Chapter 14- Piecing together
"Irvine are you sure you won't be too long?" Selphie said as Irvine pulled up outside a shabby building.
"Yes, I'm just going to go inside and have a little chat with one of my colleagues and then I'll be out in no time so we can catch that movie" he said giving Selphie a wink.
Nodding her head Selphie looked through the car window to were Irvine was supposed to be meeting his colleague. There was a light drizzle of rain falling with a cool wind, through the weather Selphie saw an old abandoned building, which looked like it hadn't been used for over a decade. "Are you even sure this is the right place?" she asked looking back over to Irvine.
"Its what he said" Irvine turned around and looked at the building, which was falling to pieces himself "I've heard he's a strange guy, it'll be the right place"
Selphie looked shocked "You've never even met this guy before? I thought you said you worked together. I don't think you should be meeting someone you've never seen before in a shabby old building"
Irvine flashed Selphie one of his smiles "It'll be fine, I won't get raped or anything" he said before closing the car door and heading into the building.
Once inside Irvine studied the fading wallpaper which had been torn in some areas, there was also a strong smell of dust which tingled the inside of his nose making him feel like he was going to sneeze. He wondered why anyone in the world would want to meet up here, feeling the sense that Selphie was right and he probably had gone to the wrong place he turned and went to exit the building once more. He stopped in his tracks when he heard footsteps behind him and turned around to see a tall, medium built man, although he was hard to make out through the lack of light.
"Kinneas" hollered the mans voice.
"Yes?" Irvine answered a little nervous by the atmosphere around him.
"The names Rajin" he said extending a hand towards him, which was accepted by Irvine. "It's nice to have finally met you after all this time, Fujin's told me a lot about you. Please follow me," he said turning on his heals and walking deeper into the building. Irvine quickly followed after him up a flight of stairs and down a corridor.
"What exactly did you want me for?" Irvine asked "because I have a date in the car and I don't want to leave her waiting"
"I thought I told you to come alone" Rajin said "You can't just bring strangers with you, ya know"
"Yeah well I already had plans made and Fuj only told me a couple of hours ago" Irvine said.
"A couple of hours is enough time to cancel your plans," he said simply whilst opening a door leading to a room which, inside had a sofa and a few other objects inside the room. "Please sit down, I have a few more guests which should be arriving soon." Soon after Rajin closed the door behind him leaving Irvine alone for the time being, he took a key out of his pocket and locked the door. He knew Irvine was a person who couldn't be trusted.
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"Is everyone ready?" Seifer asked. The silence from the others around him gave him the right answer. Slowly he opened the door revealing the inside of what could be a dangerous night.
"Lets meet the bastard then" Zell said following Seifer inside the room. Everything seemed so quiet and none of them knew what was to come of the next hour or so.
The sudden noise of Seifer's phone ringing startled everyone spreading a strong sensation of adrenaline around their body. Sighing of relief Seifer took out his phone and placed it by his ear, something inside him told him who it was. "Hello?"
"Good evening" came the mans voice. "I see you've made it safely inside my home. And you have everyone with you like a asked, someone has been revising"
"How did you know we were all here?" Seifer asked feeling a little uncomfortable with this man knowing when he entered the building.
"I watched you through the window" he said simply " I suppose you want me to speak to you face to face now?"
"Of course, that's the reason we came here"
"Good. If you look to your left there's a flight of stairs, go up them and go into the first door on your right. I'll be waiting for you," he said before hanging up the phone.
Seifer looked around at his friends once more with worried expressions on their faces. "Follow me," he said leading them to where he had been directed to go.
Squall slowly followed Seifer up the stairs, along with Zell and Rinoa behind him. He wasn't sure how Seifer could trust this man so much, but he knew just as well as the rest of them that they all had no choice. A hand grasped around his and he looked back to find Rinoa looking at him a little nervous, he gave her hand a squeeze for reassurance although it wasn't much. He was as worried as anyone else at how the man had known about Rinoa being with them, other thoughts were also going around his mind like why he would ask her to come with them since she was an amateur in all what they were doing. He felt it wasn't right that she should get involved in all this hiding from the government. He looked at her in the face and their eyes locked, for some reason it felt like she could look straight inside his soul. When he had this feeling he had a sense of security like a young child with their mother, although this feeling was quite new to Squall he was in no rush to wish it away. She gave him a slight smile and carried on walking until they reached outside a door.
Seifer quickly opened the door, he couldn't take all this waiting around anymore and he just wanted it over and done with. He looked through the darkness of the room and saw a mans figure sat by a window looking outside. Seifer took another few steps inside the room but stopped when the man turned around to look at them.
"Its nice to finally meet you" the man said walking to the side of a wall and turning on a light. "That's better I can see you now, soldiers"
"Soldiers?" Seifer repeated to himself.
"I bet its been a long time since any of you got called that, now days everyone just calls you mutants. I bet that must be a horrible burden to live with," he said studying each one of the four people in front of him.
"You…you look familiar" Zell said studying the man; he turned to his friends who also had the same look on their faces, save Rinoa.
"I'm glad that you recognise me," he said "Its nice to see that you haven't gone completely stupid since you left. You may remember me, since I was the one that taught you how to fight while you were with us"
"Rajin" Squall said through gritted teeth. "You're the one that took Quistis?"
"Yes, I suppose that you'd like her back" he said walking out of the room leaving the rest of them wondering what he was doing, a few moments later they heard a woman's cry and he returned dragging a weak Quistis by the arm and sat her down on a chair. "She hasn't eaten in a for a while, I was always terrible at remembering to feed my pets when I was a kid." He said with a little smile.
Seifer, forgetting what situation he was in walked towards Quistis but was stopped in his tracks when a gun was pointed at his head. "Your forgetting something, I'm the one in charge here" Rajin said. Seifer stepped back and glared angrily at Rajin.
"What do you want from us?" he said.
"Can you remember all them years ago when you were all supposed to be sent to them extermination camps? I was the one that made the order, to kill all of the mutants because we didn't need them anymore. It would have been so simple if invalids like you hadn't escaped from us. So for the rest of my life I have been searching for mutants who escaped and killed them myself. It's a shame that the last thing I killed was a mutants baby, I could have killed the mother but thought it would teach her a lesson in life if I killed something which seemed to mean so much to her. It seems my idea worked, since it was only in the newspaper a while ago about how she threw herself off the top of the hospital"
"You mean Ellone?" Zell said a little taken back by this new information "she had a baby?"
Rajin nodded his head "Indeed, but I didn't invite you all here to discuss this. Are you wondering why I asked you to come with them?" he said facing Rinoa.
"Yes" Rinoa said speaking out for the first time since they arrived "Why did you want me, I'm not like them"
Rajin sighed and the edges of his lips lifted into a small smile "I take it your father never told you about your mothers little secret then" he said "but then again, he didn't know because when your father hears something he doesn't like he refuses to listen to any explanation"
Rinoa looked at Rajin confused "What do you mean my mothers secret?"
"I'd hate to tell you this Rinoa but you'd be dead today if your mother didn't take you to us when you was a baby" he said, "when you were born you had an illness which couldn't be treated because no one knew what it was. The doctors told your mother that they could do nothing and you would probably die. So she came to scientists who might be able to do something to help you, scientists who created your little friends here. It turns out the only thing they could think of doing was injecting you with mutant blood."
"I don't believe you" Rinoa said in shock.
"You don't have to believe me, but it's the truth. She took the risk in knowing that you might have side effects, such as obtaining mutant abilities."
Rinoa turned attention away from Rajin and look at Squall who looked just as confused as she was, no matter how much she told her self that he was just lying…it made sense. There was no way she could have just been born with the same abilities as a mutant.
"Your father was so angry when he found out that she had come to us" Rajin carried on "I have a bad habit of letting things slip out of my mouth at the wrong time. He was so angry he told her to leave you and him alone and never return. And she never did come back did she, because she was in a car accident that night and died. That's the problem I have with your father, he seems to forget that once you say something you can't take it back"
A single tear rolled down Rinoa's face, as she understood everything that happened. "He was the reason she died"
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Selphie looked at her watch and sighed to herself, he had been inside the building for nearly an hour and he said he'd only be a few minutes. She stepped out of the car and into the building in which Irvine had entered all that time ago, once inside she searched around the creepy building and went up a flight of stairs. When she reached the second floor she had a big urge to run downstairs again when she heard loud banging but stopped in her tracks when she heard a mans voice which seemed to sound like Irvine.
"Irvine where are you?" she said wondering around searching where the banging was coming from. She stooped outside a door and tried to turn the handle but it seemed the door was locked. "Irvine, the doors locked" she said with a little smile on her face enjoying the moment.
"I know Selph" came Irvine's voice through the door "Can you see a key or something?"
Selphie looked around her but there was nothing which she could see that would open the door apart from a long piece of metal "Irvine, don't worry I'm going to get you out of here" she said picking up the piece of metal. She stuck the metal bar in the side of the door and with a hard shove she pushed it towards the wall to prize the door open.
An amazed Irvine stepped out of the room and looked at Selphie "Where did you learn how to do that?" he asked.
"I'm not just a pretty face" she said walking away from him but stopped when she thought she heard people talking from somewhere else in the abandoned building "Do you hear voices?" she asked.
Irvine stood still for a moment and listened to his surroundings "Yes, I think its coming from down here" he said walking down a corridor. Selphie quickly followed after him and they found themselves walking into a room with all of her other friends.
"What are you lot doing here?" she asked looking at each person confused "and who was the mean person who locked Irvine in the room down the hall?"
"I believe that was me" Rajin said "Thank you for helping me to find these mutants, Irvine"
Irvine looked at him shocked at his last comment "I didn't help you find them" he said noticing angry looks coming from three other people around him "I have nothing to do with this" he said in his defence.
"That sort of attitude isn't going to be good when the world thanks you for helping me kill them" Rajin said.
"Mutants?" Selphie said to herself confused at everything what was happening. She looked at Seifer "What's he talking about none of you are…" she stopped herself when she realised everything.
"You thought all of these were your friends?" Rajin said with a smile on his face "they're nothing but filthy mutants, I'm surprised you're still alive"
"Selphie don't listen to him," Seifer shouted glaring at Rajin "Leave her out of this"
"Oh I'm going to enjoy this" Rajin said getting his gun out once more "You remember what I told you about how I killed Ellone's baby to teach her a lesson. I think I better do the same thing to you, perhaps it'll teach you to follow orders and not escape when your supposed to die" he aimed the gun at Quistis and the next few moments were filled with the sounds of screams and gun fire.
Authors note: Oh no! Is Quistis dead? You'll have to find out in the next chapter. Everyone has been moaning at me to write long chapters and this one is over 2000 words long, is that enough for you? Its taken me two days to write, but I enjoyed it so thanks! ^_^
Thank you to- Paper-doll, Lorelei, maz, Jenza, Phoenix blade, M.O.M.O angelic, Sandra Leonhart, Shattered sword, The Angel Of The Lion.
I hope I spelt all of those right hehe.
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