Title: Zell Dincht

Series: Best Friends

Author: Elisheva (Lisa)

Email: Lisa.Withoos@wxs.nl

Rating: PG-13

Disc : It's from Square nothing is mine

Summary : This is a story about Zell and Seifer when they are little. Seifer/Zell

Notes : I want to thank my beta reader Marcie !! Thanks.

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Zell looked around. It was quiet and peaceful and…somehow it was familiar. 'Let's go to the inn.'

Selphie nodded. 'Sounds good.'

Zell couldn't quite place it but he had been here before…

They walked towards the hotel. Zell heard children laughing and looking at him. This place had something and he didn't know what. It made him feel different…like he belonged here. Like this was his home.

'Come on Zell.'

Zell looked at Selphie and followed her to the inn. 

'What can I do for you?' The man smiled at Selphie and Zell. Selphie started to talk to him and Zell started to walk around. He stopped at a portrait of a woman. Zell frowned. She looked familiar, like had seen her before…somewhere but he didn't really remember.

'Who is this?' Zell turned around and looked at the man.

'That is Rina Veliera.' The man looked at the portrait and shook his head. 'She lived in this hotel almost all her life but when the war came, and she was killed…together with her husband and daughter… her son was never found.' He looked at Zell. 'It really is a sad story.'

'I know her.' Zell looked at Selphie. 'I have seen her before…I know I have.'

Selphie walked towards him and looked at the woman.

'Um Zell she kind of looks like you.'

The man joined them. 'The girl is right, you do look a lot like her'

Zell looked at those big blue eyes and something inside his mind started to open up. He started to remember. He heard screams, saw blood, felt nothing but pain.

'She told me to go to Matron… she gave me the medallion.'

Selphie frowned and looked at him. 'What do you mean Zell?'

'I need to talk to Matron.' Zell started to run out of the hotel and didn't hear Selphie screaming, telling him to come back.

Seifer looked around. 'Zell.' He kept looking but Zell was nowhere to be found. 'I need to talk to you.' He heard a door slam and then he heard someone call Matron's name.

'Zell.' Seifer looked at the blond boy and smiled. 'I need to talk to you.'

'Where is Matron?' Zell started to walk towards the beach.

'Didn't you just hear what I said? I need to talk to you.' Seifer grabbed his arm.

Zell turned around. 'Sorry Seifer.' Zell looked at him.

'Did you mean what you said?'  

'That I love you?'

Seifer nodded.

'I love you more then anything Seifer.'

'But…why?'

'I don't know Seifer…because you were my friend, because you were there when I needed you, because you were you.' Zell looked at the ground and bit on his lip.

'I think that I…love you but I don't want to loose you.'

Zell smiled. 'You wont Seifer and whatever happens we will always be friends' Seifer smiled. But what would happen now…was it true? Would they stay friends?. Whatever happened ?.

'Matron I need to talk to you.' Zell looked at her and bit on his lip. 'What was my mother's name?'

Matron looked as calm as she always has. 'Rina Verliera' She stood up and walked towards the closet. He had been right. The woman on the portrait was his mother and she had died. Matron gave Zell the medallion and sat down next to him on the bed. 'Your mother wanted you to give me this when you first came here.'

'Why didn't you tell me before, Matron?'

'Because I didn't know if you where ready…but now you have found out yourself, that means you are ready.'

Zell looked at her and didn't know what to say anymore.

'She loved you so much and she feared for your safety and that is the reason you wanted to come here' Zell nodded. 'They were all killed…' Matron looked at the ground. 'You should go back to Balamb… to find out more about your past.'

'But I can't just go there, can I?' Zell looked at her.

'Maybe you should go to Garden.'

'Balamb Garden?' Zell stood up. 'But I can't I need to stay here…with Seifer.'

'Seifer is going to Balamb Garden to. But a year after you that is that's all.'

Zell shook his head. 'No, I don't want to go.'

'Think about it Zell, you could find out about your own family.' Matron took his head in her hands and gave him a kiss on his forehead. 'You have been like a son to me Zell but your family doesn't really include me… you have to find out what happened to them… find out who you really are.' She left him in the room.

Zell looked out the window 'But I already know who I am. I'm Zell Dincht and that is the only one I want to be.'

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