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Oh yeah.........Seifer's pissed. Here we go.
The gunshot was loud. Extremely loud. It must have echoed throughout the entire apartment building inside Balamb Garden. The pained scream of the man shot was almost as deafening as the shot.
Seifer admired his handywork with a sadistic grin. The man he had just shot squirmed on the ground clutching his crotch. Sometimes I out-do even myself..Seifer thought. He could already hear the alarm being raised. Garden security would arrive shortly, followed by Squall. He walked to Quistis's bedside and began to pull her panties back upwards towards her body. He was trying not to stare at her womanhood, but couldn't help but notice she was bleeding. Not heavily, just a small trickle, but the rapist had done damage. He reached into her night stand and pulled some kleenex out, as well as one of those.......ugh he thought........pads. He cleaned her up as best he could and placed the pad on her panties then slid them up. After rolling down her pink skirt he tucked her into bed.
Seifer sat down at the end of her bed, then turned his attention to Dmitri, who was panting heavily on the floor.
"So you thought you could come in here and just rape Quistis like that....... Just because in your fucked up little fantasy she was hitting on you. If Quistis was nice to you while she was an instructor, it's probably only because you made good grades. You're really sick dude. Really sick. I should have killed you just now, but ya know what? I'm a little more worried right now about staying here at Garden. I don't think your murder would look very good on me. And don't think I'm showing you ANY compassion. I have none for people like you. I'm looking out for MY best she wasn't hitting on me. I saw you bring her in. I've been planning this since the last time I was in her class!!" Dmitri spat.
"Oho! So you have? You're lucky that I'm containing myself you little worm. I might as well have killed you though. I doubt you'll have use of your package." Seifer had a crazed look in his eyes.
"I don't give a.....fmfmfrmm smmf!!!" the man struggled as Seifer had circled behind him and cupped his hand over Dmitri's mouth.
"Shhh. Security will be here in a moment to drag you out of here. Imagine the embarassment Dmitri. All the students that will see your dick got blown off." Seifer whispered in his ear.
"Mff Bmf Mrrf!!" Dmitri seethed under Seifer's hand.
Seifer footsteps in the hallway.
"Freeze!! We've got Mighty Guard on so don't try anything!!" a kid in a security uniform entered the room with a 7.62 mm automatic rifle. Two more young SeeDs in security uniforms, armed with 9mm pistols entered the room as well.
"Release him NOW Almasy!" the first guard said, leveling the gun between Seifer's eyes.
"You've got the wrong guy. You should be detaining him." Seifer said, nodding his head towards his captive.
"Right! We're supposed to believe that, you traitor!!" the guard spat, "Now you will either release him, or you will be shot! And no funny stuff with your gunblade!"
"Tch........fine." Seifer said, and released Dmitri.
"Uh sir? There's signs of blood around Ms. Trepe's.....er.... body sir." one of the other guards had walked over to the bed.
"Check her for injuries." the leader commanded.
A moment later after searching Quistis the guard spoke up. "Uh...sir...it looks like she's been raped very recently."
"Oh boy Almasy, you're a real good guy..." the leader said through clenched teeth. "I oughta off you right now."
"Go ahead and try it fuck bag!" Seifer narrowed his eyes.
"You asked for it!!" the leader yelled, and pulled his baton.
Seifer's head exploded with pain as the guard quickly and efficiently clubbed him. He fell to the ground, his eyes rolling back into his head. He wished the blow had knocked him out. More pain shot from different areas on his body. He's beating me to death......Seifer's thought was, and then there was darkness.
The light stung his eyes it was so bright. Seifer shook his head and felt a sharp pain above his left eye. He reached up with a gloved hand and brought back blood. Damn it.... He looked around, taking in the holding cell he had been placed in.
"So you're awake now huh? Good, cause I wanted to see you fry! Dying would be the easy way out!" the guard who had hit him was the only one present outside of his cell.
"I...told you......idiot......" Seifer struggled. He felt as if he had lost his wit.
"Told me what Mr. Rapist?" the guard sneered.
"You've got.....the wrong......guy...." Seifer's eyes still lolled around in his head.
"Well I sent a semen sample up to Dr. Kadowaki. She has a blood sample of you already. If it comes back as positive..... the next beating will be worse than the first one. And I might just pay you back for what you did to my friend." the guard kicked his feet up on a stool near the chair he sat in.
"Your.......'friend'.....was raping my friend.......you moron." Seifer said sternly.
"You shut up! Dmitri liked her too much to do that! I bet he caught you in the act and you took what any man values most about his body from him!! How dare you accuse him of that!?" the guard screamed.
Just then, the holding area door opened. Squall strolled in and asked to see Seifer.
"He's right in here." the guard said, pointing towards the cell. "If you.....er.........wanna get rough with him......I uh.....didn't see anything okay?"
"Whatever..." Squall said.."Open it up."
"Yessir." the guard jumped up and opened the cell.
Squall entered the cell and sat on the bed. "What did you do to him?"
"I gave him what he deserved."
"You don't beat suspects Jenkins. You're officially removed from duty as of now." Squall waved him off.
"But sir! He....Quistis!!!" the guard sputtered.
"It doesn't matter what he did or didn't do. You absolutely DO NOT hit prisoners, no matter what the crime. Innocent until proven guilty!" Squall glared at him. Jenkins threw his cell keys at Squall and stormed out of the holding area.
"So tell me something Seifer..... Did you do it?" Squall inquired.
"What do you think!?" Seifer was irritated.
"I don't think you did, but that's going to be hard to tell to the Garden Council unless you have some proof." Squall explained.
"That guy said that he sent a semen sample of to Dr. Kadowaki for testing. Go ask her for it. That should clear me." Seifer sat up.
"Allright. You're coming with me though. I don't trust Jenkins. I think he'll do something if I leave you here."
Seifer slowly climbed out of the bed, trying to ignore the fact that his almost-broken body screamed in pain. The holding cell had once been the lair of the Garden Master....NORG, and the elevator had to be taken to the first floor. Once the elevator stopped, Squall peeped out to make sure there was no one skulking about the halls, then both he and Seifer shot out of the elevator and ran for the Infirmary.
"Dr. Kadowaki!" Squall exclaimed, as he burst through the door.
"What is it Squall?" Dr. Kadowaki looked up from a complex-looking machine she had been operating.
"The....huff.....sample!" Seifer came through the door.
"Oh yes. I've concluded that it wasn't you Seifer......it was a student by the name off.........Dmitri McConnell." she answered darkly.
Squall picked up Dr. Kadowaki's intercom and set it to full broadcast. "Everyone... this is Squall. I know you probably won't like being awakened, but a horrible crime has been committed tonight. The one responsible is not Seifer Almasy... it is Dmitri McConnell. I want Security to detain him immediately, and students......if you see him, report him." Squall finished.
"Did he come by the infirmary?" Seifer asked.
"No... why should he have?" Kadowaki looked confused.
"I.....er.....injured him pretty severely." Seifer chuckled at the thought of Dmitri holding his crotch.
"Well he hasn't been here tonight. I've been here all night caring for Rinoa." Kadowaki maintained.
static "Squall!! This is Raijin, ya know!" a direct broadcast came through Squall's comm link that he wore on his belt.
"Go ahead Rage!" Seifer snatched the comm link from Squall's hand before he could answer it.
"Oh Seifer! We found McConnell, ya know? But he kinda ran!" Raijin explained.
"Did you catch him?" Seifer was impatient.
"I can't run that fast, ya know? Maybe being the head of security just isn't my deck of cards, ya know?" Raijin did sound exhausted.
"Do you have any idea where he went?" Seifer implored.
"Yeah! Fuj says he ran out past the front gate towards the beach, ya know!" Raijin answered.
"He probably has a boat waiting for him Seifer...... remember........Jenkins is his friend. He could have easily stolen one of Garden's boats and trailored it out to the beach." Squall interrupted.
"Damn!" Seifer shut off the comm link.
Squall pressed the intercom button again, "This is Squall again. I'd like a search for Mark Jenkins's ID signature performed immediately." he spoke to the security staff.
"Right away sir!" a voice spoke back. "He's not in Garden sir!"
"That's it! I'm going to the dock to get a fast boat!" Seifer seethed.
"Wait! Seifer........I think I have a better idea....." Squall looked troubled.
"I understand completely Squall! I'll have someone fly it over right away!" Laguna Loire's face twisted to a frown. Squall had not wanted to contact Laguna. All these thoughts lately about Laguna being his father..........it was starting to confuse him.
"Thank you...er.. President Loire." Squall saluted him.
"You're quite welcome so.......I LeonHart." Laguna stumbled over his sentence. Squall didn't think it was his imagination that Laguna had almost called him son.........So...it's true. he thought. His inner voice reasoned that Laguna was a moron, and couldn't possibly be his father. Everything he'd heard thus far however, pointed to the truth....Laguna WAS his father.
Seifer apparently didn't notice the slip, and jumped up from his seat with a groan.
"You're injured Seifer. You should stay here." Squall noticed how bad Seifer was hurting.
"Bullshit! I'm gonna find that guy and tear his throat out!" Seifer said, but after a step, nearly crumpled to the ground.
"Seifer! I am the Commander of this Garden, and you are a SeeD. I COMMAND you to stay. Take care of yourself!" Squall said sternly.
"I don't care about myself!" Seifer shot back.
"Then take care of Quistis." Squall walked out of the Infirmary and left Seifer sitting there, hanging his head.
Seifer walked over to the room adjacent to Rinoa's room. There, on the bed, lay Quistis, in a white hospital gown, and tucked under a blanket. He took a seat in the chair next to her bed and looked over at her. She looks like an angel when she sleeps. What a contrast to how she acts. Seifer thought. He pulled the glove off of his left hand and placed it on her head. Her soft eyelids fluttered open.
"S..Seifer?" Quistis squinted at him.
"Yes Quisty. I'm here." Seifer stroked her hair.
"What....happened? Why? Why do I hurt........there?" Quistis was clearly confused.
"I....uh.......put you in your bed after you passed out........and as I was heading into my apartment, I noticed your door was open........and I walked into your room to check on you and............found.......well.........Dmitri McConnell..........you know......." Seifer tried his best to tell the story.
"You mean he......?" Quistis was apalled. "Yes."
"That bastard!! I'll kill him!!" She cried.
"No.......no......you need rest. Squall's out looking for him right now." Seifer held her in the bed.
Tears sprung from her eyes and she put her face in her hands. "Oh Hyne!" she sobbed.
"Shhhh.... Quisty.....it's okay.....I got him........I got him good." Seifer soothed.
Unexpectedly, she embraced him, burying her face in his chest. "Shhh. It's okay." he murmered, stroking her hair again. Why am I acting like this? Seifer's inner voice spoke up for the first time in a while. This isn't me.....I'm not sensetive. We all have to be sometimes Seifer argued with his inner voice. It was then that it hit him. He loved Quistis. He always had. Even as a child he had loved her. Her bossy nature, her strong will. Quistis broke the embrace and stared into his eyes.
"Seifer....Hyne! What happened to your eye?" she realized his left eye was almost swollen shut, and dried blood clung to the wound.
"A crooked security guard, who just-so-happens to be friends with McConnell came on scene, and accused me of.....well..........raping you. He beat the shit outta me." Seifer looked tired.
"That guard needs to be arrested!" Quistis was angry.
"He fled with McConnell after Squall fired him." Seifer explained.
"Oh...I'm sure Squall will catch them." Quistis turned away for a moment.
"Yeah."
"You need to let me treat those wounds." Quistis got up from the bed.
"Uh... I didn't think your last name was Kadowaki." Seifer joked.
"Argh....idiot...I've been taking lessons from her. She's grooming me to replace her one day." Quistis chuckled."Oh........well in that case........fix me up please Doctor!" Seifer laughed at his own joke.
Quistis admired her work as she finished stitching up Seifer's eyebrow. She cast Curaga on it and removed the stitches. He winced as she did it, which made her think of a time when he had skinned his knee on a rock, and Matron had put alcohol on it to kill bacteria. Seifer was always strong as a child, and almost never cried. As the alcohol had poured onto his bleeding knee, he simply winced, and gritted his teeth.
Quistis's mind trailed back to what had happened while she was sleeping. She honestly didn't know how to feel about the rape. She hadn't experienced it first hand........she'd been sleeping, but......it still felt like such a terrible violation. It made her want to cry again, so she shifted her attention back to Seifer. He was trying his best not to flinch badly when she applied Curaga enhanced cream to the bruises on his arms. He had been kind enough to take off his trenchcoat and shirt for her. She couldn't help but admire his well built torso as he sat on the Infirmary bed. Seifer had a solid six pack with impressive chest muscles. His arms weren't as thick as a tree trunk, but they looked strong enough to hold her tightly.............Wait! What the hell am I thinking? Seifer? Holding me? her inner voice screamed.
She shook her head and cleared such foolish notions from her mind.
"Thank you.........Quisty." Seifer said as she finished.
"I'd prefer if you'd call me Quistis." she said flatly.
"Why Quisty?" he used her nickname again.
"It makes me uncomfortable Seifer." Quistis squirmed.
"Why does it make you uncomfortable....?" he asked, standing up and moving closer to her.
"It just does...... and you standing this close to me makes me uncomfortable as well!!" she insisted.
Seifer put a hand on her cheek and caressed it. "Does that make you uncomfortable?"
"M-Most certainly!" she stammered.
"And what about this....." Seifer leaned in and touched his lips to hers. She was surprised to find herself kissing him back with an intensity she had never known existed in her. Seifer was a good kisser.
The door to the room opened, and the two quickly disengaged their kiss, only to find Dr. Kadowaki standing in the doorway, blanching.
"I was......just......uh........checking the......er.....wound on his........er........head." Quistis tried to explain.
"Oh sure!" Dr. Kadowaki grinned. "I think I'll just leave you two alone." and backed out of the room, shutting the door behind her.
Seifer looked over at Quistis, and she looked over at him. Both broke down and laughed for some time before finally quieting down.
"So......." Seifer said, moving closer to her. "What are we gonna do about this?"
"What are we gonna do?" Quistis said, grabbing Seifer's shoulders and pressing her hips to his. Seifer shifted as he felt a circus starting up in his pants.
"Uh.....er.......yeah........" Seifer said huskily.
"I................." Quistis began. "Yes?" Seifer implored.
"Am gonna wish you a good night Seifer." she said, and gave him a peck on the lips before breaking their embrace.
"G'night Almasy..." Quistis said, smiling at him as she left the room.
"Dammit Quisty! You did that on purpose!" Seifer huffed.
Quistis chuckled as she found her clothes and changed back into them in the bathroom. He actually thought I was going to do something with him. Especially after what happened tonight. The nerve..................He is really handsome though........ That was typical Seifer Almasy, however, and she knew he was trying to change, but he still had to get rid of that cockiness of his....... then maybe.......well......hopefully..........
R&R time again!! I decided to sorta slip the beginnings of the Seiftis part of the story in. Man.........I still have almost NO reviews...................sux............oh well.
Next Chapter: I give the answer to what the quote was...........even though I'm pretty sure no one cared. Like I said.......Oh well.