Zidane hung, upside down from another air station as it went to the theatre district. He had used to do this often, when you had to pay for a ride, even if it was 1 gil. Tantalus never paid for anything; just they got 'paid' in their 'job'. He fell off when they docked and slid into the opening in the wall, the one he had found once, where he and Garnet had hidden many a time. He lit a match and lit the candle he had unconsciously remembered lied on its side in a corner. Then he looked at the walls and saw the memories again and again. There were the chalk shadows they had once done. Drawing round each other and colouring them in how they saw the other person like. They were only half finished. But the faces were so detailed. Zidane remembered they had looked up at each other every few seconds to take everything of the other in. her face was there, looking back at him from the wall, and it had the love she had held for him in her eyes. He was looking back at himself too. His eyes were hard and unyielding. Zidane wondered if that was really how she saw his eyes or she hadn't managed it capture the emotion right.

And there were the signatures. Garnet signed in perfect royal scrawl and Zidane looking kind of rushed and too loopy. Zidane saw once again Garnet kissing his brother without even shuddering and collapsed on the floor crying at last.

Eiko, fed up of not being any help, offered to go see the disturbance in the Air station so that the Regent didn't have to. If course, Cid was glad that she was taking his place. Eiko put on her coat and rode the air station to the theatre district, which let her in., then blocked up the station again.

'Just go round the corner a bit miss. We haven't for fear that it is a monster, but you're a talented girl, I'm sure you can manage.' The conductor said with a tinge of regret that he was sending this small girl to her doom. Eiko pulled out her flute from the pocket in her coat and walked round the corner, ready to play a tune or two if something came out.

First thing she heard was the crying, and then she saw the light from a small crack in the wall. She got down on her hands and knees and looked in. she saw a boot and the end of a tail, and she smiled a bit, she had found Zidane, but he was crying. She crawled in and stood up. Zidane looked up, fearing a Lindblum guard, but almost hiccuped in relief to see Eiko there.

'Oh Eiko!' he managed to say before crying again. Eiko didn't have much time before the guards would be here.

'Shhh, lets get you back to the castle…' she said going to help him get up. Zidane threw his arm out though and hit her away.

'I'm NOT going to the castle!' He shouted with such determination, Eiko didn't have much choice.

'Ok…' she sighed and raised her flute to her mouth, where she played a soothing lullaby. In a few minutes, Zidane was asleep. She pulled him out from the crack in the wall and went round the corner. 'Hey!' she shouted to the conductor who jumped, for he expected her to be dead by now. 'Get over here and help me ok?' she said and disappeared round the corner, then came round again. 'Oh, and contact the castle and say that I've found Zidane will ya?'

Garnet took the lone girl's order and put it to the bar. Her mind wasn't on her job at the moment. It was on Zidane, and why was he finding her now, after two years? She rewound to the point when she opened the door to him, and got that flutter in her stomach again. After he had gone, she had looked at Kuja but the feeling wasn't as strong for him anymore. There had been softness in Zidane's voice she hadn't heard for years, the softness Kuja didn't have. Suddenly, remembering whom she was talking about here, she told herself it was ridiculous and remembered all the thoughts where he had taken the power from her. She loved Kuja. She did…

She got home that night to find Kuja sitting in the chair next to Mikoto and thought how sweet that was. How homely that one scene felt. And then she remembered Zidane and how she had always felt safe with him, and she never felt quite as safe with Kuja. She tried to keep the thoughts out of her head.

Later that night, se remembered Zidane's softness as bedtime, how he would let her cuddle up into him and tell him of her day. How he would listen intently, stroking her hair, and comment on the people she said about. Kuja just got into bed behind her, put his arm round her waist, dragged her across the covers to him and fell asleep. Suddenly she saw all she had left behind all those years ago, and she started to cry silently.

The first night away from the castle was the worst she had ever experienced. Not because she was lying on solid rock, cold and hungry, but Zidane wasn't there. She had taken off her (his) jacket for a pillow and it smelt so strongly of him she had cried and cried. She hadn't been able to sleep for her comfort was not there, Zidane was not there, She kept closing her eyes and thinking of him, then getting cross with herself for thinking of him, and then being right back at the beginning of this endless cycle again. But the fact was, she loved him.

She. Loved. Him.

Zidane woke up in Lindblum castle's guestroom.

'Kupo! He's awake!' Mogki said as Zidane sat up and jumped off the bed. He walked down to the door

'Sorry sir, but orders from Miss Eiko Carol herself is to keep you here.' The guards on the other side of the door said. Zidane gritted his teeth.

'Let me out!' he shouted at them but they ignored him. Giving up after a good half and hours rage, he sat on the bed again. The past day whizzed in front of his eyes until he was face to face with Garnet and Kuja again. He remembered when he had gone to rescue Kuja; He had been so stupid…

After Kuja had fainted that time, he woke up again and Zidane cut himself to let Kuja get some protein from his own blood. Garamond must have never thought this would happen, because the more of Zidane's blood Kuja drank, the healthier he got, until he was all right again. Kuja looked up at Zidane, thinking of how he could have been like him, and who this Genome had got by being himself.

'You're very lucky to have got Garnet.' Kuja said and laughed

'I know. I threw that away when I came to get you though.' Kuja knodded

'You did.' Then he got up and hacked back the roots around them. 'You were very stupid to come back for me. I didn't mean what I said, about changing. I just wanted to die dignified.' He hit Zidane across the face so he lay sprawled on the floor. 'I'm going to take Garnet away from you. At some point, she'll be with me, and she wont want to come back to you!' with that Kuja laughed and flew away, while Zidane climbed out of the hole and ran to Maiden Sari to get a boat across the water to Alexandria.

Moogles helped him with food and drink, and eventually, He landing in…LINDBLUM. He ran up to Regent Cid and he understood without Zidane even saying anything. So Zidane got to Alexandria the same way he had before. With Tantalus on a theatre ship.

When she was running to him, there was someone in the front row that Zidane was just staring at. The person stared back at him and he thought, I'm too late. But she jumped up to him and hugged him so hard; it almost made him choke. He looked over her shoulder at the guy again, and Kuja was smiling up at him, he smiled back in a 'I win' kind of way. Why had Kuja been smiling though?

He had forgotten about it, but now he remembered, and it sent a shiver down his spine. He had to get out of here…