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Chapter 7: What?!
SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Dr.kadowaski hummed to herself as she settled her papers in her desk. She heard the door swish open and waited for the voice to follow, when none did she turned to find Quistis staring into space, lift a eyebrow she cleared her throat. Quistis was still dazed, but she had a small smile appear in her face. The good doctor chuckled at her favorite card player before she patted her on the shoulder to wake her sudden trance; Quistis blinked back the memory and looked at Dr.kadowaski.
"Sorry, I was just thinking." she explained, Dr.kadowaski shook her head and then pointed to a chair in front of her desk.
"No need to apologize Quistis, so what brings you here?" she asked the girl. Quistis sighed and sat on the proffered chair.
"Well, I wanted a check up. I think I might be coming down with something. This morning I was so sick to my stomach I threw up twice, then when I got to Balamb a while later, a threw up again." she told. Dr.kadowaski frowned a bit.
"Anything else?" she asked.
"No. That's all that happened.
"When did this start?" Dr. Kadowaki asked.
"Today."
"How did it start? What happened when you woke up?"
"I told you. I threw up, it was the second thing I did that morning, first was running out of bed, then it was the toilet and then after I brushed my teeth I threw up again." she old her.
"Okay, well take some tests and see if everything's normal and then....well see."
"Alright." Quistis felt a bit nervous for some reason, she was never comfortable in the hospitals or with doctors if they were checking on her. That was just something she'd have to deal with.
After her heart beat was checked, her breathing, eyes, hears, temperature, throat, Dr. Kadowaki took some blood, Quistis asked why but all she got as an answer was it was standard procedure.
"Okay Quistis, we're done, you can go I've a suspicion of what you have but I'm not sure yet so until I get the results back from the lab I can't make a decision. Just so you know your p[perfectly fine, your completely normal, but I think its better safe than sorry. So I'll call you down later today with the results." Quistis was confused by the doctor for the first time in a long time. She had just contradicted herself.
"I thought that I was normal, why would I have anything if I'm fine?" she asked.
"Oh? Well you have a co0ndiction but it could be completely natural, then again I might be mistaken." she told her with a sudden happiness. Quistis thought of it strange but ignored it and left. It was already fifteen hundred hours when Quistis got out of the Infirmary, she walked to the cafeteria to hang with everyone, they should be there now, she thought as she walked around the big apple to the cafeteria. Irvine and Selphie were talking but there wasn't anybody else there.
Well, Selphie's talking, Irvine's' nodding his head as he looked at her, she rephrased. She got in line and waited to get her food.
"Hey Quistis, where have you been?" Selphie asked her as she grabbed fries from her plate.
"Oh hey you don't mind right?" she asked Quistis, waving the fries in the air. Quistis smiled and shook her head.
"I was with Dr.kadowaski." she told them, Irvine tuned in.
"Why? Are you sick?" he asked with a eyebrow rise.
"No, just a regular check up, I'm fine." she told them. Selphie ate a few more fries and then started talking about the garden festival. Quistis started eating when she got to the middle of the hamburger she put it down and stood up. Selphie stopped talking when she saw Quistis hold a hand to her mouth. Frowning Irvine stood up also about to ask what was wrong when she ran away from the table into the cafeteria restroom. Selphie followed close behind and went she got into the bathroom she winced at the throwing up she heard.
"Quistis are you okay?" she didn't get a reply and using her head picked the stall closest to the door, inside Quistis was doubled over throwing up her hamburger and fries. Selphie quickly held her hair out of the way as she did what she needed. Several minutes later Quistis was holding on to the door for support as she got a major head ache.
"What's wrong?" she asked, Quistis looked at her and shrugged.
"I don't know, its probably just hat I came back from the doctor. It makes me sick when they take blood and check up on you." she told her, Selphie smiled, sympathetically as she got some paper towels for Quistis.
"Okay if you're sure?"
Yeah its just I've had a bad stomach today and the nerves were just a little too much for my stomach." she told her friend with a smile, Selphie shook her head and laughed, apologizing when she was finished, Quistis laughed also and then told her not to worry.
"Hey, crisis resolved?" he asked when he saw them walk out of the ladies room looking normal.
"Yeah." Quistis told him.
The phone rang around at twenty hundred hours, Quistis picked it up, her room was neatly organized and the phone was on her nightstand. She was reading a book when the call came; she was wearing a pair of gray sweat pants and a green tank top.
"Hello?" Quistis answered, she waited on the phone for a second and frowned.
"No....why?" Quistis answered again, she sat down on the chair suddenly.
"What? Yes it's normal, I train a lot." she explained, as she moved to her bed.
"No, I should get it soon why?" she asked, she was still standing before her bed when it hit her.
"Wha......" she looked up at the mirror on the other side of the room. Her pale face and wide
eyes were apparent. She stopped breathing.
"What?!" she cried. They asked another question.
"Well, no I haven't.......holy shit." she suddenly knew and then she dropped the phone. The words, the conversation rang out in her head like a car accident. She couldn't stop saying it, the word repeated over and over again in her head.
"Pregnant...."
"I'm pregnant?"
"I'm pregnant"
"Pregnant"
"As in baby"
"Baby?"
"A baby"
"I'm pregnant."
"Oh hyne, I'm pregnant"
"I'm pregnant"
It processed and she ran to the bathroom, puking sounds could be heard from outside the bathroom. She came out of the bathroom and collapsed on the bed. She was dazed; barely still awake she ran her hands on her stomach. Something is alive, inside me. What do I do with it? She thought, can I really have a baby? No, I can't have a kid, no way; I can't possible care for another human being. What do I do with it? Could I get rid of it? no! I can't do that. I made it, I should.......raise it? Oh hyne, I'm pregnant. What the hell do I do about garden? I can't under any circumstances stay here with a kid. Inside of me. What if I get sent on a mission? What if the baby gets attacked or hurt while on a mission. I could lose it, when did I become so protective? I need to leave garden I can't risk it, I have to protect it, it's a life. I have to talk to Cid, tell him the truth, but he'll want to know who the father is..........oh shit.
Oh hyne the mission, I had gotten it on the mission, they would suspend me for lying, for giving up and for failing to follow orders. I can't let him know it. Doctor Kadowaki doesn't know much, if I could convince her to keep quiet I could take a vacation. But what happens when I come back? I could say I had run into an old flame? No I can't lie anymore, I could stretch more truth and just say that its what I did on my vacation, instead of on my mission, she rolled her eyes at that thought. Whatever.... I have nine months to think about it. Ugh! Nine months, what am I going to do for nine months? It's a good thing I have time to think about what I'm going to do with you; she thought has she patted her stomach. What about the father? She thought suddenly.
In the two months Seifer's been living in that house he had changed it a bit. He fixed the room that had the window on the roof and made it so that the whole room was greeted with the sky; the ceiling ran down so the rain could fall to the ground from the glass-like plastic ceiling. The rooms were given furniture, not much because he had no use for them all but he did put up a training room of sorts in one of the rooms, the others lacked much detail and he took the biggest room of the house.
The first one, he put a good bed in it and added some furniture and stocked the refrigerator with beer and food. He was getting along well with the fishermen, and the boats that pasted by would tell others about his docks and he would get more business. Danny had also called him about picking up some rare fishing equipment to sell to the fishermen for double the price that he got them for, so Seifer had agreed to go to F.h in a few days and then if he had the time he would stop by a few towns and see if he could sell some around before heading back.
He stood in his room, looking for something, under the bed, in the closet. Seifer cursed and walked into the hallway. Walking into the room next to his he looked around. It was given a bed, the walls painted orange, and the closet facing the wall of Seifer's room. He sighed when he didn't see it in there. Back in the hallway he walked across to the room in front of the one he came out of. The duffle bag was there sitting on a chair by a desk. He cursed and roughly grabbed it before heading back to his room.
From the drawer he threw some underwear behind him, then some clothes, not bothering to go through it he just picked random articles and threw it behind him onto his bed. The docks were pretty much empty, the day was clear and the waters were calm. Grinning he met up with the crewmembers of the boat. They greeted him nicely enough and he got onboard. The boat was big, a shrimp boat. Seifer talked to some of them as he waited for the captain to finish his business before they took off for F.h.
"Quistis? What brings you up here?" Cid asked the next day. Quistis saluted and when cid motioned for her to sit down she did.
"I need to get out of garden." she told him quietly. Cid was more than startled and frowned.
", why would you want to leave garden?" he asked.
"I need to.....I feel like I'm dying in here, al I do is go on missions or paper work. I want to see
Places and travel without worrying about being shot or caught or without having to hide from others. Missions are too demanding for me to relax and see the places I go to. I feel I need to experience things differently sir.
"Quistis, I can't let you go, your one of our best and most valuable seeds. I'm sorry I can't grant you this." cid told her.
"I need to get away. If I could have some time to see Gaia I would come back when I feel I'm ready. Please sir you know I never ask for a vacation or any time off and I've never taken any time." she explained, though she was full of it, he bought it.
"Alright Quistis, I'll let you go. You can take a few months off and come back when you can work without doubt. I saw how you failed that mission. Was that by any chance related to this issue?" he asked.
"Yes it was, this line of thinking was distracting me, and I feel this will satisfy my need to relax. Thank you sir." Quistis told him, inside she was screaming, liar! Liar! Smiling she stood and saluted.
"Oh by the way Quistis, when do you plan to leave garden?" he asked as he stood also.
"As soon as possible sir." she told him as she went to the door, cid smiled and handed her a piece of paper. It was her savings account from garden.
"Now don't waste it all." he told her, she thought that it was like that of a fathers tone but she didn't know what that sounded like, she didn't have a father.
Sure she had been adopted but that wasn't they way her so called father talked. She left to her room to get packed; before she did she stopped by Dr.kadowaski's office. She stood outside of the office, looking at the doors before she turned around. I can see her after I pack, plus I don't think I could handle any surprises, I need to read up on this. I need to go to the library.....no I can't Amy will find out, I'll have to look it up online, she planned as she walked. The hallways were empty as she made her way to her dorm room to use her computer and pack. When she got off the computer her face paled……I'm ….really….pregnant…..and then she shuttered from the horror of everything the sites said.
Quistis had always been a strong person but she wasn't sure if she could do this, I need to set the good doctor straight she can't tell a soul, she thought as walked to the infirmary for the second time that day, the halls were quieter than usual, silence was bliss to her. In this way, the halls were encouraging her with the echoes of every step she took. The thoughts that ran through her head were deafening even to her, and there it was the doors to the infirmary, confrontation, on a subject she had rapidly become very sensitive to. Not because of the baby itself, but that the act to get the baby itself was sensitive, she felt it, and instead of regret, there were countless of other emotions and thoughts on the issue that were running in the back of her head constantly reminding her. The only thing she regrets is not remembering, because in there lies understanding and then she would know, what happened? Because she doesn't, so it bothers her.
Quistis had a vague idea of what would be said in there, but she kept every possible question and reaction in mind, preparing herself and her mask she blinked away the uncertainty from her face and walked in. the doctor at her desk filing away as usual.
"Yes?" the doctor asked not looking up.
"You can't tell anyone about the baby." She spoke, her voice firm and unwavering. The doctor's head snapped up and met with determined blue ones, smiling kindly the doctor nodded as she walked over to Quistis and hugged her.
"Quistis? Do you want to talk about it?" she asked as the blonde haired woman sat down.
"I'm not sure. Cid can't know, I'm leaving garden for the time of this pregnancy and Cid thinks I just need time away." She told her. Dr. Kadowaski looked startled for a second before walking back to her desk, after thinking she nodded understandingly.
"You know Quistis you can't hide this forever. What are you planning on doing?" the doctor asked softly as she sat in her chair.
"I don't know honestly, I've never thought of this kind of problem, I'm not going to doing anything bad to it, I can't, but I need to get away from here, please don't tell anyone anything about it. When I get back, I'll settle everything." She told Dr. Kadowaski, after she told Quistis a few things she needed to know and about some side effects that might scare her, the good doctor bid her farewell.
I'd like to thank my reviewer, boggart….thank you, and please stay tuned for the next chapter. Which I have no idea when it will show up. These things aren't planned, but be patient, it'll work out. ^_-