Chapter 32: Mr. and Mrs. Anderson
A red-haired Quistis and a brown-haired Seifer walked inside the lobby of a hotel in Esthar. They left their luggage in front of the reception and greeted the friendly clerk behind the counter.
- "Good evening! Welcome to 'Esthar Hilton'. How may I help you?" said the clerk, a black-haired man in his mid-twenties.
- "We've got a reservation under the name of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson." said Seifer.
- "Ah, yes. I need to see some credentials for that sir…" said the clerk checking the computer in front of him. Quistis froze in place; she hadn't thought of that. Seifer however, remained calm.
- "Of course. Here you go…" he said, handing the man an ID card.
- "This will just be a minute…" said the clerk typing quickly "Alright sir. Everything in order. Here's your key…" he said handing Seifer a brass key with a small card on it "Suite No.9, sixth floor. Your luggage will be sent up immediately. Enjoy your stay!"
- "Thank you." said Seifer picking up his ID and key "Let's go honey…" he added, holding Quistis from the waist.
The pair walked over to the elevator. They stepped inside and Seifer pushed the button to the 6th floor.
- "OK… You've got some serious explaining to do…" said Quistis, looking at Seifer puzzled. Seifer laughed.
- "The ID is one of the old ones I was using while on the run. You're looking at Roger Anderson right now!" he said smirking.
- "And the 'Mr. and Mrs. Anderson'?" Quistis asked grinning.
- "Well… The honeymoon suites are always the best…" he said winking at her.
- "You're unbelievable…" said Quistis chuckling, shaking her head in disbelief.
- "Here we are…" said Seifer, as the elevator doors opened.
The couple walked down the luxurious corridor, towards Suite No.9. When they found it, Seifer took out the key and unlocked the door. He walked inside and flicked the lights open.
- "Well come in! What are you waiting for?" he asked, seeing that Quistis was still standing outside.
- "You're forgetting something…" she said smiling. Seifer looked at her puzzled "Honeymoon suite…" she said meaningfully.
Seifer then caught on and smirked. He walked over to her and lifted her up in his arms.
- "That's better…" said Quistis grinning.
Seifer walked back into the room, closing the door with his heel.
- "Wow… Classy…" said Quistis looking at the suite.
- "I thought my first hefty paycheck should be spent in something worthwhile…" said Seifer.
- "You mean that?" asked Quistis biting her bottom lip.
Seifer just smiled at her and kissed her, still holding her in his arms. He then slowly let her back to her feet and they began looking around the suite. It consisted of a really big bedroom/hall, a bathroom and a balcony. In the hall, there was a couch with a big coffee table in front, a fully equipped mini-bar and a big-screen TV right across. In the same room, stood a huge king-size bed with silky covers and a great wardrobe. A pair of glass doors next to the bed, led to the balcony. Outside, there was a small table with two chairs. The view was indeed panoramic; one could see the entire futuristic city of Esthar outside. Back into the main room, there was a door which led to the luxurious bathroom. Inside it, lay a pair of sinks, two toilet seats, a big shower and a huge Jacuzzi bathtub.
Seifer and Quistis spent sometime out in the balcony, admiring the view, when the door knocked.
- "I'll get it…" said Seifer walking towards the door.
When he opened it, he came face to face with a member of the hotel staff, who was carrying their luggage. The man walked inside the room and left the bags by the bed. Seifer thanked him and gave him a generous tip. When the man left Seifer walked back to the balcony, but didn't find Quistis there. He walked back to the room puzzled.
- "Quis?" he called.
The bathroom door opened and Quistis came out, wearing a bathrobe.
- "Care to try out the Jacuzzi?" she asked smiling mischievously.
- "Thought you'd never ask…" said Seifer walking over to her.
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Quistis was resting her back against one edge of the now foamy bathtub. She'd spread her legs open, having Seifer lay between them, with his back resting on her chest. He had his eyes closed and was relaxing, while Quistis was massaging his shoulders.
- "Mmm… This feels so good…" he said huskily.
- "Yeah, I know… I haven't had a real bath in ages…" said Quistis.
- "Did you manage to get permission to stay away from work on Monday?" he asked.
- "Mmm-hmm… We can spend the entire weekend here…" she replied.
- "Great… It'd be a shame to enjoy all this luxury just for two nights…"
- "Mmm…" said Quistis, wrapping her arms around Seifer's neck, resting her chin on them "Glad you took out those nasty contacts… I like seeing your emerald eyes…" she said, giving him a kiss on the neck.
Seifer grinned and turned around to face Quistis. He lay down in the tub on his stomach, resting on his elbows, holding Quistis' waist.
- "You should really keep your hair like that…" he said smiling "I like it a lot."
- "I think I like it too…" she said "And it's about time a made a change…"
- "Couldn't agree more…" he said and reached up to kiss her.
Quistis wrapped her legs around his waist as he lay on top of her and held him from the base of the neck, kissing him.
- "Mr. Bunny feels kinda frisky…" said Seifer mischievously, when they broke apart "Does Mrs. Kitten wanna play?" he asked.
Quistis laughed heartily at that remark and kissed him back, feeling his hands cascading on her skin under the water…
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The next morning, Quistis woke up covered underneath the soft blankets of the huge hotel bed. She was in her white nightgown, which Seifer had insisted she should wear the night before. He was lying next to her, sleeping like a baby, having one arm around her waist. Quistis stretched and yawned, then turned to look at the man next to her. She smiled warmly and ran her fingers through his short spiky hair. Seifer slowly, half-opened his eyes and looked at her. He closed them again and smiled broadly.
- "Morning kitten…" he said sleepily.
- "Morning… Slept well?" she asked.
- "Great…" he said yawning "What time is it?" he asked.
- "It's still early. Go back to sleep, I'll go have a shower." she said giving him a kiss on the forehead, getting up.
- "OK…" he said and turned around.
Quistis enjoyed a hot revitalizing shower and proceeded in calling room service for some breakfast. By the time she'd changed into a clean pair of pajama pants and a sweater, there was a knock on the door. She walked over to it, putting her still damp hair up in a ponytail and opened it. She thanked the maid who stood outside, tipped her and rolled the cart with the breakfast inside the room. She put some things on a tray and walked over to the bed. She climbed up on it and rested the tray next to her. She reached over to Seifer and began caressing his cheek to wake him up.
- "Hey bunny… Wake up… I got you breakfast…" she said. Seifer turned around rubbing his eyes and lazily and sat up with his back against the wall.
- "Breakfast in bed…" he said grinning "Can't remember the last time I had that…" he added, as Quistis laid the tray on his lap.
- "Wanna go out for a walk in the city today?" she asked, buttering a piece of toast.
- "Sure… Let's go do some shopping and have lunch out…" he replied, drinking some black coffee.
- "*Sigh* For once, I slept without having to worry how I'd have to sneak back to my room…" said Quistis eating her toast.
- "That can be changed…" said Seifer looking at her "All we have to do is come out clean…" he added taking a bite off a croissant "Question is… Are you ready to do that?"
- "I dunno…" she said sighing "Are you?"
- "Dunno either… I don't usually care what others think, but the thing with us… It would be quite the surprise for everyone… Might get some people mad as well…" he replied.
- "Why mad?" asked Quistis.
- "I don't think the Trepies would be glad to see you with anyone, let alone the 'Sorceress' lapdog'…"
- "First of all, I don't give a damn what those crazy kids think. Second, I don't think that anyone in the Garden thinks of you that way anymore…" she said.
- "I wouldn't bet on it…" said Seifer raising an eyebrow.
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Seifer and Quistis spent all morning walking around the streets of Esthar hand-in-hand, looking around in shops.
- "Hey…" said Quistis at some point "I've been meaning to go do some shopping for casual clothes. Wanna go?"
- "Quis, I hate going shopping for clothes…" whined Seifer.
- "Aw, c'mon!"
- "Why don't you go get what you want and I'll wait for you over by that restaurant?" he said "I'm starting to feel kinda hungry…"
- "Suit yourself…" said Quistis shrugging
- "Don't be late." he said, giving her a peck, walking towards the restaurant he'd spotted.
Quistis arrived at the diner about 30 minutes later. Seifer had slouched himself in a chair and was waiting for her, arms crossed, foot tapping impatiently on the floor.
- "Ah, so you've decided to come…" he said mockingly.
- "Sorry 'bout that…" she said sitting next to him, blowing him a kiss on the cheek.
- "Those slimy tricks won't work with me…" he said looking away.
- "C'mon… Please?" she said tracing her finger on his neck.
- "*Long Pause* No…"
- "Pretty please?" she said giving him a peck on the neck.
- "*Longer Pause* No…"
- "Pretty please with sugar on top?" she whispered softly in his ear while caressing his neck.
- "*Very Long Pause* OK…" he said shrugging.
- "Wanna see what I got for you?" she asked cheerfully.
- "I told you I didn't want any casual clothes!" he complained.
- "Trust me; you'll love these…" she said, not paying him much attention "This one is a surprise, I'll show you later…" she said pointing at a certain bag, grinning "I got you two sweaters, a pair of jeans and this!" she said taking out of a bag a grey wool cap.
- "What – the hell – is that?!"
- "It's a cap! When I saw it I knew it would look amazing on you. Look at how cute it is!" she said smiling.
- "I don't want to look cute…" he said with a horrified look on his face.
- "Aw, c'mon! Put it on! I wanna see how it looks!" she said trying to put the cap on his head.
- "Quistis, no! I'll look like fucking Eminem!" he said struggling to push her away.
- "Yeah, but Eminem is hot!"
- "You'll mess up the hair!"
- "May I take your order please?" said a man.
Quistis and Seifer froze in their position. Quistis had climbed on Seifer's lap and was trying to pull down the cap on his head, while Seifer was struggling to push her away. The waiter was standing in front of them, waiting patiently, although he seemed appalled by the view.
- "Spaghetti. With white sauce and parmesan…" said Quistis.
- "Same. And two cokes please…" said Seifer.
- "Very well…" said the waiter shooting them a cold look.
- "What the fuck is his problem?" said Seifer angrily.
- "Hmmm… Let's see…" said Quistis in a mock-thinking way "We've been acting like ten-year-olds and disturbing the whole place…"
- "Yeah, yeah…" said Seifer "I… noticed you're still on top of me… Feeling a bit horny, are we?" he asked raising an eyebrow.
- "You wish…" said Quistis getting off his lap.
- "Ooh, I just love it when you play hard to get…" he said grabbing her waist and kissing her neck.
- "Seifer…" she said trying to sound annoyed. "… Everyone's watching us…"
- "Let them watch…" he said mischievously, and turned her chin towards his face kissing her.
- "*Ahem* Your order…" said the waiter.
- "Umm… thank you…" said Quistis, pulling away, blushing. "That was… fast…" she said when he had gone.
- "Next time he shoots us a look like that, he's dead…" said Seifer cracking his knuckles.
- "Forget about him…" said Quistis starting to eat.
- "Wanna see a neat trick?" said Seifer with a full mouth.
- "I dunno… Do I?" she asked hesitantly. Seifer nodded. "OK…"
He grabbed her face with both hands and gave her a kiss.
- "Eww… You spat pasta in my mouth… Gross!" she said.
- "Heh, heh… I know, I'm disgusting…" he said chuckling.
- "And what exactly was the trick?" she asked.
- "No trick, I just wanted to kiss you…" he said shrugging.
- "What am I going to do with you?" she said cupping his cheeks in her hands.
- "Bare my children, so that there will be more of us to annoy the shit out of people!" he said giving her a peck.
- "You're crazy, you know that?"
- "Crazy for you…" he said adopting a mock-romantic expression.
- "Smooth move…"
- "Always…"
- "Always this cocky?"
- "Yeah, that too…"
- "Let's eat."
- "OK…"
- "Wanna see what I got?" she asked after they had finished.
- "Of course I do. They've got to pass through inspection before you even dream of wearing them…" he said digging his hand in one of the bags "Failed, failed, failed, failed… You might as well go and return them…"
- "What's wrong with them?"
- "I suppose the factory that made them ran out of fabric, or else I really can't explain how you can call…" he said digging his hand back in and taking out a mini skirt "…this a skirt."
- "Well what the hell does it look like to you?"
- "To me? It looks like a Hyne damn belt! You're not putting that on!"
- "Why the hell not?!"
- "Because I said so!"
- "And on who's authority do you get to decide what I'll wear or not?!"
- "On the authority of your boyfriend!"
- "Oh, so now that we are together I get to dress like a nun?"
- "I never said that! I just don't want other guys drooling all over you!"
- "*Sigh* Can we pay up and leave? If I see the look on that waiter's face once more, I'm gonna whip him to death…"
- "I bet he'd like that…" said Seifer grinning.
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When night came, Seifer suggested going out to a rock club. Having never been to one before, Quistis sportingly agreed. Seifer wore a pair of purposely worn-out dark blue jeans that Quistis had bought him and a plain black T-shirt on top that read 'People=shit' in the back with red letters. She was in the bathroom getting ready. When she came out she was wearing a really big black trench coat.
- "Surprise…" she said grinning "This is for you…" she said taking it off "To replace your old one."
- "Wow…" said Seifer in awe "It's amazing…"
- "You can have the Fire Cross emblazoned on the sleeves again. It'll look even better now that it's black…" she said smiling, glad that Seifer liked her gift.
- "Thanks babe!" he said blowing her a kiss.
He spent some time looking at the coat, when his eyes rested on Quistis and he raised an eyebrow.
- "I see I was too distracted to notice this…" he said "Lookin' damn good…"
Quistis was wearing a pair of knee length jeans, allowing her high-heeled black boots to show and a black strapless top that left the entire belly bare. She'd let her now flaming red hair down and had done her make up really well.
- "Let's go have a blast tonight…" he said holding her from the waist, giving her a passionate kiss.
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A/N: I know, I know… Nothing much in these chapters… Bad me… But I've been busy out of my mind with my school and I already told you that Sal isn't helping either… ^_^
ON THE NEXT CHAPTER OF 'LOVE CONQUERS ALL':
A small tribute to a fav ficcy. You'll see what I mean ^_^
Also, Quistis gets a 'first hand experience' of Seifer's nightmares…