Garett Deling rushed out of the Presidential Residence, muttering senseless things to himself. He felt himself more free than ever, now when he had no need to care about people staring at him, or no need to worry about a possible assassin getting the chance of his life to kill him. Not anymore. After Juliette's latest proposal - or more like a demand - Garett could do the only possible thing that was left.

He thought about his life while he was running along the sidewalk, looking like he had lost his mind. His childhood hadn't been a nice one; the cruel father had beaten the crap out of him when he had occasionally been home. Luckily his plotting for world domination had taken most of his time. When Garett had grown up, he had moved to a little palace which belonged to his father. There had been guards looking after him all the time and the only place where they had left him alone was school.

One day his father announced that if he died, Garett would become the president. By then, Garett had already married himself with the woman he loved and she gave birth to two healthy boys. Some time after his father was killed by Edea (or Ultimecia - whatever), a woman called Juliette came to work at the Presidential Residence as a secretary. Unfortunately, she seduced Garett.

That night, when he cheated his wife, he couldn't have believed what he'd have to face. He wanted to spare his wife from the truth and Juliette knew that. She first told Garett to keep running the country like his father, despite his promises to end the dictatorship. He had obeyed. That's how he had become a mere puppet for her.

Now Garett knew that if he obeyed her latest order, whole Galbadia would be destroyed. That's why his only solution was killing himself.

He came to a bridge. The men and women, who were walking there, stopped to see what was happening. Someone shouted that he should reconsider it, when he climbed on the edge. Someone else shouted that he should jump, because he had only brought misery to Galbadia.

"I'm sorry, everybody. I'M SORRY, GALBADIA!"

And then he jumped.


It didn't take long for the world to get to know about the president's recent death. People were hoping that the war would end, now when there was no Deling in the office. But Juliette wasn't going to let that happen.

She knocked the door. "Mister prime minister?"

"What is it? I'm a little busy here..." The old, miserable looking man was sitting behind his desk, with a pile of papers in front of him.

"This won't take long. I just wanted to tell you that I've been looking at you for some time..."

"What? Who the hell are you?"

"That doesn't matter. I just wanted to tell you that you are a very handsome man..."

"Ah... umm..."

Yeah, right. A fossil like you. It had been easy to make Garett her little puppet by sleeping with him, but she would never do that with the ugly and fat prime minister. Never. It was time to use her special skill.

"I'd like to ask you a favor..." Her eyes started emitting a strange, reddish light. "I need you to announce... that I will become the new president of Galbadia..."

"Uh... I..."

"Pleeaseee?"

The prime minister was now completely under her control.

"I guess so..."

She grinned slyly. Her skill never failed her.


Author's notice: Sorry for the lack of updates. I've been watching ice hockey and playing Star Ocean 3 for the whole weekend... O.o.