A/N: This is a sequel to With the Help of Man's Best Friend, read that first.

Rinoa and Squall break apart their embrace, "Can you show me around the house?" Rinoa asks sweetly.

Squall smiles, "Of course, though I don't really know my way around yet either. I haven't furnished it yet, I figured that you'd like to do that." She returns his smile.

Rinoa walks into the front door. She's amazed at the size of the house from the inside with hardwood floors and a fireplace off to the side. Rinoa walks with Squall up and down the stairs, all around. The look of amazement never leaves her face. They stop in their soon to be bedroom, there's a king-sized bed in the middle of the room. Squall sits down on the bed. Rinoa walks over and does the same.

"So do you like it?" asks Squall.

Rinoa glances at him then smiles, "I love it, thank you so much, I really can't express how I feel right now." She leans over and kisses him lightly on the lips. "This all is exactly like my dream house that I designed a while ago."

Squall whistles twice.

Angelo walks in with a paper in his mouth and hands it to Rinoa, placing his head in her lap as if to say, "I'm sorry."

"You little sneak, you've been going behind my back a lot recently haven't you?" She laughs and kisses his forehead. Angelo goes to lie down on the floor to the side. She turns to Squall, "So it is my dream house isn't it?" Squall smiles. "You're amazing, is there a reason why today?"

"Not really, just finally got Angelo to listen well enough to get this to work. Were you surprised?"

"Incredibly!" She jumps on him, laying him back on the bed and kissing his face and neck. He hugs her close.

Suddenly Squall's cell phone begins to ring, Rinoa jumps off him at the sound and sits to the side. He answers it.

"Squall here."

"Yeah, she's here too."

"When?"

"We'll get back to the garden now."

"We'll need to grab a few things, assemble the team."

He hangs up.

"Who was that?"

"It was Quisitis, there's a problem in Balamb, she doesn't know much more then that."

"How many SeeDs do they want?"

"Three."

"Who all is going?"

"Me, Zell and Irvine."

"Can I come?"

"Absolutely not," replies Squall tentatively.

"O come on, you can't leave me out all the time, obviously it's not that big a deal since you only need 3 SeeDs. So why not?"

"Because you're not a SeeD Rinoa!"

"I'm a sorceress! I can take care of myself! I also have Angelo to protect me!"

At the sound of his name, Angelo jumps on the bed between the couple and growls at Squall, baring his teeth. Squall raises his arms as if a gun is pointed at him. "Rinoa, call him off, I know what he can do and I don't want to hurt him if this gets out of control."

Rinoa gives him a piercing glare. "Angelo relax." Angelo backs off; he trots to Rinoa's side and lies down with his head in her lap.

Squall stands up professionally, "Look Rinoa, I know you want to come, but unless you become an official SeeD I cannot allow you to join us on our tasks. As commanding officer of Balamb Garden I am not allowing you to come along." He shakes his head, "even though, as your fiancé I don't want to leave you."

Rinoa looks up. She's torn between the two sides of her man; one loves her with a burning passion and would never let anything happen to her. The other sees her as just another civilian. "I want to become a SeeD."

"Sorry but no," Squall replies bluntly.

Rinoa's eyes get wide, "Why not?"

"Because you can't just spontaneously decide to become a SeeD; it takes years and years of mental and physical training. Besides you need to be enrolled in the school to even be considered as potential SeeD material and living in my dorm room does not constitute enrollment."

Rinoa just stares at him blankly.

"Rinoa, that's why I bought you this house, so you could live a normal life and not have to worry about all this Garden non-sense, I mean, I'll be home every night for dinner and such, but you'll be much safer and relaxed here without feeling like you're being watched all the time. Okay?"

Rinoa nods.

"I'm going to take you back to the Garden so you can get all of your stuff together and move it here. Is that okay with you?"

She nods again. Angelo wines.

"We need to get going now, they need me in Balamb."

He walks out of the room, expecting Rinoa to follow. She sits for a moment, stunned. She turns to Angelo, "I can't believe he would leave me alone again, after all that…"

Angelo just cocks his head in curiosity.

Squall looks in, "Rinoa we have to go."

She looks up at him as her hair falls in her face; she shakes her head to move the hair away. "I'm coming," She stands up and walks toward him, Angelo falls suit, walking next to her.

They walk to the car together; Rinoa opens the door and lets Angelo in the back then climbs in herself, slamming the door behind her. Squall shakes his head as he climbs into the car next to her, "You are being childish."

"I know," she objects, "it makes me feel better."

He shrugs and begins to drive. They're at the Garden in no time; Rinoa climbs out of the car with Angelo right behind her. Making her way to his room, "I'll show him," she says to Angelo, he looks at her with a concerned expression. She opens his door, grabs her blue duster and the rest of her cloths and runs into the bathroom to change. As soon as she closes the door, Squall comes in.

"Rinoa, are you alright? Where are you?"

"I'm in the bathroom, I'm going to shower."

"Can you come out for a moment?"

"No, I'm not wearing any cloths right now."

"Um, that's a bad excuse, what's really wrong?"

"Squall, I just need some time to think right now… We can talk when you get back."

"Alright, I love you Rin."

There's a short pause then Rinoa responds, "I love you too Squall, I'm just a little upset right now, I'll see you when you get back."

There's no response, "He must have left." She undresses and changes into her spandex top and shorts, skirt, and duster. She leaves the cloths on the floor and exits the room. She pulls on her boots, grabs her Blaster Edge and walks out the door. She stops in the middle of the door, "Angelo?" He sticks his head out of the other room and cocks his head.

"You coming goofy?" He looks at her as if to say where are we going?

"Let's go train."

His ears perk up as he runs over to her side. "Thata boy."

A/N: Keep reading, it gets a lot better I promise! Rinoa