AN: I don't have any rights to any ff8 blah blah blah. This chapter and the last should have been one but I spilt them. Don't ask me why. I just did. So that's the reason if you hind them short. ok?

Ithiluin: Hey! TY! (takes cokie) ummm.. (looks down at you..) Ok.. (slithers down to the so I don't wake you.) Sorry it was so compact. I really just wanted to get it up and I had writer's block like you wouldn't beleive. I'm sorry if ppl wanted me to stop after the wedding but I had to go on. 'my way out' is updated and I am working on the next chap after I finsh this one.. heh. umm so yeah.. (looks down and sighs.) Not like you can hear this.. (falls asleep as well.)

Chapter; Nineteen: Our Misfortune.

Squall sighed as he looked onto his wife. Selphie and Irvine stood behind him. In truth everyone stood behind him, but Quistis. She always stood next to him no matter what. Now she was sleep, hopefuly not in pain. The glass fogged as Squall let a long breath of air out. He had held it in so long that he did not know if he regain it. The ICU unit was soo quiet it made his ears bleed. "Squall?" Ellone's voice broke his thoughts. Slowly he turned to her. It felt like an eternity. "I'm going to take Nanami, Alex and Xander home with me so you can stay with Quisty. OK?" Squall closed his eyes to think a minute. The hall was so bright, it made his eyes burn. "No. I said Selphie and Irvine could take them. Sorry Ellone." A little hurt Ellone nodded and walked away wtih Zell in toe.

"Are you sure you're ok Squall?" Selphie's large eyes were all he could see when he opened his eyes again. "Yeah. Can you just take the kids to the hosue. I don't want them here all night." Sighing for the umteth time Squall turned back to the cold glass. "OK. Call us if anything changes ok?" Squall nodded and watched thier reflecion retreat as Seifer and Xu came closer. Squall could not handle Seifer, not now. Not when Quistis needed him as he did. "What did the doc say?" Xu's voice was meak but came to his ears as loud as a bolt of lighting. "Her body came donw with something and thought the bady was an ailen of some sort. Or that's more or less what he said. The still don't know what's going on with her. They said Illyria will be ok. Quistis ok the other hand....." He let the white halls and nauseating smell eat them whole. "Quistis is strong. She'll pull through. I've known her for as long as I can remember, and even longer. She was the only girl who could hit me, and make me stay down." Squall nodded to Seifer's words. They were true. She was the first person to land a punch on him. "Xu bagga bo, we should get Dios in a bed." Xu smiled and nodded. Slowly Seifer turned to Squall. "Don't let anything happen to her. If you do then I'll carry out what I promised to do." Glaring at death con ten, Squall nodded and watched the last of his 'friends' leave.

Squall turned and walked into the room. It was ine of the only times Squall had seen her alone without any medical personal. Slowly the lion walked to his lions' bed. She was past paper white. Her raspy breathing gave off an eerie vibe. IN fear Squall lowerd himself in a chair. He could not lose her, he wouldn't. Never again did he want to lose some one he loved. Reaching out he took her hand. The scares were still there. He remember the nioght she fell throw the show glass. His heart had almost stopped that night. "Squall?" Quistis' raspy voice broke his thoughts as it had done so many times before. "I'm here. What do you need?" He tried to press a smile on his lips, but the look of her made him want to cry. "Is she ok? Is Illyria Ok?" He could not help it, a tear and a smile cracked his face. She always put others before her. "She's beautiful. I've never seen and baby look like that." Quistis blushed as he spoke. She truely loved him, all of him. "Tell me what does she look like?" Her words took him back. Shirly she had seen her. "The doctors took her away before I could hold her. I didn't even get to see her." Tears started to fall down her face as she spoke. Smiling through the tears Squall bent down and placed a kiss on her forehead. "She's the most beautiful child I'd ever seen. She looks just like you." Quistis burst into tears as Squall wispered to her. It was all he could do to help. The same feeling of being rusted came back as he kisses her cheek.

The scene was sickening. There was Squall, fonding over Quistis. Her body had rejected Illyria, just as Rinoa had plan, but they bother were still alive. The glass steamed as Rinoa went over what the spell should have done. It should have kill Illyria and then taken Quistis, but somehow they lived. Why? Angerly Rinoa stormed into the waiting room. Luckly the others had not seen her on her way up. Seifer would have, most likley, killed her along with Xu's help. Selphie and irvine would have hurried by with the kids, and Zell.... Zell would have killed her the same. In a fuff of anger, Rinoa threw herself into a chair. What could she do now? How could she get Squall to feel what she wanted him to feel. Pain. He must know what the pain of being alone felt like again. Quistis will leave him one way or another, and she will have Squall as her knight again. Rusted or not.

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Squall had fallen asleep in a chair, obliviouse to the world outside. The clock read that it had only been four hours scence he had fallen asleep, but it felt like a life time. Quistis watched him happily. Sure she didn't feel good but he just made things some what better. Then it hit her, she had to pee, and staying in bed was not an option. "Squall?" Gently she shook his arm, hoping he'd wake. "Squall." She sighed and shook harder. "Ack!" This time he woke. Not only woke but jumped, scaring her. "Quistis!?" His words were nothing but air and filled with fear. "Wha...... What do you need." Slowly his sorroundings came into veiw, and he calmed down a bit. "Can you help me? I have to go to the bathroom." Squall smiled as he helped her up. "You feeling any better?"

"Uh."

"That's good to hear. Maybe we can go home soon."

"Yeah. Think I could go see Illyria?"

"I'll ask once you're done. Ok?"

"Yes." Quistis smiled as he helped her back into bed when she was done. She truely did feel better.

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Rinoa let an evil grin play across her lips as she walked back to the room where Quistis was staying. She found a way to fix things, to make her plan work, and now. Slowly she walked in to see Squall holding her up. "Hi Quisty!" Rinoa tried to sound like her happy old self. "How ya feeling?" Trotting over she looked down at the unbelivablely white Quistis. "Better I hope?"

"Get out." Squall's growl broke her gaze.

"What?"

"I said get out."

"Can't I even see if one of my friends are ok?"

"I'd say yes if you had any."

"Now don't be a meany. I just wanted to see little Illry!"

"Don't call her that!"

"O Squall! I'm like family. It's ok. Right...

"No you're not. Now get out before I get some one to."

"O you're such a grouch. He Quisty.."

"Don't act like you're her friend or mine. I know what you did to Seifer and I'm sure you did this too. Now get the fuck out of here!"

"You'll wish you had never done that! You'll only live to regreat what you two have done. I'll make sure you die alittle every time you breath, Squall! You'll watch her die agian and agian in your mind! You are my knight! And a sorcerous' knight! My knight! And nothing can change that! You hear me!" Energy started to build up behind her as the light started to flicker.

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"Xu, we have to go back. I'm getting a bad feeling. Plus I think I say Rinoa there."

"Seif. Come on. I'm tired. You're tired. You were seeing things."

"NO I wasn't! Xu please."

"NO."

Seifer hung his head. He had to tell her what had happened. "Xu baby. Rinoa is a sorcerous..."

"Yeah I know."

"And you know you never wrong a sorcerous, right?"

"Yeah."

"Cuz if you do, something can happen in the long run."

"And so you're saying...?"

"Squall and Quistis wronged Rinoa. Squall did because he is no longer her knight. Quistis did because she has Squall. I did because I never took her back."

"And you're telling me this because.....?"

"You know I love you, and I love Quistis. Rinoa knows this. She dosen't want anyone happy. She put a spell onme at Squall's b-day bash. I...... I.."

"I don't want to hear it."

"Rinoa want's us all to brake things off and be mis.."

"So let me guess. Illyria is yours?"

"Uh."

"And Rinoa made you two have sex?"

"No. She made me rape her. I don't remember doing it, but I do.."

"Lets go back."

Xu turned the wheel and zoomed back to the hospital. She believed Seifer. She had to. Once there they ran up the floors. Xu cursed as she held onto Dios. She didn't want him here to see whatever was going to happen but she had no choice. Xu could see a large amount of energy coming form the room where they had left Squall with Quistis. Soom hot air took them as the halls grew dark......

AN Sorry to leave it hanging like that. It's lat eand I have class tomorrow so I'll write more on saterday. I have mid-tearms. ewww. How you liked it. If so there's a box. If not well there's a box!

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