Possession

His eyes sleepily opened and then quickly shut tight again at the florescent lights all around him. He groaned and mumbled curses under his breath as he slowly reopened his calm gray-blue eyes, as they slowly accustomed to the harsh bright light of the room. He scanned the room the fear and the confusion growing. It seemed a small room of all white. A hospital perhaps? He was lying down on a small white bed, the cool sheets feeling good against his bare skin…Bare skin!?

Where the fuck are all my clothes!?

"Where the hell am I?" he grumbled as he lifted a hand to rub his eyes.

He began to yawn drowsily when close by voices made him sharply turn. He listened intently, ready for battle should there be any.

"What the hell happened out there?" a feminine voice demanded from another room.

"I don't know! We were walking around looking for a payphone to get the timber police to search for Seifer, Squall and Quistis, but that's when we saw him! " replied a squeaky feminine voice excitedly. Who the hell are those people?

Then another soft voice of a girl spoke. She seemed nervous and stressed: "Yeah…we saw him he was…I don't know…I guess you could say catatonic. I started to shake him, you know to get him to come to his senses, then he hit his head…. He hit his head against the wall he was sitting against…Oh Squall…" he heard a soft sob.

Squall…? Hmm that's a nice name…

I wonder why she's crying over him?

"Well the that explains the laceration on the back of his head." The first woman spoke calmly. Squall reached and gingerly touched the wound at the back of his head. He felt a bandage. Am I this Squall they're talking about?

"But uh…I can't be quite sure what caused this amnesia. It should be only temporary, by the way. " he heard her softly sigh. "Maybe it has to do with some kind of…um…possession."

"POSSESION?" he heard the two other females exclaim in unison.

"Quite possibly, yes." The first woman continued. " Let's see, did he talk differently?"

"What do you mean, Dr. Kadawaki?" the squeaky voiced girl asked.

"Well, did he act totally out of character?"

"YEAH! He went totally insane!! He went to Timber to kill Seifer and his 'posse'!" she replied.

"…Yeah…" the other soft voiced girl agreed.

"Bye the way, girls," the first woman cut in. " It was all over the news that Rajin and Fujin have been murdered…Two shots only. They were kill shots one in the head and the other in the stomach. Whoever shot them was a professional. Oh and Irvine's gun was found at the scene."

"Irvy!?" the squeaky girl piped. Squall slightly winced at the high pitched voice.

"What does that have to do with anything?" the soft-spoken girl inquired.

"It could be nothing, it be everything, Rinoa." She replied.

There was a long pause.

"What of Quistis and Seifer?" Dr. Kadawaki's voice requested authoritatively.

"Still unknown. Irvine and Zell are on it at the moment. "

"Ah yes. "

"What of Cid's body?"

Squall clutched his throbbing head and began to lay back down on the bed when a glass-breaking scream filled his ears. He shot up and out of the room ready for any kind of battle, even if it was just with his fists.

Out of a medicine freezer lay a body yet to be covered. The squeaky voiced girl silently gawked at it as did the other soft voiced girl and Dr. Kadawaki.

"Where the hell am I and what the hell is going on!?" Squall demanded, turning away from the body.

Everybody in the room turned and looked at Squall, sadly seemingly unaware of his nudity. They gasped nervously at his bare form, but Kadawaki simply rolled her eyes. It's not like she's never seen anything like that before.

"Woah Squall…" the squeaky voiced girl said.

"Who?" Squall asked Squall. Oh right that's me

"Maybe you should, uhh…hehe…" Rinoa stole a glance below his waste, before looking away completely.

Squall furrowed his eyebrows and glanced down, his face turning beet red. Well this day just keeps getting better and better. "Oh. Right. Where are my clothes now?"

***

"So.."

"So?"

"So are we running away together or what?"

"I guess so, babe." He looked around as they walked hand in hand down the afternoon streets of Timber. Up ahead as they walked was the Timber train station. A wave a guilt ran through him. He swallowed before he spoke. "Quistis? Are you sure? Are you sure you want to stay here with me? I mean you're giving up so much. Think about all your friends at Garden, your career…"

"Seifer I am willing to give all that up for you." She replied. "Now c'mon lets do some shopping." She tugged on his arm as he groaned. Then something caught his eye, causing him to freeze in his tracks.

The newspaper.

He quickly ran up to the machine and slipped some gill in the slot and turned the knob quickly, his heart pumping in his chest. No! this can't be true! He immediately snatched a newspaper and stared horrified at the front page.

"Seifer?" Quistis put a hand on his shoulder, to which he shrugged off. He squeezed his eyes shut and unknowingly dropped the newspaper. Quickly, she snatched it in her hands and saw what he saw.

"Oh no…" she shook her head as she too dropped the newspaper to the ground as people's feet stomped over it.

The front page had a picture of the scene of Rajin and Fujin's murder. She didn't even bother to read the article. She knew it was Garden's doing. She knew. How could they!? What had they done? Wasn't it Seifer they wanted!? She didn't know what was worse. If it was Seifer they killed or a part of him that she would never know they killed.

His eyes narrowed dangerously. "Revenge…"

***

Irvine and Zell walked on through the afternoon streets of Timber.

"A heart attack?! What the hell?" Irvine exclaimed.

"I know, I know!" Zell replied. "Dude there they are!"

"Yeah?" Irvine turned to Zell's gaze. "What the? Are they holding hands?"

"Looks like it. What the hell is going on?"