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All You Wanted
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"What was she like?"

"What was who like?"

"You know who I'm talking about..."

"It won't make you uncomfortable if I talk about her?"

"No, not at all. I think it would do just the opposite."

"She was...like a glass of water on an extremely hot day."

-- *zzZZzZ* --

An angel came down from the sky. She patted the large lion on the head and gave him a warm, familiar smile. The lion purred happily, and licked at her hand. She was so pretty. All pearly white, with dark, contrasting black hair. Her eyes were brown. She was so small and beautiful and just gorgeous. How could he not love and protect her? Protecting her was more important than his own life was. Angels are so delicate...This time she had brought a toy for him. The lion smiled at her, wondering what on Gaea he would do with it. He was a lion. Toys were beneath him. She held out two small figurines to him, a dinosaur and a doll.

"It was all I could find for us to play with," she explained. "Are you going to play with me, Sir Knight?"

The lion nodded. Anything to make his dear angel happy. She was so pretty. The angel gestured for him to pick a figurine. Of course, the lion took the dinosaur, deciding it was manlier. The angel frowned.

"Take the doll. I brought the doll for you," she said, "The dinosaur is mine. Or maybe I am the dinosaur's, who knows?"

The lion was a bit puzzled by her statement. Her took the doll in his paw and stared at it. It was a rather pretty doll, with long hair and eyes that seemed almost real...A small silver heart held a bow in the center of the doll's chest. On it, two letters were engraved:

MA

"My Angel..." he whispered.

"That's right," the angel said to her lion. "This way, you'll always remember..."

The angel set the dinosaur down in front of the lion. She planted a small kiss on his forehead, waved goodbye, and flew back to the sky from which she came. The lion clutched his doll close to his heart, unaware that he wouldn't see his angel again for a long time...

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Squall woke up in quite a sweat. He was breathing heavily. In a frenzy, he groped around in the darkness for Rinoa. When his hand found her hip, she groaned a little.

"Mmm...are you ok...?" she sighed groggily. Squall kissed her cheek softly. He blessed Hyne for sending him Rinoa, and then he thanked Hyne for the dream. Dreams with Rinoa in them, even if they were a bit weird, were all good. She was good.

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He sensed something was wrong when Quistis, Seifer and Zell returned from their mission. Quistis' eyes were puffy, and Zell looked like he had been hit by a bus. Even Seifer looked somewhat dismayed- that air of arrogance that constantly surrounded him was replaced by...sorrow? Squall cocked his head and asked, "What's going on?" A red flag rose in his mind as Edea and Cid entered the library. "Is Rinoa waiting in my dorm for me?" he asked as he stood, figuring that whatever it was that went wrong, she would be the one to break it to him.

Edea sighed a great sigh when she saw him. The melancholic look she gave him in response to his question was all Squall needed.

Piece by piece, his heart dissolved to nearly nothing.

What was a knight without his sorceress?

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