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Good son. Reeve huffs at that. Hard to be a good son when you’re living up to an asshole like that.

“I’m sorry about it, that you didn’t have a better relationship.”

Even harder to be a good son when you try and kill your father at 16, though with his father, he had gotten some respect for that little stunt, and it managed to lead him to his current relationship with the Turks.

Also, Reeve knew the other reasons they had a terrible relationship, so it shouldn't be a surprise when he shrugs.

"Honestly, despite that normal feeling that comes from him being my father, I'm not upset about it. After the ShinRa building collapsed, a lot of things happened and I had time to realize that he didn't think a great deal of me. Though he apparently did remember the date of my birth.

Well, perhaps his father had deserved it.

Still, Reeve looks impressed by the note given.

“You got out through the escape shaft?”

"More like a giant slide." Rufus moves to sit beside Reeve in the tub, leaning against the other man. "There was a switch under the desk in the President's office, marked with an "L" just for me. Slid all the way from the top of the tower to below it. Broke a few things as you might imagine.

Anyway, after getting my bearings I had to get out, but the exit was locked with a number pad. If you'd believe it, the bastard had set my birthdate as the passcode."

Oh, Reeve is aware of the slide thing. He just didn’t know Rufus had found it. Who, after all, did Rufus think designed the thing?

“You’re lucky,” Reeve admits.

Rufus hadn't given a great deal of thought to the building, or the escape hatch, since he was small. The building had merely been another extravagence his Father had built to show off his wealth and power. Who had designed it or built it? He didn't really consider it.

But he looks at Reeve. "Lucky? How so?"

“That you found it,” Reeve counters. “It was supposed to be a subtle creation. I spent a lot of time on the math for it.”

"Oh?" Rufus raises a brow. "If you were behind it, didn't you think to add in a safety net? One picks up a good amount of velocity going down so many floors."

“I worked on a large number of strategies to handle that. Unfortunately the President cut me out of the designs in the final steps. And the person who did it... mysteriously passed. I was told the whole project was scrapped and the hatch welded shut.”

Clearly a lie.

"Fortunately for me, it wasn't. Unfortunately for me, whoever completed it didn't think a human might use it." He sighs a bit. "But it wasn't really then that I got to thinking about things."

What else would use it, if not a human? Damn.

“I’m sorry. I should have insisted on finishing it.”

In Shinra, dead bodies might have been conceivable. How many of their employees had just suddenly vanished without a trace, after all. If you were lucky, that meant death. Otherwise...

Well, Reeve could talk to Cloud about the otherwise part of it if he somehow miraculously didn't know. Which Rufus would find near to impossible to be the case.

"Don't worry about it. I may have been safer you didn't." He grins at Reeve, obviously poking fun at him. "After all, you could have rigged it to kill the user and no one would have been the wiser."

Safer if he didn't? Well that's weird. But Reeve laughs and shakes his head.

"You're not wrong. But that isn't who I am."

"But think of all the fun you could have had if you were." The childish look he gets from time to time crawls to Rufus' face. "Make it too small, both my Father and Heidigger would have to wait to lose weight to get to the bottom. For Scarlett, you could have had an automated voice telling her just how much of a slut she is.

"Sadly, I could see that you setting it up to spank me though." His grin increases. "Though I may not have minded if that had been a thing at this point."

Reeve blushes and looks away from Rufus a bit. What a brat. Why did he love him?

“You drive me to madness at times.”

"Good." Rufus chuckles, and relaxes more. "Shall we soak a few more minutes, and then maybe grab a drink from the mini bar while we get the sheets changed?"

“Yes, that sounds lovely,” Reeve agrees. “And we should eat as well.”

Who was going to change the sheets? Probably Reeve. He was too nice like that.

More likely that Rufus intended to ask someone in the hotel to change the sheets, while also ordering the now suggested meal. A good sized tip would assure no gossip and that the ick factor would be overlooked.

"Anything particular you are in the mood to eat?"

Well, at least Reeve can be a gentleman and make the sheets into a pile for the people.

"Sushi. I really want sushi."

It's a sensual meal in some ways.

"Sushi, huh?" Rufus chuckles a little. "I haven't had that in a while. I'm not sure the hotel serves it, but if you know a good place nearby, we can certainly make an order."

"I have a favorite," Reeve answers, and he moves to pull out of the tub.

"Good. I'm completely out of the loop for what is around." Rufus doesn't move to follow Reeve out of the tub, instead watching him, though this time not being a brat or commenting anything.

"Well of course you are. It is not like you had much of a chance to explore," Reeve agrees as he grabs a towel and starts drying off. "Are you joining me?"

"In a moment. I'm enjoying a view." Really, this one Reeve brings on himself, right down to the cheshire cat grin Rufus gives him.

Well that earns a hearty laugh as he starts rubbing moisture from his hair.

“YOu’re impossible. I truly appreciate that.”

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Brat....

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Omg i love it

I so rarely get to use that icon

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