(A/N: Okay people! I love how much you loved my story! And for that, here's an epilogue!)

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It had been two years since Reno had trapped himself on only three weeks since Jayden had gotten an apartment and Reno decided for her that he was moving in. After so much time, Jayden knew Reno’s routine by heart now...due in large part from having a month off from college due to an infestation of random critters.

Reno would wake up at noon, drink coffee to try to get rid of a hang over (if he had one), take a shower, and get ready for work and leave. Several times Jayden had taken it upon herself to…‘help’ Reno get to his construction job on time. Yes he worked in construction...well, demolition more specifically. It just worked. He got to destroy things and act like the boy he was without taking it out on her apartment. But back on topic - how Jayden 'helped' Reno get up on time.

Her favorite method involved kneeling down next to his bed and watching him. She wouldn’t say a word; she would just sit there and stare at him. Eventually, would he stir around a bit and get comfortable and continued to sleep. Jayden would then cross her arms and rest them on the bed, scooting a little closer to man, continuing to stare all the while. When Reno finally did open his eyes, he got a very rude awakening – waking to see someone’s face up close in personal. He quickly jumped back and fell out of bed. All the while, Jayden would laugh at him as she walked away to eat breakfast.

She would also continuously poke him in the ribs while he slept, put his hand in warm water, dye his hair green (with temp dye of course), or other things that any slightly twisted mind could think up. It always helped him get to work at around eight am.

But today was different.

When Jayden walked into Reno’s room, she found that he was gone. She walked to the living room and found nothing; the kitchen, nothing; the laundry room, and still found nothing. He couldn’t have gone into work on time, could he? Jayden smirked to herself and flopped down on the Goodwill purchased couch.

"I'm breaking him." she snickered.

At that moment, Jayden was so proud of herself, she wanted to do a little power dance. She turned the television on and watched the news. Nothing new in the news. Another person killed, another place robbed, everything was the same old thing.

“Looks like its gonna be a pretty ho-hum day.” Jayden thought to herself, staring up at the ceiling and loosing a sigh, “Today’s my day off, so no work, and I know everyone else’ll be busy…maybe Reno won’t divert too much from the norm and come home for lunch.”

But no, it appeared that Reno was having an “off” day and he didn’t return home. This left Jayden to loll about the house, eat the leftovers from last night’s dinner, and watch trashy day time TV.

But that became mind numbingly boring after a certain point and so to distract herself, she started cleaning the apartment top to bottom, left to right, until there was nothing left but to fold the last load of laundry in the dryer.

When all that had been done, she flipped through her library books for the umpteenth time, surfed the web for about two hours, watched a little more T.V., then gave up all hope in television and switched out for her iPod Shuffle lying back on the floor with her eyes half shut.

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A shadow loomed over her, making her yelp in surprise and rip out her headphones, the sound of familiar snickering meeting her ears as she did so.

“Honey, I’m hooome,” Reno said in a cute, but annoying way as he continued to hover over her.

“That’s nice,” Jayden said irritably, pushing herself upright, and stretching slightly, tossing him a sideways glance and noticing the strange expression on his face, “What’s up with you?”

“Not much really,” Reno replied as he sat down hard on the couch. “But my arm's buggin' me, yo.”

“Your arm?” Jayden asked, taking a seat on the arm of the couch, “Why would it just start hurting out of the blue? Did you strain it at the site today?”

“Hell no. I’m more careful than that, yo.” Reno snorted, rotating the limb in it’s socket slightly, “It just cuz it was rainy today.”

“Oh sure, blame the weather.” Jayden snorted, poking him in the knee with her toe.

“I’ve been shot in this arm more than once, yo.” Reno retorted, poking her back with his elbow.

“That’s a different story…and understandable.” Jayden replied, fingers absently flitting to the fabric covering the scar on her chest, “Mine hurts occasionally from time to time.”

“And anyway, my arm doesn’t hurt it just feels uncomfortable.” Reno said easily, leaning back against the couch, “Like its all stiff and shit.”

“You’re just tense from work.” Jayden chided, rising off the arm of the couch, switching herself behind the sofa and walked behind him to rub his shoulders, “Is your job really that stressful? I mean you get to tear down walls with a big ass hammer. I would think that it would be, if anything, stress relieving.”

Reno laughed and shook his head, “No, even tearing things down can be stressful, yo. Especially when you have five people telling you to do nine different things.”

Jayden gave a grunt of disapproval as she started rubbing the arm that was bothering him, “That’s no fun at all. Why can’t they just narrow it down to one yeller? I really hate that.”

Reno shrugged and tilted his head to the side. Jayden raised his arm and laid it on the top of the couch, but it couldn’t raise that high without it being more uncomfortable for him so she jumped over the couch and sat next to him and continued to rub the sore appendage. She started at where the arm met the shoulder.

“So…what’s for dinner?” Reno asked.

“You act as though I know.” Jayden said absently, raising an eyebrow slightly as she allowed herself to become more and more fixated on the task at hand.

“Hey, if you weren’t here, I’d be ordering take out, yo.” Reno replied nonchalantly.

“Oh, so you’re using me for free living space and my ability to cook? I feel so loved.” Jayden snorted, “Why don’t you upgrade to Yazoo? I’m sure he’d be thrilled.”

Reno just laughed again and teased her about how her cooking brought shame to her gender and that maybe he should consider proposing to Yazoo. Jayden’s only retaliation was to pinch his gut to quiet him down. She started to rub Reno’s upper arm, frowning a little as she did so.

“It really did is tense.” Jayden mused.

“Anyway, what do you want to eat,” she asked, wolfish blue eyes still focused on the task in front of her.

“Why do you always ask what I want to eat?” Reno questioned, looking at Jayden from the corner of his eye.

“You like and I like different foods.” She said simply.

“You’re only twenty three, it shouldn’t matter whatcha eat.” Reno replied matter of factly.

“I’m a girl - not a horse.” Jayden retorted blandly.

“I meant that you’re young and your metabolism is high, yo.” Reno snorted, rolling his cerulean blue eyes.

“Uh huh.” She replied cynically.

“Okay, what foods do you like?” Reno asked casually.

“Anything spicy.” Jayden replied seriously.

“Really? That’s surprisin’, yo.” Reno replied, eyes expressing his obvious surprise.

“Oh, because I’m a girl I shouldn’t like spicy foods?” She asked with a snort.

Reno rolled his eyes again and looked up at the ceiling. Jayden shook her head and rubbed his elbow.

There was silence between the two while Jayden started rubbing his forearm. After a while she got to his wrist and Reno peeked over at her as she started to rub his hand. Jayden noticed it and tilted her head to the side.

“What?” she asked.

“Nothing,” he looked away.

Jayden stared at him a moment then shrugged, letting his hand go and looking up at him. “Done,” she said easily as she got up and walked across the room.

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“Where are you going?” Reno called from his spot on the sofa.

“To get the phone book, I’m hungry and I already ate the leftovers from yesterday.” Jayden replied, retrieving the phonebook from its place in the cupboard and flipping through the pages.

“I want Mexican.” Reno said, rising from the sofa.

“I want Szechwan.”

“Mexican.”

“Szechwan.”

The two stared each other down until both had a light bulb switch on in their minds. “Pizza.” the two said in unison and were quiet for a while. Jayden chuckled and went into the kitchen to place their order.

“Reno, what do you want on your half?” Jayden asked as she dialed up Alfy’s Pizza.

“I don’t care, yo.” Reno said casually, following her voice into the kitchen where she was facing the stove talking to a person on the other line. He slunk up close behind her, quietly so that she wouldn’t notice him, and leaned down next to her ear to try to scare her …

“Hey, Reno, do you want…” as Jayden was turning to ask him a question, she accidentally brushed her lips against his, startling her into dropping the phone.

“Okay...get a grip girl. That wasn’t as bad as it could’ve been I guess. I should be used to it by now.” Jayden thought with a small sigh, “He does things like this all the time. It doesn’t mean anything.”

“Uh…Hello?” the phone asked. “Is anyone there?”

“Uh, yes!” Jayden cried, ducking under Reno’s arms and retrieving the phone off the floor, “Sorry. Had a spazz attack. Anyway, did you get all that? …yeah, that sounds about right. Thank you.”

She pressed the end button and loosed a heavy sigh that converted into a yelp as she was hefted onto the counter by Reno.

“Hey-HEY! Watch it with that arm, buddeh! I’m not gonna…what’s the deal?” Jayden asked, feeling anxiety build up slightly in her chest as Reno loomed over her.

“I’ve been thinking a lot lately, yo.” Reno said slowly, moving his hands so they were positioned over hers, trapping her in place, “And I think we should get married.”

“…where the hell did that come from? You don’t even…I mean…we-we-we haven’t even dated.” Jayden stammered, face turning into an over sized tomato as she spoke, “I mean, there were all those times you came home drunk and tried to…well that isn’t the point! The point is-!”

“I really don’t see the problem, yo.” Reno shrugged, leaning forward so that Jayden had to lean back, “I mean, you love me, right? And I l-!”

“No you don’t! You only think you do!” Jayden squeaked, noting with panic that her head made contact with the cabinet so she was out of space to get away from Reno, “You don’t lo-!”

“Oh, so I ran after you for no particular reason, mm?” Reno asked, leaning closer so that his nose grazed hers, “I just decided on a whim that not seeing my home for four years and spending my life with you was thing to do right, yo?”

“I-I-Idunno! Maybe?” Jayden whimpered, wishing that her brothers, adopted or otherwise, would pop up about now and save her, “But love? Isn’t that taking a bit f-!”

“Shut up.” Reno said with a smirk, closing the gap and kissing her roughly, pulling away after a time, “Now you listen up – I. Love. You. You know I aint one fer this mushy crap. Why would I lie, yo?”

“But don’t you think we should at least date for awhile?” Jayden mumbled, more than a little dazed, “Marriage is…marriage is…”

“A word, yo. Nothin’ but a word.” Reno said easily releasing his grip on her hands as he brought his to her face, “Its justa buncha letters strung together t’say ‘these two people love each other enough to get it in writing’. Sure we can date while we’re engaged. Whoever said we couldn’t?”

Jayden stuck out her lower lip stubbornly, “I dunno…I guess we could make it wor-!”

“I’m taking that as a yes.” Reno said triumphantly, wrapping his arms around her waist, “I won’t letcha take it back. Heh heh, we’re gonna have fun, yo.”

“You mean were weren’t already?” Jayden asked, petting his hair as he rested his head on her shoulder.

“Ellie, you don’t know my definition of fun.” Reno smirked, nipping her shoulder lightly and running his hands down her back.

“Even though I’m positive that I do…I’m not so sure I wanna find out first hand.” Jayden replied evenly, holding a pair of kitchen scissors retrieved from a flowerpot on the windowsill against his side.

“Y’sure?” Reno asked teasingly, releasing his hold on her and moving aside so that she was free to hop off the counter, “Ya never know, yo. Y’actually might enjoy yourself. I’d be gentle with ya too, since I’m positive I’d be your f-”

“Stop. Just stop.” Jayden sighed, hearing the door buzzer go off and walking out of the kitchen to answer it, “The pizza’s here. We can discuss this later.”

“That means you’re considering it, yo!” Reno whooped triumphantly as Jayden returned moments later with a pizza box in hand and scissors jammed in her back pocket.

“Maybe.” Jayden admitted under her breath, “After all…holding out on my husband seems a tad cruel…and a recipe for infidelity.”

“Trust me, you won’t regret this, babe.” Reno said, grabbing to slices of pizza and looping his arm around Jayden’s waist.

“But you might after you take into consideration who some of your in-laws will be.” Jayden smirked.

“It’ll take more than Sephiroth to scare me off, yo.” Reno said easily, allowing his hand to drift up Jayden’s thigh.

“Reno?”

“Yeah?”

“Eat your food.”

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(A/N: There you have it! I might write a sequel if I'm begged enough. Hugs and kisses every one!)