The Seventh Heaven Bar, Edge, Wednesday Night
Admittedly, a Wednesday night was a pretty shitty night to go to any bar that didn't actually have something going on. And, in a place like Edge, it wasn't just Wednesday nights that were like that, even at the most popular stop for alcoholic swill in town. It wasn't as though people were going to get together and sing karaoke. Name that tune was
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Of course she was going to resort to seeing if he was anywhere she could pry things out of him.
Come on, geez.
Oh lookit! His phone was ringing!
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Especially since he was drunk and he'd just managed to weasel the better part of a thousand gil out of Barrett and Cid combined. Enough beer nuts tossed at Vincent's head later, and he'd gotten the emo to join the game, too.
So far, Reno had actually lost ten gil to Vincent. Stupid freaking dead guy.
And so now seemed like as good a time as any to take a break and let Valentine kick the asses of the other two in his stead. He had a phone to answer!
"Yo!"
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A beat.
"Hiii."
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And new, right?
"Help me come up with ways to make a sixty-year-old dead emo former Turk motherfucker break his poker face?"
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Uh.
Ino blinked at her phone. "...how is someone who is dead still alive?" Walking around? "Um."
"Grope him!" Way too cheerful at that, really.
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And now everyone in the bar, Vincent included, was staring at him, yes.
"I mean, unless it'll help my game," Reno amended.
The patrons of the bar got back to what they were doing.
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"Well," she said, "I'm pretty sure that'd help. Unless he liked it. And still, that'd probably help more, really, than if he tried to bash your head in for it. What's he look like? Is he cute?"
Okay, so maybe this was more entertainment for her than for Reno.
But.
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"I dunno," Reno replied. "Needs a haircut. Got eyes like his momma was a white bunny rabbit or some junk. Sulks a lot?"
Probably cute?
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"Tall?" Ino prodded. "Dark hair or light? Demanding Rookies want to know!"
Okay, so only one Rookie wanted to know, but pffft--details.
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The photo that Reno sent from his phone to Ino's a few moments later showcased Vincent Valentine, holding a hand of cards in his gauntlet and looking very unimpressed. Possibly at the sudden candid snapshot. Or maybe he just always looked that way.
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And then she got the picture and the giggling quit in favour of going 'oooo'.
"He's totally cute," Ino decided. "I see what you mean 'bout emo, though, but seriously. He looks a bit like a, a, rockstar or something."
Yes.
Vincent Valentine. Rockstar.
Ino was totally saving the picture, yes.
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Reno took that opportunity to throw another beer nut at Vincent.
Reno was possibly not long for this world.
"Eh, ain't bad, I guess. If you like that kinda shit."
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"He single?" she chirped.
Mostly not meaning it.
...Maybe.
Look, he was hot. And she was single. Mostly.
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Yep. Reno was totally not long for this world. Especially when he stage-whispered into the phone, "He likes 'em young."
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Which, she could. But she was kidding. Mostly.
"Yuffie left a while ago," Ino added. "And try not to die while you're on the phone. That'd be rude."
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A beat.
"I think."
Vincent eyed Reno for a moment more, and then got back to kicking Barret and Cid's respective asses at poker. He had priorities, here.
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