Quistis was in intensive care. She had been healed on the outside but the spine on the inside needed to be repaired before the body could survive. When Selphie had been running for the infirmary she had activated Quistis' life saver. It was the only thing that had managed to save her. When she had gotten to the infirmary she couldn't walk. All movement below her waist was gone. In order to restore that they would have to open her up and cast a surgical cure on her spine. Her life saver was not holding out well and the doctors couldn't tell why. They were also to try to find out why when they opened her up.

The doctors, for the surgery, had to put her asleep. The effect was unnerving. She had no heart beat, she didn't breathe, and her eyes were closed. She might as well be dead and they wouldn't have a way of knowing if she did die because the life saver gave out. As they opened her up the doctor gasped. That would do it. The piece of metal had had poison on it. Magic poison. The bomb must have been a magically poisoned bomb. It had eaten the entire lower spine and was working on the rest of her. They began to nullify the poison, a slow process.

Squall was fighting in himself to not give up. Half of him wanted him to not give up on love and the other half was going to give up and die.

{You don't understand, people here need your leadership if you are gone the world might fail!}

[Whatever...]

{Do you even care about others' feelings?}

[Why should I? Anytime I have I have lost the person.]

{Not true. You care about Kirst otherwise you would not have made her feel better after you yelled at her. You care for her and you know that she would be devastated if you died}

[She will get over it]

{Rinoa needs you.}

[She has Siefer.]

{Siefer will never last with her he is too full of himself}

[She said herself that it gives her confidence when she is around him]

{She loves you.}

[I wish]

{More importantly you love her}

[Rinoa...]
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Finally Quistis woke and found that she still couldn't move her legs.

"Wha?"

"We're so sorry. Your spine was dissolved in a poison the bomb carried... you won't ever walk again... We're sorry we tried."

A single tear fell down Quistis' check but then she willed herself to reality. Squall needed her to be composed now not all weepy. There would be time to cry later.

"Where is Stave?"

"He is in a coma, ever since you died..."

"I was dead?"

"Medically"

"Oh. Can I go over to him?"

They brought over a hoverchair, which she got into and floated over to Stave. She held his hand for a while when she heard him whisper, "Rinoa..." She immediately knew it. He needed her weather she loved him or not. She began to arrange a search for Rinoa.
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

Rinoa needed him weather he loved her or not. After Juile had taken her powers she went to the doctor who checked her up. The doctor found that she was pregnant. Siefer had gotten her pregnant in one night. She was shaking from head to toe. It was almost too much to take in. She also felt as if a part of her was missing. The magic was gone and she felt it. It was a horrible feeling.

"I have to be strong." She said to herself.

Rinoa headed out to go find a way to the garden.
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

Juile was absorbing the energy. After they had thrown the girl to the streets she had begun to pull in the power. At first it seemed that the power couldn't come at this speed for very long but it had been three hours. The energy now seemed endless. Juile now realized that the girl had only been tapping into 1% of the energy and her mother had only been using .5% of the energy. Perhaps the process of extraction and reentry made the power more obvious. She smiled at the amount of energy she had. It was already enough to destroy the earth in a single spell and the power readings said that she had just reached 20%.
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

Squall was using all the effort he had to stay alive now. It was difficult because he had let his body begin to shut down. How he had done it was beyond him and it was far from effortless to pull himself conscious. His mind had to will his body awake and the will he had left was diminishing. It was slightly horrid to know that your body is shutting down and you are wearing out to stop it. Squall fought on.
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

Quistis was entering searches in all the databases she knew of. There wasn't much time to try to find Rinoa. She had managed to get off Balmb. She knew that because she was seen getting into a plain with a man wearing white just hours ago. She needed to find out where the plane had landed. Selphie walked up behind her and said, "Whatcha looking for?"

"Rinoa."

Selphie smirked. Quistis was going about it the hard way. Selphie logged into the computer next to her and pulled up about thirty windows all on searches. Her fingers flew across the keyboard and suddenly she had the computer searching next to every network out there. She smiled angelically at Quistis who let out for the first time in a long time a laugh.
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

When Rinoa got to the airport to get a flight she was surprised to hear, "Rinoa Heartilly if your are in the building head to the front check in stand. Rinoa Heartilly."

She headed up to the front and saw that there was a flight prepaid for by the Garden all ready for her. She shrugged and boarded the flight.

[AUTHOR'S NOTE: I have again put out the rough draft because I wanted to get it out there. Please excuse any errors that might have been in this. The Thorn and Zorn of this look nothing like the ones from FF9 and also have nothing of a personality like them. Just wanted to clear that up. Umm please review this other than flames that is because if you feel you have nothing good to say then don't read my stories and don't say anything. If you have read all the way up to here you must like it.]