Title: Downfall
Author: Rageful Fairy
Rating: R
Posted: 03/09/04 [ Would've been posted on 03/03/04 but I had monitor troubles! ]
Disclaimer: I do not claim ownership of Final Fantasy 8.
Warnings: Yaoi and Shounen-ai content for later. Violent content for soon ...
and content in general for every chapter.
Pairing: Seifer x Squall [In a little while.]
Summary: When similar scars connect two people in many more ways than imaginable. [Seifer x Squall]
Author's Notes: I would have had this chapter up much earlier, but my monitor broke so I couldn't get it up! Here it ish! Not exactly what I had planned, but the concept of the other plan was similar and had similar outcomes but this is just much more interesting!
[ [ [ DOWNFALL ] ] ]
[ [ [ THIRD OF MANY PARTS ] ] ]
[ [ [ HUH? ] ] ]
So many plots and thoughts found a way into Seifer's mind before he could actually settle for one that might actually work. The plan haunted his mind and he could've swore it would be effective and then...
Huh?
Yes. He forgot, and only a wisp of the master plan remained in remembrance. It had to do with stalking somebody and going back to the Infirmary. Seifer only shrugged it away and dropped his cigarette on the pearly white concrete of the sass 'n' class Quad.
An offense he always broke- smoking in Garden facilities. He didn't give a rat's ass about that rule. Not like he cared about every other rule, but this rule was one he'd always break. It was one of the easiest rules to break in Garden, so smoking never left him much fulfillment in the thrill-seeking adventures of being defiant, since he only got caught twice. The punishment for that wasn't so severe, either.
Seifer dismissed the thoughts of rescuing his precious weapon for the night, since the sun was setting. No matter how unlike Seifer it may sound, Seifer would always stick around in the Quad with a cigarette or sometimes fancy liquors and watch the sunset. The sunsets and rule-breaking reminded him of his parents. He remembered how his dad, actually, was the one who enjoyed the sunsets and other natural beauties. Seifer's dad was quiet, reasonable, and noble. He remembered how his mother was the bad-ass one, always rebelling what she thought was wrong. His mother was punished always. And once, her rebellion resulted in the ultimate payment. Her life.
Seifer was able to remember all of this since he had kept all of the journals his father would write. The journals provoked memories of his parents. Seifer was shocked at all of the things his parents have done. Seifer never got around to finish reading the journals, either. He didn't want to.
He spent all of this time in the Quad, reminiscing about what the journals had told him about his parents and his early childhood over the empowering sight of the pastel painted sky. Oranges, purples, subtle blues, and graceful pinks danced across the sky as the sun went down. Seifer admired it. It reminded him of the description of a sunset his father wrote about.
"It was beautiful. The multi-colored canvas that is the sky grows dark, with the sun's setting. Colors varying from a gentle shade of yellow to an exquisite light shade of violet, with blues and purples complimenting the yellowish orange glow of the sun's disappearance. This is the most memorable moment I could ever have with my son and my beautiful wife. This might be the last sunset we'd see together, for my wife is leaving tomorrow... to lead a full-out rebellion against the Galbadian forces in Timber, where she had been born. The sun's so suddenly vanished, making me upset. It furthered my upset feelings of my wife leaving me to an unbearable degree. I could not help but to sniffle."
He thought it could be exactly like the one he, his father, and his mother saw. He doubted that. Seifer remembered that sunset that he and his parents shared. It was beyond beautiful.
Yes, the bad ass man with the hard ass exterior had feelings.
He sighed once the sun went down completely, and reached for his gunblade. He let out another sigh once he realized that it was not there. He lit another cigarette to guide him out of this sunset down memory lane. Once he went to put his matches away, he felt a notebook inside of the inner-pockets of his trench coat.
He took out the notebook and examined the inside text.
... Yes, another one of his father's journals.
Standing under a dim light, he recited what he read quietly. He didn't want to read it. He just... felt like it.
"8/19/77: Today, I chased after my beautiful wife, leaving my young son with a wonderful lady named Edea. She seemed to understand the fact that I would be back for my son only if I made it alive from Timber. I will, in time. He knows to respect the kind lady, and all of the other kind little kids who lived in the home, too. I do not worry about him. He is a well-behaved kid. I love him so much."
Seifer felt tingly inside. Somebody had thought highly of him, at least for one time in his life. Seifer continued to read on the next page.
"8/21/77: My wife and I endured a battle with each other. We were forced to fight each other, since I was suspected a Galbadian detective trying to sneak into a Resistance faction to attain information. It was my wife who they sent to combat me. She told me that she had to fight her best, but she would be careful with me and made me vow that I'd be careful with her. But, as luck would have it, we both ended up with matching scars on our foreheads. It wasn't a blemish to me. It was something to remind me of my wife forever and ever, just in case there will never be a way for me to convince the faction of my loyalty."
Seifer reread the line about the matching scars.
"What the hell is this shit?" he questioned the air, almost freaked out by the coincidence.
Huh...?
And his scar began to sting...
Had to balance out the comedy with a little bit of seriousness. This chapter's significance is like... unreal. A big-hug an' a thank you goes out to the people who reviewed part I and II! You don't know how good it makes me feel for someone to read and even like what I write. Was this a little bit confuzzling? Yes. Will the mysteries behind this chapter be revealed later? Yes indeedy do!
