Disclaimer: I don't own Squaresoft or any of its characters; the only character I own is Sasha.
A/n: I promised you a longer chapter and here it is, it took me ages to write this! Please review it and tell me what you think. This is basically an action packed chapter because it's the second to last one! Read and review folks!
Forgotten
Chapter 9- Assassination
Rinoa awoke from her dream crying, again. She hugged her legs and buried her face in her arms.
It was a sunny day and the light streamed in from the curtains illuminating the dull room.
Rinoa jumped startled as her alarm clock went off to say it was 8:30. She picked it up in her hands looking at it, the alarm still ringing. Rinoa shook it a little trying to get the alarm to stop.
"Stop it" she said shaking it again, but it still continued. "Be quiet," she said a bit more firmly. It still wouldn't stop.
Rinoa threw it across the room where it hit a wall where it smashed to pieces and fell to the ground. She walked towards it and looked at it for a moment, and then she began picking up the broken pieces. What's happening to me? She thought to herself.
A sharp pain grew in her finger and she looked down to see she had cut herself on a piece of glass.
Rinoa watched fascinated as the blood flowed down her finger and finally dripped onto the carpet. She noticed how when she had cut herself she hadn't felt any pain like you should do when you cut yourself. She suddenly had an idea though she wasn't too sure of it. She looked down at the broken pieces of glass and debated to herself whether she should do what she had just thought of.
She reached out a hand and picked up a broken piece of glass then went across the room towards her bed where she sat studying it for a moment. She placed the glass firmly on her wrist; he finally knew how she could stop her pain inside. Rinoa pushed the glass down on her wrist harder and she was about to slide it across when something caught her attention.
A rose?
She turned to the rose wondering who could have put it there. Someone had been in her room, but how? The only person that could get into her room was…Squall.
Rinoa turned back to her wrist. Is that what she really wanted? If life got too difficult for her, to give up? Take the easy way out.
If her dreams were to come true she could help save Squall, like he had saved her more than once. How would doing this enable her to save him?
She let go of the glass and there was a tingling sound as it hit the ground.
She picked up the delicate red rose and studied it for a moment. Then she saw a tag on it, she turned it over to find the words 'I'm sorry' written in it.
For the first time in a long time, Rinoa smiled. She felt happy, something she hadn't felt in a while. All because of Squall, the past few days she had been starting to think that she thought more about Squall than he did of her. That's defiantly not how she wanted it to be.
Rinoa needed Squall. She wanted to talk everything through with him.
Rinoa quickly got dressed and ran out of her room with the rose.
Rinoa ran up to Squall's dorm and knocked on it. Soon enough the door opened and Squall looked a little bit surprised to see Rinoa standing there.
"Can we talk?" Rinoa asked.
Squall nodded his head and let Rinoa in his room. "What about?" Squall said closing the door.
Rinoa sat on the bed and looked out of the window at the blue sky, then looked at the rose in her hand. "This is from you, right?" Rinoa asked looking up at Squall.
Squall nodded his head "You were asleep so I left it beside you"
Once again Rinoa smiled feeling happy. She decided that she would not say anything about Sasha today; just for one day she was going to feel normal. Talk to people, be happy.
The past few times she had been with Squall she had ended up having an argument with him but today she promised herself she wouldn't say or even think about her dreams.
Just for today she would forget about Sasha, and that's what she did. Luckily Squall didn't have to do anything around garden so they went out together for the day.
It felt like heaven, she was no longer depressed, upset or even stressed. It was as if she has left all her feelings behind and now she was free, like a child happily playing without any care in the world.
Rinoa was still smiling as she entered her dorm, thinking about the day that had just seemed to have ended so quickly. As she closed the door of her dorm, by the wall on the floor were the remains of her alarm clock from this morning. She picked up the pieces and quickly disposed of them.
She stood before her bed, happy. She was proud of herself for forgetting just for one day about the recent events that had happened.
Rinoa felt a sharp pain in her head. She cradled her head in her hands as she began to feel dizzy. She was about to grab hold of something but she lost balance and then everything went black…
~*~
Rinoa opened her eyes as a blurry object looked over her. She blinked her eyes a couple of times until her vision cleared where she saw Dr.Kadowaki stood over her.
"Oh good you're awake. How are you feeling?"
Rinoa rubbed her eyes and then said, "My head hurts a little…what happened?"
Dr Kadowaki shrugged her shoulders "I'm not sure, I think you must have blacked out or something. You hit your head pretty hard."
Rinoa nodded then she turned over and closed her eyes and gradually fell asleep again.
As she slept she saw Sasha sat on the floor. She hid her out of view. A small tear escaped from her eye. There was nothing around Sasha, just blackness. The tear from her eye fell down to the ground. Blackness.
Sasha pulled a dagger out from behind her jacket; she seemed to be saying something thought the words weren't clear.
The blackness around her changed and formed into her room.
Outside was pitch black and a storm was brewing, there was a bright flash and the sound of thunder boomed all around. The room went. Another bolt of lightning came down and the room flashed again. She looked around to find words scrawled across the walls of the room. 'I'm sorry' 'Help me' and 'murderer'
She has a guilty conscience, it comes to haunt her. Every night her guilty conscience grows.
As Rinoa slept she could feel how Sasha felt. Sasha's conscience was eating away at her. It was the reason Rinoa had these dreams. Every night Sasha had stayed Rinoa had come closer to the truth. During this dream it was as if she was Sasha. She felt all of Sasha's emotions. Anger. Depression. Hate. All these had grown inside her; that was the reason Rinoa's sorcery powers had picked it up.
Sasha did not want to kill Squall, but she had to. She had no choice. It was the only way she could live. The only way she had been taught. She had to follow her masters' orders.
Secretly she cries.
She can't help it.
~*~
Rinoa awoke from her dream; she looked around to see she was still in the infirmary.
Her dream. What had it meant? Thinking back on it she had actually felt sympathy for her. Maybe she could help?
Rinoa felt a sharp pain in her head and cradled her head in her hands. A vision. She saw Sasha getting her dagger, placing it under her jacket before leaving her room.
The pain left her head as she sat up again. She could feel Sasha's evil right now. She could sense every movement of Sasha, every emotion, every pain…
She was going to kill Squall…tonight.
~*~
Squall sat in his dorm looking out of the window, admiring the night. He thought back to earlier on in with his day with Rinoa. She was so happy. He hadn't seen her that happy for a long time. He couldn't understand how she'd changed so much over one night, but he didn't care, just as long as she was happy. That was all that mattered.
There was a knock at the door. Squall stepped away from the window and pulled open the door to see Sasha.
"Hi" he said opening the door and gesturing for her to come in.
"Hey," she said softly as she walked through the door. "Can we talk?"
"Sure." Squall said closing the door. "What about?"
With that Squall felt someone grab his head, and before he could react, his head was smashed against the wall. Squall fell to the floor unconscious before Sasha's feet. She looked down at him, amazed at how easy it all was. She knelt down next to him and looked at him for a moment.
She put out a hand and touched his head. "You probably know as well as I do that life's not always like fairy tales." She paused for a moment. "You know what? I wish I could spend the rest of my life with you. Looking out for my little brother. Yeah, that's right, I'm two minutes older than you. I suppose it doesn't really matter to you or Ellone."
Sasha removed her the dagger from her jacket as she lowered it towards Squall. "Ellone could of stayed with both of us, but she only stayed with you. I was forgotten."
Sasha placed the dagger up to Squall's throat. "I'm so sorry it had to be like this. I'll miss you."
She pressed the dagger firmer into his throat, psyching herself up to finish it off. Suddenly she felt herself being dragged off Squall from behind. Sasha pulled herself from the grasp of this new intruder, knocking them to the floor. She turned to face them. "Rinoa?"
"That was a pretty moving speech." Rinoa said, rising back to her feet.
"Let me guess. You're here to save Squall?" Rinoa nodded her head slightly.
Sasha responded with a cold laugh. "Sweet." Sasha quickly moved towards Rinoa, catching her off guard. Before Rinoa could move she saw the dagger sliding into her stomach. Sasha watched as Rinoa fell to the floor, her hands clutching the wound. Sasha turned her attentions back to Squall.
"Sorry Squall," Sasha said stepping over Squall.
Squall…Rinoa had to save Squall now. This was her last chance to save him. She held out her hand, aimed towards Sasha, as she concentrated her mind creating an energy ball using her powers. Once the ball was powerful enough she let it go, but before she could see if it was successful at stopping Sasha, Rinoa blacked out, her body just managing to hang on to life.
A/n: Oh the suspense, as much as I'd like to keep you all holding on the two weeks of my holiday I can't because when I get back I want to be posting up my new story, so I will post up the final chapter up tomorrow! Did you think that chapter was long enough for you? Please review!
