Chapter 12
After a being in the hospital for nearly a month, Seifer was finally released, and Edea and Rinoa insisted on bringing Seifer back to Garden. Here he was back in his old dorm room. Right back to where he started. Seifer had insisted to Doctor Kadowaki that he was fine and could travel, despite the fact that right leg was still in a cast and it was still be months before he could take it off.
He was frustrated about not being able to do anything, especially when he was so eager to find Quistis. Usually when he was frustrated he would take his anger out in the training area, but now all he could do was sit and scowl at everyone passing by.
"Seifer, stop scowling like that," the bubbly brunette said. "You know if you keep scowling like that your face will be stuck like that forever."
Seifer only responded by scowling at Selphie some more.
Selphie only rolled her eyes and giggled. "In no time, you'll be up and around terrorizing all the cadets again." She patted them on the head and skipped off.
Seifer brought his palm to his face. He had just reached a new low, Selphie just got away with patting him on the head. His leg needed to heal faster. Where was a fix broken bones spell when you needed one?
He vowed to himself. That as soon as he would walk unassisted no one was going to stop him from going to Winhill. He was determined to find her and he would.
Sweat plastered her blond hair to her flushed porcelain face as she winced from another contraction. Quistis was trying to follow the nurse's instruction and breathe, but the pain of labor was making her lose concentration. She didn't know how many hours had past since the moment her water broke and the contractions started to come. All she knew was that it felt like she was in an eternity of pain. She wanted the baby to come out now.
As doctors fussed around her, telling her that she was doing fine and that the baby was well on its way and that everything would be over soon, Quistis didn't hear a word. The only thing she knew in her world at the moment was the pain of impending motherhood. While Quistis was on her way to being a mother, Paul and Lynnette waited outside.
Paul and Lynnette sat in the waiting room waiting. Lynnette was calm and flipping through a magazine, while Paul sat next to her lost in thought, lost in concern.
"She's strong. She would be fine," Lynnette assured him.
"I know," Paul sighed.
"What's wrong?" Lynnette asked.
"I think Kristy is planning to leave after the baby is born," he said.
"Did she tell you this?"
"No, but I can sense it. She's always kept me at arms length."
"Does she know how you feel about her?"
"Yes, I've told her countless of times, but I think her heart still belongs to the father," Paul sighed hopelessly.
"You think she is going to go and find him as soon as the baby is born?"
Lynnette remembered the conversation she had had with Kristy several months before. She knew that Paul was aware of the fact that she wanted to find the father of her child, but Lynnette had always hope she would choose Paul, since the man obviously loved her very much.
"It's a possibility." Paul sighed. "Of all the women in the world I pick her to fall for."
"It's not your fault Paul," Lynnette said trying to comfort him.
"It is my fault. Kristy told me that this relationship wouldn't work, and she wanted us to remain friends. It's my own fault that I let myself fall in love with her," he sighed again burying his head in his hands.
"Is it possible that you are thinking too much about it? Has there been any evidence of her trying to contact the father?" She said still trying to bring Paul out of his despair.
Paul shook his head. "That's the thing. It doesn't look like she contacted him, but do you think she can forget this guy, now that she would have a constant reminder of him in her arms?"
Lynnette knew that she did not have to words to comfort Paul instead she only gave him a supporting squeeze on his hands and remained silent.
Just then the door opened and a nurse came to them.
"Congratulations," she said. "You have a baby boy."
After giving Paul and Lynnette the news, the nursed returned into the delivery room to find Quistis holding her little baby in her arms.
Like any new mother, as she cradled her baby in her arms, the hours of pain seemed to fade away. Her beautiful baby was sleeping in her arms.
The nurse came to take the baby.
"Congratulations," the nurse said to her again. "He's beautiful."
"Thank you," Quistis said with a proud smile.
"Do you have a name for him yet?" the nursed asked as she held the baby in her arms.
"Yes, his name is Seifer," Quistis said.
The nurse smiled and carried little Seifer away to be cleansed, and allow Quistis to get her much needed rest.