Fatal Obsession- Chapter 17 Remember Me
After the long long wait, here is another chapter. This is mingling the previous ones together somewhat. I am going to try and make longer chapters from now on. The short ones are even starting to get on my nerves.
Rinoa stood waiting at the train station. Squall had refused to come with her to greet Giovan and Irvine. She spotted them clambering out of the train door. Neither cracked a smile nor raised a hand to wave. Her usually cheery smile was bleak and thin. " Hello. How was the train ride?" Irvine just nodded his head in her direction, while Giovan plastered on a smile. " It was just fine Rinoa, thank you." She motioned her hand towards a car. " Our ride is this way." They all filed silently to the car, got it, and left.
The ride to Garden was extremely silent and sort of creepy. Many times Rinoa felt like someone was reading her thoughts, only to find out her suspicions were true. Giovan was looking at her, but not really at her. More like in her. She was very uncomfortable when she realized this. Once they arrived at Garden, Squall was waiting outside along with a few other SeeD's to help get the luggage. They all got out in the parking garage, and Squall nodded his acknowledgment to them. The other people standing by directed the tree to follow Squall.
" Alright, please have a seat." Those were the first words Squall had said since they arrived. Rinoa stood next to a corner of the desk, while Giovan and Irvine sat down. Squall sat behind the desk in his chair. " The current situation at hand…" He paused slightly in his sentence, trying to cover it with stone cold emotion. " Quistis is missing. Do we know where she is?" Irvine gritted his teeth together slightly, and tried to stop from clenching his fists. " Of course we do Commander, you have her." Squall looked almost taken aback, and that is when Rinoa knew that they knew more than they were letting on. All of them.
Davin was being picked up out of the floor when he regained his senses. His Liege Lord was standing over him, a smile on his face. " It's glad to see you are back to this side of the realm Davin. You've important things to carry out." Lord Adhem loomed over Davin. " Forgive me, M'Lord. I've shown a weakness." Davin was almost shamed to be in this state infront of Adhem. " Davin, my boy, think nothing of it. Love does the weirdest things. I do not consider love a weakness, but an inspiration to do great things, the circulation of life as we know it!" Davin was being held up by to of the Palace Guard. He pulled himself from their grasp to stand on his on. He straightened his cloak, and ran a finger through his hair. " What is it you wish of me, M'Lord?" Adhem was again seated in his throne chair. " You should already realize this. So, why is it you ask me again? You know the answer in there. " He pointed to Davin's heart. " For reassurance, M'Lord." A regal eyebrow arched. " Reassurance, of the heart you say?" Davin just nodded, and knew he had let another weakness slip. Adhem noticed his facial expression and decided to speed things up. " Alright, you had better be going. You are running late as it is." The two Palace Guard came back out to escort Davin to the room.
The room was more than what Davin had expected, at the least. It's floor was a midnight black marble, with pearl streaks running through the entire length of it. The walls and ceiling were of the same material. The room was only as big as his entire house. In the center stood a ball floating in mid air about waist high. When one looked into it, they saw a swirling mass of purple, blue, orange, white, black, green, and then they saw nothing. It was huge yet small, and intimidating yet peaceful. The ball scared Davin more than the dark appearance of the room did. Adhem was walking towards the ball, his steps defiant and solid. " Davin please come over here." Davin slowly started walking towards the ball with Adhem. With each step, the ball loomed larger, and wider until it was taller and wider than Davin by many hands. It was then that he realized that this was no ball except to the untrained eye. It was a portal to her dimension. Davin was more frightened in that moment than he ever was in his entire life. " What do I do?" Lord Adhem placed a hand on Davin's shoulder. " You just clear your mind, close your eyes, and let yourself go. I would have preferred you went through training for this, but of course, this was most unexpected. Now goodbye, and don't come back without her." With that, Adhem gently pushed Davin into the portal so he did not have time to hesitate. He closed his eyes and felt many things. Pain jabbing cold, and skin boiling warmth. Tremendous fear, and great peace. Doubt and curiosity.
Quistis was standing against the furthest wall away from it. She was completely speechless and horrified. Her body refused to move anywhere else, it was frozen with fear. A body was forming only a few feet in front of her. It was almost like an apparition, but then it wasn't. It was very obviously a man.
His body was being pulled piece by piece back together, and he knew not where he was. He looked down at himself as he was slowly gaining his original colors. His sight was the last thing to return. Looking around, he saw her, and she was more beautiful than he ever remembered. He tumbled around for the words, but dared not take a step; she looked rather frightened. " Do-do-don't you remember me?"
Ahh yes, what a good chapter. I like it a lot. Now, this probably did not help anything did it? Just got you more confused? YOU WILL SURVIVE, I won't let anything happen to you! Now, just review and I will be very happy!