A/N: Yo kiddies! I'm back!
Listen to this: Yesterday was St. Demeter's (if that was spelled right, I'll go become a nun…) eve, who btw happens to be the patron saint of the city I live in (yay Thessalonica!). Meaning that everything was closed from the day before, up to today! Also, tomorrow is one of my country's national celebration days, so everything in the whole country is closed yet again! So I had three full days free to write! I'll be free tomorrow as well, but I'll have some studying to do… :-( Anywayz… I went on quite a bit with my story, so I thought I'd post two new chapters this time! Hope you like 'em…
It's time to thank all my reviewers for the last chappy (10 reviews! Thank you so much!) Oh and thanks for the definitions!
PS: The title of the chapter is 'stolen'. I'm a REALLY big fan of adventure games. Maniac Mansion is an old adventure game. Some of you might know its sequel, 'Day of the tentacle', which up until today remains one of my favs. You should really check them out if you get the chance to. Maniac Mansion is a trademark of Lucas Arts and I don't own the game or the title in ANY way.
Chapter 14: Maniac Mansion
At exactly 600 hours all seven of the participants in the mission were at the Front Gate. Headmaster Cid was there as well, along with Squall. Cid gave his SeeDs some last-minute advice before they all loaded their luggage onto the aircraft which was waiting. They were all just about to go aboard the aircraft, when a female voice called behind them.
- "Wait!" yelled a girl.
They all turned around and saw a girl in Garden student uniform running towards them. She had long black hair, blue eyes and she was quite attractive. Quistis took a good look at her as she seemed familiar… Angelina Schaffer… She was the girl who'd played Juliet in the play, as well as the person who'd been 'annoying' -in Quistis' opinion- Seifer for quite some time now.
- "I'm really sorry, but could I talk to Seifer before he leaves? It's urgent." she said out of breath when she reached them.
- "Sure. Go ahead." said Cid.
Seifer walked over to her, feeling Quistis' angry glare upon him. Oh, how he enjoyed her jealousy… 'Time to make her pay for Nida…' thought Seifer smirking.
- "What is it Angelina?" asked Seifer when he approached her.
- "Nothing really…" she whispered with a mischievous grin "I just wanted an excuse to see you before you go."
- "I'm not really going for too long… I'll be back in two days…" he said grinning.
- "I know… But I wanted to wish you luck on your first mission anyway." she said "Good luck."
- "Thank you." he said smiling.
- "You know you look great in this uniform… You slipped away without a dance in the Festival and the SeeD ball, but mind you… you owe me…" she said and with a wink she left.
Seifer smirked and walked casually back towards the aircraft. His eye caught Quistis' on the way and man was she furious! She didn't show it, but Seifer could tell by the look in her eyes. He proceeded in boarding the aircraft with the others. They all made their way to their cabins; one for the men and one more for the women. Seifer walked inside his cabin along with Nida, Zell and Peter.
- "And it's back to sleep for me!" said Zell flinging off his shoes and lying down on the closest bed to him.
- "*Hwaaah*!" yawned Nida "Might as well sleep it… I hardly got any sleep last night…"
- "I'll go check the pilot deck." said Peter leaving the cabin.
- "Why don't you lie down too Seifer? Deling City is at least seven hours away…" said Zell with eyes hardly open.
- "Maybe later… I'll go take a walk around…" said Seifer walking out of the cabin.
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He walked around the huge aircraft walking inside any room he could. Most of them were used to store boxes. Seifer wondered what they could content. He guessed it would remain a mystery… When he came across another one of these rooms, he barely looked inside and turned around to leave, but felt a hand grab the shirt of his uniform and shove him back in the room.
- "What the hell was that just before?" yelled an angry Quistis.
- "Hey baby…" said Seifer trying to hug her and kiss her.
- "Don't 'Hey baby' me mister! I asked you a question!" she said pushing him away.
- "Can you repeat it? I was far too busy thinking of all the nasty things I wanna do to you right now…" he said getting a mischievous expression on his face.
- "I asked what the hell was that with Angelina Schaffer just before!" repeated Quistis furious.
- "Just my way of taking revenge on the 'Nida' incident…" said Seifer smirking, holding Quistis' chin.
- "I never flirted with Nida!" she said shoving his hand away "You were all over her down there!"
- "I think you got it the other way around…" he said crossing his arms.
- "I saw the look on your face!"
- "Why are you being so silly? I just wanted to tease you…" he said walking over to her, holding her waist "If I wanted to be with Angelina I would be… But I'm not.... I'm with you."
- "Yeah, right…" said Quistis looking away; she had started to thaw out a bit.
- "She's not my type…"
- "I thought I wasn't either." said Quistis raising an eyebrow.
- "You know perfectly well I didn't mean that and neither did you…" he said pulling her close to him.
- "So… what's your type then?" asked Quistis.
- "Blonde, blue-eyed women with sexy full lips, perfect bodies and bossy attitudes…" he said sliding a finger down her neck "What's yours?" he asked.
- "Tall, blonde, green-eyed men with arrogance even bigger than their height…" she said smiling.
- "What, nothing about my divine body?" asked Seifer exasperated.
- "Who said I was talking about you?" said Quistis jokingly.
- "Why you little…" said Seifer in mock-anger, grabbing both her hands firmly.
- "What are you gonna do? Hurt me? I'll scream!" said Quistis laughing.
- "Not now… In a bit though…" said Seifer mischievously.
- "Wha-" she began to say, but didn't complete her sentence as Seifer dragged her behind some boxes.
He pushed her against a wall grabbing her neck with one hand, her waist with the other and kissed her fiercely. Quistis wrapped her arms around his neck He'd started unbuttoning her shirt, when she stopped him.
- "What are you doing? They'll hear us!"
- "We can be quiet…" he said kissing her neck.
- "What if someone walks in here?!"
- "No-one will… It's just a storage room…" he said continuing to undress her.
- "You came in here!"
- "Come on… You know you want to…" he said giving her a meaningful look, taking the clip off her hair "We haven't been together for nearly a day…" he added, smelling her hair "I'd almost forgotten how good you smell…"
- "*Sigh* How you always manage to persuade me will remain a mystery to me…" she said.
Not being able to resist him, she just gave in….
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Seifer was sitting down on the floor with his back resting against a box. He had Quistis sitting on his lap, her head resting on his shoulder, while he played with locks of her golden hair. They weren't fully dressed yet; Seifer was only wearing his SeeD uniform pants, while Quistis wore his shirt. It seemed way too baggy on her slender figure and it was long enough to reach about the middle of her thighs.
- "You know, ever since you came back I've done things that are more than enough to banish me from any military academy in the world…" Quistis said chuckling.
- "'Things'?" asked Seifer playing stupid.
- "You know what I mean…"
- "No I don't…" he replied in mock innocence.
- "So I suppose you think that if someone walked in on us just a few minutes ago, it would be really great for both our careers?" she said smiling, looking at him.
- "Not our careers as SeeDs, but I'm more than certain we'd get a job in show-biz…" he said smirking "Y'know, have our own series of 'home-video'…" Quistis laughed out loud "What are you laughing for? Just imagine it…" he said with a dreamy expression on his face "… 'The Seifer and Quistis hot n' steamy…"
- "Stop it!" she interrupted him laughing uncontrollably.
- "Laugh it up, but I think we'd become stars if anyone were to see us in 'action'!" he said dirtily.
- "Oh, you think you're so good huh?" she said raising an eyebrow.
- "I know it!" he said cockily.
- "What makes you so sure, oh mighty stud?"
- "The look on your face, the way you scream my name…"
- "I never scream you name…" said Quistis.
- "Oh, right…" he said falling deep in thought "Well, there's always time to change that…" he said kissing her and trying to take off the shirt she was wearing.
Quistis giggled as he fell back on top of her, biting her neck, growling at the same time. Right then, she heard voices from the corridors outside.
- "Seifer…" she said trying to listen carefully.
- "Mmm?" he said, with his face still nuzzled in her neck.
- "Be quiet, I think I heard someone outside…" she said covering his mouth with her hand.
Seifer raised his head back up, still lying on top of Quistis. The couple remained silent as they heard the voices become louder.
- "Shit!" he whispered getting off her "Quick, get your clothes from the floor!" he said getting up.
They both quickly gathered the scattered clothes and shoes from the floor. Seifer grabbed her hand and pulled her behind another stack of boxes and out of sight. He pressed Quistis against the high stack and gave her all the clothes, while he put his arms around her. The two lovers tried to not even breathe, as a couple of people walked inside the storage room. They were discussing something about the cargo they were transferring to Galbadia. Quistis and Seifer thought they must've been staff from the aircraft, because the voices didn't sound familiar. Eventually, the two people left the room. Seifer exhaled heavily and wiped his now sweaty forehead with one hand. Quistis on the other hand found the whole incident terribly amusing; she let the clothing fall from her arms, as she put both hands over her mouth, starting to laugh hysterically. Seifer looked at her puzzled.
- "That was not funny…" he said with a half-serious, half-amused look on his face.
- "I'm sorry…" she said between chuckles "…I just can't stop…"
- "I'm having a really bad influence on you, aren't I?" he asked smiling. Quistis nodded, still laughing "Come here you rascal…" said Seifer grabbing her waist to pull her close and kissing her "We've only been together for three days… Imagine what you'll turn into in a month…" he said grinning, when they broke apart.
- "Mr. Almasy… I'm surprised…" said Quistis with a serious look on her face "Are you planning to keep invading into my life for that long?" she asked.
- "Why, am I not welcome?" he asked avoiding to answer her question.
- "More than welcome…" she said kissing him back "We'd better get dressed, huh?"
- "Yeah, someone's bound to notice us missing…" he replied.
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The couple returned back to their cabins cautiously and mostly slept during the remainder of the flight. After about six and a half hours the aircraft reached Galbadian grounds and landed onto the Deling City air station. The SeeDs were escorted to Lucius Wallace's mansion in private government limousines.
The mansion was more luxurious than anyone expected. It was located in the outskirts of the city. The building was three floors high, built in grey stone. Gothic, but somehow elegant. There were four great gardens surrounding it, as well as a huge tennis court and a grand pool. The cars drove through the metal gateways, along the stone paths cascading through the gardens and finally reached the entrance to the mansion.
Lucius Wallace was waiting outside, accompanied by two bodyguards. The two limousines stopped and the seven mercenaries stepped outside. Wallace smiled and walked over to greet them.
- "Welcome to my humble abode!" he said. Everyone smirked at the sound of 'humble' "My dear…" said Wallace approaching Quistis.
- "Mr. Wallace…" said Quistis as he once again took her hand and kissed it tenderly.
- "Now, now… What did we say?" he said smiling at her.
- "Oh, right… Lucius…" she said forcing a smile. Seifer tried to restrain himself from slashing the slimy politician in two with his Hyperion.
- "Did you all have a good trip?" asked Wallace, never letting go of her hand.
- "It was really good…" said Quistis blushing, as she saw Seifer raise an eyebrow and smile at her mischievously.
- "Well now, you must all be starved! It's already one past noon." said Lucius "If you all just step inside… My chefs have prepared a delicious meal. And don't worry about your luggage. My maids and butlers will take care of them." he added "Shall we?" he said offering Quistis his arm, which she reluctantly took. All eight of them walked inside the luxurious mansion, following Wallace's lead.
- "Finally…" mumbled Zell, rubbing his rumbling stomach. Seifer was the last one to walk inside the mansion.
- "Just stay calm Seifer…" he said to himself as he watched Wallace ogling on his girlfriend.
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Lunch was indeed great. Wallace's chefs had prepared a local recipe of veal, which was scrumptious. The wine was exquisite and in general, everything was perfect. The seven SeeDs were briefed on the upcoming mission, which would take part the following day. Seifer tried his best not to lose his temper as the Galbadian minister openly hit on Quistis, although he 'accidentally' spilled his glass of wine on Mr. Wallace's sparkly clean pants. Quistis wasn't really happy about this, but Seifer managed to get away with only one angry look. However, the suppressed smiles and chuckles of the others were at the very least rewarding…
After the meal, they were all escorted to their very own private rooms each. Wallace had kindly informed them that his mansion contained thirty-five rooms, so it was more than easy to provide them with personal bedrooms. Lucius Wallace was the gentleman and walked Quistis to her bedroom. Seifer glared at him with a murderous look on his face, as he watched him stride down the corridor with Quistis. He walked into his own room slamming the door behind him. He fell heavy on his king-sized bed and crossed his arms.
'Son – of – a – bitch…' he thought 'I don't think I'll be able to stand this any longer… Hyne, I never thought I'd be so jealous over ANY woman… Damn you Quistis… Damn you…'
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