PLEASE READ: I SOOOOOOO sorry it took so long to write this chapter and it's probably not my best work either. The thing is that I was in the hospital for a week cause some drunk ass hit me in the chest with a baseball bat and broke three of my ribs. And sadly, my boyfriend Thomas was in a car wreck and well was in a comma for two weeks. And then I was in the hospital. Then Thomas broke up with me. . . . So yeah, there has been a LOT of drama in my life so SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO sorry. Oh yes and I really don't like Yuna, she's a total bitch in my opinion so. . .sorry if you think I'm being extremely rude in this chapter towards her and Rikku.

Chapter Two

Gippal sat in an almost empty room, the only thing that lay in the room was a new machina the team had been working on for quiet some time now but unfortunately still hadn't finished. Mostly because of the young man that sat alone that now had his mind elsewhere. Well more like dancing around a million reasons he could think of at the moment that just might make the preator angry with him but with no such luck at finding anything.

True he hadn't really been around a lot lately to really be called one of Baralai's friends any longer, but the preator knew that he had work to do that called him to stick around this dreary place longer then he had planned. Didn't he? So maybe Gippal could have been a little more close to the man that helped him out all the years in the Crimson Squad and true he could have possibly told the preator he had a little more work to do then he could handle in a week.

The Crimson Squad. Boy did that name bring back memories for Gippal, but his mind blocked them out to keep him occupied on the topic at hand. Well, not really at hand since he was more arguing about it with himself instead of with. . .the wind.

The wind? Maybe it had a closer answer then Gippal could come up with by himself at the moment, which was as close to nothing as anyone could possibly get at the moment in his pathetic life. He needed to get closer to his friends. They were all drifting away after the Crimson Squad had broken apart and they started to run their own groups that by some miracle had come to hate each other over the years after sins defeat but now were slowly learning to tolerate the others after Lady Yuna saved the world once again ON HER OWN! Like anyone else would ever get any credit with her around. WELL back to what was being said well thought.

Gippal pushed himself off the wall as he groaned and glared at the machine that stood in front of him, seemingly taunting the man as if saying:

"I know the answer to bad I could never tell you, ha not that I ever would."

How cruel could machinery get, taunting its own creator?

Gippal sighed as he walked over and began tweaking the parts near the bottom of the stupid machina.

'Why is he so mad? Did I really do something so horrible I can't bring myself to remember it? Oh that's terrible, not remembering something you have done to a friend.' Gippal let his head drop with a bang to land on the machine he was supposedly working on.

Gippal inwardly cursed as he finally felt the throb start in his head and echo throughout his body. Ah pain. How nice of it to come at such a time in his dull life and how nice of two women to walk in at this precise moment.

Gippal stood straight up and turned to face the two girls he had come to know over the few months they had worked together. He let a forced smile form on his lips as he placed a hand on his hip and balanced most of his weight on that one leg.

"What can I do for you ladies?" Gippal asked as the two approached him and came to a stop only two feet away.

"Gippal! Have you finished our thing yet?" the over chipper blonde Al Bhed asked as she clasped her hands behind her back.

"Of course not Rikku." Gippal rolled his eyes as Rikku eyes narrowed and she huffed, her arms now crossed over her chest.

"Why not?" Rikku asked, still glaring at the male Al bhed that stood before her.

"My mind has been elsewhere at the moment kid." Gippal walked past the two without saying a word to Yuna that only stared at him as if astonished by not finishing her things first.

"Like? Where you thinking about Baralai?" Rikku asked, an amused hint in her voice.

'How in the hell do women know these things?' Gippal asked himself as he continued walking, ignoring her comment completely.

Rikku followed close behind the Al bhed, not caring that he seemed extremely annoyed by it.

"What do you want Rikku?" Gippal asked as he made it out of the door to the next room in the nearly empty temple.

"Well I really wanted you to finish what we asked you to do, but you didn't do that." Rikku glared at him, only stopping to place a hand on her hip and lightly tap her foot on the ground.

"Well, I did tell you it may take a while. Plus, you only told me to start it a few days ago." Gippal waved her off as if he was thoroughly annoyed with her.

"That is NO excuse mister!" Rikku pointed an accusing finger at him, having it right in front of the poor man's face.

Gippal closed his eyes, trying to picture something a lot more happier then the place he was in now. He was getting very angry with the two women in his temple, though Yuna had done absolutely nothing wrong yet.

"Listen Rikku. If you two don't get out of my sight right now, I may just rip one of your heads off and I don't care which one it is going to be at the moment." Gippal turned to see the astonished look on both of the girls faces as he said this.

So maybe that was a little ruder then he had planned, but they really were getting on his last nerves.

Gippal forced another smile towards them before he slammed the door to the next room in their faces, which only succeeded in making them much angrier for he heard Rikku's scream penetrate the air through the stone like doors.

'Maybe Paine would know something. I'll go visit her just to see.' Gippal decided after he plopped down on his chair that he really would go visit his former friend and member of the Crimson Squad.

Baralai stood, leaning against the balcony railing as he looked out over Bevel. Paine had left hours ago and he was all alone again. Everyone had left the temple a few minutes ago, leaving him to do his work without anyone to bother him or tell him to get back to work for that matter, which he was planning on doing anytime soon.

Thoughts kept running through his mind, mostly staying a long the lines of Gippal.

So maybe he was a little obsessed with thinking about the man at the moment, but wouldn't you if the person you loved didn't love you back!

Baralai let his head drop and land on the very hard concrete that made up his balconies railings. He let out a groan of pain and frustration as he tried to keep his mind elsewhere, which it was working quite well.

Paine. Why must she know everything before it was mentioned. She's way to good at figuring things out.

A bird fluttered out of a near by tree as Baralai drooped his head and slammed his fist down on the railing.

Paine quietly walked across the floor, her mind doing the complete opposite. She was running back and forth between two answers to a question she had just been asked.

Why was Baralai mad at Gippal.

Well she could tell the man sitting before her the truth and never have to deal with this again, but that would make Baralai hate her and she couldn't deal with that at the moment.

She could tell a lie, but what would that help and what lie would she think of on such a short notice?

"Well. . .um. . . ." Paine was stalling and she had a feeling Gippal knew.

How are you going to get yourself out it this time! Paine mentally kicked herself for even telling the Preator she would help him now.

Paine nearly jumped as Gippal, having been quiet all this time, gave a short sigh and leaned back in the chair.

"Are the going to give me an answer Paine?" the man asked, closing his only good eye so that all he saw was darkness.

"Um. . .he. . .well. . .uh. . .thinks he is in love with someone. . . ."Paine said, finally giving into the truth but not telling Gippal the whole truth.

"And who has the preator falling head over heels in love?" Gippal asked, a smirk now evident on his tan features.

"I can't tell you that!" Paine glared at him, "You already made me tell you this!"

"Aw, come on!" Gippal fell to the floor, gripping Paine's legs as if he were begging her.

"No."

"Please?"

"No."

"Pwease?" Gippal said, giving her the saddest puppy dog face ever.

"Uh. . .no?"

"Please!"

"Well. . . ."