My newest DEFINATE chapter fic. Some of the ones I posted recently that were kinda one parters might turn into chapter ones but I'm still thinkin bout it. I wrote this fic after I got stitches after accidentally stabbing myself in the leg with scissors {don't ask}, school project nuff said? Well ffviii is owned by Squaresoft and not me...Because if it was there would be more of a Quiefer in the game because THEY ARE THE ULTIMATE COUPLE!!! Well enjoy and don't forget to read and review because it motivates me thannnxxx!


Out of Darkness
Chapter1: Questions


It was late at night and the stars were shimmering over him. The stars didn't judge him or hate him like everybody else seemed to. All Seifer ever wanted was to get his life back on track, but no people had to be insensible bastards. What had happened to him? Well, in the golden days he would go around smirking and bossing people around but not anymore, things had changed for the worse.


People just couldn't accept that he was possessed by one of Ultimecia's lackeys, Elvoret. If only he hadn't been defeated at the radio tower then his spirit wouldn't be able to enter Seifer's body. He had been deemed mentally imbalanced for quite some time, in other words he was crazy for a while...Who would have thought it would cause him to fall in love. Seifer smiled remembering the past events...



It was about two weeks after Ultimecia had been defeated. Everything had gotten sorted out and everyone was enjoying a well deserved vacation, except Quistis who decided that she only needed a few days to recuperate. Now she was in Esthar because of a certain patient at Eshar Physiological Facility.


Quistis walked in, she always hated hospitals, to white, to clean, to perfect except the people in it.


"I'm Quistis Trepe, from Balamb Garden, I was sent here in regards to Seifer Almasy," the nurse didn't even need to look it up on the computer.


"Thank Hyne, that man is one hell raiser I'll tell ya!" the woman pushed up her glasses as she opened the door marked "Caution".


"I know what you mean," Quistis gave a grave smile, she didn't know Seifer's exact condition but she did know that it wasn't good.


"Please follow me" the nurse led the way through the squeaky clean halls, passing doctors and nurses on the way. Finally they reached a room with the title "Observational Patient Facility". That sounded interesting.


"Ah, Miss Trepe, vat very good timing," the familiar voice of Dr. Odine came as she walked in. Sure enough there he was with his odd attire as usual.


"Doctor," she bowed in acknowledgement then directed her attention to the room that could be seen through what she guessed was a two way mirror. "Why exactly is this good timing?"


"Explain ze situation to her," he rather rudely instructed his assistant.


"Yes sir!" the assistant looked so smug with being given this important mission.


"So what is wrong with him?" Quistis was always straight to the point and never wanted a minute to be wasted.


"Well technically he is insane," his words surprised her.


"Insane?! Technically?" usually somebody was either insane or sane not technicaly anything.


"Okay here is the situation. Seifer himself isn't insane but it is the being that has control of him. Apparently that monster that was defeated on Dollet's communications tower was sent from Ultimecia..."


"How is that possible, Time travel isn't possible in that time, well without compression anyway," this was quite an odd revelation.


"This being, Elvoret is hundreds of years old and was contacted by Edea and well we aren't really sure why Elvoret sided with Ultimecia but we do know that in the future Elvoret is, or was Ultimecia's knight, literally," she wondered how they found all this out but didn't bother to ask.


"So when Ultimecia was defeated Elvoret went mad from the loss?"


"Exactly, and he is trapped in Seifer's body because of it."


"Where do I come into all of this?" it was all so confusing.


"Well we plan to exersise the demon, but in order to do that Seifer must have somebody to lead him back to his consciousness or when the demon is released he will just be in a catatonic state," he explained.


"But why me? Why not one of his best friends?" she was never to close to Seifer...Or was she?


"You have known him the longest or at least that's what our records say, you were the first two at the orphanage," she never knew that. "Are you willing to do this, remember if you don't he is as good as dead because he will definitely not be alive."


How could they expect her to be able to do this? Seifer tried to kill her on numerous occasions, but then again it wasn't him was it? Quistis had never thought of Seifer as a bad person, she thought he was merely lost in his own troubled way. She has always wanted to help him but every time she tried he brushed her off and she wasn't strong enough to take the blows, she would always get angry, she supposed it was his test.


"I need to think about it..I need to talk to somebody before I decide, It will only take a few hours can it wait until then?" she asked. The assistant looked to Dr. Odine who was obviously listening in on the conversation. He nodded in reply but it was an impatient nod. "Thank you."



Quistis saw Edea's house as the Ragnorak flew over the many islands of Centra. The person she needed to speak with was Edea, she always knew what to do.


"Quistis!" Edea hugged her warmly and told her to sit down. "Why is it you have come here?"


"Do you know about Seifer? I mean what they want me to do?" Edea nodded slowly. "I'm torn."


"How so?"


"He tried to kill everybody and practically destroy the words and I know that it wasn't really him but...It just feels awkward do you know what I mean?


"Yes, but are you sure the what you feeling id torn in that way?" she asked in an all knowing voice.


"What do you mean?"


"Maybe your torn because your worried..." Quistis interrupted Edea.


"Well I know that."


"Please let me finish, maybe your worried about him and what will happen when he tried to get back to his life. People will hate him and dislike him even while knowing the facts. I think the child in you that has been forgotten is trying to tell you something," Edea sipped a cup of tea she had made.


"Child? Ha, I think I never really was a child," Quistis barely remembered anything about her past.


"Yes unfortunetly you had a very short childhood," Edea looked down sadly for a moment."You grew up to fast...But what that child, that very small am bit that is in you, is trying to tell you that you are closer to Seifer then you think and that he deserves another chance."


"Yeah, I guess your right...What will he be like after the exorcism?" Quistis asked not knowing anything about this type of thing.


"Sad, lonely. Knowing Seifer, everything will shut down, physically and mentally. What he will need in that period of time is rest and a friend. The only other way to describe it is like being very sick...Yes Seifer will be ill. So my advice is that he shouldn't be exposed to the world to quickly."


"So basically stay in his room and get plenty of rest...Will he feel sick?" Quistis wasn't concerned or anything she just thought that she should know the facts.


"Extremely but that is just his way of recovering, to get it all out of his system the body will make itself physically ill in order to heal," Edea was so intelligent, Quistis always wondered how she knew so much.


"I'm sure Rajin and Fujin will be good company," she saw that Edea didn't want that by the look on her face. "What?"


"I think that it would be better if maybe you roomed with him, to take care of him almost," Quistis didn't like the sounds of this, not one bit.


"Why me?" she had never asked so many questions in her life.


"I think he'll feel more comfortable with you, because somewhere in his self conscious he will know that you led him back to reality," she knew Edea was right.


"Alright..." Quistis stood up as did the older woman.


"I'll have Cid arrange things for when you two return," she hugged Quistis.


"Thanks Matron," with that she left the orphanage and boarded the Ragnorak her mind still a bit wary but she knew what she had to do.


To Be Continued....