Copyright: ok here we go again..I don't own Final fantasy 8 in anyway atall. Again, the lyrics are not mine. From the songs 'precious' written and owned by depeche mode, and 'holding on' by VNV nation.

Note:Ok, well as promised this picks up were 2 left off. This is a wierd chapter, but read anyway! chapter 4 and 5 coming very soon. All my thanks to the people who reviewed and thanks to my best mate hannah for hooking me up with the vnv lyrics and also for rocking. read and review you guys!

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..Squall was thrown in to turmoil. A million thoughts raced around his head 'what is this? Is this for real? What if someone has Rinoa? What if she's…..'

Squall tried to mask the panic that was clutching his throat.

"Tell me what is going on. Who is this?"

"You don't need to know that. All you need to know is we'll be calling the shots now. We'll contact you with a meeting place soon. When we meet, we will negotiate."

"Negotiate? Negotiate what? And why would I meet with you. This could all be a trick."

"A trick." the man laughed to himself. Squall heard a commotion on the end of the line and some muffled voices. Then another, familiar, voice spoke into the phone.

"S-Squall?" She sounded panicked, terrified

"Rinoa? Rinoa are you alright?"

"Squall please. Help me I…". Squall heard another commotion and once again he was speaking to the male voice. "We'll be in touch. Goodbye Squall". then the call ended.

Squall slammed the office phone down. "God damn it!".

'Rinoa….I have to save you. This is all my fault'…….

Precious and fragile things need special handling. Angels with Silver wings shouldn't know suffering. I wish I could take the pain for you.

Rinoa was thrown against a cold stone wall, her eyes blindfolded, her hands bound behind her back. Then she heard a door slam, and the sound of a key in the lock.

'There locking me in! What is going on?'

She sat for what seemed like hours in the cold room, contemplating what had happened to her. Why would someone want to kidnap her. Who was behind this?

And she prayed. Silently she prayed that Squall would come save her, be her hero, her knight. The pain racked her body. The rope around her wrists was leaving painful burns, and there was a constant dull ache in her head.

'Please Squall. Please hurry. I need you…'

I thought the future held a perfect place for us, that together we would learn to be the best we could be. I fell and lost my way, I always end up falling over me.

One day I woke to find the future had no place….

It was 5 hours since the first call, when Squall received another informing him of a meeting place which he must go to at midnight. Alone.

His friends had tried desperately to persuade him not to go, telling him it was a trap.

And it obviously was. Squall knew full well it was a trap. He'd probably be ambushed by 6 or 7 guys, and killed maybe, or maybe they'd just take him too. Take him to wherever they were keeping Rinoa. He didn't know for sure, but he knew that anything that could even possibly help get Rinoa back, had to be done.

'I caused this. If I'd just have told her the truth, she'd have stayed and they never could have got her. But I was too stubborn. I cost us our love, our future and maybe I even cost Rinoa her life. Maybe I'll end up getting killed, but at least I can say I tried….'

So he found himself pulling up in his car to an abandoned building outside of Deling city. At the stroke of midnight another car pulled up outside the building. Out of the car emerged 6 thuggish looking men, followed by one slightly less menacing man who looked far more intelligent.

'The leader I assume' Squall thought

The leader addressed Squall immediately. "Good you came alone"

"of course I did. Now I want to know what's going on. What do you want with Rinoa?"

"Nothing, as such" the man said lighting a cigarette "she's more…leverage"

"leverage?" Squall demanded " What is it you want?"

"power. And you, Mr. Leonhart, have considerable power. To be basic, we want control of Balamb garden."

Squall was astounded. 'Well, I didn't expect that'

"This is how it's going to work." the leader continued "you will talk to your boss. Leadership of the garden will be transferred to me. When we are in control, we'll let your little girlfriend go."

"And if I refuse?" Squall asked, weighing up all his options

"We'll kill her. Slowly"

'Turn over control of garden. How can I do that. All of SeeD will be corrupt. I'd be damaging so many futures. But…Rinoa can't die. I guess I only have one other choice. Fight'

In one quick motion Squall drew his gun blade, and held it across his body in a defensive position. "We could try it my way" Squall hissed.

All at once the six thugs descended on Squall. The first thug threw a punch at Squall's face, which he dodged by ducking to the ground. With a quick sweep of his leg, he tripped the thug who fell on his knees, then used the handle of his gun blade to knock the man out. Another of the thugs approached Squall and swung several punches, all of which Squall narrowly avoided. However as Squall was blocking front punches, he was hit from behind by a third thug. Falling to the floor in pain, he silently willed himself not to give up. 'For Rinoa'. Using all his strength, he hauled himself of the floor. Elbowing the thug behind him, to allow him time to take out the one throwing punches at his face. A few grazed his face, but caused no major damage. Squall slashed across the mans torso with his gun blade. The thug crumpled to the floor. Squall turned his attention to the man behind him, aware that there were 3 other men all waiting to get a shot at him. Squall delivered a short sharp kick to the mans shin, causing him to double over giving Squall the opportunity once again to knock him out using his gun blade. 'Half way through. 3 to go. I can do this. I have to do this. '.

The final 3 thugs surrounded Squall. Squall felt a hard blow to his stomach and he doubled over with pain, someone had hit him with a baseball bat. Another blow followed, to the side of his head. His gunblade slid across the floor away from him. He could feel the warm blood trickle down the side of his face. 'I cant win. I can't do this. But Rinoa…I want to see you. I can't give up!'

Squall grabbed the leg of the man holding the bat, causing him to stumble and drop the bat. Squall quickly snatched it up, and swung it full force at the mans stomach, causing him to fall over, knocked out. Pushing himself through the pain he stood up quickly and swung the bat in a circle connecting with one of the thugs heads, making a sickening thud as one more enemy fell. One thug remained, but he was the smallest of the group, and the easiest to take out. One swing of the bat hit him square in the face causing him to fly backwards and land in a crumpled heap. Every muscle hurt, but Squall was overwhelmed with happiness and pride. He had taken out 6 guys by himself. Squall scanned the area looking for the leader. He was making a dash for his car. Squall quickly retrieved his gunblade and chased after the man, grabbing hold of his arm just as he reached his car. Squall slammed the man against the side of the car and held his gunblade up to his throat. This action felt strange to squall, he was not a particularly violent person, but it was necessary.

"Let me tell you how it's going to work." Squall said to the leader who looked absolutely terrified "We're getting in your car, and your going to drive me to exactly were you're keeping Rinoa. Then I'm taking her home. And maybe I'll let you live."

"A-alright." the leader conceded.

"If you try anything……you'll regret it. Now, lets get going."

'Hold on Rinoa, I'm on my way…'

An hour later Squall arrived at a dark, damp looking building.

"This had better be the Place" Squall said climbing out of the car, gunblade still drawn.

The building was an abandoned old church just outside Timber. Squall entered the building cautiously, walking behind the leader. There were a few more thuggish looking men hanging around the church, that immediately stood up when Squall entered. "You tell them, to back off" Squall warned, the tip of his gun blade on the back of the mans neck. The man did as squall said, and the thugs obeyed. Squall was lead to a room with a locked, heavy door and handed a key…

Rinoa heard the sound of the key in the lock. 'oh god. Who is it now? What if they've come to…'

The sound of the heavy door being flung open was followed by the sound of a very familiar voice "Rinoa!"

"Squall is that you?" 'He came! He came to save me..'

Rinoa felt the rope being removed from her wrists and her blindfold was removed, her eyes behind it red and blotchy from crying.

She threw her arms around Squall and he held her tightly in his. "It's ok. It's gonna be okay. I'm here now" the comfort Squalls voice gave her was unbelievable even to her self. Taking her by the hand he lead her out of the room but unfortunately that was not the end of their troubles…..

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note: well there you have 3. hope you liked it! now go review! 4 coming soon!