AN: HI it's me! Zoe! hehe! I am soo sorry if I don't update these quickly. See I live in a small 3 bedroom house with six other ppl. It's getting kinda testy here. My mom is thinking of kicking one person out, which in turn would free up a bed room and get two ppl out of the living room. So again I'm sorry I can't get these in faster. On that note....

AN: O and I'm sorry of all the Zell fans. He will have a happy ending. I promise that. Also this is a random chapter. I wrote it in the middle of a nother hurrican so it's every here and there. Sorry for any confusion.

The riddle is not realy a riddle. It's kinda like a prophecy. It has to do alot with the dreams. So you might want to ponder that over in your brain. hehe. I'm one of the crazy ppl who like to have things that make you think when you read or watch then. Behold! The power of symbolism!! hehehe.. anyways!

O the prophecy is: "A lover long sence passed, gives a child, the mother's last. Third from the mother, if she will bore. Slayer of the sorcerous last, with thier father's sward. Here she will die, under her lover's wife's eye. Withered and frail, this will end the cursed spell."

Ithiluin : OMG! I love you soo much! I was having a really bad day and your review made me sooo happy! TY! (Hugs back!) TYTYTY! The water baffalo thing was a jk between a friend and I. We don't talk much...But I do see her from time to time. I just threw that in there cuz I was thinking about her. She would things like 'With the speed of a sloth and all the grace of a pergent water buffalo'. It's just one of the stupid things I say. That and 'ACK! The day star of death has frided my retinas"! Hehe. Lora/Lorax/Loki, had a way of twisting words. She'd twist them and I'd speak Zoeish. hehe!

Dark Elf1: That's ok. Ty for reviewing. Ummmmmm It's not a big big deal if you can't get it. It'll all come togther in the end... I hope. I'm know for holes. hehe. (sweat drop) anyways! It was just something to toy with in your head.

benjem: The dream thing will be coming togther in the next two chaps or so. OK? I'll try and get them up quickly.

Chapter: Seventeen; Where's Time?

Squall rolled over in his warm bed, slithering a hand around somthing round. "Mmmmmmm." Without opening an eye, Squall pulled his wife closer. "Hey sweety." Sweetly he nuzzled his nose in her neck. "DA!" Opening his eyes he found a sightly more grown Nanami. "Nami!?" Pushing himself up, Squall looked at the other lumps in the bed. "Where's your mommy? Hey! And when did you get soo big Nami?" Very, very sourerly Nanami threw the covers off the bed revealing two young boys (twins) with dark dirty blond hair. "Nani! We're coooooold!" The same stormy eyes looked back at from for the closer boy. "Yeah! We're Coooooold Nani! Gives us back the covers!" The other boy dashed for them. "Da! I've been four for over a month now!" Squall looked around the room in confusion. "Ok Nami. Um er take your bothers and go into the kitchen. I'll be out in a bit sweety." Rolling her eyes in the same maner as Quistis, she jumped out of the large dark bed with her brothers.

Sighing, Squall walked into the bathroom. He felt like his wedding was just yesterday, but it wasn't. It had been several years ago. Now he worked for his father as a tie to the gardens. Quistis on the other hand worked with orphanages inside Esthar. The only orphanage that got Esthar funding, outside of Esthar was House of Blue Leaves. Three guesses why. Looking up into the mirror over the sink, Squall could see how old he really was. "Come home soon Quisy." His words echoed in the large bathroom.

She was away on her monthly vist to House of Blue Leaves and due home any moment. He hated these 'vists'. First off she was away from him and thier kids. All three young kids. Nanami was good but Alex and Xander? Two young boy at the age of one were too much energy. Garden never gave any feild anythings to teach them how to keep up with something that had this much magnitude of engery. Second off, Seifer was there. Squall still disliked Seifer. The way Seifer treated Quistis that night at the seceret spot still bugged him. No one should be treated as property. Squall always thought of Quistis as his but never said you are mine or you'll do as I ask. And Squall would never hit her.

Sighing again he walked into the kitchen to the more then tiresome dayly scene. Nanami was siting at the table eating quietly, while the boys ran throwing thier cereal at eachother. "Alex ..... Xender......" There was just no energy to stop them any more.

Every day it was the same, when Quistis was away. Morring was spent throwing food, then a mad dash to clean and get the kids off to thier school. After a well needed shower he'd head off to work. once he was done he'd go pick the kids up, make dinner. Fight to get everyone bathed, changed, and in thier beds before he could clean the kicthen again. After another well needed shower, Squall would crawl into bed, too dead for anything. Night was the worst. When Quistis was away from him the nightmares would start. They never changed, Zell would have killed all thier children in front of him, them rape Quistis while some woman would talk to him. Her words were the same every night. She wanted him to be her knight and Quistis dead. Then right as Zell would utter the words death, Squall would be woken by one or all of his kids. The rest of the night he would lay there wake, watching them. As long as he could, he protect them. That was a promise he'd never brake.

Squall looked around the kicthen and sighed as he sat down. Aoutomaticly he shot out his arm and grabbed Alex. "Alex, sit down and eat." Nodding he did as he asked, fallowed by Xander. Squall still had this air about him. The glare would some times come, and the kids knew when he asked in this tone they had better do as he asked. "Thank you Alex. Xander." Though thier names sounded like one. He loved them, Nanami, Alex, Axnader, and he knew they loved him back. Though Nanami was a daddy's girl, whi;le the boys were mama's boys. Squall was sure that's why Quistis named them that. She had called out to them in one name many time. "Nanami! Alex! Xander! Squall! What happened to my kicthen!" Looking up, the lion smiled at his lioness. "I'm gone for, what? A week and you four can't even keep the kitchen clean. Xander eat over your bowl and Nami, if you're done put it in the dishwasher. School starts in fifteen minutes so hurry you three. Oh Squall. You are not going in today. Got that?" Clearing his face of any emotions he looked into her eyes. "Yes instructor."

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"NO! Damn it! It wasn't soposto be that way!" Rinoa screamed and threw anything within arms reach. "What the fuck am I going to do now!" With nothing to throw she sat down by Zell angery. Zell looked at her longingly. He really wished she'd stop this. "Just ignor it." Zell closed his eyes and waited for her to hit him. He had spent so many years hoping she would be normal again. That maybe in the last four years she'd fall in love with him and forget Squall. "Zell please don't say such stupid things. You're just angery that you're a wipped man in a woman's hands." Opening his eyes and looked at her. She was sparralled onto the bed with her eyes close. "Yeah and Squall's head over ehals for you but doesn't reolize it." This time her hand came donw his back. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Smirking wildly, Rinoa craled close to him. "Don't question me. Got that!" Shaking her head she sithered her hands around him. "I'd move quicker if I could work his dreams better."

"Work his dreams?"

"Yeah. I've been sending him nght mares hoping they'd scare him off."

"How bad?"

"Total death of everything he loves. But some how that bicth found a way of blocking me. "Now I can only haunt him when she's gone! Maybe I can use Seifer....."

"Rin....?"

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Quistis smiled she she watched the bus pull away. "I've missed you." Squal planted a large kiss on her shoulder. "Not now baby. I need to talk to you about something." Turning Squall could she that she was still the ice queen instructor from balamb. When it came to buisnes, nothing would get in her way. "Quisy! Come on! I haven't seen you in a week! I've been working my butt off with the kids. Please! I just want a kiss and 'a how were things' and a 'I was fine what about you'. 'O good. Everything was good. How were the kids?' and then a 'O they were peaches. Nanami's teacher's want her to skip a grade' type thing."

"They want her moved up a grade?"

"So how was the visit?"

"Squall! Damn I hate it when you whine! What happened to the cold hearted asshole I fell in love with?"

"Are you PMSing?"

"Damnit Squall! Stop it! I'm trying to talk to you about Seifer!"

Squall's eyes widen in a mixure of emotions. What made this visit differnt? Why did she bring Seifer up? He had done his part and let him be his best man. Hasn't he done more than his share of 'dealing' with Seifer? Sorely he walked away from her. He normaly didn't trun away from her but he was too lost in his thoughts to even look at her. What the fuck did Seifer do this time to get to her?

"Squall!"

"Huh?" She had woken him from his thoughts.

"Damn now there's the ice ass I fell for so many damn years ago."

"Sorry. I was.."

"Thinking? Yeah I know."

"Well?"

"O. I was wondering would it be ok it Seifer, Xu and Dios could stay with us for a bit."

"Why?"

"No reason really. They just want a vacatoin."

"When would they get here?"

"Tomarrow."

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"So we are going to visit them becouse of Squall's birthday?"

"Look Seif. I want to leave the orphanage for a bit. Quistis has all of the gang comimg and that's us!"

"I know but you know I don't like Squall!"

"O trust me I know!"

"So..."

"I know you want to see Nan, and Quis. So stopped being a bigger baby than Dios!"

"Fine!"

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"Well Rin. There. Quisty invited us to thier place for Squall's birthday." Zell sighed wishing to Hyne that she hadn'd. He wanted to see his friends, but he was mad that Rinoa would try something there. "Good. I can put my new plan into action!" Rinoa smilled as she pulled Zell into a tight embrass. He flinch as he felt her teeth scrap against his lips. It was going to be a long week.

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"Quisy! Why is it that we had to dress up again? You, and I both know Alex and Xander will get dirty befor they even step foot into where ever we are going. And hey where are we going?" Squall sighed as she ushed him out the door. He had become very whiny in the last few days. Quistis figured that they hadn't had sex in a long time. "Just get over it!" Quistis sighed as she strapped everyone into thier safty seats and turned to see Squall looking at her butt. "Stop looking at me like that!" Yeah he was bitching because sex was no longer a nightly, or weekly, or even monthly thing anymore. "Sorry! I...."

"I know. Just stop please?"

"Yeah. Ok."

"Thank you baby." Swetly she placed a kiss on his lips, only to be pulled into a full on passionat kiss. "SQUALL!"

"Sorry couldn't help myself." A lound muffled 'eww' came from the boys in the car.

The ride to the vaction palace was long. Alex and Xander had ganged up on Nanami, pulling her long untamed hair. Squall turned in pure annoyance and growled at them to stop. That always worked but some time the tears would some soon afterewards. This tme they did and Quistis had to scold them all. Squall didn't want to scare them but he couldn't help it, it was the way he had always been. Finaly they came to the place. Quistis was about to mentaly scream if she didn't get out of the car, now!

"Everyone out! Nami grab your backpack. Alexander. Grab yours. Squall.."

"Yeah yeah. I'll get ours."

"Good boy." Quistis teased him as the kids ran inside to thier granddads.

"Come on you two! You're slowler than... Than me when it comes to a joke!" Laguna picked up Alex (or maybe Xander) and walked inside.

"I thought you said Seifer and Xu were coming today."

"Yeah I did."

"Lier!"

"No. If you are going to call me names then call me a fabercator. ok?"

"Ok. Fine whatever."

"O no! Squall! Quick! Tell me you love me! Come on! Stay out of a student mode!"

"Haha."

"O baby."

"Whatever."

"Hey!"

"You asked what happened to the ass you fell in love with. Well here I am."

"Ass!"

"Whatever."

"SURPRISE!"

Squall almost died of shock as all his old friends jumped out at him. "QUISY!" He looked over to her. Her face was priceless. Well she was priceless. "Sorry Squally but I had to get you here. Happy birthday baby." Smiling she hugged him as everyone tried to push thier way closer to him. "Happy birthday Mr. Leonhart." Squall turned to meet hard brown eyes. "Rinoa?" Great. Just the wench he wanted to see. "Long time." Nodding Squall walked past her to Xander. (Or Alex) "Jerk." Rinoa wispered it quietly and stayed a wallflower for the rest of the party.

Smiling she found what she was looking for. Seifer. "Seifer sweety. Hows it going?" Smirking she struted up to him. Thank Hyne he was alone outside smoking. "Living." Rinoa slithered her hands around him only to have him pull away. "What the hell is wrong with you. Thought you were with chicken wus."

"Yeah, but you know I've always loved with you."

"Come off it. I'm with Xu."

"But It's Quistis you really want huh?"

"Fuck off Rin."

"You know I'm right. Come on. You want Squall to suffer for taking her away right?" The evil grin on her grew as the gap between them shrunk. "Why don't you do what you've always wanted to with her tonight?"

"She loves Squall. Now come off it!" Seifer pushed her to the ground in anger.

"She should have loved you!"

"Yeah but she didn't."

"L'amour quelqu!"

"What the fuck was that?"

"O nothing." Rinoa walked back into the house with a happy smile. Her work was done for now. "Zelly Welly. Can we go home now? I'm tired and I have to work tomarrow." Zell sighed and nodded. He knew all hell would break lose and he did not want to stay and watch.

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Quistis walked onto the verandah. Seifer stood there with a cigarette, alone. "Can I have a light?" Closing his eyes he handed her the pack. "Thought you quit?" Shaking her head she took a puff. "Yeah and you did too at one point. You ok?" Seifer turned to her. His dead eyes filled with hunger as he looked onto her. Smirking he threw his cigarette over the balconey he pulld her into a tight kiss. Pushing with all her might she managed to get away from him, only to be pinned again against a wall seconds later. "Seifer! What the hell is wrong with y....." His lips quieted her. His warm hand pushed her skirt up while the other held her to the wall. Pulling away he let ber breath, but only to cover her mouth with his hand. She couldn't move and he knew it. Closing her eyes she could hear him unzip his pants. Tears raced down her face as she felt him push himself into her full force. Pain took her as a wimper excaped her throwt. After what felt like a life time he let everything he had out. Once he was done he fell back. Quistis sunk to the ground in tears.

"Quis?" Seifer looked at her with saddness in his eyes. "O god what happened? Quis? Did..." He didn't have to say the rest. Her cries said it all. "Quis. I..I...I didn't know what I was doing. Please. I think Rinoa...." It was not use. Quistis heard him, but didn't care. It was done. Seifer fixed himself and crawled next to her. "Please. Quis. I'd never do anything to hurt you like this. I.. I haven't touch and alcohol in years!" Qusitis only sobbed as he spoke. Shaking with emotions, she crawled over to him and looked into his eyes. They were back to normal, though fear filled them. Letting her tears fall she smothered her face in his chest. "I know Seif. Squall was testy about Rinoa being here as well." Claming herself down she stood and fixed herdelf. It had grown late and she was sure Squall was looking for her. "Not a word to anyone Seifer. Lets just say this never happened." Without looking at him she left.

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Squall wandered down the vaccont halls towrds his bedroom. There he opened the door to see a light in every room on. As he progresed to his room he turned off the lights as he went. There in the bed was his lioness. Smiling she strippd down to his boxers and carwled in next to her. Instend of her in the normal tank top and shorts, she also had on a large over shirt and pants. "Quisy. It's way to hot for you to be in that." Without thinking twicks he stripped down to he tank top and shorts. "What's wrong? This isn't like you." Rolling over she rested her head on his chest. His rhythmic heart beat calmed her. "I love Squall." Sweetly he wrapped his arms around her. "I know you do. What's wrong? This isn't like you. You know you can tell me anything."

"Seifer..."

"What about Seifer?"

"I think Rinoa put a spell on him."

"What makes you say that?"
"Cuz he...."

"He what!? Did he hurt oyu?"

"Why didn't you want Rinoa to come to wedding? Why haven't you talked to her in years?"

"Cuz she wanted to leae you. She hates you, and I don't want her around."

"Squall I think she put a spell on Seifer! He...he.... "

"Quisy."

"He raped me!" Quistis dugg her face into him letting her tears fall. Squall only pulled hehr closer. He coudn't beleive his ears. He hated Seifer but he never in his wildest dream thought that he'd do something like this. Well in his dreams it was Zell not Seifer, but still. "Please don't hate him. It wasn't really him. I know he wouldn't do this to me unless.."

"It's Rinoa. She's the woman in our dreams."

AN: Sorry for the evilly long chap. I wanted to get it all out. I hoped you liked it! Read Review please! Well if you are reading this then you must have read the chap.. so yeah! Have a nice night!