Quistis lay there twitching from the affects of the beam that moments ago just disintegrated Shiva and hit her at almost full blast. Rinoa couldn't touch her because of what looked like electric current revolving around her lover, and she knew that Quistis was going to die if someone didn't do something now so throwing caution to the wind and concentrated on her powers to see if she could break the current that was killing her lover. So she reached out and grabbed her, and was greeted by an intense current of power and was trying its very best to rip her apart and then it all faded into blackness…
She woke with a start, sitting up too fast made her head spin and she felt like she was going to throw up last weeks meet surprise when hands on her shoulders gently pushed her back onto the bed. "lay back down you've been through too much Rinny" Rinoa's brain was trying to make out the owner of the voice without opening her eyes "the lights are off" and so with that little bit of information she opened her eyes and was greeted by Selphie who looked extremely worried.
Rinoa just looked up at her confusingly not understanding where she was or why everything hurt like it did "what…the hell? Where am I?" she asked but just as she finished she started coughing like crazy. Another person in the room moved to get the glass of water and hooked there free arm behind the coughing girls back lifting her up slightly and bringing the glass towards Rinoa's lips tipping it back slightly letting Rinoa drink some. The mystery person took the glass away the glass when Rinoa nodded thanks and so they put the cup down and gently laid Rinoa back on the bed.
Rinoa turned to the mystery person but couldn't make out the face but the all around aura reminded her of Quistis … "Quistis! Where is she?" she suddenly shouted out startling Selphie so much she fell off her chair "whoa! Ooof!" Selphie exclaimed as he fell, got up and rubbed her sore butt "oh Selphie are you ok?" the hyper active girl nodded and sat back down, "ya I'm fine" she said to the bed ridden girl and pointed to the shadowed person "talk to that blob of depression that's been in here since they woke up, I'm going to leave you too alone mmk buh-Bye!" and with that she was gone in a yellow blur.
Rinoa turned to look at the other person and saw the outline of them "Quistis?" she asked hoping that it was her "yes Rin?" the voice was scratchy and a little strained but it was her Rinoa lunged for her but almost fell out of her bed, Quistis caught her half way and put her back on the bed but remained in the hug death like grip. Rinoa was so caught up in the moment that she didn't notice Quistis was crying until she felt a something wet touch her face. "Quistis don't cry please" she whispered as the older of the two tried to stop but was having little success "I thought I lost you" Quistis whispered out emotion thick in her voice and she pulled away slightly to try and wipe the tears away.
Rinoa kissed her lightly on the lips, her mind racing trying to figure out when she ever saw Quistis cry before and came up with nothing, she remembered having this talk with the others asking if they've ever seen Quistis cry before and they said they never saw her cry this was one of the reasons that she was called Ice Queen because more then half the population of the school thought Quistis had no emotion pfft! If only they knew! Rinoa thought to herself as she stared at her lover and she reached out and wiped some tears away "I thought I had lost you when you were hit with… what ever the fuck that beam was … you don't know how much that scared me" Rinoa said trying her best not to cry but that wasn't working either as tears slipped down her face "shh Rinny I'm here and you're here and we're alive and together nothing else matters"
(N/A: omg I'm turning this into some romance …. Hope you don't mind)
They spent the next little while calming down and holding each other until Rinoa wanted to know how Quistis was alive and if Shiva was ok after what happened. "I don't know how I lived but I think Shiva will be ok in time… when the beam fired I knew that one of us wouldn't be coming back after this so you know I'm a blue mage right" Rinoa nodded so Quistis continued "I brought up a wall of that power and just got it up around Shiva when it hit, her HP was drained and she lost consciousness but her magic traveled back into the mind link and hit me then the beam hit, it felt like I fell though the ice in Triba like a cold rush and then the beam made it worse, if you didn't touch me I'd have died but at the same time the wall you made isolated that part of ice in me so in other words I can create Ice and manipulate it like putty" Quistis finished and looked at Rinoa who was gaping "I … did I hurt you?" "What no you saved me Rin you didn't hurt me" Quistis exclaimed but Rinoa still wasn't sure but let it go because she was more interested in seeing her lover demonstrate her new power "come on then show me" Rinoa egged her on and Quistis smiled "ok so here it goes" she held out her hand and her eyes glowed a dull blue an then a block of ice formed in her hand and rose about 5 inches and started to change its shape, slowly at first but then more clearly and it took the shape of Shiva and then about a minute later it had all the detail it was a mini replica of Shiva.
Rinoa sat there in awe at the replica of Shiva and then at her lover "holy shit Quistis that's amazing!" she said but then noticed the sweat glistening on her forehead "Quisty?" the women in question let out a shaky breath "I'm still not use to it yet but hey with practice I'll be great at it right" she said and smiled at Rinoa. Rinoa looked at Quistis and pulled her close, took the ice sculpture and put it on the table then pulled Quistis in for a passionate kiss.
Selphie smiled as she peeked in seeing her two friends happily and talking and with each other, it was a shocker to see Quistis crying because in all her life she had never seen the older girl cry not even once and there was a point when she believed that Quistis either forgot how to or she was an android from mars or something like that she heard from one group of cadets that were discussing some Sci-Fi stuff along with aliens and things like that.
She decided that she better stop spying before she gets caught and tortured that would be funny she thought in her head as she walked back to the group of people sitting in the waiting room, Squall had finally stopped pacing and fell asleep on Seifer's lap who was also asleep, the next was Zell and Irvine leaning shoulder to shoulder sleeping and Xu and Nida (N/A: is that the right spelling for his name?) were trying to stay awake but failing miserably.
Selphie was smirking and she was feeling a little evil so she took out her whistle she had borrowed from Rinoa and took a deep breath and blew! The loud screech sent everyone tumbling to the ground shouting out before doing face plants and Selphie was laughing so hard she started crying, Seifer was the first to voice his rude awakening "what the hell was that for!" he said standing up to his full height trying to look intimidating "well I came to tell you that Rinoa woke up" she said and right away she could tell that they were relived at the news "can we go in and see her?" Squall asked but Selphie shook her head "no its like 3 in the morning and she looked a bit 'busy' when I left" she quoted and they got it so one by one they all filed out and left.
Rinoa had moved over and now was happily curled up beside her girlfriend she was happy that Quistis was alive and with her "Quistis promise that you'll never go dying on me again" Quistis smiled "only if you promise me the same thing ok" Rinoa turned so she is facing Quistis "I promise" she said "I promise too" and they kissed lightly then fell asleep in each others arms.
In the morning Rinoa was released and went to go shower while Quistis went down to the training center to test out her new ability on some Grats. She walked in to a grassy part and saw a Grat just standing there, she thought about a slab of ice and it formed, she was taken aback she thought that she had to create it in her hand not just think it. So she concentrated on projecting it at the Grat and it took off and impaled it, the Grat fell to the ground … dead "cool" she said and walked further into the underbrush.
Well thank you zelene2004 for reading and sorry to keep you waiting, I couldn't think on how to right this chapter but trust me the next chapter will have more action I promise!