Chapter 8
We're's the pigtailed girl. Well as you can tell it didn't work out but I'm not telling you where she's gonna land in this fic. Well of course if you can guess. And yes you guys will want to stone me for it.
Disclaimer I do not own FF VIII, you better understand that cause I'm not going to repeat it.
Months fly by and Rin is now two, and Zell and Xu's son is born. Time has come to let her out of the Garden to go visit the world. Squall decides to take her to her granddads. He hadn't seen her yet. He knew he should have taken her sooner to see her grandad. Rin bounces around and claps her hand. Squall finishes packing a back pack of snacks and coloring books. It is a wonderful day for traveling.
"Rin, ready to go?" Squall asks.
Rin shakes her head yes and puts her toy in her belt. Squall gives a quick smile and takes Rin by the hand and leads her out the door.
"Squall wait!" Zell gasps running up. "Sorry, Zell Jr."
Squall looks at Zell's son who is in a front carrior. His son didn't mind his dads bouncy ways. Probably one day he'll be just as hyper. Rin walks up and pokes at Zell JR.
"What?" Squall asks.
"Xu wants me to tell you she's got the school for the period your gone and," Zell pulls out a package. "Can't forget hotdogs for little Rin can ya?"
Rin takes the package quickly, Zell grins at her.
'Thank you.' Rin signs.
"Your welcome Rin." Zell says politly.
"Anything else?" Squall says in his monotone.
"Nope, have fun."
Squall takes Rin's hand and they continue on the way to General Caraway's mantion. They get to the city quickly but the busses run slow today. A group gathers around them. Rin chews on her finger and looks at the people. She was used to the uniforms of the garden. Rooms not buildings. Somthing shiny catches her eye so she wanders over.
Squall looks away from her as the bus pulls up infront of them. The doors open and the crowd surges foward. RIn falls and hits her head on the first step and cries. Squall feeling his arm twists looks down at Rin. Blood covers her face and tears run down her forehead.
"Rin!" Squall picks her up and holds her to his chest.
Squall pushes his way unto the bus and leans agianst the wall. The bus driver turns to say the bus was full but the look on Squalls face shut him up.
"Get that kid some help!" Someone yells.
"Yeah! We're you heading?" Anouther shouts.
Soon the whole bus is in a uproar. The busdriver looks back at Squall agian wondering where to drive.
"General Caraways mantion." Squall says.
The bus driver cranks the gear and drives off towards the mantion. Squall looks at the people. Everyone was trying to get away from the blood dripping on the floor. Rin's body shook as she continued to cry. Bouncing her, he hopes to calm her down. But how can you calm down a child when you can't calm your own nerves?
The bus screaches to a halt infront of the mantion. Squall runs out and runs up to the front door of the mantion brushing off all the gaurds. Squall pounds on the front door with one hand leaving red marks on the door. A maid answers the door and proptly screams.
General Caraway runs to the door and sees Squall. His face tightens as he sees him holding a child tight blood all over the place.
"Take the child and patch her up. Stop screaming." Caraway orders.
The bafled maid takes the child from Squall and takes her in back. Caraway looks at the child then at Squall who shakes.
"Sit, and tell me who is that child?"
Squall finds a chair and sits down. Caraway sits in a chair by him.
"That's Rin Rai Leonhart... That's your granddaughter."
Caraway looks shocked. "That's my granddaughter? Why did it take you so long for you to bring her to see me?"
"You didn't come to the funeral, I've been so bussy. Alot has happened." Squall spits out.
"If your to bussy to take her to see her grandfather then maybe you shouldn't be raising her at all!" Caraway booms out.
"I have people helping me raise her," Squall says confused. "She's loved."
"She can't even cry!" Caraway yells not knowing Rin's challanges.
"Not after she got seriously sick and I almost lost her!" Squall stands up. "But she's better now! She's happy content!"
Caraway's face contorts with anger. He glances at the corner of the room. Squall opens his mouth to say somthing more but a pain shoots through his head.
"I'll take it from here." Caraway says right before Squall blacks out.
Caraway watches as Squall falls to the floor unconscious. The maid walks out with a banaged up Rin. Runs over to Squall and shakes him. She wanted to go, she didn't want to be here. Caraway looks down at Rin.
"I'm your grandfather." Caraway says. "I'll be taking care of you now."
Rin looks at Caraway and does the only thing she knew. She flicks him off, just like Zell did when he got to unhappy. Caraway scours and looks at the maid.
"Take her to the dineing room." Caraway orders.
"Yes sir."
The maid pulls Rin away from her dad. Rin kicks and tries to bite the maid. Caraway looks at his guard.
"Put him in the attic and lock him in." Caraway order.
"Yes sir."
The gaurd grabs Squall by the foot and drags him trough the house to the stairs. Caraway watches as the gaurd mindlessly drags him up the stairs. Once out of site, he gets up. Time to confront his granddaughter.
Squall opens his eyes just as the hatch to the attic is closed and locked. His head hurt and Caraway had his daughter. Squall foces him self to sit up his head realing. This was becomming a bad day.
Rin watches as Caraway enters the room. Still unaware of Rin's disability. Rin crosses her arms and sticks up her nose. Caraway laughs.
"You remind me of your mother at that age. Do you remeber your mother?" Caraway asks.
Rin dosn't answer. Caraway grabs Rin's toy and breaks it. Mouth opening wide she looks at Caraway angerly.
'Mother sleeping.' Rin signs. 'Mother angel. Dad cry night mother.'
Caraway stares, he didn't exspect this for the reason why she never cried. Gathering his tuff face he tosses her broken toy in the corner.
"Well you can do with out that stupid toy!" Caraway snaps.
'Meany.' Rin signs with vengence in mind.
'Mean em I?" Caraway asks.
Rin shakes her head yes.
"Well lets get you washed up for dinner."
An old servent ran in and grabed Rin. Rin watched as she was carried through the house. The servent takes off her clothes and puts her in a bath tub. Rin starts to cry agian, the old servent smiles and grabs the wash cloth.
"Don't cry little one." The servent says. "General Caraway is just a little moody you'll see your daddy agian. Please don't cry. You know I remeber your mother at your age."
Rin looks at the old servant and lets the servent wash her.
"Unlike you, your mother hated baths. Only General Caraway could get in the bath and keep her there."
Rin smiles.
"How about when were done we go visit you dad and get you some of you moms old clothes?" She asks.
Rin shakes her head up and down happily. She wanted so bad to see her daddy. The old lady carefully washes Rin's hair and then rewraps the banage. She wraps a towl tightly around Rin and sneaks out of the bathroom. Making sure no gaurds are around she takes a dash up the stairs to the atic. Undoing the lock she opens up the door. Sticking her head throw she notices a pair of cold eyes looking at her. No one else was up there.
"Squall?" The old servant asks.
"Go away!" Squall snaps.
Taking a quick peep behind her she lets Rin go. Rin takes off and hugs her dad. The old servant goes over to some boxes and begins to file throw old children's clothes. Squall hugs his daughter tight so surprised to see her.
"Why did y-"
"Shhhhh." The old woman turns and shushes Squall.
Squall holds his daughter tight. Savoring the moment to be with her again. Sad to say the moment does not last long. Foot steps are herd coming up the steps to at attic. Squall pushes Rin behind some boxes.
"Who's up here."
"Me!" The old woman snaps. "And what are you going to do about it Poe."
The guard turns away from Squall and looks at the old servant which stood with clothes in her hand. He raises his hand and slaps her. Rin takes a run for freedom.
"Hey stop that!" Squall shouts and gabs Poi's arm.
Poe slams the butt of his gun into Squall's face sending Squall sprawling backwards. The old servant gasps and covers her mouth. Poe glares at the old servent.
"Take the clothes... All the clothes and get the hell out of here." Poe orders.
The old lady grabs the clothes and rushes out of the attic. Poe turns to Squall with inhospitable intentions in mind. Panicking for Squalls life she drops the clothes beside Rin, and runs to find General Caraway. This had gone to far. General Caraway was mean but not this mean. He would never approve this kind of behavior.
Running into the reception area the old lady finds Caraway on the way out. The old lady grabs him and spins him around.
"General Caraway, it's the guard Poe he's going to kill Squall!" The old lady shouts.
"How?" Caraway asks.
"I was up in the attic getting some of the old clothes of Rinoa's for Rin and Poe went nuts." The old lady began to tear. "Squall was just protecting me when Poe hit me."
Caraway pauses the runs to the attic at full speed. How the old lady spoke made it sound Poe was beating the crap out of Squall. As Caraway runs up into the attic she sees Squall. Squall lay curled in a ball defenseless against Poe's blows. Caraway grabs Poe and punches him in the face. Caraway staggers back and falls over some boxes.
"Squall?" Caraway says over an unmoving body.
Caraway rolls Squall unto his back. He had come just in time, for Squall just passed out. Caraway looks Squall up and down. Thankfully just cuts and bruises.
"Squall!" Caraway says a little louder.
Squall groans and opens his eyes. As soon as Squall recognizes the attic Squall shoots up to a sitting position. His breath sucking in from the pain of his ribs. His head whirls and Squall closes his eyes tight.
"Squall I'm so sorry I never planned for this to happen... I just wanted some time with Rin to prove I can take care of her. To maybe coax you into letting me take care of her." Caraway says.
"Were is Rin." Squall growls loosing his control.
"Squall please reconsider." Caraway asks.
"No, where's Rin!" Squall yells trying to get to his feet.
Caraway helps Squall to his feet. Caraway glares at Poe who remained in the boxes.
"Down stairs down the hall pass two hallways and to the left." Caraway says.
Squall leaves the attic and storms down the hallway. His pulse quickened he worried for his daughter. She must be frightened. Squall blinks and clears his eyes. One hallway, one more to go. A kind servant takes his arm. Squall tries to resist but she continues to help him. Hallway number to. She points down the hallway so Squall can turn before her.
Rin ran out into the hallway chasing after a ball. She seemed happy and all right. And the dress she was wearing one of Rinoa's old ones. Squall stops and watches her. Rin grabs the blue ball and tosses it into the air. It goes up then on the way down it hits her on the head. Sticking out her tongue she pretends to be knocked senseless.
"Tell Caraway he's got a week but if anything happens that threatens me OR my daughter he's never seeing her again." Squall says.
"I will. Would you like to see you daughter or do you want to go wash up and get patched up?" She asks.
"Take me where I can clean up."
She nods and helps Squall back down the hallway to the second unused bathroom. There she leaves him to go find Caraway.
***
Sorry I need to get frustration out on something.
We're's the pigtailed girl. Well as you can tell it didn't work out but I'm not telling you where she's gonna land in this fic. Well of course if you can guess. And yes you guys will want to stone me for it.
Disclaimer I do not own FF VIII, you better understand that cause I'm not going to repeat it.
Months fly by and Rin is now two, and Zell and Xu's son is born. Time has come to let her out of the Garden to go visit the world. Squall decides to take her to her granddads. He hadn't seen her yet. He knew he should have taken her sooner to see her grandad. Rin bounces around and claps her hand. Squall finishes packing a back pack of snacks and coloring books. It is a wonderful day for traveling.
"Rin, ready to go?" Squall asks.
Rin shakes her head yes and puts her toy in her belt. Squall gives a quick smile and takes Rin by the hand and leads her out the door.
"Squall wait!" Zell gasps running up. "Sorry, Zell Jr."
Squall looks at Zell's son who is in a front carrior. His son didn't mind his dads bouncy ways. Probably one day he'll be just as hyper. Rin walks up and pokes at Zell JR.
"What?" Squall asks.
"Xu wants me to tell you she's got the school for the period your gone and," Zell pulls out a package. "Can't forget hotdogs for little Rin can ya?"
Rin takes the package quickly, Zell grins at her.
'Thank you.' Rin signs.
"Your welcome Rin." Zell says politly.
"Anything else?" Squall says in his monotone.
"Nope, have fun."
Squall takes Rin's hand and they continue on the way to General Caraway's mantion. They get to the city quickly but the busses run slow today. A group gathers around them. Rin chews on her finger and looks at the people. She was used to the uniforms of the garden. Rooms not buildings. Somthing shiny catches her eye so she wanders over.
Squall looks away from her as the bus pulls up infront of them. The doors open and the crowd surges foward. RIn falls and hits her head on the first step and cries. Squall feeling his arm twists looks down at Rin. Blood covers her face and tears run down her forehead.
"Rin!" Squall picks her up and holds her to his chest.
Squall pushes his way unto the bus and leans agianst the wall. The bus driver turns to say the bus was full but the look on Squalls face shut him up.
"Get that kid some help!" Someone yells.
"Yeah! We're you heading?" Anouther shouts.
Soon the whole bus is in a uproar. The busdriver looks back at Squall agian wondering where to drive.
"General Caraways mantion." Squall says.
The bus driver cranks the gear and drives off towards the mantion. Squall looks at the people. Everyone was trying to get away from the blood dripping on the floor. Rin's body shook as she continued to cry. Bouncing her, he hopes to calm her down. But how can you calm down a child when you can't calm your own nerves?
The bus screaches to a halt infront of the mantion. Squall runs out and runs up to the front door of the mantion brushing off all the gaurds. Squall pounds on the front door with one hand leaving red marks on the door. A maid answers the door and proptly screams.
General Caraway runs to the door and sees Squall. His face tightens as he sees him holding a child tight blood all over the place.
"Take the child and patch her up. Stop screaming." Caraway orders.
The bafled maid takes the child from Squall and takes her in back. Caraway looks at the child then at Squall who shakes.
"Sit, and tell me who is that child?"
Squall finds a chair and sits down. Caraway sits in a chair by him.
"That's Rin Rai Leonhart... That's your granddaughter."
Caraway looks shocked. "That's my granddaughter? Why did it take you so long for you to bring her to see me?"
"You didn't come to the funeral, I've been so bussy. Alot has happened." Squall spits out.
"If your to bussy to take her to see her grandfather then maybe you shouldn't be raising her at all!" Caraway booms out.
"I have people helping me raise her," Squall says confused. "She's loved."
"She can't even cry!" Caraway yells not knowing Rin's challanges.
"Not after she got seriously sick and I almost lost her!" Squall stands up. "But she's better now! She's happy content!"
Caraway's face contorts with anger. He glances at the corner of the room. Squall opens his mouth to say somthing more but a pain shoots through his head.
"I'll take it from here." Caraway says right before Squall blacks out.
Caraway watches as Squall falls to the floor unconscious. The maid walks out with a banaged up Rin. Runs over to Squall and shakes him. She wanted to go, she didn't want to be here. Caraway looks down at Rin.
"I'm your grandfather." Caraway says. "I'll be taking care of you now."
Rin looks at Caraway and does the only thing she knew. She flicks him off, just like Zell did when he got to unhappy. Caraway scours and looks at the maid.
"Take her to the dineing room." Caraway orders.
"Yes sir."
The maid pulls Rin away from her dad. Rin kicks and tries to bite the maid. Caraway looks at his guard.
"Put him in the attic and lock him in." Caraway order.
"Yes sir."
The gaurd grabs Squall by the foot and drags him trough the house to the stairs. Caraway watches as the gaurd mindlessly drags him up the stairs. Once out of site, he gets up. Time to confront his granddaughter.
Squall opens his eyes just as the hatch to the attic is closed and locked. His head hurt and Caraway had his daughter. Squall foces him self to sit up his head realing. This was becomming a bad day.
Rin watches as Caraway enters the room. Still unaware of Rin's disability. Rin crosses her arms and sticks up her nose. Caraway laughs.
"You remind me of your mother at that age. Do you remeber your mother?" Caraway asks.
Rin dosn't answer. Caraway grabs Rin's toy and breaks it. Mouth opening wide she looks at Caraway angerly.
'Mother sleeping.' Rin signs. 'Mother angel. Dad cry night mother.'
Caraway stares, he didn't exspect this for the reason why she never cried. Gathering his tuff face he tosses her broken toy in the corner.
"Well you can do with out that stupid toy!" Caraway snaps.
'Meany.' Rin signs with vengence in mind.
'Mean em I?" Caraway asks.
Rin shakes her head yes.
"Well lets get you washed up for dinner."
An old servent ran in and grabed Rin. Rin watched as she was carried through the house. The servent takes off her clothes and puts her in a bath tub. Rin starts to cry agian, the old servent smiles and grabs the wash cloth.
"Don't cry little one." The servent says. "General Caraway is just a little moody you'll see your daddy agian. Please don't cry. You know I remeber your mother at your age."
Rin looks at the old servant and lets the servent wash her.
"Unlike you, your mother hated baths. Only General Caraway could get in the bath and keep her there."
Rin smiles.
"How about when were done we go visit you dad and get you some of you moms old clothes?" She asks.
Rin shakes her head up and down happily. She wanted so bad to see her daddy. The old lady carefully washes Rin's hair and then rewraps the banage. She wraps a towl tightly around Rin and sneaks out of the bathroom. Making sure no gaurds are around she takes a dash up the stairs to the atic. Undoing the lock she opens up the door. Sticking her head throw she notices a pair of cold eyes looking at her. No one else was up there.
"Squall?" The old servant asks.
"Go away!" Squall snaps.
Taking a quick peep behind her she lets Rin go. Rin takes off and hugs her dad. The old servant goes over to some boxes and begins to file throw old children's clothes. Squall hugs his daughter tight so surprised to see her.
"Why did y-"
"Shhhhh." The old woman turns and shushes Squall.
Squall holds his daughter tight. Savoring the moment to be with her again. Sad to say the moment does not last long. Foot steps are herd coming up the steps to at attic. Squall pushes Rin behind some boxes.
"Who's up here."
"Me!" The old woman snaps. "And what are you going to do about it Poe."
The guard turns away from Squall and looks at the old servant which stood with clothes in her hand. He raises his hand and slaps her. Rin takes a run for freedom.
"Hey stop that!" Squall shouts and gabs Poi's arm.
Poe slams the butt of his gun into Squall's face sending Squall sprawling backwards. The old servant gasps and covers her mouth. Poe glares at the old servent.
"Take the clothes... All the clothes and get the hell out of here." Poe orders.
The old lady grabs the clothes and rushes out of the attic. Poe turns to Squall with inhospitable intentions in mind. Panicking for Squalls life she drops the clothes beside Rin, and runs to find General Caraway. This had gone to far. General Caraway was mean but not this mean. He would never approve this kind of behavior.
Running into the reception area the old lady finds Caraway on the way out. The old lady grabs him and spins him around.
"General Caraway, it's the guard Poe he's going to kill Squall!" The old lady shouts.
"How?" Caraway asks.
"I was up in the attic getting some of the old clothes of Rinoa's for Rin and Poe went nuts." The old lady began to tear. "Squall was just protecting me when Poe hit me."
Caraway pauses the runs to the attic at full speed. How the old lady spoke made it sound Poe was beating the crap out of Squall. As Caraway runs up into the attic she sees Squall. Squall lay curled in a ball defenseless against Poe's blows. Caraway grabs Poe and punches him in the face. Caraway staggers back and falls over some boxes.
"Squall?" Caraway says over an unmoving body.
Caraway rolls Squall unto his back. He had come just in time, for Squall just passed out. Caraway looks Squall up and down. Thankfully just cuts and bruises.
"Squall!" Caraway says a little louder.
Squall groans and opens his eyes. As soon as Squall recognizes the attic Squall shoots up to a sitting position. His breath sucking in from the pain of his ribs. His head whirls and Squall closes his eyes tight.
"Squall I'm so sorry I never planned for this to happen... I just wanted some time with Rin to prove I can take care of her. To maybe coax you into letting me take care of her." Caraway says.
"Were is Rin." Squall growls loosing his control.
"Squall please reconsider." Caraway asks.
"No, where's Rin!" Squall yells trying to get to his feet.
Caraway helps Squall to his feet. Caraway glares at Poe who remained in the boxes.
"Down stairs down the hall pass two hallways and to the left." Caraway says.
Squall leaves the attic and storms down the hallway. His pulse quickened he worried for his daughter. She must be frightened. Squall blinks and clears his eyes. One hallway, one more to go. A kind servant takes his arm. Squall tries to resist but she continues to help him. Hallway number to. She points down the hallway so Squall can turn before her.
Rin ran out into the hallway chasing after a ball. She seemed happy and all right. And the dress she was wearing one of Rinoa's old ones. Squall stops and watches her. Rin grabs the blue ball and tosses it into the air. It goes up then on the way down it hits her on the head. Sticking out her tongue she pretends to be knocked senseless.
"Tell Caraway he's got a week but if anything happens that threatens me OR my daughter he's never seeing her again." Squall says.
"I will. Would you like to see you daughter or do you want to go wash up and get patched up?" She asks.
"Take me where I can clean up."
She nods and helps Squall back down the hallway to the second unused bathroom. There she leaves him to go find Caraway.
***
Sorry I need to get frustration out on something.
