Chapter 12 Misguided

Squall and Seifer were met by Zell and Rinoa as soon as they got back to their home, all of them relieved that nothing bad had happened to them. Spookily a few minutes after they were in the house the phone rang. Seifer went to answer, as the others listened intently at what was being said.

"He wants us to give the disk to him tomorrow at 10 in the train station," Seifer said after he had put the phone down.

"Has he given any clue to who he is?" Zell asked.

"No," Seifer said, shaking his head. "But he has obviously planned all of this out and he knows my code number."

"What's that?" Rinoa asked.

"It's the number they give you when we was made," Squall explained. "They mainly called us by out number instead of our name."

"Okay," Rinoa said. "Does Selphie know?"

Seifer looked at her confused but then realised what she was asking. "No, you're the only person who knows," he said, shooting a glance at Squall.

"Why don't you tell her? She already knows you're keeping something from her."

"I realise and that's the way I want it to stay," Seifer said, realising he had said it harsher than it was meant to sound.

Rinoa looked at him in shock for a moment. "Seifer, she's upset and I think she's starting to think that none of us trust her," she said raising her voice. "Do you trust her?"

Seifer stayed quiet, he'd never actually asked himself if he would trust her with this type of information before. He'd always taken it for granted that no one knew.

"Answer me," Rinoa said more sternly this time.

"I don't know, okay?" Seifer shouted, standing up and walking out of the room.

Guilt quickly shot through Rinoa and soon enough she found herself following him to apologise. "Seifer I'm really sorry," she said as she caught up with him.

Seifer shook his head. "Forget it. I've just got a lot of things on my mind."

"I know and I'm sorry," Rinoa said sympathetically. "But I am worried about Selphie."

Seifer stayed quiet for a moment then said, "She might not like the truth, the reason we don't tell anyone is because we don't know how they will react."

Rinoa nodded her head. "I wish it wasn't like this."

"That makes two of us."

~*~*~*~*~*~

Seifer stood just inside the train station with Squall, Zell and Rinoa behind him. They'd wanted to come just in case he needed any help or if anything happened. He let out a sigh; he only hoped that sometime soon Quistis would be coming back with him safe.

The jingle of his phone startled him slightly, quickly he answered it knowing who it was. "You got the disk?" came a voice from the other end.

"Only if you have Quistis," he replied coldly.

Seifer heard a faint woman's voice call his name, which he knew only too well. "Give her back to me and you can have the disk."

"Quistis did you hear that?" came the man's voice. "Once he gives me the disk you can go. He's at the main entrance waiting for you."

"I said you give me Quistis first then you get your disk," Seifer said sternly.

"Sorry, but things have to be my way. If you don't want to do it my way then you're going to have to find a way to prove you're not a mutant."

Seifer gritted his teeth. "Bastard."

There was a little laugh from the other end of the phone. "I take it things will be my way then, you do have brains after all. To the left of you there's a row of empty chairs, put the disk on them."

Awkwardly, Seifer walked to the row of chairs and placed the disk on one of them.

"Good. Quistis you can go now, they're right over there," the man said to Quistis before hanging up.

Seifer looked around the crowds of people anxiously to find Quistis "She's coming" he said to the others "Can you see her?"

They stepped further in the station scanning the area around them looking for Quistis. Seifer looked around him and something just clicked in his mind. He'd left the disk unattended. "Go back and get the disk," he said to his friends as he ran back as fast as he could to find the disk.

Once he got there he could have kicked himself for being so careless. Just as he had expected, there was no disk.

"Bloody bastard" Seifer shouted not caring about the passers by giving him strange looks.

~*~*~*~*~*~

"Why did you make me do all that for nothing?" Seifer screamed down the phone. It had been a few hours since they had returned from the train station with no Quistis.

The man simply laughed at Seifer's outburst "I hope you're not angry with me" he said with a hint of sarcasm.

"Of course I'm angry" Seifer shouted once more "I thought we had a deal"

"We do, I just wanted to know how badly you wanted her back. Think of it as a test"

"I'm not a kid so I don't need these stupid tests" Seifer commented "Of course I want Quistis to be back, I've done something you want like you said. Now give me Quistis back and stop messing me about"

"I'm glad you want Quistis back" the man said with a smile "but tell me something, when I'm gone do you really think you'll go the rest of your lives without anyone knowing about your little secret?"

"We'll get by"

"Something inside me doesn't believe you, but just as long as you keep believing that's all that matters. Now I know your serious about getting her back I'd like to express to you how serious I am in all of this. Check your doorstep"

Although Seifer was suspicious at what the man was telling him to do, he could only comply. He stepped to his front door and slowly opened it.

"Can you see a brown envelope?" the man asked.

"Yes" Seifer said picking it up and closing the door behind him. Slowly he opened it up and took out a piece of paper. On the piece of paper was a picture of him from the night before when he had gone to get the disk. "How did you get this?" Seifer asked panicking.

"I thought you might like my present, I have a copy just the same as yours with me. This is how serious I am, you try anything and I can get the government going after you by tonight. Now I hope you have a lovely evening and I'll talk to you tomorrow" the man said before hanging up the phone with a smirk on his face.   

Authors note: Sorry is this chapter is short and rubbish! Life's really starting to suck for me at times but I decided to put this chapter up today to let you know that I am indeed still alive.

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