Raine woke in the middle of the night clutching her stomach in pain.
"ELLONE! GET THE NEIGHBORS! THE BABY'S COMING EARLY!" she screamed from her bed and the little girl rushed into the room moments later to check on her before nodding her head and running out. She returned a minute later with the neighbors who lifted her carefully down to the kitchen.
"Ok Raine…deep breaths…you're gonna be fine…" Clara her one neighbor said, trying to calm her and wiping her face with a wet rag. Raine breathed heavily, very pale in the face, she clutched on to Clara's shirt.
"Take care of him…and take him and Ellone…to Edea's…like planned…"she said and Clara's face turned white, she knew what Raine meant when she said this.
"I will Raine I promise…" a tear streaked down her cheek and on Raine's other side was Ellone, who was pulling Raine's hair back in a ponytail to get it out of her face.
"Raine…I'll tell Laguna about Squall when the time comes…" said Ellone in an almost adult-like voice coming from such a tiny body and Raine hugged her a moment before screaming.
"He's coming!" she screamed and her other neighbor Sandie who was a sort of midwife for the town was coaching her on.
"Ok…Raine when you're ready push…and just keep pushing, it's going to seem hard, but you'll be fine…" she said in a coaxing voice and Raine groaned as she held her breath pushing her hardest. It went on for another hour this way until finally a small scream was heard and Sandie cleaned him up before handing him to Raine. "You're new baby boy… what are you going to name him…?"
"Squall…Leonheart…he's so beautiful…he's going to sweep a lucky lady off her feet one day…" she said as her eyes and her newborn son's met before her body slumped and the woman known as Raine left the world with a baby boy who would one day save them all. Squall Leonheart, an accomplished SeeD. A man with a group of friend he cared for who cared for him just as much as he did them, even if he didn't show it easily. A man who would find love with Rinoa Heartilly a girl who would love him as much as his own mother did, he would never be lonely. Everything his mother wanted for him happened…the only thing was…would his father ever tell him that he was indeed his father?
"Sis…I'm doing ok on my own…I'm doing ok…" a little boy would say, staring at the sky, not knowing his mom was there keeping him company like she always did, even if he thought he was the only person in the world.
The slight breeze that brushed by him a kiss from his mom, who would somehow always protect her son in her last wish for him, he never found her journal, and neither did Laguna…but her neighbor held onto it until Ellone came back and took it, and one day, after he had beaten the most powerful Sorceress and the biggest threat to the world, she would give it to him, and he'd finally know his mother's story. He would then realize that the man, Laguna, that Ellone had shown him in his dreams, and the man who was now the leader of Esthar…was his father…
He went on to live with his love Rinoa forever…and would look up at the stars every night, just to tell his mom that…he loved her.