A/N: Just a piece of fluff, written for a fic challenge. I do not own FF8 or the characters.

Sign

"So," Rinoa asked, after they had finished and were lying on their backs, gazing at the stars, "what's your sign?"


"What sign?" Seifer snorted. He had found the silence comfortable and easy, and was slightly irritated that she had started to talk again. He never was much for talking after sex. Was the quiet presence of the other not enough? Rinoa was a nice girl, and hot as hell to boot, but often he wished she'd just stop talking.

Rinoa rolled over on her stomach, cupping her face in her hands. Moonlight caressed her naked curves. "Your zodiac sign, silly," she said, with a gentle scolding in her voice.

Seifer shrugged. "No clue."

"Oh, you're not spiritual at all, are you?" she smiled. "When's your birthday?"

"December 22," he answered absently, still looking at the summer night sky. For a brief moment, he contemplated the endlessness of the universe above him, the eternity of the stars. The sky was very clear tonight, scattered with a myriad of stars and faraway mists. Galaxies, probably. 

"Ohh, then you're a Capricorn!" she squealed. She hugged him, and he let her. "It would explain your leadership qualities," she continued. "And your striving: you want to be the best, it has to be perfect."

He looked at her and laughed. "Rinoa, you aren't telling me that you actually believe in these things?"

She actually looked a little hurt at that. "Actually, I do." Her pout looked adorable. He longed to kiss her, and so he did. They had sex in the moonlight one more time, the rushing of the waves on the beach the only other sound besides their lovemaking. Far away, the lights of Deling City were visible, but here only the light of the stars and moon mattered.

"Why did you ask anyway?" he asked later.

"Mmm?" Rinoa murmured, her head resting comfortably on his chest.

"About that sign."

She shrugged. "Just wanted to know if we'd fit together as a couple."

Seifer knew that she was waiting for her to ask if they did. He felt good tonight, so he asked. "So do we?"

Rinoa looked up to him, her dark eyes half lidded and her hair in disarray from their lovemaking, and smiled. "Pisces and Capricorn? I have no idea really."

"So what's the point of asking?"

She laughed softly, positioning her head on his chest again. "I don't know."

Seifer just snorted, and wondered what he had gotten himself into with her.