Author's notes:

Hello everyone, Jenn here. I wanted to write this to you all to let you know that I'm going to conclude the story the way it is. During my time writing this story, I was in a great relationship with someone I loved, but it has fallen apart during the time when I wanted to write a last chapter. I guess you could say that I based the relationship I was in towards Squall's and Rinoa's… and I had a really fun time with it. It's amazing how you can compare and totally lose motivation because of the events in your life to a simple story.

Now here's where I explain some symbols and little things in the story I wanted people to notice.

I basically followed the game without trying to make any real differences… Personally I love the way it is already, but I always wondered to myself what would happen if Squall were to go into a coma as well, and how Rinoa would act if the roles reversed. Reading through the first chapter right now, I just notice I explain how things happened, and how worried Rinoa becomes.

The second chapter… wow, here is where I can't believe that I wrote this. My hidden writing skills attacked me during this chapter. I never wrote anything like this. During my adventure playing the game, I always wondered why they never showed you what happened when Ellone chose to go with Esthar. They did show you, of course, but there were no words other than the White SeeD commander's, explaining the story. I wanted to get deeper into that story, and show what was said when it was all happening.

When Ellone was finally with Esthar, I remembered that around this time in the game, Squall was by Rinoa's side when she was in a coma. Remember the part where Squall flips out and talks to her, even thinks "This is like talking to a wall." Well if you remember, he winds up getting knocked out by Ellone sending him to the past after that. And this is where, in the story, I implied her trying to do so at that time in the game. Since he was in a coma, it didn't work because of how deeply far away he was from reality. Ellone wanted him to change the past, in hope that he would get to know the father he never knew and to actually… change the past. Without him, she wouldn't 'connect' the gang….. or so I thought.

Now, the beginning of chapter three threw a few people off. All I did was put together a few quotes that Squall heard during the game before he fell into a coma (in my story) and… tada. It's supposed to be what was going through his mind as he was in a coma.

The reunion of Laguna and Ellone… everyone's favorite. They never showed them getting back together in the game, and how I wrote it was the way that I imagined it. I absolutely love it.

Chapter four, I had so much fun with making Laguna babble. The trio is awesome and I love the way Kiros gets annoyed with Ward about all the babbling, even with Ward losing his voice. I thought it was hysterical how Kiros 'spoke' for Ward. No one really knows what he wants, do they? I had fun with them teasing Laguna. And here is where I thought how they convinced Ellone to go in space. I loved making it all fit together; the game into my story.

The questions about Headmaster Cid doing his duty as a knight… it always made me wonder if he ever really did. Of course Edea accepted Ultimecia's powers at the end, but Cid had no huge role to say in the matter. Don't you think he could've been there, at least, to see what was happening to his wife? Be a knight to his sorceress? Where was he? Oh weelll..

The words in italic mean that Squall can hear Irvine and Rinoa talking waaaay in the back of his mind. If he were to wake up right then, he wouldn't know he heard them.

Since Squall was out of the picture, I thought Quistis would make the best leader out of the five. Even if Garden says she's lacking leadership qualities, we all know she's damn well good at it. She shines in these chapters.

Rinoa taking her walk through Garden is what I saw as her being a feather in a garden filled with flower petals. She was different from the students because she was not one of them. In the opening of the game where she takes a petal in her hand, hides it in her fist then lets go for it to be a feather is what I saw of Squall. She took Squall, a petal from Garden, and changed him. Well, that's what I think.

Since Rinoa was awake at this part of the game, it was inevitable for her to meet up with her Forest Owl buddies. I had to add that in there.

In Chapter five, I wrote, in my point of view, of how Rinoa would help out with Squall. She certainly couldn't carry Squall on her back and walk him all the way through FH by herself… she's a people person, dependant. She went with all of her friends.

I showed her reactions to Esthar, and how Doctor Odine observed her as if he knew something. He had a feeling, all right…

All right, at the beginning of Chapter six, Quistis did seem a little TOO NICE, didn't she? Even though she misunderstood her love for Squall doesn't mean she stopped loving him. Rinoa just popped out of nowhere and made her give up. But even so, she wouldn't take it to heart and let it be noticed. That's how I tried to portray her here.

The next scene mimics the game, but I wanted to show that the man in the space suit was Laguna. You can just TELL it's him by his hand movements and what he says.

Moving on from here just shows the same process that would happen in the game. Squall was placed in the med lab, in the control room; we see the reaction from Rinoa we never saw in the game about the monsters on the moon. Then we see Quistis going to go talk to Ellone after telling Rinoa to stand by Squall's side.

I'm going to update the rest when I have the time. For those of you who were waiting for another chapter, thank you so much. This is the least I can do for now.

-Jenn