Boulevard of Broken Dreams
By: Grey Wolf
Disclaimer: I only own my own broken heart, oh and Death Slide the Snowball… my car. Hehe
Note: Ok update time. Squall in mourning. Laguna in trouble, Seeds hired.
-She had actually packed her bags… She had actually left. I am alone again. How does a man carry on alone when he had found a woman to love? - Squall curled deeper into his pillows trying to forget Rinoa...
There was a knock at the door. It was ignored
It didn't work, she kept swimming in his mind, her face her arms… her smile. Squall's soul became the violin and she was playing the softest heart wrenching song on it, then smashing it against the wall into pieces too small to put back together. Squall curled up closer to the wall, his back to the rest of the world. The tears would not come, but he knew when they did it would not stop. He had lost her…
The knocking came again, louder, more insisting
"Go away" Squall muttered. He didn't turn when the door burst open, he was limp when the strong ruff grab that flung him from the bed into a chair came. He did flinch slightly when the angry eyes came within a hair's breath of his own. Soap and aftershave assaulted his nose. Green eyes flashed.
"Your pathetic do you know that? Sulking in here like a little girl when you have an obligation to so many, when your own father is in trouble. Odin! I must have sent a hundred messages and they're all neat and nice on your desk. So much for the great Seed."
Only when Seifer landed on the floor did Squall realise that he had hit him. By the smirk on Seifer's face he knew Seifer had been baiting him.
"Not a little girl after all." Seifer stood.
"What is this about my father?"
"You would know if you weren't moping in here." Squall's eyes flashed coldly but he didn't strike out again "The usual, monsters, broken heart, wanting to speak to you, wanting to explain. Mostly monsters, nasty ones… even I can't handle them on my own. We need Seed. Laguna wants you to come personally."
Seifer sat down on Squall's bed and waited.
"What now?" Squall asked eyeing him suspiciously. Seifer had gone to work for Laguna when no one would trust him. Squall knew Laguna didn't trust him either, even he, Laguna, wasn't that stupid but Ester had problems and needed Seifer. That had been so long ago now, a time when Rinoa had loved him.
"Yes now, he's your father Squall, you can't let him down."
-Yes he is.- thought Squall –Mine not Seifer's, yet Seifer is always there for Laguna. I failed Rinoa, is this how Laguna felt? Is that why Seifer came? Odin-
"Fine, I'll come"
"Glad to hear it, by the way we're hoofing it. The train's been destroyed by monsters, the track needs repairing but we can cross."
-Great just great-