Even Demons Can Be Saved

Lessons, Lessons, and More Lessons

Reno was sitting in a darkened room and dealing out another hand of solitaire. This was an easy assignment, but it was mostly dull. The fact that Tseng was insistent on making it happen was the only thing that made the redhead okay with taking it and not complaining. He knew all the apartments were bugged, but it usually only ever came up if they had to go back and check the recordings after an incident. Tseng's persistence in keeping their newest arrival under surveillance was enough to make Reno want to dig a little. Unfortunately, he hadn't found much. He also realized that unless she was with one of the others, she was pretty boring. All she did when she was alone was stuff most people did.

He had barely been paying attention until he heard a knock through the speakers and looked up to the monitor. When he saw the Silver General walk into the girl's apartment, his cards were forgotten. No one mentioned to him that she had a date.

He spent the next couple of hours glued to the monitor. Nothing much was happening, but the fact that it was the Ice Princess in there laughing still had him stunned. He cursed when she explained why she didn't get too close to others and thought about the one time he had tried to touch her. He cursed again when he realized he would have to be careful around her.

His worry was forgotten as they sat down to eat. The conversation was boring, but the fact that Sephiroth laughed more than once had him floored. He didn't think the man was capable of it. When Eve started flirting, Reno nearly fell out of his seat. The woman had to have some serious balls if she wasn't too petrified to do something like that. Even if she was drunk, most women were either too tongue-tied or too terrified to even speak to the General, much less flirt with him.

He did fall over when Sephiroth flirted back. He realized that it was a good thing all the monitoring was automatically recorded. If not, there would be no way he could convince anyone of what happened.

As Sephiroth secured a promise for another date when he left, Reno concluded that he was definitely going to have to find a new nickname for the man. It was evident that the Ice Princess front was only an act. He rubbed his hands together as he started thinking about what he should start calling him.

He had stopped paying as much attention to the monitors when Eve went to start the dishes. He thought that the exciting stuff had passed, but his attention was yanked back when he heard her begin to sing. He had to turn the volume up to make sure he was hearing correctly. What he heard had him instantly working on getting a copy of the recording. This was the type of thing that Tseng would want to know right away.

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Eve had not stopped smiling even when she started washing the dishes. Part of her mind knew she would be a little mortified the next day at how forward she had been, but she couldn't bring herself to care at the moment. She was still in too good a mood. She unconsciously started humming one of her happy songs as she washed and rinsed. When she realized what she was humming, she stopped and laughed out loud. Of course, it had to be a song that made her think of Genesis right after her date with Sephiroth. That was a fact that she vowed no one would ever learn. She didn't care that it made her think of the redhead as visions of the silver-haired man quickly took the forefront of her thoughts as she started singing out loud.

Ai shitemo ii kai? yureru yoru ni

Aru ga mama de ii yo motto fukaku

Kuruoshii kurai ni nareta kuchibiru ga

Toke au hodo ni

Boku wa...kimi no...vanilla