Disclaimer: I do not own FFX-2 or any of its characters, but I do own a Paine doll complete with her sword and display stand.

Pairings include: Baralai/Paine, Yuna/Tidus, Gippal/Rikku, Nooj/Leblanc, and OC/(either Brother, Shinra, or a mystery person)

Enjoy the prologue and please excuse any OOCness.

No Privacy

Three Months Ago

In Luca, the party was bigger than what even Rikku had planned. Somehow, information leaked out (from Leblanc and her Syndicate's big mouths) that the High Summoner herself was coming to Luca to have a party. The townspeople quickly decorated the city square with streamers, glitter, and lots of confetti. When the Celsius landed, the team was greeted with loud music and the smell of food. This brought a sigh of relief to Yuna because all the food she prepared had already been eaten up by Ormi, Brother, Buddy, and Rikku.

"PARTY!" Brother screamed as he ran out of the airship like a lunatic. He was soon followed by everyone else. Ormi immediately ran to the food table while Leblanc shoved a recorder in Logos' hands and ordered him to record everything. Rikku began dancing energetically with her brother, momentarily forgetting that she was angry with him for breaking his promise of not trying to attack Gippal. Buddy dragged Shinra around with him as he talked to pretty girls who thought Shinra was cute. Tidus wasted no time as he grabbed Yuna's hand and pulled her to the dance floor next to Rikku and Brother. Nooj just stood in the shadow of the Celsius, listening in on what ever Gippal had to say to Baralai and Paine with an amused expression on his face.

When the song ended all the dancers stopped to take a break. Tidus and Yuna broke away laughing as Rikku joined them. Tidus soon noticed the three people talking quietly in the shade.

"Hey, I wonder what they're doing over there," he asked while pointing towards them. Yuna faced the direction he was pointing at before shrugging.

"I don't know. I've never seen Gippal look so serious before. I wonder what they are talking about."

"He's been acting weird lately and it seems that only Paine knows why. But when I asked her what was going on, she would just tease me by saying thinks like 'He's plotting bad things Rikku. Run away' or 'Maybe there are changes on the horizon'," Rikku said in her best imitation of Paine's voice, "And now Baralai is in on this too! I hope what ever Gippal is plotting to do blows up in his face!"

"You should stay away from Gippal anyway. He's bad news," Brother added while mimicking Rikku as she slammed her fist against her hand.

"How could you say that after all that he's done for the Al Bhed?" she shrieked at him and gently nudged him away, causing him to loose balance and nearly fall over. Tidus and Yuna sweat dropped as another argument began between the siblings.

"One minute, she is mocking Gippal, then the next minute, you see her defending him. Will she ever make up her mind?" Tidus wondered.

"Rikku likes Gippal a lot, but she will never admit it. I wish I knew if Gippal feels the same way about her," Yuna sighed. He placed his arm around her and gave her a hug.

"Maybe we can go find out. We can start with Baralai and Paine since they seem to know more about him than we do."

"That's a good idea. I'll go talk to Paine and you go talk to Baralai." She smiled before she gave him a quick kiss on the lips and ran off.

The sun was almost setting and the party was still going. Tidus and Yuna finally managed to talk to Paine and Baralai alone with out Gippal or Rikku near by. Tidus wasn't having much luck getting any information from Baralai because Baralai was good at secrecy. After all, he is the praetor of the most secretive organization in Spira. Tidus glanced over at Yuna and Paine across from them about ten feet away. It looked like Yuna wasn't having much luck either. Baralai also gazed over in their direction, but he noticed someone else there.

"I wonder what he's doing?" Baralai was pointing at Logos who appeared to be recording something near the two girls.

"I dunno. Let's go find out."

Logos was still recording when Tidus and Baralai approached. The recorder was aimed suspiciously somewhere on Paine and Yuna. Tidus gently tapped him on the shoulder.

"Hey, what cha doin'?"

Logos jumped in surprise and held the recorder close to his chest, "N-nothing! I was just recording the party just as the boss ordered me to do."

Tidus crossed his arms, "Really? What, pray tell, were you recording just now?"

"The dancers of course-hey! That doesn't belong to you!" Logos yelled as Baralai snatched the recorder out of his hands and pulled out the sphere. Logos fidgeted and slowly tried to escape as Baralai played the sphere and showed it to Tidus. Just as Logos had said, the sphere was showing the dancers, but it soon drifted down to someone's legs and up to rest on two girl's behinds.

"Hmm…dancers indeed," Baralai muttered as he and Tidus glared at the man.

"Well, I suppose you want to keep that. I'll be going now." Logos tried to back away only to run into Paine and Yuna who were also staring at him with their arms crossed. Logos gulped as he realized that he was going to feel pain in the morning until an upbeat song erupted from the speakers.

"Oh! I love this song! Dance with me Logos," Ormi cried as he dragged Logos to the dance floor.

"Well, at least he didn't get to keep the sphere. Come on Yuna, let's dance some more," Tidus said as he grabbed Yuna's hand and pulled her away.

"Okay!" she chimed. Baralai looked at the sphere in his hand before he quickly pocketed it for …future reference. He then walked over to Paine and wrapped his arm around her waist.

He gave her a sideways glance, "Want to dance?"

"I don't dance," was her immediate reply.

"Please?" he begged with pleading eyes, "Just one slow song."

"Alright," she sighed, "I'll dance with you if they play a slow song."

As if on cue, the upbeat song faded away and a slow song followed. Chuckling lightly, he grabbed her hand and led her to the dance floor. He was grinning like he had the whole thing planned. They began moving in a steady rhythm. They eventually began moving closer to one another until they couldn't move much. Baralai licked his lips before he leaned down to capture her lips. Paine gladly parted her lips and deepened the kiss before she felt something hard pressing against her body. She pulled away and looked down before shoving her hand in his pocket to find Logos' sphere.

"Mind telling me why you have this?" she asked while her ruby eyes glared at him. He blushed and rubbed the back of his neck.

"I was going to dispose of it later. Besides, if I left it behind, then Logos would claim it."

"Uh-huh. I'll just keep this and personally make sure that it's destroyed."

"But I…," he began to argue, but then he cleared his throat to cover it up, "…as you wish."

The song ended and Baralai held out his arm to Paine to lead her off the dance floor even though he had a feeling she was going to ignore him and storm off angrily. He was surprised when she smiled sweetly at him gripped his arm tightly. He caught her mischievous glance before they left the dance floor, letting him know that he is not going to have fun for the rest of the night.

"Is there any way I can make it up you?" Baralai asked, hoping to avoid her anger.

"For what?"

"Aren't you mad at me?"

"No, I guess not. There's no reason to be angry if you're not staring at other women's butts," she reasoned.

"Does that mean I get to keep the sphere?"

"Don't push your luck."

"Right." After a few moments of silence, Baralai finally remembered something, "Paine? I've been wondering something for awhile. How did Ormi get more respect points than Logos and Leblanc?"

"Because…" she was cut off as Gippal approached them.

"Hey, guys. It's time." He then quickly walked off towards where Rikku was standing.

Paine smirked before she gently nudged Baralai in Brother's direction, "Have fun."

He quickly whipped his head back to look down at her, "What do you mean 'Have fun'? You're coming with me."

"Mmm, I think you can handle it all by yourself."

"I should've seen this coming," he sighed deeply as he made his way to Brother. Brother was just about to glance in Gippal and Rikku's direction when he patted him on the back, "Hey, Brother! Why don't we go have a drink?"

"Hey Rikku, wanna dance?" She cringed at the sound of the voice before she turned to find Gippal standing behind her with a cocky grin on his face. She looked around and noticed that there was no one nearby and the lights were dimming for another slow song. Rikku finally had enough of his strange behavior and decided to ask him about it.

"Why are you calling me by my name all of a sudden!"

His grin didn't leave his face, "'Cause you're always telling me to call you by your name instead of 'Cid's girl'."

"But why are you listening now?" she shouted as she became more frustrated.

"Wanna dance?" he asked again, causing her to groan and grab her hair in anger.

"NO! Not until you tell me why you are acting so weird!"

His grin disappeared and his face grew serious, "I thought you would have figured it out by now. Dr. P said my problem was obvious."

"What? That your head is stuck up your butt?"

"I guess I deserved that, but no. In the past, I've been calling you 'Cid's girl' and picking on you for one reason-well actually two. One reason is because you look cute when you're mad," he said while poking her in the cheek, "…and the second reason is because I love you…"

"What! W-what did you say?" she stammered as she backed into a near by wall with her cheeks blushing a bright red. The fact that she was blushing made Gippal bolder.

"I. Love. You. And I need to know if you feel the same way." He stepped closer to her.

"Y-yna oui zugehk? (A-are you joking?)" She was so surprised at his answer that she forgot her English. Her cheeks were becoming even redder as he took one more step closer. He was now standing right in front of her. All she needed to do was stand on her toes and her lips would be able to reach his.

"Tuac ed muug mega E's zugehk? (Does it look like I'm joking?)" he answered huskily before he switched back to English, "Do you love me Rikku?"

"Y-yes!" she squeaked as she shut her eyes. She was expecting him to kiss her, but was surprised when he grabbed her hand and dragged her away from the wall.

"Where are we going?" she inquired, but received no answer from Gippal. He led her to the D.J.'s stage and grabbed a microphone before nodding to the D.J., who was turning down the music.

"Everyone, may I have your attention please," he began while tugging a blushing Rikku closer to him, "As most of you are aware of Cid's plans for an arranged married between his daughter, Rikku, and myself, I am proud to announce that the rumor is true and that we are expected to marry in three months. I hope to see you all there."

"Huh?" Rikku was wide eyed at the announcement as the crowd cheered.

Brother immediately spit out the punch he was drinking and faced the couple on the stage. He was easily held back by Baralai when he tried to run towards them because he was still a little wobbly from the spiked punch that Baralai gave him. Unfortunately for Baralai, Brother only shook his head to clear out the blurry vision and let his rage sober him up enough to break away and try again to attack Gippal. But when Brother was halfway to the stage, a small gunshot suddenly rang through the crowd and he was soon face down on the concrete dance floor, snoring loudly. Baralai glanced over to Paine as she quickly hid something behind her back.

"What did you do?"

She only smirked and slowly showed the small handgun before she muttered, "Tranquilizer."

Gippal picked Rikku up bridal style and jumped off the stage. All their friends and most of the Al Bhed gathered around them as he placed her back on the ground. Yuna ran up to hug her cousin while Tidus patted Gippal on his back.

"Congratulations man!"

"Why didn't you tell me you were getting married?" Yuna cried when she finally let go.

"I didn't know! Ooh! This is all going too fast!" Rikku moaned as she held her head in her hands.

"You think so?" Gippal stroked his chin and gazed at the night sky, "Then I guess you don't want to hear the names I thought of for our children."

"Names?" Rikku didn't like the sound of that.

"Yeah, like Neggi, Hakke, Rygga, Nokky, Huggo, Gippal Jr., and why not a Rikku Jr. too?"

"Seven kids?" Rikku cried out in shock.

"Better get busy then," Paine teased as she and Baralai joined the group.

"Actually, with the exception of Gippal Jr., those were just the names for the girls," Gippal said while keeping his gaze towards the sky.

"There's more?"

"Yep, the boys names. Kebbym, Gappos, Kybbuc, Goppil, Kubbem, Gippas, Kebbyc, Gappol, Kybbum, Goppis, Kubbec…"

"THAT'S ENOUGH! I'm gonna be fat when I have all of these kids!"

"Not to mention the pain of buying holiday gifts for all of them," Tidus added before Yuna scolded him and lightly hit him in the arm.

"Aw lighten up Cid's girl! They were only name ideas, I don't really want to have that many kids."

"Who would?" Baralai wondered before Rikku finally exploded.

"STOP CALLING ME 'CID'S GIRL"! I HAVE A NAME!"

"He, he, Rikku's always good for a laugh," Gippal chuckled and messed up Rikku's hair.

"I agree."

"Crid ib, Paine! (Shut up, Paine)"

"It's actually quite addicting."

"Oui duu, Baralai! (You too, Baralai)"

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Sorceress Myst: Thank you so much for all the wonderful reviews on Respect Points! I had originally intended Respect Points to be a one-shot fic, but some of the reviews I've received plus odd words like 'tranquilizer' and the English to Al Bhed translator I found on the internet somehow inspired me to write a sequel. And another thanks goes out to Sorceress Ki aka "Rikku" for making me laugh when she screamed at the cliffhanger I left in the rough draft I sent her. Well I guess anyone would get desperate to know what happened next if they read 'Baralai licked his lips before he…'. C ya next chapter!