Author's Note – Thank you guys for such positive reviews! I appreciate every one of them. I'll try to update as much as I possibly can, and I'll make an effort to try to keep approximately the same length for any chapters that I do post up. Just so you guys know, I wasn't sure if the length was too long because I've never had any experience writing fanfiction before, so I'm sorry for my insecurity on the length. Plus, it tends to seem long after re-reading it so many times for correcting mistakes.
Now, time for some chapter reviews!
Responses to Reviews for Chapter 1
DBH – Thanks for compliment on the introduction. Just to let you know, I'm like that when reading fanfiction too; I hate short teasers, especially on stories that have potential for a good plot.
MyNameIsMoe644 – I will make an effort to keep the length.
Carie Valentine - I do agree about your comments on short chapters, they don't give much for the imagination as long chapters would, but I'll try to make the plot as interesting as possible without too much drabble!
DBZ Fanfiction Queen – I'm glad that someone noticed those bits of scenes/dialogue from the game itself, I wanted to incorporate a bit of the game into my fic. Cool huh?
As for the second part of your question, it's going to be a little bit of both. I'll focus on both the weekend mainly, plus a bit of the aftermath.
AndyPenguin – As I said in response to the previous review, I'm glad that you noticed that bit from the game itself. It took a lot of work to do; I had to watch that FMV over a dozen times to write that scene, so I'm really glad when people noticed my efforts. And I hope that you'll like this next chapter!
Billie The Kid – They won't be just stuck inside that room for the weekend, that's just plain cruel. They'll be able to go around the whole school itself, and there will be a bit of stuff happening between Squall and Rinoa, but I won't tell you what! You'll just to wait and see (and possibly review! Lol!)...
Now that I'm done blabbering, on to the next chapter!
P.S – I'm sorry in advance if Rinoa seems or is a little OOC.
Edit (30/06/06) – Just fixed some spelling, flow and formatting errors.
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Chapter II – Dark Discoveries
The situation he was placed in seemed like a nightmare come true to Squall. Being stuck inside a deserted school alone was one thing; being stuck with a girl that he hardly knew was another. After the initial shock of waking up in a desolate school with someone he barely knew had worn off, Squall got out of his chair and started to access the situation in a calm manner; Rinoa just started to panic even more.
'Okay, I've got to think clearly if I'm ever going to get of here-Nevermind, scratch that thought. Let's just hope that she shuts up long enough to even let me think. Period.'
With that thought, he was going to tell Rinoa to be quiet, but it wasn't necessary, her whining abruptly stopped as she managed to open the door without a struggle.
"I was afraid that we were going to be stuck inside this room for the whole weekend..." Rinoa said sheepishly in embarrassment from the useless panicking that she'd done earlier. Squall honestly didn't care; he only cared about whether she shut up or not. After that, he continued to contemplate his options yet again.
'...I might be able to get out if someone is waiting for her at home, or if she has a cell phone. Maybe I can just get hold of a phone in here...' He paused for a moment, 'But I've got to be careful, don't want to trip any alarms and give the school a fine... I suppose that could be used as a last resort though...'
When Rinoa noticed that Squall wasn't following her outside the room, she went back in, leaving the door open, and sat down on one of the many desks there was to choose from. She simply waited for Squall to finish pacing back-and-forth in thought or whatever it was he was doing. When it seemed like she wasn't going to be noticed by her also-imprisoned partner, she tried to make conversation to divert attention away from his thoughts.
"I guess Mrs. Edea was too excited about the long weekend and completely forgot about us! Weird huh?"
"Um... What? Yeah, I suppose..." Squall barely replied, his mind was elsewhere, intent on finding the solution of escape.
Rinoa picked up on what Squall had been focusing on and smartly changed the topic, "So how do you suppose we're getting out of here? I have a few suggestions, but I'd like to hear yours first if you have any."
Squall stopped pacing as his ears perked up at the question, "Yes, I do have some ideas, but that all depends."
"On...?"
"Do you have some one waiting for you at home, or at least have a cell phone?"
Rinoa's face looked a bit sullen at Squall's question, like as if there was some irony to it, so she simply gave a sigh and answered in a monotone voice, "No, my father's out of town, he had to go to Deling City for the weekend, but even if he were home, he wouldn't care. He'd probably think that I'm at someone's house or something. As for your other question, I left my cell at home… I thought I wouldn't need it today."
Then she continued, "My ideas were somewhat similar to yours so I won't bother saying them, I'd just be repeating you. So, are you all out of thoughts, or is there something else you'd like to share?"
"Well, unless if we can find some kind of phone, we'll just have to survive the weekend inside the school."
"Okay... That's not the kind of answer I was expecting, but it'll do. Then I guess we just have to explore the school, and then make our solution accordingly after we're done exploring. Right?"
Squall just nodded in agreement, never had he done so much talking all at one time, but it was for a good cause and not for idle chitchat like most people did. He really hoped that Rinoa wasn't one of those talkative girls like Selphie. Because if they couldn't find a way out, he'd be in for a hell of a long weekend filled with laryngitis on his part from responding to meaningless, random, one-sided, girly conversations. The pair headed out from the room and into the hallway.
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The hallway itself was very dark and a bit creepy from the lack of students and light. Their steps made small echoes as they walked down the long, eerie hallway. After a small fleeting gaze at Rinoa's anxious expression, Squall tried his best to reduce the noise emitted by his feet to quell the illusion of being followed; he did not want a bundle of nerves stuck with him if they had to stay in the deserted high school.
'Why am I doing nice things for her?' He wondered, 'I could have always told her that she's being paranoid and to stop worrying over nothing... Whatever... I still don't understand how somebody can be paranoid when they know perfectly well that no one's here...'
Rinoa's nerves quieted as they continued to silently scout through the rest of the hallway. Squall was thankful for this until she spontaneously went into a bit of dash down the stairwell, instead of going towards the other corridor that he was planning to take.
'Why do I have to get stuck with someone who can't even stick around one second to follow plans?' He sighed after that thought, 'Might as well catch her before she trips the Hyne-forsaken alarm...'
He caught her in the nick of time before she could get the chance to set off the alarm near the outside door, near the base of the stairs. The raven-haired girl let out a yelp of surprise.
"Why did you do that? Is it some kind of crime to go downstairs?" She said in an aggravated tone while turning around to face him, after he pulled her back before she reached the bottom of the stairwell.
"Number one, if you went any further, you would have tripped the alarm," He paused, "-and number two, the school would have been fined for false emergency, in which case, the school would make us pay."
"Okay, that's reason enough, but why didn't you just say something instead of scaring me half to death!" She yelled while leveling herself on the steps to glare at him eye-to-eye. She was very ticked-off with him.
"I just...don't do things that way…" He interrupted his own speech until he was at the top of the stairs, gazing down at her with a look of exasperation, "...I normally don't talk very much."
"Oh, I see now. I'm sorry for yelling at you."
Squall ignored her apology as he headed towards the corridor he actually wanted to follow earlier, he heard Rinoa's footsteps quicken from mid-way up the stairway, and then as she approached him, she slowed down in order to be right behind him.
"So why are we going down this hallway? Isn't there another alarm at the bottom of the stairs from this hallway too?" She inquired.
"No." Squall simply stated back, condensing the answer into a one-word response.
"Oh, okay."
Squall walked casually down the hallway while looking at things randomly, as if he had all of the time in the world, Rinoa simply followed his lead, not questioning his plan of action or thoughts at all. She hated herself for not being able to help the situation at all; she felt so... useless, as if she were was actually hindering any progress being made at all. She flat-out loathed this feeling and decided mentally to help him out in any way possible, should an opportunity to do so happened to arise. Meanwhile, Squall just started to think some more.
'Okay, if I can get in the secretary's office, there should be a phone there. But what if the door's locked? Maybe I could ask her if she has a credit card or something to open the lock. Mm, that should work.'
They got to the end of the hallway and descended the stairs, he halted and extended his right hand sideways to stop Rinoa just to allow himself to double-check the area to absolutely make sure that there was no security systems nearby waiting for them. There wasn't. Rinoa was a little peeved at this gesture, which got her out of her self-pitying mood to pipe up and speak her mind.
"I know that you did that just to make sure that we didn't trip any 'hidden' alarms, but you didn't have to block me with your arm. I'm not stupid. I would have gotten the message if you had just stopped suddenly."
Squall didn't respond to this, he just gave her the usual icy glare with his infamous stormy-blue eyes which he was known for and continued on towards the secretary's office as if nothing happened. Rinoa wasn't too pleased with these actions, but she also continued down the steps and tailed him towards the office. Possible freedom of their confinement could be awaiting them both there; the overall mood had lightened up a bit within the next few moments, even though thunder crashing through the night sky could be now heard audibly in the background. As they reached the office, Squall opened the door.
Or at least tried to anyway.
Squall now went and put himself into his all-too familiar thinking-mode again, 'I knew it it'd be locked! ...Might as well ask her for help now, all hope isn't lost just yet...'
As if on cue, Rinoa's light jogging came to a timely, complete halt as she caught up to Squall, her face frowned slightly in realization of what just happened between him and the door.
Remembering the promise that she made to herself earlier, Rinoa asked him a question, "Is there anything I can do to help?"
Being caught off-guard by the question itself, since he was going to ask her nearly the same thing, Squall took a little time to formulate his response, he wasn't adapted to talking a lot without it being thought-through first yet. Moments later, he finally answered.
"If you have a hair pin or a credit card or something very thin, it might open the door..."
"I have a couple of bobby pins in my locker, I'll be right back." Rinoa replied before she started to sprint back down the hallway from whence she came.
Two seconds later, the slight surge of panic present in Squall's eyes made her add a, "Don't worry, my locker isn't near any alarms!" for reassurance purposes when she saw his expression as she rounded a corner towards the stairs.
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After she left his sights, Squall slumped down on the wall facing the office itself. Out of sheer boredom, he surveyed the secretary's office, and to possibly get his mind away from the atmospheric crashes of thunder and lightning. The office itself was completely see-through; glass replaced most of the wall space there would have been there. It also had two doors on either side of the windows; they both had one window in each of them. Inside, was Squall's objective, the lone phone on the back wall.
"I sure hope that it works, I don't want to be stuck here..." He muttered to himself in the darkness, alone, void of human presence apart from himself at the moment. He liked the solitude so he took this precious time to ponder a bit.
'I wonder how it feels to have a father who doesn't care... I'm sure that it must be tough-' Then he stopped his train of thought as he realized something important, 'Wait, why am I even thinking about her? Maybe its just pity, I'm pretty sure that's it.'
As he finished that thought, he saw Rinoa coming back slightly flushed, bobby pins clasped firmly in hand.
'…She must have ran during the whole time, no wonder she came back so fast.' He concluded while getting up from his slouched position. The thunderstorm started to intensify, giving off more deafening noise more so than ever. He was about to grab the hairpins from her hand, but Rinoa stopped him from doing so.
"Don't worry Squall. I'll do it by myself." She insisted. So he just stepped aside as she started to pick the door's lock.
Within a few seconds later, he heard a click and Rinoa opened the door and walked in the empty room in a slow, calm manner, as he followed closely behind her he made a calculated assumption that her nerves might be killing her inside.
'She must be slightly scared with anticipation of the possible outcome. Who wouldn't? The phone could possibly not work at all. Hyne, lets just hope that it does...'
Squall stood still as she walked up to the back, slowly went past the front desk, tables and chairs that followed, then as she drew near the phone, she picked up the receiver and put it to her ear. Then, Rinoa punched in a couple of numbers, cringing every moment afterwards; Squall guessed that she was now possibly waiting for someone to pick up on the other end.
Proceeding after a delay of at least a minute, Rinoa put back the phone in its holder with disdain, and as she turned around to face him, a metamorphosis in facial expression happened within a fraction of a second, altering from slight annoyance to a look of ...relief?
"So..." Squall said while leaning casually against the wall, anticipating her response even though he sort of knew the answer he was going to get from her.
"We're going to have to go to Plan B, the phone itself was dead." Rinoa replied coyly.
'Dead? I wasn't expecting that, I was expecting her to say that no one to answered...Weird.' Squall wondered, 'Wait, maybe everything is shut down everything for the long weekend. Oh well... She'd better not be pain in the-'
"-Earth to Squall, hello..." Rinoa said jokingly as she continuously waved her hand in front of his face, after successfully catching his attention, he swatted the hand away.
She continued with a bit of a chuckle, "You know, I can't hear what you're thinking about, you have to speak more often."
"Whatever..."
At that point, Squall left the secretary's office, since there was absolutely no reason to be in there since the phone, and possibly everything electric, didn't work.
"So what do we have to do to prepare for Plan B?" A voice behind him inquired, the same voice that belonged to the girl that he'd be stuck with for 3 days now.
"Well..." He paused to gather some breath for what he was about to say next, which was going to be a lot in his opinion.
"First off, we'll have to gather any food that we have access to and divide it so we'll have something to eat for three days. And secondly, we'll use the hairpins to unlock any doors we'll need, like the bathrooms and such."
"Well, since we're going to be stuck here, let's make the most of it and pretend that we're on some kind of vacation. It might help." She suggested. However, Squall just simply arched an eyebrow and looked at her as if she were some kind of nutcase. She glowered at this response. More thunder pealed.
"Please stop looking at me like I'm a mental patient, 'cause I'm not. What I'm trying to suggest is that we imagine that we're here to have fun and to relax to make it more enjoyable to be stuck here mentally." Rinoa stopped to think of something to say that would appeal to brown-haired teenager who was still looking at her quizzically, "Hyne, you can even practice the gunblading that almost got you seriously injured! Or whatever you find enjoyable for that matter!"
In response, Squall replied with a cold edge in his voice, "Fine. I will, lets just get things prepared for tonight, alright?"
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Squall and Rinoa went to each other's lockers together in order to see what they had in terms of food, which wasn't very much at all. Squall had those energy bars from Dr. Kadowaki, a bottle of water and two leftover slices of pizza from lunch that he didn't eat because of his all-afternoon stay in the infirmary. Rinoa had a bag of chips and leftover lasagna from her lunch, along with a juice box; it was apple juice.
Rinoa voiced her own solution while finishing searching her locker, "Okay, since we don't have much, we'll just have to eat less, let's say about once or twice a day."
Squall was hesitant to add on his own idea to the answer given by Rinoa. 'Might as well, it's not like it's a useless use of speech... Here it goes, I hope that I won't sound stupid...'
He inwardly sighed and added his own idea as Rinoa was closing her locker, "If we keep busy and filled up on water, it might reduce the need for food."
"Hey those are good ideas, but how would you know that Squall? Are you anorexic or something?"
'I thought only girls were anorexic, I guess it's true when they say you learn something new everyday...' He mused briefly.
"No. I just know that from experience."
"Oh, I see. Well then, let's go to the gym, we need to unlock the locker rooms there, so we can get access to the bathrooms and showers."
The pit of Squall's stomach received a small jolt as they walked towards the gym, what if the blood from duel that took place due to his lapse of self-control was still there? Guilt would surely take over him. He started to ponder yet once more, 'If Rinoa hadn't spotted me and Seifer-'
"Hey, it looks as if you've seen a ghost or something, are you okay?"
He blinked once and realized that his legs subconsciously brought him to the gym door, which now was standing right in front of him. He nodded and ruffled his chocolate-brown hair a bit; she picked the lock and opened the door with ease. He hated to admit it, but she was getting pretty good at it.
As they went in the gym, the surroundings startled him; the floor was completely cleansed of all traces of blood, as if it was never there in the first place. Rinoa took no notice of this expression. Or so he thought. The brown-haired Leonhart shook off this feeling of shock and returned to his usual stoic look as he leaned against the nearby wall while Rinoa was going to the one locker room.
"Since we're the only ones here, so there's really no use to open both lockers, so I'll just unlock the boys' locker room." She stated with a chipper tone, like it was some kind of the thrill to use the boys' locker room since she was of the opposite gender.
"…Whatever."
Before she had made an attempt to open the aforementioned door, Rinoa made a vocal revelation, "Oops, I guess we don't have to unlock this after all, it's already open. Darn, I was looking forward to using it..."
'Why was she so excited over a simple thing like that? I mean it's no different than the girls' locker room, I think... She's so strange... I swear that I won't ever understand women. Ever.'
Rinoa started to walk back towards him; a trace of disappointment still present on her face when she started to talk some more.
"Hey, would it be okay if I took a peek inside the guys' locker room, just to see what it looks like? I've always wanted to know what it looked like in there." She inquired, full of innocence; however it just sounded like she was some kind of weird eccentric to Squall.
"Go ahead. …I don't care." He replied in a slightly cold, careless tone.
"Thanks!"
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When Rinoa came out several minutes later, she nearly tripped as she went back towards Squall, who was still leaning against the wall, after her exploration of the male-species' room intended for gym-usage. She went into a small giggling fit after her 'near-tripping experience', meanwhile, Squall just rolled his eyes at this. A sarcastic thought crossed his mind then, 'This weekend is going to be so much fun that I'm going to be giggling like her by the end of it...'
"Do you-" Another small fit of giggles interrupted her speech for 2 seconds before she'd continued again, "-guys all take showers at the same time, in that big room full of shower heads?"
Since there was only one possible place that Rinoa could be referring to, Squall nodded once, and mentally cringed the sort of thing she was going to say next.
"Really? In the girls' room it has separate showers. So…wouldn't you guys all see each other naked and stuff?" She said in mild shock of surprise mixed in with small giggles. Squall was getting somewhat annoyed with her immature questions, so he cut her short with an icy tone.
"Guys are different than girls…and we don't care about those kinds of things so let's get out of here."
After answering the question, he promptly exited the gym and started to walk aimlessly down the corridor, trying to pretend that he was the only one there, but he failed miserably as Rinoa caught up to him and made him stop completely somehow with no effort implied what so ever.
'Why am I even stopping for her? She must have some sort of invisible hold on me...' He stopped to turn around to face her with a stoic gaze, arms crossed. When she didn't start to talk right away, he contemplated some more in annoyance, 'If she's going to be like this all weekend, might as well trip the alarm right now and get out of here...'
"Hey, where are you going? Do we have to do anything else for the weekend?" Rinoa wondered.
"No."
"Okay... then where are you going?"
"Nowhere in particular." He replied briefly. In reality, he just wanted to go somewhere by himself to think in solitude.
"Hmm... There's so much I don't understand about you Squall. You're so...mysterious in a way, sometimes I'd like to know what goes on inside your head." Rinoa pondered aloud with a bit of a smile, hoping he'd get the hint.
'You've been only stuck with me for about a hour or two in the school and you already want to know what's going on inside my head? That's a first. Usually it takes people at least a few months to build interest to want to figure me out. She must be bored...' Squall internally voiced in his head, of course he didn't say it out loud, because he didn't feel like having anyone know what he felt or thought, especially a semi-stranger like Rinoa.
"…Don't bother."
"Okay then..." She quickly glanced at her watch before continuing, "So where are we going to crash for the night? It's already 11:30."
"...Doesn't matter."
"I have an idea, how about we sleep in the teachers' lounge. I've never been there!" Rinoa said excitedly like a kid in a candy store and right now, Squall wished that she had been allergic to sugar.
'What's with her, she's making it sound like it's a good thing to be stuck in here... She must be related to Selphie or something, I swear...'
"Why… do you always find it so thrilling to go somewhere inside the school just because you've never been there? Is it that you like going to places just since they're 'forbidden' or something?" Squall inquired rudely, since he had gotten very tired of Rinoa's optimism; it clashed very much so with his own pessimistic, brooding nature.
"Lighten up Squall; I just thought it'd be fun, that's all. Besides, I'll bet that it will be a lot comfier in there than any benches or floors we'd find out here."
"…I don't care." He said in a closing statement, he turned and then started to walk in a fast pace towards in lounge.
"Okay," Rinoa sighed as she started to follow behind him, "…Do you know that you're impossible?"
"Yes."
Normally, a person would have laughed a bit after saying a retort like that, but Squall didn't, he kept his silence; it wasn't in his nature to laugh.
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Before retiring to the teachers' lounge for the night, Rinoa had insisted on getting something from her locker, so inevitably, they both made a detour to her locker on the second floor, she attempted to start a conversation while rummaging through her locker.
"So Squall… were you surprised from the major clean-up in the gym? I saw your expression when you looked at the floor, you looked kinda spooked." She mentioned to Squall, who happened to be leaning against the locker beside her.
The question itself had struck a chord with him, and the thoughts came pouring in instantly, 'How did she know about that? She was in front of me... I might as well ask her how she found Seifer and myself in the first place... Nevermind...'
"Yeah… I kinda was."
Squall reprimanded himself mentally for that previous statement, 'Stupid! Stupid! Why didn't I say something else! Way to go Squall, now she'll probably think that she's getting to you, I never admit things like that! I'm done for...I might as well bite the bullet now and ask her about today...'
He continued hesitantly, trying to not spill his guts out like before, "Um..."
"Yes?" Rinoa said in a tone like if she knew what was coming next.
"How come you were able to find Seifer and me earlier today? Somebody told me that you take the art class at second and if I'm not mistaken, that's at the other side of the building, is it not?" Squall's confidence regained as he continued, he was almost certain that there was something peculiar about this.
"Oh that!" Her face when into in a fierce blush before she continued, "I...uh- forgot m-my gym bag inside! And, and..."
'She's lying; I saw her exit the gym with some kind of blue gym bag. Even if she did forget it, she would have waited until lunch to get the bag, plus she's stuttering and blushing. Hmm, she must be a person who doesn't keep emotions in, I'd bet she wanted to see Seifer or something...'
As Squall concluded his short thought, her speech and story stabilized, he assumed that she was starting to tell the truthful part of the story, "-And I went to get it before Art class, but then I saw both of you and panicked, so I got Dr. Kadowaki to make sure you guys didn't-."
"-Die? I don't think I would have …died." Squall finished sarcastically.
She stopped looking in her locker, and gazed at Squall with her deep brown eyes, "No, I was going to say 'get seriously hurt', not 'Die'! You shouldn't be so …so cold all the time, it's not good to be so distant and isolated you know. You'll need to come out of that shell of yours if we're going to survive a weekend together."
He ignored her rant and waited for her to go back to finish looking. Eventually, she did resume looking.
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After Rinoa had found what she'd been looking for, which in this case was a blanket ('Why would you have a blanket in your locker?' Squall thought in response to that), they started to walk back.
Squall wasn't starting to feel very good; his forehead was beginning to throb like before; the medication that Dr. Kadowaki had given him seemed to be wearing off. The pain intensified as he and Rinoa walked down the hallway. It got to the point were he was clutching his scar in attempt to help ease the now-agonizing hurt, however it did nothing to help the almost blinding pain. He stopped at the corner and propped himself against the corner; the blanket-holding Rinoa didn't take notice in the dark corridor.
'This is starting to hurt… a lot, I think I'm going to pass out from the pain...No, I can't- I have to make it to the teachers' lounge- I can't… let anything happen, can't let her know about this...can't show weakness-'
"Argh..." Squall's self control wasn't enough, he let escape a noise of intolerable pain, as he couldn't hold the pain inside him anymore, he doubled over slightly.
"Squall?" Rinoa turned around and realized that he wasn't behind her, "Are you okay? Is the scar bothering you? Here, let me feel your forehead."
When she quickly went near him, the blanket-wielding girl let go of her blanket and then moved a few brown strands of stray hair from his face. Before she got to feel his forehead with her hand completely, icy-blue eyes glared upwards, meeting up with her deep browns; it was a look of foreboding present in its depths. The onlooker moved her hand aside as he regained posture; yet the intimidating gaze remained the same.
"Squall… you're burning up!" She shouted aloud with his well being in mind.
'Why must these things must always happen to me? Why can't she leave me be! ...The pain is becoming unbearable though... I don't know if I can take this much longer...'
"I'm …f-..fine." He retorted in a low tone, meanwhile, his façade was faltering.
"No you're not Squall, lets just get you to sleep, the rest might help..." Rinoa said in fear, she didn't want him to get hurt in any way if she could help it.
As they both resumed walking, she muttered something somewhat incoherent to herself, "...Please just hold on Squall, I can't do anything else for now... ...It's all my fault..."
Squall was fighting the searing pain through the entirety of the march to the lounge so far, even he didn't know if he was going to make it or not. As the trek to their destination progressed, time seemed to standing still- tormenting him in his current condition.
His energy had drained considerably from this, and he was starting to struggle to maintain supporting his own weight as his knees were starting to buckle, making him wobble all over the place. Rinoa took notice of this and helped support him even though he was not keen on letting her help him. Although she was obviously the lighter of the two, she didn't find it hard to support Squall's weight at all. In fact, she was surprised at how light he actually was even though he was at least 4 or 5 inches taller than her, and because she also assumed that he'd be much heavier- considering that he was a guy.
'I sure hope that she doesn't take advantage of this situation... By the way she was acting earlier; she'll probably try to use this situation to her advantage... She'd better not attempt that...I won't let her...' He mused before his mind could only focus on the pain he was experiencing at the moment. His energy and will power was dwindling fast now, he had to rely more on Rinoa to support himself, or he would have probably fallen face-first onto the floor by now. Squall loathed this weakness; he didn't like relying on anyone for anything.
He let go of Rinoa to let her pick at the door's lock; he figured that he could support himself without her for a bit.
However, the nearly-intolerable pain originating from his scar was starting to intensify even more so, and he truly didn't know if he was going to be able to focus on anything other than the unimaginable hurt.
"We're almost there Sq-" A large 'thunk' behind her interrupted Rinoa's sentence, "Squall! No... NO!"
Squall had collapsed; he couldn't take the pain any longer. A cascade of tears freshly stained the floor beside him as a crying Rinoa now rushed to think of a way to save him.
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End of Chapter Comments – And there we are, Chapter 2 is done! Don't you just hate cliffhangers? I'm so mean... Hehehe... Well I hope that you guys liked the chapter and the length of it! And I'm sorry if Rinoa or Squall was OOC.
So please review with comments, ideas or anything you guys have to say! Thanks!