A/N: Well, it's me again! Thanks to Wolfdog Girl, jellybean-kitty, sasukeuchiha10, r, and RoyMustangsBabe for reviewing! I love you guys so much! Thanks for that, it made me update faster. Well, fast enough I hope. And Jake doesn't act like Squall, he has his own personality.

How come you guys don't like Halie? She's just a sweet girl. Come on people! Lol. Ever notice I use really generic names for random people in my story? Emma, Matt, Sara, Halie, Madison, Jake... Hehe. No offense to anyone with those names, they're just very popular so I like to use them. I'm not one that ever came with names in the creative department. Actually, most of these names are based on people I know. Sara is my BFF sasukeuchiha10, Halie is my friend Halie, Madison is Madison... Jake is based off of a guy named Jake... Emma and Matt are made up, just cuz I love those names! P Enough of me going on though...

Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy VIII. I do own the game and now the strategy guide. I'm gonna get some wall scrolls soon! But I don't own the whole idea so don't sure me or there will be no more of this story!

SavannahX

Eyes on You

Chapter 11

"Hay-Hay?" Matt asked Halie, and Halie nodded.

"I'm Hay-Hay all right..." she sighed. She didn't want to keep the little boy boy, but she didn't have a choice, it was more like a forceful situation with Halie being forced to carry out the mission. Squall's Other was forcing her to do this. Yet, she knew she was doing it but couldn't stop.

"Hay-Hay, where Mama?" Matt asked her, right as the phone rang. Halie turned and looked at the phone and tried to pick it up, yet somehow, she couldn't bring herself to do it. The name on the Caller ID flashed Jake and she wasn't ready to handle that.

"Mama come get you soon," Halie told the little boy, making him nod and smile. He reached his hands up and Halie picked him up, cuddling him. Matt liked Halie.

-

Locating Halie was a problem, she obviously didn't want to be found. And with not wanting to be found, she wasn't. Jake was trying to track Halie's cell phone but it wasn't working, as she had her cell phone turned off so no service could be issued to it. He tried everything he could possibly think of. Halie and his own apartment, Halie's parents, the cafe, every place where he knew Halie had some kind of contact with. But it was to no avail, as Halie obviously didn't want to be contacted.

"Are we ever going to find him?" A very tearful Rinoa kept on asking Jake and he promised her that they would. He would get Matt back for her, no matter what it took. In his heart, he knew it was Halie, the sweet girl he had grown to love. He knew it was her. Halie had a slight problem with jealousy, he knew that. But he didn't thinks he would do something like this. It just wasn't Halie. Halie was a sweet girl who liked to put others first. But he knew it had to be her, the sinking feeling in his gut told him so.

Halie, the girl he had grown to love. He was starting to figure something out. He was starting to figure out that he didn't love Halie. Well, he did, but not in the normal love that you would give to the person who you married, but the person who was so close to you, a best friend, a sister. But why now had these feelings suddenly come out? Why had they come out to haunt him? Jake didn't understand his feelings at all.

And Rinoa, the mother of a little boy who looked just a like him... There was something connecting them all, he just knew it. Matt... Halie... Jake... Squall... and Rinoa... They were all connected, he just hadn't figured out how yet. The connection was growing stronger. He was starting to feel things for Rinoa that he never knew existed. Why Rinoa? Why this one person?

They say one person has the ability to change a life and that was exactly what Rinoa Heartilly was doing to him.

And Squall, there was a connection between him too. Squall had supposedly been in love with Rinoa. Squall was the father of Matt. Squall had been executed, Rinoa had told him that. Squall... the name seemed familiar. Why did he look like Squall? That was one thing Jake hated, looking like Squall. Matt called him that and Rinoa let it slip out, sometimes he wondered if it was purposefully so she could prove to herself that this wasn't Squall standing in front of her, it was Jake.

"Rinoa, I give up!" Jake shouted, now annoyed at their current situation.

"You're... you... you... are giving up?" Rinoa asked, her voice trembling.

"I'm giving up looking for information. I know Halie. Most likely she is in Deling, so that's where we'll head. We may not find her. Hell, she may still be in Balamb. That's why we need to leave people here. Send people everywhere." Rinoa nodded in approval of the whole thing. "Bring everyone of your friends in so we can search."

Rinoa did as told and soon there was a whole line of SeeD's waiting to be dispatched. Selphie and Irvine were told to stay so they could watch over Emma while still looking out. Zell and Madison, the girl who worked in the library would be heading out to Timber. Seifer, who was still pissed off at Jake, grudgingly agreed to go to Winhill alone, where he wouldn't cause any trouble. Sara and Quistis were going to go to Esthar. Fujin and Raijin were instructed to go to Dollet. Nida was told to go to Trabia. Rinoa and Jake would be heading out to Deling City.

-

"Jake, are you sure we'll find her here?" Rinoa asked, scared of the answer.

"No, Rin, I'm not sure. But it is very likely."

She let out a weak smile that Jake could tell was fake. He tilted her chin slightly making her shiver and used his fingers to place her lips into a smile. She stifled a giggle, she couldn't stop it, she was smiling. Jake was making her smile. He reminded her so much of Squall. She wanted him to hold her. She wanted him to kiss her. She wanted him to be hers forever.

Because without love, she was lost, she felt so alone.

"Rinoa?" Jake asked her and she snapped her attention to him.

"Yes?"

"This is it, Halie should be here." Rinoa looked up to see a tall apartment building and they went inside. Pressing the button on the elevator, they started to head up the floors until they reached the 9th floor and Jake grabbed Rinoa's hand and pulled her to apartment 909. He took out a key and turned the lock.

"MAMA!" she heard from inside and Matt latched himself onto his mom's leg, smiling.

"Halie," Jake said, going over to her. She seemed like she was in a trance, her eyes glassy and she wasn't responding to Jake shaking her. "Halie." He shook her again, but only her head changed places. "HALIE!" He shook her and she just fell uncouncious.

"What happened?" Rinoa asked Jake, while cuddling Matt. He just shrugged.

"Hay-Hay..." Matt started but stopped for lack of words. "Hay-Hay was.. hurt by big man in black."

Rinoa's eyes grew wide with fear. A big man with black... It was Squall's Other, there was no doubt about that.

"What did he do, Matt?" Rinoa asked, concern now in her voice.

"He took pointy thing and poked her arm," he said pointing at her left arm. Jake turned the arm and there was a small incision in her arm, obviously coming from a needle injection. "She say she sowwy."

"Halie," Jake said, his voice now worried and scared. He moved her head again and then noticed that there wasn't any breath coming from her now pale lips. He reached to her wrist and found there was no pulse. She was dead.

-

There was a funeral service for Halie saying that she had died of natural causes. Nobody knew the truth, except for Rinoa and Jake. Matt didn't understand where Hay-Hay had went. Why had she left? He couldn't figure this out.

Nobody knew how Matt was found either.

There was a connection. Why had Squall's Other gone after Halie? Why had he killed her? She wasn't involved in any way with Squall, so why? Rinoa thought maybe it was because she told her about what had happened. Guilt gripped painfully at her heart. Yet, she still couldn't' figure out why Halie had taken Matt but she had a slight suspicions that it was Squall's Other controlling her. But she didn't know that for certain.

-

"What are you doing, Squall?" He saw Rinoa standing in front of him, extending her hand.

"I'm Jake!" he persisted again.

"No, no matter how much you say you are Jake, you are really Squall."

Rinoa smiled at him, but there was something different about her. Rinoa was usually dressed in all blue, yet now she was in a black cloak that was way too big for her.

"How come I'm him? All I've ever known was Jake."

"And all you've ever known is one year. One year in your life." Her face was now sullen and serious. "You didn't remember anything before meeting Halie, did you?"

He let out a glare and thought about it. It was true, no matter how much he denied it. He couldn't remember anything about his old life. He knew that he was around 23 years old. He had known 1 year of his life. What had happened in the 22 years before that?

"Don't deny it, you know it's true..." She still stood seriously. "Your name is Squall Leonhart. You are 23 years old. Your father is the president of Esthar, you mother died at childbirth. You went to an orphanage and were a loner. But you had your Sis, Ellone. But after she left, you became distant. You were enrolled in Balamb Garden at a young age. You got that scar from Seifer Almasy when you were seventeen, shortly after becoming a SeeD. You met Rinoa Heartilly that night, dancing with her. You were then sent on a simple mission to gain Timber's independence and one thing led to another, soon you were in love and fighting the Sorceress Ultimecia. After you defeated her, you and Rinoa lived happily and you proposed. Then you left and Rinoa found out she was pregnant with Matt. You became a murdered, but only because you were forced too. Then you were put on the death sentence and killed. You lost your memory because of that."

"Why didn't I die then?" he asked, knowing now that the story was shit and wasn't true.

She smirked at him. "Because you have an Other."

"...Whatever, I still don't believe you."

"That's Squall's line."

Jake threw his hands to his head. Squall... Jake.. Neither of the names sounded like him.

"Go to Rinoa and tell her you're Squall. She'll be so happy to have you back."

"What about Halie?" he asked her.

"Halie... Halie was used by your Other and then he killed her when you got closer. It wasn't your fault though, he kills everyone he can."

"DAMN!"

"Oh," she said, now smiling slightly. "And the dreams were your past, courtesy of me, Rinoa's Other!"

-

He woke up laying next to Rinoa with Matt in her arms, the two snuggled up together. Matt had his small hand wrapped around Squall's own. He smiled at them. This was his family. He was never happier to have it back.

"Rinoa, wake up," he said, shaking her slightly. "Rinoa." She stirred a little and her eyes fluttered open.

"Hi Jake."

"It's Squall," he said, pulling her in and kissing her full on the lips.

"Squall?"

"Squall. I know it now."

End Chapter

A/N: Well, what do you think? Hope it wasn't rushed. I have a tendency to do that. And Halie is dead, but her memory is still here. There will probably be a few more deaths, haven't decided who yet. There will be probably 2 chapters left but maybe I'll finish it next chapter, you never know! Review guys! Much love

SavannahX