Chapter six is here!! It has a tiny bit of a songfic in it but goes back to fic...Fic fic, yeah that's it. And the first person to get the connection with this and the past will be featured in this story later in an upcoming chapter. This contest is only avalible for chapters six and seven so if chapter eight comes out and you get what it is then too bad! Okay ffviii belongs to Squaresoft blah blah blah, and I don't own the song "Heart and Soul", you get the point. Read and review thanx!!


Chapter6: Heart and Soul


Quistis lay in the bed on the second floor of the little house in Winhill thinking to herself how she possibly got in this situation. How the hell did she start to fall in love with Seifer of all people?! He was arrogant, irresponsible, unreasonable, and dangerous! She did want to think about it anymore, so she turned on the radio.


*Hello all you oldies fans, this is KPN 100.81 playing only your favorite hits from those golden years.*


Quistis sighed at least it wasn't a boy band radio station.


*Now here is one that I'm sure you'll all remember. Its a little ditty titled 'Heart and Soul'*


"This should be good," Quistis spoke out load expecting something cheesy. But you really have to ask yourself who doesn't know the song 'Heart and Soul'? Well Quistis didn't so she just expected something stupid and cheesy.



*Heart and soul I fell in love with you,
Heart and soul just like a fool would do,
Madly, because you held me tight and stole a kiss in the night*



Sure Seifer was a wanted criminal, but it wasn't really his fault, was it? How could he stop himself from getting possessed its not like there is any magic to stop that kind of thing from happening. He couldn't be all that bad if he risked is hide to just come and talk to her.


"Hyne the way he spoke, why couldn't I have been awake for this whole thing?" she was in stage two now, yearning, stage one was denial and she was past that.



*Heart and soul I begged to be adored,
Lost control and tumbled overboard,
Gladly that magic night we kissed,
In the moon mist*


Everybody had somebody Quistis wanted somebody too, but no she was to stubborn. So she buried herself with work, four classes a day was no easy thing for a human being. She was so close to losing control of her life that if she had to report a field exam status to Headmaster Cid one more time she might just snap!


In a way Quistis was asking for this whole ordeal, or at least in her opinion she was. She was a good person with limitations, didn't Hyne realize that? Obviously he did by having her 'kidnapped' and taken away to this small little town that had no expectations of her that she couldn't possible fulfil.


Maybe Seifer new what it was like, he had always been somewhat at the top of his class. It seemed to come naturally. Quistis didn't see the communication tower incident as necessarily a bad thing, it showed leadership that just needed to be improved. He was expected to screw up and so people took it as screwing up.



*Oh, but your lips were thrilling,
Much too thrilling,
Never before were mine so strangely willing*



Quistis wondered to herself if she was awake would she have stopped Seifer from kissing her? She could imagine the way she could have felt at the time. First she would have been uncertain but then she would have given in because this was something she never had.
"What we don't have we long for," she sighed.

*But now I see what one embrace can do,
Look at me it's got me loving you,
Madly, that little kiss you stole,
Held all my heart and soul*

The song ended on that note and left Quistis with a feeling that it wasn't just coincidence that song was playing. Because that little kiss Seifer stole, apparently did hold all of her heart and soul. She turned off the radio and fell into a peaceful sleep.




"Beautiful story headmaster now if you'll excuse me I have class to go to," he got up and headed towards the door.


"Not so fast," Cid gave him a stern look.


"Okay I'll go slower," he walked in a mimicking slow motion pace.


"Take a seat now," Riley reluctantly sat back down and slouched in the chair.


"Alright so they were both asleep safe and sound until a load roar fell upon the little town...




"What the hell?!" Quistis shot up from her sleep and looked out the window, it was a Ruby Dragon in the little town square. "Great, just great,"


She ran downstairs and picked up her Save the Queen, Seifer was still asleep. She slapped him on the head to wake him up and he did.


"What?! I'm awake, I'm awake," he stood up seemingly a little paranoid and then relaxed when he remembered where he was.


"Come on the town is being attacked by a Ruby Dragon and nobody here can fight," she grabbed his sleeve and pulled him out the door to where the dragon was. Thus began the fight. "You got anything junctioned?!"


"I got some magic, don't worry I'll draw some!" he shouted back while avoiding swipes from the dragon. Quistis had Siren and Cactar junctioned to her with a good supply of magic.


"Alright," she concentrated for a few seconds and cast 1000 Needles on the Ruby Dragon which took away six thousand of its HP. Seifer drew eight meteors from it and then cast triple on himself. Quistis decided to cast Siren this time to silence the monster, but the dragon was not effected by Siren's silence.


"Triple Meteor!" Seifer cast the spell of course he couldn't quite tell how badly the dragon was harmed by the spell because meteor has different outcomes each time. But now it was the Ruby Dragons turn to attack and he did with an immense meteor attack to mimmic Seifer's. Seifer jumped in front of Quistis to block the attack from hitting her, allowing him to lose a lot of his HP.


"Seifer!" Quistis saw him stagger to the left of the monster. "Hold on I'll cast Curaga," but before she could the dragon swiped at Seifer and made contact. Seifer flew to the sidelines unconscious, blood starting to drip from his rib area.


"Seifer!," Quistis called again and then turned her attention to the Ruby Dragon. She wasn't able to run but she had to get to Seifer before it was to late.


To Be Continued, I know I'm so mean.