One order or two? The Turk thought about it for a while, and then firmly confirmed that he would only order one. It was a date right? "Alright then..." Looking back into the sea of other customers and fellow pedestrians, he waved down a waiter. After a bit of calling a waiter appeared next to their table taking up the menus; the waiter himself was one of those faces in the crowd you'd never remember the next day. Go figure. Like this place really had any people worth remembering. "I'd like to take an order of your specialty." The waited nodded and disappeared into the sea of customers and other faces Reno bother to know.
"Wanna tell me about yourself? Or should I go first?"
"There's not a lot worth knowing about me," Larxene replied, "I'll go first. Okay, you know Axel, right? Did he tell you about the Heartless? They got to my world too. They wouldn't have beaten me if I'd been warned..." She pouted for a moment, and then continued, "So I survived that, kind of, although my hair was never the same again. Joined up with Axel and these other guys that were trying to get their hearts back, but that was going nowhere so I quit." Actually, she'd very nearly died at the hands of that brat with the key and gone off wandering the worlds on her own to avoid that happening again, but no one needed to know about it~! It was embarrassing. "Traveled around for a while and eventually I ended up here." Actually, she'd gotten into a little more trouble than she could handle and died completely this time. "That's all."
Oh sure, she could wax poetic (no wonder they were all so crazy about becoming whole again, this empty space kinda like loneliness it drives you crazy but there's ways to get rid of it for a little while), but it just wasn't her style.
"Your turn."
Reno couldn't help but feel as if there were aspects of her story being left out on purpose even though he didn't have anything to go on, the feeling was unshakable. "I know about those things... The Heartless attacked my world too, but it wasn't...pleasant." The Turk recalled the events of that faithful day, for it was one of the strangest he had ever been in. Black shadows with glowing eyes zipping back and forth just out of his weapon's reach. That day ticked him off the absolute most. "Right, it's my turn now..."
Leaning into his chair the Turk thought about where to start in his story. In the beginning with the Slums? Or perhaps his life after ShinRa? Or even better, a summary of both. Lucid eyes lazed around each possibility before reaching a final verdict. The redhead would give the blonde a summary. "Let's see..." Reno began, "In my world there's a city called Midgar. It's what people could call hell, though it's also a heaven to others. So you really can't say it’s a bad place par say... It's just very... different. So like the place had different levels, and once you were in one of those levels, you were stuck there. It was the worse kind of hierarchy if I ever knew one." Reno paused for a moment. Whatta hierarchy it had been. "The basic outline was the Slums, those that lived under the Plate in poverty and dreamed of seeing the sky, the Plate, those who lived comfortable lives and finally ShinRa, and there wasn't escaping into either of the other."
His voice stopped again to think about what to leave in and what to leave out because certainly he was not about to tell her his life story. "So long story short from there, I originally came from the Slums and by some miracle I managed to escape that place and I joined the Turks which is a 'part' of ShinRa which made life a little easier...and so here I am today."
"Sounds like we both came from pretty crappy worlds," Larxene remarked. "Gotta say, I like it here so far." Still empty, but there were more ways to take her mind off of it in this weird carnival world. And hell, there'd been enough weird things already for her to think there might even be a way to get her heart back.
"It's... interesting."
"It's not crappy." Reno defended though he wasn't sure as to why he was. Midgar wasn't the type of place one would normally want to defend, but he couldn't help to. It was his home after all regardless to what he said. Such a love/hate relationship. "It's just....nothing like this city. Though they kinda share the same qualities in certain areas."
Reno leaned further into his chair and looked off into the distance, when would that blasted cake be coming anyways? Just before the Turk could do anything in response to his thoughts, the waiter popped up displaying what looked like a mountain of puff, cream, sugar and diabetes.
Larxene eyed the cake skeptically. "I'm not sure I've ever seen that much sugar in one place."
Reno, after taking the dish from the waiter, let out a light chuckle. "Same here, but hey... Didn't I say we needed to get this sugar rush started?" And maybe he should have added diabetes along with that sugar rush he ordered. All that sugar really was either going to make Reno wish he ordered a drink or give him a cavities the size of his boss's ego at times. Not like he really cared about cavities.
Placing the diabetes in the form of a dessert specialty, Reno cut a slice of the cake and placed it before Larxene letting her be the first to try out the sugar rush. "Tell me how it is..."
Hmm...not bad, really. Alright, so it tasted like what it was- 90% flavored sugar, 10% whatever they put the sugar on- and it probably wouldn't take long to get to be too much sweet at one time, but it wasn't bad.
"Hey, this is actually okay. Go on, try it..."
"Alright..." Cutting a slice for himself, Reno took a bite out of the mound of the pastry. He could feel the sweetness literally melt on to his tongue as soon as it touched the moist insides of his mouth. Sugar. Sweetness. Rush. Reno felt his brain take flight from the sudden surge of flavored sweetness. 'Baby won't you call me your next addiction?' the cake seem scream as Reno took another bite of the delicacy. It was good alright. The Turk wasn't very keen on anything with sugar, but damn, did this take him back a few steps.
"'s like a rush...." was the only words the redhead could find himself saying about the pastry.
"Wasn't that the whole point?" Larxene took another bite. It was better this time, her taste buds adjusting to the sugar perhaps. "Hm~ I see what you mean though~" Dear light, the sugar rush was hitting already.
Reno gave the blonde a blank stare and blinked a couple of time before breaking out into a series of short chuckles. "I suppose you're right." A date was it? How horribly jealous the misses will be when and if they were to ever been told about this day. Cloudy skies and a misty wind. Not really quite the date weather in the first place, but it was really starting to feel like one.
"Hope it doesn't start pourin'...." the Turk exclaimed looking up at the sky, a spoon hanging from his mouth.
"Hope not." Larxene reached across and flicked the handle of the spoon. The rain didn't bother her. After all, wasn't that what you usually saw lightning with?
Anyway, back to the cake. It reminded her a little bit of something she'd had in her old life, before the Heartless; cotton candy, she thought it was called.
The spoon flew from the Turk's mouth only to land on his face as he tried to catch it in the most graceful manner. The sky rumbled and the cloud seemed darker than usual. How ironic that it made the Turk almost miss his home; it had dark skies there as well. 'What a time to start feelin' homesick.' Reno mused within himself.
Red hair watched blonde locks attack the cake with passion and couldn't help but laugh. A woman after his already taken heart, how sicking-ly cute. He felt as if he should dive in and rescue himself another slice, though Reno was never the one for sweets, plus the majority of the cake had been pretty much devoured by the blonde anyways. This made his mind click. "Oh crap. Hey, waiter~" Reno ordered swirling around to look for their waiter. He promised Mein Herr that he'd bring him back a Soda Cake.
Before long, the waiter popped up next to Reno, waiting for his order. "Another one of your specialties... but make it to go." The man curtly nodded his head disappearing into the masses.
Larxene frowned, realizing how much of the cake she'd already eaten. "I'd better save some for you, hmm~? Here, take the rest."
Looking up, she remarked, "It's gonna start raining again~"
Reno looked at what was left of the dessert. There was less than a quarter of it left, sometimes it really was a good thing that the Turk didn't care for sweets or otherwise he might have thrown a hissy fit. Did Reno even throw 'hissy fits'? Oh well, if he did, they'd be sexy hissy fits. "Why thank you."
Mouth full of the puffy sugar, Reno looked up at the sky as well. It really did look like the rain was about to pour down on them at anytime. Just as the redhead was going to say something, he was stopped by the sudden appearance of the Waiter, who presented him with a wrapped package obviously caring the cake he just ordered. After taking the package from the server and thanking him, Reno felt a few drops land on his hands. "...correction, it’s raining…"
"Well isn't that lousy timing." Larxene flipped the hood of her coat up. "Now what~?"
"Shall I walk you home to save whatever time we have left together?" Reno smirked holding out a hand to Larxene. If their date was going to end on a sour note, then why not make it at least an unforgettable note? His red hair clung to the Turk's angular face in the most unpleasant, yet so very tempting fashion. Hand stuck out and arm sheltering Mein Herr's dessert, Reno could almost be considered knightly. Almost.
"Oh and for the record, you are never to speak of what I'm doing to anyone else." His trademark grin. "Wouldn't want people to think I'm some nice guy in all. I've got a reputation to keep in all."
Larxene smirked. "Heh, if you were a nice guy you'd know better than to try and charm me~" She took the offered hand, because that was just what you did in scenes like this, right? It had been a while since she'd been on a date... before the Heartless, so the memory was fuzzy.
"I'm in building four."
"Charm? I don't need to charm anyone, it's you people that need to stop fallin' for someone like me." Reno grinned, his hair clinging rather uncomfortably onto his cheeks. "...I'm not good for anybody's health, don't you know. In any news, building four? Gotcha, we'll part once you're all nice and dry." Her hand in his, Reno led the blonde off in the direction of the apartment complex. Though could you really call it that? The building seemed to have countless amounts of rooms that came in numerous sizes and styles. Weirdest part was that they were free. No rent was needed. Nothing.
You would just walk in and there. Poof. Everything you needed and ever wanted was there. Despite the oddity, the Turk couldn't care less, it just meant less for him to worry about. Crystalline eyes looked down at the woman next to him and her hood then back at his own soaked head. "Must be nice having some sort of shelter from this crazy weather..."
"Falling for you? Oh, please~" Larxene winked at him. "Oh, by the way, you look stupid with your hair stuck to your face like that." She brushed it off. Time to really lay on the charm, although it looked to her like she already had him hook, line and sinker- this was going better than she expected.
"The rain doesn't bother me, really. I just wear this coat everywhere. You should have come prepared, lovely~" Now that she thought about it, she didn't really have to wear her old Organization cloak anymore, but it had become habit.
"You gotta admit. I'm one, if not the, sexiest thing you've ever had the pleasure of meeting ♥" Reno stated, zoning closer to Larxene's face. What a cute girl. She had everything that Reno liked in a person, attitude, fire and a face that was none other he had seen before. Oh and being blonde with blue eyes didn't help. Seriously, the redhead wondered where his fascination with them spawned from. Maybe under different circumstances and if things were different he might have actually be taken with the young woman. Though with that said, he could also be a pretty princess obsessed with ponies and sparkly rainbows, which the thought alone made Reno very uncomfortable. It would be like catching 'Holy Hell', but not.
"Mmm... Is that so?" Reno grinned. "Then why don't you take that thing off. I've been slightly curious; what's a lovely lady like you got hiding under such an unflattering coat anyways..." That note about things never being mentioned to anyone else? This was one of those things; Reno would have to remind her about that later.
"Unflattering~?" Larxene pouted at him, but removed the coat anyway- slowly, just to tease him. She didn't have anything especially interesting in her wardrobe; today it was just somewhat tight-fitting black pants, the black boots she'd gotten with the coat, and a simple green T-shirt. She'd have dug up something dressier if it wasn't on short notice.
Reno gave her a quick inspection. Her choice of dress was simple but at least one could see what that overcoat hid from view, and what a view. Sleek and yet slender with a nice rack as an added bonus. Oh yeah, Larxene passed this test with flying colors as the Turk gave her a mental two thumbs up. In a way, she reminded him of Rufus when he became a woman for that one day of broken-door heaven. Maybe that's why he took so much to her. Larxene was a female version of Rufus, except she actually spoke and would freeze in an ice storm. "Oh yes... very unflattering."
The rain poured buckets onto the strolling duo. Perhaps they should make haste before he caught himself a cold. Something that he really didn't want happening anytime soon. Four days and counting, and he wasn't about to get sick. However, seeing such a nice lady being soaking wet was an incentive of not to hurry it up.
It was a very good thing she wasn't wearing white today, Larxene reflected as she noticed his gaze. She offered him the coat. "Not sure it'd fit you very well, but you can keep the rain off somewhat until we get there."
She hadn't actually tested whether she could still get sick since being darkness'd, but at any rate she didn't think she would. It was damn cold, though.
"No thanks. I'll be fine. A little water never hurt anyone." Reno replied with a shrug of his shoulder and a grin still plastered on his face. The rain really couldn't hurt anyone directly but it could lead people into getting horribly sick and bedridden, but that was beside the point. Really. It was. Reno just had to keep telling himself that.
"Besides... look where we are." Much to the Turk's dismay, they had arrived at the building of which the blonde beauty was currently taking refuge from the city. From the outside it looked just as the one he lived in, but he could feel that their room sixty was definitely not the same as the one he shared.
"Not directly~" Larxene sang. "Oh. Guess our little outing's over, then. ... I enjoyed it." To her surprise, she wasn't lying.
After checking that Mein Herr's cake was safe and sound from the corner of his eye, Reno answered, "Yeah guess so." Soaked red hair grinned and took a hold of Larxene's hand and drew her close. "Me too. It was fun~" Then out of the blue, he performed his last act of the many actions never to be spoken of ever again, Reno gave Larxene a quick peck on the lips. Too bad this would be as far as it goes. Reno really did start to take an interest in the blonde.
Taking a few steps back, Reno turned away and with his back faced to her waved her his farewells. It was just simply too bad. This date was to never had happened. Those actions were to never be spoken of. This whole outing would be just a distant memory trapped in a city with no name and filled with faces you'd end up forgetting the next day. "See ya around ♥"
"See you." Larxene waved to his retreating back and went into the building.
"Damnit, don't go soft on me now," she muttered to herself as she tried to find the way back to apartment 34. "This is just another game to play for a while. That's all."
Rating; G, for general audience
Characters; Reno & Larxene
Summary; Outing in the rain to Cafe Juliet, though it didn't start out raining because we started this before we knew about when the whole rain thing was gonna end. :D;; But there is the icky wet stuff at the end. So let's pretend that the storm let up for a smidge before pourin' buckets, 'kay? :D;;
Log;
"I'm probably going to get into major trouble for this with the misses, but it's harmless so I don't he'd mind. Besides I'm sure he's used to my ways..." Reno sighed running a hand through his untamed bangs. Tapping on his goggles a few times with his index finger the redhead wondered how this even happened. How did any of this happen? Being stuck here was suppose to mean that he was blessed with ungodly amounts of time with his beloved, but somehow he was anything but whoring his honey's time. That itself made Reno rather grumpy, but most of that was due to his enslavement to Cain Nightlord, which wasn't as bad as he thought it would be.
"Whatta mess..." Another sigh and Reno was out the door with his hand shoved into the pockets of his coat. ”Seems like I just can't stop when I'm ahead. Whether it's for the bad or for the good; I just don't do I? Will I ever really learn?" The question floated into the air behind the Turk. Unanswered and asked to no one in particular footsteps drew a path towards the carousel. He'd be meeting his new find in this city today. A woman with a feisty spirit that he didn't see in other women so often, at least, nothing like her's. Too bad his heart was for another. A grin. Actual 'heart' not the usual lust or primal desire? ...maybe.
Larxene watched the city, well, the section she could see from here anyway, go round and round from the carousel. What was the point of leaving this thing going all the time anyway, when there was hardly ever anyone riding it (probably didn't have the skill(z) to hop aboard while it was moving) ... Whatever. A lot of things in this city didn't make sense, and she hadn't seen the half of it yet.
She caught a glimpse of bright red hair. Ah, that must be him. As the carousel spun by, she dismounted, stumbling a bit as she hit the ground. Damn, I hope he didn't notice that. "About time you got here~!"
Blonde hair, blue eyes and with an attitude problem. Great. Reno might have well looked down a barrel of a gun with his finger on the trigger. Raising an eyebrow the Turk watched the blonde fall from carousel and hit the ground. Putting a hand over his mouth, Reno tried his hardest not to laugh. Stifling a few laughs by conveniently clearing his throat he replied, "I had to leave ask Mein Herr, if I was able to go. But that doesn't matter so much as the fact that I'm here now, right?" Another grin.
Why did this feel like a date? It shouldn't. Reno couldn't and didn't date. Though why the hell did this feel like a date? Dates were something that the Turk hadn't done in years, and with a woman at that. When was the last time Reno had a lady as his company anyways? Oh well, he'd figure all of this out later besides this was enough inner whining to last him the rest of the week. "You hungry? I thought we could hit this place near here... Heard it had some specialty desserts that weren't half bad." The redhead raised a hand and with his thumb directed her line of vision to the place in question.
Larxene surreptitiously looked him over. Hmm- even ignoring the resemblance to Axel (whoa, they even sounded the same), he wasn't a bad find. Now the question was, how quickly would he get boring~?
"That works." She shrugged. How very... date-ish, but she'd heard a few things about that cafe and had been meaning to check it out anyway, eventually.
Hands still shoved deeply inside the pockets of his blazer, Reno began his stroll towards the cafe. The weather was nice in comparison to how it was just the other day. Such a random storm, Reno hadn't seen it coming. His mind a drift among the clouds, he felt a bit foreign in this body. Crystalline eyes eyed the clouds floating among the endless sky that had mysteriously brought him here. He almost imagined to see a large dome like structure through the sky. Trapping them. Restricting their ability to leave this twisted paradise. Paradise? Well, at least for the Turk it was. It wasn't boring, and he could spend as much time as he wanted with his honey.
"So what's your world like, Larxene?" Reno turned his gazed upon the blonde giving his a soft yet ever mischievous look. "Is it anything like this place?" Why had his voice been so bloody soft anyways? Ugh. This was slowly becoming a date whether he wanted it to or not.
"Hmm... not really. I like here better," Larxene said shortly. The world that never was, trapped in a dream-slash-nightmare- huh, the way people around here talked her old world and this one had a lot in common.
This place was more colorful, anyway; and she didn't like people, but they were a lot more fun than shadows and Nobodies. "There was a city just below where I lived before, with no one in it..."
A city with no people? That was like an oxymoron if he ever heard of one, especially when Reno heard the word 'city. A city to him and probably the majority of the human population, was a place that was crowded and chock full with all sorts of various bodies doing various things. Had Axel lived there too? The redhead pondered the random thought for a few moments. "How can you have a city with no people?" Reno lowered his head so that he was eye level with the other being, he was very interested and curious now. The Turk almost changed his pattern of step to walk right in front of the blonde to further pressure his interest in the subject.
Never had he been in a city where it wasn't packed to the brim with masses of flesh that took up far too much space for the redhead to enjoy. "I wonder what that'd be like.... a city with no people..." Reno's voice almost sounded distant from his awe.
"Hell, that's what it was like," Larxene snapped at him. "... Sorry. It's a long story. Suffice to say, it was more... the shadow of a city. And that's all that lived there, shadows... It's not worth talking about." Empty streets and neon lights, lifeless lamp like eyes watching you from every corner.
The Nobody wondered for a moment whether real people had ever populated the dark city. Probably not. It made no sense, but she was used to being kept in the dark, even though it pissed her off... Xemnas only doled out information to the lower-ranked members on a need-to-know basis, and not very often.
"Shadows huh?" Reno raised his arms and folded them behind his head. "Heh... then it sounds kinda like my own world then. It's a kind of hell too, but there are people that gave up everything for that hell. Their past. Their friends. Their names. Even themselves." One foot in front of the other. A step at a time. Reno recalled life in Midgar. The Slums filled with those who dreamed of better days. The plate where people we just happy to get by. And then...of ShinRa. What a bittersweet taste that left in his mouth.
And with new things to think about when other believe him to be drunk off his ass, they arrived at the cafe. It felt warm and comforting, even welcoming. Looking around for a bit, Reno helped himself to a table near a lamp post. “Anyway~ Shall we?” The Turk pulled out a chair out from the table bowing a little. Date? Maybe, but it's not like he had to tell the misses about this.
"How gentlemanly~" Larxene slipped into the offered chair and picked up a menu. "They sure are big on candy in this city, aren't they?"
"Sweets make the brain release lots of enzymes that trigger a person to believe that they're happy." The Turk gave his trademark libertine grin. "Kinda fits for this place doesn't it?" Eyes ran over the food options on the menu. There really were a lot of sweets in this place. Reno remembered one of their drinks even being rather sugary. The mere thought of all that sugar entering his body made his blood protest. They've had enough with Reno and his drinking problems; the last thing his body needed was an sugar rush beyond any could compare. Though when has Reno ever cared for what he's body wanted or didn't want?
"Shall we order the special and get this sugar rush started?"
Larxene smirked. "Sounds good to me."
She couldn't remember being on a sugar rush since before she lost her heart. This should be interesting, at least...
One order or two? The Turk thought about it for a while, and then firmly confirmed that he would only order one. It was a date right? "Alright then..." Looking back into the sea of other customers and fellow pedestrians, he waved down a waiter. After a bit of calling a waiter appeared next to their table taking up the menus; the waiter himself was one of those faces in the crowd you'd never remember the next day. Go figure. Like this place really had any people worth remembering. "I'd like to take an order of your specialty." The waited nodded and disappeared into the sea of customers and other faces Reno bother to know.
"Wanna tell me about yourself? Or should I go first?"
"There's not a lot worth knowing about me," Larxene replied, "I'll go first. Okay, you know Axel, right? Did he tell you about the Heartless? They got to my world too. They wouldn't have beaten me if I'd been warned..." She pouted for a moment, and then continued, "So I survived that, kind of, although my hair was never the same again. Joined up with Axel and these other guys that were trying to get their hearts back, but that was going nowhere so I quit." Actually, she'd very nearly died at the hands of that brat with the key and gone off wandering the worlds on her own to avoid that happening again, but no one needed to know about it~! It was embarrassing. "Traveled around for a while and eventually I ended up here." Actually, she'd gotten into a little more trouble than she could handle and died completely this time. "That's all."
Oh sure, she could wax poetic (no wonder they were all so crazy about becoming whole again, this empty space kinda like loneliness it drives you crazy but there's ways to get rid of it for a little while), but it just wasn't her style.
"Your turn."
Reno couldn't help but feel as if there were aspects of her story being left out on purpose even though he didn't have anything to go on, the feeling was unshakable. "I know about those things... The Heartless attacked my world too, but it wasn't...pleasant." The Turk recalled the events of that faithful day, for it was one of the strangest he had ever been in. Black shadows with glowing eyes zipping back and forth just out of his weapon's reach. That day ticked him off the absolute most. "Right, it's my turn now..."
Leaning into his chair the Turk thought about where to start in his story. In the beginning with the Slums? Or perhaps his life after ShinRa? Or even better, a summary of both. Lucid eyes lazed around each possibility before reaching a final verdict. The redhead would give the blonde a summary. "Let's see..." Reno began, "In my world there's a city called Midgar. It's what people could call hell, though it's also a heaven to others. So you really can't say it’s a bad place par say... It's just very... different. So like the place had different levels, and once you were in one of those levels, you were stuck there. It was the worse kind of hierarchy if I ever knew one." Reno paused for a moment. Whatta hierarchy it had been. "The basic outline was the Slums, those that lived under the Plate in poverty and dreamed of seeing the sky, the Plate, those who lived comfortable lives and finally ShinRa, and there wasn't escaping into either of the other."
His voice stopped again to think about what to leave in and what to leave out because certainly he was not about to tell her his life story. "So long story short from there, I originally came from the Slums and by some miracle I managed to escape that place and I joined the Turks which is a 'part' of ShinRa which made life a little easier...and so here I am today."
"Sounds like we both came from pretty crappy worlds," Larxene remarked. "Gotta say, I like it here so far." Still empty, but there were more ways to take her mind off of it in this weird carnival world. And hell, there'd been enough weird things already for her to think there might even be a way to get her heart back.
"It's... interesting."
"It's not crappy." Reno defended though he wasn't sure as to why he was. Midgar wasn't the type of place one would normally want to defend, but he couldn't help to. It was his home after all regardless to what he said. Such a love/hate relationship. "It's just....nothing like this city. Though they kinda share the same qualities in certain areas."
Reno leaned further into his chair and looked off into the distance, when would that blasted cake be coming anyways? Just before the Turk could do anything in response to his thoughts, the waiter popped up displaying what looked like a mountain of puff, cream, sugar and diabetes.
Larxene eyed the cake skeptically. "I'm not sure I've ever seen that much sugar in one place."
Reno, after taking the dish from the waiter, let out a light chuckle. "Same here, but hey... Didn't I say we needed to get this sugar rush started?" And maybe he should have added diabetes along with that sugar rush he ordered. All that sugar really was either going to make Reno wish he ordered a drink or give him a cavities the size of his boss's ego at times. Not like he really cared about cavities.
Placing the diabetes in the form of a dessert specialty, Reno cut a slice of the cake and placed it before Larxene letting her be the first to try out the sugar rush. "Tell me how it is..."
Hmm...not bad, really. Alright, so it tasted like what it was- 90% flavored sugar, 10% whatever they put the sugar on- and it probably wouldn't take long to get to be too much sweet at one time, but it wasn't bad.
"Hey, this is actually okay. Go on, try it..."
"Alright..." Cutting a slice for himself, Reno took a bite out of the mound of the pastry. He could feel the sweetness literally melt on to his tongue as soon as it touched the moist insides of his mouth. Sugar. Sweetness. Rush. Reno felt his brain take flight from the sudden surge of flavored sweetness. 'Baby won't you call me your next addiction?' the cake seem scream as Reno took another bite of the delicacy. It was good alright. The Turk wasn't very keen on anything with sugar, but damn, did this take him back a few steps.
"'s like a rush...." was the only words the redhead could find himself saying about the pastry.
"Wasn't that the whole point?" Larxene took another bite. It was better this time, her taste buds adjusting to the sugar perhaps. "Hm~ I see what you mean though~" Dear light, the sugar rush was hitting already.
Reno gave the blonde a blank stare and blinked a couple of time before breaking out into a series of short chuckles. "I suppose you're right." A date was it? How horribly jealous the misses will be when and if they were to ever been told about this day. Cloudy skies and a misty wind. Not really quite the date weather in the first place, but it was really starting to feel like one.
"Hope it doesn't start pourin'...." the Turk exclaimed looking up at the sky, a spoon hanging from his mouth.
"Hope not." Larxene reached across and flicked the handle of the spoon. The rain didn't bother her. After all, wasn't that what you usually saw lightning with?
Anyway, back to the cake. It reminded her a little bit of something she'd had in her old life, before the Heartless; cotton candy, she thought it was called.
The spoon flew from the Turk's mouth only to land on his face as he tried to catch it in the most graceful manner. The sky rumbled and the cloud seemed darker than usual. How ironic that it made the Turk almost miss his home; it had dark skies there as well. 'What a time to start feelin' homesick.' Reno mused within himself.
Red hair watched blonde locks attack the cake with passion and couldn't help but laugh. A woman after his already taken heart, how sicking-ly cute. He felt as if he should dive in and rescue himself another slice, though Reno was never the one for sweets, plus the majority of the cake had been pretty much devoured by the blonde anyways. This made his mind click. "Oh crap. Hey, waiter~" Reno ordered swirling around to look for their waiter. He promised Mein Herr that he'd bring him back a Soda Cake.
Before long, the waiter popped up next to Reno, waiting for his order. "Another one of your specialties... but make it to go." The man curtly nodded his head disappearing into the masses.
Larxene frowned, realizing how much of the cake she'd already eaten. "I'd better save some for you, hmm~? Here, take the rest."
Looking up, she remarked, "It's gonna start raining again~"
Reno looked at what was left of the dessert. There was less than a quarter of it left, sometimes it really was a good thing that the Turk didn't care for sweets or otherwise he might have thrown a hissy fit. Did Reno even throw 'hissy fits'? Oh well, if he did, they'd be sexy hissy fits. "Why thank you."
Mouth full of the puffy sugar, Reno looked up at the sky as well. It really did look like the rain was about to pour down on them at anytime. Just as the redhead was going to say something, he was stopped by the sudden appearance of the Waiter, who presented him with a wrapped package obviously caring the cake he just ordered. After taking the package from the server and thanking him, Reno felt a few drops land on his hands. "...correction, it’s raining…"
"Well isn't that lousy timing." Larxene flipped the hood of her coat up. "Now what~?"
"Shall I walk you home to save whatever time we have left together?" Reno smirked holding out a hand to Larxene. If their date was going to end on a sour note, then why not make it at least an unforgettable note? His red hair clung to the Turk's angular face in the most unpleasant, yet so very tempting fashion. Hand stuck out and arm sheltering Mein Herr's dessert, Reno could almost be considered knightly. Almost.
"Oh and for the record, you are never to speak of what I'm doing to anyone else." His trademark grin. "Wouldn't want people to think I'm some nice guy in all. I've got a reputation to keep in all."
Larxene smirked. "Heh, if you were a nice guy you'd know better than to try and charm me~" She took the offered hand, because that was just what you did in scenes like this, right? It had been a while since she'd been on a date... before the Heartless, so the memory was fuzzy.
"I'm in building four."
"Charm? I don't need to charm anyone, it's you people that need to stop fallin' for someone like me." Reno grinned, his hair clinging rather uncomfortably onto his cheeks. "...I'm not good for anybody's health, don't you know. In any news, building four? Gotcha, we'll part once you're all nice and dry." Her hand in his, Reno led the blonde off in the direction of the apartment complex. Though could you really call it that? The building seemed to have countless amounts of rooms that came in numerous sizes and styles. Weirdest part was that they were free. No rent was needed. Nothing.
You would just walk in and there. Poof. Everything you needed and ever wanted was there. Despite the oddity, the Turk couldn't care less, it just meant less for him to worry about. Crystalline eyes looked down at the woman next to him and her hood then back at his own soaked head. "Must be nice having some sort of shelter from this crazy weather..."
"Falling for you? Oh, please~" Larxene winked at him. "Oh, by the way, you look stupid with your hair stuck to your face like that." She brushed it off. Time to really lay on the charm, although it looked to her like she already had him hook, line and sinker- this was going better than she expected.
"The rain doesn't bother me, really. I just wear this coat everywhere. You should have come prepared, lovely~" Now that she thought about it, she didn't really have to wear her old Organization cloak anymore, but it had become habit.
"You gotta admit. I'm one, if not the, sexiest thing you've ever had the pleasure of meeting ♥" Reno stated, zoning closer to Larxene's face. What a cute girl. She had everything that Reno liked in a person, attitude, fire and a face that was none other he had seen before. Oh and being blonde with blue eyes didn't help. Seriously, the redhead wondered where his fascination with them spawned from. Maybe under different circumstances and if things were different he might have actually be taken with the young woman. Though with that said, he could also be a pretty princess obsessed with ponies and sparkly rainbows, which the thought alone made Reno very uncomfortable. It would be like catching 'Holy Hell', but not.
"Mmm... Is that so?" Reno grinned. "Then why don't you take that thing off. I've been slightly curious; what's a lovely lady like you got hiding under such an unflattering coat anyways..." That note about things never being mentioned to anyone else? This was one of those things; Reno would have to remind her about that later.
"Unflattering~?" Larxene pouted at him, but removed the coat anyway- slowly, just to tease him. She didn't have anything especially interesting in her wardrobe; today it was just somewhat tight-fitting black pants, the black boots she'd gotten with the coat, and a simple green T-shirt. She'd have dug up something dressier if it wasn't on short notice.
Reno gave her a quick inspection. Her choice of dress was simple but at least one could see what that overcoat hid from view, and what a view. Sleek and yet slender with a nice rack as an added bonus. Oh yeah, Larxene passed this test with flying colors as the Turk gave her a mental two thumbs up. In a way, she reminded him of Rufus when he became a woman for that one day of broken-door heaven. Maybe that's why he took so much to her. Larxene was a female version of Rufus, except she actually spoke and would freeze in an ice storm. "Oh yes... very unflattering."
The rain poured buckets onto the strolling duo. Perhaps they should make haste before he caught himself a cold. Something that he really didn't want happening anytime soon. Four days and counting, and he wasn't about to get sick. However, seeing such a nice lady being soaking wet was an incentive of not to hurry it up.
It was a very good thing she wasn't wearing white today, Larxene reflected as she noticed his gaze. She offered him the coat. "Not sure it'd fit you very well, but you can keep the rain off somewhat until we get there."
She hadn't actually tested whether she could still get sick since being darkness'd, but at any rate she didn't think she would. It was damn cold, though.
"No thanks. I'll be fine. A little water never hurt anyone." Reno replied with a shrug of his shoulder and a grin still plastered on his face. The rain really couldn't hurt anyone directly but it could lead people into getting horribly sick and bedridden, but that was beside the point. Really. It was. Reno just had to keep telling himself that.
"Besides... look where we are." Much to the Turk's dismay, they had arrived at the building of which the blonde beauty was currently taking refuge from the city. From the outside it looked just as the one he lived in, but he could feel that their room sixty was definitely not the same as the one he shared.
"Not directly~" Larxene sang. "Oh. Guess our little outing's over, then. ... I enjoyed it." To her surprise, she wasn't lying.
After checking that Mein Herr's cake was safe and sound from the corner of his eye, Reno answered, "Yeah guess so." Soaked red hair grinned and took a hold of Larxene's hand and drew her close. "Me too. It was fun~" Then out of the blue, he performed his last act of the many actions never to be spoken of ever again, Reno gave Larxene a quick peck on the lips. Too bad this would be as far as it goes. Reno really did start to take an interest in the blonde.
Taking a few steps back, Reno turned away and with his back faced to her waved her his farewells. It was just simply too bad. This date was to never had happened. Those actions were to never be spoken of. This whole outing would be just a distant memory trapped in a city with no name and filled with faces you'd end up forgetting the next day. "See ya around ♥"
"See you." Larxene waved to his retreating back and went into the building.
"Damnit, don't go soft on me now," she muttered to herself as she tried to find the way back to apartment 34. "This is just another game to play for a while. That's all."