Noire

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Author:- Kat

Disclaimer:- I don't own Final Fantasy or Squaresoft or anything in particular to be honest. I do however own a box, but don't take that away from me! And I don't do drugs if that was what you were thinking? Honest!

Notes:- *clears throat* Ahem, it has come to my attention, that school is an evil bastard.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*= Changes in times, places ect.

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Selphie Makes ntrantrance

"So, wheredya want this box?!"

"Um..."

"Hurry up! It's heavy!!"

"Over there."

"Here?"

"No! There!"

"There?"

"NO!"

"Where then?!"

"There!! Look, can you see where I'm pointing you retard?!

"Yes, I can see!"

"Then why aren't you even 3 meters from where I'm bloody pointing!"

"'Coz this box is in my way!"

"Oh, just give it here for fuck's sake!!"

"No! I'm the courier! It's my job to deliver the box to where you want it!"

"But you're making a total bollocks of it!! Give that bloody box to me!"

Leo rushed forwards, grabbed the other end of the large cardboard box and pulled it into her hands, carrying it and placing it down on the desk where she originally wanted it in a few seconds. She sighed and turned towards the female courier, brushing a few strands of red hair from her emerald coloured eyes.

"How long did that take me?" Leo folded her arms and leant back against the desk, rasing an eyebrow at the courier.

"Um...sorry."

"You bloody will be next time. No offence, but are you new at the job? 'Coz you're totally shit at it."

The brown haired, female courier bowed her head in shame and held her hands around her back. The blue baseball cap she had on her head covered her green eyes in a shadow. She kept silent, only occasionally scuffling the vinyl floor of the warehouse with her feet.

Leo sighed, feeling a little sorry for the girl at being given mostly a man's job. "Listen, kid, I'll letya off this time for being a ditz, ok? Make sure ya've had a bit more training next time though."

"Thanks," The girl smiled brightly and met eyes with the red head. "Sorry if I have caused any trouble, it's not as if I wanted this job. But I had no choice really."

"Really? How come?" Leo questioned, raising the clipboard she in in her hands so she could see it and examine it whilst she talked.

"It was the only job goin' left that was still with my gang."

Leo scribbled onto the board. "Which gang?"

"The Falcons."

"The Falcons?!" Leo laughed. "Shit, I think you could do better, girl!"

"Yeah, well, I work for others as well!"

"Like?" Leo shoved the biro she had into her mouth.

"The Razors, and the Thorns," The brunette female placed her hands on her hips.

Leo spat out the pen and laughed sarcastically. "The Razors?! Fuck! Don't come anywhere near me!"

"Huh? Why?"

"I think you'd know if you're in connection with those bastards! We were raided by them a couple of days ago! They took almost an eighth of our new stock and trashed the shipping bay!"

"They did?!"

"Yeah, they did..." Leo purposely meant to be even more sarcastic.

"Wow, um, what's your gang called again?" The courier scratched the back of her head nervously.

"The--""Leo"Leo!!" A voice cut in her sentence.

Leo turned to trace the point of the voice. Zell was stood leant over the balcony railings at the top of the stairs.

"Can I help you?!" The red haired woman called back.

"Have you got Claire's rota for today?!"

Leo scowled. "I practically shoved it down her throat this morning 'coz she came in late! Has she lost it?!"

"She reckons you didn't give it to her," The blonde called.

"I fucking well did!" Leo turned and scanned the people in the warehouse for back up. Didn't I, Steven?!"

Steven looked up from packaging something into a box. "Huh?"

"You saw me give Claire her rota this morning, didn't you?!"

"What? Oh yeah, yeah ya did!"

Leo winked at Steven in thanks before turning back to Zell who was so far leaned over the steel railing, Leo was afraid he might fall forwards off it.

"Well, maybe ya shoved it so far down her throat that she ate it?"

Leo eyed the courier girl suspiciously at her sudden non-humorous remark. "You're not helping." Leo gritted out at the small girl.

"Hey, who's that, Leo?" Zell shifted from side to side to try and catch a better view of the girl. He gave up, seeing he was too high up to see and paraded down the steps to meet her.

Leo stood aside to allow Zell to eye the girl. "Um, she's a courier," There was a slight hint of nervousness in Leo's voice. If Zell found out the girl was in connection with the Razors, carnage would fly.

"Temporary courier," The brunette female corrected Leo.

Zell raised an eyebrow. "Temporary, huh?"

"Yes, Sir. I'm currently lookin' for a better job if I can find one," The girl stuck her hip out to the side as she stood, hands on hips.

"Are you any good at packaging?" Zell asked.

"Sir, my record is twenty size 8 boxes in five minutes."

Leo and Zell both looked at each other astonished. A size 8 box was one and a half meters by two meters. Almost as tall as Leo herself, and she was tall.

"Woah," Leo gasped. "But.."

"I'm short and a little bit skinny, yeah I know. Don't underestimate a gal like me!"

"Well, um, sorry what's your name?" Zell placed one hand on his hip and the other on his chin.

The young girl bounced happily on her toes. "Selphie! Selphie Tilmett!"

"Well, Selphie, if you're fed up of your current job, maybe you'd like to come and work with us? We could use a girl like you on our team," Zell asked.

Selphie's eyes lit up and she clapped her hands together in excitement. "I'd love to!!"

"Great. Start right away if ya want?"

"Hell yeah!!" Selphie took off her blue baseball cap. "Where's your phone? I wanna go tell my boss to shove his courier job up his ass!!"

Zell smiled. "Leo will show you 'round and make sure you get off to a good start, won't you, Leonelle?"

Leo winced at her real name. "Yeah, sure...I mean, it's not like I don't have a thousand things to do," Leo wined.

"Oh, give over! I'm sure she'll adapt quickly!" Zell fought back at his employee.

Leo had worked for Zell for over 3 years now and still loved her job....just about. But she enjoyed working and wouldn't really change it for anything since the pay was reasonably good too.

"Come up to my office later and we'll discuss your pay and other shit, ok?" Zell placed a hand on Selphie's shoulder as he walked past her to go shout at Brooke Sutton for breaking the hinges on the door of the female toilets when she stumbled into work pissed one day.

"Wowee!" Selphie jumped forward and hugged Leo, much to the red head's dismay.

"How the fuck did you do that?!" Leo prised Selphie from her body and eyed her suspicously.

Selphie shrugged. "Do what?"

"Get a job like that?!" Leo waved her arms. "I had to try for at least two weeks before I got my job!!"

"Um..."

"Tch," Leo spitted, but soon softened and smiled. "Ah, never mind. You're ok, kid. Come on, I'll show you where exactly to hit the coffee machine when it fizzles out on ya."

Selphie smiled and let Leo lead her forwards. Somehow, Selphie knew that she was going to like it here and get along with her other workers all right once she got to know them. But she'd yet to realise and find out what was going on with Fujin's unknown connection with SeeD. Well, the whole gang had yet to find out.

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A Week Later....

"Hey, Selphie!"

The female brunette turned at hearing her name being called. She smiled at Claire Small jogging towards her. Selphie dropped the last bag of a Heroin/sugar mix she was holding into her box. "Hey, Claire, 'sup?"

"Oh, nothin' much. Was wondering if ya wanted to go out tonight and get pissed a bit down the town center? Ya know, visit a couple of clubs?" Claire asked, placing her hands on her hips.

"Well, I'm doin' summat from five o'clock 'til seven, but yeah. Sure," Selphie grinned.

"Great! I'll pick ya up from yours at nine, ok?"

"Ace! See ya then!" Selphie called back to Claire as she was ran back off to her post before Zell saw her slacking again.

The door to the warehouse suddenly flew open and Leo stumbled into the warehouse with a small box underneath her right arm and a titanic smirk on her face. She jogged up to Selphie and threw the box down on a nearby desk, beckoning to the brunette female to join her as she opened the box.

Selphie skipped over. "Hey, Leo, watcha got there?"

"Something BIG!!" Leo smiled and produced a sharp blade from the drawer underneath the desk. She glided it down the brown masking tape to split the box open.

"What is it?" Selphie asked again.

"Mr. Leonhart!!!" Leo shouted at the utmost top of her voice which echoed throughout the warehouse.

Selphie stood and observed Leo fumble about with some more masking tape and throw it to the floor in a rubbish pile. "Um..." She thought about asking what the red head had a third time, but didn't really want to be ignored again.

Squall appeared from the shipping bay, his arms outspread. "Leo?! What?!!" He called.

"Come see this!!" She shouted back.

Squall sighed and jogged slowly to meet Leo. "What?"

"Sir, I have got us some PURE, note that word PURE Crack Cocaine! No bits of shit in it or owt, it's all proper! Worth LOADS!!" Leo exaggerated words she thought were important.

Squall raised an eyebrow and was thrown a bag of white powder by Leo, which he caught swiftly. He examined the bag before breaking it open, dipping his finger into the powder and sampling it through his mouth.

Selphie watched, amazed at Squall's expertise on the drugs business. He was just as educated on it as Zell and she respected Squall very highly. Especially since he was the gangs' boss's boyfriend. Selphie was always careful about what she said around the brunette male.

Squall winced. "Fucking hell! Where did you get this shit, Leo?!"

Leo beamed. "I won it."

"You won it?" Selphie raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, lets just say that I won a little poker game..."

"Poker, Leo?" Squall interrupted, taking the box of Cocaine in his arms and starting a walk up to Zell's office. "I never thought you were into such complexed and high class games?"

Selphie burst out laughing, whilst Leo just scowled. "Don't I even get a thank you?!" Leo called after Squall.

"...We'll think about it, Leo, get back to work for now!" Squall called back in a final statement.

Selphie regained her composure. "Aw, never mind, Leo. I'll still play snap with ya if ya want?"

Leo wrinkled her nose and watched Selphie return to her loading job. Leo picked up her clipboard angrily and made a mental note to herself:

"Put laxatives in Selphie's coffee for revenge..." She snickered to herself.

She observed her clipboard. Only Dave's rota was left, and he was due in in half an hour. Just for added effect, she added 'measure out Ecstasy tablets into 25 piece bags for Sunday' to his rota. Leo felt like being evil to Dave because he was the first name that caught her eye.

She knew it'd wind Dave up since: 1) Ecstasy tablets at Zell's weren't measured out in bags of 25, and 2) Dave didn't work on Sundays.

Well, Leo knew she couldn't take revenge out on Squall, Zell would have her throat mounted and displayed in his office. And since Dave wasn't higher up in Zell's hierarchy like Leo, she felt free to take out her unnoticed drugs finding on him.

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A/N:- So, all about Selphie and how she's wound up in everything now. *snickers* Not a particularly exciting chapter, I know, buuutttt I'm working on it. ^-^