WHEREVER TIME TAKES YOU
AFTERLOUGE


(----Back in Normal time-----Balamb Garden----)

Days in parallel time are weeks in normal time. Everyday the experiment members walk into the portal room to see if Seifer came back, but everyday no one is there. One week turns into Two....then a month....then over a month. Then they decide something must be done.

Quistis: (talks to the group) Okay we have a troubling question to ask ourselves. Do we continue to wait hoping that one day Seifer will return? Do we leave Seifer for dead and end the experiment? Or do we take a large risk and send one or more people there to see what is going on?
(they look around at eachother wondering what to do)
Squall: I'll go.
(they all look at him)
Quistis: You?
Zell: If he goes i'll go too.
Quistis: You two are willing to go through the portal and taking the risk of not getting back?
Squall: Yes.
Quistis: Alright...as long as you know what your getting into.
Squall: We should go right away, Seifer might be in danger.
Quistis: In a hurry? Alright we hope the best for you, there should be a portal that you can come back in, go through it the first chance you get!
Quistis: Start up the portal!
(the pull the lever and the portal turns on)
Zell: Alright let's go.

Zell and Squall step into the portal and they swirl around and around and then things start taking form as they arrive in parallel time. They shake their heads and blink a few times. They look around and realize they are in Balamb Garden, near the Nursing area.

Zell: We should keep a low profile. Who knows where the "other" Zell and Squall are.
Squall: Maybe Seifer is in the doctors area?
Zell: Alright, we should look everywhere for him.

Zell and Squall walk through the corridor and eventually make way to a door with a small window on it. They look inside the door and they see Quistis, Seifer and the nurse in the room, Seifer in a bed with a bandage and cast on his left leg. Squall quickly ducks out of their sight.

Squall: He's in there!
Zell: Yeah but, the odds of that being the Seifer from our time could be very slim, so dont act weird to him. We dont even know what happened to Seifer. He could be in the portal home right now for all we know.
Squall: Your right, but we should try to find out.

Zell and Squall swiftly walk into the Nurses office, they come in and over-hear a conversation between Quistis and Seifer, they dont notice that Squall and Zell walked in so they dont stop talking.

Quistis: Boy were we lucky. The Dollet army and some SeeD still in the area got to you before the Galbadians could finish you off. You've been through a lot.
Seifer: Yeah I deserved some good luck after getting all of that bad luck, I didn't think things would work out, but they did.

---Seifer and Quistis look over and Zell and Squall almost in unison. Quistis just stares and her eyes get wide and she looks in amazements at the two. Squall and Zell then look over at Seifer and he too looks amazed at the two.

Seifer: Impossible....
Zell: ???
Seifer: I.....watched....you.............die.


THE END