Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ Bishies & Buster Swords ❯ Life Savers ( Chapter 1 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Disclaimer: Square Enix owns them; I always give them back in reasonably good condition after tormenting them.

A/N: Written for LiveJournal's SpringKink comm and their March 11, 2010 prompt of 'Rude/Elena - curiosity - 'Why do you always wear sunglasses?'

Bouquets to my beta team of Empatheia, FuschiaFinn and Ranuel!

Rating: PG

Warning: mild coarse language

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Life Savers

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“Tseng was really inspirational today, don't you think?” Elena sighed as she settled into the passenger seat. Rude merely grunted as he spun the wheel and moved their vehicle out into traffic.

“It's so hard to tell what he's thinking,” the blonde Turk grumbled, propping her chin on her fist as she looked out the passenger window. “Nothing perturbs him; I wonder....” The bald man cast a sideways glance at his briefly-silent companion but said nothing.

“Have you ever seen Tseng lose control, Rude?” At his noncommittal mumble, Elena frowned prettily, unable to read his expression. “Why do you always wear sunglasses?” she blurted out.

It took Rude a very long time to answer, so long that Elena wondered if he was giving her the deaf ear, but he finally rumbled, “They save my life.”

Intrigued, she leaned towards him, inspecting the frames and darkened lenses. “What's so special about them? Built in weapons systems? Communications technology? Materia detectors?”

After a silent moment - or twenty - Rude answered, “Nope.”

Elena eagerly awaited an elaboration, but he appeared done with the conversation. Pouting a little, she went back to daydreaming; her eyes had just glazed over at the image of a shirtless Tseng slinking towards her when Rude suddenly added, “If Reno knew how many times a day I roll my eyes at his bullshit, I woulda been dead years ago.”

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