SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Disclaimer: I don't own them
A dance of love passes,
Between stars that fall.
They glisten and glaze,
Over everything that's reigned.
Being careful to respect we watch,
As they give us a line to walk by.
- frost.
Strange DNA
Leroy cursed as he knocked down the guards; his plan hasn't been going very well so far, going to jail and all. The guards had let him use the phone, taking him down the hall in the station. He knew it was a bad idea to threaten a police officer but he had a job to do. So when they let him out he reached behind the cop and pulled out his gun, at the same time he had knocked out the other with a kick to the temple.
The gun jabbed the officers' rib with a pain and with silent threats they sneaked out through the back. Leroy smiled triumphantly as he shot the policeman and left wearing his clothes. Digging around for keys he found that the cop had a nice sedan. Taking the car that the key went into him dragged the dead corpse into the trunk and shut it. He would be on his way after he went back to Balamb and checked out all the trains going and coming on the date he left. Damnit, that bitch is going to get it, he swore as he drove out to the city limits.
Quistis felt like she was drowning, her thoughts poured over everything that had happened in the last few days. Seifer had shown up in her life, like a scar that can't be disposed of. He was the perfect friend, so he wasn't himself, or that's what Quistis thought. Seifer had accepted her pregnancy almost better than she had.
Yes, he had gotten lost inside his head for almost two hours, before he could speak; but he went with her to the doctors' office and treated her like a friend. But Quistis had a very hard time acting friendly around him; she wanted to be his friend most of the time, the rest of that said time was spent keeping herself in check; since she also wanted to jump him.
Seifer sat there, next to Quistis in the doctors' office for the second time; she was as quiet as him. There was uneasiness about the situation because the doctor said that she had found some complications about the gender of the baby. He sat thinking about how to react; he had never been in this kind of situation, not used to being with someone so vulnerable. In this train of thought he remembered vaguely how he met Fuijin and Raijin, before he could recall it though, they were called in.
"Hello Miss. Trepe, and....." Seifer glared at her, as she tried to get his name once more, she shook her head and moved on.
"Hello Doctor." she nudged Seifer, he rolled his eyes, yes he had changed but it didn't mean it was for everyone to experience his change of being. He was still an asshole sometimes, with certain people.
"Hi..." he mumbled low, he draped an arm around Quistis and she shrugged it off, grunting Seifer tried to stop moving. Quistis rolled her eyes as he acted like a little kid, she had talked to him after the first time he acted this way; apparently he was scared of hospitals but wouldn't say why, and he hated doctors and anyone that would take money to tell him he had a cold that he already knew about. He had told her it was a useless thing to do.
"Quistis, your baby is abnormal. Its blood type is the strangest combination and its D.N.A strands are impossible to decipher. I have to send you to Dr. Odine. He will be able to help you; my machines aren't technologically advanced enough. Please understand, it's just biologically unique, not physically. As far as I can tell, it's the healthiest it can be." she told them, she hadn't liked Seifer's presents from the start and wanted him out of her office.
"What's its blood type?" Seifer asked.
"It's O-A+. Which as far as I know, isn't possible." she told them.
'Thank you doctor, have a nice day." Quistis told her with a smile, the doctor and she exchanged good byes and good lucks and then they left.
Seifer studied Quistis till the got in the elevator, when it closed he turned to her and looked her in the eyes, she stared back. Hers uncertain and worried, afraid something might be wrong, Quistis was afraid of Odine, what if he used her baby as a guinea pig for his experiments.
"What's wrong? Its okay, the baby's healthy, it's fine. Don't worry." he told her as he wiped away a stray teardrop fell from her last thought.
"I don't like how Odine thinks, he took Ellone, imagine if he did that to us!" she cried out in fright, Seifer saw her fear and bit his tongue.
"Look he wouldn't try anything like that; I'll be there by your side the whole time. Let's go Quistis, your not going to be afraid of that little midget are you?" he asked teasingly, at this she straighten her jaw, and burned a hole in his forehead, he was mocking at her.
Without a word, she left him in the elevator seconds later he followed by close, when she got out into the street he was already next to her, holding her hand and giving it a reassuring grip he let go. Quistis sighed, looking around she turned back to Seifer, noticed his eyes on her and smiled at the face he was giving her. Damn I still go it bad for him, she thought as she looked around once more.
"You want to get something to eat?" he asked seeing her look at some restaurants.
"I want to go to the hotel. Go by yourself, I'll see you eventually." she told him, Seifer nodded and when she started walking he did too. When he didn't stop and turn away to get something to eat she stopped and looked at him staring right back at her once again.
"Okay Seifer. You don't have to follow me around. I said we could be friends; you don't have to be my shadow. I'm sure you have other things you want to do." she told him, Seifer looked away and then back at her and opened his mouth to speak.
"I want to do other things, but I want to do them with you." he told her, Quistis' cheeks burned at that. Looking away, she tried to think of something else.
"Look, I'm sure you can go look around the city by yourself and do a lot of other stuff." she told him as she started walking again.
"Yes, that's true, but I've done everything there is to do."
"When was this?" she asked.
"When I was trying to leave you alone, because you kept saying that I didn't have to follow you around." he told her, Quistis smiled and walked inside the hotel room.
"Seifer-"
"Quistis...you want to have dinner with me tonight? Friendly food?" he asked.
"Yes, I would love to have friendly food with you." she told him as she walked to her door, Seifer walked to his. This was right next to hers and he chuckled as he said good bye. Seifer's heart flew up to his mouth and he laughed madly at the way things have turned out so far. With a lazy smile he turned on the TV and waited till seven or so to go by her room.
Quistis herself couldn't believe her life, the way that she thought she would grow as a person never happened, instead she was outside garden; living a regular life. She breathed in sharply as she suddenly had to throw up, the contents of her breakfast in her toilet once again.
After a routine of retching she walked to her bag and got a book. She had been reading up on babies and what everything you needed to know about them. Some things made her tired just thinking about, others were okay. A few hours later, a knock at the door woke her up. She frowned and then her eyes reflected realization and she put the book down as she stretched and got up to answer.
"Hey, ready to go?" Seifer asked after greeting her, Quistis' head registered what he meant. Seifer was dressed in a white long shelved shirt; he left the front end of it out and had two buttons loose on the top. His pants were black,( like the kind in the game) and he had a brown thick belt snugly buckled below his naval.
"Why so formal?" she asked, after a second look at what he was wearing, Seifer inspected himself and shrugged.
"Its not so formal. Its just class, plus we're going to a restaurant. What? Don't tell me you don't dress right to go to restaurants?" he asked mockingly, as he stepped into the room. Quistis sighed and sarcastically motioned for him to come in.
"No its just I thought your idea of real food was moomba plaza burgers." she admitted as she looked through her bag.
"Funny. I'm not Zell. We are going to Julienne's." he stated as he watched her with an amused look.
"I didn't say you were, and Julienne's. That's kind of out of our way, it's by the coast, and we would have to drive just to get there. Why all the way out into the harbor area Seifer?" she asked as she grabbed a simple burgundy dress, it was a prefect fit to her curves and acquiesced with her form entirely when she wore it.
"It's a restaurant I've wanted to go to for a long time. Plus it has a deck where you can sit and eat outside."
"What kind of food?" she asked.
"All kinds, but its specials are seafood."
"Hm. . .I'll be out in a second." she told him. Five minutes later she came out, and Seifer couldn't speak. With dark red toenails to go with that dark dress she looked so natural. The dress wasn't extremely tight but it wasn't loose either. She grabbed a pair of sandals, not in the mood for heels and then slipped them on. She hadn't been paying attention to Seifer or she would have blushed as red as the dress at the way he was staring; he managed to compose himself before she caught him staring and then opened the door for her.
"Roses would be jealous." he whispered as she passed by him. Though she wore a bit of eye shadow and lipstick; right then it looked as though she had also put on a lot of blush.
"Let's go." she told him, they waited for the elevator and stole glances at each other during the whole ride down. Both wore poker faces, but were both grinning mad inside their minds.
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Hey see how fast I went this time! I'm on a role so far. Thanks to all reviewers, so much for taking the time. And hope you've enjoyed my writing spree. Because I don't know how long it will last. Quistis 88 yes it was soon. I've just had the feeling for it and it hasn't gone yet. Well let's see how long the next one takes. ;)