Femme fatales emerged from shadows

[shurikenfemale.livejournal.com]

Characters: Cissnei, Reno
Progress: Ongoing
Summary: Cissnei arrives in Lindblum once more
Location: Lindblum airship docks
Date: A day after this post
Warnings: Fluff, cussing, melodrama the usual

With still a fuzzy memory and an outfit fit for a show, Cissnei made her way from Troia to Lindblum on an airship. She racked her brain all she could but still she couldn't get anything else from her mind besides the gut feelings and the fleeting visions of deserts and fiends. This was frustrating the Turk but she felt a little better knowing that she wasn't the only one who had gone through this before.

She got off the ship, head held high and trying her absolute best not to look embarrassed. She got used to it, true, but she wasn't used to walking around in nothing but a bra below a jacket and white skin-tight pants. At least it covered more than a swimsuit like Reno said.

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[shurikenfemale.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," she said. "I'm just... kind of freaked out. I can't remember very much." Her mind was always on the worst case scenario thanks to Turk training and right now, though she was hard pressed to admit it, Cissnei was a little scared. What had happened? What had or hadn't she done? "I dislike not knowing things. I know everything all the time but now there's nothing."

Cissnei leaned on Reno a little bit, the exhaustion suddenly setting in. "My everything hurts," she groaned. "It's as if I've been working out a lot." Or, more specifically, dancing, because she knew the pain that came with hours worth of dancing.

[turks-reno.livejournal.com]

"I know that feeling, Ciss. I mean, come on - we're Turks. We're used to knowing everything about everything, right?" He gave a little chuckle, but sobered swiftly and let the girl settle against him.

"Then you need a nice, long and hot bath when we get home. And a few days worth of sleep, hm? I can make sure no one bothers you, if you want."

[shurikenfemale.livejournal.com]

"I don't mind seeing others, but a bath sounds lovely." Maybe somewhere down the road she'd remember some more if she didn't try so hard. "Speaking of knowing everything," she began, "what happened while I was gone? If you can tell me now, that is."

[turks-reno.livejournal.com]

He snickered, nodding. "I'll bet it does," he insisted. He stiffened a little at Cissnei's question - just fractionally, but he knew she'd be able to feel it - and his hesitation.

"Rufus Shinra happened," he commented in a lower voice, though it remained warm. It had been nothing bad. "He's a sneaky, plotting son of a bastard," he commented with a small grin. "He managed to wriggle his way into our relationship. Somehow. I still can't really figure it all out. Hell, I'm still trying to figure out if it's real or not."

[shurikenfemale.livejournal.com]

She stopped to think before saying anything that would come off as too insensitive or too nosy. "He is all of that, but it doesn't give him the right to be like that with his 'employees.'" Cissnei crossed her arms and huffed shortly. "Rufus Shinra is nothing but a jackal." She'd heard enough of him saving their asses but it didn't mean she still had to like him as a person.

[turks-reno.livejournal.com]

He gave a little tut at her comment, ruffling her hair playfully. "He's not that bad. But he does have this uncanny way of plotting and getting his way that boggles the mind, sometimes..." But the train was stopping in the Theater District, and it was time to get Cissnei's weary rear end home so she could relax for a while. "Come on, you. Time for all good girls to get some shut-eye."