@ivory-paragon asked: ❝ i’m okay now. i’m safe. you don’t have to be angry anymore. ❞
„Is this supposed to be a fucking joke?”, Reno asked the poor security officer angrily, his usually cocky voice now a hiss. What’s that supposed to mean? The vice president got kidnapped? Rufus Shinra was one of the most guarded men on this planet, he simply couldn’t be kidnapped. It was simply impossible. Plus, right now he was supposed to attend one of these fancy Shinra benefit galas, it was even more impossible to kidnap him from a crowded place like that. “Man, get the hell out of here, I don’t want to listen to your bullshit”, he then told the officer who quickly hurried out of the room, obviously happy to get away from the Turk as quickly as possible. “What a fucking prick.” Reno sighed and then turned his attention back to the report he was currently writing, but he was only mildly successful, as he ended up leaning back in his chair, with his feet on the table and his pen in his mouth to chew on while he started playing the latest game he had discovered on his phone.
Then the door opened again and a very distraught looking Tseng entered the room; before Reno could ask what the long face was for the leader of the Turks said: “Reno, I need you to get ready for an assignment right now. The vice president had been kidnapped.” Reno almost dropped his phone. “The fuck, Tseng?! He can’t be kidnapped, he’s supposed to be..” – “I know, Reno”, Tseng cut him off. “He never made it there, they snatched him from right under our noses. That means the kidnappers must be the two new assistants that accompanied Rufus to keep track of the donations, no one else could have gotten that close to him. They want ten million Gil. They have also sent this very convincing picture.” Reno heard himself gasp as he looked at the picture Tseng showed him on the screen of his phone.
It was, of course, a picture of Rufus. His hands were tied behind his back, there was blood dripping from his nose and his lower lip and an ugly dark bruise was already blooming on his right cheekbone. Reno clenched his fist and it took all the self-control he could muster not to throw that phone against the wall out of anger. It wasn’t his phone after all. “How dare they lay a hand on him?”, Reno asked and he could barely hide how upset he was. “Don’t they know what I.. what we would do to them?!” Reno’s feelings for Rufus were complicated, but he was driven by a simply truth: he would kill for Rufus and die for Rufus if need be. And so would all the other Turks. Reno handed Tseng back his phone, then he fixed his goggles to make them sit properly on his head. “Okay, Chief, when do we start?”
It turned out that the kidnappers, while they seemed to be quite ambitious going for the vice president, weren’t very smart. Sure, they got rid of Rufus’ cell phone so nobody would be able to find him tracking that, but did they really think a man as important as Rufus was not protected in any other way? For cases like these there always was a little GPS tracker sewn into the jackets Rufus wore on his business trips and that was how the Turks eventually tracked him down.
The kidnappers were hiding away in an abandoned warehouse down in the Sector 6 slums, how predictable, and Reno felt very confident that they would be able to free Rufus easily from these amateurs. It were only the three of them: Rude, to stay on a roof with a sniper rifle, Reno, to go in and help the vice president escape, and Tseng, who kept in touch with them over the radio and made sure the helicopter was ready for a quick escape. When Reno entered the warehouse he was ready to fight, he was still furious about the whole situation, and while he liked to call himself a consummate professional, today was no time to dick around.
Reno made quick progress walking through the warehouse, Rude was sniping the few unfortunate idiots standing by the windows and while Reno usually enjoyed hand to hand combat he didn’t mind using a knife to open a few throats. Another body dropped dead to the floor as Reno approached the largest storage room, which was, if Tseng was correct and he always was, the room Rufus was held captive in.
Quietly Reno sneaked in and as expected Rufus was there, together with the last one of these amateur kidnappers and while a cruel smile appeared on Reno’s lips he pulled his gun. “Nice to finally meet you. Bitch!” And with those words he unceremoniously shot the man in the leg, who collapsed with a scream that quickly turned into cursing, but Reno didn’t pay much attention to that, he used his foot to turn the man onto his back, kicking him into the side for good measure. The man was more resilient than he had thought as he didn’t waste any more time, he just started to talk shit like he had nothing better to do with his least breaths. When he reached the point where he started to insult Rufus, calling him worthless, a lousy son and that the president better made work to produce a new heir before it was too late Reno just lost it.
He straddled the kidnapper and looked down at him, then he didn’t hesitate much longer and stabbed him into the stomach, twisting the blade in the wound until the trash talking turned into screaming. “There, that’s much better.” Reno gave the man a sympathetic smile, but there was no kindness found in his eyes, only hatred. “It’s not your fault you chose the wrong man to mess with. Unfortunately I don’t have more time to play, so..”
Reno didn’t feel anything when he cut the man’s throat and he didn’t feel anything when the blood from the open wound spilled all over him, instead he stabbed the man in the chest. “And fucking!” Stab. “Stay!” Stab. “Dead!” He would have continued to let his anger out like this if it weren’t for Rufus’ voice pulling him back from the darkness that threatened to consume him.
“I’m okay now. I’m safe. You don’t have to be angry anymore.”
As if he was waking from a trance Reno got up to his feet and finally rushed over to Rufus, cutting the rope that was binding his wrists before pulling the vice president into his arms, pressing an almost desperate kiss to his temple. “It’s okay, I’m here. They can’t hurt you anymore, I’m gonna get you out of here.”
