Wrecking Hotel Rooms [Final Fantasy VII, Rude/Reno, R]

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Title: Wrecking Hotel Rooms
Author: Adrian (thisispurgatory)
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Rating: R for implied naughtiness
Length: ~1300 words
Prompt: Final Fantasy VII, Reno/Rude: Sleep - Even exhausted, he can't keep his hands to himself

Wrecking Hotel Rooms

It had been a long night. Well, really, it had been a whole goddamn string of long nights. Weeks cleaning up messes, it felt like. Or hiding messes. Something like that.

Reno couldn't remember the last time he'd crawled back to bed without blood on his clothes. Not that it mattered, right? That was all part of the job. Some days, it was one of the perks. Well, in a sense. You knew you'd really gotten where you needed to get if you made someone bleed. Anyway, they usually deserved it. And if they didn't, that wasn't up to him to decide. He was just following orders.

Or something like that.

Tonight, it was not one of the perks. Tonight, he was too worn out. And taking a shower was a chore and a half. Plus, he was out of beer. The hotel room he was sharing with his partner was, for the time being, devoid of food and anything but coffee. The coffee would probably help in the morning, but this late at night, he found himself seriously wanting that beer.

Chore or not, he managed to shower enough to feel like he wasn't too dirty. Blood on hotel sheets got annoying to have to explain after awhile. Not that he ever did much explaining. Wasn't his style. He liked to talk, but not to explain. Wasn't the same thing at all.

When he stumbled out of the shower smelling like slightly rusty water (there hadn't been any soap), he realized he wasn't alone. He hadn't been expecting Rude back for another hour at least. Unless he'd been standing in the shower for a lot longer than he thought. It was definitely a possibility.

He didn't bother drying off. Didn't bother getting dressed. It wasn't like Rude hadn't seen him naked about a zillion times. And it wasn't like he cared. Clothes, no clothes, same difference. Towel around his waist counted as clothes anyway. Right?

Reno straightened up a little and crossed the room to sit on the bed next to his partner. The towel stayed put, for the most part, but it wasn't much of a cover. Rude raised an eyebrow high enough that Reno could see it above his sunglasses. He had to grin, at that. He knew that look.

"You should sleep," Rude said. He didn't address Reno's lack of proper attire for the time being. He knew from experience it wasn't worth trying, and he wasn't one to waste words - even with Reno.

Reno shrugged and laid back. He could feel the exhaustion hit him all at once, as soon as he was actually laying down. Man, tomorrow was going to suck.

"Yeah, probably. Hand me my cigarettes, yo," he said, waving an arm in the general direction of the nightstand, where he'd left a pack of them earlier.

Rude leaned forward and picked them up. He didn't smoke, himself, but he was used to almost all of his partner's vices by now. It didn't bother him. He handed the pack to the redhead, along with the lighter that was sitting next to it.

Reno didn't even sit up to light the cigarette. He'd been smoking long enough that it was no big thing to lay there and light up. The acrid smoke filled his lungs, and he blew it into the air. His eyes closed, but the feeling of the cigarette kept him awake, for now. Well, that and the knowledge that Rude was looking at him. He didn't have to open his eyes to know it. He could tell.

"What's up?" he asked, mumbling around the cigarette.

"Nothing." The word was simple enough, and there was nothing in it that indicated it meant anything else. It probably didn't, knowing Rude. But Reno...kind of wanted it to.

The redhead cracked one eye open and studied the bald man for a minute before he finally managed to sit up again. He sat there in silence, for a second, then reached over and found the ashtray. Mostly, it was something to fidget with.

"That's a shame," he said, after more than a minute of silence ticked by. So he was slow on the uptake at the minute. Hours and hours of work would do that to a guy.

"Reno. You're tired."

Reno waved a hand and made a face, dismissing the notion as if Rude wasn't stating something entirely obvious. "Nah, 'm fine," he said. But it was all a show, just some unnecessary tough guy act for no reason.

He finished the cigarette in uncharacteristic silence and stamped the butt out in the ashtray. He didn't want to tell Rude he was going to sleep. They were this close, there was no one around...

"Sure it's nothin'?" he asked, trying not to sound like he was expecting anything. He really wasn't. Or so he told himself.

Rude's mouth twitched, though Reno wasn't looking at him to see it. The redhead had never had the sense to give up the game when the giving up was good, unless it was an obviously beneficial choice. In situations like this, worn out and tired, he still pursued things that could wait until tomorrow. It was so like him that it was almost predictable. Rude didn't bother answering.

Reno shook his head and moved back on the bed, swinging his legs up and reaching for the sheet. It was hot in here - too hot for a blanket. The air conditioning, if there even was any, didn't seem to be working.

The towel fell away entirely as he moved, but he didn't care. Wasn't like he was gonna sleep with the damn thing, anyway.

"You come to bed, too, then," he said, not bothering to keep his thoughts out of his voice.

Again, Rude didn't answer. He stood up, though, and clicked the light off. Reno's eyes wouldn't focus in the darkness, but he could hear the sounds of clothes rustling. He wondered if his partner would take everything off, or leave some irritating piece of clothing still on. Man, that would be a pain in the ass with how tired he was. And not the good kind, either. Just the annoying kind. But Rude was smart, so he'd probably...

He was so busy thinking about whether or not Rude was actually going to be naked that he almost didn't notice when the bald man climbed into the bed next to him. Almost.

Even exhausted, he had no intention of just laying here and falling asleep. Not with Rude that close - and hopefully naked - next to him. For once, he didn't bother running his mouth for a million years first. He just moved closer to the bigger man and let his hands talk for him.

"We shouldn't. You need rest," Rude said, but the words didn't mean anything. He didn't need them to mean anything. It was an old dance, really. He knew Reno's intentions, and getting into bed was enough to say he wanted it, too.

They were both exhausted and the motions were clumsy. Familiar, but clumsy nonetheless. It took turning the light back on and a lot of Reno's dirty mouth to find the lubricant, but after the light clicked back off, the clumsiness faded. Call it muscle memory or call it passion, it still exploded the night for the few minutes that it lasts, and both of them forgot how goddamn tired they were.

Reno had a moment where he thought that he did it backwards, smoking the cigarette first. But that was just a detail that, again, didn't matter. And it was still too hot in the room, but this kind of heat was the best kind.

He realized afterwards that Rude smelled like blood, and it worked so well on him.

Okay. So maybe it was one of the perks, after all. But so much for not having to explain the blood on the sheets.

Comments

[lillypuff.livejournal.com]

Reno had a moment where he thought that he did it backwards

Heh, awesome line.

I really liked this especially Reno's refusal to just flat out say what he wanted.

[kyra-neko-rei.livejournal.com]

This isn't my fandom; I just wanted to say that I LOVE that icon.

[orenda33.livejournal.com]

I liked this. It had just enough detail to picture what was going on, but it wasn't bogged down with imagery either.

Thank you for writing it. ^^

[dogmatix-san.livejournal.com]

X3 Managing sex after a long day and managing not to fall asleep during it? Now that's stamina.

[originalpuck.livejournal.com]

Lols. That's so true. But you know our boys have got stamina in spades. ^^;;

[originalpuck.livejournal.com]

Love, love, love, love. There hasn't been enough work for this pairing lately (my fandom OTP), so I was delighted to see this. It's hot, it's in-character, and everything works so damned well.

Cute and funny. ^^

[saltedpin.livejournal.com]

Loved it, especially the characterisation -- Reno's hard to write in a way that's not a caricature (um, well, I find him hard to write XD), but this had just the right amount of everything. Lovely work :)