Rinoa walked to her house, it was a dorm but made bigger to occupy Squall and his family. She opened the door with her key card and walked in. She saw Squall sitting at the dinning room table and walked over to him, she got up behind him and wrapped her arms around his neck. He turned around rather quickly and smiled warmly at Rinoa. He kissed her gently.

"How was your day?" She said

"Same as usual, is Rinii still out?"

"What do you mean,I thought she was here?" Rinoa's voice was filled with worry

"She usually runs out of her room when I come home, so I didn't think to check I just thought she might not be home yet. Maybe she's in there now?"

Rinoa calmed down a bit and walked over to Rinii's door. She knocked twice.

"Rinii, can I come in?"

No answer

"Rinii?"

Still getting no reply Rinoa walked in. When she enterned she saw no one, but she did see a little yellow piece of paper on her bed. The note read.

To: Headmaster Leonhart

If you want to see your daughter again. Leave your wife, tied and blindfolded down at Balamb Bay. No Cops, No SeeDs, No You. Then you can have your daughter back.

Rinoa, after reading the letter sank to the floor shaking violently. She leaned backwards onto a dresser knocking the lamp off. It fell to the floor and shattered.

Squall then came running in to see what all the noise was. There he saw Rinoa on the floor holding the piece of paper, tears running down her face and the broken lamp next to her.

"What's the matter ?" He said as he ran over to her and sat down next to her. He rocked her in his arms as he took the paper from her to read it.

The whole time he was reading it Rinoa cried into his soft leather jacket. He could hear her say something like Our Baby and Why.

Squall then gripped the letter tightly in his hand, crushing it. His reflexes automatically taking over, making his grip on Rinoa stronger.

He realized what he was doing and losened his grip on her, but he was still as angry as ever. He wanted to grab his gunblade and run off, killing anything that got in his way. But he contained himself and spoke to Rinoa as soothingly as he possibley could.

"Were.....gonna get.....Rinii back....no matter what."

Rinoa cried even harder and said

"Do what they say Squall....please, I'd rather it be me than her, she is too young to have anything happen to her."

"NO." He yelled

"I would never ever think of that, even if it was the last possible choice. You and Rinii mean the world to me, and I would never put either one of you in harms way. We will figure out something"

He kissed the top of her head and hugged her to him tightly.

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Rinii was leaned up against a wall sitting on the cold stone floor with her knees to her chest. She was freezing. She knew it was snowing outside because she found a window-type thing with bars over it. It wasn't big, but it sure could bring in alot of cold air.

The temperature outside was 15 degrees. To her it felt like 5. Her uniform skirt and short sleeved top didn't help to keep her warm. Her lips were blue and she shivered uncontrolably. She was getting hypothermia and she knew it. She would daze in and out of a terrible blackness that threatend to overcome her.

She heard the metal door swing open and heard light footsteps comming towards her.

"How's acommadations Leonhart?" Sirrin's voice echoed.

Rinii didn't relpy.

"Talk to me!" He took a closer look at her.

*She really doesn't look to good.* He thought.

He bent down and touched her cheek.

*Damn she's cold!*

He shook her a bit. She didn't reply. He shook her some more. Still no response.

"Crap....My dad's gonna kill me for doing this." He said more to himself then anything.

He then took off his jacket and wrapped it around her. Carefully he picked her up and walked out of the cellar with her in his arms.

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Well thats the end of the 4th chapter. I hope it wasn't too corny. Now Remember Rinii is 13, almost 14 and Sirrin is 15. So there might not be too much between them untill later on....then again....who knows. lol. Anyway please R/R