Chapter 2

Laguna had just finished telling everyone why he decided to come to Garden when Ellone came up from behind him. Everyone gathered around her to hear what she had to say; it was not the story they had hoped to hear. When she was done they all went silent. None of them could believe what they had heard, especially Rinoa. She believed that Squall was past being like this. After the great improvement he had made in just a few months. It would all be for nothing if this were the end result. Laguna stood up looked around the Quad. His leg was giving him trouble, "The least of my worries." He looked around at his friends, then at the friends he had just made. He knew no one was going to say what was painfully obvious, that he should go and see Squall now that the truth was out. So he got left the group, not really knowing what to expect from his son.

Squall was sitting on the stairs that led to the elevator. He was just staring down at the ground in front of him when Laguna stepped up to him. "Can we talk?" he asked. "What's there to talk about?" Laguna doing his best to ignore his leg now throbbing in pain, he took a deep breath and gave words to what was in his heart. "If I had the power, if there was only some way I could make up for what I have done. You know I would. If I could make it all better I would but I can't." Squall lifted his head to look at Laguna with a cold and dead look in his eyes, a look colder than the most bitter winter in the dead of night. Then he spoke. "How long have you known?" "Of course that would have to be his first question" Laguna thought, "2 years after you were put in the orphanage, since then I have known." Squall stood up. "You have no right. To be gone all my life, never to look back. What did you expect? Sure dad let's go fishing, let's go hang out while we catch up on the last 15 years of my life!" Then a single tear shot down Squall's face, and what he said next tore through Laguna's heart like a jagged sword. "You have no right! I don't need you or any of your excuses. Get out of this Garden, out of my life and stay out! You will never EVER be part of my life." Laguna almost scared to say anything replied "But son…" Squall quickly cut him off. " Don't you dare call me that! My parents died when I was born. If you ever call me that again, the last thing you see will be my gunblade right before it slices through you." Squall turned his back starting to walk away but Laguna's voice stopped him. "If I really thought you believed that, I would just die." Squall simply replied "Then why are you still here?" He started walking again when Laguna reached out to Squall's shoulder. But Squall turned around so fast Laguna thought he was going to hit him. He tried to plead with him. "Please Squall don't end it like this." Squall just looked at him with his eyes filled with the burning hatred and passion of a thousand suns. "I hate you for everything you've done to me, but more importantly I hate you for what you did to my mother. You left her to die alone." Squall turned back around and just before he left he looked at Laguna trying to hold his tears back. Squall walked up to him to give him his final words. " There was a time when I would have wished death upon you but now your life will be your torment, I wish you a long one." With that Squall turned his back to Laguna for the last time and started walking. He didn't use to have anything against Laguna but now he had more than enough hate towards Laguna to last him a lifetime.



End Of Chapter two