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Note: well another chapter, explains a bit more what is really going on. Thanks a bunch to lilnaych, r, and renegade seraph, my reviewers for this story. thanks to wayne for all his support of my work. And thanks a million to Hannah my lil pkot bunny helper extrodinaire and my sock rocking best mate. hope y'all like the story xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Squall scanned the room quickly. Every door was now blocked by Galbadian soldiers pointing guns in his direction.

"What the hell is going on here?" Squall demanded

Caraway laughed to himself "I though you were supposed to be intelligent"

Squall glared at the general "You never answered my question."

Caraway gestured to some of the soldiers and 5 of them came across the room and grabbed squall, 4 restraining him while another tied his hands together behind his back. He tried to struggle against them, but he was outnumbered, unarmed and had about 10 guns pointed in his direction.

"What the hell are you doing?" Rinoa yelled at her father

Caraway ignored her and made another gesture and another few of the soldiers came over and tied her hand the way they'd tied Squalls. Rinoa managed to injure one of the soldiers slightly by kicking him sharply in the shin causing him to collapse to the ground for a second or two, but he managed to push himself back up pretty quickly.

"You bitch" he hissed, reaching out and punching Rinoa in the stomach, causing her to double over and cry out in pain.

"YOU SON OF A BITCH" Squall yelled, determined to break out of the grip of the soldiers and kill the guy. But the soldiers were too many and too strong and kept him restrained. "You'll pay for that" he hissed at the soldier, but one of the soldiers behind him whacked the back of his gun into Squalls back. "You better calm down" the soldier laughed.

Caraway, after observing all of this, turned to one of the doors and gestured for the soldiers to follow him. Squall was then dragged through the door and down a flight of stairs, Rinoa being dragged behind him, and they were then both thrown into a very cold basement. It was bare, there was nothing really in it except for a few chairs, some very dim lamps and a lot more armed soldiers.

Caraway once again gave a single gesture and the soldiers dragged Squall and Rinoa over to the chairs, threw then down on them and then tied more rope around there hands, securing them to the back of the chairs.

"You're a fucking psychopath" Squall hissed at the general, who simply laughed.

The soldiers then spread out, guarding the perimeter of the room, all guns still pointed in the direction of Squall and Rinoa, except for one guard who remained in the middle next to Caraway.

Squall turned to Rinoa and saw tears were streaming down her face. "Are you alright?" he asked her. Slowly she nodded.

Squall turned back to the General "Why are you doing this. what do you want?"

"You haven't figured it all out yet? I must say I'm a little disappointed in you Squall"

"Just answer the damn question. This whole mission, was it all a setup?"

"Not quite" Caraway laughed "But your getting closer"

"Your twisted, do you know that?" Rinoa spat

"Oh Rinoa. Where did I go wrong with you. You ended up leading some pathetic resistance, nearly getting yourself killed, becoming a sorceress and marrying a pathetic excuse for a SeeD. And your calling me twisted. Why do you hate me so much"

"Because your stark raving mad" Squall snapped

"Was I asking you" The general narrowed his eyes at Squall "I was talking to my daughter"

"You were talking to my wife." Squall hissed

Caraway gave one of his evil little laughs before punching Squall in the face.

After a few seconds recovering, Squall lifted his head and said "Man, are you in trouble when I get free"

"And what makes you think you'll ever get free?" laughed the soldier standing next to Caraway. Squall just glared at him. He was trying desperately to think of a way out of this situation while trying not to let his desperation and fear show.

"Why don't you just explain what's going on?" Rinoa yelled

"Well, yes" Caraway said starting to pace back and forwards "I must say I'm quite proud of the whole plan really"

"What plan?" Squall demanded

"well, you see, I knew straight away when those protesters called Esthar. Nothing much escapes me. And I knew that Esthar would send soldiers or someone in to do something, try and stop me. But you see then I found out from, we'll say a source of mine, that it was in fact Garden who would be sending people. But then things just got even easier, when it turned out to be you on the mission"

"Wait let me guess. I'm the Commander of Garden so your going to hold me hostage and force garden to make Esthar what…..drop the limitations on your army. Predictable."

"Not quite. You see that was my original plan. But then lets just say thanks to someone, things got even easier. Especially.." he turned to Rinoa "When you turned up"

"What the hell are you talking about. And who the hell is this 'someone'" Squall asked feeling slightly confused

"You really don't need to know anymore" Caraway said "Well except you need to know what you're going to do if you want to live"

"What call Garden and get me to get them to cancel there contract with the protesters?"

"No. I'm thinking bigger. I say we skip Garden all together. We're going straight to the top, we'll get Esthar themselves to drop the limitations and a few other things too."

"And how exactly do you plan to do that?"

"Well, I'm thinking as far as leverage goes, Son of the president is pretty valuable"

Squalls jaw dropped. He couldn't believe his ears. How had Caraway known about Laguna being Squalls father. Squall had told hardly anyone about this. Rinoa knew of course, but there was no was she would have told her father. And the only other people who knew were Zell, Irvine, Selphie, Quistis and Cid and Edea. But how would Caraway of known. Squall had not made much of a relationship with Laguna, they had met a few times since Squall discovered the truth, and there was some trust starting to form, but there relationship was far from close or stable.

"H-how on earth did you know about that?" Squall stuttered confusedly

"Like I said. Someone very knowledgeable has been of great help to me. But you don't actually need to know. Yet. But here's what you'll do if you want to live. Your going to call your father, that Laguna, the president and tell him all our demands. If they aren't met, well, you'll be killed"

"It's never going to work" Squall said

"And why is that" Caraway asked smugly

"See, I may be leverage, but if you ring Esthar and say you kidnapped Lagunas' son, there never going to believe you. They'd want proof, want me to speak to them. And see you can't use me as leverage against myself, I'll just refuse to speak, and you can kill me. But then you'll never get what you want."

"Ahhh, indeed. But then, something happened that your not thinking of, and that makes my life so much easier. "

"And what would that be" Squall said tiredly

"Well, I found out your lovely, little wife was on her way, and so I set the plan in motion. So now, I do have leverage against you." Caraway laughed evily "You'll call, or we'll kill her"

Squall was shocked. Not only shocked at Caraways plan but shocked that he hadn't figured this out earlier. He was also sickened by it all. "She's your daughter. You'd kill your own daughter just to get some power?"

"Well, I don't think I'll have to. It probably wont come to that. There are ways of making you talk. And I don't believe that you'd let me touch her. You'd much rather just give me what I want. But if I have to…then I will"

"So who are you working with. Who told you Laguna was my father, and who told you Rinoa was going to come here?" Squall demanded

At that moment the door at the top of the stairs swung open and someone started walking down the stairs, heavy black boots clunking on each step.

"C'mon Squall. I thought that'd be an easy one" said a familiar voice. Squall looked up at the figure standing at the bottom of the stairs and found himself staring straight at Seifer.

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well am hoping to try and get this story updated pretty soon. dont know waht people thought of the seifer thing, but i thought it was an okay little twist. please review n let me know what y'all think, and watch out for more chapters coming soon xxx