A/N: Only three more chapters left! So sit tight. I'll post up the next one hopefully but this weekend. Again thanks for all the reviews, it is very much appreciated.

---Chapter 7---

The sun was setting on the horizon, radiating an orange hue onto the blue sky, Quistis and Seifer wearing their wedding garbs sat by the dock at Balamb. It was a quiet day at Balamb, as usual, and the couple was left alone to each other's company.

Quistis leaned her head onto Seifer's shoulder.

"Are you tired?" he asked as his arms wrapped around her waist.

"No," she shook her head. "The sun set is so beautiful. I wish this moment would last forever. Now I can see why you like fishing here."

"It doesn't matter where I fish, and the sun sets every where eventually. I thought Balamb would be the perfect place for us to get married since it was part of both our lives for a long time, and here no one cares what you are doing."

"They don't care, because they are afraid you'll beat the snot out of them if they piss you off."

He feigned hurt. "You make me sound like a total bully."

"Of course, you bullied me into marrying you" she teased.

"Really? I didn't know this was bullying you," he started to tickle her and then kiss her. "If this is bullying, I can't wait until we get back to the hotel.

"Well if that's bullying also, you better not be bullying anyone else. Because I'm a very jealous woman."

They sat together and admired the sun until it finally sank beneath the waves of the horizon, and the stars started to emerge from their blanket of daylight.

The couple rose up and playfully shoved each other as they headed towards their hotel room.

"You know you look beautiful in that dress." Quistis's dress was a very simple A-line spaghetti strap halter dress that reached the floor, and it had beautiful beads and pearls decorating along the top border of the bodice and along the waist of the bodice.

"Only in this dress?"

"Yes, only in that dress," he teased.

"You're only saying that because you picked it out."

"Well I can't have my bride wear some crappy dress now can I?"

"But if I wore an ugly dress would I still be beautiful?"

"Not as much as in this dress, but yes," he said proudly.

"Okay you dug yourself out of that hole," and with an impish grin she continued. "And you're beautiful too honey."

"Very funny, don't quit your day job."

"What do you mean?" said innocently. Seifer only rolled his eyes and continued walking.

Quistis caught up to him and sneaked a kiss on his cheek as she entwined her arm around his arm and lean her head on his shoulder as the walked arm in arm.

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The cool morning breeze brushed Quistis cheeks, causing her to pull her thin robe tighter around her body. The sky was clear save a few wisps of clouds lingering in the sky to greet the sun.

Another cool breezy came, and convinced the blond woman to leave the balcony and return to the warm hotel room. She stood next to the bed and watched the sleeping form of her husband. She laid back down on to the bed and placed her head upon his chest listening to the beating of his heart and his even breathing. She felt his arms wrap around her.

"You're up early," he said sleepily.

"I couldn't sleep."

"Why didn't you wake me?" He asked groggily.

"Well I thought you must be pretty tired from last night," she said with a devilish smile. "Besides I like to watch you sleep."

"Well I'm not tired anymore, and it is still early."

"So what do you have in mind?" She raised her head to face him.

"Do you even have to ask?" He returned her devilish smile with a quick move he rolled over and Quistis was under him. He moved a wisp of hair from her face as she giggled from their compromising position.

"Trepe, no giggling." He ordered. "If you don't stop, I'll have to kiss you." He took her continued giggling as an invitation for him and joined her lips to hers. His hands moved down the loose knot that held her rob together.

"You don't need this rob anymore," he whispered to her sending a delightful shiver down her spine. He proceeded to kiss her passionately as she wrapped her arms around him bringing him closer to her and let her fears and loneliness drown within their love and passion for each other.

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Seifer woke up to emptiness beside him. He immediately got out of bed, and suddenly the aroma of breakfast drifted into the room from the kitchen. He tried to stretch the sleep from his body as he wandered into the kitchen to find this wife busily preparing their morning feast. Just as he stood back to observe her work on setting the table, her hand quickly came up to her mouth as she started having difficulty breathing and started to cough.

Seifer quickly arrived at Quistis's side as her coughing subsided. "Are you all right?" She only nodded as he wrapped his arms around her and kissed her temple. "You should be resting and letting me do the work. Now why don't you sit down."

"I'm fine," she reassured him, "everything is done, now sit down eat or you are going to be late for work," she ordered.

"You sure you don't want me to stay home and take care of you?"

"No, I'm fine," she was getting a little irritated with his endearing concern for her. "I just look worst then I feel. Really." She gave him a smile. "You should go to work. I can still manage to be by myself for now. I promise I'll be right here when you get back."

He looked at her suspiciously, "All right," he conceded. Their conversation ended as Seifer quickly ate and returned to their bedroom to change for work. He returned a few moments later to the kitchen, dressed for work and carrying the Hyperion case in one hand and his gloves in another. He placed both items on the table as he stopped the help Quistis clear the table into the kitchen.

Just as he was stacking some of the plates together, Quistis stopped him. "Seifer," her tone had a hint of warning, "go to work, I'm fine really." He gave her a skeptical look. "Okay, I promise if I need anything. I'll call you."

"Promise?"

"Promise." He smiled at her promise and kissed her on the forehead and went to pick up Hyperion from the table and rushed out of the door hoping the hours would rush by and he could rush home to his wife.

After Quistis finished clearing and washing the dishes, she felt very tired and decided that a nap would do her good, but before she reached the couch she started have another small coughing fit. Light headed from the coughing she sat down at the dining table, and noticed Seifer had forgotten his gloves. She sat for a minute and made a decision to take the gloves to him, since he would need his gloves for his demonstrations with Hyperion for class she reasoned.

She quickly got dressed and went towards the school to deliver her husband's gloves. She knew he wouldn't approve of her going out when her body was getting weaker, but she felt that being near him made her feel infinitely better, besides some fresh air would do her good.

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As she walked the halls of the school, she could hear sound trickling into the empty halls from the open doors of the class rooms. In the mists of the jumbled sounds, she could hear Seifer's commanding voice lecturing to his students. She arrived at the opened door of the class. She stood outside observing Seifer standing in front of his students demonstrating and showing off Hyperion. Seeing him standing there lecturing his students was a sight she never expected to ever see in her life. Smiling at the pleasant sight, she noticed the glint in Seifer's eyes when he held Hyperion. She recognized this glint in his eye since it was always present when he held Hyperion in his hands, it seemed to complete him.

She wasn't sure how long she stood there just watching her husband, but finally out of the corner of his eyes he noticed her standing just outside the door. He quickly asked the class to excuse him for a minute, and came walking towards her, and moved her pass the doorway just out of the sight of his students.

"Hi, what are you doing here? You should be at home resting."

"I rest too much, besides you forgot these," she pulled out his gloves neatly tucked in her purse and handed them to him.

He gave her a small kiss, "Thank you," he said with a smile forgetting for a moment where he was.

"You should get back to your class," she reminded as she noticed some of his braver students stretching their necks to spy on their instructor just outside the door.

"All right take care, if you need anything—."

"I know," she interrupted, "just call." He quickly kissed her again and went inside the class room and proceeded to continue class like nothing happened, while Quistis could hear some students near the door whispering and giggling.

Quistis stood outside watching him for a while longer. She could hear more giggles coming from the room as Seifer playfully reprimanding one of his students for giving the wrong response to an earlier question. She smiled to herself as she walked down the hallway again. She was lost in her thoughts, and did not even notice the woman that she walked past.

"Miss Trepe?" A brown haired woman asked.

"Joyce?" Quistis replied remembering the woman from their first encounter from a couple months before. "Hello."

"What are you doing here? Substituting again?" She asked mild disdain at their meeting again.

"I just came to drop of something my husband forgot this morning," Quistis returned matter-of-factly.

"Your husband?"

"Seifer Almasy."

"You two are married? I thought you both were just old friends?" She asked unable to hide her surprise.

"Well we are old friends, and we also happened to fall in love and get married," Quistis replied with grin.

Joyce seemed speechless. "Um, well congratulations. When did you two get married?" She asked with a forced smile.

"Almost two months already."

"I see."

Quistis could help but smile at the woman's defeat. "Well, it's nice meeting you again Joyce, good bye."

Quistis walked away from the woman with a smile on her face as she continued walking down the hall, thinking back to the days she use to walk through the large corridors of Balamb Garden.

A/N: Okay another chapter done! If you're curious on what kind of wedding dress I was trying to describe here is the link: www .thebridalshop .com / mseA387 .htm

Note: To get the link to work just remove the respective spaces. The link should work