Chapter Four: Take Me Away





Metal clinked against metal. Dozens of yellow sparks flew through the air. The two blades were pulled apart and then once more forced to contact each other. Quistis Trepe watched nervously as Squall and Seifer fought. She prayed that Squall won but hoped he would not kill Seifer. They needed to know where the girls- the ones Seifer kidnapped- were. At the moment, their lives were in Squall's hands.

Quistis spotted her whip lying on a beat-up chair several yards behind her. She glanced at Seifer to make sure he wasn't paying attention to her. He wasn't, all his concentration was focused on murdering Squall. Quistis quickly dashed over and snatched up her Save the Queen. She then jumped next to Squall and held her whip firm, prepared to attack Seifer.

To her surprise, Squall shoved her several feet away. "Get back!" he snarled.

Quistis stumbled aside, her azure eyes wide. "Squall! You cannot fight him alone!"

"This is MY fight!" Squall said, sounding breathless. As he dodged a swing of Seifer's Hyperion, he shouted, "leave!"

I'm not leaving you to die, Squall.

Her mind was set. Quistis took a step forward and swung her whip at Seifer's legs. It caught and wrapped itself around, catching Seifer off guard. Quistis braced herself and then yanked the whip as hard as she could. Seifer was pulled off his feet and fell hard on his stomach. It was obvious he had the wind knocked out of him.

Squall towered above Seifer, a weird gleam in his eyes. A sneer rested on his lips as Seifer coughed. Squall pointed the tip of his gunblade down and raised it above his head.

God! Quistis thought. He's gonna kill Seifer!

"Squall!" Quistis cried out. "Stop!"

Quistis dropped her whip and raced at Squall. She had to stop him. Seifer rolled onto his back, staring up at Squall with a confused look on his handsome face.

Squall was a second away from bringing his gunblade down and piercing Seifer's chest with it. Quistis didn't have time to think. She dove through the air, arms outstretched, for Squall. As Squall swung the blade down, Quistis tackled him. As they both fell to the side, Squall released his weapon from his hand. The sound of flesh being torn open filled the air.

Quistis rolled away from Squall and sat up. Squall's gunblade stuck out of Seifer.

"Hyne," Quistis whispered. She crawled over to Seifer.

The blade had missed his chest and had sunk itself deep into Seifer. Luckily, it had missed his chest and hit Seifer between his shoulder and heart. Seifer stared up at Quistis with a twisted look on his face. Before she could say anything to him, he had pulled the blade from him and leapt to his feet. He took Quistis up with him. He gripped Quistis tightly and glared at Squall as Squall stood.

"God damn you," Seifer swore at Squall. He let out a pained groan. "Look what you did to me!"

Seifer's blood poured all over Quistis. She did not fight against him. His speech was slurred- he was losing too much blood too fast. He was going to lose conscious soon and there was no reason for her to be afraid.

"I'm gonna kill this bitch," Seifer jerked Quistis roughly.

"That bitch just stopped me from killing you. She saved your life." Squall said calmly.

"I'm still gonna kill her," Seifer growled. He sounded so sleepy. His grip loosened on Quistis but she did not fight to free herself.

Seifer groaned again and let go of Quistis. Quistis turned around to face Seifer and took several steps backward. Seifer raced his hands to his head. "...What did you do to me...?"

Neither of them answered him. Seifer groaned a final time than fell backwards, crashing to the ground.

Quistis ignored the unconscious enemy and turned to face her rescuer. "Squall," she said quietly.

Squall glanced at Quistis briefly before walking outside. He came back in shortly with some thick rope. He walked over to Seifer and pulled him to his feet. Squall quickly set him in a chair.

"Where'd you get the rope?" Quistis wondered out loud.

"Brought it from Garden." Squall explained. He wrapped the rope once around Seifer's feet. "Help me tie him up."

Quistis obeyed. What else could she do?



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All across Balamb Garden, cadet's were talking of Quistis Trepe and Squall Leonhart. Word had it that they beat the evilly famous Seifer Almasy.

"Did you hear? Squall rescued Quistis from a tower." Said one SeeD.

"Yeah, it was surrounded by fifty dragons!" replied another. "Squall beat Seifer and saved Quistis! Wow, it's like a faerie tale!"

"I know! I also heard Squall asked Quistis to marry him after it all!"

"Really? I heard that too! She said yes!"

Quistis was walking down the halls of Garden, listening to the conversations that people held. She chuckled with each new thing she heard. Where were people getting such interesting lies? Not that she wanted to tell people differently. She enjoyed the fact that people thought her and Squall were getting married.

And Hyne, did she wish it were true.

She was on her way to the Jail Room, where Seifer was imprisoned. Cid, Squall, and many others had questioned Seifer to find out where the kidnapped girls were, but he refused to answer. They had sent Quistis next, as a last resort. Everybody knew Seifer would not answer her questions either, but it was worth a try.

As she walked along, she told herself she would visit Selphie and Rinoa later. Selphie was her best friend and she missed her terribly. Rinoa was also her friend and Quistis needed the childish girl to cheer her up. Quistis was feeling more depressed than she ever had before.

The guards let her into the Jail Room. There she saw Seifer chained to the far wall, looking extremely pissed off. She didn't blame him.

I'd be pissed, too.

She nodded to a guard in the room. "Leave us."

The guard nodded and left the two blondes alone.

"Seifer," Quistis called out.

Seifer glanced at her, flames of hatred burned inside his eyes. "Trepe," he growled.

"Where are they, Seifer?"

"Get the fuck outta here, Trepe." Seifer snarled.

Quistis sighed and crossed her arms over her chest. Of course he would never answer. What was everyone thinking, trying to get him to answer her? He had kidnapped her, for god's sake!

And Squall... As soon as Quistis and him got back to Garden, he had ignored her completely! Once more he had shut her out of his life! Her love for him was so strong she could no longer take it. She was in her dorm room, about to overdose in sleeping-pills, when Cid had knocked on her door. She had already taken three and had two bottles left to go. When Cid told her to talk to Seifer, she left the pills behind. She would not kill herself.

A wave of depression washed over her. Quistis walked to the door and picked a key off the wall. The key was one to open Seifer's locks up. She took a deep breath and walked over to Seifer. She walked to the wall that chained his arms and undid the chains.

Quistis would not be seeing Rinoa or Selphie soon after all.

She unlocked his right arm and moved to his left. The entire time Seifer stared at her with a bewildered look on his face. His arms were the only thing chained. He made no move to leave or harm her as soon as he was freed. Quistis threw the key to the side and sat down next to him. He continued to walk her and sit there, obviously confused.

Quistis was confused as well. What was she doing??

She reached out and touched his bandaged wound. "Does it hurt?"

"What are you doing?" Seifer asked, unable to hide the shock in his voice.

"You want revenge on Squall," Quistis said. "You need someone to make him come to you. Kidnap me again, Seifer."

Seifer looked confused. "Why are you helping me?"

Quistis wanted to scream. She wanted to get out of that room fast. She did NOT want Seifer free. She was terrified of what was going on. It felt as if someone was making her free him.

Quistis went to stand and run for the door but couldn't. Instead, she lowered her head. "Take me away, Seifer."

"Why?"

Because... I want to be near you...

Quistis jerked her head up at her own thoughts. Where the hell had that come from!? She was beginning to worry herself. Hah... only beginning to.

"Just do it, before I change my mind." Quistis snapped.

Quistis, stand up! she thought frantically. What are you doing!? Get out of here! Fast!

Seifer stood, and Quistis stood too. She handed him her whip.

"You might need this to get out," she said simply.

Hyne! Run, Quistis!

He accepted her Save the Queen and gently grabbed Quistis by the arm. There was no need to be rough on the willing.

"Let's go," he said sternly.

They both walked to the door. Seifer threw the door open, yanked her out, and began to attack the guards.





AN: Four is over. Aight, it looks like this story is going to be a Queifer. NOT SEIFTIS!! Queifer. Queifer. AND STILL VOTE FOR LOVE PAIRING! Anyways, please review!!