Author's note: .....phouff. Thanks for reviews :)

to Iskander : You sure he's actually gonna meet him? What if something happens.....? :P Yup, but I gotta beg you, please review, just to say something like 'hi' or whatever, just so that I know somebody's still there :)

to Greyon Hell : Yup, it's funny when I write dr Odine's lines, I start talking like that... It's actually not funny :P

to Firefly-dreams : Yup, it's closely :) Not ending this anytime soon, don't you worry :P

-Squall's POV-

I don't even have the interest to marvel at this strange place anymore, knowing that in mere minutes I will be meeting.... my father.

Wonder if I'm anything like him?

The tall man walking before us has now stopped before a door, that's opening. Inside the room, I see another man dressed like the tall one, except that this one's much fatter. And in the middle of the room, talking with the fat man, is.... a man, about forty years old, black hair down to his shoulders...

"SeeD?" the tall man asks.

"Hm?"

"President Laguna Loire," he says, waving at the black-haired man.

The President turns to us. "Squall...."

I don't know what to say. Should I say anything? What could I possibly say? According to every logic, I should hate this man for abandoning me and never coming back to find me.

He's walking towards me. "Squall... You've grown so much."

"....yeah."

He stands before me, looks at me from head to toe, then hugs me.

Again, I'm unsure of what to do. I really don't feel like hugging him back. The voice inside my head is still going "hate this man, he left you, hate this man..." Hyne, is that fair? Towards anyone? Shouldn't I at least give him a chance..?

"I'm sorry."

I look at him. "Huh?"

He shakes his head and scratches the back of his head. "For all these years... I should've looked you up, I know, but... times were so very weird, and my life was a mess."

"....whatever."

"I hope that someday, you can forgive me and we can get to know each other."

".....guess."

"You can stay here for the time being." He looks at Seifer. "And your friends too, of course..."

"...thanks."

"I understand you arrived with Sorceress Edea?"

I nodd. "Yeah."

"And you're SeeDs?"

"Yeah..."

"Funny. I thought that your mission was to kill her."

"It's not all that simple," Seifer says.

"Yeah, I'm sure it's not. Oh well, you must be tired. Kiros will show you to your rooms."

"...okay."

"I will see you tomorrow, when we can talk better. Without any... distractions."

"......"

"You wouldn't think they run out of the rooms in a building this size, huh?" Seifer says.

He's referring to the fact that they accommodated us into the rooms in pairs, because there's not that much room or something. Luckily, I was paired with Seifer instead of Irvine or Zell.

I turn to him from the window. "Yeah. I think it's nice tho."

He comes to me, smiling. "Of course it's nice, I wasn't saying that." He kisses me, then looks out the window. "Hyne, this city's huge."

"Yeah... Wonder if they'll let us go out exploring..?"

"Well we're not exactly prisoners, are we?"

I shrug. "You never know."

"Yeah, after all, this is a foreign country... and we're here with the public enemy number one."

I nodd. "My point exactly. Maybe this is all just a big scheme..."

He chuckles and lays down on the bed. "I don't know about you, but I'm dead tired. After all that walking, I just wanna sleep."

"Well I just might join you.."