Reno of the Turks (
raspberryturk) wrote2011-01-05 02:29 pm
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Office Hours, #7, Wednesday
... Aw, shit. It had been so long since Reno had spent time in his office. He'd gotten kinda familiar with it, what, back when the parents were on the island, way back? But he'd gone and told the Rookie's Rookie that he'd be here today, in case she wanted to talk. And anyhow, there was always shit to do.
Maybe he could hammer out lesson plans that would give him some kind of edge over that jerkass in the red coat.
Yeah. And he could write it in the dust that had settled on his desk over the months, too. Jeez.
[Reno's door is open!]
Maybe he could hammer out lesson plans that would give him some kind of edge over that jerkass in the red coat.
Yeah. And he could write it in the dust that had settled on his desk over the months, too. Jeez.
[Reno's door is open!]
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And that would have been a very, very sad thing.
"Wasn't entirely plannin' on goin' to the dance at all, yo. But I needed to stretch my legs, get my exercise, that kinda thing. It didn't suck too bad without me, did it?"
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"Yeah?" Reno frowned thoughtfully. "What's been goin' on over there? Or is this one of them things that you can't really talk about over the phone?"
Reno knew Doji's line of work intimately. It seemed like a good idea to ask.
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Which meant he wasn't sure how much he could talk about, and was limiting himself to the most basic facts.
"She said nothing to you?"
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"She mostly got to talkin' to me about my bein' an idiot around Ino," Reno confessed. "News kinda spreads fast about whenever I do somethin' stupid, huh?"
He'd definitely have to get in touch with Doji about this bullet thing.
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That was Tseng's shtick.
"Ino had a bit of a rough time of it a few weeks back, and she an' I got into a spar." Reno chuckled faintly, though it was a slightly tense one. There was more going on between he and Ino now, since her trip to Gaia with Zack, than there had been before, all of it messy. He wouldn't assault Romeo with that clusterfuck, though. There were some things that people just didn't need thrown at them. "She got a little carried away, an' I made a misstep. Gashed my thumb open on a poisoned weapon, zoto."
It had been an adventure.
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Well, okay, it had been nicer than some of the hangovers that Reno was used to.
"She's doin'..." He winced. "I dunno. Her break didn't go all that hot, but it ain't really my place to go talkin' details about it. I wanna say she'll be okay."
He was talking pretty flatly, now. There was more than a little guilt involved, and Reno didn't want to let that seep into his words.
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Really, Reno did cocky like it was going out of style.
"You know... I think hearin' from a friend who ain't a part of the whole mess might do her some good, too. I don't know if she'll be real forthcoming with what's eatin' at her," because, really, it was pretty heavy stuff, even for Ino, "but... hey, never know, right?"
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He trailed off. "Tell me how to talk to her without making of it a lecture, and I'll call."
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"She just went through somethin' real rough at the time. Came back beat up half to shit," he explained, because that left out the specifics of things like 'kidnapping' and 'torture' nicely. "It was supposed to be a friendly spar, but I went in knowin' that she was half out of her head, yo. She probably didn't think she'd slip like that, but I..."
Another one of those invisible shrugs.
"I'm a Turk, man. I see this all the time."
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Because then she would have smacked him. As he very well deserved.
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"I might'a sorta made a point to stay out late? And then played the hangover card, yo."
Because Reno was so, so responsible that way
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You were over twenty, Reno. That was old, at least to the students you were teaching. That had to count for something.
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Of course, Romeo would also be 21 before the year was out. Hmmmm.
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Reno understood how this 'getting older' thing went! He knew that he wasn't the only one in the world who did it!
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