Title : A Most Fitting End
Author : OneMoreSquall
Disclaimer : Square owns
Note : enjoy
Chapter 1 : Coming Home After a Long Battle
"Do you remember the way the sky looked on the first time we danced like this?"
Rinoa looked up at Squall, surprised to hear something this sentimental coming from him. But she did remember, she could still see the way the moon looked just before the sky was filled with fireworks. The colour of it, the clouds, everything.
"I remember the moon..." She began.
"...just before the fireworks." He finished for her. She looked up at him quickly, looking into his eyes, searching for confirmation that he knew exactly what she was thinking "That colour, whenever I think of it, it reminds me of you. It reminds me of the way that you felt in my arms that night."
"I see that colour every time I look in your eyes, Squall. Its the perfect shade of blue, its the shade of your life. Its a royal colour, tinged with sadness, and pain, but always with a glimmer of hope..."
" That glimmer of hope, it was only your reflection."
With those words spoken, the young couple let the silence of nature fill the old stone balcony, and they slowly swayed in time to the music that they alone could ever hear.
Above them, the moon shone on with its own loving glow, casting its faint light across the world below it. The moon took particular care to illuminate the scene where it saw two young adults share a perfect moment. The whole world, the worlds beyond and before, even time itself, stopped to let those two enjoy that single moment for the rest of their lives.
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The party had gone long into the night, and rightfully so, for they had finished their mission. SeeD's mission. Each man who sat around the table had done his part, perhaps done everything that he would be called upon to do in his life. At this moment, though, none of that mattered, for now it was just 3 men who had walked into certain suicide, bravely fought and won, then clawed their way back through hell and into the light of this world. Each man could look into the eyes of either of the other ones, and see someone willing to take that journey with him, someone willing to lay down their life for his. There was nothing more comfortable, than being one another's brother in arms.
But, being manly, none of them would admit to this comfort, the safety that they all felt. instead, as the glasses were emptied and refilled, and the hours grew smaller and smaller, talk turned to the ladies that had helped them through the ordeal, more liberal, less arrogant minds would even say, the ladies who had been integral to the destruction of the sorceress, but nobody was around to correct them, as all the ladies had retired to bed much earlier.(being women of course, cough cough) Each had found himself someone that they could protect and provide for, someone who could both need and be needed, and be shorter than they all were.
"Squall, man, when did you...know...ya know...with Rinoa...?" Irvine posed the question to his normally silent commander, confident that the serious man had drunk enough.
"Simple my good man, simple. It was...in the thing...the you know...uhhhh...void..." Squall managed to let this out, looking both content and precariously seated on his chair.
"that's it...?"
"Well...you guys had all managed to escape...I got lost on the way...my fault though! I was doubting you guys...and I wound up on this place...there I was surrounded by miles and miles of...*belch*...sand, and so I started walking, and I walked. eventually I got to the end...of the sand...and then I was with Rinoa. She came back for me...and I started to fall off the side of the sand stuff, and I reached out for her hand...she reached out for mine...I looked her in the eyes, and she in mine...I saw her trying as hard to reach my hand as I was trying to reach for hers...and I knew that I found the person who was as committed to me, as I could be to them...and I thought that if I could never leave somebody, then she...could never leave me. simple. that, and she's hot, man." It was a long speech, but by the end of it, Squall was on his feet, making vague gestures, and sloshing his beer all about him, but he was on a roll.
"fucking eh to that my good man, fucking eh!" Zell noisily hoisted his beer in a drunken salute to the commitment of Squall and Rinoa.
"fucking eh." Irvine repeated, mimicking Zell's salute.
"And what about you guys...wha da ya got?" Squall asked to either, finally sitting down again. He reached into the cooler, pulled out more beer, and casted blizzard on them in an effort to cool them down.
"It started when I first met you guys at galbadia garden" Irvine started before Zell could
"No it didn't." Zell started immediately.
"Fine, it was on the train out into Deling"
"No, it wasn't."
"OKAY SO IT WASN'T, SHUT UP AND LET ME TELL THE FUCKING STORY!!"
"fine."
"So, It was just after we busted into the padno…padnoril…pandox…pandoloons…you understand me…thing…anyways…so we're about to follow You guys, when Selphie grabs the back of my coat, and pulls me back towards her. And…get this...she says to me…you listening…and I quote…"Irvine, I've loved you since the day I saw you…I don't think that I could possibly face what's coming without showing you how much I love you first"…so I'm like score…and…"
"That's not what she said! She said, "hey, I ain't gonna die before I try this once, you're not perfect, but you'll have to do." Or at least that's how I remember it…" Zell said calmly and knowingly.
"Zell, how do you know this??" Squall had some doubts, and some concerns.
"He walked in on us." There was shame written across Irvine's face.
"Zell, Irvine, you guys are embarrassing friends."
"Indeed, but unlike the CHICKENWUSS, at least I got some…." Irvine issued a challenge to Zell, then sat back smugly knowing that his opponent had nothing to say to it.
"I got some today, from that librarian, the one with the pigtails. HA!"
"Really….some what, hot dogs?"
Zell hung his head in shame, and admitted. " Yes, but they were good."
At this comment, Squall decide to pack it in for the night. He stood up, which was not the easiest for him, and steadying himself on the table, he looked at his companions, said his farewells, then staggered off towards his dorm.
The garden was always a peaceful place at night. It was even quieter now, without the garden faculty members who used to stand guard along the passageways, there was nobody on the main circle. Squall could walk from the ballroom to the dorms at his own pace, stare up at the great galls windows that were set in the Garden's domed roof, and enjoy for one last time, the magnificence of the moon as it stood its careful watch over the sleeping part of the world.
He arrived at last at the end of his journey, and slumped up against the wall outside his door for a moment before going in. He had beaten Ultimecia, the sorceress was safely under his guard now, and all he was left to watch out for was Rinoa…his…Rinoa. He liked the sound of that. As he turned to walk into his room, he wondered out loud, just to himself…
"Maybe I should ask Rinoa if she would marry me…!?"
As he walked through the door, he met the gaze of another pair of eyes that were as surprised to hear him say that, as he was to see those eyes in his room.
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NOTE! From the author: I hope you enjoyed this, I'll prolly make more, read and leave suggestions in your reviews, it won't be too unhappy, cuz I'm in a good mood. YAY : )
Author : OneMoreSquall
Disclaimer : Square owns
Note : enjoy
Chapter 1 : Coming Home After a Long Battle
"Do you remember the way the sky looked on the first time we danced like this?"
Rinoa looked up at Squall, surprised to hear something this sentimental coming from him. But she did remember, she could still see the way the moon looked just before the sky was filled with fireworks. The colour of it, the clouds, everything.
"I remember the moon..." She began.
"...just before the fireworks." He finished for her. She looked up at him quickly, looking into his eyes, searching for confirmation that he knew exactly what she was thinking "That colour, whenever I think of it, it reminds me of you. It reminds me of the way that you felt in my arms that night."
"I see that colour every time I look in your eyes, Squall. Its the perfect shade of blue, its the shade of your life. Its a royal colour, tinged with sadness, and pain, but always with a glimmer of hope..."
" That glimmer of hope, it was only your reflection."
With those words spoken, the young couple let the silence of nature fill the old stone balcony, and they slowly swayed in time to the music that they alone could ever hear.
Above them, the moon shone on with its own loving glow, casting its faint light across the world below it. The moon took particular care to illuminate the scene where it saw two young adults share a perfect moment. The whole world, the worlds beyond and before, even time itself, stopped to let those two enjoy that single moment for the rest of their lives.
****************************
The party had gone long into the night, and rightfully so, for they had finished their mission. SeeD's mission. Each man who sat around the table had done his part, perhaps done everything that he would be called upon to do in his life. At this moment, though, none of that mattered, for now it was just 3 men who had walked into certain suicide, bravely fought and won, then clawed their way back through hell and into the light of this world. Each man could look into the eyes of either of the other ones, and see someone willing to take that journey with him, someone willing to lay down their life for his. There was nothing more comfortable, than being one another's brother in arms.
But, being manly, none of them would admit to this comfort, the safety that they all felt. instead, as the glasses were emptied and refilled, and the hours grew smaller and smaller, talk turned to the ladies that had helped them through the ordeal, more liberal, less arrogant minds would even say, the ladies who had been integral to the destruction of the sorceress, but nobody was around to correct them, as all the ladies had retired to bed much earlier.(being women of course, cough cough) Each had found himself someone that they could protect and provide for, someone who could both need and be needed, and be shorter than they all were.
"Squall, man, when did you...know...ya know...with Rinoa...?" Irvine posed the question to his normally silent commander, confident that the serious man had drunk enough.
"Simple my good man, simple. It was...in the thing...the you know...uhhhh...void..." Squall managed to let this out, looking both content and precariously seated on his chair.
"that's it...?"
"Well...you guys had all managed to escape...I got lost on the way...my fault though! I was doubting you guys...and I wound up on this place...there I was surrounded by miles and miles of...*belch*...sand, and so I started walking, and I walked. eventually I got to the end...of the sand...and then I was with Rinoa. She came back for me...and I started to fall off the side of the sand stuff, and I reached out for her hand...she reached out for mine...I looked her in the eyes, and she in mine...I saw her trying as hard to reach my hand as I was trying to reach for hers...and I knew that I found the person who was as committed to me, as I could be to them...and I thought that if I could never leave somebody, then she...could never leave me. simple. that, and she's hot, man." It was a long speech, but by the end of it, Squall was on his feet, making vague gestures, and sloshing his beer all about him, but he was on a roll.
"fucking eh to that my good man, fucking eh!" Zell noisily hoisted his beer in a drunken salute to the commitment of Squall and Rinoa.
"fucking eh." Irvine repeated, mimicking Zell's salute.
"And what about you guys...wha da ya got?" Squall asked to either, finally sitting down again. He reached into the cooler, pulled out more beer, and casted blizzard on them in an effort to cool them down.
"It started when I first met you guys at galbadia garden" Irvine started before Zell could
"No it didn't." Zell started immediately.
"Fine, it was on the train out into Deling"
"No, it wasn't."
"OKAY SO IT WASN'T, SHUT UP AND LET ME TELL THE FUCKING STORY!!"
"fine."
"So, It was just after we busted into the padno…padnoril…pandox…pandoloons…you understand me…thing…anyways…so we're about to follow You guys, when Selphie grabs the back of my coat, and pulls me back towards her. And…get this...she says to me…you listening…and I quote…"Irvine, I've loved you since the day I saw you…I don't think that I could possibly face what's coming without showing you how much I love you first"…so I'm like score…and…"
"That's not what she said! She said, "hey, I ain't gonna die before I try this once, you're not perfect, but you'll have to do." Or at least that's how I remember it…" Zell said calmly and knowingly.
"Zell, how do you know this??" Squall had some doubts, and some concerns.
"He walked in on us." There was shame written across Irvine's face.
"Zell, Irvine, you guys are embarrassing friends."
"Indeed, but unlike the CHICKENWUSS, at least I got some…." Irvine issued a challenge to Zell, then sat back smugly knowing that his opponent had nothing to say to it.
"I got some today, from that librarian, the one with the pigtails. HA!"
"Really….some what, hot dogs?"
Zell hung his head in shame, and admitted. " Yes, but they were good."
At this comment, Squall decide to pack it in for the night. He stood up, which was not the easiest for him, and steadying himself on the table, he looked at his companions, said his farewells, then staggered off towards his dorm.
The garden was always a peaceful place at night. It was even quieter now, without the garden faculty members who used to stand guard along the passageways, there was nobody on the main circle. Squall could walk from the ballroom to the dorms at his own pace, stare up at the great galls windows that were set in the Garden's domed roof, and enjoy for one last time, the magnificence of the moon as it stood its careful watch over the sleeping part of the world.
He arrived at last at the end of his journey, and slumped up against the wall outside his door for a moment before going in. He had beaten Ultimecia, the sorceress was safely under his guard now, and all he was left to watch out for was Rinoa…his…Rinoa. He liked the sound of that. As he turned to walk into his room, he wondered out loud, just to himself…
"Maybe I should ask Rinoa if she would marry me…!?"
As he walked through the door, he met the gaze of another pair of eyes that were as surprised to hear him say that, as he was to see those eyes in his room.
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NOTE! From the author: I hope you enjoyed this, I'll prolly make more, read and leave suggestions in your reviews, it won't be too unhappy, cuz I'm in a good mood. YAY : )