Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy 8...........
Note: Takes place after the game.......
~*The Pound Key~
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"Squall." someone said as he heard his door creak door open.
"What?" he asked.
"It's been so long." the person told him as she walked up to him in the dark of his room. He was lying on his bed. "You seriously need to get over her." the person told him.
"Get out Quistis." Squall demanded angrily.
"She isn't coming back!" she yelled. "I bet she has already fallen for someone else and offering her services else where!" Quistis screamed.
"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE QUISTIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. "AND IF I HEAR OR SEE YOU COME IN TO THIS ROOM AGAIN I SWEAR TO HYNE HIMSELF I WILL KILL YOUR WRETCHED BODY WITHOUT A SECOND THOUGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!" he threatened as he got up from his bed. "and if you ever even mention her being a slut I will not only kill you I will plunge my hand into your rib cage and tear out your heart!" he threatened harshly as he walked up to her balling his hand into a tight fist. Quistis cowered away and ran out the door. Squall quickly slammed the door behind her almost wrenching the hinges off of the door and wall. He flicked on the lights and threw himself to one of the seats. He put his head in his hands and sighed heavily. This seemed like an everyday thing since Rinoa left. People always telling him to give up on it. He wasn't planning on doing that any time soon. The one person he could trust had left. The one thing he could hold onto, left. Now he was forced to hold onto memories of her. It was hard, to hard. Everyday he would spend a good hour thinking of things that he had done with Rinoa. "I'm not giving up hope nor will I ever." he told himself. He leaned back in his chair and stared at the ceiling. More thinking, thinking always did a mind good. Depends on what your thinking of. The phone rang which startled him from his thoughts he rushed to the phone and picked it up. "Hello?" he said quietly, afraid it was Quistis trying another one of her break Squall apart scams. There was no answer. "Hello??" he asked impatiently.
"H-Hi." the small voice stuttered.
"What do you want?" he asked coldly. There was no answer, "Look, what-" but he was cut off.
"I love you!" the small voice yelled and it hung up. Squall lifted the phone away from his ear. He stared at it in wonder. It wasn't Rinoa's voice, to small and shy. Who was it? Could someone else really like him? He hung the phone up and walked to the door. he took one look at the phone and left his dorm.
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"Hello Squally!" Selphie yelped with joy. Squall entered her dorm where everyone was.
"I thought we would never see you!" Irvine exclaimed. "Or at least out of your dorm." he added.
"Someone called me." Squall told them.
"And?" Zell motioned him to move on.
"They told me that they loved me." Squall continued. Everyone gasped.
"Why would you care?" Quistis asked coldly. Squall didn't look at her.
"Because I think this way I can get over Rinoa." Squall explained not even bothering to stare at Quistis.
"But I thought you said-" Selphie began but was cut off.
"I can't keep clinging to my past." Squall explained.
"I'll help you." Selphie offered him, "I'll help you find this girl." Selphie continued.
"Me to." Zell said standing up.
"Me three." Irvine said standing up with the rest of them. Everyone looked to Quistis. She didn't budge.
"That's more than enough, and one more we might look like a posse!" Squall explained coldly as he looked to Quistis. Quistis just glared back. And with that they all left. Quistis shoved her hand into her pocket and pulled out a locket. She opened the small locket and saw on one side was her and the other was Squall.
"I love you Squall Leonhart." she told the picture as she hugged it close to her chest.
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Rinoa sat quietly on the train with a smile on her face. "Why are you so happy?" a small voice asked next to her.
"Because I get to see your father." Rinoa told the child as she looked to her.
"We can finally get to see daddy!?" she asked excitedly.
"Yep." Rinoa nodded confirming it. The small child quickly rapped her arms around Rinoa's neck. "But you must remember Ecmarie, that you will act as you always do, don't be propaer and don't be mean. Do you understand?" Rinoa asked. Ecmarie nodded.
"But why?" little Ecmarie asked as she pulled away from her mother.
"Let us just say that he isn't the average type of person." Rinoa told her. Ecmarie smiled.
"How long till we get there?" Ecmarie asked excitedly as she leaned closer to Rinoa.
"In just a few days." Rinoa told her child.
"Why so long?" Ecmarie asked tilting her head to the side.
"We have to travel a long way." Rinoa told her. "And it might be a few more days even after this." she told her child disapointedly.
"Why?" Ecmarie asked.
"Because we have to check into a hotel and we have to make an appointment with him." Rinoa told her.
"Appointment? But he's my daddy, I should be able to see him whenever I want!" Ecmarie told Rinoa.
"He doesn't know were coming, I want it to be a surprise." Rinoa told her. Ecmarie nodded. Ecmarie looked at her surroundings.
"Are we leaving our house forever?" the child asked.
"Only if you want to, or if Garden will let us." Rinoa explained to her daughter.
"What is Garden?" Ecmarie asked.
"You will know soon enough." Rinoa told her. "But aren't you tired?" she asked. Ecmarie shook her head furiously. "Are you sure, it is 10:00." Rinoa asked.
"If the more I sleep the faster this trip will go?" she asked. Rinoa nodded. "I'm tired!" Ecmaire wailed. Rinoa smiled and lifted the child from her bed to her own personal bed across from Rinoa's. She tucked the blankets around Ecmarie tightly.
"Your lucky mommy could afford this cabin." Rinoa told her. Ecmarie nodded sleepishly. Rinoa smiled. "Good night." she said as she kissed the top of Ecmarie's forehead. She smiled at her child. She might have been only 21 but she knew how to handle a child, especially a child from Squall's genes. There was so much of her father in that child. Looks anyways. Her hair, a dark brown, her eyes, a stormy gray, all the defining elements of Squall. But her personality was an obvious difference, taking a more Rinoa happiness than a Squall cold and keeping to themselves. She walked over to her own bed and laid down. She shoved her hand into her pocket and fished around. She pulled out a locket and opened it with her fingers. On one side lay a photograph of both of them together and on the other side lay nothing.....
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A/N: Well? What did you think? This is going to be a fun story...I have just introduced three problems that all need solutions....I am so good....
R+R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
