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Vince: Ohmigosh! Super-duper mega bummerifically sorry for not updating sooner! Sorry!!! *bows head ashamed*
Vale: Dude...did she just say... "super-duper mega bummerifically sorry?"
Tomoe: Something like that... ^^;
Thor: Vince! You betray me! You're not supposed to say anything Selphie-like! That's for these idiots! *points to Vale, Tomoe, and Fantasy Girl*
Fantasy Girl: EY!
Thor: ...um *cower* by pointing at you I meant you would say something like "let's blow em all up into smithereens?" *cower, cower*
Vince: lol. Anyway, sorry for not updating in so long, please forgive me. So to make amends I added this chapter AND I edited the other two a little bit.
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CHAPTER TWO
BY:
Vince (Saturn Angels)
Seifer approached the table and nodded at Quistis, Selphie guessed it was because they had some strange twisted respect for one another. Then he turned to Selphie and looked either bored or annoyed, or both but it was almost impossible to Selphie to be either, "What now Tilmitt? It hasn't even been five minutes since you've last seen me and already you're back to annoy me?"
Selphie gave a childish pout then grinned, "Well, Seify! Where's your posse?"
"I'm amazed you actually know what posse means, Messenger Girl. Bravo. Now can you spell 'cat'?" he asked his voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Sure, only because I know you don't know how to spell it. C-A-T. Cat. Now repeat after me--"
"Do you want me to write you up for mocking authority?"
Selphie stuck her bottom lip out and tried her best to say nothing in reply but failed, "I'm sorry I didn't realize there was any authority here, would you be kind enough to point them out to me so I'll be sure to stay away from them?"
Before Seifer countered Quistis intercepted, "Now, now kiddies. You two get along, I have a meeting with the headmaster in a few minutes so I have to go and get my files ready. You two be good," She said with a small smile as she walked away.
"Bye bye Quisty!" Selphie yelled after her, waving.
Quistis laughed a little but continued walking.
Selphie turned back to Seifer and immediately the grin was wiped off her face, she just seemed really moody today. He hadn't even done anything in the past two seconds to get her angry and here she was scowling at him.
Her scowl turned into a smile and for lack of a better subject she asked, "Wanna join the Garden Festival Committee?"
He raised an eyebrow at her, as he often seemed to do, and responded with an ease that made her think he was actually going to say yes, "After going over my options on whether or not to join your stupid little committee…I've decided…" he paused and she looked up at him hopefully, "not to."
She stuck her tongue out in that way that made her look oh-so-cute, "Fine then be that way, you meanie!"
"I'm afraid I am that way." He responded with a smirk.
She imitated him moving her head side to side slightly as she enunciated each word making her flipped hair bounce slightly with each movement. Then suddenly in the middle of the word 'that' she stopped and glared at something behind Seifer's back, then she stuck out her tongue and began making faces at whoever was in the cafeteria.
Seifer, questioning, turned to look behind his back only to find no one there. He turned back to face Selphie's grinning face.
"Made ya look!" she said giggling childishly, "Now I have gotta go and give these hot dogs to Zell, toodles!" she said waving as she ran out of the cafeteria.
Seifer shook his head and ran after her; after all…running was against the rules.
About ten minutes later Selphie returned to her dorm in a really bad mood, she'd got written up twice in one day. TWICE! And she'd never, ever been written up before! Why was Seifer choosing today to pick on her? For all she knew she'd be washing her face and Seifer would come in and write her up for wasting water. The only good thing that had happened to her today was Zell thanking her for the hot dogs and giving her a hug, she had really needed a hug and it didn't matter who from. She jumped onto her bed and pulled out her library book. She was on page 46 and it was getting to the really, suspenseful…freaky…gory parts. She opened the book and began reading again.
~Two and a half hours later~
Selphie laid whimpering in her bed still in the same position that she was in two hours ago, the book rest in front of her and her hovering above it in interest and suspense. In fact the only thing about her position that had changed was that her shoes were off and she was biting her nails.
Suddenly a knock on her door sent her jumping off the bed shrieking lightly but she quickly straightened her yellow dress and acted as happy as ever. She opened the door to reveal Quistis looking side to side nervously.
"Selph! I'm so glad you're here! Can I come in??" It sure sounded urgent.
"Sure thing!" Selphie said with a smile as she opened the door wider to allow Quistis entrance to her humble abode.
"Thank heavens you're alright, Selphie!"
"Why wouldn't I be?"
"There are rumors going around the school, Selphie."
"Rumors? What sort of rumors?"
"Selphie…the headmaster has reason to believe that…" she paused and continued in a whisper, "that there are vampires in the school."
"Vampires!?!?!" Selphie yelped.
"Sh! Not so loud!"
"You're joking right?!" Selphie asked lowering her voice a couple notches.
"I'm dead serious."
"Oh! Don't say that Quisty! This is just a prank that the headmaster and you pulled up because of my two referrals and the fact that I'm reading a vampire novel, isn't it?"
Quistis blinked and looked at Selphie's book, "I had no idea you were reading a vampire novel Selphie."
Selphie whimpered and buried her head in her hands, "But they don't like the light! How could they be dangerous?"
"Selphie, we found two students dead this afternoon. They hadn't even been dead but, an hour or so, meaning that they were killed during the day. Their blood was completely drained…and Selphie I'm worried for your safety."
"Why my safety?"
"You're always so anxious to make friends with everyone you meet, and if these two-"
"There're two?"
"That's what we suspect. If they're new students here…just be careful, alright?"
"Who were the two who were…killed?" Selphie asked hesitantly.
"Maria and Janet Malifeciente."
"Oh geez…there got two garden festival committee members…" Selphie said worriedly, "Quisty! I don't want to be alone!"
Quistis nodded, "I figured as much. That's why we're going to be using the dormitories spare beds; each dorm has one that's hidden. Yours is over there pushed into the wall." She said handing Selphie the remote. "You press the little red button to make it come out and the green to push it in. The buttons glow in the dark by the way."
Selphie took the controller then glanced at the wall Quistis was pointing at and wondered why she hadn't noticed the faint outline before.
"Everyone is assigned roommates. For girls they well have guy roommates in case they need protection, some girls will be roomed with girls, and some guys will be roomed with guys. Alarm systems will be installed into every dorm by tomorrow evening."
"You're gonna be with me, right Quisty?" Selphie asked hopefully.
Quistis shook her head slowly, "I'm afraid not. The Garden's computers picked the names at random…Selphie…you're not going to like this…"
Selphie shrugged, "It can't be that bad, I mean the worst would be me rooming with Irvine!"
"Irvine is staying with Squall…"
"Good then it can't be any worse-!"
Before Selphie could finish her sentence Quistis interrupted, "You'll be sharing your dorm room with Seifer."
"What…?" Selphie asked the color draining from her face. Sure, Seifer was great for protection; she could always sacrifice him. But…actually having to LIVE with him!? "Can't it be changed!? Why do I have to be roomed with him??" Selphie asked whining.
"Selphie…" Quistis said in exasperation.
"Believe me, Messenger Girl. I'm no happier then you are." Seifer said as he walked through the door carrying a black bag most likely full of his stuff.
Then he paused slightly and looked around, "Sexist bastards!" he muttered, "Girl's dorms are at least five times bigger then boy's dorms."
Quistis stood up and patted Selphie's back sympathetically, "I'll leave you two to get more acquainted. Try to not kill each other by tomorrow morning." As she was walking out the door Selphie tried desperately to think of someway to not be alone with Seifer, "Don't you need an escort?" Selphie cried.
Quistis waved her hand, "I don't but they're here anyway…" she motioned to the group of Trepies which stood waiting for her.
"We'll protect Ms. Trepe with our lives!" they said in unison.
Selphie watched sadly as Quistis closed the door behind her, she turned to see Seifer trying to figure out how to get the bed to come out of the wall.
She giggled and pulled out the remote Quistis had given her and pressed the little red button. The bed made a loud noise then slowly began moving out of the wall. Seifer held out his hand and Selphie stared at it wondering what he was doing.
"Give me the controller." Seifer said and she looked at him suspiciously.
"What for?"
"You expect me to trust you with that thing while I sleep?" he asked looking at her as if she was a stupid child.
She pouted and stuck her tongue out, "Here ya go." She said with a shrug and handed the controller over to him.
He took it and placed it on the nightstand furthest away from Selphie's bed and closest to his. Selphie jumped on her bed a few times, as was her daily routine, and went to the bathroom to change into her pajamas that consisted of a yellow silk shirt and matching silk pants. When she came out of the bathroom she cleared her throat and Seifer looked at her inquiringly. "Rule number one: you don't go stickin' your nose in my business! And I won't in your, kay?"
He smirked, "I wouldn't dream of it, Messenger Girl."
"…Selphie. My name is SELPHIE TILMITT, I'll write it on your forehead while you sleep if you continue to refuse to call me by my first name."
"…Right, Tilmitt." He said, as he turned over on his side no longer facing her. It was then that she noted that his 'pajamas' consisted of his black pants he wore all the time. And that was all it was composed of. She blushed slightly forcing her eyes away from his bared skin and picked up her book and began reading, then to her annoyance the lights went out. "Seifer turn the light back on."
"What for?"
"I'm reading."
He faked a gasp of astonishment, "You can READ?"
She imitated his fake gasp and replied, "I'm a technological genius. Of course I can read. Now turn the light back on."
"No."
"It's my dorm! Turn the light on!"
"Are you afraid the 'vampires' will come and get you while he lights are off?"
"…No."
"Then you won't be at all disturbed when I tell you that I didn't turn off the lights." He said casually.
In milliseconds Selphie had hopped from her bed to Seifer's and hugged her teddy bear to her chest.
"Tilmitt, I was just kidding." He said shoving her off of his bed, smirking slightly as he heard a slight 'oof' when she hit the floor; he leaned over to turn the light on.
Selphie heard the clicking sound a couple times but light refused to come from the lamp, "Seifer stop joking around."
"I guess the power went out…" he said with a shrug, "Do you have a flashlight?"
"Yes."
"Well?"
"Well what?"
"Go get it!" he yelled becoming easily agitated with her consistent stupidity; she should've been born blonde. Then he paused remembering that he himself was blonde…but he wasn't a dumb blonde like she should've been.
"It doesn't have batteries…"
"Do you have candles?"
"A couple."
"…Well get those." He said slowly as if talking to a four year old.
"I won't be able to find them." She cried.
"Just go to sleep then." He said with a shrug.
"But I can't go to sleep knowing that the light can't turn on! And-And there's no moon out!"
"Tilmitt…it's usually a FULL moon, people are afraid of."
"Yeah, but no moon is so much creepier!"
"Just go to sleep." Seifer said turning on his side he could hear Selphie shuffling around a bit then jumping into bed.
After a moment her voice interrupted the silence, "Seifer?"
"hmm?" he answered in an annoyed tone.
"…I'm afraid of the dark."
"What do you want me to do about it?"
"…Fix the power?"
"Not a chance Messenger Girl."
"Hey! I'm gonna write my name on your face now," she said grinning.
"How will you be able to do that if you can't even find anything to write with?"
"…Good point…I'll do it tomorrow then!"
"If you live until tomorrow."
He had expected her to have some sort of stupid come back ready so was surprised when he heard her sniffling.
"That wasn't nice Seifer…"
"Hm, when did the rules state I was supposed to be nice?"
She sniffled a bit more and finally stuck her tongue out at him positive that he couldn't see it. She began to make faces at his back, which made her feel a bit better.
"Stop sticking your tongue out at me Tilmitt. Don't think I don't notice."
Selphie made an odd little sound and giggled and pulled the covers over her head and fell into a deep sleep being comforted that nothing would happen as long as Seifer was there. She figured if anything came into her room it would see Seifer first and she would have a chance to escape.
Seifer fell asleep not too long afterwards and dreamt a strange dream, it was of an orphanage by the see with a lighthouse not too far away from it…
~*End Chapter Two*~
Vince: See? It was long. …at first I was going to make the vampire thing a prank between Seifer and Quistis…but decided to go along with it for a coupld of chapters ^^;
Thor: Please review!
Vale: Seifer/Selphie forever! Yay! Yay! ^__^
Tomoe: Hehe. Alrighty, don't forget to review!!! Reviews are very much loved.
Vale: Yuppers!! ^_~
Vince: Ohmigosh! Super-duper mega bummerifically sorry for not updating sooner! Sorry!!! *bows head ashamed*
Vale: Dude...did she just say... "super-duper mega bummerifically sorry?"
Tomoe: Something like that... ^^;
Thor: Vince! You betray me! You're not supposed to say anything Selphie-like! That's for these idiots! *points to Vale, Tomoe, and Fantasy Girl*
Fantasy Girl: EY!
Thor: ...um *cower* by pointing at you I meant you would say something like "let's blow em all up into smithereens?" *cower, cower*
Vince: lol. Anyway, sorry for not updating in so long, please forgive me. So to make amends I added this chapter AND I edited the other two a little bit.
HYPERION
CHAPTER TWO
BY:
Vince (Saturn Angels)
Seifer approached the table and nodded at Quistis, Selphie guessed it was because they had some strange twisted respect for one another. Then he turned to Selphie and looked either bored or annoyed, or both but it was almost impossible to Selphie to be either, "What now Tilmitt? It hasn't even been five minutes since you've last seen me and already you're back to annoy me?"
Selphie gave a childish pout then grinned, "Well, Seify! Where's your posse?"
"I'm amazed you actually know what posse means, Messenger Girl. Bravo. Now can you spell 'cat'?" he asked his voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Sure, only because I know you don't know how to spell it. C-A-T. Cat. Now repeat after me--"
"Do you want me to write you up for mocking authority?"
Selphie stuck her bottom lip out and tried her best to say nothing in reply but failed, "I'm sorry I didn't realize there was any authority here, would you be kind enough to point them out to me so I'll be sure to stay away from them?"
Before Seifer countered Quistis intercepted, "Now, now kiddies. You two get along, I have a meeting with the headmaster in a few minutes so I have to go and get my files ready. You two be good," She said with a small smile as she walked away.
"Bye bye Quisty!" Selphie yelled after her, waving.
Quistis laughed a little but continued walking.
Selphie turned back to Seifer and immediately the grin was wiped off her face, she just seemed really moody today. He hadn't even done anything in the past two seconds to get her angry and here she was scowling at him.
Her scowl turned into a smile and for lack of a better subject she asked, "Wanna join the Garden Festival Committee?"
He raised an eyebrow at her, as he often seemed to do, and responded with an ease that made her think he was actually going to say yes, "After going over my options on whether or not to join your stupid little committee…I've decided…" he paused and she looked up at him hopefully, "not to."
She stuck her tongue out in that way that made her look oh-so-cute, "Fine then be that way, you meanie!"
"I'm afraid I am that way." He responded with a smirk.
She imitated him moving her head side to side slightly as she enunciated each word making her flipped hair bounce slightly with each movement. Then suddenly in the middle of the word 'that' she stopped and glared at something behind Seifer's back, then she stuck out her tongue and began making faces at whoever was in the cafeteria.
Seifer, questioning, turned to look behind his back only to find no one there. He turned back to face Selphie's grinning face.
"Made ya look!" she said giggling childishly, "Now I have gotta go and give these hot dogs to Zell, toodles!" she said waving as she ran out of the cafeteria.
Seifer shook his head and ran after her; after all…running was against the rules.
About ten minutes later Selphie returned to her dorm in a really bad mood, she'd got written up twice in one day. TWICE! And she'd never, ever been written up before! Why was Seifer choosing today to pick on her? For all she knew she'd be washing her face and Seifer would come in and write her up for wasting water. The only good thing that had happened to her today was Zell thanking her for the hot dogs and giving her a hug, she had really needed a hug and it didn't matter who from. She jumped onto her bed and pulled out her library book. She was on page 46 and it was getting to the really, suspenseful…freaky…gory parts. She opened the book and began reading again.
~Two and a half hours later~
Selphie laid whimpering in her bed still in the same position that she was in two hours ago, the book rest in front of her and her hovering above it in interest and suspense. In fact the only thing about her position that had changed was that her shoes were off and she was biting her nails.
Suddenly a knock on her door sent her jumping off the bed shrieking lightly but she quickly straightened her yellow dress and acted as happy as ever. She opened the door to reveal Quistis looking side to side nervously.
"Selph! I'm so glad you're here! Can I come in??" It sure sounded urgent.
"Sure thing!" Selphie said with a smile as she opened the door wider to allow Quistis entrance to her humble abode.
"Thank heavens you're alright, Selphie!"
"Why wouldn't I be?"
"There are rumors going around the school, Selphie."
"Rumors? What sort of rumors?"
"Selphie…the headmaster has reason to believe that…" she paused and continued in a whisper, "that there are vampires in the school."
"Vampires!?!?!" Selphie yelped.
"Sh! Not so loud!"
"You're joking right?!" Selphie asked lowering her voice a couple notches.
"I'm dead serious."
"Oh! Don't say that Quisty! This is just a prank that the headmaster and you pulled up because of my two referrals and the fact that I'm reading a vampire novel, isn't it?"
Quistis blinked and looked at Selphie's book, "I had no idea you were reading a vampire novel Selphie."
Selphie whimpered and buried her head in her hands, "But they don't like the light! How could they be dangerous?"
"Selphie, we found two students dead this afternoon. They hadn't even been dead but, an hour or so, meaning that they were killed during the day. Their blood was completely drained…and Selphie I'm worried for your safety."
"Why my safety?"
"You're always so anxious to make friends with everyone you meet, and if these two-"
"There're two?"
"That's what we suspect. If they're new students here…just be careful, alright?"
"Who were the two who were…killed?" Selphie asked hesitantly.
"Maria and Janet Malifeciente."
"Oh geez…there got two garden festival committee members…" Selphie said worriedly, "Quisty! I don't want to be alone!"
Quistis nodded, "I figured as much. That's why we're going to be using the dormitories spare beds; each dorm has one that's hidden. Yours is over there pushed into the wall." She said handing Selphie the remote. "You press the little red button to make it come out and the green to push it in. The buttons glow in the dark by the way."
Selphie took the controller then glanced at the wall Quistis was pointing at and wondered why she hadn't noticed the faint outline before.
"Everyone is assigned roommates. For girls they well have guy roommates in case they need protection, some girls will be roomed with girls, and some guys will be roomed with guys. Alarm systems will be installed into every dorm by tomorrow evening."
"You're gonna be with me, right Quisty?" Selphie asked hopefully.
Quistis shook her head slowly, "I'm afraid not. The Garden's computers picked the names at random…Selphie…you're not going to like this…"
Selphie shrugged, "It can't be that bad, I mean the worst would be me rooming with Irvine!"
"Irvine is staying with Squall…"
"Good then it can't be any worse-!"
Before Selphie could finish her sentence Quistis interrupted, "You'll be sharing your dorm room with Seifer."
"What…?" Selphie asked the color draining from her face. Sure, Seifer was great for protection; she could always sacrifice him. But…actually having to LIVE with him!? "Can't it be changed!? Why do I have to be roomed with him??" Selphie asked whining.
"Selphie…" Quistis said in exasperation.
"Believe me, Messenger Girl. I'm no happier then you are." Seifer said as he walked through the door carrying a black bag most likely full of his stuff.
Then he paused slightly and looked around, "Sexist bastards!" he muttered, "Girl's dorms are at least five times bigger then boy's dorms."
Quistis stood up and patted Selphie's back sympathetically, "I'll leave you two to get more acquainted. Try to not kill each other by tomorrow morning." As she was walking out the door Selphie tried desperately to think of someway to not be alone with Seifer, "Don't you need an escort?" Selphie cried.
Quistis waved her hand, "I don't but they're here anyway…" she motioned to the group of Trepies which stood waiting for her.
"We'll protect Ms. Trepe with our lives!" they said in unison.
Selphie watched sadly as Quistis closed the door behind her, she turned to see Seifer trying to figure out how to get the bed to come out of the wall.
She giggled and pulled out the remote Quistis had given her and pressed the little red button. The bed made a loud noise then slowly began moving out of the wall. Seifer held out his hand and Selphie stared at it wondering what he was doing.
"Give me the controller." Seifer said and she looked at him suspiciously.
"What for?"
"You expect me to trust you with that thing while I sleep?" he asked looking at her as if she was a stupid child.
She pouted and stuck her tongue out, "Here ya go." She said with a shrug and handed the controller over to him.
He took it and placed it on the nightstand furthest away from Selphie's bed and closest to his. Selphie jumped on her bed a few times, as was her daily routine, and went to the bathroom to change into her pajamas that consisted of a yellow silk shirt and matching silk pants. When she came out of the bathroom she cleared her throat and Seifer looked at her inquiringly. "Rule number one: you don't go stickin' your nose in my business! And I won't in your, kay?"
He smirked, "I wouldn't dream of it, Messenger Girl."
"…Selphie. My name is SELPHIE TILMITT, I'll write it on your forehead while you sleep if you continue to refuse to call me by my first name."
"…Right, Tilmitt." He said, as he turned over on his side no longer facing her. It was then that she noted that his 'pajamas' consisted of his black pants he wore all the time. And that was all it was composed of. She blushed slightly forcing her eyes away from his bared skin and picked up her book and began reading, then to her annoyance the lights went out. "Seifer turn the light back on."
"What for?"
"I'm reading."
He faked a gasp of astonishment, "You can READ?"
She imitated his fake gasp and replied, "I'm a technological genius. Of course I can read. Now turn the light back on."
"No."
"It's my dorm! Turn the light on!"
"Are you afraid the 'vampires' will come and get you while he lights are off?"
"…No."
"Then you won't be at all disturbed when I tell you that I didn't turn off the lights." He said casually.
In milliseconds Selphie had hopped from her bed to Seifer's and hugged her teddy bear to her chest.
"Tilmitt, I was just kidding." He said shoving her off of his bed, smirking slightly as he heard a slight 'oof' when she hit the floor; he leaned over to turn the light on.
Selphie heard the clicking sound a couple times but light refused to come from the lamp, "Seifer stop joking around."
"I guess the power went out…" he said with a shrug, "Do you have a flashlight?"
"Yes."
"Well?"
"Well what?"
"Go get it!" he yelled becoming easily agitated with her consistent stupidity; she should've been born blonde. Then he paused remembering that he himself was blonde…but he wasn't a dumb blonde like she should've been.
"It doesn't have batteries…"
"Do you have candles?"
"A couple."
"…Well get those." He said slowly as if talking to a four year old.
"I won't be able to find them." She cried.
"Just go to sleep then." He said with a shrug.
"But I can't go to sleep knowing that the light can't turn on! And-And there's no moon out!"
"Tilmitt…it's usually a FULL moon, people are afraid of."
"Yeah, but no moon is so much creepier!"
"Just go to sleep." Seifer said turning on his side he could hear Selphie shuffling around a bit then jumping into bed.
After a moment her voice interrupted the silence, "Seifer?"
"hmm?" he answered in an annoyed tone.
"…I'm afraid of the dark."
"What do you want me to do about it?"
"…Fix the power?"
"Not a chance Messenger Girl."
"Hey! I'm gonna write my name on your face now," she said grinning.
"How will you be able to do that if you can't even find anything to write with?"
"…Good point…I'll do it tomorrow then!"
"If you live until tomorrow."
He had expected her to have some sort of stupid come back ready so was surprised when he heard her sniffling.
"That wasn't nice Seifer…"
"Hm, when did the rules state I was supposed to be nice?"
She sniffled a bit more and finally stuck her tongue out at him positive that he couldn't see it. She began to make faces at his back, which made her feel a bit better.
"Stop sticking your tongue out at me Tilmitt. Don't think I don't notice."
Selphie made an odd little sound and giggled and pulled the covers over her head and fell into a deep sleep being comforted that nothing would happen as long as Seifer was there. She figured if anything came into her room it would see Seifer first and she would have a chance to escape.
Seifer fell asleep not too long afterwards and dreamt a strange dream, it was of an orphanage by the see with a lighthouse not too far away from it…
~*End Chapter Two*~
Vince: See? It was long. …at first I was going to make the vampire thing a prank between Seifer and Quistis…but decided to go along with it for a coupld of chapters ^^;
Thor: Please review!
Vale: Seifer/Selphie forever! Yay! Yay! ^__^
Tomoe: Hehe. Alrighty, don't forget to review!!! Reviews are very much loved.
Vale: Yuppers!! ^_~