AN: Sorry it's taken sooo long for this to get up.. I had work and stuff.. heheh!Anyways.. I was in bed last night and this chapy came to mind soo yeah here ya go!

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Chapter, Three

After a few minutes everyone walked back out into the dinner. It was early and no one could be found in the small dinner. Quistis took her seat again, with Zell sitting next to her. Irvine sat across and smiled sweetly to her. "Tell me darlin, are you all right staying with Squall. Cuz.. yahh you could always stay with me.... WOW!" Selphie had hit him square in the back of the head with a hand load of menues. "Don't even joke about that! I swear I'll kill you the next time you do that!" The small girl glared at him, but the look didn't see to fit her. "Aww Selph. You know I only have eyes for you!" Shaking her head she walked off. "Selph!" Irvine hopped up after her, pleading the whole time.

"He really does love her but he's never come right out and said it." Quistis smiled some what at him. "So are you really staying with the ice prince?" Looking into the small blue eyed blond she nodded. "Whow! Never though a guy like that would let anyone into his house. I've known him for a few years and never seen the guy outside of work. Maybe once in a while at the store but that's it. I don't even know where the guy lives... Is he nice to you?" Quitsis smiled brightly. The young man was quiet the talker. It was a rather nice change. "Yeah. He's one of the nicest pepole I've ever meet." Zell looked right at her in disbelief, but then his face changed. "You know you look really nice when you smile like that." Quistis tried to hold down a blush but she could feel her cheeks get hot. just as she was about to open her mouth there was a loud hump. Looking up she saw Squall with two plates of food in his hands.

"Didn't know what you wanted." He placed the plate down infront of her and slid in across with his own food. As she slowly started to ding into the wonderful looking food Squall gave her, but then she realized Zell was watching her. "Are you sure you wanna eat that!? Like that?" Quistis looked up at him oddly. "Yeah. Why?" Now that Zell's mouth had opened Squall looked up as well. "It's a bunch of eggs with veggies! There's no meat!" Quistis looked down to see that he was indeed right. "It's ok. I didn't get to eat much of anything I liked while I was at the Almasy's. I was at the end of the feeding chain. Mr and Mrs Almasy's servents got food first and we got what was left. I was Seifer's and the youngest so I ate last. If there was food that is." Zell and Squall looked on at her in shock. No wonder she was soo thin. Just then the bell at the door dinged. There was a bit of suffling behind Quistis as a few girls slid into a booth behind them. They could not see the girls do to the high backs.

"Why do you always want to come here? The food isn't that good." The girls were talking loudly.

"That's cuz she hopes that one cute guy is working." Zell puffed up in the seat next to Quistis think it was him. "You know the one with the steel blue eyes and that wonderful chocolate hair." That deflated him.

"Yeah. That's why I always come here. Plus Seifer wont step foot in here."

"O Yeah. Didn't you date him Rinoa?" There was a bit of a silence then the one they could only think was Rinoa spoke up.

"Yeah I did. But I called it off because of that girl. His family has slaves. Not like just to do thier house work. Seifer had this blond girl as a kinda sex slave. He would drag her around the house in next to nothing. She kinda lived in his closet. I hated the fact that he was sleeping with her. I told him to get rid of her or me. HA! That ass said that she was better than me and easier to get in bed with. I told him NO Fucking shit! SHE has to sleep with you. So I left. But then again she excaped too. I hated her. She killed what we had. If I see her I'm turning her back in dead. No point in see that thing walk."

Quistis looked down at her food no longer hungery. "Did you really do that!?" The girls voices again piped up.

"Yeah that is sick. So she had to do anything he wanted?"

"Yeah. She did anything he wanted. He would try and throw it in my face once or twice. He'd say something like 'She'd do anything.' or 'She and I did this and she let me fuck her in the ass.' I told him I'm not his slave and my ass was not his!"

"That's sick. You let that ass touch you!? Ack! That's really sick you know." Squall looked over at Quistis to find her almost in tears. Anger surged over him. In a fit of anger he jumped him and glarde at Zell, wich said 'move'. Reaching down he took her arm and yanked her out of the seat. "We're leaving." He growled as he stormed into the kitchen only to stop when mommy D gave him a questioning look, as Zell ran in behind them. "Sorry mom but we have to go."

"Chill Squall!" Zell grabbed hold of Quistis bad wrist. "Agh!" In pain she pulled way and back away. With one fluid movment Squall grabbed Zell's shirt and pinned him to the wall. "Don't you ever touch her! And if I ever hear you talking about what you heard in there I will not be as kinda as I am now!" Squall's voice was a growl but rang loud and clear in Zell and his mother's ears. "Squall!" Quistis' raspy voice broke his thoughs as he let go of Zell. "Lets go." Flusrated he grabbed her good wrist and walked out the back door to his jeep.

The ride back to Squall's house was quiet and painful for Quistis. She felt ditry, unclean. Just before the house started to come into view, Squall slammed on the brakes. "Did you really....?"

"Yes." Quists' words were short and harsh.

"Why?"

"What could I have done? I was foced to live there. I had to do what he said or be whipped. I tried to fight. I did. But I could only take so much."

Squall looked over at her and sighed. There was soo much pain and anger in her eyes. He felt like he had to do something. "I promise I won't let anything like that happen to you again." Quistis looked up at him with shock written all over her face. "I promise."

"Thank you Squall!" Tears that started to leak out, she threw herself at him. There they sat hugging. It felt oddly conforting to Squall. Normaly he would have pushed her away, but he felt like he needed to do this. Not for her, but for himself. There was something about her that seamed to make everything look brighter. "Guess we should get Selphie to take you shopping." Quistis let out a muffled giggle. This was right. This had to be.

Zoe:Whooot! I have it coming! It's coming togther! whhhoooooohhooo!

Squall: I'm all OCish

Zoe: O yeah kinda. Sorry. Well you're not the only one.

Quistis" WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING TO ME!

ZOE: Umm trying to make your life better with Squall!

Quistis: ANything is better with Squall.!

Squall: .....o.0!

Zoe: PLease review.. It's what keeps stories going! Save a life.. review..

Squall: Save a life?

Zoe: YEah without them.,.. you would be no more!

Squall: Please review!