Hi again everyone! So after uploading the last chapter, and realizing all my spelling, grammar and otherwise stupid mistakes, I'm now in the market for a Beta Reader, yay! Also, I feel like from this chapter onwards is where the story will hopefully pick up as the mystery part of the story that I earlier teased will become evident. Lastly, Chapter 6 will be told primarily through Squall's eyes just for the sake of character development and because Rinoa is kinda going to be out of commission for the time being, her having a broken wrist and all. So as always please review and if it's not too much trouble, I will be rereading this over but my current track record has shown me to be quite unobservant so any spelling, grammar or other mistakes please report to me via e-mail or PM, at least until I can find a suitable Beta Reader. Enjoy!

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Chapter 6- Bad luck

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Squall couldn't believe his bad luck that Thursday. After being interrupted from his training by a screaming, injured Rinoa, he had walked her back to the group where whole platoon of instructors completely chewed him and Rinoa out for straying away from the group but after a quick conversation and Squall saying who he was to them, they backed off. They knew better then to mess with Squall. "I really hate these people, can't you see she's injured. Just let me take her to the infirmary" Squall thought to himself in annoyance of the Garden staff members.

While walking towards the infirmary, Squall felt really awkward walking next to Rinoa, and therefore kept a few paces ahead to distance himself. This clearly bothered Rinoa as soon as she looked up to see how far Squall was walking away, she said "Hey slow down you big meanie! Your legs are longer than mine, I can't keep up" and Squall showing some mercy slowed a little.

After that, Squall immediately regretted slowing down for Rinoa for she was asking the most random questions in a vain attempt to get to know Squall well. "Even when injured, this girl still talks way too much, why the hell does she care what my favourite colour is? Hyne, if she doesn't kill me from a stroke from her annoyance, then I'll probably just do me in myself".

Squall and Rinoa however, finally reached the infirmary after what seemed like an entirety to Squall. Walking in, Rinoa saw Dr. Kadowaki first thing with another student with a similar injury to hers. "I swear, I get twenty of you guys every year. Always wanna try to be cool with a gunblade and wind up breaking a limb, if I had a Gil for every…" Kadowaki was saying to the student before noticing Squall and Rinoa, "Ms. Caraway, back so soon? Wait let me guess, gunblade accident right?"

"Uhh…yeah" Rinoa said back while Squall tried to slip out unnoticed. He got her there, now his job was done.

"Well because everyone seems to injure themselves on these days I'm a little busy right now but if you can just wait in the other room there, I'll see to you as soon as you can, oh and Mr. Leonhart…", "Shit…", "… I'll need to keep an eye on here, make sure she's okay until I can see her. Please wait with her in the other room.

Squall was silently cursing Dr. Kadowaki out, he didn't want to be there any more then Rinoa probably wanted him there. "She was obviously just trying to be nice while we were walking her, but I know she hates me, her and everyone else…"

The room Dr. Kadowaki sent Rinoa and Squall into was an empty office with several chairs, a desk, medical degrees posited on the walls, and books about medicine on every bookshelf. Rinoa sat down in one of the chairs and spun around a couple times until Squall heard a quit "ouch" from her and then she stopped.

"You need to be more careful, broken bones are a serious matter. Bang it off something and it will only get worse" Squall said to Rinoa carefully.

"Hmmm, awww so you do care if I hurt myself Squall!" Rinoa proclaimed as Squall turned a bright shade of red and turned his back to her, "C'mon Squall, I was joking, you don't have to take it so seriously.

"Whatever…" Squall muttered as he walked towards the office window.

Rinoa asked the obvious question next, "Soooo Squall, you're as old as me right? So how come you know how to use a gunblade".

"That's none of your business" Squall said quickly and coldly. It was none of her business about anything from Squall's past, especially where he learned to fight. His whole secret, everything he had to run away from back home would come out then.

"Awww, c'mon Squall, you can talk to me y'know? Is it so bad that maybe I want to get to know my saviour a little? Rinoa said with a smile that Squall immediately noticed.

"She is quite beautiful" Squall thought to himself, "No; there is no way I can get involved with anyone. If I do, I put them at a huge risk because of…" but his thoughts were cut off by Rinoa, again.

"Y'know you think too much" Rinoa said.

"And you talk too much" Squall thought.

"Ohh well, if you don't want to tell be, that's fine, I'm just going to have to hang out with you 'till you do then" Rinoa teasingly said without dropping her smile once.

"What? No, believe me, we shouldn't be friends." Squall quickly replied.

"Oh, no. You're not getting away from me that easily Squall" Rinoa said back with her smile turning into a big grin.

Just then Dr. Kadowaki walked in to treat Rinoa and Squall took that as the perfect chance to leave. Just as he was walking out the door, Rinoa called out to him saying "I'll see you later Squally" and after flushing another shade of red, Squall almost slammed the door and walked back to his dorm room. He didn't want to go to the rest of his classes; he just wanted to be alone.

After getting back, Squall walked in just in time to her his phone ring but he didn't answer it. Instead he lied down on his bed and began to brood. But the phone kept ringing, clearly the person on the other end knew Squall well enough to know that he never picks up his phone unless he has to. Just wanting the ringing to stop, he picked up the phone, hit talk and with everything nasty he could shove into one word, he said "What?"

"Hiya Squall, how's Balamb Garden treatin' you?" said an energetic voice from the other end.

"Well enough to make me want to leave this place and never come back" Squall muttered, recognizing the voice on the other end.

"C'mon now Squall, it can't be THAT bad" the voice said, "I know Cid personally and he assured me that you'd fit right in there".

"Well I'm not, okay?!? Everyone around here is a bunch of annoying amateurs and there is this girl that keeps following me day and night who I swear has the goal to kill me by annoying me!" Squall said back, clearly losing his temper.

The voice on the other end didn't say anything else and took a good lone ten second pause before saying in a really teasing voice, "Squall's got a girlfriend, Squall's got a girlfriend"

While the voice on the other end kept reaping those words in a very teasing sort of way, Squall said very warningly "I'm hanging up".

The voice on the other end knew not to try Squall's patience too much and then said in all seriousness, "Okay well I just thought you'd like to know that Ellone is starting to feel better. The doctors are telling me she can come home next week".

Ellone, Squall's sister, was the only reason why he was at Balamb Garden in the first place but as much as he hated Garden, he never once regretted his decision that put him there. He loved his sister to death and wouldn't let anyone harm her.

"Good to know" Squall said.

"And wait 'till I tell her you have a girlfriend Squall" he said going back to teasing, "she's not going to believe me".

"Hanging up now" Squall said not as a warning but as a promise and while still able to hear another chorus of "Squall's got a girlfriend" he hit the end button on the phone, put it back into its receiver, and laid back down on his bed. And for the first time, he fell asleep, thinking about Rinoa.

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After leaving the infirmary, Rinoa felt really tired and decided to go back to her room and get some sleep as Dr. Kadowaki recommended. Though she didn't feel the pain in her arm while she was with Squall, after he left, the pain sharply came back, and if it weren't for the pain killers the Doctor had given her, she might of started screaming right there in the hallway. She walked into her room where Selphie was there waiting for her.

"Oh man, are you alright? I heard you tried the gunblade and were attacked by a T-Rexuar, I can't believe you survived with just a broken wrist. I've heard of there being nothing left of people after a T-Rexuar was through with them, except for their blood soaking everywhere" Selphie said showing that she clearly had one too many coffees that morning.

"Yeah, Squall saved me" Rinoa said and after noticing Selphie's face light up at Rinoa mentioning Squall's name and her preparing to ask a really embarrassing question to her, Rinoa quickly added, "But the doctor told me to get some sleep, so I am".

"Aww Rinny, you're no fun" Selphie said clearly disappointed.

Rinoa muttered a quick sorry and walked into her bedroom and shut the door. Though she was in pain, the painkillers seemed to have a sedative effect and Rinoa quickly found herself asleep.

"Rin honey, everything is going to be okay. I love you"

"What, Mom? Is that you?

"Rin, I'm going to need you to run, okay?

"Mom, I'm not leaving you"

"When I say run, you need to go and not look back. You can't let him catch you, promise me"

"I promise but Mom, what's going on? Who's after us?

"Rin, he's here! Run, RUN NOW!"

"Mom, no NOOOO!!!"

And as Rinoa saw her mother's own blood fly up after being shot in the throat, she looked over to see the shooter. A man, covered in a shroud of black walked over to her now dead mother to confirm the deed was done and then noticed Rinoa.

"There you are you whore's daughter"

And with that Rinoa woke up in a scream.

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Confused yet? Hehe, yup this is where the mystery aspect is going to start to come in for sure. Thanks for reading and I hope to get the next chapter up in a couple of days, cheers!