@rudexoftheturks​ said:

He's been standing by Reggie's side for the better part of an hour at this business function, bored to tears and unable to drink or otherwise relax because he's on the clock. When they have a moment of relative peace and seclusion, he leans down and whispers in her ear. "If one more person bats their goddamn eyelashes at you, I'm dragging you into the first available unoccupied room and having my way with you."

Reggie glances up at him, mischief brief in bright blue eyes. Sotto voce, she answers, “You promise?”

@corporateprince asked:

Reggie isn't PANICKED when she bursts in on Rude in the Turks office. Oh no, she's perfectly calm as she announces, "We have to get married." 

@rudexoftheturks answered:

He’s just finished up with a stack of paperwork, one that he never thought he’d finish, and he must be so exhausted from the effort of it all that he’s hallucinating.

Because there’s really no other explanation for what he’s seeing in front of him: little Reggie Shinra, freshly 16 years old, bursting into the office and proposing to him.  Thankfully, he’s alone, because if anyone other than him had heard what she’d said, they would have laughed in her face.  He barely manages to keep his composure as it is.

But he’s practiced his poker face for years, and it’s nigh unbreakable.  He signs his name on the final form and pushes the whole stack away before looking up at her.  “…no.”

It takes all of her self-control not to stamp her foot. She’s not a child, dammit! She may be sixteen but it’s not like she’s ever been allowed to be a child. And she has to be as mature as possible for this conversation.

“Rude, I’m serious,” she insists, instead. “If I’m not married, Dad’s gonna make me get married to one of his cronies, or some young idiot he can control, and there goes any chance of getting this company!”

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@rudexoftheturks​ said:

“I miss your lips."

It took Tseng an astonishingly long time to realize that Rude had brought a live snake with him to work. To be fair, most of the day he only saw Rude in passing, and when he did catch sight of a bit of red or a flash of scales, he brushed it off as perhaps a change in accessories. 

But then Tseng needed to confer with Rude on some incoming intel, and he found the thing draped across Rude’s arm. 

rudexoftheturks:

Rude swam nearer to the surface than he liked that day, hunting for food to take back to his herd. He normally stayed in the deeper waters, so as to avoid the human ships and their nets, but he wasn’t finding anything in his normal hunting grounds.

But oh, luck was on his side. There was a little dolphin hanging around, a Shinra judging by her markings. Far from her pod’s established territory, which meant she was fair game.

Dolphins were delicious.

Reggie dove deep, then turned herself and shot upward again, seeking to breach the surface of the water once more. To feel the forces of the earth pressing her down was oddly exhilarating--

But her delight didn’t blind her to the dangers of the waters... the unseen predators lurking in unfamiliar territory.

send me a symbol for a mythical creature/monster au

♓ Mermaid 

Reggie had swum beyond her pod’s territory, but she didn’t care. So what if there were dangers beyond the waters Pod Shinra had claimed? She was a Shinra! She was a dolphin! She could handle herself.

Sleep has been coming hard to Reggie lately.  If it isn’t the pain, or a geostigma attack, it’s nightmares -- memories, really. Watching Sister Ray and the WEAPON, knowing the cost of victory is her life--

Sleep has been coming hard to her.

But tonight Rude is with her.

Having him in bed beside her is a comfort in and of itself, but then his hand starts going through her hair and slowly, slowly, she relaxes. Slowly, slowly, her eyes drift shut.