Ill Wind

Kerri flopped onto the bed in the hotel room Tseng had taken for her in Kalm. After three days of searching every square inch of the new reactor, she was tired to the bone. She had a crew consisting of members of the military working with her, as did Tseng and Rude, but the Turks had worked as hard as they did. The search had yielded no results thus far. Nothing suspicious had been found anywhere, either in the reactor or on the grounds surrounding it. To add to her stress, her male partners were used to commanding subordinates, but Kerri wasn't, and had found it rather unnerving at first. Thankfully no one had questioned her authority. She had no wish to run crying to Tseng because they wouldn't accept her orders. Must be the suit that they respect, she thought, just before falling asleep, still wearing the suit in question.

Some time later, her cell phone rang, bringing her out of a distressing dream of crawling beneath a piece of machinery in the reactor to check a suspicious ticking noise, and getting stuck. Without sitting up, Kerri fumbled in her jacket pocket for the phone. “Kerri here,” she answered.

“Yeah, I wish Kerri was here.”

“Reno!” she said, smiling. “It's so good to hear your voice.”

“You miss me, then?” he asked.

“I miss you a lot,” she replied. “Why haven't you called before?”

“I'm sorry, babe. Rufus has had me playing bodyguard the past two nights to some suit that's in charge of the new reactor. By the time I got home it was so late that I didn't want to wake you. The guy just went back to Kalm today.” he said. “I've been missing you, too, though.”

“And here I thought you'd forgotten all about me,” Kerri teased.

“Are you fucking kidding me? Hell, no! This bed seems really empty and cold now without you,” he said, making her smile widen. He continued, “Not to mention that I've got a raging hard-on and nowhere to put it.”

Kerri bit the inside of her cheek to keep from laughing before she responded, “You're so romantic, Reno.”

“Yes, I am, yo” he agreed, and she could just tell he was wearing that cocky grin of his. “But we'll get to how 'romantic' I am in a few minutes. How are you doing down there?”

“I'm doing fine, just tired out at the end of the day. Searching the reactor is tedious work,” she answered.

“I hear you're in charge of a crew of military. Any of 'em giving you problems?” he asked.

“No, not at all,” she said. “I thought they might, me being a rookie, but they follow my orders with no problem.”

“I thought so,” Reno said smugly, raising Kerri's suspicions.

“What did yo do? Did you threaten them or something?” she asked.

“Now, how could I do that, babe? I'm not even there,” he said.

“Reno!”

He chuckled. “All right. I can't hide anything from you, can I? I asked Rude to watch out for you. He told them that you might be a rookie, but you were still a Turk, so they better not give you any shit.”

Kerri didn't know whether to be touched at his protectiveness or pissed off at his interference. “Reno, you shouldn't have done that! Rude shouldn't have done that. I can take care of myself.”

“I know that, babe,” he said. “That's not why I did it, so just smooth your ruffled feathers down, yo. It's just that we look out for each other, okay? Tseng did the same to me and Rude when Lei Lei joined us.” He paused. “Not that Rude would have given her a hard time, though. Tseng mainly threatened me, and I was injured at the time. Come to think of it, he gave me a warning when you joined us, too.”

“He did?” Kerri asked. “What was it?”

“The gist of it was for me not to get into your pants too fast,” he said, and even though Kerri was alone, his answer still brought a blush to her cheeks. “Then Elena pretty much read me the riot act about the same thing,” he went on, and Kerri covered her eyes with her arm and groaned. Hearing it, Reno laughed. “I'm just trying to say that we watch each others' backs, that's all.”

“I knew that. I just didn't know it went for personal matters, too,” she said.

“Well, it does, yo. So when do you get to come home?” he asked.

Kerri sighed. “I don't know yet. The plant opens the day after tomorrow, and we're preparing in case there's trouble then.” She hesitated, knowing Reno wouldn't like what she was going to say next. “Tseng is talking about leaving me down here for a while after the reactor goes online, as a precautionary measure.”

“What!” the redhead exploded. “Why you? Isn't there enough military there already? What the fuck?”

“He seems to think that one of the Turks should be here, to—what was it he said? Oh, to remind everyone of Shin-Ra's presence,” she quoted.

“Sure, Kerri,” he said. “Like the big fucking Shin-Ra Power sign on the front is just to hold the wall up.”

“I'm just repeating what Tseng said,” Kerri told him.

“Sorry. I didn't mean to get all pissy with you. I just want to see you.” Reno sighed. “You were working on my days off, and I was a good little boy, didn't come down and bother you guys. Now you're saying you might not be able to come home for a while. So when do you get some time off, babe?”

Kerri said, “Tseng told me that if everything goes smoothly on opening day, I can have the next two days after that off.”

“Then that's when I'll be coming down there,” Reno said. “I want to see you, Kerri.”

Kerri smiled. “I want to see you, too. I really do miss you.”

She heard the tone of his voice change slightly when he replied. “How much do you miss me?” It was the same tone he used when he was trying to arouse her, and her body responded automatically to that voice.

“You have no idea,” she said, a bit breathlessly.
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Reno smiled in satisfaction when he heard the desire in her voice. It sounded like he wouldn't have to work too hard at coaxing her into doing what he wanted. “Are you horny for me, Kerri?”

“Yes, Reno,” she admitted.

“Then will you do what I ask you to do?” he asked. There was silence from her end for a few minutes as she thought it over. Reno let her have a moment, knowing that her curiousity would get the better of her. "C'mon, Kerri. You know you can't resist your Reno," he teased.

“What do you want me to do?” Kerri finally whispered.

"I want to hear how much you miss me, baby," he said, rolling over in his bed to lie on his back. He switched the phone to his right hand in order to leave his dominant hand free for anything that might come up. "I want to hear you being a naughty girl for me."

"What do you mean?" she asked, although she had a good idea what he was driving at.

"Do you trust me, Kerri?"

"Yes, you know I do, Reno."

“Good.” he drawled. “What are you wearing?”

Kerri looked down at herself in disgust. “My suit. I fell asleep in it.”

Reno chuckled. “Is your hair still braided?"

"Yeah."

"Put down the phone, and take off your jacket and your pants. Nothing else. Then take your hair down.”

Kerri lay the phone down beside her and did as he had asked, tossing the clothing over the side of the bed. She lay back down and once more picked up the phone. “All right,” she told him.

“Are you laying down?” he asked. When she told him that she was, he said, “Unbutton your shirt all the way down.”

“Now what?” she asked when she had finished with that task.

“Does your bra fasten in front or in back?”

“Front,” Kerri told him.

“Then unhook it and push it back, but don't take it off. I love how sexy you look when you're half undressed. Now, close your eyes and reach up, squeeze your breast for me." Reno heard her breathing quicken as she did so, and closed his eyes to imagine how she must look right now. "Are your nipples hard, babe?"

"Ye-es," she said.

He heard the hesitation in her voice and knew that her shyness was causing her to become self-conscious. She had always been passionately responsive to his lovemaking, and enjoyed sex with him, but there were some things that she was always shy about doing. Reno didn't mind; he actually liked that trait in her. It was as if there was a part of her innocence that no one could take from her; not even Vertro's assault had destroyed it. And he had to admit, it was a most enjoyable challenge to break down her reserve, to arouse her to the point of only being aware of how much she wanted him to satisfy her lust. He went on before she could have second thoughts. "They're nice and hard? Then I want you to roll them between your thumb and fingers the way I do for you. First one, then the other. Close your pretty blue eyes and pretend it's me touching you." He heard her soft, indrawn breath and knew she was doing it. His cock, already hard, began to throb in response to the picture of her in his mind. He trailed his fingers across his smooth chest and began playing with his own small nipples the way he had told her to play with hers. "Mmm, I wish I could see you right now," he told her, "but I've missed you so much that if I was there, I couldn't just watch. I'd have to get my hands on those gorgeous breasts."

"Reno," she said, the word barely more than a ghost of a whisper, a sound he'd heard many times before while making love to her.

"And you know," he continued, "that I love the way your nipples feel in my mouth, so I'd have to start licking them, then blowing on them to make them even harder, before I started sucking them. I'd use my teeth just a little, the way you like, and go back and forth until you started grinding your hips against me." Reno paused, relishing the soft whimpers from her end of the line.

She moaned in protest when he went quiet. "Don't stop, Reno," she pleaded.

"Now I want you to slide your hand inside your panties and tell me how wet your pussy is," he said. A few seconds later he heard her gasp in pleasure. "Tell me, how wet are you, baby?" he repeated.

"So wet," she breathed. "My panties are soaked."

Reno groaned at this, and wrapped his fingers around his erection, starting to stroke himself slowly. "Do you want to come, Kerri?" She made an indistinct sound that he assumed was supposed to mean 'yes', and he went on, "I want you to do something else first, and then you can go ahead and play with yourself."

"What?" Slightly impatient.

"Taste yourself," he said silkily.

"Reno! I can't," Kerri protested, but her voice was husky with lust, and her lover pressed on.

"You can. You've kissed me enough times after I've eaten you out, yo. Go on, for me." He hesitated, then added, "Please, Kerri."

"All right," she whispered, and he smirked. He knew that last would convince her. "I did it," she said, and the image of her sucking her essence from her fingers drew a groan from him, and he stroked himself faster.

"Reno, are you..."

"What? Jerking myself off? Oh, yeah," he said, and heard her whimper. "Why don't you slip your hand back between your legs and join me?"

"Ahh, fuck, Reno," she said, and he could hear her breathing become more and more rapid as she played with herself. He knew her well, could imagine the pace she was setting, and sped up his own strokes a bit to match.

"You'll be fucking me in a couple of days, babe. I don't think I'll be able to stop myself from just ripping your clothes off and burying my cock in your tight little pussy as soon as I see you. I can't wait to feel it wrapped around me, squeezing me as I pound into you as hard as I can," he said, his voice ragged. Reno felt the telltale tingle in his groin, felt his balls begin to tighten, and knew he had to hurry and help her get off before he did. "Oh, hell, baby, I'm close. Come with me, Kerri. I wanna hear you come."

"I want to hear you," she responded. Her voice was as unsteady as his. "Almost...almost there..."

"C'mon, babe. Give me what I need, work that pretty little pussy--" Her sharp cry of pleasure cut him off as his words pushed her over the edge and she came, moaning his name over and over. The sounds triggered his own orgasm; his balls throbbed and tightened and he groaned, "Oh, fuck yes, baby, I'm there, I'm there," an instant before he came. As the thick, white liquid jetted out of him he could only utter short growls of pleasure until it was over. "Damn," he muttered, reaching for the towel he'd gotten before he called her, and heard Kerri's out of breath laughter.

"You can say that again," she said.

While cleaning himself up, he asked, "So you liked that, yo?"

"Yes, I did. But now I'm more anxious than ever to see you," she answered him. "Did you like it?," she questioned shyly.

"Better than doing it alone, but nowhere near as good as being with you," he said. "I just had to have something with you, though. I miss the hell out of you. And I do mean you, not just your pussy."

Kerri laughed. "That's why I'm with you. Like I said before, you are just so romantic."

"Don't be a smart-ass, yo. I know you, babe. Tell me that the flowers and candy crap wouldn't bore the hell out of you without a nice hard fuck to go along with it." Kerri's silence was all the answer he needed.