Crisis Core: The Novel

Chapter 33 - Seventh Heaven

"Hey Zack, could you do my next mission for me?"

"What? I've done your last ten missions for you!"

"Yeah, but my squad leader said if I screw this next one up, he's gonna fire me! You're just so much better at these things than I am."

"Aaarrgghh, alright. Give me your ID Card, I'll go to the VR Room for you. But this is the LAST TIME!"

"Thanks Zack, you're a real pal."

Five minutes later in SOLDIER wing...

"Hey Zack?"

"Yeah Kunsel?"

"Could you help me move my stuff in barracks? I hustled my way into a sweeter piece of real estate on the south end but I've gotta move in like ASAP."

"Can it wait until after work?"

"Ehhhh..."

"Okay, just give me like twenty minutes. I have to do something in the VR Room."

"Set a reminder so you don't forget this time."

Zack set two reminders on the to-do list of his phone and carried on, not making it more than ten steps before...

"Zack, you got a minute?" Luxiere asked him.

"No, but what's up?"

"Dude I lost my wallet. My Shinra ID card was in there and everything! How am I supposed to even get into my room without my key-card?"

"Just go to Personnel and get another one."

"Maaaan, if I go tell them I lost my ID card, they'll give me a plumb one. Don't make me get the plumb one, Zack! You know what that's like!"

Zack sighed. "Fine, look, can you give me a few minutes? There's a couple people in line in front of you."

"Thank you thank you thank you Zack! You're awesome buddy."

He set another reminder and kept going, all through SOLDIER wing...

"Zack..."

"Hey Zack.."

"Yo Zack, can you...?"

"Can you do me a...?"

"Zack."

"Zack."

"ZACK!"

He had twenty reminders on the to-do list of his phone, stomping through SOLDIER wing with smoke steaming from his ears, when he heard his name again...

"Zack."

He whirled around, ready to shout like a girl on her period, only to find Sephiroth standing there behind him. Zack straightened up, completely taken aback. He didn't want to have to add yet another task to his to-do list but he knew that he was going to have to if Sephiroth asked. Sephiroth took a breath as if to issue an order...

"I think...tonight looks like a drinks night."

Zack still stood at attention not quite sure he'd heard right. When Sephiroth's words finally registered, Zack relaxed almost instantly, a wide smile creeping from ear to ear. His eyes lit up, he almost couldn't even speak.

"You read my mind!" He smiled at Sephiroth, and the man returned the slightest of grins.

"Come find me after your shift is over."

Then he walked off into SOLDIER wing. Zack clicked up to the to-do list of his phone.

*DELETE ALL*