¸.·´¯`·»Lullaby of Peace«·´¯`·.¸
Quistis sat next to him on a tiny stone bench in Balamb. They were both silent unable to convey their feelings. Last night had been such a rush of information, or feelings.
Seifer had never felt so much in his life.
It was strange, unkown. He reached out slowly and took Quistis' hand into his. Seifer ran his fingers along to cool blue stone. Cold now, but when she used her powers it flared to life. She held more power then he had ever seen. And for some reason Medarra, his mother, had given her that power.
"Quistis" Seifer whispered her name, it tumbling from his lips like a prayer.
"Yes" she said looking up from the rock she had been staring at into his shining eyes.
"You need to reconcile with Rinoa" he said softly. She frowned her eyebrows drawing close together.
"Why?" she snapped ripping her hand away.
"She has your mother junctioned" Seifer said softly the words strange. Quistis' eyes softened and she slumped forward a bit. She sighed tucking a stray strand of hair behind her ear.
"You mother will talk to you, like Diablos talks to me" Seifer said. He felt the familiar heaviness now settled in the back of his brain. Lingering there, all the while with the knowledge of his parents.
Why did you never tell me, Seifer asked the GF in his mind.
(~It was not my place~)
Seifer only nodded curtly turning his attention back to Quistis.
"Please Quistis" Seifer asked her almost pleadingly. She looked up at him, and touched his cheek softly.
"I will" she said.
"I'll arrange everything" Seifer said standing up. He looked down at her and then placed a quick soft kiss on her lips.
Then he spun away the tail of his trench coat flapping out behind him. Her solider.
Seifer walked right into Rinoa's hotel room without knocking. Rinoa yelped and grabbed the sheet wrapping it around her naked self. Her hair was still damp, she had just gotten out of the shower. Seifer plopped down in her desk chair, throwing his mud caked boots up on the clean surface.
"Don't worry, it nothing I haven't seen before" he said with a casual wave of his hand. She frowned and tucked the sheet closer around her.
"What do you want Seifer?" Rinoa asked.
"You are going to make up with Quistis" Seifer said casually with a hint of danger in his voice.
"I will not" Rinoa said lifting her chin up haughtily. Seifer rose and stood before her in one swift graceful movement. He was like a cat on the prowl.
"You will, and you will be nice to her Rinoa" Seifer said his eyes glittering.
"I've never seen you act so protective of someone Seifer, not even me" Rinoa whispered the last part immediately resenting him and there time in Deling City.
"Just be in the dining room tonight" Seifer said shortly.
"And if I don't?" she asked her voice still carrying that haughty tone. Seifer reached for his Hyperion and grinned softly.
"Didn't you ever hear what I did to Xu?" he said with a cruel smirk.
Quistis walked into the dining room of the hotel that night, still clad in the same light blue dress. It was dirty, and tattered around the edges. Her blond hair was sloppy, but there had been no time to worry about that.
Rinoa sat at a table waiting for her. Her long chocolate hair was perfect tumbling over her pristine white dress. Rinoa always seemed to look magnificent, even in the middle of a war.
"Rinoa" Quistis said crisply before sitting down.
"It's good to see you Quistis" Rinoa said her voice as sugary as the pastry sitting uneaten on the plate before her.
"How are you feeling after the black lash from your spell?" Quistis asked now noticing the slightly ashen look to the girl's normally creamy complexion.
"I must confess I never saw it coming" Rinoa said. Quistis nodded and stared down at the gold rimmed plat in front of her.
"Thanks for meeting with me tonight" Quistis said toying with the white cloth napkin.
"Seifer can be very persuasive" Rinoa said with a touch of exasperation in her voice.
"Don't I know it" Quistis said with a soft smile. She thought of his lingering kisses and his warm hands. It was strange how much had changed. Never before had she seen Seifer Almasy in this way.
"So what do you want?" Rinoa asked.
"Your GF" Quistis asked easily. Rinoa's eyes grew wide, and then soft.
"Why?" Rinoa asked.
"We both know there is no point in junctioning it. You can do magic just fine with out it" Quistis said.
"Why?" Rinoa asked again frowning.
"Eden was once the best blue sorceress in the land. I wish to have that power backing me" Quistis lied. She wasn't ready to tell Rinoa that her mother had been turned into some kind of freak Guardian Force. She was happy with the only two people knowing, besides her. Ellone and Seifer. Rinoa sighed and shook her head.
"How come you never asked for it before?" Rinoa asked.
"I only found out recently" Quistis responded truthfully.
"As a symbol of peace between us then?" Rinoa asked with an impish smile. Quistis responded with a nod and her own smile. Rinoa wasn't always bad. Quistis felt the workings of the Junction Switch going on in the air around them. Quistis opened her mind to receiving.
(~QUISTIS!~) the female wail in her head was of more pain and anguish then she had ever known. Tears threatened to brim over in her blue eyes.
Mother, Quistis whispered across her mind to the Guardian Force.
"Thank you, Rin" Quistis said standing up.
"Anytime" Rinoa said with a nod and a smile, "Oh, if you see Squall could you send him in?"
"Certainly" Quistis responded. She rushed from the restaurant, bumping into Squall once she reached the street.
"Rinoa's inside waiting for you" Quistis told him in a rush before running down the street. She ran into the plains diverting her eyes from the ruin of Balamb. Worked were working even now at restoring the Garden. She ran along the cliffs over looking the ocean.
It was there that she summoned her mother.
The summoning sequence went off with out a hitch, the bright colors stinging her eyes. Hovering over the water was the grotesque form of Eden.
"Mother" Quistis whispered. She reached her gemmed hand out the threatening tears finally spilling down her cheeks.
The GF looked down at her with sadness in her crystal eyes. A blue gem imbedded between them.
(~My daughter, you've found me at last~)
"I never knew" Quistis said her arm dropping limply to her side. She would never get to be held in her mother's arms.
(~I know~)
"Did you ever love my father" Quistis asked thinking of Gilgamesh the great one-eyed GF.
(~I respected him, and yes maybe I even loved him a little~)
"But Odin was then one you truly loved" Quistis whispered.
(~Yes~)
"If things had turned out differently, the man that I.." her voice trailed off. Did she love Seifer?
(~Do you love him?) Eden echoed her thoughts.
"I don't know. If you had married Odin he might have been my brother" Quistis said.
(~An Almasy~) Amusement rolled in the GF's voice.
"Seifer Almasy" Quistis whispered.
(~An honorable name. Perhaps destiny saw the two of you fit together, so did not allow Odin and I~)
"Mother" Quistis whispered again.
(~You are a sorceress now, I see~)
"Medarra made it so" Quistis said looking down at the blue gem.
(~She wants to absorb your power~)
"What?"
(~At all times on this planet there are three sorceresses, one of each type. There can be many of each, but always there is at least one~)
"Three?" Quistis asked.
(~Blue, White, Black~)
"Myself, Rinoa, and whom?" Quistis asked out loud.
(~Medarra knows a spell. If she can get her talons on three sorceress' at once~)
"It will make her a sorceress of all three types" Quistis said her voice deadpanning.
(~Exactly, and that is why she made you what you are~)
"The white sorceress, who is it?" Quistis asked.
(~Look inside yourself for the answer, it will take all three of you to defeat Medarra~)
The two women stared at each other, silence growing thick around them.
"Odin is dead" Quistis said softly.
(~I know, I was there when his own son killed him~)
"Seifer didn't know!" Quistis exclaimed.
(~I know~)
"I love you, mother" Quistis said softly.
(~I love you too, my Quistis~)
Quistis slowly unsummoned her feeling Eden settle to rest in the back of her mind. Quistis slowly turned around to see Seifer standing there about ten feet away.
"How long have you been there?" Quistis asked.
"Not long" Seifer responded walking towards her. She smiled at him and nodded softly.
"Oh, ok" Quistis said reaching out and taking his hand softly. He looked down at the pale hand in his. So delicate, so beautiful. He looked up at her, searching her sullen blue eyes.
"We need to talk, Quistis" he said suddenly his voice full of conviction.
A/N: I hope that cleared somethings up. Thanks everyone for reading!