Disclaimer: I only own Hannah, Vision and five dollars... Wait, no... checks wallet Hannah and Vision. That's all.

A/N: Soooooo sorry for the long wait, but finally, after high demand (tch, yeah right...) here's the next and final chapter of 'Silent Witness'!!

Rinoa immediatly felt sick. She pulled back from the edge and sat down on her knees. Zell on the other hand couldn't tear his eyes from the horrid sight. A small ledge was jutting out from the side of the cliff that faced the sea. Lying on that ledge, bloodied and mangled, was the body of a man, not appearing to be more than thirty years of age. A small dagger lied near the body. Soon, everything came together, for Rinoa at least.

"Vision brought a dagger to Squall's feet a few nights ago," Rinoa told Zell, still sounding distant. "This must be why."

Zell finally turned away from the horrible scene and looked over at Rinoa. He scooted towards her and put his arm around her shoulder. "Hey Rin... it's okay," he told her gently.

"But I don't understand... What does this have to do with Squall? What does any of this have to do with him??" Rinoa sounded more angered and frustrated than scared now. She looked around to see Vision was gone again. He disappeared just like he always did whenever they were confused. He only taught them so much and then left them completely puzzled.

"Was Hannah stabbed to death?" Zell asked.

Rinoa thought a moment. "I don't know... Squall never said how she died, but on that letter Headmaster Cid gave him, it said she was brutally murdered. But still... This doesn't make sense at all!"

"Come on. Let's go back to Garden and report this. Maybe Squall knows something yet that you don't." Zell helped Rinoa to her feet and they began to make their way back down the cliff.

Squall heard the story, twice in fact, but he didn't understand the connection either. What did a man who had apparently stabbed himself to death have anything to do with him? He even thought that maybe that man was the one who killed Hannah, but that didn't make sense because why would he have done it?

"What do you think Squall?" Rinoa asked softly.

"I honestly have no idea..." Squall held his chin in his hand as if he were running all the information over and over again in his mind.

Zell spoke up this time. "What about the police? They're up there investigating now. Maybe they'll find something out?" he suggested.

Squall didn't respond right away. "The police won't find anything different than what you two saw."

Rinoa and Zell exchanged an alomst puzzled glance. "What do you mean? They can test and find out who this guy is. Maybe he'll even turn out to be connected to your sister somehow," Rinoa told him.

Squall shook his head. "No... There's only one person that knows what exactly's going on here..." He looked up at the pair. "Vision."

"Squall... Let's get serious, man," Zell told him. "I mean... a wolf knows something that even the cops don't? That's a little farfetched Squall."

Squall's turned angry. "Hey, Vision's the one who led us there in the first place! He's the one who dropped that knife at my feet. He's the one who kept showing up ever since I found out about Hannah! You think that's farfetched Zell? Well if you're not gonna help me figure this out, I'll do it myself." Squall swung his legs over the side of the Infirmary bed and stalked away, despite Rinoa's pleas for him to lie back down and rest.

Squall slowly ambled through the grassy field near the cliff. He stood there and just gazed up at the looming, rocky structure and sighed. "Vision... can't you just make this easy and tell me what's going on?" He saw figures at the top of the cliff and figures at the foot. The police were there taking the body away and investigating, but they'd never find anything. Not anything they didn't already know anyway. Only Vision knew, as he said before. But Vision was like a ghost, only making small baby steps towards helping him solve this mystery.

Slow, stalking footsetps, or in this case pawsteps, sounded behind him and he spun around, only to see that beautiful creature once again. "Vision..." he murmured as a small smile spread across his lips. "Can you tell me what's going on? ...Simply?"

The wolf howled as it usually did and then stared him straight in the eyes. His eyes seemed to glow as Squall gazed deeper and deeper into them. Soon, the glowing light engulfed him and he was swept away into a vision...

"Hannah, you can't just walk away like this!" The man from the ledge walked hurriedly behind the fifteen year old girl. He caught up to her and put a hand on her shoulder.

"Caden, I don't wanna talk to you! Get out of here now!" Hannah yelled as she shook his grasp off.

"Hannah, I love you..." Caden said quietly.

Love? My teenage sister was going out with a grown man? Squall thought. Thinking about it disgusted him.

Hannah turned to face Caden, her eyes burning wildly. "Well I don't love you Caden! Now just... just leave me alone!" Hannah turned back around and began walking away from him. Caden reached into his pocket for something, which turned out to be the same dagger that Vision had brought to Squall previously. Caden grabbed Hannah by the back of the neck and dragged her into a nearby alleyway.

"You don't love me Hannah?!" he exclaimed crazily.

"Caden... Don't..." Hannah pleaded as tears welled up in her eyes. "We can work it out, I promise..."

Caden chuckled sinisterly. "Work it out? Oh yeah, Han... we can work it out..." He raised his arm that held out the knife and brought it down hard into Hannah's chest.

"No!!!!" Squall screamed. The vision ended and Squall found himself back in the field with Vision. Talk about a pun Squall thought as he gripped his skull. "That was that man from the cliff..." Vision almost seemed to nod. "So he did kill Hannah... But... Why is he dead?"

Vision howled again, and Squall was enveloped in another vision. This time, it was at the ledge on the cliff. Caden stood there, tears streaming down his face. He held the same knife in his hand.

What's he doing...? Squall wondered. He saw Caden's mouth moving but he couldn't make out what he was saying. Everything seemed to be in slow motion. He watched as Caden lifted the knife and plunged it into his own body. That's when the second vision ended abruptly.

"So he killed himself because he felt bad for doing what he did?" Squall asked the wolf. Vision's eyes glistened, and Squall took it as a yes. "How do you know all this? And... and why are you telling me?"

Vision gazed up into the sky, which was already dark. There were no clouds in the entire sky except for a few small ones. Squall looked up as well. The clouds seemed to be shifting although there was no wind, not even a breeze. Squall squinted even harder as the clouds seemed to actually form letters. He read the words that formed. "Silent witness..." He looked back down to find Vision had disappeared.

Squall lied in bed that night. For the first time in a few days, he was relaxed enough to actually be able to begin drifting off into peaceful slumber. Just as his eyes shut, the sound of Vision howling filled the night air. This time though, the howling was different. It was no longer mournful or dperessing. It was proud and joyous. Squall didn't feel haunted by it anymore. In fact, the melodious howling was what helped him fall asleep.

THE END