AN: I hope I can update these quickly. I have another story I plan to post, do I'm tring to get this one out quickly. Don't really know how many chapters it'll be though. Hope you injoy this one... I spent most of my time writing in Barns and Nobles so its kinda cold. lol. O yeah and I do not own any ff8 blah blah.
Chapter: two; Odd key holes and love gone wrong.
Drops of sailty rain fell from Quistis, something was wrong, something told her to run as fast as she could. The loud primal drum pounded in her ears, setting the ever quicking pace of her feet. A cheetah chacing down her pry, Quistis ran through the dark abiss with the knowledge that a prize was at the end.
Slowly throught the darkness a hallway filled with doors faded into view. The end was near, she could feel it. North winds pulled it's way through honey blond hair, making her rose lips turn pale. Small clouds excaping her pale lips abscurd her vison, though a door at the end could still ben seen. Warm wood slowly turned into sheets of ice as she grabbed the knob of the door. She HAD to get inside or freeze. Suddenly the primal sound of her heart started echoing off the doors. Sinking slowly on a vast pit of quick sand, she sank to her knees. Each strick of her fists sent pain and fear ripping through her body. Looking to the keyhole, she noted that it looked like a bow tie on it's end. As quick as lighting running from a cloud, Quistis turn into something warm and solid.
"The key!?" She heard the words ring inside her dorm room. "It... It was a dream?" Quistis sat perfectlt still looking around her room. The small clock read six am. 'Great only two and a half hours of sleep.' Sighing softly she looked to the door, which the pounding in her dream was now sitting. "Yeah Yeah. I'm coming. I'm coming!" Wrapping herself in a thin deep blue sheet she made her way to the door.
"Yes?" She opened her eyes to see a pair of steel blue orbs. "Can I com in?" Chocolate hair covered the cold eyes as he dropped his head. Quistis stepped to the side letting the young man in, there was no fighting him now. "Yeah come in Squall." Quickly he dashed to her bed and sat. Turning to him she realised just how small and almost childish he was, not to mention that he was only wearin a pair of black cotten pants.
"Are you o...." She stopped quickly seeing the brime brake through the cold steel dam. "You might want to get dressed." The two tears that had excaped form lock and key were quickly hiden. "That sheet's almost see through and I...." He sighed quickly than spat out the rest, as if he would burst by holding it in. "I really need to talk to you.."
Shock took hold, pinning her to the floor. Millions of words filled her head. For once Squall needed to talk. 'Tell him to 'go talk to a wall'.' That line ran laps in her mind for several seconds, then the phrase 'almost see through' hit her. Yes that made it to her frontal lobe. Squall seeing all of her was not on today list of things needed to get done, nor would she have wanted him to see her this way. Quickly she grabbed a blood red tank top and cotten pants, then headed into the restroom.
Quistis exited the bathroom to see Squall sitting on the edge of her bed. Slowly she walked to him, and lowered herself in front of him. "Squall?" She didn't want to press him, he would tell her when he wanted to. Eternity could have passed outside the room but inside, time stood still. Gently, Quistis took Squall's hands into hers, and begain to rub them. "Rinoa left me." His voice traled off into his thoughts. "She said she still loves........" Squall pulled away from her touch, tencing at the thought of his name. "Him." Quistis looked oddly at him, she knew who Squall was referring to.
"Seifer right?" The second his name slithered out if her mouth Squall shot her a death glare. "O Squall." She took his hands again and rubbed them softly. "I'm really sor.........."
"Don't say it." Looking into her eyes for the first time he realised how blue they were. "Don't feel sorry for me. I don't need that. Just....." He paused, looking over her shoulder to the phone. "Just call in sick for me ok? I just ... I ....... I don't want to be alone right now" Quistis nodded, she was always there for Squall and now was no differnt.
Quistis had just gotten off the phone to find Squall out cold in her bed. Letting the deafeningly odd silence swallow the room and her sigh. She was not about to give up her bed, so she crawled into bed next to the sleeping lion. Drifting in and out of sleep she could feel the warmth coming off of the rusted knight.
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She was running again. The warm wooden doors heated the room like the Florida sun in July, making her ooze with sweat. Drownding, her body attenpted to cool her but was betrayed once the doors turned into sheets of ice.The pounding in her head bounced off the walls around her. Sliding she hit the door hard, landing on her knees. Blood ran from them making lakes and rivers form a path to her. The cold ice burned as hot tears took her revenge. Desperately she groped the keyhole, but the pain growning in her chest was too much. With all her might she turned.......
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Cold envolped his whole body and bit his skin. The deadly silence was broken by soft sobs. A shinny red river flowed to his feet. Following it, the darkness melted into a icy hallway of doors, at the end he could see a crumpled heap on the floor bleeding freely. Some how he felt he know whom this person was. Fixed behind her a feeling of uslesness washed over him. He was like a car without a key and there for rusted. She turned to him......
Squall woke with a jolt feeling a pulling on the back of his neck. Looking down he saw Quistis pulling on Griever. "Quistis." She twisted and maoned, pulling harder. "Quisty!" Squall pried her fingers off of him, and took her in his arms. "The key!.... The key! ......... it the....... A car is....... without a key....." Squall shook her gently, flashs of thier childhood came to his mind of when Quistis would scream in her sleep. "Quis please wake up! Quisy! Please!"
Quistis woke in Squall's arms, and shook her head. "I'm soo sorry. I didn't mean to." She slithered out of his arms and into the kitchen. She didn't want him to feel her shake in his arms. "It's ok. Still having bad dreams?" Squall fallowed her into the kitchen and sat at the table. "Yeah. Been having them for a while." Quistis poured them both a glass of apple juice, her one true comfort food. Pondering the meaning of her dreams she handed Squall his glass. Knocking broke the silence.
There stood Seifer at the door holding a paper bag and a grin on his face. "I heard you called in sick today. I told you didn't I?" Quistis shook her head and laughed at him. "Yes you did. Thank you baby." She took the bag from him and smiled. "I'll see you later. I have something I have to take care of right now. ok?" Seifer smiled and kissed the top of her head. "Yeah ok my princess. Just don't be late. ok?" She nodded and walked back into the room.
"Who was that?" Squall tried to sound as if he didn't already know, but failed. "Just Seifer. He wanted to know if I was alright after last night." She walked back to the table and pulled the soup out. "And what did you do?" His quizical voice made her look down at the soup, wishing she had a way of getting out of this. "I was out at the beach till.... Till he came and got me." Squall raised his eyebrows, Quistis was not the type of person to be outside on a stormy night. "You're shitting me." She shook her head slowly, hoping he wouldn't ask about Seifer. "Why? It's not like you." He was quite shocked to hear he say something like this, she always was the responsible one out of the group. She looked at him with wide eyes. "O and this is you? I just needed to think thats all. Plus I like the rain. Ok?" Squall sat there stairing at her. Never before had she raised her voice like this at him, and it hurt him to see her like this. "Sorry." He mummbled for a moment then blurted, "go to the ball with me tonight."
"I can't." Quistis didn't look him in the eyes, it had come to this. "Why not?" She played with her soup a bit then look at her feet. He knew Quistis was a good looking women, but she never went to the SeeD balls with anyone, and why she turn him down? "I'm going with some one already." Squall could not beileve the day he was having. "Who?" His voice grew cold as he looked to the floor. "Seifer." Squall flenced at his name and staired at her blankly, he couldn't believe it. Quistis and Seifer was the icing on the cake, and what came next were the red hot candles buring into his soul. "We've been dating for about a week now. No one knows, but you now. Please don't say anything."
Squall had found himself on his feet. His anger grew, at the minute his best friend as far as he could tell, had betrayed him by seeing the one person he loathed with ever fiber of his being. "Fine." He walked beside her placing a hand on her shoulder. "But if he hurts you.... I'll kill him." Squall stormed out of her room, leaving Quistis to herself. Slowly Quistis let her tears fall. She never ment to hurt Squall, but she thought at least he would be happy knowing that she was happy with someone. "Thanks, my rusty knight."
AN: Ok this is differnt. I didnt think it would be like this. The next chapter maybe a flash back thingy or something. ok? so yeah. Tell me what you thought!
Zoe!