Room 512, Sunday, Mid-Morning

[findingelena]

Elena hadn't slept well. Too much tossing and turning, too much thinking about things she'd been trying to forget. She'd helped Rose send off Mason; maybe that was why Cissnei and Rod and Rosalind had come back to haunt her

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[raspberryturk]

Reno had just seen one Rookie off, and then he was picking up the phone to speak to another one.

Sometimes, it was almost easy to forget that, in a strictly 'Turk' sense, he didn't actually have any Rookies of his own at all.

"Yo!"

Always the 'yo.' It covered well for the fact that he was still in a settling sort of funk after the talk he'd had with Ino last night about Midgar. And about life. And about coping.

[findingelena]

"Hey," Elena said, trying for cheerful. She wasn't as successful as he was, but she was getting better at it. "I didn't wake you or anything, did I?"

She'd never known Reno to sleep late, but it sounded like something to say.

[raspberryturk]

"Nah," Reno replied, shrugging even though she couldn't hear it. "Mako's usually got me up pretty early. I think I got the one nocturnal pet that likes to be awake just as much during the day, zoto."

This was because Mako was a little touched in his wee ferrety head.

[findingelena]

"Maybe he just takes after you," she teased gently. "Rookie wakes me up sometimes just so I can cuddle her. I think maybe she gets lonely."

Elena never, ever minded. Not even when she was exhausted. It was sort of new, having a small little being love you.