A/n: Squall's thoughts

Chapter 15

Family Reunion

Squall and company walked into the small coastal cottage. Squall felt like he knew this place, the atmosphere was familiar, but the looks had changed. He couldn't remember anything about this place, but he knew something was off.

"Hello?" He called into the quiet house. "Ellone? Are you here?"

"SQUALL!" Screamed a young woman who had walked in from the back porch. "I am so glad to see you!" Squall recognized this woman. She had come to visit him in the infirmary the day after his training 'Accident' with Seifer. "Soldiers came for me," That explains the looks of this place "but I hid from them. In the confusion they took Edea, apparently we look alike." She continued. Squall had noticed that she did resemble Edea, she was about 5'7, slender, with an alabaster complexion, and dark hair. She was actually very pretty.

"I know you!" Squall exclaimed

"No shit?" She responded. "I know it's been a while since we talked, but I am your sister, I'd expect you to know me!"

"Sister?"Quistis cut in. "Then the little boy in the dream..."

"That's enough Quisty!" Squall interrupted.

"Yeah I'm his sister, well half sister." Ellone continued."You can't honestly have forgotten me." Guess I did...weird

"I'm sorry, but I don't remember you. I don't remember anything before I was enrolled in Garden. I don't even know who my parents are." Squall apologized for something he had no control over, and he resented her for making him feel like an apology was needed.

"Sorry to interrupt the family reunion," Annalyse cut in, "but won't Cid be pissed when he finds out they took Edea?" The group nodded in agreement, Anna looked proud. Squall felt bad for treating her like an idiot, but sometimes she acted like it.

As soon as those words left her lips, Squall's cell phone rang. Cid apparently knew all about the abduction, and had already formulated a plan. Within an hour Ellone was packed and ready to go, Squall felt as if he was running on empty. As he walked out of the seaside cottage, a swell of emotion swept over him. He had never really mourned the loss of Rinoa, and he collapsed in the driveway, and began to weep. Behind him Ellone was locking the door, as the deadbolt clicked, an explosion rocked the calm coast, knocking Ellone backwards, and engulfing the rest of the team in flame and debris.

Ultimecia watched with glee as her opposition fell. Everything was falling into place.