A/N: Here I am, starting this chapter. Thanks to all of my reviewers: Wolfdog Girl, Psycho Demon Creature, RoyMustangsBabe, jellybean-kitty, r, and sasukeuchiha10. You guys rock! I love you! Well, here goes.

Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy VIII. Wish I did though.

SavannahX

Eyes on You

Chapter 8

"Guard M-"

What had she meant? Rinoa couldn't figure it out. "Guard M-" What was M? The letter didn't trigger anything and so she sat around to ponder it. And that was what she had done the past few days. She had spent most of the time with Matt, and he wanted to see his "Dada" all the time. Rinoa took him to see him, and things were... ok. Well, so she thought.

Getting Squall out. That was Laguna's main focus for the past few days. Laguna was Squall's father after all. And he had to work to get his only son out of jail for something he was forced to do. It just wasn't fair. Laguna figured he would probably be arrested for this, or knocked from presidency, so he was trying to formulate a plan before he did and got in trouble. Ellone helped him, the two working tiresome hours to get him out.

Rinoa wanted to go back to Balamb, but she knew she just couldn't leave Squall. Squall had been transported to a different prison in Esthar, as Rinoa had destroyed the one he had been in before. Rinoa was blamed for the accident, and Laguna had protested to everyone that it was Rinoa's emotions that had taken over her and made her go into Angel Wing mode. Rinoa was forced to pay a fine, which Laguna had gladly paying in her place. She had protested but he said it was final. No matter how much she said, Laguna refused to not pay the fine. Rinoa was planning on making it up to him somehow. She didn't know how, but she was going to, no matter how much work it took.

It was nighttime, Rinoa yawned, laying down at her bed in the Presidential Palace. Matt had a crib placed on the other side of the room, so Rinoa felt safe with him begin so close. She yawned again, her eyes starting to flutter and she closed them, drifting off into a restless sleep.

-

"So, what are we gonna do with him? He is a murderer, and a fucking good one at that," a guard said, looking at all the other council members in the room.

"I think he should get executed," another piped up and within seconds the room was in an uproar of people saying things.

"Silence!" the man running the whole thing, Reeve Tuesti said. The whole room immediately fell silent, in awe of the man. It was no wonder he was the leader, the man who had so much control over arguing police officials. "Thank you."

"Now," Reeve said, "I want you all to speak accordingly, who had any ideas of what to do with Leon?"

Suggestions were spoken quietly and orderly all around the room. Execution was one of them, along with lifelong prison and other suggestions were a bit to cruel.

In the end, it was decided on execution. Squall Leonhart was to be executed at 9:00 PM the next day. It was going to be a live execution.

-

"Rinoa!" Ellone yelled, banging on Rinoa's door. Rinoa woke up to the loud noise and looked toward the door, getting up and unlocking the door.

"Yes?"

"Squall, he's gonna be executed!"

Rinoa felt her stomach drop. Execution. What an ugly word. The infliction of capital punishment, or, formerly any legal punishment. In other words, Squall was going to be killed.

"No..." she muttered her voice quiet. Matt squirmed in her arms, and reached for Ellone who grabbed the young boy.

"He's going to..." Ellone had tears in her eyes, salty tears on the corner of her eyes. But Rinoa was now fully fledged crying.

"MAMA!" Matt yelled at her, wiping her tears. "No cry! No cry!" He didn't like to see his mother in pain, it hurt him. And when she cried, he usually started to wail. "MAMA!"

-

They were talking about it. Talking about it and laughing. Laughing like this was a good thing. Squall figured it was a good thing, after all, he had killed many people. And who was going to stop his Other from making him do it again? At least now he wouldn't be used anymore. Rinoa didn't hate him, and that's all that mattered to him.

"You're going to be executed tonight at nine!" the man spat in his face. Squall, hating the treatment he was getting, and spit right back at the man, infuriating him. He rammed Squall against the wall and casted a few spells on him, something illegal, and knocked him out.

-

"Who are you?" Rinoa questioned Squall, whose hair was in a different style than usual.

"Rinoa, don't you recognize me?" he asked but it didn't come out that way. Instead, Squall found himself saying, "I... don't know."

"Who are you and why do you look like him!" Tears stung the girl's eyes and fell down onto her face. "Who are you?" He voice broke and she elapsed into full out sobs.

'Rinoa... It's me!' He said again, but the voice that came out was different. "I told you, I DON'T KNOW!" Squall felt his voice rise. What the hell was going on? It wasn't him saying this.

"I'm sorry," Squall said, seeing his lover start to sob uncontrollably. This time it came out correctly and for that he was thankful.

"He... The one you look like... He died.." Her voice cracked as more sobs came out. "About a year ago..."

Squall felt taken aback. What was this... a prophecy of the future? Was this going to happen? What was going on?

"I'm not him," Squall's fake voice came out of his body. "I'm sorry, I'm not him. My name is Jake."

-

Squall awoke from his state. He was collapsed on the floor, sweat beading his forehead, the back of his head having a little bit of dried blood on his hair. It was a dream... It was all a dream...

-

"Damn you! You fucking wench!" Squall's Other screamed at Rinoa's.

"What did I do this time?" she screamed back at him.

"You woke up!" he yelled back at her. She spit her tounge out at him, enraging him. He slapped her again. "I already killed the others. All of them... Now it's only me and you left.." He grinned mischievously, licking his lips.

"What are you gonna do now? Huh? Fuck me til there's no return? Cause that's sure how you're acting!" Her chest heaved up and down, from yelling.

"No, I do want that, but I think I'd rather do something else..." He slipped his arms around her, and stopped her screaming. It was obvious he was rather perverted, so she slapped him across the top of the head.

"You killed everyone and you expect me to do THAT?" Rinoa had tears in her eyes, now rolling down her face. "I hate you!" She pushed him away, running away.

-

"You're really gonna be gone?" Rinoa asked Squall, inside his cell. Laguna had messed with the strings saying that Leon's son needed to see his father one last time and they had let Rinoa and Matt in.

"Yeah, I think so..." Matt was so oblivious, so innocent. He sat there, cuddled up to his father, playing with his dad's belts. It was like he just wouldn't see Squall for a few days, not that he wasn't not ever going to see him again.

Rinoa leaned in and hugged him tightly. Matt, getting jealous, pulled his arms up so he could be involved in the hug too. It was the last time it could ever be like this, an event where all 3 family members could embrace each other tightly.

"I'm... going to come-" Squall cut her off by putting a finger to her lips.

"Shhhh," he muttered. "Don't. I don't want you to see what's going to happen..."

"But-" he cut her off yet again.

"Rinoa, promise me you won't come!"

"I can't do that! I wanna be there your last minutes!"

"Rinoa," he tilted her chin upward looking straight into her mocha eyes, her staring into his azure eyes. "I love you and I don't want you to go through with that. Promise me?"

"I promise..." she muttered, fully knowing that she was going to break the promise.

-

It was time. Rinoa sat in one of the seats at the public event. It had had quite a turnout. Almost all of Esthar was there along with many other people from other towns, who were able to fly in from lots of places. If they had time and money, they were there.

In a way, it disgusted her, seeing so many people come to a live execution. Why didn't they just seal him in space like they had done to many Sorceresses past? Mainly Adel. But then, someone could always set him free, she figured it wasn't a very good idea after all. But it was disgusting how many people were willing to see a young man injected with poisonous liquid.

Laguna had gotten a private seat at the front. Not that he had wanted to come, but he didn't really have a choice considering that he was the President. Ellone sat next to him. Rinoa had wanted to distance herself from them. They had suffered too much already. Ellone was losing her sister, Laguna his son. And Rinoa was losing her best friend. Matt had been left behind at the place with some of the guards. Selphie slipped in beside her friend.

"Hey..." she muttered. "We came to see him off..."

Irvine was beside her, Quistis, Seifer, Sara, Zell, and even Headmaster Cid and Edea had come. They still didn't know. Rinoa knew this, but she didn't have the heart to tell them. She would tell eventually, but she didn't have the heart to say it now.

"Sir Laguna arranged it. The kids are together, and having a great time. Neither know. And we're here." Selphie's voice was no longer cheerful, but now it was moody, kind of sad like.

A man stood up, quieting down all the cheers. "We gather here today to see the man we all hate, Leon, to be killed. It will be a short, simple process and we thank you all for coming." Squall's eyes scanned the crowd until his eyes locked with Rinoa's. She had broken her promise.

The man, who had introduced himself as Reeve, lifted up the needle in poked it into Squall's flesh, pushing down on the top.

"I love you" Rinoa mouthed.

"I lov-" Squall's lips stopped moving and his eyes fell. He was dead.

End Chapter

A/N: God! I'm so evil! Sorry, it's not 3000 words. So I lied. Hehe. And please please please don't stop reading. Reread this chapter. It might give you a hint at what's happening next. And I know, Squall is dead, but you never know what my devious mind had planned for you all! MUHAHAHA! I think I've added a few more chapters onto this story by putting this in here. It wasn't my original idea, my original idea will happen later. Well, adios! Leave a review!

SavannahX