Coral: Wah...

Tidus: What's wrong with her?

Auron: She misspelled the user's name who gave her permission to continue "Aquamarine".

Tidus: Aw shucks! Just because she uses Windows 98 and a messed up keyboard doesn't mean anything!

Coral: Meanies... I'm so sorry, Bluumberry! I really am! TT-TT

Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy 10. I also don't own the story in general, as it belongs to Bluumberry.

Thanks to: Lanie12777, coolgamer, BlueisLife, blackfairy30, Shinneri, Bittersweet-mis, and especially Bluumberryfor support, reviews and a whole lot of encouragement! I'm really sorry for not updating sooner, but there's just a whole lot of things that had to be taken care of. Indeed, there needs to be more Seymour/Tidus.

Oh! And thanks to Hiruma Musoukafor adding this fic to her C2: Stories that Stick! Really, really, appreciate it!

Where... Am I...?

A little blond haired boy sat alone on the dock pondering to himself. Looking left and right, his frightened eyes widened in realization and fear that he was lost. He held himself gasping, perspiration dripping as he thought to himself what he should do... And that was when the voice came.

Ha! Got lost did you! Well figures that you couldn't do anything right! Gyahahaha!

The boy gasped seeing the water burst, pressure forced driplets to fall false rain onto the harbor. He grew panicked as there was a sight to behold. A sickly demon-like spawn turned itself to face the child, wriggling its disgusting body to and fro. The voice came back again... And this time triggered something...

Now you'll end up just like me...

"D-D..." The child stuttered.

The monster launched itself right at him, and the boy raised his arms in defense with eyes shut tight...

GASP! Tidus shot up, eyes wide open. His heart beated quickly from the intensity of the dream. "More like a nightmare..." He murmured. Gazing a bit at his hands, he noticed nothing wrong. He flexed them for a bit, then looked at his lap, which had satin sheets draped over it. Grasping it for a bit, he suddenly had the feeling... Something was wrong. He quickly glanced around the room with wide blue eyes and recalled what happened. Didn't they- He winced at a terrible pain in his head.

"Ow..." He murmured, clutching the back part of his temples. Shaking it, he focused on the unfamiliar surroundings. Dark blue velvet-like curtains hung on the poles above the bed, held back by golden rope attached to hooks. A large window with six panels was at the far right corner, with two other windows adjacent. It was a really gorgeous room with a dainty chandelier hanging from the massive ceiling. The ceiling itself was art. A painting of clouds, with angels looming over as if their protection was with you... But Tidus knew better. He jolted hearing footsteps come in. A heavy feeling came over his heart as he prayed it wasn't who he thought he was... But then, luck was hardly with him nowadays.

"I see that you've awakened." murmured the smooth voice dripping with refined poison.

Tidus didn't move from his position. Apparently from the voice, the entrance to the room would be at the same wall as the bed. More specifically to his left. Perhaps if he doesn't move, maybe he'll just go away like a bad dream... What he didn't expect was the sudden weight from the side of the bed.

"So... How are you feeling?"

Tidus whipped his head toward the Guado, glaring. His eyes wide with intense fury. "What do you think I feel?! You just took away my friends and attacked us!"

Seymour chuckled. "True enough. Straight to the point, are you?"

"Shut up! Just what are you planning anyway?!" Tidus shouted, jumping up from the bed and reaching out to his sword... Only to find that it's not there. "What?" He murmured confused.

"While you were unconscious, I have taken the liberty to remove many items from your inventory. You didn't honestly think I would be so careless as to leave your weapon with you, hmm?" Seymour asked in amusement.

Tidus backed up just as the other Guado stood from the bed. He jumped off the mattress and began edging toward the exit, only to find Seymour suddenly in front of him, face merely inches apart. The boy widened his blue eyes staring into the Guado's hybrid ones. They had something... Strange, different. So inhumane that it chilled him right to the bone. He gasped as two arms prevented his escape by being placed at his side, pinning him. Tidus looked up in fear, as the strange look once again appeared on Seymour's face.

"So interesting... This fiery will of yours must be commended for," Seymour commented lightly. Smiling in amusement, he gazed over the boy's beautiful face. A deep feeling of intensity took over him, as he felt the boy's heat, breathing the boy's scent. His eyes glazed over, and his tactful mind succumbed to instinct. "Your friends aren't able to help you. You're alone." He breathed, fixing his eyes intensely into two gorgeous orbs of blue. He smirked seeing the look of helplessness appear on Tidus' face.

The words were like a slap to Tidus. A brief smack of reality that was all needed in order to shake him up. Where were they? Are they alright? Was he really...?

He didn't even have the strength to push off the Guado, who laid soft cold lips over his... In fact, the teenager wasn't even sure he could...

I'm really... Alone...

Seymour broke off the kiss despite the roaring ecstasy of his mind raging for more of the sweet, intoxicating boy. His face donned a sinister smirk, his eyelids grew heavy with pleasure. He grew a tad disappointed as the boy looked away.

"Why did you keep me alive?"

The Guado then tilted his head in amusement. "Oh? Whatever do you mean?" He asked, feigning ignorance.

"You know perfectly well what I meant! Why did you keep me here?! Why did you attack us?! Why me?! Why didn't you...?" His voice trailed off as realization hit him. Why did Seymour keep him alive exactly? What was he doing here? What was that... Kiss? Was that a kiss? His eyes grew wide. "What are you planning? What do you want?"

Seymour chuckled. "What do I want? What do I want?"

Tidus gasped as his face neared and the voice dropped to a husky slow whisper, "Ever since... Luca..." Tidus gazed into those dark hybrid eyes, who held that undecipherable look. "I've wanted... You." Tidus slowly shook with shock coursing through his veins. "...What?" came out of his lips before he could stop himself.

Seymour's smirk widened maliciously. The Guado leaned forward, pausing a slight few inches. He was driving himself nuts with this boy! Practically taking advantage of the boy's innocence, his feelings, and soon enough... Will follow the boy's will. Most importantly, this Will of Fire will be crushed by him. "There's not a soul who can protect you anymore... I have you now..."

And grasping the boy's shoulders tightly, he made the bound promise... "And I won't let you go..." Sealed with a deep forceful kiss.

"So... This is the great Lady Yuna and her guardians?" question one Guado surveying the pods carefully.

One particular guardian twitched, the motion unseen.

"Yes. They're alive, but only that." Answered another.

'Is that so? Then why is it that I'm conscious, idiot?' thought the guardian in hoarse amusement.

"I still don't understand though. What is Master Seymour's plans to keep these traitors alive?" Asked the first.

Auron focused a bit carefully on the next few words.

Shrug. "Who knows? Anyway, I heard that one of them is within the Maester's care."

The guardian could barely supress the surprise coursing through him. What?

"Pfft! Ahahaha! Don't make me laugh!"

'So Tidus isn't with us... What could that Maester be planning? And if these guys are right, then the others are unresponsive.' Auron thought with dismay. 'Boy... Just what trouble has gotten to you?'

"Ah well, time to turn in for the night. Let's go." Said the Guado.

Auron quickly sent himself to calm as the Guado checked the heart rate meters and statistics of each guardian and Yuna.

"Right. Time to go."

The other followed, leaving the room vacant... Until the night shift arrived.

Coral: I'm really sorry to have stopped here, but I've been feeling tired recently, so excuse any inaccuracies. I really have to thank Bluumberry for helping me out! As for the pods... Well, I've read that most Machina are banned save for a few exceptions, so I'm pretty sure this could be one of the excepted. Haha. Plus I think it's a whole lot more better than dungeons. The only way one could keep track of a person's health in a dungeon is if a healer comes every single day, and I'm pretty sure that guards could be pretty controversial to prisoners, being that they'll just let 'em die. Anyway, I hope the Seymour/Tidus interaction was okay... I didn't like it too much for some reason. Heh.