Here we are again my friends, and I am dreadfully sorry it took so long, I was just in such a writers block for this particular story and I do so hate being in a writers block. Oh yeah, I still do not own Squaresoft because I still don't have my pony or my husky named Sprinkles...Does anyone even read the disclaimers anymore? Oh the well I like to say, oh the well...See I'm grammatically incorrect! But the story shouldn't be so enjoy chapter five!


Chapter 5: More Dreams and Memories



There he was, one gunblade at his throat and a gun pointing at his head. He could see everything clearly but everything was still blurry in a way. Reality was something he didn't understand at the moment, mentally he had been stabbed in the back with everyone laughing...Laughing at his pain, the dreams that seemed so real, they laughed at him. Seifer couldn't breath, literally. He couldn't tell if this was real or not, so all the mental anguish he had suffered in that small time period was drowning him.


"Something's wrong..." Zell said in a shaken voice.


"I don't think he is breathing," Squall lowered his Lionheart and backed away. Quistis hurried over to the bedside and looked him in the eyes. Mentally she heard his voice ~this isn't real~ it seemed to sigh.


"Seifer!" she gently yet forcefully placed her hands on the side of his heads to make him see her. "Seifer snap out of it! This is real!" his eyes were fluttering a little. Quistis moved her head towards his ear and whispered to him. "Don't leave me, not yet dammit, after all of what you've been through you can't die from suffocation! Seifer..." her voice broke into a slight sob. "Not yet, its to quick...Everything is happening way to fast....Just breath...Please..."


"Quistis I don't think that there is much..." Squall began but was interrupted by a long breath. "Seifer!"


"Seifer!" she threw her arms around his neck tightly as if he might get away if she let go.


"Quisty....Air...." he gasped. She blushed and let go, nobody but the two know what Quistis had said but it would sure effect life for the two. He smiled at her but than his face went white in horror. "What happened?!"


"Huh?"


"What happened...What the hell did I do?!" h asked franticly.


"Well there was a blackout...And then there were bodies stacked in the fountain...Lots of blood too," Squall saw Seifer's terrified expression. "No no no no, you didn't kill anyone, those bodies were long dead, but somehow you got them there, but of course we know it wasn't you..."


"It was me...When I was the Knight..." suddenly he looked at Squall with a mixed expression. "You!"


"Yeah...Me..."


"You mother fucker stay away from me, this is all your fucking fault!" Seifer spat angrily.


"Seifer what are you talking about?!" Selphie jumped into the conversation.


"Ask him," he pointed towards the commander. "He is the one who knows where Ulticimia is right now! He is the one who put that damn voice in my head!"


"That's ridiculous!" Zell shot up out of his seat. Seifer glared at Zell.


"Oh yeah how do you explain my cracked ribs?!" Seifer had Quistis whisper something into his ear. "Broken ribs!"


"It...Uh..."


"It happened in my dream and he was the one who did it, him and that bitch!" Seifer was flaring with anger.


"You know I would never do that!" Squall argued but Seifer only mouthed something that nobody else caught. "That...That was an accident!"


"Was it really Squall?!!" nobody seemed to understand what they were talking about, Seifer smirked. "And I think they should know...When Squall and I were the last two at the orphanage, he did something really bad..."


"Seifer shut the hell up!" Squall lunged toward him but was held back by practically everyone.


"We had been really angry that everyone was separated, and it was our last night at the orphanage...We went to sleep as usual, but than in the middle of the night he woke me up...He had a gunblade, a really really old model called the Stinger. Well he had it raised and I tried to talk but he slapped his hand over my mouth and then he gutted me..."


"That can't be!" Irvine shouted. "Matron would never let any of us have weapons, remember!" of course Irvine had forgotten that Edea was in the room.


"It...It's true...I had to use all of my skill to re pare it and even then there was still a scar...He started two weeks late because of that..." she said in a disappointed voice. Everyone had a look of shock on their face.


"But...How could my Squall do that?" Rinoa whimpered.


"Rinoa...I was a little kid I didn't know..."


"Bull shit Squall! You were laughing! I remember it so clearly. You said 'sweet dreams' just like you did when you broke two of my ribs!" he accused Squall of many things throughout his time in the garden but this was the truth and everyone could hear it in his voice.


"Yeah...So what?! So what if I did that. IT WAS A LONG TIME AGO!!! I WOULD NEVER DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT AGAIN!!!"


"Prove it," was all Seifer had to say, he cast aside his mental distress because he finally got to say what he had been longing to say for all these years.


"...Whatever," Squall ran out the door even with everyone trying to hold him back. Rinoa ran out after him but everyone else stayed.


"Hyne," Seifer put his head in his hands.


"Seifer what's wrong?" Quistis whispered as everyone began to brake into chatter.


"I'm so sorry Quisty..." he sobbed.


"Sorry about what?" she asked bringing her eyebrows together.


"I'm sorry I forgot you..."


"You never forgot me..." she assured him.


"Yes I did, in the snow..." he wiped his eyes.


"What?...Oh, Seifer that was just a dream, it wasn't real!" she laughed even though it wasn't really the time.


"A....A dream....But it was real! I swear it was...Hyne," he began to cry again.


"He really hurt you didn't he?" she put a hand on his shoulder.


"He is killing me...He isn't here anymore but...But he's drowning me Quistis, I'm drowning," he was looking at her now. The angle which he had neglected for years...The only one who understood him...Why was this all happening so fast? It made no sense but for some reason it all just felt right.


"Alright I'm sure Seifer needs his sleep as do all of you, so I must ask a large favor of you Irvine," the headmaster had been speaking to all of them and Irvine lifted his head. "I need you to stay here and keep watch, just in case something might happen,"


"Sure," he smiled, he always tried to be as nice as he possibly could to Cid because it was he who allowed him to enter the garden.


"Alright then, everyone to your rooms, classes will be canceled and everyone needs to stay in their dorms until that mess is cleared out," Cid explained. Everyone exited, Quistis gave Seifer a kiss on the cheek and told him that she would call him from her dorm and left.



She tried to avoid the gory sight as she walked down the hall but found herself in a fast run to her dorm. She never really minded blood that much but that was just a sick sick sight. She jumped onto her bed panting, she was actually pretty tired. It was like old times when she worried about Seifer...Hm that's funny she never really realized that many of her sleepless nights were spent focusing on Seifer and what was going on with him. Quistis laughed lightly and closed her eyes where she drifted off to sleep....




...Quistis was standing on a grassy green hill at sunset, there was one solitary tree on the hill and there was a woman a little older than her, leaning against it. For some odd reason Quistis joined her and sat down.


"Oh, hello Quistis," the woman greeted her cheerfully. She had deep red colored hair like the sunset which was straight at the top and severely waved at the bottoms.


"How did you know my name?" Quistis asked.

"Lucky guess, you look like a Quistis," Quistis highly doubted this because who else had the name Quistis?


"Who are you?"


"I get called a lot of things but you," she looked Quistis over thoughtfully. "You can call me Phi," there was a slight silence. "I have been watching you, I know what troubles you, I am smarter than the average person".


"Oh yeah?" Quistis asked doubtfully.


"Uh hu, I know all about you and that Seifer," she said in a matter of factly voice.



"Than why? Why do I all of a sudden..." she stopped her self.


"All of a sudden...yes say it!" Phi insisted.


"Why do I lo...Like him?" Phi rolled her eyes at the woman next to her. She got up and wrapped her arms around the tree and leaned back.


"Oh just say it, you love him!" she laughed loudly.


"I wouldn't say that I..."


"Oh why is it that you people have such a hard time excepting these little details. Love, hate, fear, weakness. It's like a freakin' can of worms or something," she sat back down.


"Yeah whatever....But why?!!"


"He is in terrible distress did you know that? Or he will be very soon, and maybe he needs you, because you two will be each others only hope," Phi explained like she knew everything.


"Yeah right, and the next thing your going to tell me is that this was destiny and that its happening because it has too. And then you'll say that the Phoenix is behind this sudden surge of feeling between us to," Quistis chuckled sarcastically. Phi's eyes went wide and nervous, she laughed.


"Ha...Ha...Of course not...That is...So...Ridiculous...Ha...Ha..." she laughed more nervously but Quistis didn't notice {it is a dream} "Well you ought to be on your way, I think you've had enough advise for one day...Ha...Ha..." and with that Quistis woke up.



"What a weird dream"



To Be Continued