Seaside Getaway?

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Characters: Cissnei, Zack
Progress: Ongoing
Summary: Cissnei drops by and visits Zack because she's a little worried about him
Location: Luca
Date: January 10, 1805
Warnings: Fluff, more than likely.

This place was so strange to Cissnei. She liked the beach, no doubt, but this... even in civilian clothing (a chunky knit black sweater over a white tank top, skinny jeans and combat boots) she stuck out from the crowd, something she wasn't exactly used to.She noticed the women were rather gratuitous in showing skin and had more than enough laces and ribbons criss-crossing their chests and the sides of their legs. In her messenger back was trusty Rekka, leftovers from the food she bought from Wutai and something that maybe Zack would be vaguely interested in.

She flipped open her Sky Phone and dialed Zack. He shouldn't be very hard to spot, but she'd like to know where exactly he was.

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"Wow, you are old," she blurted as she cocked her head to the side. "Make sure to be extravagantly rich to get yourself a trophy wife half your age."

Sadly enough, she's tailed or known people that fit the description more than once.

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He frowned at that and put his hands on his hips. "Now you're just makin' me sounds like a bad guy." Zack walked the line between flirtation and promiscuity nearly every day, but he knew he would never go farther unless it was what he and the other person really wanted. So her words almost offended him.

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Cissnei noted the change in accent. "You know I don't mean it." She really hadn't meant to touch a nerve, mostly because she didn't think anything could actually annoy him, much less offend or anger him. She sighed and apologized quickly.

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At her apology, he shook his head and smiled again. "Now we're even." They both got a jab in at the other and...

"I can't seem to stay mad at you, either." One of Zack's hands reached out to pat Cissnei on the head before he continued to stroll along.

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A pat on the head. Not really what she expected. "You'd be one of the few," she half-joked with a shrug. "Comes with the job." Cissnei kicked a rock she came across lightly, continuing to kick it along a straight path. "Alright, we're even. For now."

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This...was such a weird conversation with her. Then again, anyone working for Shinra ended up being weird in the end, so it was unavoidable, he supposed. "What, plannin' on getting me back already?"

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"Give a girl a moment to think," she said with a little bit of a strange look on her face. "I mean I could come up with something now but where's the fun in that?"

Cissnei fell quiet. "I think I should be heading back soonish."

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Zack shook his head. "I understand. If you wanna make it good, you have to think on it."

A pang of...something hit his chest at those words. Though it was silly. She would have to go home some time, of course. "Whenever you need to. I'm not stoppin' you."

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"Gonna need Rekka back," she said then pursed her lips. Duty above all. But... just this once, she didn't want to go back. There was nothing in Lindblum for her to do but she figured she'd need to get back now that Sephiroth was back.

She stared out towards the sea, arms crossed and messing with her hair without really thinking. This world was messing with her, starting with the smell of chocolate. She chewed on her bottom lip and was caught up with her thoughts. She was slipping back to those old insecurities and concerns again of the past and the future.

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Zack nodded and started walking back toward his house. "So we'll go back home and then...you know how to get back to Lindblum, right?" Which she obviously did if she got to Luca on her own. Even so, Zack felt right asking. It was the gentlemanly thing to do.

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"Yeah, I'll be fine," she answered, arms still crossed as she walked next to him. "I'm... sorry again for my actions." Cissnei really didn't want to leave on such a strange note about her behavior.

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"Nah," he said, crossing his arms behind his head. "Don't worry about it. I've already forgotten what the problem was." If one thing could be said about Zack, it was that he bounced back incredibly quickly.

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She shook her head while smiling.

"I need you to promise me that you won't do anything stupid," she said suddenly and very seriously. That's the whole reason she stopped by in the first place anyway. Sephiroth was here and she knew just exactly how Zack felt about that, even if he hadn't told her anything.

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That was odd. "Of course not," he answered quickly, used to defending himself and saying he'd stay out of trouble. And really, he tried to, but if trouble found him...

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"I mean it, Zack. Don't go running after something because you got the impulse to do it."

She couldn't bear to know that she'd lose him twice, even if one of those hasn't happened in her time yet.

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He bowed his head and was silent for a few moments. "I've caused a lot of pain doin' that, huh." Zack stopped to look at her. "But I can't stay on the sidelines if I can help someone. So...I'll try to keep my hide out of the fire."

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"Good. If not you'll be dealing with me." That comment sounded like a joke, but underneath she was being very serious. If Zack pulled some kind of stunt, she'd hit the ground running after him and he knows very well what it means to have a Turk as a pursuer.

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He got the seriousness under the joke, as he often did when it came to the Turks. "I'll be on my best behavior, then, just for you." He seriously hoped nothing would come up that would make him test her.

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"You're catching on, little tin SOLDIER. I'm impressed." Like Zack, she too hoped that nothing would happen that she would actually have to go through with her warning. Cissnei wasn't one to turn back on her word, be it good or bad.

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"Amazing how that happens, innit?" But only a tin SOLDIER? Harsh. He was made of tougher stuff than that.

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She laughed at his accent being in full swing today. "Can't take the country out of you, can they?"

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He had noticed how his accent gave away his mood before, but he never tried to do it, it just...happened. If he was happy and relaxed, he sounded like the country boy he always was. But if he was serious, it tended to disappear except for a subtle twang here and there. "They tried. It was messy."

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It was endearing, truth be told. She'd never heard anyone with such a thick accent but it suited him. "I imagine it was. Like I said, you're not one to listen often."

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"I just listen when I feel it's best." Zack was always very self-driven and if he thought he or a friend wouldn't benefit from something, then he wouldn't do it. Simple way to look at life.

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"It's not a bad way to live. Reckless, but not bad." Cissnei, unlike Zack, thought too much. She was too methodical practical to let silly things like intuition or the heart make all the decisions. She was a little jealous that he could do that, but she would never admit it. Order and structure was the best way to get in and out of this life.