Title: Messages on a Fridge Door Redux

Author: Sorceress Fantasia

Pairings: Seph/Cloud, implied Rufus/Reno

Word count: 797

Rating: PG-13

Warnings: Crack, fluff, humour

Time stamp: 2 weeks later

What's with the bulk jelly bean purchases in the last two weeks? Your fridge's been so full with them I haven't been able to chill my beer! When did you develop a sweet tooth, anyway?

Reno

Since Sephiroth happened. It's a long story, one that will give you warm beer by the time I'm done. Well of course, it doesn't help that there's no space in my fridge to keep a six-pack anymore, so the beer would be warm in the first place.

By the way, it's been bothering me for a while now, but… are you involved with Rufus Shinra!?

Zack

What gave you the idea that I'm involved with the vice-prez?

Reno

Just… grapevine, you know?

Zack

Don't say I didn't warn you, but grapes are an unhealthy bunch that's potentially fatal to your health. Never fails to kill the nosy ones.

Reno

…Are you the reason I just got a mission to clear the entire Western Continent of monsters? Lazard even advised me against listening to too much grapevines after he handed me the mission specs!

Zack

Okay, Zack I understand. But why was I sent as Zack's backup on this suicide mission!? I'm not even a SOLDIER yet! Cadets who haven't passed their SOLDIER exams that's due in 2 months are not supposed to be sent out on a SOLDIER mission!

Cloud

P.S. I'll consider taking up the mission if I get an immediate field promotion to SOLDIER. And I expect nothing less than a Second Class.

Cloud, you are not going on the mission. Zack can have monsters for company, but you are not going with him.

Yours sincerely,

Sephiroth

P.S. I'm free in the evenings for intensive remedial lessons to ensure that you will pass your SOLDIER examinations with flying colours.

See? Told ya grapes are unhealthy.

Reno

So it WAS you! No wonder Rude and Cissnei's been giving me the sympathetic looks whenever I see them along the corridors! It's totally unfair, alright? All I did was ask you a question. Why didn't anything happen to Sephiroth when he punched you in the eye?

Zack

I'd almost forgotten that Sephiroth had punched Reno in the eye the day after my birthday, not after all the things that happened after that and my vacation at Gold Saucer. Thanks for the reminder.

Cloud

Zack, if you think the sack of jelly beans in my office is going to make up for me sleeping in my couch instead of my bedroom with Cloud for the rest of the month, you're terribly mistaken.

Yours sincerely,

Sephiroth

But you can't expect me to clear the Western AND Northern Continents of monsters all on my own! Those things regenerate! By the time I'm done with the Northern Continent, more monsters would have popped up at the Western Continent! I'll never finish the mission!

…Wait. That's the whole point, isn't it?

Zack

Hey Zack, what are your favourite flowers? As your friend, the least I could do is bring you your favourite flowers next year. I'm sure that Cetra girl would appreciate having some flowers to tend to too, even if it's at a graveyard.

By the way, I'm calling dips on your fridge magnets. Gotta love the bikini-clad babes.

Reno

I hate you guys. I'll destroy every last jelly bean factory and brewery on Gaia if it's the last thing I do.

Zack

If you really go for the mission, then your jelly bean factory and brewery destruction plans will be the last thing you ever do. Then again, would you even have the time for that? Like you said, the monsters regenerate.

Seph, you can take back the mission orders now. Reno, you can get that someone to cancel the other mission too.

Cloud

P.S. I'm only doing this for Aeris. She already has enough flowers to take care of.

Thanks Cloud! /hugs and kisses/

But ah… why did I just get another mission to infiltrate the Honey Bee Inn and stay there for a month to spy on someone named Mukki? Why are Lazard, Cissnei and Rude still giving me the sympathetic look? You guys do know that the Inn only employs females, right? Right?

Zack

P.S. Reno, I expect to see my fridge magnets back on my fridge by this evening. I'm not dead and I did not will my fridge magnets to you. Even if I were to die, you are not allowed to take my fridge magnets because they'll go into my coffin to keep me company in the afterlife.

P.S.S. Seph, I swear to you that the /hugs and kisses/ are figurative and I did not actually kiss or hug Cloud.

P.S.S.S. Not that I don't want to touch you, you know right, Cloud? You're my best buddy. /insert smiley/

A/N: I'm currently doing a time stamp meme on my LJ and a couple of people on my flist chose 10 time stamps from my fics. With the time stamps they gave me, I'm writing either sequels or prequels to about 10 of my fics. This is the first stamp, requested to be 2 weeks after the original fic. 9 more stamps will be coming your way! :)

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