In a new Light
Chapter 2
Me, Ash, updating chapter 2! Long time to wait, huh? Chapter will be short I warn you!
Well, here you are:
"Well..." Rinoa said cheerfully, "Come in!"
Zell shrugged and a grin spread on his face. She giggled at his sudden change of attitude. He stopped dead as soon as he was in the dorway.
"What the hell?!"
Rinoa looked at him quizzically.
"Whats the matter?"
"Your room..." He replied, looking around in awe, "...It's so tidy!"
Rinoa giggled and put a hand over her face as though she was embarrassed.
"I like tidiness... I don't really know why... but I can't stand having a messy enviroment!"
Zell nodded in understanding. "I'll remember that."
Rinoa sat on a chair, and motioned that Zell should sit down too.
"So whats on your mind?" Rinoa asked, "You seem adgitated."
Zell shrugged.
"You've been on my mind a lot, y'know... I feel for you with the way Squall treats you... he can go to hell on a one way trip via my fists!" And with that he balled his hands into fists.
Rinoa's eyes widened on two accounts:
A) Zell wanted Squall to go to hell
B) She, Rinoa, was on Zells mind.
"I've.... been on your mind?" She asked quietly, rubbing her eyes.
He nodded.
"Yeah."
They sat in silence for a while as Rinoa thought of all the reasons she could be on his mind. She slid off her chair and over to the couch where Zell sat. She sat down by him and wrapped her arms around Zell.
"Thank you..." She whispered into his shoulder.
Zell smiled and put his arms around Rinoa. Whispering back into her ear, he said,
"Selphs and me are really worried 'bout you," She sighed and pulled away from him, instead sitting down on the bed.
"Has he been...you know?" Zell didn't want to say the words abusing you, but there wasn't really any other choice.
"Abusing you still?" Rinoa nodded and layed her head down onto the pillow, burying her face. It just seems like such a horrible way to put it -- abuse. But that's what it is. No need to deny it. Tears filled her eyes and threatened to spill over, which Rinoa did not fight to hold back. Her body first slowly started to shake, then it escalated to a full out shivering, quivering body and loud sobs into her pillow. Rinoa heard a chair scrape the floor, and then she felt two strong hands on her back.
"Don't cry..." Zell flipped Rinoa over slowly and stood above her, bending down to caress her face.
Rinoa still produced tears, even though the way he said those two words sent a warmth through her body. The blonde looked beyond the point of worry, and this also soothed her. She extended her arms out, and he picked her up in one scoop. Rinoa was a few inches off of the ground as she and Zell hugged, her sobbing into his shoulder as he said soft-spoken words into her ears, reassuring her it was ok.
"B-But is it r-r-really?" Rinoa refused to remove her face from his shoulder, so it was hard to understand those words.
Zell lifted her chin to meet his face, and he said, "It is if you stay away from him." And with those simple yet meaninigful words, he placed a featherlight kiss onto her forehead.
"Now get some rest."
"But..." Rinoa said, shaking slightly still, "He has a copy of my key card. He might come in still!"
Zell shrugged and screwed his face up in thought.
"If he comes in he has me to answer to." He replied, pulling a blanket over Rinoa.
She grinned, then her face fell as she realised.
"Hey... where's Angelo?" She said, sitting up suddenly and looking around.
Zell looked around too.
"I saw her before... then it got all quiet..."
Rinoa climbed off her bed shakily and headed for the door.
"I'm going to find her." She said firmly.
Zell nodded. "I'll come with you then."
The two walked out of the room. It was getting dark now and Garden seemed unusually empty. Even though Exams had finished... Rinoa wiped her eyes and pulled her coat on.
"Do you know which way she went?" Rinoa asked.
He pointed towards the training area.
"Oh... alright then, lets go." Rinoa said, showing little enthusiasm.
They walked in silence... until Zell heard a howling noise.
"Did you hear that?" He asked.
"Yes..." She replied, shock appearing over her face.
"It came from inside..."
The two stood firmly outside the Training Area,
waiting. Another howl sounded and Rinoa ran in.
"Wait!" Zell called, but it was useless.
He ran after her. He was faster and caught up.
"Whats this?" Rinoa said, examining a gooey liquid on the floor.
"Its... blood..."
It looked like it had had something dragged through it and towards the secret area. Rinoa walked calmly over and stood under a fern tree that had previously met a horrific end? Via some kind of... gunblade?
"Suspicious... It goes inside..." She explained to Zell, who walked up behind her. The two walked in. Zell saw it immediately, and Rinoa looked around. She felt two hands clamp over her eyes.
"What the hell? Zell!"
"I saw it... Angelo... she's... dead."
Rinoa screamed.
"Zell... let me go!"
She tore away from him and came face to face with a mangled body. Angelo lay there, obviously stabbed with broken bones as well. Rinoas hands flew up over her mouth.
"NO!"
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