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"What is it?" Quistis asked her voice full of panic. Seifer stared up at her against the moonlight background of the sky. The horizon was shot with purples and blues. The moon full, reflecting on the sparkling waves. He had never seen anything more beautiful.
"I love you" he said with such passion in his voice it was over whelming. Quistis retreated a step back her eyes wide. The wind tousled her hair and the flippant fabric at the bottom of her dress.
"Seifer, I love you too" she said before she knew what she was saying. She loved him, Seifer was elated. His heart bloomed spreading joy numbly through his body. A smile came to his face.
"During the battle, for a moment I thought I had lost you. For that moment I had lost myself" he said. He thought back to that instant when he had seen the ice shard protruding from her chest. It had felt like it was in his chest. The sharp pain of worry, and fear. He had never ever been so afraid in his life.
"Seifer -" she moved to interrupt him but he put a hand up. He still wore no gloves. Not since his pair had gotten shredded on the train so long ago. When Medarra had first kidnapped her. If only he could have stopped it then, this never would have happened.
But then again he never would have fallen in love with Quistis Trepe. A year ago it would have seemed like an impossibility. Now it was all he clung to.
"Let me finish" he said softly. She nodded her whole body tense.
"People leave things too much up to chance. Take our parents for instance if they had moved quicker, you might have been my sister" he said. Quistis smiled in amusement.
"What so funny?" he asked frowning.
"I said almost the same thing to my mother" she said. He smiled and shook his head, then raked a hand through his blond spikes.
"Quistis, Will you marry me?" he said suddenly at a loss. He had been planing this all day. He had a speech prepared and everything, but Seifer was never known for flowery words.
Shock registered in her crystalline eyes. She had been crying, her eyes were rimmed in red. Seifer wished he could whisk her away to a place where she would never cry again.
He reached out and took her hand softly. The moonlight winked off the swirling cerulean jewel. So much had changed when it had been placed in her hand.
"Oh Seifer" she whispered his name collapsing into his arm. Her tinkling laughter filled the air, tears streaming freely down her face.
"Is that a yes?" he asked face splitting into his trademark smirk.
"Yes, yes! A thousand times yes Seifer!" she said though her laughter her eyes sparkling. He kissed her then lifting her feet off the ground. He spun her around and around. He could have stayed there forever with her, spinning around and around. Without a care in the world.
"Let's do it as soon as we can" he said.
"It will be a great moral booster for the people of Balamb" Quistis said a smile playing on her lips. Seifer grinned back. That was Quistis, always calculating.
"I love you," he said softly proudly.
"You go talk to Selphie, I'm sure she can whip it up in a matter of days" Quistis told him. He nodded and kissed her softly.
"Where are you going?" he asked before they parted ways.
"I just have some things to do, I'll catch up with you" she said. Seifer frowned slightly and shook his head.
"Just be careful," he said.
"Always" she whispered back her eyes glittering. She left him with a kiss, her long strides taking her across the plains towards the two of Balamb.
It didn't take Seifer long to find the bubbly brunette. Where good needed to be done Selphie was there always ready to help. Selphie was standing with a group of people in front of the Balamb Garden ruins.
Quistis had saved it from total destruction, but there had still been many people inside. Selphie was helping retrieve their bodies, and personal effects from the dorm. She looked tired, worn, and dirty.
"Hey Selphie" he said walking up behind her. She spun around, automatically placing a smile on her face. A large streak of dust trailed down her left cheek, ruining the effect.
"Seifer, great news! We just breached the infirmary. We have tons more medical supplies on hand now" She said the plastic smile never leaving her face.
"Can I talk to you alone?" he said leading her by the arm away from all the others.
"What's up Seifer?" she said.
"You don't have to smile for me, Selphie," he said with a shake of his head. At his words she seemed to crumble, the smile sliding off her face. Body slumping visibly.
"Two Gardens. Both the Gardens I've been to have been destroyed" she said. Seifer cringed thinking of his part in the first.
"I'm sorry" he whispered unsure of what else to say. She looked up at him, her tears leaving tracks in her dirty face.
"Oh Seifer. You don't have to apologize," she said. She shook her hands obviously sorry that she brought up bad memories.
"Quistis and I have something we need you to do" he said hoping that the news could cheer her up a little.
"What is it?" she asked in her tiny voice. She whipped away the tears with the back of her hand.
"We need you to plan a wedding," He said with a smirk. Her head snapped up a cheerful smile returning to the normally sunny face.
Quistis walked through the town, oblivious to the stairs of the wounded lying in the streets. Sorceress, they called her. Not in a bad way though, they knew she had saved many lives by deflecting the missile. Deflecting wasn't exactly the word, more like swallowing.
She stepped out onto the pier spotting Ellone and Zell sitting at the other end. Zell was holding her hand, talking in a soft voice.
"Ell?" Quistis said softly. Ellone looked up at her with questioning caramel eyes. Zell dropped her hand like he was a child caught in the cookie jar.
"Hey Quistis, what's going on?" Ellone asked standing up. She smiled down at Zell softly.
"Ellone have you ever considered how you got your powers?" Quistis asked softly.
"I- I don't know" Ellone said softly.
"You're a sorceress, Ell, A White sorceress" Quistis said softly. Ellone looked up at her everything all of a sudden making sense.
Her time powers, her extraordinary healing magic.
"White sorceress" Ellone whispered. Shock reeled through her striking her to the very bone.
"Rinoa and I will need your help to defeat Medarra" Quistis said with a soft smile. She hugged the woman she had always thought of as a sister. Smiles graced both of their faces. Then Quistis floated away, the smile still remaining on her face.
Ellone spun around to look at Zell, moments before the tears began to fall.
A/N: I just wanted to say thank you to everyone still with me! I love you so much! :)
Sorry if this chapy was too short, The next should be quite long.