Title: Thoughts

Author: D S

Warnings: I dunno…

Summary: what it's like in Squall's head.

Pairings: Seifer+Squall, implied Zell+Quistis

Disclaimers: Don't own. Pretend you never saw this…

Rating: PG-13

Squall's POV

Thoughts

He loves me.

And that's really all that matters.

The Garden?

I don't give a shit.

The world?

They can all go to hell for all I care.

Zell? Quistis?

Too wrapped up in their own world to see it.

Irvine? Selphie?

Gone. They left shortly after the war.

Rinoa?

A bitch that needs to be shot. She tried to kill him. I'll never forgive her for that.

Am I forgetting anyone?

Oh, Laguna.

I got emancipated a year and a half ago. What kind of father leaves his son in a military academy for 18 years?

Matron and Cid?

Cid died of cancer 8 months ago. Matron died of heartbreak shortly after.

Before he came back, my life was a living hell.

My little 'fling', if you can call it that, with Rinoa lasted all of three days.

It was during those three days that I found out I loved him. It hit me that I only went out with Rinoa to make him jealous. It backfired. Badly. Instead, he ran from me. Ran, like he always did.

But he came back.

He came back and I was there to meet him. We exchanged scars once, this time it was scars of a different kind. He told me how no one cared that it wasn't him, and how they tortured him. In altercation, I told him how I was dead inside. No one thought about me. I was just the guy who didn't talk much to them now. Everything changed.

Change.

I hate it. It made him run. Who's to say when he leaves again? But he loves me. And in the end…

That's really all that matters.