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Rinoa closed the door behind her, drying off her wet hair. She smiled, thinking of the faces Zell and Squall had given her. She sat down on the bed and stared out the window. For a moment there she felt the sadness flood her again, but she fought it bravely. Constantly thinking of what Squall had told her; "Everything will be alright, it'll all be over soon".

She sighed and looked around, trying to find the clothing she had dropped on the floor so nonchalant last night.

She found her blue cloak, hanging on the chair and bended over the bed, grabbing it.

When she pulled it towards her, she noticed a piece of paper under the chair.

She dropped her blue cloak and reached for the paper.

"Whats this? I don't remember Squall lingering around stuff…" she rolled over to her back and read the gigantic head lines.

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Rinoa ran out of the room, fighting the tears back. She felt awful, it was Her fault Zone and Watts were hurt, it was Her fault that all the people suffer so much, all Her fault! Rinoa kept blaming herself for what had happend. "Leader of Seed, he must kill me, Squall……." The words kept running through her mind, though she wasn't really certain she wanted to go away. One part of her wanted herself to be locked up, like a sorceress should be. She should be locked up and be studied. On the other side, she loved Squall, she Rinoa loved the people around her, could she really leave them?…she didn't know.

The ordeal in her head made the world around her spun, she just ran, not knowing what to do next…

Finally, after some time she plopped down on the floor in the Training Center. She knew it was the only place she could be alone for a while, dangerous though, but she was alone.

Rinoa felt like she had been stabbed with a thousand knifes. She felt terrible, alone, betrayed by the ones she thought were on her side…

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"What's taking Rinoa?" Squall wondered out loud. "You did take the paper with you right?" he looked at Zell worried, he couldn't imagine the pain she would be in if she found out. He'd rather tell her herself, so he could take care of her right away, take the blow together with her. Zell nodded, "Look here, got them right here" from one of the chairs who weren't taken, he grabbed the paper mess and showed it to Squall.

Squall nodded, "Guess it's that woman beauty making thing again".

"Hiya fellow's" Irvine walked towards them."What's up?" he asked. "Ehhhhm....you haven't read the paper yet?" Squall asked the cowboy.

Irvine sat down on the chair between Zell and Squall. "No, what did it say?" he tipped his hat up. "'Bout Rin?". Zell nodded, "I have it right here, wanna read it?" Irvine nodded and reached out his hand to recieve the paper.

Zell picked up the papers and dropped them on the table, looking for the front page.

"Ehmm...ehhh...it must be in here" he threw some papers on the floor. "It IS in there right?" Squall got nervous.

"Yeah, 'fcourse, I picked them all up" Zell replied. "Ehmmm........maybe not..." he finished, looking rather guilty.

"You Left It In My Dorm?!?" in his madness Squall threw the chair he was sitting on to the floor, running off to his dorm, hoping to catch Rinoa before she could read.

"Rinoa!" the door swung open, "Rin? You here?" Irvine had finally catched up, on they're way hearing the whole story. "Rinoa!!!" Zell fell against Irvine, who had been trying to catch his breath in the doorway. "Ehhm, sorry" Zell walked in, seeing a desperate Squall looking in the bathroom. Squall came back out, she ain't here" he said worried. Irvine was the first one to notice the front page on the bed, on the messy blancets. "Uh...guys..." Irvine pointed to the paper, which Squall now took into his hands. "Rinoa........" he felt like he was in a trance, how could he explain to her....

"We've got to find her Squall!" Zell yelled at him. "I know Zell! I'm not stupid!!" Squall yelled back.

"C'mon guys, no point in being mad at each other, things happen. Now I think the best we can do is split up" Irvine reasoned.

"I'll search the first floor" Squall ran off. "I'll check second and wil help Squall when I get back" Zell ran off too. "Pff, I'll go way up then" Irvine found himself alone in the room, probably the one who was the least concerned.

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Squall ran into the training center, he wasn't able to locate Rinoa yet and he hadn't checked all the places, but he just had a feeling she would be there.

"Ahhhhh!" Squall heard someone screem. "RINOA!!" Squall ran in the direction of the sound. He found his love being in a struggle with this humongous T-rexaur. "Rinoa! Look Out!" Squall saw how the strong tail hit Rinoa while she looked aside to him. "Rinoa! No!" Squall ran to the place Rinoa was laying on the ground. In his fury Squall attacked the T-rexaur, hitting it with all his might and Lionheart Limit Break.





A/N Really stupid chapter huh? I don't have a great feeling about this chapter, guess it's a writers block. In the other fic Ultimecia's Souvenir I made this chapter, but I think I'm gonne remove it too.. I'll see, well I promise te next chapter will be more interesting..-xxxx- Jane