A/N This is taking place while the others are inside Rinoa's HQ

"Where in the world are they?" Quistis tried to see further into the fortress- but saw nothing. "Oh Hyne..I hope they make it out."
"Selphie said she dropped her bracelet." Zell explained. "And Irvine and Seifer went to escort her."
"They should've just left it." Squall muttered. He was a bit worried as well. Quistis shrugged.
"Maybe it had sentimental value." she suggested. He shrugged.
"Whatever." he said. (He didn't want to admit that he like Quistis..just yet.)
"Squall....why do you have to be so..cold?" Quistis asked. Squall looked up in suprised. But, he just shrugged and rolled his eyes.
".....Whatever." Squall started to head to the ship, Zell following him.
"..jerk." Quistis said under her breath. She stood there, waiting for them to come back. Squall would look out the window every now and then (okay every ten seconds..happy?!!) to check up on her. They felt a slight rumble, like the place was about to collapse at any time.
"Earth to Squaaallllll...Yo! Commander..whatchya checking out Quisty for?" Zell asked. Squall, at first, blushed but then waved his hand in the air and said:
"I'm not checking up on her. I'm scouting the area for any monsters." he explained. Zell went "ohhhh" and decided not to pursue the topic. Why did I just lie to Zell? It's not like I'm hiding anything...right? I didn't do anything wrong..or did I? As soon as my girlfriend...ex girlfriend...dies, I move in on my former instructor..nothing wrong with that. Squall stared through the glass, his eyes squinting the deeper in thought he was. A boulder crashing caused them all to jump.
"SELPHIE! IRVINE! SEIFER!?" Quistis called, making a motion with her hand. Nothing. She looked back at the ship, and shrugged. She started to run back towards the cave/secret lair.
"Yo Squall! Quisty's making a dash for it!" Zell told the commander. Squall's head shot up, and saw that indeed, Quistis was running towards the entrance. Squall didn't hesitate and ran out of the ship, gaining more and more speed. By now, the whole place was coming apart, and debris was starting to fall. The brown haired man was running as fast as he could now. Quistis was to involved with what she was thinking, that she didn't even notice that he was right behind her. She was right at the entrance, but something startled her before she continued. She stopped and gazed around.
But then, Quistis heard a crack and looked up. A large boulder was coming down, straight for her. Her eyes grew wide, and the rest of her paralized with fear. She couldn't move, and a huge rock was about to flatten her! Quistis prayed under her breath before squeezing her eyes shut. But instead of being flattened, she felt herself being scooped up and air rushing by her. The confused blonde opened her eyes and saw her knight had saved her.
"Squall!" Quistis cried. He dashed past rock, and jumped over small pieces of metal. Quistis gripped her arms around him.
"Hang on, Quistis." Squall muttered and jumped right through a small fire wall that was standing between them and the ship.
"WOW! Are you guys okay??" Zell jumped up and down. Squall sat Quistis down, and plopped down himself on the ground.
"Dandy." Squall muttered. He then looked at Quistis. "Are you, okay?"
"Yes, I think so.." the instructor examined herself.
"What were you thinking?? You could've have been killed!" Squall just blurted out. Quistis shook her head and looked at him in shock.
"I was going to see if they were okay!" she explained herself. Squall jumped up.
"Quistis! I won't have anything happen to you! You're to important to me-" Squall thought what he just said, and quickly added, "and the team."
"Hehe...I think the commander here is trying to say he likes ya, Quisty, and doesn't want you to get hurt." Zell commented. Squall started to blush, but regained composure.
"......" Quistis looked at Squall, the love of her life, that she had lost to one of her best friends, the man she had known since childhood, and the commander of their team. Quistis was at lost with words, and sat down on a stump, leaning foward and keeping her arms crossed. Some of her hair fell down to her face, covering up her rose-blushed cheeks.
"Well, I'm gonna check to see if we've recieved word for Balamb, and yanno, grab me a hotdog....Give you two some quality time..." Zell winked at the two before boarding the Ragnorok.
"He's a strange one alright.." Quistis murmered. Squall made sort of a "heh" sound and stood up. "Squall?"
"Quistis...there's something I have to tell you..." Squall kept his eyes on the ground. He adjusted his jacket and took a deep breath.
"What is it?" Quistis moved a chunk of her hair behind her ear. He raised his eyes enough to see hers. She had dust covered all over her, but still looked like an angel.
"Quistis..Selphie said something to me...which made a lot of sense..." Squall stopped. Selphie? Made sense? He shook the thought and continued. Quistis nodded for him to continue. "....something about you..and Rin."
"What was it?" the radiant blonde asked. The brown-haired man fiddled with his glove.
"Well...even before Rinoa became a sorceress...there's something I've had on my mind...and...I...." he paused, took a look at her, and continued, "wanted to make sure that this is how it's supposed to be.."
"Squall, you're talking in circles, just spit it out." Quistis urged.
"Well, Rinoa and I are-er were- drifting apart. She grew more and more into becoming a SeeD, and didn't even care..about me. And it hurt. A lot. She never even looked at how miserable I was. But I could always talk to you, Quistis."
"Our sunday lunches." Quistis interuppted. It was true, that for the past several weeks that Squall and her did have lunch, and talked about various things. Quistis always enjoyed having Squall talk to her with more then one-word sentences.He nodded.
"You are different from Rinoa. Some people think- er thought- we were the perfect couple. But you, and some others, could sense that we weren't meant to be. You knew, didn't you Quistis? You could see it. And I was to in love, and heartbroken, with and by Rin. I loved her...or at least I thought I did. But as soon as Selphie told me and pointed out how you were there for me...I relized something." Squall stopped and made sure she was listening. And, indeed, she was.
"What, Squall? What did you relize?" Quistis nearly held her breath.
"Quistis Trepe....I-I...." Squall was now staring right into her soul. Her chest moved up and down, breathing hard. He knew that he must look awfully funny, standing there.
"Squall." more like a statement the a question. She stood to meet him, eye to eye. He felt his heart throb, and his stomach twist. Quistis felt his hot breath pouring down her.
"I love-"
"QUISTIS!! SQUALL!!! RUN!!" Selphie stumbled out of the cave. Irvine and Seifer followed. Every now and then, Irvine would fire behind him, and Seifer followed suit.
"We'll finish this later." Squall turned and looked at was coming out of the cave. His eyes widened.