Zidane knocked on the door and rubbed his eyes. This was it, this was when he would either find his princess or find a total stranger looking back at him. He hadn't thought about anything on the way over apart from her. His mind swamped in memories of her. Now it was time to see if those dreams, those memories would be true. The door was opened by the waitress, who stood there shocked to see who was standing outside her house. Zidane looked at her up and down. She wasn't wearing anything apart from a bed robe, and it was open up one side of her long, slender leg. Zidane ran his hand through his hair and looked up at her face. She no longer had her contacts in, and there were the hazel-brown eyes looking straight back at her. Her mouth was hanging slightly open and her eyebrows were raised in shock.

'Garnet…?' Zidane managed to say and Garnet seemed to come out paralysis caused by the shock of seeing Zidane standing at her door. She was about to slam the door when Kuja came up behind her and kissed her neck,

'What's up doll?' he said, not noticing Zidane yet. Zidane stood there in complete shock as Garnet turned and kissed Kuja full on. He took in them together, Kuja, standing there in boxer shorts. Tanned skin, grey-ish hair falling slightly onto Garnet's perfect cheek, his arms wrapped round Garnet's small waist. Garnet turned into him, her hair falling behind her as she leaned upwards towards him, more of her slender leg showing as her robe slipped in her grasp. Zidane clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, when they finished kissing, Kuja turned to see who was at the door, and smiled at Zidane. 'Oh, hello brother. Come for a cup of tea?' he asked and smiled at Garnet who giggled. Zidane gritted his teeth more. There was a gurgle from behind and Kuja smiled even more. An evil, 'I've won' smile. 'Oh, at least see OUR beautiful baby, Mikoto. After your dear sister, a tribute to her.' He said and held up a small baby, smiling at Zidane as her father rocked her back and forth in his arms. 'Well, if you're not going to come in, you'd better go, hadn't you.' Kuja said again and Zidane looked at Garnet, who was looking away, examining the door post. Kuja started to close the door but Zidane pushed it open again.

'I want to talk to Garnet…' Zidane stated through gritted teeth. '…alone.' He added when Kuja was still standing there. Kuja looked at Garnet, who nodded at him to go, and walked off into the house again…

Zidane was standing there. Zidane! She rewound to when she had first opened the door and he had been standing there. She remembered the flipping her stomach did, and she had thought how cute he had looked for a split second as he stood there.

Then she had remembered Kuja and realised that she was glad she had left this pathetic shadow of Kuja. She kept telling herself that.

And now he was standing there, kicking the dirt. He looked up at her, looking deep into her eyes and he didn't smile.

'I wanted to say sorry.' He said, his throat cracking. He looked away, over the other houses and back at her. Looking straight at her, never taking his eyes from her, 'I'm sorry for whatever I did. I'm sorry for the reasons you ran away, I'm sorry I am who I am…' he scraped his foot in the ground again and his voice got a hint of anger in it, he looked down '…I'm Sorry you had to run away from me, to my brother. I'm sorry I was so crap that I couldn't be everything you needed.' He looked up again. Straight into her eyes.

'You should be.' She said, keeping her voice firm. Zidane nodded, still trying to take in that she was with Kuja, he turned round and started to walk away. 'Zidane!' she called after him. He half turned round, expecting her to be behind him, but she was still at the doorway. 'Fuck you!' she shouted and a few people turned round. Zidane stood there, blinking.

'You already have.' He said to himself as he walked away from her.

Steiner nodded a couple of times at the air as he was talking on a phone and no one was there in front of him to see what he was doing. He put the phone down and turned to Beatrix.

'I have told Regent Cid to put out a search party for him. He can't have just disappeared…' He said to her as he looked out the window over Alexandria. Zidane was last spotted leaving the Industrial District; no one had seen him since. Eiko was apparently in panic and Vivi, who had gone with them to go to Lindblum again, was out helping the search. He was the one who had found the witness stating that a girl had shouted out of a doorway to 'Zidane! Fuck off' and Zidane had just turned around and walked off while the girl slammed the door. He had quizzed the air stationmasters and found that Zidane had gone to the Business District but that was it. There, they lost the thread they had been going on.

'What has happened to them?' Beatrix cried as she dug her face into Steiner's heavy bulk and

pierced his skin with her fingernails.