"Argh, the pain..", Quistis looked down at the large wound on her leg. If only she had stayed with the others in stead of going off on her own......

"Squall...Selphie...Zell...Rinoa...Irvine...Seifer...", suddenly the Ruby Dragon disappeared into the darkness that filled her eyes.

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"Is she gonna be okay?" asked Selphie in a quavery voice. Everyone had found Quistis unconscious and also alone on The Island Closest to Hell. They carried her back to the Ragnarok and as fast as they could, took her to Balamb Garden's infirmary. The wound caused by a physical attack by a Ruby Dragon was now bandaged and clean but Quistis was still unconscious. Nobody knowing if she was going to be okay.

"She should wake up sometime soon, but she may still be quite tired from the loss of blood so don't be too hard on her". Everyone breathed a sigh of relief after Dr Kadowaki's report and stayed by the infirmary bed waiting. Waiting for their fallen comrade to regain consciousness and open her eyes to them again.

"Poor Quis, next time we're not gonna let you out on your own", said the once-resented-by-Quistis Rinoa.

"Yeah, never again" Irvine added while putting a bouquet of flowers from the Garden on the bedside shelf. At this point in time, the "loud" Zell Dincht and Seifer Almasy had absolutely nothing to say. Speechless they were, and Squall, well Squall was Squall and nothing could ever change that. Quistis stirred in her sleep and opened a sapphire blue eye followed by the other. With some help from Irvine, she sat up on the infirmary bed and rubbed her eyes. She felt some pain in her left leg and that brought back memories of the day's events. Wincing at the pain, she shook her head and looked around at six pairs of eyes all glued to her.

"Hi everybody, what happened?"

"It's a long story, get some rest and we'll tell you later" Quistis smiled, Squall obviously wasn't much of a talker so she turned to Seifer, their once enemy, now comrade.

"What? I'm the last resort 'cos big-shot puberty boy don't wanna explain?" *Seifer's attitude will never change* thought Quistis "Yes", she replied quietly and the others chuckled while Seifer narrowed his eyes.

"Tch fine, you lost some blood and we found you and I got the honor of carrying you all the way here. Good enough?"

"Guess so, I'm going to have to get out of bed for dinner so-"

"Nah I'll bring it to ya", Zell spoke up "you just stay put" and so he walked out of the in firmary and down to the cafeteria.

"Hey look, another puberty boy on the team" Seifer smirked at his own little comment.

"Seifer stop being a meanie, he's just being nice to Quisty", Selphie just couldn't be the authoritarian type. Quistis smiled and Seifer just couldn't wipe that smirk off.

"My face hurts from this comedy" announced Seifer and left the infirmary.

"I got your dinner Quis!" Zell arrived with a tray full of food and put it on Quistis' lap.

"Thank you Zell"

"Welcome, and now I gotta go get my daily hotdogs!" so Zell once again, went down to the cafeteria. A few minutes later a voice could be heard yelling. Everyone looked at the door of the infirmary in question.

"NOOOOOO!!!!!!!Sold out?!"

Laughter filled the air after realizing that it was the one and only, Zell Dincht, mourning because this one day, he was deprived of his beloved hotdogs.

A/N:So what did you guys think for a first chap of a first fic? I know it hasn't gotten up to the Seiftis part yet but please r/r!