Driven by Despair -
Prologue
By Mysterygurl
As he left the house after hearing her story and seeing her cradled up into a ball like that, there was only one thing on his mind. That guy had gone too far now. How could he do this to a sweet girl, his innocent girl? He had always protected her, and look what his enemy did to her as he turned his back once. He had tainted her and took her innocence away in a matter of a few minutes. He left her all alone and unhappy again.
A tear slid down his cheek, but he wiped it away fast. They had such a good time together. She had been happy and felt secure again. He practically erased her scars from her past. Her dad hadn't been good to her, but he had showed what love really was and what it felt like. But now it's this enemy again, and he had done something much worse. He'd been the only one who wanted to ruin their happiness. He couldn't stand to see them happy together, so he ended it by doing this.
He angrily took his keys out of his pocket and opened the car. It was a silver Mercedes. The windows were open while it was raining. He had just washed the car and it looked like new. Actually, it was five years old. She had loved the car and they had gone out on several trip with it, but tonight, it wouldn't be used for anything good or fun.
He sat in the car as another tear slid down his cheek. Was he ever able to make her happy again after what that bastard did to her tonight? He didn't know, he seriously didn't know. For once, he didn't know what to do. He only felt intense hate and despair.
He started the motor and was about to accelerate, when the door of his house opened.
"Squall, don't leave me here like this. I don't want to be alone now. Please, stay here," there she was, yelling at him in the doorway. She yelled, because it was very windy and there was a noisy thunderstorm. Yes, that bastard had chosen the weather that fitted his actions. Her clothes were thorn and she had scratches all over her arms and legs. She had a deep cut on her left cheek and mascara coloured her cheeks. She had cried so much, not even the best mascara would've lasted. Her hair was everything but straight. She looked like she had just gotten out of bed, or like she hadn't taken a shower in months. This wasn't the pretty girl he used to know. And it was also his fault; he shouldn't have left her alone at a time like that. He should've known this would happen!
"Rinoa, I don't know what I'm about to do. you shouldn't be there. I'm going to pay him a visit. I want to make him pay for what he did to you Rinoa!" Squall said desperately.
"Then don't do it. You shouldn't take revenge on him. Just stay here with me, please!" she cried.
"Rinoa, I can't sit around here when I know he's somewhere out here feeling very satisfied cause he got what he wanted," Squall said as he got out of the car and ran towards her, "C'mon, get inside. You'll catch a cold." He picked her up and carried her inside carefully. He laid her down on the couch and sat down to her side.
"Don't go," she whispered.
"I have no choice," he shoved an arm underneath her head and brought her close to him. He buried his nose in her hair. "I'm sorry. Just take good care of yourself, alright? I'll get back as soon as possible," he took his black, leather jacket off and put it over her shivering body. It was freezing cold.
"Please." she begged him desperately. He kissed her softly on her forehead.
"Goodbye, don't worry," he said. He got up quickly and left the house again. He ran through the rain to the car as his expression changed from the loving, caring one to the mad, angry one.
'Are you happy now, Seifer? You hurt my angel.' Squall thought to himself as he stepped inside the car. He was shaking, but he didn't know if it was because of the cold or because of the anger ripping through his body and soul. An angel in his mind told him to turn back now cause it knew it was going to end bad. A devil in his mind told him to go for it and let it all out now the anger was still fresh. Right now, he was too angry to obey the angel, so he sided with the devil. He started the car and accelerated immediately.
On his way, he was being chased by thoughts and good memories. He really had trouble keeping his mind on the road. He decided to go to the countryside. He thought he wouldn't meet Seifer in a busy area now after what he just did.
After a while, Squall again didn't have his mind on the road anymore. He woke up from his thoughts by a truck blowing his horn at him. Squall looked up and met the lights of the truck. His eyes grew big.
"Oh, shit!" he steered to the right fast and dodged the truck with some difficult. He was panting from fright and strain. He shook his head and tried to look focussed.
'Keep your mind on the road, man. C'mon.' Squall drove around for fifteen minutes until he got to the beach. The usually pretty beach seemed so dark all of sudden. All those happy people, well, drunk people, were dancing around in the rain out there. Squall couldn't understand why people could still be happy after tonight. A crime like this should effect everyone, shouldn't it?
Squall parked his car to the side and got out. He let the rain soak his body and especially his face. He looked straight into the sky, hoping to find some answers there. He took a deep breath to calm himself down.
"Why? God, why?" he asked. He looked around the place before moving back to his car to return home. His and Rinoa's home. Suddenly, something familiar caught his attention. A red stunning looking thing on four wheels with its lights on. This means.
'Seifer's car. so he should be around here somewhere.' Squall started shaking from anger and clenched his fists. He walked away from the car quietly. He didn't want Seifer, wherever he was, find out that he was there. It was dark, so it was tough to find Seifer and maybe it would be tough for Seifer too. After walking about five hundred meters away from the car, he heard someone walking, or better said, stumbling. He heard someone laugh. Squall sat down in the grass and listened some more.
"Haha!" he heard it laugh, "I'm the king of the world! I got everything I want!" no doubt that was Seifer. Squall quickly got up but moved a little closer to make sure it was him. It was Seifer indeed, his overcoat was dancing in the wind, he had his arms raised to the sky. He held a bottle of whisky in his right hand.
"I have a beautiful car, money and. I even got Rinoa Heartily. Tell me, what more could a man want?" he yelled into the wind.
"Rinoa's my angel, you don't even deserve to look at her, you sick bastard," Squall whispered. His words, that Rinoa was his, got Squall extremely angry. So angry, that he lost control over himself. In an angry daze, he turned around and walked back to the car. He opened the car, sat down and closed the door again while bursts of intense hate flowed through him. He accelerated the car as fast as he could and drove to Seifer. Squall's angry expression was clearly written on his face.
It didn't take long before Seifer noticed him racing around the corner. Seifer could see his hate flickering in his eyes. Seifer turned to him with a smirk on his face. What was that guy going to do?
'Let me wipe that overconfident look of your face,' Squall thought. He sped up. Surprise struck Seifer when he realized that Squall wasn't planning on stopping the car in front of him. He wanted to run over him! The car was about to hit Seifer, when Seifer jumped aside. However, Squall heard the sound of something hitting the car. He angrily braked, and got out of his car. It was too easy for him to dodge the car, so now it was time for himself to enter the scene.
"Oh, fuck!" Seifer cursed. He stood bent forward on the side of the road. Splinters of glass laid on the ground and a huge puddle of whisky was formed. Seifer had his right hand on his left wrist, which was bleeding. It looked like it was broken too.
"So, what is it like feeling helpless?" Squall asked as he casually walked to Seifer, "I'm sorry, I should've aimed my car better at you, but still. What is it like?" Seifer smirked and let go off his bleeding wrist.
"That's just what I wanted to ask you, Leonhart. Dumped by your girlfriend."
"Rinoa did not dump me. You took advantage of her!" Squall yelled. Seifer laughed and tapped his foot.
"I don't think so. She screamed for me!"
"That's because you hurt her. You tainted her forever!"
"Squally-wally, she's mine now. You never made a move on her."
"She was innocent and happy until you arrived."
"She wanted me even though she doesn't want to admit it."
"You bruised her. How could you? How can you live with this?"
"You're a wimp, Squall! I just showed her what she missed with you," Seifer said. That's when Squall snapped. He grabbed his gunblade and pointed it at Seifer.
"Go ahead and kill me if you have the guts to. Think what would happen to you. You'd end up in jail and Rinoa would run off with someone else. You'd never be able to start a happy family with her. No way would she want to be with a killer." Squall just listened and slowly breathed in and out.
"But go ahead if you think you're tough enough! You already hit one wrist so. C'mon, bring it on. What are you waiting for? Kill me if you want to! I'm the big coward who just hurt your precious girlfriend. I'm the one who made her scream. I'm the one who. what did you call it. tainted her forever?"
"You are nothing but a fucking frustrated, sick person!" Squall aimed at Seifer head with his gunblade, but Seifer ducked.
"So, that's all you got? You ain't no match for me!" Seifer too picked up his gunblade and got into a fighting position. He ran toward Squall and aimed at his stomach. Squall blocked it with his own gunblade. Squall blocked it with his own gunblade. That's when the two got into a serious blade fight. They both kept blocking each other's strikes. Squall, however, was able to strike Seifer once on his shoulder, where now a deep cut could be seen. Seifer hit Squall's upper leg once, and also his chest. The battle got fiercer. The clothes of both men got torn. It was a long and tough battle.
'Never before have I hated someone this much.'
Squall tried to hit Squall's feet, but Squall jumped. Seifer pushed Squall roughly when he was in midair, and Squall fell to the ground. Seifer put his foot on Squall's chest to prevent him from getting up. He had his foot on the place where Squall was hit before, and it hurt like hell. Squall just remained lying on the ground. He didn't even strain himself anymore. He only cried out in pain as the dirt beneath Seifer's boot entered his wound. Rain ran down his bruised face. Seifer bent towards him with a smug look on his face.
"Had enough, Leonhart? Don't you think it's time to give up now?"
"No, never!" Squall yelled. As a reply, Seifer put some more pressure on his chest.
"Than I guess I'll just have to torture you some more, haha!" he laughed and looked up at the sky. He unconsciously lowered the pressure at Squall's chest.
'.and now it's time to put an end to you forever.'
Squall quickly got up, grabbed his gunblade, and before Seifer's drunk mind could register what was happening, he had Squall's gunblade pierced between his ribs. Squall watched as he saw Seifer sinking to the ground, slowly. He still smirked.
"Congratulations. Leonhart," he had a hard time breathing, "you were too smart. for me. after all. Game over." he said. After those words, his head fell lifeless to the side. His eyes stared blankly out into the space. Squall looked at him for a second before sinking to his knees.
"Oh no," he cried, "How could a small case turn out like this? Oh my God. Why? How?" Squall looked up at the sky as he thought back to the beginning.
Prologue
By Mysterygurl
As he left the house after hearing her story and seeing her cradled up into a ball like that, there was only one thing on his mind. That guy had gone too far now. How could he do this to a sweet girl, his innocent girl? He had always protected her, and look what his enemy did to her as he turned his back once. He had tainted her and took her innocence away in a matter of a few minutes. He left her all alone and unhappy again.
A tear slid down his cheek, but he wiped it away fast. They had such a good time together. She had been happy and felt secure again. He practically erased her scars from her past. Her dad hadn't been good to her, but he had showed what love really was and what it felt like. But now it's this enemy again, and he had done something much worse. He'd been the only one who wanted to ruin their happiness. He couldn't stand to see them happy together, so he ended it by doing this.
He angrily took his keys out of his pocket and opened the car. It was a silver Mercedes. The windows were open while it was raining. He had just washed the car and it looked like new. Actually, it was five years old. She had loved the car and they had gone out on several trip with it, but tonight, it wouldn't be used for anything good or fun.
He sat in the car as another tear slid down his cheek. Was he ever able to make her happy again after what that bastard did to her tonight? He didn't know, he seriously didn't know. For once, he didn't know what to do. He only felt intense hate and despair.
He started the motor and was about to accelerate, when the door of his house opened.
"Squall, don't leave me here like this. I don't want to be alone now. Please, stay here," there she was, yelling at him in the doorway. She yelled, because it was very windy and there was a noisy thunderstorm. Yes, that bastard had chosen the weather that fitted his actions. Her clothes were thorn and she had scratches all over her arms and legs. She had a deep cut on her left cheek and mascara coloured her cheeks. She had cried so much, not even the best mascara would've lasted. Her hair was everything but straight. She looked like she had just gotten out of bed, or like she hadn't taken a shower in months. This wasn't the pretty girl he used to know. And it was also his fault; he shouldn't have left her alone at a time like that. He should've known this would happen!
"Rinoa, I don't know what I'm about to do. you shouldn't be there. I'm going to pay him a visit. I want to make him pay for what he did to you Rinoa!" Squall said desperately.
"Then don't do it. You shouldn't take revenge on him. Just stay here with me, please!" she cried.
"Rinoa, I can't sit around here when I know he's somewhere out here feeling very satisfied cause he got what he wanted," Squall said as he got out of the car and ran towards her, "C'mon, get inside. You'll catch a cold." He picked her up and carried her inside carefully. He laid her down on the couch and sat down to her side.
"Don't go," she whispered.
"I have no choice," he shoved an arm underneath her head and brought her close to him. He buried his nose in her hair. "I'm sorry. Just take good care of yourself, alright? I'll get back as soon as possible," he took his black, leather jacket off and put it over her shivering body. It was freezing cold.
"Please." she begged him desperately. He kissed her softly on her forehead.
"Goodbye, don't worry," he said. He got up quickly and left the house again. He ran through the rain to the car as his expression changed from the loving, caring one to the mad, angry one.
'Are you happy now, Seifer? You hurt my angel.' Squall thought to himself as he stepped inside the car. He was shaking, but he didn't know if it was because of the cold or because of the anger ripping through his body and soul. An angel in his mind told him to turn back now cause it knew it was going to end bad. A devil in his mind told him to go for it and let it all out now the anger was still fresh. Right now, he was too angry to obey the angel, so he sided with the devil. He started the car and accelerated immediately.
On his way, he was being chased by thoughts and good memories. He really had trouble keeping his mind on the road. He decided to go to the countryside. He thought he wouldn't meet Seifer in a busy area now after what he just did.
After a while, Squall again didn't have his mind on the road anymore. He woke up from his thoughts by a truck blowing his horn at him. Squall looked up and met the lights of the truck. His eyes grew big.
"Oh, shit!" he steered to the right fast and dodged the truck with some difficult. He was panting from fright and strain. He shook his head and tried to look focussed.
'Keep your mind on the road, man. C'mon.' Squall drove around for fifteen minutes until he got to the beach. The usually pretty beach seemed so dark all of sudden. All those happy people, well, drunk people, were dancing around in the rain out there. Squall couldn't understand why people could still be happy after tonight. A crime like this should effect everyone, shouldn't it?
Squall parked his car to the side and got out. He let the rain soak his body and especially his face. He looked straight into the sky, hoping to find some answers there. He took a deep breath to calm himself down.
"Why? God, why?" he asked. He looked around the place before moving back to his car to return home. His and Rinoa's home. Suddenly, something familiar caught his attention. A red stunning looking thing on four wheels with its lights on. This means.
'Seifer's car. so he should be around here somewhere.' Squall started shaking from anger and clenched his fists. He walked away from the car quietly. He didn't want Seifer, wherever he was, find out that he was there. It was dark, so it was tough to find Seifer and maybe it would be tough for Seifer too. After walking about five hundred meters away from the car, he heard someone walking, or better said, stumbling. He heard someone laugh. Squall sat down in the grass and listened some more.
"Haha!" he heard it laugh, "I'm the king of the world! I got everything I want!" no doubt that was Seifer. Squall quickly got up but moved a little closer to make sure it was him. It was Seifer indeed, his overcoat was dancing in the wind, he had his arms raised to the sky. He held a bottle of whisky in his right hand.
"I have a beautiful car, money and. I even got Rinoa Heartily. Tell me, what more could a man want?" he yelled into the wind.
"Rinoa's my angel, you don't even deserve to look at her, you sick bastard," Squall whispered. His words, that Rinoa was his, got Squall extremely angry. So angry, that he lost control over himself. In an angry daze, he turned around and walked back to the car. He opened the car, sat down and closed the door again while bursts of intense hate flowed through him. He accelerated the car as fast as he could and drove to Seifer. Squall's angry expression was clearly written on his face.
It didn't take long before Seifer noticed him racing around the corner. Seifer could see his hate flickering in his eyes. Seifer turned to him with a smirk on his face. What was that guy going to do?
'Let me wipe that overconfident look of your face,' Squall thought. He sped up. Surprise struck Seifer when he realized that Squall wasn't planning on stopping the car in front of him. He wanted to run over him! The car was about to hit Seifer, when Seifer jumped aside. However, Squall heard the sound of something hitting the car. He angrily braked, and got out of his car. It was too easy for him to dodge the car, so now it was time for himself to enter the scene.
"Oh, fuck!" Seifer cursed. He stood bent forward on the side of the road. Splinters of glass laid on the ground and a huge puddle of whisky was formed. Seifer had his right hand on his left wrist, which was bleeding. It looked like it was broken too.
"So, what is it like feeling helpless?" Squall asked as he casually walked to Seifer, "I'm sorry, I should've aimed my car better at you, but still. What is it like?" Seifer smirked and let go off his bleeding wrist.
"That's just what I wanted to ask you, Leonhart. Dumped by your girlfriend."
"Rinoa did not dump me. You took advantage of her!" Squall yelled. Seifer laughed and tapped his foot.
"I don't think so. She screamed for me!"
"That's because you hurt her. You tainted her forever!"
"Squally-wally, she's mine now. You never made a move on her."
"She was innocent and happy until you arrived."
"She wanted me even though she doesn't want to admit it."
"You bruised her. How could you? How can you live with this?"
"You're a wimp, Squall! I just showed her what she missed with you," Seifer said. That's when Squall snapped. He grabbed his gunblade and pointed it at Seifer.
"Go ahead and kill me if you have the guts to. Think what would happen to you. You'd end up in jail and Rinoa would run off with someone else. You'd never be able to start a happy family with her. No way would she want to be with a killer." Squall just listened and slowly breathed in and out.
"But go ahead if you think you're tough enough! You already hit one wrist so. C'mon, bring it on. What are you waiting for? Kill me if you want to! I'm the big coward who just hurt your precious girlfriend. I'm the one who made her scream. I'm the one who. what did you call it. tainted her forever?"
"You are nothing but a fucking frustrated, sick person!" Squall aimed at Seifer head with his gunblade, but Seifer ducked.
"So, that's all you got? You ain't no match for me!" Seifer too picked up his gunblade and got into a fighting position. He ran toward Squall and aimed at his stomach. Squall blocked it with his own gunblade. Squall blocked it with his own gunblade. That's when the two got into a serious blade fight. They both kept blocking each other's strikes. Squall, however, was able to strike Seifer once on his shoulder, where now a deep cut could be seen. Seifer hit Squall's upper leg once, and also his chest. The battle got fiercer. The clothes of both men got torn. It was a long and tough battle.
'Never before have I hated someone this much.'
Squall tried to hit Squall's feet, but Squall jumped. Seifer pushed Squall roughly when he was in midair, and Squall fell to the ground. Seifer put his foot on Squall's chest to prevent him from getting up. He had his foot on the place where Squall was hit before, and it hurt like hell. Squall just remained lying on the ground. He didn't even strain himself anymore. He only cried out in pain as the dirt beneath Seifer's boot entered his wound. Rain ran down his bruised face. Seifer bent towards him with a smug look on his face.
"Had enough, Leonhart? Don't you think it's time to give up now?"
"No, never!" Squall yelled. As a reply, Seifer put some more pressure on his chest.
"Than I guess I'll just have to torture you some more, haha!" he laughed and looked up at the sky. He unconsciously lowered the pressure at Squall's chest.
'.and now it's time to put an end to you forever.'
Squall quickly got up, grabbed his gunblade, and before Seifer's drunk mind could register what was happening, he had Squall's gunblade pierced between his ribs. Squall watched as he saw Seifer sinking to the ground, slowly. He still smirked.
"Congratulations. Leonhart," he had a hard time breathing, "you were too smart. for me. after all. Game over." he said. After those words, his head fell lifeless to the side. His eyes stared blankly out into the space. Squall looked at him for a second before sinking to his knees.
"Oh no," he cried, "How could a small case turn out like this? Oh my God. Why? How?" Squall looked up at the sky as he thought back to the beginning.