Chapter 14


It's anonymous who I should bring in next. Thank you to a certain reader who I constantly bounce idea's off of. ::bows:: You a God send.


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'Dad! Dad!' Rin signs running up to him.


Squall looks at his daughter. A smile was plastered across her face. In her hand is a sheet of paper. She waves it and makes it impossible for Squall to grab hold. Squall puts his hands on his hips and lets her get out her energy. Rin stops and looks innocent. Squall grabs the paper.


A permission slip for a field trip. It was one weekend. Squall looks side ways and remembers the last time he let her out of the garden.


"No."


'Dad please.' Rin puppy dog eyes Squall, and points her finger in-between Squalls eyes and twirls her finger. Just like her mom used to do.


"You might get hurt, and who's going to be a chaperone?" Squall asks falling for the same old routine.


"I will."


Squall nearly jumps at the feminine voice. Calmly he turns around.


"And who are you ma'am?" Squall asks before he recognizes Eon.


"He, I'm a he." Eon flicks his wrist. "Never mind."


"Did you fail last time I had her under your protection?" Squall snaps.


"She came back alive... Uh Hello?" Eon rolls his eyes.


Squall looks at his daughter who was batting her eyes and looking as innocent as she could. Was it right? Squall looks at the date on the paper. It fell on her sixth birthday. He looks at Eon who tried to look serious but had a hard time. Blinking, Squall looks back down at Rin.


"Do you realize that it falls on your birthday?" Squall asks.


Rin shakes her head yes.


"Are you sure you want to go?"


Rin shakes her head yes.


"Fine you can go." Squall says against his will.


Rin runs off to tell Dawn the good news. She was over existed and couldn't wait for the get away. Eon puts a hand on Squalls shoulder. Squall notices his long purple fingernails. He raises his eye brow.


"My own daughter. She's sixteen." Eon says guessing Squalls thoughts.


"Your married?" Sqaull looks surprised.


Eon laughs. "No, never was. I adopted her, though one day I wish to have a biological child."


Squall looks at Eon at loss for words.


"Come on Squall lets go get something to eat." Eon smacks his lips sending his already feminine voice to a higher pitch.


Dawn and Rin mock giggle over there cloths trying to decide which to bring, and which to leave behind. Halfway through digging out the clothes Rin disappears into the bathroom. A while later she shows Dawn the tooth she just lost. Dawn cringes and looks at the tooth.


'I'm gonna show dad.' Rin signs and runs out the door.


Dawn runs after her but gets picked up by her dad.


"Time for you to eat Dawny." He says and carries her to the table.


Rin runs up to her dad and hands him a package. Irvine sat beside Squall and they were arguing about something. Rin didn't understand and she didn't care to understand what they were saying. As auntie Selphie said. Men are morons and never question what they are talking about.


Squall grabs the crudely wrapped package and opens it. Inside he sees Rin's tooth. Squall looks at Rin. Rin grinned and showed him one of her missing two front teeth. Squall turns pale.


"Irvine, does that mean we have to go throw teething again?" Squall asks.


"No, you don't. Loosing teeth is natural. Now her adult teeth will start coming in." Irvine replies.


"Good I don't want to go through teething again."


Rin mock laughs.


The days flies. Counting down to the field trip. Dawn and Rin made sure to coordinate there clothing as much as they can. ON the day of the big trip Rin wakes up about 5:30 am. She dumps some cereal and shovels down her throat. Squall tromps into the kitchen in his boxers. Puts down her bowl and kisses him on the cheek.


Out the door she goes. Squall understood her good-bye and slid in his own as she ran out the door.


Rin runs halfway around the circle suit case bouncing on behind and met the group by the school map. Dawn sees Rin and flags her over. Rin bounces her suit case over to Dawn. Waving a hello first, then using her suit case as a seat second.


The teacher walks up and claps her hands getting the buzzing kids attention. Everyone stands at attention.


"Everyone find a buddy. They'll be your buddy all weekend." The teacher says. "We'll be taking the train to Timber."


The kids cheer. The teacher leads them to the car port. A bus sat running ready to go. The kids hop on. Rin and Dawn claim the back seats, leaving the other kids to cram into the rest of the seats. Luggage uncerimounisly stuffed in cracks and crevasses.


The ride to the train station was a cramped one. But having the bumpy seats Rin and Dawn had fun. The teacher manages to herd the kids on the train. Leaving only one kid behind on accident. The train ride goes by quickly and they enter there hotel rooms.


Rin looks at Dawn. Making her bed look like she was sleeping.


'I'm going exploring cover for me.' Rin signs and climbs out the window.


'Rin.' Dawn signs and watches Rin go.


A knock sounds on the door and the teacher peeps in. "Everyone fine here... Where's Rin?"


'Sleeping.'


The teacher nods and disappears.


Rin's feet hit the pavement. Laughing at how easy it was to get out. Rin walks down the road sliding her hand across the brick buildings. Posters pop up every where. Rin looks up at the sky. The sun was fading into the night sky. It was so cool.


Eventually Rin runs into someone. Rin falls flat and she looks angrily at the intruder. Her eyes soften as she compares the face. So much like her fathers. But this guys hair was longer and he carried a big gun. Rin gets up and brushes herself off.


"Picking on little children now are you?" A woman's voice shouts.


"It was an accident." He begins to favor a leg. "I swear."


"Yeah right."


"Oww, oww, oww, I'm not lying, oww." He holds his leg.


"Ug you and your cramps. You a pathetic looser!" The woman crouches to Rin's level. "What's you name child?"


'Rin Leonhart.' Rin signs worrying about the man who seemed to being close to dying from a leg cramp.


The man suddenly felt all the muscles in his legs snap. He recognized the name. Pain jumps through his body like never before.


"What did she say?" The woman asks.


"Oww. Sweet mother of all Chocobo's oww. Child, oww, is, oww. your, OWW, dad, oww, Squall?"


She shakes her head yes, Sudenly she freezes. She shouldn't talk to starngers.


"Who is she?" The woman asks getting up set.


"My granddaughter." He whimpers painfully.


"Your a pathetic!" She slaps him and runs off.


The man lays on the ground holding his leg and cursing. Rin puts her hand in her ears and tries not to listen. The man tried to hold his tongue but it just made matters worse. Eventually Rin kicks him in the cramping leg. The man howls. Suddenly the cramp is gone and her gets to his feet. He looks at Rin up and down.


"I got a granddaughter... I can't belive it."


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