A harbinger of despair? [active]

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Characters: Tseng and Reno
Progress: Ongoing
Summary: Sephiroth's arrival has both Turks a little on edge
Location: Turk HQ
Date: the same day as Sephiroth's arrival
Warnings: Tensions running high (again)

Of all things Tseng wasn't looking to have to deal with, the appearance of Sephiroth hadn't been one of them. The fact that he appeared to be sane was a slight relief, but it was regrettably counteracted by the fact that by all appearances he seemed to be a singularly unlovely mood. That in turn meant that Tseng himself got slowly more irritated by his actions even as he buried the feelings under that mask of his. Didn't the man realize that this was no longer the world he knew? Couldn't he listen to what Tseng had been insinuating? Or was he going to proceed to be thoroughly maddening and not both to listen, despite the fact that it would be in his best interest to do so for a change.

Needless to say, by the time he final set the phone down (slightly harder than he might have otherwise) and turned it off there was a brand new line of tension across his shoulders and what looking like the beginnings of a frown on his face. Of all the things....

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Reno hung up his own phone, then proceeded to utter a few choice cuss words in the direction of it. "Son of a..." And then he laughed and shook his head. "No, I guess he isn't a son of a bitch, is he?" He sighed, then tucked his phone away, raising his eyes to fix on Tseng.

"I know I shouldn't have yelled at him like that. But he had no right to talk to any of us like that. He's not my superior officer. And since when has any member of SOLDIER expected the Turks to just divulge all of their information over an non-secure line right off the bat? He deserved everything I said to him, Tseng. And you know it."

He huffed then, though his tone spoke far more of how he was feeling than his words. That tone expressed the apology he felt needed to be said for breaking what he considered to be an unspoken order of doing something without permission. It expressed his concern over Tseng's well-being. It expressed concern over whether Seph was closer to his melt-down than they might have thought.

"Shit..." And that... that pretty much summed up everything, didn't it?

He stepped over to where Tseng was currently standing and... yes. Here was the change in their dynamic. The alteration in how they would operate from now on, at least outside of the public eye.

Because Reno could see just how tense Tseng was, and there was a drive - an instinct - to sooth that tension.

A hand rested on Tseng's shoulder, putting just a little pressure on it to shift backward toward him. He had someone to lean on right behind him. "If you want, I can send an apology to him tomorrow to calm his uptight rear end down a little. And explain that I was acting of my own free will, against your orders when I called him a sanctimonious prick..." He flashed a little grin there. He would NOT apologize for calling him that.