1. Hatred
Rinoa opened her eyes. "What had happend?" she looked around to see where she was, but she
couldn't see anything, her vision was to blurred.
"Where am I" she whispered trying to get up. "Squall…?" Rinoa tried to get up, but felt a
stinging pain in her side an actually no feeling beneath the waist.
Rinoa cried onto the sand beneath her. "Help me…somebody…" she lost conciousness again.
~*~Flashback~*~
"A new terror has struck Deling City. The new anti-sorceress group has attacked the Caraway
mansion. Many soldiers have lost their lives trying to protect the mansion and the General.
To all's relieve, the General managed to escape. We still don't know why, the reason remains
secret keep lives save in the future. The anti-sorceress calls out to the people of the world to
deliver them the sorceress Rinoa, who to them seems as an obvious threat to the world. Many
people joined the group, people who have expierenced the wrath of the sorceress that came
before Rinoa Heartilly. The anti-sorcere…" Squall turned off the television set he was
watching. "Sorceress Rinoa…there is no such thing as Rinoa being a threat..there just isn't.."
he sat down on his bed, holding his head in his hands like he used to.
"My sweet angel, she must feel terrible.." Squall stood up, determined to find his love.
He walked down the hallway, trying to find her. "Have you seen Rinoa?" Squall kept asking
the students who were walking around. Most of them answered no, until he found Quistis.
"I believe I saw her heading for the training center" she replied to his question. "You shouldn't
go after her you know, she can take care of herself. Just leave her alone for a while,
come..share some time with me" Quistis offered.
"Whatever…" Squall took off, heading for the training center.
Once there he did not see what he thought he would see, he had thought Rinoa would be there,
fighting off her frustration, as she used to do, but the training center was empty, there was no
one at all!
Squall walked around, qurious if Quistis was lying, was Rinoa really there?" he did not find
her, around the training center, but realised she could be somewhere else…in the secret area maybe.
Squall ran towards the secret area entrance, but stopped when he wanted to enter.
"Oh Hyne..this isn't at all what I wanted, don't they know I don't want to hurt anyone? Don't
they know I'm peacefull?" Squall heard his angel cry on the other side of the door.
"People get killed because of me, maybe I should give myself in with them…but I'll die…
Squall…" On the other side of the door Squall felt his heart ache as she so sadly called out his name.
"I just can't leave him..I know he isn't that nice to me, people think I deserve a man who
showes his love..but I know he does love me, I know and probably no one else knows him the
way I do. I love him!!! And…I just can't leave him.." Rinoa said out loud to the stars, as if they
could give her advice on what to do.
Squall felt terrible, "she's right…I'm not the perfect man, I nearly even talk to her, not
mentioning being romantic and all.." softly Squall opend the door and saw Rinoa standing on
the edge of the balcony, glancing into the night.
Slowly and as quiet as he could be he walked over to her. He moved his arms to her and
embraced her. Rinoa was startled by the sudden touch of someone, but soon realised it was
Squall.
Rinoa broke out into sobs, turning around in his embrace. "Why Squall, why?! I don't want
anyone to hate me.." she cried onto his chest, wetting his white shirt.
"You know I love you Rinoa.." Squall said without thinking. Rinoa looked up and her tear
streaked face seemed to lighten up. "What did you say?" she asked in disbelieve.
"Why did I say that? DID I say that?" Squall thought to himself, "I..I think I said I love you"
he stammered, also in disbelieve. "You truly said something about your feelings…really?"
Squall nodded, "What the heck, no use in pretending, I DO love her, she's all I have and I don't
want her to be sad. I don't want her to believe I don't care for her, I want to be the perfect man
for her". "Yes, I love you Rinoa, just wanted to let you know…." Rinoa layd down her head
on his chest again, now tears streamed because of happiness, not sadness.
"I love you too Squall…oh how I do love you.." Rinoa sighed in his embrace.
For a minute there she actually forgot about all the trouble outside Garden, all the hatred that
was out there…
"Come, let's go to bed.." Squall finally spoke. Rinoa nodded and got out of Squall's embrace,
wiping away her tears. "Thank you Squall, I needed that". Squall smiled at her, "Owh! That
smile!" Rinoa said. Squall looked at her in a way that made her laugh. "That smile, you smiled
to me..the same way as you did on the celebration ball about three months ago!" she explained.
Squall turned back to her, the same smile appeared again. "You mean..when This happend?"
Squall took Rinoa's hand, pulling her into his embrace. He lowered his face to hers and kissed
her like he had done before…..
It seemed like forever that they stood there, kissing each other.
Squall broke the kiss and looked into Rinoa's shining face. She giggled, "remember when we
stopped back then? How everyone was watching us?".
Squall laughed too, "Was that ever imbarecing" they walked back to the exit of the Training Center.
Suddenly a silence fell as they kept on walking. Rinoa felt a flood of depression come over her
again, she kept reminding herself she was the cause of the deaths.
Squall looked at her and saw how her expression went sad again. "What should I do? I bet
she's blaming herself again..but……should I..?" he wondered.
Squall walked a little closer to her and a little scared of her reaction he put his arm around her
shoulders. Rinoa looked up, seeing his face trying to cheer her up. She smiled sadly at him,
knowing he just had the best intentions.
A little later they arrived at the dormitory, Rinoa and Squall stopped in front of Squall's dorm.
"So..goodnight I guess.." Rinoa wanted to walk on to her own dorm, but a strong hand
holding hers stopped her.
"Stay here for the night…" Squall asked carefully. "With you? You sure you want me in your
bed?" Rinoa joked.
"Sure, things that you can cuddle belong in bed right?" he pulled a giggling Rinoa into his
dorm, closing the door behind him. Squall let himself fall onto the bed, Rinoa falling on top of him.
He smiled at her, "I really do care for you.." he whispered as they got into another firely kiss.
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