Title: A Walk In the Knight
Author: JELLO
Summary: A Queifer. I don't think more needs to be said.
Disclaimer: I own nothing!!!!!! Square owns all!!!!
A/N: ~~ indicate Quisty's thoughts

Quistis walked around Balamb with an acquired ease of movement, graceful and slightly frowning as she meandered through the streets. Her thoughts were on several things, none of which brought a smile to the weary blonde's face.


Squall. Oh Hyne what an awful mistake. How could she have ever had feelings for him? He was cold, uncaring, seemingly unable to open up...then he met Rinoa. She had knocked down the walls Quistis had been hammering at for years in what seemed a matter of minutes. One dance and he was hooked. One dance and he was in love. And the thing that irked her, the thing that really got under her skin and made her want to throw herself off the nearest cliff was that, despite all efforts not to, she still loved him. Hopelessly.


Her job. Gone forever now, Cid had made that extremely clear. Demoted to the average SeeD, no hope of ever returning to her former position. No leadership qualities equalled no job, and according to the headmaster, Quistis had none. Cid, although clear in his decision to demote her and make her average-Hyne how Quistis hated being average-had never told her exactly why she was being tossed aside. But it didn't matter. Quistis knew the reason as surely as she knew what color her eyes were. Seifer. He was what had gotten her rank pulled down. He was at fault. He had to run off with his stupid sorceress and ruin everything for Quistis. She shouldn't really be thinking that way, but Quistis was beyond reason in her sudden rage.


~Stupid bastard, just waltzed into my life with that stupid smirk on his face and messed it up for me. Hyne help him if I ever see the idiot again!~


Quistis's train of thought was suddenly cut off as she charged straight into some poor bystander to her quiet raging. She immediately looked up to apologize to the man. Mocking green eyes stared down into her cornflower blue ones. The blue pair widened in shock and Quistis blinked twice, narrowing her eyes and looking again.


~It can't be...~ But oh Hyne, it could be and it certainly was. ~Seifer!~ At that point coherent thought pretty much left Quistis all together, and she took a few steps backward. That famous smirk graced his face and she barely restrained herself from smacking it off. Concentrating on walking away calmly, she turned to go around him. All the while she chanted reasons to herself why she couldn't kill him. She'd get demoted again. He'd probably return the favor. Murder isn't something she wanted on her record. The little devil on her shoulder was tempting her profusely. No one likes him anyway, it said. You'd probably be given a medal, not a prison sentence, it said. She ignored it, turned on her heel as if deciding once and for all, and headed around the trenchcoated figure in front of her.


He cut her off, stepping in front of her again.


"Where are you off to in such a hurry, Instructor? Am I to take it you didn't miss me?" The smirk curled in a grin, but the upturning of his mouth wasn't humorous or gleeful. It could most accurately be described as malicious.


"Why would I miss you of all people, Seifer? It's not like you've made any impact on my life whatsoever besides perhaps being an ass." She glared at him icily. "Now if you'd just step aside...Actually, you know what? Don't make the effort. Good day Seifer." She moved to go around him once more and once more he blocked her exit.


"Instructor, that was rather cold don't you think? If I didn't know better I'd think you were trying to brush me off! My favorite instructor, being cold to me! It's a wonder I haven't broken down just thinking about it."


"Shutup Seifer, I've had enough of your sarcasm and general tendency to piss me off. Isn't it enough that I had to deal with you while you were a student? Do you have to come back and haunt me like some awful repetitous dream?"


"Oh so I'm in your dreams, Trepe? I'm flattered. It's not every day one appears in the dreams of one so beautiful." Quistis could have sworn he winked at her...no it was just her imagination. This was Seifer. Seifer did not wink, unless of course he felt the need to add dramatic irony to a moment in which he was about to slice you in half with Hyperion. She shook her head to clear it.


"Good bye, Seifer. Leave the poor mediocre EX-Instructor alone and go steal some candy from babies or someething." Seifer, unknown to Quistis, was surprised to hear both that Quistis was no longer an instructor and the tone of bitterness coating her voice. This time instead of trying to go around, she just turned on her heel and walked away.


When she was far out of sight, Seifer mumbled to himself, looking absolutely wicked.


"You won't be rid of me so easily, Quistis Trepe." Then he turned and walked in the opposite direction Quistis had gone. "Not quite so easily..."





A/N: I absolutely refuse to continue without reviews. *stamps foot* REVIEWS! Do you guys think this is a good start? Hee hee I wrote this in twenty mintues, I hope the writing doesn't reflect that. Peace to all you Queifer fans out there, this one's for you. *muah*!