~*~Chapter Seven~*~
Black






Quistis was awakened the next morning by the sound of the fax machine rining. She jumped up from the couch realizing that she had fallen asleep there. She rushed over the the fax and quickly pressed the recive button. She was greeted promptly with a picture of Seifer Almasy spitting out. She held it in her hand, as a thin smile spread across her face.

It was taken long before he had turned agaisnt them all. He looked youthful, with his smirk. The scar across the brisge of his nose was very prominate. She sighed and left the fax machine to do the rest of the job while she hopped in the shower.

Drying her hair with a towel, she returned to the living room. Her long pink robe trailed behind her as she spread out all the information across the dinning table. She sat down in one of the red upulstored chairs and crossed her long legs.

She sighed picking up the page of Seifer's file. It gave her detailed reports about where he live, what job he held. Raijun and Fuijun were living with him, working as well. He had made no attempt to contact Garden, and they hadn't let him know they were keeping tabs. He was considered harmless now, broken, a tool that had been used and tossed aside.

Seifer truely had always been her favorite student. Even though he was the reason she had lost her license. She understood that she had failed him, not the other way around. He had always been such an enigma to her. The only student she had never been able to figure out. She looked down at the report of Seifer's lifestyle now. It seemed so unlike him to live in peaceful FH. SHe shook her head and sighed outloud. If he was spossed to be in FH, then who was that at the lab. She stodd up streaching, like a cat in the morning sun. She walked into the bed room to get ready to go.

The stars were tinkling over Esthar when she decided to enter the lab. Dr. Odine should be gone for the night by now. It was eriely silent as she walked through the corridor to the lab. The white lights lining the hallway, were dimly lit. She walked passed offices and rooms were people worked silently. She took the keycard from her pocket and slid it into the flashing comcenter on the wall beside the huge lab door.

It slid open, the huge lab lit only by the blue glow of the time compression machine below. She walked to the huge glass wall looking down at the Seifer look alike below. She turned and walked down the flight of stairs to the huge metal door the led into the lowered room. Another comcenter waited for her. She took a deep breath and slid the ID card though. The door opened slowly allowing her into the deep room. She walked slowly over to Seifer stopping a few feet from his table.

He was breathing, evenly but shallow. Pads were stuck to his temples and his bi-ceps. His eyes were closed, long lashes resting on his cheekbones. He was thinner then she remembered. His strong cheek bones even more pronounced. He was muscualr still, all his years of hard traning hadn't let him. The scar that streached across the bridge of his noze was still prominante.

She turned sharply then eyeing the Time Compression Machine. She walked across the metal floor. She stood before the huge metal machine. The controls and dials flashed at he. She set the proper cordinated and pushed open the huge door. She stepped into the cyllinder of the machine, her heart pounding agaisnt her ribs. She slowly pulled the door closed behind her, latching it shut. The red button on the inside of the machine screamed at her to be pressed. She took a deep breath, then pushed it solidly. A bright white light flashed around her as the whole machine seemed to spin.

She fell back agaist the metal wall, as the world around her went black.



A/n: My proof reader is out of town, I did my best but if you catch any huge mistakes let me know. Thanks!
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