"I'm friggin' bored," Reno announced, possibly to nobody in particular, possibly to the bowl of beans that he'd picked. "Bored bored bored
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"I'll do that, and send you those little lawn-cutting samples for starters. Oh, and a few UV lamps, and a bucket of chlorine powder." Dinah smiled again, heartened. She sent another file (DIY!.pdf), reminded of Karla, immediately offering to help New Gotham when Dinah shared the memory of the Narrows with her. "Gotta do what we can, right?" She shook her head. "And yeah, Zack-- we run together a lot, and hang out, and there's no way he'll slack, but if he ever gets down or wants to quit, I'll make sure I'm there to keep him going. Okay?"
Reading material! Reno was going to save that one for later. Get Rude to go over it with him, because Ifrit knew he wasn't going to be able to decipher half of those words himself.
"I appreciate it," Reno decided, grinning faintly. "That's all you gotta do. Kid needs his friends. Don't we all?"
"Yeah." Dinah got a little more cheerful, and said, "He has a lot here. Arthur and me and Turtle and I think he was going on a date with Fiona? And he gets along okay with Leto, and Ben Skywalker, and other people too. He'll be okay." She'd make sure of it. "How's other things in Midgar?" She paused. "That would not mess up the future or the past by telling me. How's Mako and your friends? And did you turn into a girl last week?"
Reno laughed a little at the list. Bunch of names he knew, couple he'd never heard before. He'd been out of Fandom just for the summer, and he was already too far out of the loop for his comfort. Damn it anyhow.
"Life in Edge is life in Edge," he noted. "Mako's still a ninja-weasel-goose little dipshit thing, an' Rude's doin' fine, too. An' I was the hottest lesbian on Gaia, yo."
Clearly, he was proud of his time spent as a girl. Reno was... special.
"I showed my boss my boobs," Reno replied, gravely.
Actually the truth was waaay so much worse than that, but he didn't want to scar the rookie for life by telling her that it had been a dancing striptease. And that it had involved an awful lot of jiggling.
"You didn't! Dude! Seriously?!" Dinah cracked up, one part relief at being able to and one part the mental image of tall redhaired girl-Reno flashing his boss. "You have more cojones than anybody!"
"It was totally worth the suspension I got doin' it, too," Reno said. And yes, he was totally bragging. Only Reno would take getting suspended without pay as a point of pride. Honestly, now. "You wanna hear cajones? I licked him on the friggin' lips."
And that would be Dinah falling down on her ass laughing, totally out of control because wow, licking your boss is steps way beyond flashing and if Reno was good with it, Dinah could only applaud.
"Awwwwww," Dinah said, lying on the floor, with an occasional hiccup escaping her. "People should applaud you! Bring you flowers! Send you booze!" She thought about it. "And maybe some of those hand-held video games, even if they get old too. How long are you suspended for? Doesn't he need you to work?"
"Two weeks," Reno replied, sighing. "He was gonna just put me on sewer duty, scoutin' around to make sure that nasties ain't gonna crawl out into the streets or whatever. I'm good by that. I come from the slums of Midgar, yo."
They smelled about the same.
"An' then he just... changed his mind. Figured a suspension would work better, I guess. He's right. Boredom sucks."
"Harsh," Dinah sympathized. "Very harsh. Sewers suck, but boredom?" She shuddered. "Craaaazy time. Your boss is smart. Mean, but smart. Maybe he'll go easy and cut it short, though? Although it would suck to have to promise not to do that again or something." She grinned. "I'll send you games to make the time pass for a while. Oh, did you get my last package, with the book and stuff?"
"You sent me a kaleidoscoooope," Reno crooned, grinning up at the ceiling. "That's friggin' awesome, Dinah. I ain't never had one of them thingies before, yo."
Dinah grinned, sitting up and hugging herself. "You liked it. Yaaaaay." She'd been looking for fun things, silly things. A Slinky was going in the next care package. "It's extra-durable. I bet you could hit an ogre with it, if you had to. Even though it's more fun to just lose an hour staring at the pretty colors."
The hard part was, Dinah really wanted to talk to Reno, but also felt like he'd never want to talk to her again. And maybe she deserved it.
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"I appreciate it," Reno decided, grinning faintly. "That's all you gotta do. Kid needs his friends. Don't we all?"
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"Life in Edge is life in Edge," he noted. "Mako's still a ninja-weasel-goose little dipshit thing, an' Rude's doin' fine, too. An' I was the hottest lesbian on Gaia, yo."
Clearly, he was proud of his time spent as a girl. Reno was... special.
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Actually the truth was waaay so much worse than that, but he didn't want to scar the rookie for life by telling her that it had been a dancing striptease. And that it had involved an awful lot of jiggling.
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A beat.
"I swear, I can still taste the paperwork."
Not that Tseng had tasted like paper or anything.
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And that would be Dinah falling down on her ass laughing, totally out of control because wow, licking your boss is steps way beyond flashing and if Reno was good with it, Dinah could only applaud.
So she did.
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"Life with the Turks, Rookie. Ain't never a dull moment."
A beat.
"Unless you're suspended. An' then the time you ain't workin' is freakin' boooooring."
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They smelled about the same.
"An' then he just... changed his mind. Figured a suspension would work better, I guess. He's right. Boredom sucks."
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