Sweet Revenge
Everyone has heard of the story of the house on Red Hill? Have you ever heard it? Legend has it that a gay couple lived in that house. And one night, two blood curdling screams were heard throughout the deserted city of Trabia. The next day, three bodies were found dead . . . two in the bedroom, and another in the shower. The water was running cold over the corpse. How did this happen you ask? Sit down, as we tell you a tale. The tale of the Haunted Mansion on Red Hill.
One of the women, Madison, was madly in love with a woman named Abrianna Pia. They met at a diner one night, and fell for one another immediately. They were engaged in April, and to be married the next late spring. But the following winter was when the tables turned on Madison. A man named Carlos, came into the picture. A man Madison never knew, a man Abrianna claimed to be a very good friend. A friend with benefits, apparently.
Madison was wandering the mansion one night, when she came to a loose floorboard in the couples room. She had never noticed that before. It also didn't help that it was on Abrianna's side of the room. Her eyebrow arched as she knelt down beside the floor board, tilting it upward. The wood wouldn't budge. Angered, she slammed her foot down on the board, causing it to break. A smirk curled up on her lips as a series of crumpled papers came into her view. They were all written in red ink and in cursive. Madison picked one up and read it. Tears threatened her eyes at the message written by Abrianna.
It read:
My dear Carlos,
For the day of December 21, I will meet you in the shack by the beach when the sun has gone for its night rest. For you, my love, are my only and true love. Madison means nothing to me, and she never will or has. You, are my only true love
Love your Abrianna.
Madison, angered and saddened, tore up all the letters at her hands and stuffed them back into the 'hidden' floorboard. She heard the door open, and two people walking throughout the house. Carlos and Abrianna.
An eerie wind lashed through the room, as the once sweet Madison's eyes turned into charcoal color. The blue was gone.
Abrianna and Carlos walked into the guest bedroom, and shut the door, unaware that Madison was inside the house.
Abrianna pulled Carlos on top of her, running her hands through the long black hair. Carlos' lips pressed gently against Abrianna's neck as he pulled off her dress and discarded it to the floor. His tanned hands traveled down her light skin, gripping her hips. Abrianna giggled.
"You whore…"
Blood curdling scream.
Gunshot.
Blood splattered across the white virgin sheets. Another gunshot rung out, more blood. A satisfied smirk crossed Madison's face. Her black eyes grinning at the scene before her.
Madison walked in the bathroom and started the shower on extremely cold water. She removed her clothes and stepped in, the gun still in hand. The cold water coated her body, and soaked into her blonde hair before the placed the gun to her head…
And pulled the trigger.
Squall's POV
I'd graduated from Balamb Garden a year earlier, and I decided that I wanted to leave my life in Balamb behind and try something new. I didn't know what exactly that was yet, but I'd find out eventually.
I was getting sick of seeing the same picture day in and day out; beach, sea, town, Garden. I needed something new to keep me going, and with the low crime rate in Balamb, I could hardly do my job of SeeD.
Luckily, walking through the town that day, I bumped into a familiar face that I had known from long ago.
"Squall!" My friend Irvine, shouted as he tipped his brown cowboy hat and extended his gloved hand to me. I simply nodded in a reply. "So what are ya up to these days?"
I shrugged, "Planning to leave, I just don't know where to go through. Any ideas?"
Irvine thought for a while, and leaned up against the railings that overlooked the beach, "Well, you could work as a SeeD somewhere else? I heard that Trabia are looking for back up to their forces?"
It was a good idea, and it sounded exciting too. Although Trabia was miles away, and the climate was incredibly different to the sunny one I'd lived with here, I kind of warmed to the feeling of living a different life.
"How do I get to work up there?"
"Well, you have to go to Cid, he'll give you a letter of introduction and a reference. You go up to Trabia Garden and hand it to the headmaster there, I'm sure he'd give you a job if you told him your rank."
"A."
"Okay don't gloat…" Irvine mumbled, rolling his eyes as he smirked at me. He'd always found a competition in me, and found it hard to usually beat me. We always tried our best at training and when he found out I'd got a better grade then him, he was completely devastated.
It was hilarious.
"I'll try that out, thanks. But what are you doing here? I thought you moved back to Galbadia after you graduated?"
Irvine nodded and smiled, "Yeah I had to give a letter to Cid personally from that dick Martine. But I have to pick up the weapons for the SeeD's in Galbadia Garden. Idiot boy here offered, I just didn't realize the list was a mile long."
Rolling my eyes, I chuckled slightly and shrugged, "Well you should go get 'em then or the Headmaster will kill you."
He kicked off the rail and adjusted his huge coat, "I'll see you around then, Squall? Good luck with the Trabia thing man."
Shaking his hand tightly I smiled and patted him on the back as I watched him trailing into the weapon shop, a sort of constipated look on his face as he pulled out the weapon list.
"Poor guy…"
The Headmaster of Balamb Garden, Cid Kramer, was a true friend and teacher to me. He managed to get me through my field exam with ease and ever since then, he has given me pointers on how to better myself after becoming a SeeD.
"Ah, Squall! I hope your training everyday like you should be!"
I saluted the old man sat in his chair, bowing slightly as he told me to at ease. He stood from his seat and walked around his desk, holding it slightly for support. In his old age he had become weak, but refused to retire, though in his sixties.
"Of course sir, but I haven't come here for a social call. I was hoping to ask you for a small favour."
Cid leaned against his desk and nodded, his glasses hitting the tip of his nose as he looked at me over them. "Well go on, lad."
"Well I was wondering if you could give me a letter of introduction and a reference? I wish to transfer to Trabia Garden."
His eyebrow raised in question and his weak hand rubbed his chin, "May I ask why you want to move to Trabia?"
"I want a change, sir. I'd love to work in Trabia, if you will me to."
The silence ensued and I felt uncomfortable, trying not to shift from foot to foot as he headed back behind his desk and sat down on his leather seat. Picking up a pen, he grabbed a fresh piece of paper and began writing.
"When do you wish to go?"
I shrugged, "Tomorrow?"
"So you've already arranged a place to live? Transfer SeeD's aren't allowed to live in the dorms, you have to have your own home."
My head dropped and I ran my hand through my brown locks, "Right okay…so if I ring around, will you give me the letters?"
Cid nodded and dropped his pen on the table, "Of course, but only when you've rung around. Come back to me when you have, Squall."
I saluted once again before I turned and left his office. It was beyond annoying that I had to ring around about a home in Trabia, it'd have to be close to Trabia and of course in my price range. I may have been a SeeD but money didn't grow from trees.
"Okay, but do you know of any agencies that work with houses in Trabia? You don't…alright then. Cheers."
"Yeah I'm calling about houses in Trabia, near Garden and under 20,000 Gil. You don't have any…"
"I was told to ring this agency, I'm looking for a house in Trabia, under 20,000 Gil and near the Garden? Alright…well do you know anyone else?"
You had no idea how pissed off I was getting, sat in my apartment, surrounded with scruffy pieces of paper that had random house agency numbers on them. None had a house that I would like, and now I was drawing a close to the last two numbers.
"Heartilly Homes…?" I mumbled, picking up the piece of paper and dialling the number into my cell. I held it to my ear and waited as the rings continued.
"Hello! Heartilly Homes, how may I help you today?"
I coughed and leaned forward, pinning my hopes on this agency. "Hello there, I'm calling to ask about a home in Trabia, close to Trabia Garden but also under 20,000 Gil?"
I tapped my foot impatiently as I waited for the woman to get back to me, my heart quickened, I seriously hoped I didn't have to ring around anymore places.
"You're in luck. A house was just lowered in price to 15,000 Gil and it's on the outskirts of Trabia, only a ten mile drive from the Garden."
I jumped up from my couch and jumped in the air, cheering to myself that I'd finally found my own place in Trabia. "That's fantastic! When would I be able to see the house?"
"Just hold on one minute…" It felt like an eternity before she actually managed to pick up the phone again, "My boss wants to talk to you about the house, I'll patch you through now sir."
I raised an eyebrow and sighed, sitting back down slowly, this idiot wasn't going to tell me I couldn't have the house now would she?
"Hello, this is Rinoa Heartilly, I heard you were interested in the House in Trabia?"
"Yeah that's correct, I can still view the house can't I?"
Silence for a couple seconds before she continued, "Of course, when would you wish to actually see it?"
I shrugged to myself and thought, "Well, I'm going to be able to get up there tomorrow evening? I have to catch a train from Balamb you see, would that be okay?"
"Uh…evening?" I heard her sigh and I heard the familiar tapping of a pen on a wood table, "I'd be able to do that, five alright?"
"I'm sure it would be. Do you have directions to the house itself?"
After a twenty minute conversation with Rinoa Heartilly, I'd managed to actually get the directions to the place. It sounded like it was in a maze to be fair, but I guess it was just because it was in writing. If I got lost, I'd just ask around anyways.
Cid was still in his office at 3pm, he looked as if he was just getting ready to leave when I burst in through his office doors. "It took me four hours, but I finally managed to find a house. I'm seeing it tomorrow evening, so can I have the letters?"
"Don't you think your being a little hasty, Squall? I mean, your just packing up and leaving your life here for something you may not even like." I hated it when he did this, I did see the sense in what he was saying, but then again if I had to stay here a minute longer I would go completely insane.
"I know what I'm doing, sir. Don't worry about me. The letters, please?" I extended my arm and held out my palm flat as I waited for the letters.
He could tell I was being serious about this, I stared dead in his eyes as he pulled out the letters from his briefcase, "If you say so, Squall. You're a good SeeD, don't let it go to waste."
I nodded and took the sheets of paper, "I won't. I promise."
"Keep in contact too, I want to know that the Trabian Headmaster is taking care of you appropriately."
Rolling my eyes, I folding up the letters and put them in my jeans pocket, "I will do sir, don't worry yourself too much about me, you have a Garden to run."
Laughing he shook my hand one last time and walked with me to the door, "You be good."
I sighed and shrugged, "Can't promise that sir, but I'll try my best."
I'd managed to pay for the train ticket with all the money I had left in my pockets at the time, it cost a little more then I would have hoped, but I wasn't complaining. All my money was on my card and that's all that mattered.
The train was set to leave at 2pm tomorrow afternoon, it was enough time to get all my stuff together and pack it before the train left.
Grabbing a quick shower after I packed everything, I was technically ready to leave in the morning for Trabia. The room was bare without all my things in it, it hit me then that I was actually really going to leave.
I sat down on the bed and sighed, before lying down fully and turning on my side. My last night in Balamb was going to be awkward as hell, but I knew it was going to get better on from here.
I fell asleep thinking of Trabia, and the new start I was finally going to have in my new home.
A/N
rinnyheartillyizawesome: So that was the first chapter. The beginning was written by me, and the rest of the chapter in Squall's POV was written by Angels Fallen Knight. Each chapter will be either written in Rinoa or Squall's POV. Squalls POV, written by AFK, Rinoa's written by me. If you have any questions, feel free to drop a PM! R&R!
-AFK and Miss Heartilly
