A/N: Thanks so much to all who've reviewed so far. Especially "stop raping canon". He (or she) said that my Mary Sue was showing. I had to Google that term to read what it meant and it isn't good lol. It's almost impossible to have an original character that ISN'T a Mary Sue lol. But, I will pay closer attention to Suiko and try to have that balance that's needed so she can be a (hopefully) great character. Please continue the reviews so I know where I am failing and what I'm doing right.
Chapter 9: Willing Hostage
I slowly woke up and blinked with the brightness of the room. I turned my head and saw that I was in the Infirmary. I recognized it from the game when Squall was there at the beginning. I sat up and looked around at my surroundings, which were only of the cloth-like cubicle. I stood and glided the rings holding the curtain back so I could go into the main room. Dr. Kadowaki turned her gaze to some papers and saw me. "Ah, you're awake."
"What happened?" I asked as I ran my fingers through my hair. I looked down to see that I still wore the dress from the ball last night.
"Squall said you were knocked out by a monster," Dr. Kadowaki answered. "How are you feeling?"
"I'm feeling okay now, thanks," I gave a smile. Then I remembered that there was sunlight coming in through the window. That meant it was the day after the ball...which meant that Seifer would be joining Edea today! "Where's Seifer?"
"I heard he was being held up in the disciplinary room for disorderly conduct," she replied.
"I need to see him right now!" I told her a little too forcefully. "It's very important that I do!"
"I'm sorry, but Seifer isn't allowed to have visitors," Dr. Kadowaki said.
"Oh...okay," I told her. "Is it safe for me to go now?"
"Yes, go ahead."
I walked as calmly as I could out of the Infirmary, but once I left the room, I ran full speed down the adjoining hallway that connected to the main hallway of Garden. I didn't know where this room was, but I needed to try and calm Seifer down. I was in luck when I saw Quistis getting out of the elevator. She began decending the steps calmly, which must have meant Seifer was still contained. "Quistis!" I shouted as I got closer to the elevator.
"Yes?" she turned to me.
"I need to see Seifer right now!" I exclaimed.
"I'm sorry, but..." she didn't finish because I interrupted.
"He's about to break out of the disciplinary room! He's going to hurt a lot of people!" I responded. She raised an eyebrow calmly and was about to say something, but I beat her to it. "I don't have time to explain, but he's going to try and go after Squall and the others!"
Her face contorted to one of surprise. Something I said probably reminded her of whatever it was that Seifer told her in the game. She did tell Squall that Seifer was mad because Cid only sent three SeeDs for the mission. "Follow me," she went back to the elevator and pushed the button. I tapped my foot nervously while we waited for the elevator to show up. Once it did, we quickly got in.
It seemed like forever before the elevator finally went down and stopped. It turned out, the disciplinary rooms were down in the basement. I didn't need to ask for directions because I could hear Seifer's voice echoing around the large chamber. I rushed out of the elevator and ran as fast as I could with the help of Seifer's voice. Once I got there, Seifer was yanking on the jail-like bars of the door. "Why the fuck did I get stuck in this shit hole for?!" Seifer shouted angrily.
"Seifer calm down!" I told him as loud as I could over his yelling.
"Oh great! What the fuck is she doing here?!" he snarled.
"You need to calm down..." I started.
"I don't need to calm the fuck down bitch!" he shouted. I felt a pang of hurt after he called me that...but I knew he was just venting. "I need to be with...!"
"Squall and the others will do fine without you!" I shouted back.
"How the fuck...?!"
"Remember, I know what's going to happen before they happen! And if you try and get involved things will only get worse!" I argued back.
"I don't give a flying fuck what happens!! They need my help!!"
"No they don't! The best thing for you is to...!"
Seifer let out a roar and hit the bars with his gloved hand. "Shut the fuck up!!"
"Fine," I glared at him as he did the same to me. I turned to one of the SeeDs stationed on the opposite side of the room and told him, "Unlock the door and let him out."
"We can't do that miss," he said.
"He is going to find a way to break out anyway and he will end up hurting people. It is best if he is let out now before that happens," I replied sternly.
"We have our orders," came the response of a second male SeeD.
I turned back to Seifer and told him, "If they let you out, you can't go to Timber and help the others."
"I can do whatever the fuck I want!"
"It'll be too late by the time you get there!" I argued.
"I need to leave now and catch up to them!" Seifer ranted.
"Why do you have to be so stubborn Seifer?" I asked as I ran both hands through my hair in annoyance. "You listen to me," I walked closer to the door and met his gaze. "If you go, you will only make things worse..." he was about to interrupt me but I continued, "Do you want Galbadia to launch missiles at this Garden and Trabia Garden? Because that will happen if you go."
I reached out to touch his gloved hand, but he grabbed my wrist and yanked my hair. I screamed out because it hurt and before I knew it, I felt the blade of a knife against my throat. I took short sharp breaths from fear as I eyed the knife. "If you don't let me out now, I'll kill her!"
"Seifer, you don't want to do this!" I pleaded.
"Shut the fuck up!!" he yelled in my ear and he pulled my hair harder.
"Let the girl go Almasy," one of the SeeDs ordered. Four more SeeDs came out from nowhere and they all surrounded the cell. "You're not going to hurt her."
I felt the cold metal glide across my throat. I thought he had only done that for effect, but then I felt something warm run down my neck. "Shit! He's about to kill her! Get him out of there!"
I watched as another SeeD strode toward the door and I heard the click of a lock. She opened the door wide and Seifer forced me to walk forward until he was out. He walked backwards with me still in his cruel embrace and the knife still at my throat. My heart raced because I knew Seifer was the kind of person who would kill someone to get his way. Quistis walked towards us a safe distance away and when Seifer stopped, Quistis stopped about ten feet away. I heard the ding of the elevator and I watched as the glass walls passed me. The door shut and we began our ascent up. "Seifer..." I whispered.
"If I have to tell you to shut the fuck up one more time I'll kill you right now!!" he yelled.
"You need me alive," I replied cautiously. "How many times have I been right about the things that are happening recently?"
"You don't know what the fuck you're talking about!"
"How do I know about your romantic dream then?!" I asked.
"Everyone has romantic dreams you idiot!"
"Not everyone wants to become a Sorceress' Knight!" I told him. "And have you told anyone before you told Squall?" I didn't let him reply to that. "And you know Squall isn't someone who goes around telling people stuff that isn't any of their business!"
"There's a first for everything," was his snide comment.
"You know Squall better than that," I replied. I wanted to look at his face to see his expression, but his knife was still at my throat.
"What the hell do you mean by that?" he asked.
"He's your rival for one. Second of all, you grew up together at the orphanage and he's been in a bad mood ever since Ellone went missing."
"Not many people know about that," Seifer said quietly.
"I'm not an ordinary person," I replied back.
"We're almost to the first floor so shut up," Seifer ordered. "You're gonna get me out of Garden." He tightened his hold around my waist and put a little more pressure against my throat with the knife.
"Just be gentle with me and I'll go willingly," I said uncertainly. Seifer kept silent behind me as the door of the elevator dinged. I was going to try and keep Seifer from joining Edea, so maybe if he thought he could trust me, he'd stay with Squall and the others. Probably unlikely, but I could at least try.
Seifer pushed his body against mine to force me to move forward. I tried to walk carefully down the stairs because of my high heels, but that was nearly impossible with Seifer rushing me. A few of the older cadets started toward us, but Seifer shouted, "Stay the fuck away if you don't want me to kill her!"
They all looked at each other and I could see by their faces that they were debating what to do. "Just let us pass and please don't follow us!" I told them. "I'll be fine!" I gave a pained yelp as Seifer gripped my wrist in a vice-like hold and pulled me after him as he ran towards the Library. I tried to keep up as best I could but my heels were making it very hard to run. We ran past the Library and I knew then that he was headed toward the Garage area.
I heard running footsteps behind us and I turned my head to see that the cadets from before were giving chase. I was surprised by Seifer again when he yanked my body so he was behind me again and the knife was back at my throat. "I'm fucking warning you...stay the fuck away from me!" He forced me to back up slowly as we went into the Garage and the cadets didn't move. When I couldn't see them anymore, I felt the knife being pulled away from my throat and Seifer's hand hovered very close to it. I felt something warm and tingly after he did that and that really scared me. My heart sped up in my chest because I thought he might end up killing me after all. Seifer grabbed my wrist again and pulled me to one of the SUVs. "The glove box has napkins in it. Wipe the blood off of you. I don't need anyone stopping us if they see you bleeding."
"What was the warm feeling just now?" I asked as Seifer opened the passanger side door.
"I used a Cure on you. The last thing I need to for anyone getting suspicious when we get to Balamb. Now get in. If you even think about getting out of this fucking car, I'm going to cast Fire on you," he threatened. I got in all the way and when Seifer saw that I was in, he slammed the door angrily.
I opened up the glove compartment and took out a small package of tissues. I opened it and flipped the sun visor down so I could look at myself in the small mirror. I hastily wiped the blood off my neck and collarbone. I saw that the blood was in a straight line with some beaded below it. Seifer got in and slammed his own door before he turned the key in the ignition. "I'm not leaving your side Seifer," I told him. "I'm not letting that Sorceress get you."
"What the fuck are you talking about?" he spat as he began to pull out of the Garage.
"The Sorceress will want you to join her side," I answered.
Before he could reply, the back door opened and we heard a voice, "Hey stop!"
Seifer slammed on the breaks yelling, "What the fuck?!" before he turned around. "Raijin?"
"We wanna go too ya know? We're a posse!" Raijin's large frame entered into the vehicle and Fujin followed suit. Fujin shut the door and Seifer started driving again.
"Maybe they can talk some sense into you," I told Seifer as I looked at him.
"Hey! If I'm going to be given a chance to be a Sorceress' Knight like you said I am, I'm taking it!" Seifer replied.
"No you're not!" I said through clenched teeth.
"Who're you to order me around?!"
"I'm only thinking about trying to keep you safe!"
"It's my romantic dream to be a Knight to a Sorceress!" Seifer told me again.
That's when I realized there was something I could do to keep Seifer from making the mistake of his life. He wanted a Sorceress? I'll give him a Sorceress, even if it wasn't true. "Then be my Knight," I replied. Seifer started laughing after I said that. "Why are you laughing?"
"You ain't no Sorceress!"
"How do you know that I'm not?" I countered.
"Because you let a lousy Grat knock your ass out last night!" he countered back.
"I wasn't trying to fight a Grat! It was a Grandaldo!" I argued. Then I added, "A Grandaldo with four Ranoldos."
"And what was it you were trying to prove?" he asked mockingly.
"I wasn't trying to prove anything! Ellone was being attacked!"
Seifer shot a glance my way before asking, "Ellone? What the hell was she doing in the Training Center?!" Before I could answer, he yelled out. "Ellone! If she was there, why didn't Squall say anything about it to anyone?"
"Squall and Quistis don't remember Ellone. The GFs, remember?" I pointed out. Before Seifer could say anything else, I went back to the issue at hand. "I want you to be my Knight Seifer."
"There's no fucking way I'll be your Knight! You're not a Sorceress!" he yelled.
"How do you know?!" I asked again.
"I already told you! You're too weak to be a Sorceress!" he answered.
"Oh, and does a Sorceress actually have to be good in battle?" I asked.
"Yes!"
"And that book you checked out of the Library say that's the case? There are more to Sorceresses than just the Maelstrom attacks and strong magic you know."
"Oh enlighten me," Seifer said in a sarcastic tone.
"Well, there are Sorceresses who can control other people..." I cut off to try and think fast about any other things I can counter Seifer's argument with. "Some Sorceresses can junction other people and also GFs to themselves to become more powerful...then there's the ability to know what's going to happen in the future before it happens."
Seifer turned his head to me and mockingly asked, "Like you huh? How convenient."
"As I asked earlier, have I been wrong once since you've seen me?" Seifer was about to answer before I cut him off again. "When you see Squall, ask him what happened on the Timber Owls' train. Ask him about the doppleganger posing as President Deling and how it turned out to be a monster. You can even ask him about riding on top of the trains so they could switch the President's car with a car of their own."
"Okay, I'll give you this. There is more to you than meets the eye. I know all about the plans for switching the cars...but I still don't believe you're a Sorceress," he told me. I gave a little smirk as I turned to look out of the passenger side window. I had to come up with a way to make Seifer believe me all the way. He'd get what he wants...or at least he'd think he is. And I get to keep Seifer by my side, at least a little while longer.