AN: Yet another randomly begun fic. SxS - with plot! Um, corrected a few spelling/grammatical errors and thought I'd repost. 07 soon, promise :)
Disclaimers: ff8 characters are © Squaresoft
Warnings: Angst, language and SxS
---SQUALL---
As I watch the flickering flames I am aware of a noise in the distance. It's coming closer, and soon I identify it as the drumming of hooves. I don't care. Something at the back of my mind has already identified the sound.
I finally turn as the sound becomes close enough for me to identify each separate thud of hoof hitting ground. Eight thuds, one after the other, like a roll of thunder, ominous, foreboding. The rider of the strange beast is equally strange, but equally familiar. Odin.
I don't know how, but somehow I've known all along that he wasn't really dead. Part of me expects the duo to pull up, to halt, but as they show no sign of doing so, I realise that part of me doesn't expect them to stop, doesn't want them to stop.
A voice at the back of my mind screams at me to get out of the way, but I easily ignore it. If I die, at least I join Seifer, and if I don't...
Odin has closed the gap in the time I have been thinking, now there is physically no way to escape the impact, even if I wanted to.
There is a blinding flash of white light, but no pain, in fact, no feeling at all. There is whiteness all around, I think... I try to turn, but there is no sensation to tell me if I have turned or not. For all I know I'm spinning madly, or falling to who knows where.
Is this death? It's almost like the time compression the others experienced, as far as I could understand their descriptions, or they could describe it. The only difference is that I'm alone, again...
You're not alone The voice comes from nowhere and everywhere. I vaguely recognise it as Odin's. He doesn't seem to realise that I have always been alone, except in the company of one person. Seifer. And now Seifer is dead, and if this isn't death, then I am still alone, and will be alone until I die.
What's happened to me? I wonder. Almost as if he can hear my very thoughts, Odin responds.
I have junctioned our very flesh together The statement reminds me of Ultemecia's act, junctioning Griever to herself to save the life of her GF. Of my GF. A GF that I have had for 15 years, but never knew I had until after we had saved the world from Time Compression.
Why? Why has Odin, supposedly dead all this time, suddenly materialised and physically junctioned himself to me? And why is this taking so long?
We await our cousin The once-independent voice of Odin is almost like a thought in my mind now, and I find that I know who 'our' cousin is.
The white around me begins to change. It is still white, but everywhere a rainbow of colours glitter at me. It is beautiful, and even if I can't feel it, I am sure my jaw must have dropped in an open expression of wonder.
We are here A new voice, but, like Odin, a voice I recognise. Eden. The GF that I fought so hard to gain. I wonder again why this is happening. Two powerful GFs, perhaps the two most powerful after Griever, have suddenly physically junctioned themselves to me. Why? What possible motivation could they have?
We are komplete And suddenly I know. Elle always told us, throughout Ultemecia, that you can't change the past, no matter how hard you try. But, Time Compression, even the limited Time Compression the world experienced, fucked up time. For a while the past is the future, and it can't be changed.
I can't be changed.
My actions can't be changed.
The consequences can't be changed.
At least, not from this side of time, but the other side? The side Ultemecia had access to during Time Compression? Perhaps on that side a change could be made, a chance created for things to turn out differently...
I will have to wait and see. Slowly the whiteness and the rainbows fade away, replaced by the world, that now seems dull and two-dimensional. The pillar of fire is still burning brightly, and a twisted sneer settles on my lips. The pathetic mortals who inflicted this pain on me will know this pain for themselves. I promise it.
AN: hmm, whatever has happened to Squall? *taps lip thoughtfully* well, u'll just have 2 wait and see *grins evilly*
Morpheus: Thanx 4 the offer, Seifer's sulking cause I won't let him know what happens b4 ive written it *grins*, he can't live with the idea of never knowing what happened next, so I guess my head's safe for now :p
Gwendolyn-flight: Yup, not a happy Squall...
Redrum: Hmm, what to say without giving the plot away... Well, u've probably guessed what happens/is happening :) still, all will become clear(er) in the next chpt
The Black Lightning Wolf: Heh heh heh, yeah, still, Seifer's used to me being horrible to him all the time, it's cause he's my favourite :)
Lady Yuskreven: Thank you so much for adding me to ur fav authors! *glomps*, and if sugar makes u write such enthusiastic reviews, don't stop!
AN: On a more personal, and desperate, note, please go RxR Hyne's Return *sniffles* it's a Stargate SG1 / FF8 crossover, with SxS, and will have my first explicit lemon...