Disclaimer: I do not own Final fantasy 8 characters.
I changed things around in this story, and it follows the game except some minor stuff.
A love to soon to end.
Chapter one: The woman with the big heart
Snow fell lightly on the cold cement. The silence of the evening flowed through the small town of Winhill. A woman walked along a small street, on the way to her home. The raven haired, young lady walked with two bags in her hands. Her smooth, white skin turned pink, due to the cold weather. Snow tickled her rose pink cheeks as it melted. Her black, velvet boots clicked
with every step she took. The ladies creme white, winter coat, now wet from the snow, kept her warm. The long haired woman continued walking down the white and snowy path. Normally, no one wouldn't be out in such cold climate but she, this petite woman made an exception. She arrived at her small home with turn of a corner. It had an outside porch, with a green carpet, leading
into the house. It was a three bedroom home, with a large kitchen and dinning room. The woman walked up to the stairs that leaded to the porch. She rang the outside doorbell, setting the two brown bags on the ground beside her. The door opened and she was greeted by a small, short haired girl. Her dark, hazel eyes sparkled. "Hi, Raine!" The young girl said, waving her hand.
"Hey!" Raine answered back, helping herself in. The small girl shut the door, keeping the snow
and cold out. "Elle, can you help me with the groceries?" Raine called her adopted daughter Elle for short, her real name was Ellone. Ellone ran from the living room to the kitchen, following Raine.
"Okay." Ellone agreed. Raine sat a bag on the kitchen table and one on the counter. The medium sized kitchen had a bright whit light. The floor was made out of whit marble and the cabinets and counter matched with the floor. The kitchen table and the kitchen chairs matched as well.
Ellone emptied the bag of groceries on the table and found vegetables and fruits. "Ewww. I hate vegetables." Ellone looked at the pack of vegetables and fruits that lay on the table, frozen.
"But, they help you to grow." Rain stated, taking off her bulky coat and placing it on the nearby kitchen chair. She walked back to the bag on the counter and emptied it.
"How?" Ellone asked, giving Raine the vegetables and fruit.
"Well..uh...They have protein and vitamins in them." Raine answered, choosing her words carefully. Raine took the vegetables and walked to the refrigerator. She opened the freezer and put the vegetables in it. She put the fruit in the bottom part of the frig. Ellone would have done it, but she was too short. Raine walked back to her groceries and put the canned goods in the top cabinets. After she was finished, Raine grabbed her coat and put it on.
"Where are you going?"
"To the pub, you want to come." Rain finished putting on her coat.
"Yeah." Ellone answered grabbing her coat from the closet in the living room. Raine grabbed Ellone's hand and they went out the back way. Raine to the lock off the back shed and opened the screen. They walked onto the icy and white path to the pub. "Look Raine. The snow stopped." Ellone laid her adorable eyes on Raine. Ellone let go of Raine's hand and played with the snow.
"Come on Elle!" Rained yelled out, opening the door to the pub. Ellone came running up and went inside the pub. The pub was dim lighted. No one really was in there because of the snow storm. It would only last for a week. This was the third day of the week it snowed. Raine took her coat off and hung it on the rack next to the door as did Ellone. She walked over to the counter and
put her apron on. In the front of the counter were five stools. Ellone ran into the day care center of the pub, where she played with her favorite toys.
"Hey Raine, how you doing?" A waitress called out, wiping all the tables in the middle of the room.
"Oh, I'm fine and yourself?" Raine asked behind the counter, throwing away empty bottles of beer.
"I'm getting by. Hehehehe." The old woman laughed. More people came in from the outside in a hurry. "Oh my!" The old, gray haired woman yelled, looking at two men carry a wounded soldier in. They placed the soldier on a chair nearby.
"Can you talk?" One man asked.
"Kir-...,War-....." The soldier whispered, half dazed. The soldier was dressed in a blue uniform, it was from the war he was fighting against the sorceress. Raine ran over to the three men.
"What happened?" Raine asked, looking at the soldier in bad shape.
"I have no idea. My pal and I were driving along, when we saw him. He collapsed on the ground so we jumped out of our car and brought him to the nearest place, which is your pub." The blonde man explained. Ellone came out of her play room to see what was going on. Before she could even see the commotion, the waitress picked her up and took her back to the play room.
"He needs medical help and the nearest hospital is miles from here, he might not make it.....Take him to my house." Raine suggested. "I have medical tools there. Shirley, watch the pub for me!" The two men did as she said and carried the soldier out of the door, to there car. Raine jumped in the car as well. They drove to the front of her house. Raine got out and used her key to open the front door. The two men carefully placed the soldier on the couch. Raine ran into the kitchen and got a rag and cold water. She folded the rag up and put it on the soldier. "I think I have it from here."
"Alright. We'll be at the pub, call us if you need us." The two men headed out of the door. Raine drew her attention back on the soldier. He opened his eyes and revealed beautiful green eyes Raine had ever seen.
"Can you here me, sir?" Rain asked. The man looked at Raine for a moment.
"Juli-?..." He trailed off.
"What's your name?" Raine asked loud and slowly.
"La-laguna." The soldier answered.
"Okay Laguna, you're going to be alright." Raine took the cold and wet rag off of his fore head. He had blood all over him. She hesitantly took his shirt off. She could see blood everywhere. She ran upstairs to the bathroom and got a bucket and gals. Raine quickly rubbed his wounds with alcohol to clean it. He winced with pain. It startled Raine, but she continued. She wrapped his wounds up with the gals pad and gave him a large t shirt she would usually use for night time. She looked up at him. He was still in a daze. "My name is Raine Leonhart"
"R-Raine." Laguna said firmly.
"Can you tell me what happened to you?"
"I....I was...fight-..." Laguna went silent. Raine knew he needed rest so she stopped asking him questions.
"Get some rest Laguna, just lie down." Raine put her hands around his back and helped him to lay down. Laguna rested his head on the arm of the chair and fell asleep.....
*
"Raine is that man staying with us?" Ellone asked at the dinner table. She picked her fork and stabbed her plate of noodles and meatballs with it.
"Until he gets better dear." Raine answered, wiping her mouth with her napkin. Laguna was still on the couch, sleep. Raine got up from the table and walked over to the sleeping laguna. "Sir? Are you awake?" Raine asked, shaking the man gently. Laguna slowly opened his eyes and
looked up at a gorgeous woman with blue eyes. "Are you hungry? Have you eaten yet?"
"N-no." Laguna slowly got up from his laying position. "I haven't eaten anything yet." Laguna finished.
"Do you want something to eat?"
"Sure, if it's not to much to ask for."
"Alright, I'll get you some noodles." Raine walked into the kitchen. Ellone was still at the table eating. She noticed Laguna looking around from where he was sitting.
"Hi Mr. My name is Ellone but you can call me Elle if you want to." Ellone walked from the table to Laguna. She held her hand out to shake.
"Hi, my name is laguna." The soldier shook Ellone's hand.
"Now that we're friends, you wanna' come play?" Ellone asked, looking so adorable as ever. Raine came back into the living room, saving Laguna from
giving an answer.
"Elle, why don't you finish you dinner, okay?" Raine said, trying to get her
way from the wounded soldier.
"Okay." Ellone went back to the dinner table. Raine gave Laguna his meal.
"If you want, you can eat at the table." Raine stated.
"I hope I'm not being much of a trouble." Laguna put his sore arm around his head. He winced in pain.
"Don't move, your probably to weak. You can stay here until you feel better."
"Thank you." Laguna said firmly. Raine walked back to the dinner table and continued her meal. After everyone finished their dinner, Raine went upstairs to get Laguna's room ready, while Ellone was downstairs asking Laguna a lot of questions.
"Can I call you uncle Laguna? Is it hard to fight? Do you like fighting?" Ellone asked, sitting on the floor, in front of the television.
"To answer your first question, you have to ask your mom. Its really not that hard to fight, I mean for me anyway and the last answer is no, Fighting is really not my thing. Ellone kept pressing the poor guy with questions that were hard to answer. Raine came back downstairs to find Ellone bothering Laguna.
"Ellone, leave him alone. He needs his rest. Come upstairs and let me tuck you in bed."
"Well, bye Uncle Laguna." Ellone waved at Laguna and walked up the stairs with Raine. Laguna waved back with a warm smile. It made Raine feel almost comfortable. When they were up stairs, Raine opened the first door to the right and let Ellone in.
"Uncle laguna?" Raine asked, looking curious. She put her hand on her hip.
"Yeah, he said I can call him that if you said it was okay." Ellone sat on her bed, getting under the blanket.
"I guess its alright, but don't get to attached to him." Raine replied, tucking Ellone in. "Good night, and don't let the bed bugs bite." Raine kissed Ellone on the forehead, turned her night light on and walked out of her room. She shut the door behind her. Raine went back downstairs to clean the dishes. Laguna was still on the couch sleep. 'I wonder what happened to him, he looks like something the dog dragged in.' Raine thought to herself as she folded her long sleeves and filled the kitchen sink with warm water.
"Kiros! Ward! Where did you go?!" Laguna yelled out in his sleep. Raine stopped what she was doing and walked into the living room.
"You must of been through a lot." Raine said to herself, she walked over to him. "Laguna, are you alright?" She shook him again, waking him up from his sleep.
"Huh? What happened?" Laguna opened his eyes.
"You were talking in your sleep and it sounded like you were having a nightmare." Raine informed.
"Oh, sorry if I scared you." Laguna apologized, slightly laughing. He started turning a little pink. Raine just looked at him. He was so adorable when he was shy. Laguna slowly got up from the couch. "Did you say your name was Raine?"
"Yes, Raine leonhart." Raine headed back to the kitchen.
"Hmm. That's a nice name." Laguna lied back down on the couch.
*
It was now Saturday morning. Raine didn't have to go to the pub because her shifts were only on week days. She was down in the basement, washing clothes. Ellone was in the house watching cartoons with laguna. "Uncle Laguna, are you going to get better?" Ellone asked, turning around to look at Laguna. She was sitting on the floor in front of the television.
"I hope so. You ask a lot of questions." Laguna stated, sitting up.
"You don't like it?"
"No, I was just saying. Its good to be curious sometimes." Laguna explained. Raine walked upstairs to the living room with an empty basket that used to have clothes in them.
"How are you feeling?" Raine asked, placing the basket beside the couch.
"A little better, I can move more freely." Laguna informed. Raine sat down beside Laguna.
"So, do you think you can tell me what happened to you?"
"I was in Esthar with my to friends, Kiros and Ward. We were fighting the Esthar soldiers there. We came to a cliff and fell off. I don't even know where they are."
"That's horrible. What led you to fall off a cliff?"
"It was kind of my idea. We were trying to escape."
"Well, that wasn't wise, but it serves you right." Raine said, crossing her legs. Raine turned to look at television when the doorbell rang. Raine got up
and answered it. "Oh hello Shirley."
"Hey girl, I was just wondering if you were alright in here." Shirley leaned into Raine's ear and whispered. "You know because of that soldier you took in." Shirley finished.
"Oh, I don't know, I don't think he would hurt a fly." Raine said, leaning on the door. "Geeze, its still cold out."
"Yeah, the weather is supposed to clear up tomorrow. Well, I better get back to the pub, see ya girl." Shirley headed back towards the door. Raine walked into the kitchen and got lunch ready. Ellone followed her into the kitchen.
"Raine?"
"Yeah honey?"
"Do you like Uncle Laguna?" Ellone asked, as Raine gave her a sandwich.
"Well, I don't know, I don't even know him." Raine answered, chopping up onions. Just then, Ellone and Raine saw Laguna come in threw the kitchen.
Ellone gasped and Raine was shocked.
"Uncle Laguna! You can walk!" Ellone ran up to Laguna.
"Yeah, I guess it didn't take me that long to start walking again.
"I guess now, you can sleep in your room upstairs, I got everything ready for you." Raine poured the onions in the boiling water in a large pot.
"Ummmm. What are you cooking?" Laguna asked, smelling nothing but onions.
"Mashed potatoes and peas." Raine answered, cutting the potato skin off. "Oh, here's your lunch." Raine gave Laguna two, double decker sandwiches.
"Thanks." Laguna greedily took the sandwiches and jammed it in his mouth. His eyes lit up as soon as he tasted it. Ellone started giggling.
"Can I show you my room?" Ellone asked Laguna. "I have a lot of games in there we can play."
"Sure." Laguna managed to say, still stuffing his face. Ellone grabbed on Laguna's hand and lead him up the stairs to her room. Raine couldn't help but smile. She continued cooking.
*
7 hours had passed from lunch time. Ellone and Laguna were still playing in the house and in Ellone's room while Raine set the table. "Uncle Laguna, your playing all wrong. Your supposed to jump me when I'm in front of your piece." Ellone explained to Laguna, trying to teach him how to play checkers. "This is such an easy game, how come you don't know how to play?" Ellone asked after beating him for the tenth time.
"I didn't have much spare time when I was a soldier, so I missed out on a lot of stuff." Laguna answered. Ellone again, continued pressing him with questions.
"Do you have any friends?"
"Yeah, you and Kiros and Ward. Their soldiers, just like me." Ellone giggled at the fact that she was considered as his friend. The door to Ellone's room opened.
"Come on you two, dinner is ready." Raine announced. Laguna looked up at the beautiful woman standing before him, she was so gorgeous. Laguna got up from the floor as did Ellone. She walked up to Rain.
"Raine, I beat Uncle Laguna ten times in checkers." Ellone bragged.
"Only because I didn't know how to play." Laguna said, smiling at Ellone. They all walked down the stairs to the dinner table. Laguna sat down with them and ate. "Now this is what I call a meal!" Laguna started to dig in when Raine stopped him.
"Wait a minute. We have to give thanks!" Raine yelled at Laguna. Ellone giggled and whispered to Laguna.
"You got in trouble." Laguna stuck a tongue out. They silently stuck each others tongue out while Raine continued giving thanks.
"Alright now you can eat my great cooking." Raine boasted. Everyone dug in and talked until everything was gone.
"That was good." Laguna blurted out, slouching down in his chair, his belly full.
"Yep." Ellone did the same thing Laguna did.
"I guess, I'd better get started with the dishes, Laguna stated, slowly getting up.
"Huh?" Raine asked confused.
"Well if I'm going to be here for a while, I might as well pay my debt and besides it's the least I can do." Laguna started picking the dirty dishes from the table.
"O-Okay." Raine got up from the table. "Well, come on Ellone, lets get you cleaned up and in to bed." Raine made a jester for Ellone to follow.
"Bye Uncle Laguna." Ellone waved her small hand and followed Raine up the stairs.
"Bye now." Laguna waved back and gave that warm smile again. As Raine poured the warm water into the tub, Ellone started pressing Raine questions.
"Raine? Now what do you think of Uncle Laguna?" Ellone asked, as Raine put her in the tub and sat down beside the it.
"Well, I can see he has no home training. Why?" Raine answered.
"I was just wondering." Ellone answered back, slapping her hands in the water.
"Well you've been asking a lot of questions lately."
"I was just being curious." Ellone answered, trying not to make Raine suspicious of anything. Raine lathered Ellone's pink wash rag up with smelly body wash and brushed Elle's skin with it. After she finished washing the small girl, she dried her and put her pajamas on. Raine tucked Ellone in bed.
"The prince and the princess lived happily ever after." Raine read, closing the small story book. Ellone already had fallen asleep before the book ended. Raine kissed the sweet smelling girl and walked out of the room, forgetting to turn her night light on. Raine walked in her own room and went to take a shower.
*
"Shishe. I didn't know washing dishes was that hard, maybe because I never washed dishes before." Laguna said to himself, putting the last dish in the wrack. He walked out of the kitchen and walked upstairs to his room. Ellone had showed him were it was before dinner. He opened the door and fell on the bed, exhausted. His wounds still needed to heal, but it was healing quite fast. He laid on the bed and looked at the ceiling, when his door opened. It was Ellone. She ran up to him. "Hey Ellone. What happened? It looked like you seen a ghost." Laguna saw the scared girl and scooted off his bed.
"I think I did." Ellone said. Laguna picked Ellone up and held her. "Can you stay with me until I fall asleep again?" Ellone said, talking on his shoulder.
"Where's your mom?"
"In the bathroom, washing. She takes to long in the bathroom, I don't think she'll be out in a long time." Ellone explained.
"Alright, come on." Laguna carried the tired Ellone to her room and sat on her bed while she slept. He looked down at her, she was sleeping like a baby.
*
Raine came out of a relaxing bath she hadn't taken in days. She only took showers but they weren't nearly as relaxing as a long warm bath. She walked back in her room and put on her pajamas. 'Maybe I should go see Ellone, I forgot to turn on her night light.' Raine thought to herself as she headed towards Ellone's door. She opened the door, being careful not to wake up Ellone. She walked over to the night light when she noticed someone else was in the room as well. She got startled as the body came walking up to her. She ran over to the lamp and clicked it on and revealed that it was Laguna. "Laguna?!" Raine yelled. "What are you doing?!" Raine whispered out loud.
"Ellone was scared of the dark, so she asked me to stay with her until she fell asleep." Laguna explained.
"You scared me to death!" Raine yelled. "Geeze!"
"Sorry, I didn't mean to." Laguna apologized, holding his hand up to his head.
"Its okay, I just came to turn her night light on anyway." Raine turned the light back out and turned the night light on. They both walked out of Ellone's room.
"Good night Raine." Laguna said, walking to his room. "Sorry again." He walked to his room.
"Yeah, good night." Raine said sweetly.
I changed things around in this story, and it follows the game except some minor stuff.
A love to soon to end.
Chapter one: The woman with the big heart
Snow fell lightly on the cold cement. The silence of the evening flowed through the small town of Winhill. A woman walked along a small street, on the way to her home. The raven haired, young lady walked with two bags in her hands. Her smooth, white skin turned pink, due to the cold weather. Snow tickled her rose pink cheeks as it melted. Her black, velvet boots clicked
with every step she took. The ladies creme white, winter coat, now wet from the snow, kept her warm. The long haired woman continued walking down the white and snowy path. Normally, no one wouldn't be out in such cold climate but she, this petite woman made an exception. She arrived at her small home with turn of a corner. It had an outside porch, with a green carpet, leading
into the house. It was a three bedroom home, with a large kitchen and dinning room. The woman walked up to the stairs that leaded to the porch. She rang the outside doorbell, setting the two brown bags on the ground beside her. The door opened and she was greeted by a small, short haired girl. Her dark, hazel eyes sparkled. "Hi, Raine!" The young girl said, waving her hand.
"Hey!" Raine answered back, helping herself in. The small girl shut the door, keeping the snow
and cold out. "Elle, can you help me with the groceries?" Raine called her adopted daughter Elle for short, her real name was Ellone. Ellone ran from the living room to the kitchen, following Raine.
"Okay." Ellone agreed. Raine sat a bag on the kitchen table and one on the counter. The medium sized kitchen had a bright whit light. The floor was made out of whit marble and the cabinets and counter matched with the floor. The kitchen table and the kitchen chairs matched as well.
Ellone emptied the bag of groceries on the table and found vegetables and fruits. "Ewww. I hate vegetables." Ellone looked at the pack of vegetables and fruits that lay on the table, frozen.
"But, they help you to grow." Rain stated, taking off her bulky coat and placing it on the nearby kitchen chair. She walked back to the bag on the counter and emptied it.
"How?" Ellone asked, giving Raine the vegetables and fruit.
"Well..uh...They have protein and vitamins in them." Raine answered, choosing her words carefully. Raine took the vegetables and walked to the refrigerator. She opened the freezer and put the vegetables in it. She put the fruit in the bottom part of the frig. Ellone would have done it, but she was too short. Raine walked back to her groceries and put the canned goods in the top cabinets. After she was finished, Raine grabbed her coat and put it on.
"Where are you going?"
"To the pub, you want to come." Rain finished putting on her coat.
"Yeah." Ellone answered grabbing her coat from the closet in the living room. Raine grabbed Ellone's hand and they went out the back way. Raine to the lock off the back shed and opened the screen. They walked onto the icy and white path to the pub. "Look Raine. The snow stopped." Ellone laid her adorable eyes on Raine. Ellone let go of Raine's hand and played with the snow.
"Come on Elle!" Rained yelled out, opening the door to the pub. Ellone came running up and went inside the pub. The pub was dim lighted. No one really was in there because of the snow storm. It would only last for a week. This was the third day of the week it snowed. Raine took her coat off and hung it on the rack next to the door as did Ellone. She walked over to the counter and
put her apron on. In the front of the counter were five stools. Ellone ran into the day care center of the pub, where she played with her favorite toys.
"Hey Raine, how you doing?" A waitress called out, wiping all the tables in the middle of the room.
"Oh, I'm fine and yourself?" Raine asked behind the counter, throwing away empty bottles of beer.
"I'm getting by. Hehehehe." The old woman laughed. More people came in from the outside in a hurry. "Oh my!" The old, gray haired woman yelled, looking at two men carry a wounded soldier in. They placed the soldier on a chair nearby.
"Can you talk?" One man asked.
"Kir-...,War-....." The soldier whispered, half dazed. The soldier was dressed in a blue uniform, it was from the war he was fighting against the sorceress. Raine ran over to the three men.
"What happened?" Raine asked, looking at the soldier in bad shape.
"I have no idea. My pal and I were driving along, when we saw him. He collapsed on the ground so we jumped out of our car and brought him to the nearest place, which is your pub." The blonde man explained. Ellone came out of her play room to see what was going on. Before she could even see the commotion, the waitress picked her up and took her back to the play room.
"He needs medical help and the nearest hospital is miles from here, he might not make it.....Take him to my house." Raine suggested. "I have medical tools there. Shirley, watch the pub for me!" The two men did as she said and carried the soldier out of the door, to there car. Raine jumped in the car as well. They drove to the front of her house. Raine got out and used her key to open the front door. The two men carefully placed the soldier on the couch. Raine ran into the kitchen and got a rag and cold water. She folded the rag up and put it on the soldier. "I think I have it from here."
"Alright. We'll be at the pub, call us if you need us." The two men headed out of the door. Raine drew her attention back on the soldier. He opened his eyes and revealed beautiful green eyes Raine had ever seen.
"Can you here me, sir?" Rain asked. The man looked at Raine for a moment.
"Juli-?..." He trailed off.
"What's your name?" Raine asked loud and slowly.
"La-laguna." The soldier answered.
"Okay Laguna, you're going to be alright." Raine took the cold and wet rag off of his fore head. He had blood all over him. She hesitantly took his shirt off. She could see blood everywhere. She ran upstairs to the bathroom and got a bucket and gals. Raine quickly rubbed his wounds with alcohol to clean it. He winced with pain. It startled Raine, but she continued. She wrapped his wounds up with the gals pad and gave him a large t shirt she would usually use for night time. She looked up at him. He was still in a daze. "My name is Raine Leonhart"
"R-Raine." Laguna said firmly.
"Can you tell me what happened to you?"
"I....I was...fight-..." Laguna went silent. Raine knew he needed rest so she stopped asking him questions.
"Get some rest Laguna, just lie down." Raine put her hands around his back and helped him to lay down. Laguna rested his head on the arm of the chair and fell asleep.....
*
"Raine is that man staying with us?" Ellone asked at the dinner table. She picked her fork and stabbed her plate of noodles and meatballs with it.
"Until he gets better dear." Raine answered, wiping her mouth with her napkin. Laguna was still on the couch, sleep. Raine got up from the table and walked over to the sleeping laguna. "Sir? Are you awake?" Raine asked, shaking the man gently. Laguna slowly opened his eyes and
looked up at a gorgeous woman with blue eyes. "Are you hungry? Have you eaten yet?"
"N-no." Laguna slowly got up from his laying position. "I haven't eaten anything yet." Laguna finished.
"Do you want something to eat?"
"Sure, if it's not to much to ask for."
"Alright, I'll get you some noodles." Raine walked into the kitchen. Ellone was still at the table eating. She noticed Laguna looking around from where he was sitting.
"Hi Mr. My name is Ellone but you can call me Elle if you want to." Ellone walked from the table to Laguna. She held her hand out to shake.
"Hi, my name is laguna." The soldier shook Ellone's hand.
"Now that we're friends, you wanna' come play?" Ellone asked, looking so adorable as ever. Raine came back into the living room, saving Laguna from
giving an answer.
"Elle, why don't you finish you dinner, okay?" Raine said, trying to get her
way from the wounded soldier.
"Okay." Ellone went back to the dinner table. Raine gave Laguna his meal.
"If you want, you can eat at the table." Raine stated.
"I hope I'm not being much of a trouble." Laguna put his sore arm around his head. He winced in pain.
"Don't move, your probably to weak. You can stay here until you feel better."
"Thank you." Laguna said firmly. Raine walked back to the dinner table and continued her meal. After everyone finished their dinner, Raine went upstairs to get Laguna's room ready, while Ellone was downstairs asking Laguna a lot of questions.
"Can I call you uncle Laguna? Is it hard to fight? Do you like fighting?" Ellone asked, sitting on the floor, in front of the television.
"To answer your first question, you have to ask your mom. Its really not that hard to fight, I mean for me anyway and the last answer is no, Fighting is really not my thing. Ellone kept pressing the poor guy with questions that were hard to answer. Raine came back downstairs to find Ellone bothering Laguna.
"Ellone, leave him alone. He needs his rest. Come upstairs and let me tuck you in bed."
"Well, bye Uncle Laguna." Ellone waved at Laguna and walked up the stairs with Raine. Laguna waved back with a warm smile. It made Raine feel almost comfortable. When they were up stairs, Raine opened the first door to the right and let Ellone in.
"Uncle laguna?" Raine asked, looking curious. She put her hand on her hip.
"Yeah, he said I can call him that if you said it was okay." Ellone sat on her bed, getting under the blanket.
"I guess its alright, but don't get to attached to him." Raine replied, tucking Ellone in. "Good night, and don't let the bed bugs bite." Raine kissed Ellone on the forehead, turned her night light on and walked out of her room. She shut the door behind her. Raine went back downstairs to clean the dishes. Laguna was still on the couch sleep. 'I wonder what happened to him, he looks like something the dog dragged in.' Raine thought to herself as she folded her long sleeves and filled the kitchen sink with warm water.
"Kiros! Ward! Where did you go?!" Laguna yelled out in his sleep. Raine stopped what she was doing and walked into the living room.
"You must of been through a lot." Raine said to herself, she walked over to him. "Laguna, are you alright?" She shook him again, waking him up from his sleep.
"Huh? What happened?" Laguna opened his eyes.
"You were talking in your sleep and it sounded like you were having a nightmare." Raine informed.
"Oh, sorry if I scared you." Laguna apologized, slightly laughing. He started turning a little pink. Raine just looked at him. He was so adorable when he was shy. Laguna slowly got up from the couch. "Did you say your name was Raine?"
"Yes, Raine leonhart." Raine headed back to the kitchen.
"Hmm. That's a nice name." Laguna lied back down on the couch.
*
It was now Saturday morning. Raine didn't have to go to the pub because her shifts were only on week days. She was down in the basement, washing clothes. Ellone was in the house watching cartoons with laguna. "Uncle Laguna, are you going to get better?" Ellone asked, turning around to look at Laguna. She was sitting on the floor in front of the television.
"I hope so. You ask a lot of questions." Laguna stated, sitting up.
"You don't like it?"
"No, I was just saying. Its good to be curious sometimes." Laguna explained. Raine walked upstairs to the living room with an empty basket that used to have clothes in them.
"How are you feeling?" Raine asked, placing the basket beside the couch.
"A little better, I can move more freely." Laguna informed. Raine sat down beside Laguna.
"So, do you think you can tell me what happened to you?"
"I was in Esthar with my to friends, Kiros and Ward. We were fighting the Esthar soldiers there. We came to a cliff and fell off. I don't even know where they are."
"That's horrible. What led you to fall off a cliff?"
"It was kind of my idea. We were trying to escape."
"Well, that wasn't wise, but it serves you right." Raine said, crossing her legs. Raine turned to look at television when the doorbell rang. Raine got up
and answered it. "Oh hello Shirley."
"Hey girl, I was just wondering if you were alright in here." Shirley leaned into Raine's ear and whispered. "You know because of that soldier you took in." Shirley finished.
"Oh, I don't know, I don't think he would hurt a fly." Raine said, leaning on the door. "Geeze, its still cold out."
"Yeah, the weather is supposed to clear up tomorrow. Well, I better get back to the pub, see ya girl." Shirley headed back towards the door. Raine walked into the kitchen and got lunch ready. Ellone followed her into the kitchen.
"Raine?"
"Yeah honey?"
"Do you like Uncle Laguna?" Ellone asked, as Raine gave her a sandwich.
"Well, I don't know, I don't even know him." Raine answered, chopping up onions. Just then, Ellone and Raine saw Laguna come in threw the kitchen.
Ellone gasped and Raine was shocked.
"Uncle Laguna! You can walk!" Ellone ran up to Laguna.
"Yeah, I guess it didn't take me that long to start walking again.
"I guess now, you can sleep in your room upstairs, I got everything ready for you." Raine poured the onions in the boiling water in a large pot.
"Ummmm. What are you cooking?" Laguna asked, smelling nothing but onions.
"Mashed potatoes and peas." Raine answered, cutting the potato skin off. "Oh, here's your lunch." Raine gave Laguna two, double decker sandwiches.
"Thanks." Laguna greedily took the sandwiches and jammed it in his mouth. His eyes lit up as soon as he tasted it. Ellone started giggling.
"Can I show you my room?" Ellone asked Laguna. "I have a lot of games in there we can play."
"Sure." Laguna managed to say, still stuffing his face. Ellone grabbed on Laguna's hand and lead him up the stairs to her room. Raine couldn't help but smile. She continued cooking.
*
7 hours had passed from lunch time. Ellone and Laguna were still playing in the house and in Ellone's room while Raine set the table. "Uncle Laguna, your playing all wrong. Your supposed to jump me when I'm in front of your piece." Ellone explained to Laguna, trying to teach him how to play checkers. "This is such an easy game, how come you don't know how to play?" Ellone asked after beating him for the tenth time.
"I didn't have much spare time when I was a soldier, so I missed out on a lot of stuff." Laguna answered. Ellone again, continued pressing him with questions.
"Do you have any friends?"
"Yeah, you and Kiros and Ward. Their soldiers, just like me." Ellone giggled at the fact that she was considered as his friend. The door to Ellone's room opened.
"Come on you two, dinner is ready." Raine announced. Laguna looked up at the beautiful woman standing before him, she was so gorgeous. Laguna got up from the floor as did Ellone. She walked up to Rain.
"Raine, I beat Uncle Laguna ten times in checkers." Ellone bragged.
"Only because I didn't know how to play." Laguna said, smiling at Ellone. They all walked down the stairs to the dinner table. Laguna sat down with them and ate. "Now this is what I call a meal!" Laguna started to dig in when Raine stopped him.
"Wait a minute. We have to give thanks!" Raine yelled at Laguna. Ellone giggled and whispered to Laguna.
"You got in trouble." Laguna stuck a tongue out. They silently stuck each others tongue out while Raine continued giving thanks.
"Alright now you can eat my great cooking." Raine boasted. Everyone dug in and talked until everything was gone.
"That was good." Laguna blurted out, slouching down in his chair, his belly full.
"Yep." Ellone did the same thing Laguna did.
"I guess, I'd better get started with the dishes, Laguna stated, slowly getting up.
"Huh?" Raine asked confused.
"Well if I'm going to be here for a while, I might as well pay my debt and besides it's the least I can do." Laguna started picking the dirty dishes from the table.
"O-Okay." Raine got up from the table. "Well, come on Ellone, lets get you cleaned up and in to bed." Raine made a jester for Ellone to follow.
"Bye Uncle Laguna." Ellone waved her small hand and followed Raine up the stairs.
"Bye now." Laguna waved back and gave that warm smile again. As Raine poured the warm water into the tub, Ellone started pressing Raine questions.
"Raine? Now what do you think of Uncle Laguna?" Ellone asked, as Raine put her in the tub and sat down beside the it.
"Well, I can see he has no home training. Why?" Raine answered.
"I was just wondering." Ellone answered back, slapping her hands in the water.
"Well you've been asking a lot of questions lately."
"I was just being curious." Ellone answered, trying not to make Raine suspicious of anything. Raine lathered Ellone's pink wash rag up with smelly body wash and brushed Elle's skin with it. After she finished washing the small girl, she dried her and put her pajamas on. Raine tucked Ellone in bed.
"The prince and the princess lived happily ever after." Raine read, closing the small story book. Ellone already had fallen asleep before the book ended. Raine kissed the sweet smelling girl and walked out of the room, forgetting to turn her night light on. Raine walked in her own room and went to take a shower.
*
"Shishe. I didn't know washing dishes was that hard, maybe because I never washed dishes before." Laguna said to himself, putting the last dish in the wrack. He walked out of the kitchen and walked upstairs to his room. Ellone had showed him were it was before dinner. He opened the door and fell on the bed, exhausted. His wounds still needed to heal, but it was healing quite fast. He laid on the bed and looked at the ceiling, when his door opened. It was Ellone. She ran up to him. "Hey Ellone. What happened? It looked like you seen a ghost." Laguna saw the scared girl and scooted off his bed.
"I think I did." Ellone said. Laguna picked Ellone up and held her. "Can you stay with me until I fall asleep again?" Ellone said, talking on his shoulder.
"Where's your mom?"
"In the bathroom, washing. She takes to long in the bathroom, I don't think she'll be out in a long time." Ellone explained.
"Alright, come on." Laguna carried the tired Ellone to her room and sat on her bed while she slept. He looked down at her, she was sleeping like a baby.
*
Raine came out of a relaxing bath she hadn't taken in days. She only took showers but they weren't nearly as relaxing as a long warm bath. She walked back in her room and put on her pajamas. 'Maybe I should go see Ellone, I forgot to turn on her night light.' Raine thought to herself as she headed towards Ellone's door. She opened the door, being careful not to wake up Ellone. She walked over to the night light when she noticed someone else was in the room as well. She got startled as the body came walking up to her. She ran over to the lamp and clicked it on and revealed that it was Laguna. "Laguna?!" Raine yelled. "What are you doing?!" Raine whispered out loud.
"Ellone was scared of the dark, so she asked me to stay with her until she fell asleep." Laguna explained.
"You scared me to death!" Raine yelled. "Geeze!"
"Sorry, I didn't mean to." Laguna apologized, holding his hand up to his head.
"Its okay, I just came to turn her night light on anyway." Raine turned the light back out and turned the night light on. They both walked out of Ellone's room.
"Good night Raine." Laguna said, walking to his room. "Sorry again." He walked to his room.
"Yeah, good night." Raine said sweetly.