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Wake up… someone was calling in her mind. It throbbed. Wake up, Instructor! Who was calling Quistis? She didn't want to open her eyes. It was too painful. Her head felt like a truck had hit it, no, make that a Garden.
Open your eyes! Yes, open them… she commanded herself. No the pain was back. She couldn't do anything about it. Until someone opened it for her.
"Instructor!! Can you hear me?? Are you alive?!" a callused hand stretched her eyelid up wide open. Quistis's blue eye saw Raijin screaming in her eye. Ouch.
"Ow!" Quistis shouted. Her gloved hand shot out and slapped the intruder's grasp. She rubbed her stretched eye tenderly. "I'm not deaf you know!" she snapped.
Raijin stepped back and muttered apologies, his face reddened on his dark skin. Fuujin shook her head as her friend sat down on the chair next to Seifer. Seifer chuckled.
"Where I am?" Quistis asked. It was more like a demand rather.
"MY ROOM." Fuujin supplied her answer. Quistis was gingerly touched her forehead, finding it wrapped in bandages.
"Saved you in time," Seifer said. Quistis stared at him confusingly.
"Huh?"
"Cid. That guy was about to kill you. Don't you remember anything?"
"…no." Quistis knew that was a lie, she wasn't sure if the others will but it. But it looks like they had. She could recall the miserable event when Cid tried to attack her, but not kill her. What he did was not murderous attempt. It made her shudder and scared of what he could have done, if not for Seifer.
"How long have I slept?" she asked, getting up and stretched. "I feel so stiff."
"You slept three days, ya know?" Raijin said, rather proudly. "We watched ya until you woke up!"
"Three DAYS??!!" Quistis gasped. How many lessons has she missed? It would be considered ditching, a rule of #27. She certainly couldn't have that, being an Instructor she had to set an example for her students. She ran out the door quickly without explaining to the three.
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Simon was not happy. One of his followers had tried to take Quistis as his own. This displeased him very much. So Cid had to go, left him in the pond of the Training Area. The old man couldn't even swim, less ado fight. No one knew his absence, they wouldn't really give much for the headmaster since everyone was focused on Quistis. Ah yes, Quistis. Being a student in her class, he was disappointed like the rest of the class when she didn't appear. Now a raven-haired girl that no one seemed to concentrate on was teaching the lesson. Her looks weren't matched for a sophisticated appearance like Quistis, but her playful charms made her class even despise her more. She hasn't noticed though. Rinoa always thought teaching was a drag, with students making harsh comments and running wild. She wondered how her friend could take it. Rinoa had turned the Junction class into a simple study hall.
Simon glared at his tutorial hard. He didn't like the idea that Quistis was missing, it worried him to much that she could have found out his fiend plan, fled to another Garden and told them about the infected Balamb. Then things would turn out ugly. No, this was not something he wanted. He sighed heavily and crumbled a piece of paper into a ball. He threw it at Miss Heartilly.
"Ack! Who threw that?!" Rinoa stood up fuming. "Stand up!" Simon lazily got up. "Do you have a reason for throwing this?!"
Simon yawned. "Yes. I called you three times to go to the bathroom, but you never replied." The class muffled their cackles and laughs in their hands. Being the lead Trepie no one would sell him out. Poor Rinoa, she couldn't blame the kid. She was buy reading the Timber Maniacs she brought and was sorry she didn't pay attention to the classroom. Rinoa nodded, believing his false story and Simon slumped out the door. He was bored and went to the bathroom. He relieved himself there, but didn't return to class. Then he ran into Raijin.
"Watch it, dumbass," he snapped. Raijin bowed apologetically and his face brightened.
"Quistis is staying in Fuujin's room, ya know!" he reported. Simon grabbed Raijin by the collar. For a man smaller than Raijin, he managed to lift him up with ease. Raijin was scared.
"What?!"
"Uh, S-Seifer brought her in, after Cid's at-t-tack!" he was shaking. "We helped and she's alive, I mean, conscious ya know!" He winced as Simon gripped harder.
"Where?!" Simon roared.
"Fuujin's room!! But she-!" Raijin choked out. He was thrown to the floor before he could say anything more.
TBC!!
A/N: Oh my god you know what happened?! My cat threw up on my disk!! My god damned disk with a complete chapter of this!! I have to rewrite it again!!! Nooooooo!!! I'll post up the next part later. I need to yell at my cat. Dammit!! I wished I posted this chapter earlier before my cat puked on it!!! [loud curses]
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