If I owned it, I wouldn't be sitting here writing fanfic. Italics denote thoughts or trances.
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Dear Hyne, it hurt.
What hurt more was the way his eyes slowly crept open... in disbelief that death could be so painful. And yet he woke carefully to bright white, wondering how white could possibly be a soothing, healing color, and cursed hoarsely, slowly focusing on the face in front of him.
A wry grin. "You should be more careful. You don't deserve that gunblade if you fuck yourself up that badly cleaning it." A startled glance, and Squall began to respond that no, that wasn't what – but a flicker of warning in the sky-blue orbs gazing down at him made him reconsider. Seeing the doctor just past the broad shoulder, he nodded, once. Thank you, Seifer.
"Well, come on, then. I'm on wuss-duty now – you're staying with me until you're ok on your own."
"..." What the hell? Squall's eyes glinted darkly and he moved to sit – but inhaled sharply, clenching the sheets in his fists as the room spun.
"You cracked your head pretty good when you fell," Seifer smirked. His gaze widened slightly as he watched Squall's oceanic orbs – the expression suddenly distant, so very removed from reality that he seemed to be one of the living dead.
"Squall," the ice goddess murmured. His name echoed through the wide caverns, stalactites shimmering like glass in the unnatural cold. His name drifted over him like the gentlest of snowflakes, a cooling breath of relief that smothered the agony of his devastated flesh. Smiling thinly, he fell into her arms, letting Shiva wrap her sparkling diamond dust around him, a numbing blanket that let the world fade away.
The cold steel tray – and all of its various medical implements – crashed hard to the floor as Seifer stood up all at once. "What the hell?" he exclaimed, gazing down at Squall uncomprehendingly. The boy's eyes shone with icy distance – something few have experienced up close, due to his status as "resident loner."
"He does that a lot," Dr. Kadowaki replied, narrowing her eyes in annoyance, beginning to reassemble the disheveled tray. "He retreats with Shiva whenever there's something he doesn't want to deal with." She sighed, slowly wiping up a hi-potion that truly could have been useful to the bruised-and-bloody Squall. "You were fortunate to come across him when you did - he could have bled to death." Pausing, she turned, giving Seifer a questioning glance. "How did you come across him anyway?"
What the hell am I supposed to tell her? "Oh, well, I was coming to his dorm to beat the motherloving crap out of him, and broke his door down when I heard his body hit the floor... you know, I guess he did the work for me." For fuck's sake. "We were cleaning our gunblades in the quad and he hit the ground before I got a glimpse of what the hell he did. Fuckin' moron," he muttered, glaring down at the prone boy.
"He must have been distracted... Well, you have your orders, Seifer. And for Hyne's sake, BEHAVE yourself!" Dr. Kadowaki gave him one more stern look for good measure, and waved a dismissive hand. "Stay in his dorm, it's larger. Bring him back in two weeks for a check-up."
Two weeks with fuck-rat and I gotta stay in HIS room? There goes my sex life... or what's left of it.