A/N: Second chappy within two days! Woohoo! Go Me! Anyways I still don't
own FF8 yet, but pretty soon I will, that is after I get a Play Station
console. (Watch me use more big words!) Anyways, on with the fanfiction!
Waking up
Another week came and went. Rinoa was an even bigger bundle of nerves. She still had not heard from Squall since he left. It was three weeks and there was nothing Selphie could say or do to calm her down.
Selphie had grown very concerned about her friend. She was failing her classes, daydreaming about God knows what and stopped eating. She knew something was very wrong because it was like her friend was nothing more than a walking corpse. 'I guess what they say about soulmates being separated from one another for a long time. What I didn't know was that three weeks qualified as a long time. But then again, there's a lot I don't know." She thought to herself. But Squall and Rinoa were more than just soulmates, they were lost souls reunited after centuries of searching for one another.
Rinoa was having a very hard time dealing with the situation presented to her. She did not know where Squall was, what he was doing or if something had happened to him.
Rinoa was failing all her classes. She even received an F in gym. Well, actually, that was logical. She stopped eating and her body just did not function on an empty stomach. She was barely able to keep her eye lids open because she spent most of night staring at the phone, waiting for it to ring. When it did, she got her hopes up, only for them to come crashing down again at gravity times a hundred. The voices of her friends and family tried to sooth and ease her mind. Often she would fall asleep leaving them worried and yelling "Hello?" in the phone.
The thought of Squall running away with another woman or him being dead had crossed her min one too many times. Dreams at night would haunt her and they were always the same. And she would wake up earlier and earlier than the night before. They always happened in the same fashion.
Squall would be running on the coast somewhere wen he comes to a cliff and gets shot a few times and then falls over into the rough tides. Every single time, before he crashed into the waves, he would open his eyes and whisper "I love Rin. I'll never forget you." And then he would fall and resurface clutching onto a board. Then she would wake up, heart racing and drenched in cold perspiration.
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The young man awoke on the table. He was alarmed and did not recognize his surroundings. He jumped at the sound of an old voice originating from one of the corners. Corners?
"Good afternoon." The doctor said, "My name is Doctor James Fisher and you were found out at sea, half dead and in an even worse condition than you're in now."
"The young man stared at the doctor. He couldn't remember what he was doing out at sea or what had happened to him. He tried to remember basic things like his name or age even, but he could not remember. Do I have family? Friends? Children? No, I don't have children, that's impossible. Am I married? Engaged? Do I have a girlfriend?
"Don't be afraid, young man. What's your name?"
"I. I .. I don't remember," He stammered.
"Well, it seems like my suspicions were true. You were shot in the skull, but luckily for you, you have a thick skull and it did not pierce your brain, or else you wouldn't be alive right now. However, fragments of your skull broke off and pinched part of your brain; your memory bank."
"My memory bank?" The young man questioned.
"You were shot, old chap. You were patched up, been healed, and slipped into a coma. Tell me, is there a mental banana peel that you slip on to fall into a coma? Of course there isn't!" The old doctor began to laugh at his own joke.
The young man stared curiously at the old doctor. He was a toddler staring at a strange animal.
"Well, I can see you didn't come equipped with a sense of humor, huh? Enough of that. Now, when I was patching up your chest, this caught my attention. Naturally, I took it out because I know that I don't have one. Someone planted this into you." He held up the piece of film, "Now, I happen to have film projector, if you want to see what it says."
"Yes. It might offer some clues at least, if not answers to the millions of questions coursing through my brain." 'Old chap' replied.
"Good choice, young sir." The doctor said.
" 'Old Chap' maybe, but not 'Young Sir', ok?" the stranger ordered. He did not know where the hostility towards the nickname 'Young Sir' came from.
"All right, old chap. Now let's see, how do you work one of these again?" The doctor asked. He had ulterior motives. He wanted to see what this young man knew. So far, he was nothing short of an enigma. Who knows, maybe he is Casanova himself.
The film was all ready in the proper slot. The young man quietly got up and plugged the cord in the outlet.
The machine sparked to life, generating healthy noises. The whine of the motor could be heard in the silence as the two men observed the screen and gasped at what they saw
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Zell and Irvine sat together, waiting for the headmaster. They stared in silence at the painting above the desk. It was an 18th century oil painting of a woman that looked a lot like Rinoa and a man that resembled Squall so much that it scared them. The man and woman sat beside one another and smiled. The woman held a tea cup in her hand and the man held a cane with a lion on the top. Under it, there was a plaque that read, "James Levy and Charlotte Smith. June 24th, 1756".
"Charlotte and James look like one of our couples today, don't they?" Zell asked, breaking the silence.
"Yeah, they sure do. I wonder if they sucked as much face then as they do now." Irvine joked. He did not expect an answer and was shocked at the answer he got.
"Most likely, and may have gone even farther." Zell smirked. The two men burst out laughing and did not hear the headmaster walk in.
"Ahem. Gentlemen! Ten Hut!" Cid shouted, hoping to have more success this time than the previous attempts.
He was not a patient man and despised being forced to wait. The two SeeDs knew that and immediately straightened up.
"Sir, yes sir!" They shouted as they stood up and stomped their feet.
"At ease, boys." Cid replied, "Now, as you know, Squall Leonheart has been on a one week assignment for three weeks. You know as well as I do that he could've pulled it off in three days. Now, he's MIA and we need a search party sent out to find him. His last location was on the coast of Dollet. I need you to go out there and find him, what happened and what's taking him so long. His girlfriend has been worried about him for the past three weeks. She said that the last time she heard from him was."
"Three weeks ago." They all said simultaneously.
"So, you've heard, huh?" Cid questioned.
"With all do respect sir, Rinoa is our friend and not hearing from Squall in three weeks has made her behavior change. She happens to be failing a lot of her courses, has not eaten a single bite for the past week, has not slept since last Monday and has been walking into a lot of objects; doors, people, garbage cans, vending machines, walls, and anything possible, really. I feel that she requires a break, or a temporary leave of absence so that she can straighten out her head and get some rest. Her condition is scaring her friends, family, even the students and teachers, Sir" Zell said suggestively. He was really concerned for her and Squall. He never knew that someone being absent from another's life bring someone into a trance like state. Rinoa had fallen so deeply in love with Squall that his absence had a massive impact of her.
"Yes, Zell. I agree. I have seen her walking in the halls. She looked like she was looking straight through the objects she walked into. Fact is, I saw her walk into the vending machine and she didn't even notice that her right arm was bleeding because of this sharp piece of plastic sticking out. Only her friend noticed for her and rushed her to the infirmary to get patched up. If her fried wasn't there, it would have led to severe bleeding. She almost hit an artery. We'll send her home this evening to her father's. I'll inform her instructors of the situation." Cid agreed. The poor girl was always in a trance and it was not doing her any good to let her stay here.
"Thank you sir." Irvine replied. Despite the fact that he had not said anything before, he fully agreed with Zell and Cid. Often at night, he would be sitting in the kitchen, eating his midnight "snack" (of course) and Rinoa would walk in, horror struck. When he asked her what was wrong, she would shrug him off, saying that there was nothing wrong, even though she was drenched in cold sweat and her eyes were red from crying. It was clear to him that she was in misery because she was worrying so much about Squall to care about what was happening around her.
"Now, as for the situation in Dollet, you will be leaving Garden an 0600 hours and every night around 1800 hours, but no later than 1900 hours, you will call me and give me a status report. In that report, I want the time, date, location, progress and all the clues you have gathered regarding what happened to Leonheart, not who Cindy Lou screwed at the local in. Got it?" Cid ordered.
"Yes sir!" The two SeeDs replied.
"Good. Dismissed!"
The two men left, both heading for the dormitories. They walked in silence, both thinking about what they would find. They were prepared to do anything and everything possible to find their missing comrade, and above all, their friend.
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The screen read a few words that neither man wanted to read, especially the doctor.
Doctor Fisher had gotten in trouble with the law a few times, and on both charges he had gotten off with a severe warning. The information was overwhelming. He passed out, leaving the young man's reflexes catch him.
A/N: Eheheheheheheheheheheheheheheh! Eh! A cliffhanger! What does the piece of film say? What's so bad about it that mad the good doctor pass out? What will Zell and Irvine find in Dollet? Who is the young man? WARNING: IF YOU GET OFFENDED EASILY, STOP READING HERE AND REVIEW THE FIC! IF NOT, PLEASE CONTINUE. (I think you've already figured out who 'Old Chap' is, but still, it's a question that some people need to answer with it being writen for them. I'm not implying that any of you do, but you never know.. Hell, I don't even know most of you!) Anyways, that's it. Please review. Thank you. Over and out. See ya later Houston.
P.S. Who knew that writing was such hard work?
Waking up
Another week came and went. Rinoa was an even bigger bundle of nerves. She still had not heard from Squall since he left. It was three weeks and there was nothing Selphie could say or do to calm her down.
Selphie had grown very concerned about her friend. She was failing her classes, daydreaming about God knows what and stopped eating. She knew something was very wrong because it was like her friend was nothing more than a walking corpse. 'I guess what they say about soulmates being separated from one another for a long time. What I didn't know was that three weeks qualified as a long time. But then again, there's a lot I don't know." She thought to herself. But Squall and Rinoa were more than just soulmates, they were lost souls reunited after centuries of searching for one another.
Rinoa was having a very hard time dealing with the situation presented to her. She did not know where Squall was, what he was doing or if something had happened to him.
Rinoa was failing all her classes. She even received an F in gym. Well, actually, that was logical. She stopped eating and her body just did not function on an empty stomach. She was barely able to keep her eye lids open because she spent most of night staring at the phone, waiting for it to ring. When it did, she got her hopes up, only for them to come crashing down again at gravity times a hundred. The voices of her friends and family tried to sooth and ease her mind. Often she would fall asleep leaving them worried and yelling "Hello?" in the phone.
The thought of Squall running away with another woman or him being dead had crossed her min one too many times. Dreams at night would haunt her and they were always the same. And she would wake up earlier and earlier than the night before. They always happened in the same fashion.
Squall would be running on the coast somewhere wen he comes to a cliff and gets shot a few times and then falls over into the rough tides. Every single time, before he crashed into the waves, he would open his eyes and whisper "I love Rin. I'll never forget you." And then he would fall and resurface clutching onto a board. Then she would wake up, heart racing and drenched in cold perspiration.
_________________________________
The young man awoke on the table. He was alarmed and did not recognize his surroundings. He jumped at the sound of an old voice originating from one of the corners. Corners?
"Good afternoon." The doctor said, "My name is Doctor James Fisher and you were found out at sea, half dead and in an even worse condition than you're in now."
"The young man stared at the doctor. He couldn't remember what he was doing out at sea or what had happened to him. He tried to remember basic things like his name or age even, but he could not remember. Do I have family? Friends? Children? No, I don't have children, that's impossible. Am I married? Engaged? Do I have a girlfriend?
"Don't be afraid, young man. What's your name?"
"I. I .. I don't remember," He stammered.
"Well, it seems like my suspicions were true. You were shot in the skull, but luckily for you, you have a thick skull and it did not pierce your brain, or else you wouldn't be alive right now. However, fragments of your skull broke off and pinched part of your brain; your memory bank."
"My memory bank?" The young man questioned.
"You were shot, old chap. You were patched up, been healed, and slipped into a coma. Tell me, is there a mental banana peel that you slip on to fall into a coma? Of course there isn't!" The old doctor began to laugh at his own joke.
The young man stared curiously at the old doctor. He was a toddler staring at a strange animal.
"Well, I can see you didn't come equipped with a sense of humor, huh? Enough of that. Now, when I was patching up your chest, this caught my attention. Naturally, I took it out because I know that I don't have one. Someone planted this into you." He held up the piece of film, "Now, I happen to have film projector, if you want to see what it says."
"Yes. It might offer some clues at least, if not answers to the millions of questions coursing through my brain." 'Old chap' replied.
"Good choice, young sir." The doctor said.
" 'Old Chap' maybe, but not 'Young Sir', ok?" the stranger ordered. He did not know where the hostility towards the nickname 'Young Sir' came from.
"All right, old chap. Now let's see, how do you work one of these again?" The doctor asked. He had ulterior motives. He wanted to see what this young man knew. So far, he was nothing short of an enigma. Who knows, maybe he is Casanova himself.
The film was all ready in the proper slot. The young man quietly got up and plugged the cord in the outlet.
The machine sparked to life, generating healthy noises. The whine of the motor could be heard in the silence as the two men observed the screen and gasped at what they saw
________________________________
Zell and Irvine sat together, waiting for the headmaster. They stared in silence at the painting above the desk. It was an 18th century oil painting of a woman that looked a lot like Rinoa and a man that resembled Squall so much that it scared them. The man and woman sat beside one another and smiled. The woman held a tea cup in her hand and the man held a cane with a lion on the top. Under it, there was a plaque that read, "James Levy and Charlotte Smith. June 24th, 1756".
"Charlotte and James look like one of our couples today, don't they?" Zell asked, breaking the silence.
"Yeah, they sure do. I wonder if they sucked as much face then as they do now." Irvine joked. He did not expect an answer and was shocked at the answer he got.
"Most likely, and may have gone even farther." Zell smirked. The two men burst out laughing and did not hear the headmaster walk in.
"Ahem. Gentlemen! Ten Hut!" Cid shouted, hoping to have more success this time than the previous attempts.
He was not a patient man and despised being forced to wait. The two SeeDs knew that and immediately straightened up.
"Sir, yes sir!" They shouted as they stood up and stomped their feet.
"At ease, boys." Cid replied, "Now, as you know, Squall Leonheart has been on a one week assignment for three weeks. You know as well as I do that he could've pulled it off in three days. Now, he's MIA and we need a search party sent out to find him. His last location was on the coast of Dollet. I need you to go out there and find him, what happened and what's taking him so long. His girlfriend has been worried about him for the past three weeks. She said that the last time she heard from him was."
"Three weeks ago." They all said simultaneously.
"So, you've heard, huh?" Cid questioned.
"With all do respect sir, Rinoa is our friend and not hearing from Squall in three weeks has made her behavior change. She happens to be failing a lot of her courses, has not eaten a single bite for the past week, has not slept since last Monday and has been walking into a lot of objects; doors, people, garbage cans, vending machines, walls, and anything possible, really. I feel that she requires a break, or a temporary leave of absence so that she can straighten out her head and get some rest. Her condition is scaring her friends, family, even the students and teachers, Sir" Zell said suggestively. He was really concerned for her and Squall. He never knew that someone being absent from another's life bring someone into a trance like state. Rinoa had fallen so deeply in love with Squall that his absence had a massive impact of her.
"Yes, Zell. I agree. I have seen her walking in the halls. She looked like she was looking straight through the objects she walked into. Fact is, I saw her walk into the vending machine and she didn't even notice that her right arm was bleeding because of this sharp piece of plastic sticking out. Only her friend noticed for her and rushed her to the infirmary to get patched up. If her fried wasn't there, it would have led to severe bleeding. She almost hit an artery. We'll send her home this evening to her father's. I'll inform her instructors of the situation." Cid agreed. The poor girl was always in a trance and it was not doing her any good to let her stay here.
"Thank you sir." Irvine replied. Despite the fact that he had not said anything before, he fully agreed with Zell and Cid. Often at night, he would be sitting in the kitchen, eating his midnight "snack" (of course) and Rinoa would walk in, horror struck. When he asked her what was wrong, she would shrug him off, saying that there was nothing wrong, even though she was drenched in cold sweat and her eyes were red from crying. It was clear to him that she was in misery because she was worrying so much about Squall to care about what was happening around her.
"Now, as for the situation in Dollet, you will be leaving Garden an 0600 hours and every night around 1800 hours, but no later than 1900 hours, you will call me and give me a status report. In that report, I want the time, date, location, progress and all the clues you have gathered regarding what happened to Leonheart, not who Cindy Lou screwed at the local in. Got it?" Cid ordered.
"Yes sir!" The two SeeDs replied.
"Good. Dismissed!"
The two men left, both heading for the dormitories. They walked in silence, both thinking about what they would find. They were prepared to do anything and everything possible to find their missing comrade, and above all, their friend.
__________________________________
The screen read a few words that neither man wanted to read, especially the doctor.
Doctor Fisher had gotten in trouble with the law a few times, and on both charges he had gotten off with a severe warning. The information was overwhelming. He passed out, leaving the young man's reflexes catch him.
A/N: Eheheheheheheheheheheheheheheh! Eh! A cliffhanger! What does the piece of film say? What's so bad about it that mad the good doctor pass out? What will Zell and Irvine find in Dollet? Who is the young man? WARNING: IF YOU GET OFFENDED EASILY, STOP READING HERE AND REVIEW THE FIC! IF NOT, PLEASE CONTINUE. (I think you've already figured out who 'Old Chap' is, but still, it's a question that some people need to answer with it being writen for them. I'm not implying that any of you do, but you never know.. Hell, I don't even know most of you!) Anyways, that's it. Please review. Thank you. Over and out. See ya later Houston.
P.S. Who knew that writing was such hard work?
