Disclaimer and Authoress' notes: I don't own Final Fantasy: The Spirit's Within or anything related. And don't sue me because all you'd get is my computer so why bother? This was a short, pointless, crazy fic I wrote one night. Please don't hurt me cause of it.
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Late at Night With the Deep Eyes
By Destiny Lockheart
Jane threw her pillow over head. She couldn't believe Neil was causing her to lose sleep, again. She tried to ignore it and forget about it, but it penetrated. She kicked the bunk above her. "Neil, wake up!" No response. "Neil!"
"Hey, Jane, do you mind keeping it down?" Sergeant Ryan called from his bunk. "Some of us are trying to sleep."
"Sorry, Serge." She gave the bed above her one final kick before attempting to go to sleep again. It was useless. It just wouldn't stop bothering her. She sighed and sat up.
Ryan looked over at the other bunk and mentally sighed. It was going to be another one of those nights. Jane pulled out a flashlight and began flipping through a magazine. "Since I'm awake," he said, "care to talk about it?"
"Talk about what?" she asked, not really paying attention. Her mind was more focused on how she could pay Neil back for this later.
Ryan made a mental note about talking to the captain tomorrow about the possibilities of him getting his own room. Or maybe he could share a room with the captain. Anything was better than being stuck with those two for seven hours every night. "About you and Neil?"
She raised an eyebrow and stared directly at him. "About me and Neil?"
Ryan was beginning to regret ever joining the Deepeyes. At least then he wouldn't have had to put up with this every other night. "You know exactly what I'm talking about. Just give me enough time to get out of here before it breaks."
Jane decided she couldn't take it any longer. She grabbed her pillow and climbed onto Neil's bunk. "Before what breaks? Every single last bone in Neil's body?" She whacked him with her pillow.
"That was too much information," Ryan said, glancing at the clock. Three o'clock. That meant exactly two more hours until he could take his complaint to the captain.
"Oww!" Neil said, sitting up in his bed and rubbing his head. "Was I doing it again?"
"Yes," she said, hitting him again.
"I'm sorry, but it's really not my fault, you know."
Ryan began looking nervously around him. "I really have to talk to the captain", he muttered.
"What's up with him?" Neil asked.
"He wants to talk to me about us."
"Whoa, babe, since when was there any plural words in your vocabulary pertaining to you and me?"
"And what have I told you about keeping that word in your vocabulary pertaining to me?"
"That's it!" Ryan said, standing up. "I'm getting out of here before you two start making out."
"What?!?!" They both yelled.
"This is all your fault," Jane said, pointing to Neil.
"My fault?"
"Yes, if you wouldn't spend so much time staring at me, this never would have happened."
"Ryan, Jane, Neil, knock it off!" Gray yelled from his room. "Or I'll toss all three of you in the brink together." Gray thought about that for a moment, then reconsidered. Knowing his luck, if Jane and Neil didn't succeed in killing each other, and they didn't drive Ryan insane, all three of them would come back, this would continue, and they'd make his life even more of a living hell. "Scratch that."
"You two know what I'm talking about," Ryan said. "I've read this fic and it ended up NC-17." With that, he turned and went running out of the room.
Neil and Jane blinked. "Neil, do you know what he's talking about?"
"Not really, but I know how we can find out." He pulled out his laptop and turned it on. "It'll just take a few minutes to get online."
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Ryan stood outside the captain's door and began knocking on it. "Captain, please open the door."
Gray sighed and got out of his bed. If he was going to be up, he had better things he could do. Like trying to figure out where Aki had gone, not explaining something to Ryan for the fifth time in one week. He really should have kept the sergeant away from the Internet. It had only succeeded in warping the poor man's mind. Gray surprised himself by opening the door. "Sergeant, what are you doing here? Do you realize what time it is?"
"Sorry sir, but I really can't share a room with those two anymore."
"Ryan, we've been through this before. What you read on the internet is generally entirely made up."
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Back in the Deep Eyes' room…waiting to get online….
"Neil, exactly how old is your computer?"
"Let's just say it's older than the captain but younger than that Dr. Cid guy," he said, intently watching his computer screen. "Yes, we are online." He began typing.
"Neil, remind yourself to get a new computer next time you get paid."
"And what happens if I don't?" he asked, glancing back at her.
"I'm sure I could remind you someway."
"I don't like the sound of that. I think that I'm not going to take my chances and I'll remind myself." A few more minutes and "Right, we have now arrived at fanfiction.net."
"Fanfiction.net?" She read the screen over his shoulder. "Isn't that the place where they keep all those fics on various subjects?"
"That's the one."
"I thought Ryan didn't use the Internet," Jane said, wondering what fanfiction.net had to do with anything.
"He doesn't, normally," Neil said. "He may have found a new hobby recently." He began scanning through the fics. "Okay, Final Fantasy, Spirits Within… here it is."
He opened the fic up and began reading it. "Now I think I know why he went running out of here so fast."
Jane went down to her own bunk. "You're both crazy," she said, picking up her magazine.
"This is interesting," Neil said. Jane rolled her eyes. "Hey, do you think we can try this sometime?" he asked.
Her eyes narrowed. "What? I'll give you a ten second head start."
"What'd I do?" he asked, but he jumped off his bed and went running towards the door. Jane slowly counted to ten, then went chasing after him.
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"Do you understand?" Captain Gray asked Ryan. Ryan nodded his head. "Good." Gray patted him on the shoulder. He was just about to turn to go into his room when he saw Neil running towards him. "What now?"
"Captain, you gotta help me." He said running up to Gray.
Gray noticed Jane shortly behind him. "What did you do now, Neil?" Gray asked.
"Me! I didn't do anything!" He hid behind Gray.
"Captain, please move," Jane said, glaring at Neil.
"That's it!" Gray yelled. "All of you, back into your room now! And if I hear one more peep out of any of you, I'll make sure none of you ever sleep again! Is that understood?"
"Yes, sir," they all said meekly. They turned and headed back towards their room.
Gray went inside his room and closed the door behind him. He rubbed his eyes and glanced at the clock. Four thirty. 'Damn, I lost more sleep then I thought.' He crawled under his covers and attempted to go back to sleep. Tomorrow, he was going to have to talk to each of the Deep Eyes individually and reprimand them for tonight's behavior. But right now, he had to get to sleep.
