(So even though I've played most Final Fantasy games before, I never neat any, so I'm finally doing a full run through of 8. Let me tell you it's so much fun when you have friends to act out the characters with you xD So this is the scene when Irvine has to snipe Edea, but can't, because *SPOILER ALERT*** of what I'm going to go over in the fic xD So, yep, if you haven't played to the point where you find out why he can't seem to shoot her, do not read! Kthxbai)
Just a Sign
Irvine Kinneas sat, knowing what he had to do. It was inevitable that it would come to something like this, seeing as what the sorceress had done, and what she was planning on doing. Someone would have to take her out, he had just hoped that it wouldn't have to be him to do it. The thing that bugged him the most, was that he was the only one that seemed troubled by it. He acted cool and confident, but he was really scared shitless. Why did it have to be him? The burden would have to be held alone by him, whether he had to take her out himself or had to help Squall and Rinoa take her on face to face. He couldn't decide what was worse.
Squall and Rinoa had been chatting about Seifer, whom had been presumed dead, but didn't they realize there were bigger problems at hand? Why couldn't Squall remember? Why did he alone have to feel this way, of course the only SeeD here unable to complete his mission, he knew. He was sure the Gateway Team was doing fine, knowing their duty and able to fulfill it to the end, like Squall. Again like Squall, thinking what they were doing was right, and there was nothing emotionally scarring about it, not for them at least. They did not remember who had taken care of them at the orphanage. They did not remember how the "evil" sorceress used to be a kind, gentle woman to them.
But Irvine did.
So he sat, rifle shaking in his hands.
Vaguely in the back of his head he heard Squall talking to him, trying to calm him down, telling him that it was fine. Irvine made up some bogus excuses about being a 'loner', none of it was real, all a façade to hide the fact that he was scared to kill the one he was looked up to, that they had all practically worshiped for years. He knew it couldn't be possible that she was doing this of her own accord.
Killing her would be like killing the younger him that had so looked up to this woman.
"It's just a sign."
Just a sign? He could do that.
"It's just a signal."
He didn't have to kill her, he just had to give the go ahead for Squall to go fight her himself. Squall could do it, he would be able to kill her and not feel what Irvine would feel.
And yet…
He took a deep breath and took his aim again. Something inside of him, aside from Squall, was telling him to 'just shoot, it would be fine.'
"Just a sign…"
He focused and pulled the trigger.