Author's note: All I'm going to say is..................it's a Queifer!
Chapter 7 - Burn Baby Burn
~ Is this the Squall she was looking at or a stranger who appeared in front of their eyes without them knowing existed?
-Quistis
She tapped the end of the pen on her desk, gently, trying not to tap too loud to disrupt her class writing a test. Sighing quietly, she leaned back on her chair and thought about what she just said to Seifer. It was true that she could only tolerate his presence in her room, but not REALLY accept it. However, a pang of guilt found itself in her heart. She couldn't help but feel regret about the things she said to him. She saw the pain in his eyes, yet she was too cold to even care and look closely, but she knew the words cut through him like a knife.
She glanced at her watch. It was only close to eleven and her students have an hour left until lunch time. Biting her lower lip nervously, her mind kept referring back to Seifer and the condition she found him in. He was wet all over from the rain and blood soaked through his hands and jacket. She whipped her head gently from left to right, vividly shaking away the image out of her mind. With the presence of Seifer by the tree gone, she looked down on the finished homework assignments that were handed by the students this morning and began marking them.
After a couple of seconds, when she finished marking the first paper, a shout startled her and the students from what they were doing.
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"Seifer!" Edea yelled. She placed a hand on Seifer's arm, forcing him to turn, but the blond just moaned and shoved Edea away from him, forcing her to stumble backwards and fall on her rear. Seifer seemed to have noticed it as he turned once to look at her with guilt.
"I'm- I'm sorry Matron...." he murmured. Beads of never ending falling sweat poured madly from the sides of his face. His face were flushed with red. He furrowed his eyebrows worriedly, turned and never looked at her again as he continued to 'drunkenly' walk along the hallway.
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They all looked up, their eyes never prying away from the noise outside. Quistis stood up and looked at her students.
Lifting a calming hand to her students, she said, "Please stay seated and don't let that noise interrupt you with your test writing. I'll go see what's going on." The shout she heard sounded like Edea.
Taking another glance at her students, she stepped out of her classroom, only to find Edea sitting on the ground. She kept still on the floor.
"Matron!" she called. Quistis ran towards the dark haired woman and kneeled beside her. She placed a hand on her shoulder, indicating she was with her.
"Seifer!" Edea called, before turning her attention towards another blond. This time, female. "Quistis!"
"What happened?" Quistis asked, looking at the older woman.
Edea pointed towards Seifer, who seemed drunk from far away. Quistis followed her finger and saw him walking along the hallway. He swayed left and right, mumbling some things she could not understand. Quistis turned to Edea.
"Stay here, Edea," Quistis whispered towards her beloved Matron. She stood up and ran after him. The blond man was dressed in his usual attire. Shaking her head, she thought out loud how he managed to find his clothes. Rolling her eyes she thought, 'Of course Seifer would have found it near the chair. He's not stupid!'
Seifer was just turning around the corner, she noticed, as she ran after him, her Save the Queen tightly coiled in her belt. She was ready to grab it, as an attempt to bring Seifer down on his knees to prevent him from going anywhere, when Seifer smashed unto someone. She was running out of breath by the time she made it to the corner where he turned.
"Woah!" she heard a familiar voice yell. She turned the corner this time, finding Seifer leaning against a very confused Irvine. He seemed surprised at first when someone bumped into him, but as he looked at the face of a very familiar enemy, he stared at the man with a confused look. He looked up and saw Quistis running towards them, panting and wheezing for breath. Irvine wrapped an arm around Seifer's waist to keep him steady and gazed up at Quistis questioningly.
"Hold. Him. Still. Irvine," she said, gasping for breath. She placed a hand over her heart, paused for a minute and walked over to the two tall men. Irvine placed a hand over Seifer's forehead and suddenly jerked his hand away from him.
Irvine looked at Quistis when she finally made it to them. "Woah, Quisty! He's burning up!"
Quistis nodded. "Yes, I know that. That's why I don't want you to drop him or anything. He's suffering from a bad case of pneumonia for staying out in the rain too long." She went to Seifer's other side, opposite of Irvine and wrapped an arm around his waist. Irvine did the same, trying to steady the blond. "That's why we need to bring him to the Infirmary. I would have done that sooner, I know, but Doctor Kadowaki wasn't there."
Irvine nodded. "Yeah. It's a good thing the Training Center closes at twelve now so no one will be staying up late to be wounded, otherwise, there would be no one else to take care of them but Doctor Kadowaki."
Quistis agreed. Without Doctor Kadowaki's expertise in medical science, where would all of them be? Sighing, she helped Irvine drag a very alive, but conscious Seifer. They were turning slowly as the hallway made a curve turn, holding tightly unto Seifer, when an arm stopped them from going anywhere. Both Quistis and Irvine looked up to see an angry looking Squall staring at them, his blue pupils turning into thin slits.
"What the hell is he doing here?!" Squall hissed, blocking Quistis' and Irvine's way. Rinoa stood beside him. She didn't seem surprised that Seifer was here, perhaps she already knew that he was here.
Quistis sighed. This is what she was afraid of. Why did Seifer have to leave the room? "Squall, we need to take him to the infirmary fast!"
"Yeah," Irvine spoke up. "And if we don't, I think I'm about to collapse here! I mean, this guy looks light, but boy does he ever have a large amount of weight! Besides, he's really on fire and I can feel it burning through my clothes!"
Squall glared at Irvine, then looked at Quistis. He shook his head slowly, lifting up a finger towards the exit. "I want him out of here!"
"What?" She looked at Rinoa, who looked down and said nothing, then at Squall. She couldn't believe it! Is Squall really that angry to throw out a very sick person? What is wrong with him? She closed her eyes. She was getting impatient. The longer she holds Seifer, the more she will have a bad back. "Listen, Squall, I know you still hate him for what he did and so does everyone, but that doesn't give us the right to just throw him out and leave him to die."
Squall shook his head stubbornly. "I don't care what is right or wrong, Quistis. He did something wrong that almost killed Rinoa and he deserves to be out there with the rest of the worthless people!"
Quistis couldn't believe her ears! Is this the Squall she was looking at or a stranger who appeared in front of their eyes without them knowing existed? Worthless people? Who are the worthless people is he talking about?
The blond woman shook the thoughts out of her head and sneered at Squall. Her patience was walking away from her and she could feel herself burn in anger. "Squall, get out of our way or we'll force our way through!" Her voice grew louder and louder, showing her anger and her disappointment towards Squall.
She didn't really want to do that to Squall. She loved him dearly, but enough was enough. When something or someone she loved made her as mad as she is now, there was nothing to do but push them away. He was too angry to even think right and she knew that, however he didn't.
Still, Squall didn't move. He kept on his spot, right in front of them, arm raised to keep them from going anywhere.
"Dammit, Squall! My neck is hurting here!" Irvine complained, looking up at their commander.
"I order you two to let him go now!" Squall commanded.
Quistis could feel Seifer shiver underneath his clothes. She could feel his chattering teeth, as if he was cold, eventhough the temperature of the hallway was enough to make you boil. Quistis could feel burning from Seifer's arm as it was wrapped around her neck and the hot flashes passing through his body.
She looked up and saw Squall's frown, realizing that they were not going to give up. Shaking her head, she grit her teeth in anger and, with all her might, pushed Squall out of the way with her free hand. Squall stumbled backwards, but did not fall on the ground. His eyes glowed in astonishment as Rinoa and him watched them go.
No sooner did the three made it to the infirmary. The door slid open, revealing a very sad looking Matron sitting on one of the awaiting rooms and a serious looking Dr. Kadowaki by her side.
'Edea must have told Dr. Kadowaki what happened,' Quistis thought.
Both women stood up when they saw Quistis and Irvine drag a very feverish Seifer inside. Dr. Kadowaki immediately opened the door for them as the two pulled him across the room and inside the room the dark haired doctor provided for them, followed by Edea. With one more tired bodies, Quistis and Irvine slowly and carefully released Seifer's arms from around their necks and gently put him down on the bed.
Gasping for breath, Quistis and Irvine stood back and looked at each other, then turned their attentions towards Dr. Kadowaki, who quickly worked on Seifer. Edea joined them later, looking at her two wonderful children.
Dr. Kadowaki placed a stethoscope under his shirt and listened to his heart beat, a serious frown suddenly shown on her wrinkling face. She looked over her shoulder at the trio and gave them a questioning look. "He's been injured?"
Quistis and Edea nodded.
"I found him outside with an injury there, but I managed to stop the bleeding with some extra bandages," Quistis replied.
Dr. Kadowaki nodded. She took another peek at Seifer's wound, removing his shirt on his hip and examined it. A white bandage was wrapped securely around Seifer's abdomen and his whole body seemed to be flushed from the fever. She put his shirt securely back on the wound and looked over her shoulder at three peering eyes.
"I can close the wound, but I just need room, so whoever is staying please stay and whoever isn't you may wait at the waiting room," Dr. Kadowaki announced, turning around to face them.
"I can't stay anyway," Quistis spoke. "My class is writing their test and I need to check on them to make sure they haven't voluntarily left." She rolled her eyes and looked at Irvine, who gave a short snort.
The blond gazed up at Matron, who has been standing quietly for the last couple of minutes beside her, looking worriedly at Seifer. Slowly, she placed a hand on her back and rubbed it gently. "Are you okay, Matron? I mean I saw him pushed you down on the ground."
Edea nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine." She looked up and smiled at Quistis.
In relief, she nodded, gave one last look towards Seifer, then left the room. Irvine smiled at Edea, then followed Quistis out the door.
"Man, that was something," Irvine spoke quietly, when they stepped out of the room and towards the waiting area. He looked at Quistis, who had a concerned look on her face. "Are you all right, Quis?"
Squall.... that look, never left her ever since he gave her that expression. It bothered her so much. What was wrong with him? "Huh?" She looked up and saw Irvine's worried look. "Yeah, I'm fine," she answered, nodding her head. "I was just thinking about Squall...." She looked into Irvine's eyes. "I have never seen him act this way."
Irvine shrugged. "Well, not really, ever since he met Rinoa."
"Hey, don't blame Rinoa."
Irvine rubbed his neck. "I'm not!"
Quistis rolled her eyes. "Well, I better go and see if my students are finished writing. I've left them for almost fifteen minutes now." She looked at Irvine. "What are you upto this afternoon?"
Irvine grinned. "I don't know, maybe see what I've accomplished." He looked at Quistis, who only gave him a puzzled look. The cowboy sighed and shook his head. "Nevermind." He turned the opposite direction where Quistis was going and waved a hand behind him, towards Quistis. "See ya, Quistis!"
Quistis chuckled and waved back. "Bye! See you at lunch!"
"Maybe!" he shouted back as he disappeared around the corner.
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"There," she said, wiping sweat from her forehead. She looked at her patient sitting worriedly on a chair by the bed. She leaned down and patted her long time friend on the shoulder, giving her a reassuring smile. "Hey, don't worry, he'll be fine."
Edea looked up and smiled. "Yeah, I know. What I'm worried about is Squall."
"Squall?" Dr. Kadowaki removed her gloves and covered Seifer's stomach with his shirt. She moved over to where his head was resting and placed the back of her hand with her forehead. "What about Squall?" she asked, as he checked his temperature. She took out a spoon and a bottle of medicine from a cupboard by the bed. She poured the medicine on the spoon and fed it to Seifer, who's eyes were tightly closed. Still, even with his feverish state, Seifer was still conscious and could still swallow the medicine whole.
Edea sighed. "Before I came in here, I went to see if Quistis had caught up with Seifer and then I saw Squall. I feel like he's changed somehow."
Dr. Kadowaki shrugged, removing her hand from the blonde's forehead. She turned around to face the dark haired woman. "That's how teenagers are as they grow up."
Edea nodded. "Yeah, I guess so." She looked over at Seifer's body. "How is he?"
Dr. Kadowaki glanced at Seifer, then at Edea. "Well, the medicine is just kicking in and all we need now is to keep damping him with warm water to slow the fever down."
"All right. Where can I find a cloth and a bowl?" Edea stood up eagerly.
Dr. Kadowaki nodded and twisted her body around to a hidden room behind Seifer. She lifted a hand and gestured the younger woman to follow her. "Follow me and I'll show you." She disappeared behind the curtain.
Edea glanced at Seifer once before leaving him alone to follow the Doctor.
GoodGurl: I know this chapter, isn't really a Queifer, but hey! Seifer has a fever! Who would want to kiss him? Well, I would, but still! Anyway, I promise that the next coming chapters of Queifers will HAVE Queifer! See ya! Oh, please r/r! Thanx! ;)
Chapter 7 - Burn Baby Burn
~ Is this the Squall she was looking at or a stranger who appeared in front of their eyes without them knowing existed?
-Quistis
She tapped the end of the pen on her desk, gently, trying not to tap too loud to disrupt her class writing a test. Sighing quietly, she leaned back on her chair and thought about what she just said to Seifer. It was true that she could only tolerate his presence in her room, but not REALLY accept it. However, a pang of guilt found itself in her heart. She couldn't help but feel regret about the things she said to him. She saw the pain in his eyes, yet she was too cold to even care and look closely, but she knew the words cut through him like a knife.
She glanced at her watch. It was only close to eleven and her students have an hour left until lunch time. Biting her lower lip nervously, her mind kept referring back to Seifer and the condition she found him in. He was wet all over from the rain and blood soaked through his hands and jacket. She whipped her head gently from left to right, vividly shaking away the image out of her mind. With the presence of Seifer by the tree gone, she looked down on the finished homework assignments that were handed by the students this morning and began marking them.
After a couple of seconds, when she finished marking the first paper, a shout startled her and the students from what they were doing.
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"Seifer!" Edea yelled. She placed a hand on Seifer's arm, forcing him to turn, but the blond just moaned and shoved Edea away from him, forcing her to stumble backwards and fall on her rear. Seifer seemed to have noticed it as he turned once to look at her with guilt.
"I'm- I'm sorry Matron...." he murmured. Beads of never ending falling sweat poured madly from the sides of his face. His face were flushed with red. He furrowed his eyebrows worriedly, turned and never looked at her again as he continued to 'drunkenly' walk along the hallway.
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They all looked up, their eyes never prying away from the noise outside. Quistis stood up and looked at her students.
Lifting a calming hand to her students, she said, "Please stay seated and don't let that noise interrupt you with your test writing. I'll go see what's going on." The shout she heard sounded like Edea.
Taking another glance at her students, she stepped out of her classroom, only to find Edea sitting on the ground. She kept still on the floor.
"Matron!" she called. Quistis ran towards the dark haired woman and kneeled beside her. She placed a hand on her shoulder, indicating she was with her.
"Seifer!" Edea called, before turning her attention towards another blond. This time, female. "Quistis!"
"What happened?" Quistis asked, looking at the older woman.
Edea pointed towards Seifer, who seemed drunk from far away. Quistis followed her finger and saw him walking along the hallway. He swayed left and right, mumbling some things she could not understand. Quistis turned to Edea.
"Stay here, Edea," Quistis whispered towards her beloved Matron. She stood up and ran after him. The blond man was dressed in his usual attire. Shaking her head, she thought out loud how he managed to find his clothes. Rolling her eyes she thought, 'Of course Seifer would have found it near the chair. He's not stupid!'
Seifer was just turning around the corner, she noticed, as she ran after him, her Save the Queen tightly coiled in her belt. She was ready to grab it, as an attempt to bring Seifer down on his knees to prevent him from going anywhere, when Seifer smashed unto someone. She was running out of breath by the time she made it to the corner where he turned.
"Woah!" she heard a familiar voice yell. She turned the corner this time, finding Seifer leaning against a very confused Irvine. He seemed surprised at first when someone bumped into him, but as he looked at the face of a very familiar enemy, he stared at the man with a confused look. He looked up and saw Quistis running towards them, panting and wheezing for breath. Irvine wrapped an arm around Seifer's waist to keep him steady and gazed up at Quistis questioningly.
"Hold. Him. Still. Irvine," she said, gasping for breath. She placed a hand over her heart, paused for a minute and walked over to the two tall men. Irvine placed a hand over Seifer's forehead and suddenly jerked his hand away from him.
Irvine looked at Quistis when she finally made it to them. "Woah, Quisty! He's burning up!"
Quistis nodded. "Yes, I know that. That's why I don't want you to drop him or anything. He's suffering from a bad case of pneumonia for staying out in the rain too long." She went to Seifer's other side, opposite of Irvine and wrapped an arm around his waist. Irvine did the same, trying to steady the blond. "That's why we need to bring him to the Infirmary. I would have done that sooner, I know, but Doctor Kadowaki wasn't there."
Irvine nodded. "Yeah. It's a good thing the Training Center closes at twelve now so no one will be staying up late to be wounded, otherwise, there would be no one else to take care of them but Doctor Kadowaki."
Quistis agreed. Without Doctor Kadowaki's expertise in medical science, where would all of them be? Sighing, she helped Irvine drag a very alive, but conscious Seifer. They were turning slowly as the hallway made a curve turn, holding tightly unto Seifer, when an arm stopped them from going anywhere. Both Quistis and Irvine looked up to see an angry looking Squall staring at them, his blue pupils turning into thin slits.
"What the hell is he doing here?!" Squall hissed, blocking Quistis' and Irvine's way. Rinoa stood beside him. She didn't seem surprised that Seifer was here, perhaps she already knew that he was here.
Quistis sighed. This is what she was afraid of. Why did Seifer have to leave the room? "Squall, we need to take him to the infirmary fast!"
"Yeah," Irvine spoke up. "And if we don't, I think I'm about to collapse here! I mean, this guy looks light, but boy does he ever have a large amount of weight! Besides, he's really on fire and I can feel it burning through my clothes!"
Squall glared at Irvine, then looked at Quistis. He shook his head slowly, lifting up a finger towards the exit. "I want him out of here!"
"What?" She looked at Rinoa, who looked down and said nothing, then at Squall. She couldn't believe it! Is Squall really that angry to throw out a very sick person? What is wrong with him? She closed her eyes. She was getting impatient. The longer she holds Seifer, the more she will have a bad back. "Listen, Squall, I know you still hate him for what he did and so does everyone, but that doesn't give us the right to just throw him out and leave him to die."
Squall shook his head stubbornly. "I don't care what is right or wrong, Quistis. He did something wrong that almost killed Rinoa and he deserves to be out there with the rest of the worthless people!"
Quistis couldn't believe her ears! Is this the Squall she was looking at or a stranger who appeared in front of their eyes without them knowing existed? Worthless people? Who are the worthless people is he talking about?
The blond woman shook the thoughts out of her head and sneered at Squall. Her patience was walking away from her and she could feel herself burn in anger. "Squall, get out of our way or we'll force our way through!" Her voice grew louder and louder, showing her anger and her disappointment towards Squall.
She didn't really want to do that to Squall. She loved him dearly, but enough was enough. When something or someone she loved made her as mad as she is now, there was nothing to do but push them away. He was too angry to even think right and she knew that, however he didn't.
Still, Squall didn't move. He kept on his spot, right in front of them, arm raised to keep them from going anywhere.
"Dammit, Squall! My neck is hurting here!" Irvine complained, looking up at their commander.
"I order you two to let him go now!" Squall commanded.
Quistis could feel Seifer shiver underneath his clothes. She could feel his chattering teeth, as if he was cold, eventhough the temperature of the hallway was enough to make you boil. Quistis could feel burning from Seifer's arm as it was wrapped around her neck and the hot flashes passing through his body.
She looked up and saw Squall's frown, realizing that they were not going to give up. Shaking her head, she grit her teeth in anger and, with all her might, pushed Squall out of the way with her free hand. Squall stumbled backwards, but did not fall on the ground. His eyes glowed in astonishment as Rinoa and him watched them go.
No sooner did the three made it to the infirmary. The door slid open, revealing a very sad looking Matron sitting on one of the awaiting rooms and a serious looking Dr. Kadowaki by her side.
'Edea must have told Dr. Kadowaki what happened,' Quistis thought.
Both women stood up when they saw Quistis and Irvine drag a very feverish Seifer inside. Dr. Kadowaki immediately opened the door for them as the two pulled him across the room and inside the room the dark haired doctor provided for them, followed by Edea. With one more tired bodies, Quistis and Irvine slowly and carefully released Seifer's arms from around their necks and gently put him down on the bed.
Gasping for breath, Quistis and Irvine stood back and looked at each other, then turned their attentions towards Dr. Kadowaki, who quickly worked on Seifer. Edea joined them later, looking at her two wonderful children.
Dr. Kadowaki placed a stethoscope under his shirt and listened to his heart beat, a serious frown suddenly shown on her wrinkling face. She looked over her shoulder at the trio and gave them a questioning look. "He's been injured?"
Quistis and Edea nodded.
"I found him outside with an injury there, but I managed to stop the bleeding with some extra bandages," Quistis replied.
Dr. Kadowaki nodded. She took another peek at Seifer's wound, removing his shirt on his hip and examined it. A white bandage was wrapped securely around Seifer's abdomen and his whole body seemed to be flushed from the fever. She put his shirt securely back on the wound and looked over her shoulder at three peering eyes.
"I can close the wound, but I just need room, so whoever is staying please stay and whoever isn't you may wait at the waiting room," Dr. Kadowaki announced, turning around to face them.
"I can't stay anyway," Quistis spoke. "My class is writing their test and I need to check on them to make sure they haven't voluntarily left." She rolled her eyes and looked at Irvine, who gave a short snort.
The blond gazed up at Matron, who has been standing quietly for the last couple of minutes beside her, looking worriedly at Seifer. Slowly, she placed a hand on her back and rubbed it gently. "Are you okay, Matron? I mean I saw him pushed you down on the ground."
Edea nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine." She looked up and smiled at Quistis.
In relief, she nodded, gave one last look towards Seifer, then left the room. Irvine smiled at Edea, then followed Quistis out the door.
"Man, that was something," Irvine spoke quietly, when they stepped out of the room and towards the waiting area. He looked at Quistis, who had a concerned look on her face. "Are you all right, Quis?"
Squall.... that look, never left her ever since he gave her that expression. It bothered her so much. What was wrong with him? "Huh?" She looked up and saw Irvine's worried look. "Yeah, I'm fine," she answered, nodding her head. "I was just thinking about Squall...." She looked into Irvine's eyes. "I have never seen him act this way."
Irvine shrugged. "Well, not really, ever since he met Rinoa."
"Hey, don't blame Rinoa."
Irvine rubbed his neck. "I'm not!"
Quistis rolled her eyes. "Well, I better go and see if my students are finished writing. I've left them for almost fifteen minutes now." She looked at Irvine. "What are you upto this afternoon?"
Irvine grinned. "I don't know, maybe see what I've accomplished." He looked at Quistis, who only gave him a puzzled look. The cowboy sighed and shook his head. "Nevermind." He turned the opposite direction where Quistis was going and waved a hand behind him, towards Quistis. "See ya, Quistis!"
Quistis chuckled and waved back. "Bye! See you at lunch!"
"Maybe!" he shouted back as he disappeared around the corner.
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"There," she said, wiping sweat from her forehead. She looked at her patient sitting worriedly on a chair by the bed. She leaned down and patted her long time friend on the shoulder, giving her a reassuring smile. "Hey, don't worry, he'll be fine."
Edea looked up and smiled. "Yeah, I know. What I'm worried about is Squall."
"Squall?" Dr. Kadowaki removed her gloves and covered Seifer's stomach with his shirt. She moved over to where his head was resting and placed the back of her hand with her forehead. "What about Squall?" she asked, as he checked his temperature. She took out a spoon and a bottle of medicine from a cupboard by the bed. She poured the medicine on the spoon and fed it to Seifer, who's eyes were tightly closed. Still, even with his feverish state, Seifer was still conscious and could still swallow the medicine whole.
Edea sighed. "Before I came in here, I went to see if Quistis had caught up with Seifer and then I saw Squall. I feel like he's changed somehow."
Dr. Kadowaki shrugged, removing her hand from the blonde's forehead. She turned around to face the dark haired woman. "That's how teenagers are as they grow up."
Edea nodded. "Yeah, I guess so." She looked over at Seifer's body. "How is he?"
Dr. Kadowaki glanced at Seifer, then at Edea. "Well, the medicine is just kicking in and all we need now is to keep damping him with warm water to slow the fever down."
"All right. Where can I find a cloth and a bowl?" Edea stood up eagerly.
Dr. Kadowaki nodded and twisted her body around to a hidden room behind Seifer. She lifted a hand and gestured the younger woman to follow her. "Follow me and I'll show you." She disappeared behind the curtain.
Edea glanced at Seifer once before leaving him alone to follow the Doctor.
GoodGurl: I know this chapter, isn't really a Queifer, but hey! Seifer has a fever! Who would want to kiss him? Well, I would, but still! Anyway, I promise that the next coming chapters of Queifers will HAVE Queifer! See ya! Oh, please r/r! Thanx! ;)