Thank you to those who tried to help me. I had tried that square thing but it wouldn't work until I tried it last time. Now I have to concentrate on beating Raijin and Fujin. They're hard as hell to beat.

Ch.2: Just in time



"Charity?" Laguna Loire said when the line went dead. He got up and ran out the door of his office. He recognized a bouncy brunette in yellow in the hallway. "Selphie! Have you seen Squall anywhere?"

"I think he's in his room Sir Laguna." She answered.

"Okay thanks." He said taking off for Squall's room. He burst in without bothering to knock. "Squall!" Squall looked up from the book he was reading.

"What?"

"Remember when I told you about the sister of yours that was taken when you were born?" Laguna tried to catch his breath.

"Is there a point to this?" Squall asked flatly.

"The point is that I've found her and she's going to die unless we get to her first." Squall stood.

"Well then what are we waiting for?" They ran out of Squall's room to the first car they saw. Laguna jumped in the driver's seat and as soon as Squall closed his door, Laguna hit the gas and they sped off. "Where is she?" Squall asked clutching the armrest hoping they wouldn't become road kill before they got there.

"The new hospital at Fisherman's Horizon."

"What's wrong with her?"

"I don't know. She got worse before her doctor could tell me." The car skidded to a stop in front of the hospital. Laguna and Squall jumped out and ran for the front desk.

"Can I help you sir?" The young woman at the desk asked.

"Charity Leonhart's room." The woman checked her computer.

"She's on the third floor sir."

"Thank you." Squall and Laguna rode the elevator to the third floor. They walked to the nurse's station. "Excuse me, where's Charity Leonhart's room?"

"Mr. Loire?" Laguna turned when he heard his name. Dr. Tokoro came up to him and Squall. "I'm glad you're here. I'm Dr. Tokoro, Charity is my patient Come with me." Laguna and Squall followed him down the hall. "I'm glad you came so quickly. I underestimated Charity's condition." Dr. Tokoro stopped in front of a room and opened the door. He stepped inside holding the door opened. Laguna caught sight of Charity as soon as he placed one foot in the door. Squall did as soon as Laguna.

"Oh Hyne." Laguna muttered as he walked toward Charity. She was hooked to a life support machine. She was practically white.

"It happened so suddenly. She was fine considering and I went to take your call and she went into shock. She doesn't have too much longer even with support." He said sadly.

"What's wrong with her?" Squall asked quietly.

"She contracted a very rare disease. Its so rare that it doesn't have a name yet." Laguna reached up and brushed a strand of hair out of Charity's face. "The two of you must be twins. You both look almost exactly alike." Dr. Tokoro noted looking at Squall and then at Charity.

"They are. Squall's nine hours older than she is." Laguna said taking Charity's cold hand in his. He looked at the doctor. "Take as much blood as you need to save her life."

"Follow me and we'll begin right away." Dr. Tokoro and Laguna left while Squall stayed behind with Charity. He did notice the resemblance between them. They both had brunette hair except Charity's was much longer than his. They looked about the same height and from the picture he saw next to the bed, they both had stormy-blue eyes. Squall remembered Laguna telling him about his twin sister and how she disappeared. Taken right out the hospital the day after they were born. Squall's cell phone began to ring.

"Squall."

"Squall, where are you?" It was Rinoa.

"I'm in Fisherman's Horizon."

"What are you doing there? Is something up?"

"We found my sister. She's right here in front of me."

"Oh really. That's great. So is she coming back with you?"

"I don't know yet. She's in the ICU on life support." He heard Rinoa gasp through the phone.

"Oh my gosh! Is she going to live?"

"I think she'll be okay once they get some of Dad's blood into her."

"That's good." He heard someone in the background. "Hold on one second." Squall waited for Rinoa to get back on the phone. "Okay I'm back. Quistis wants to know when Seifer's SeeD field exam is."

"Six months from Thursday." Rinoa repeated what he said to Quistis. Squall heard a loud groan that could only come from Seifer.

"Hey Leonhart, what's up with this? I have to wait six months for a friggin exam just to be a SeeD? Cid didn't make us wait that long."

"Yes he did." Quistis muttered.

"Seifer give me the phone back!" Rinoa said. Rinoa got the phone back. "How long do you think you'll be gone?" She asked Squall.

"Don't know. Probably a couple of days."

"Okay. I'm coming up there."

"You don't need to."

"But I want to. Zell will probably come with me."

"Okay fine." Squall answered. Laguna came back in the room.

"Okay then I'll talk to you later." Rinoa said.

"Alright." Squall hung up after Rinoa did.

"Who was that?" Laguna asked sitting in a chair next to Charity's bed.

"Rinoa. She and Zell are coming up."

"Oh." Laguna said rubbing the spot where they took blood from.

"What's going to happen now?" Squall asked watching Charity.

"Now they're preparing the blood for her body to take. Then they'll take her to surgery to place the blood where the disease entered from."

"And then?"

"And then we wait and see what happens." Laguna answered watching Charity's heart monitor. She was slowly weakening as time went by. Dr. Tokoro came in the room with two girls about Charity's age.

"Everything is all set. Now all we need is Charity." He said. "This is Camie and Torrence. They'll be updating you though-out the surgery."

"And we're Charity's best friends." Torrence added. Torrence was tall, short brown almost black hair, hazel eyes and glasses. Camie was almost the same height as Torrence, dark skin, shoulder length hair, brown, and glasses as well. Squall recognized them form the photo next to Charity's bed. Nurses came in to help put Charity on 'portable life support'.

"Wait, how will these girls inform us? They're not going in are they? They're too young."

"Yes, we are too young. We're wearing earpieces and they'll tell us what's happening through them." Camie informed them. The doctor and nurses wheeled Charity to the surgery room while the other four went to the waiting room.

"I hope she'll be okay." Laguna muttered.

"She'll be fine." Torrence said. "Trust me. She's way too stubborn to die."