Hey guys, I left my notes at uni for "save the last dance" so wrote a new story over the christmas break. Probably not my best due to not being in the working mode during the end of term break but I hope you like it all the same. I realise it's quite short, I might lengthen it when I have time. I'll update STLD as soon as I've finished the next few assignments, shouldn't be longer than a few days I think.

I don't own ff8...etc but that's a given. R&R:), I'd like to know if it's complete crap after all.

Kidnapped

Proposal

"Ok, well I hate to say this but these weekly sessions are getting us no where." Doctor Kadowaki sighed, "We're going to have to find another solution."

Rinoa frowned down at the immaculate cream carpet, watching the shadow of the tree outside the window behind the Doctorr's desk. Doctorr Kadowaki was her psychiatrist; she'd been visiting her every week for years. It was a little ridiculous really but ever since she had been a child, a kid of seven or eight, she'd had this irrational fear of being kidnapped. It had gotten so bad over the years that she was unable to be with a man alone unless it was her father or he was under the age of fifteen because after all with her having turned twenty a few months back someone so much younger was hardly going to inspire fear in her. It was silly but she never even thought that a woman might kidnap her; it never bothered her to be alone with some female stranger. Being closeted away with her psychiatrist was a perfect example. She guessed she just didn't see it as such a frightening prospect. So was she frightened of being kidnapped or frightened of what might happen while being kidnapped?

"Help me to help you, Rinoa." Kadowaki interrupted her thoughts with what appeared to Rinoa as her favourite saying, she was always quoting that "Help me help you" crap. "What do you think will help?"

"I don't know!" Rinoa snapped, she'd never showed anything but meekness during her sessions and Kadowaki sat back in her seat in surprise. "Kidnap me!" Rinoa exclaimed hysterically.

The doctor frowned thoughtfully, "Well that might help."

"What?" Rinoa said blankly, thinking she had missed heard her.

"There was something I wished to talk to you about actually." Kadowaki continued, "There's a new service, designed for those who want sexual thrills admittedly, but I think I could tweak the contract to suit our purpose."

"What?"

Kadowaki slipped a leaflet across the table. Glancing at her Rinoa took it, "So you want to be kidnapped?" She stared, "Again, what?"

"They let you choose your kidnapper and-"

"Well if they let me choose how on earth can it help me! No, this is ridiculous." She sat back in her seat, arms crossed.

"You choose your kidnapper," Kadowaki continued as though she hadn't been interrupted. "They will then randomly kidnap you while you go about your day to day life, admittedly it would be quite a task for them considering you are never alone outside your own home, they will then hide you away. We can change the contract, you are not after all seeking to act out a fantasy, and have them release you after a few hours or so. It might help and if not…well at least it will be a step in the right direction.

"Well I still think we're onto something," she sighed as Rinoa stared at her stonily, "I'll see you next week Rinoa."

Rinoa nodded and climbed to her feet. "Yes, Doctor Kadowaki." She was barely out the door when she heard the doctor dialling on the phone and then her saying, "Sophie, can you hold off my next appointment for ten or fifteen minutes, I'll catch back up during me lunch break, I just need to make a call…an important call, yes…Thanks Sophi-"

Rinoa closed the door softly behind her and wandered slowly down the corridor, occasionally peering into the windows of the offices. One woman was screaming hysterically, another in a mad rage and the very last office she came across had a man in floods of tears.

"Ready to go?"

She turned to see Selphie, her best friend and confidant and also a bodyguard of sorts. She was a SeeD hired by her father so that Rinoa would feel safer. Rinoa didn't see her as a guard though; she was far too friendly and laid back.

"Yes," Rinoa smiled, "Let's go!"

"Ohhh, can I drive?" Selphie asked almost bouncing out the doors and down the stairs to the car.

"Sure, just don't crash my car! I've seen how you SeeD's drive."

"Well then, you'll know we don't crash." Selphie replied smugly as she climbed into the driver's seat. "On to the mall!"

They were at least half way there when Selphie broke the silence, "So how was the weekly three hours of boredom?"

"Same as ever…" Rinoa frowned down at the dashboard, "except she had this weird idea…"

"What? You're kidding?" Selphie said staring at her in shock as Rinoa finished explaining.

"No and keep your eyes on the road, Selph!"

"Hehe," Selphie grinned, "relax, it's under control." Her grin fell soon after though, "So this Dr of yours sounds as though she needs her own counselling. How could she think that that was a good idea? How can she trust a stranger not to really kidnap you, rape you and dump you in some field somewhere!" Her hands had tightened on the wheel almost as though she wished she had her weapon in hand and was standing patiently outside Dr Kadowaki's office waiting for her to finish with a client. Rinoa was just worried that Selphie's fingernails might mark the wheel. "Never mind that," she continued, "how on earth did she come by that leaflet in the first place?"

Rinoa shrugged, "Dunno, maybe she wanted to fulfil a sexual fantasy herself."

Selphie glanced at her and together they burst out laughing. They were still giggling softly as Selphie parked the car as close to the building as possible whilst muttering to herself about how much shopping they would have to carry.

"I saw this gorgeous coat that I really want to…" Selphie said as she and Rinoa entered the shopping centre.

Doctor Kadowaki watched the door close behind Rinoa Heartilly as she picked up the phone to make another phone call. "Hello? Yes, it's Doctor Kadowaki. She didn't take it to well, I believe she will turn the offer down once she has thought it over…Yes, yes…you have another idea?…Yes, we could try that, it's a little unethical but it could quite possibly be the only cure for her…Shall you handle it or shall I?…Very well, let's hope it works for all our sakes." She hung up the phone.