Chapter 3

In Besaid

Yuna and Tidus were walking toward the beach, they needed to calm down after they had looked around Besaid, even though Paine already had searched. They had gotten Wakka and Lulu to help as they knew they're way around the island better than the Yuna and Tidus put together, but even with the two them helping they couldn't find the spheres. The thought then occurred that someone had already stole it before Rikku had been kidnapped so they decided that they would have to go back to the airship and see if the kidnapper had sent more coordinates. When Tidus and Yuna ran aboard the airship they found that a photo of Rikku had been sent and she looked bad she was cut and Tidus saw a large burn mark on her right arm, normally Tidus thought Rikku looked quite pretty a thought he kept hidden from Yuna for fear of having his face kicked in, in fact he felt sick looking at the photo so he went to the bar in the cabin for two reasons: one, he was friends with the new barkeep Aaron, and two, drinking a fairly weak drink made him calm down, so he took the lift down to the cabin and like he usually, was Aaron was standing reading a magazine. Tidus was fairly curious about the new barkeep, he never shut up, but never talked about himself, the only time he was quite was when Rikku was around then he just shuts up and smiled.

In captivity

Rikku looked like crap and she felt worse because her kidnapper had shown his face at last. She would have once looked at him with a smile, but now regarded him with a stare of the purest of hates ever to be borne by man. This man was once her best friend, even though he brought her nerves dangerously close to the point of disintegrating every time they spoke. There was once a time when she loved him, but at times like this Rikku thought of another man she had loved: Auron. she had loved the pure terrifyingly confident essence that oozed out of him and the slow reassuring tone of his voice made her realise her feelings for him. She was just as shocked when she realised her feelings as she was when she found out he was an unsent, but her shock then couldn't compare to the unimaginable fear she felt now when she saw him standing there pyreflies swirling around him and then he spoke.

"You loved me when I was alive, but you don't now do you? You love my son… don't you… Rikku ?"

Without realising she did she gasped "You have a son ?" she said in a surprised whisper he laughed his rarely heard laugh.

"I know I don't seem like the father type do I? He was an unplanned baby and he was born just before I left for lord Braska's pilgrimage. I died and the grief it caused his mother killed her leaving him with his aunt who abused him for being like me, so when he was old enough he ran away from her and around the time of Yuna's pilgrimage he joined up with a group of rebels who waged war on Bevelle, a group, which contained the people who would later be the founding members of the youth league including it's current leader Nooj around the time of the destruction of Yevon they were going to lay siege to Bevelle in order to remove Yevon from power but we took care of that for them then for a few months the group lost its sense of purpose and he left them they later broke apart and the few members who stayed together and formed the youth league .My son wandered Spira training in how to fight when he stumbled upon Brother by chance and he replaced the hypello on your airship as barkeep ."

Rikku looked horrified.

"Aaron is your son?!!"

Thoughts whirled through her head Aaron who she loved and was completely honest with had kept this big a secret from her, but suddenly she realised she had told him that she was in love with Sir Auron and he did look a bit annoyed and she remembered that he had once said that he knew Sir Auron very well, but he didn't like him at all. he had once said that his mother had died shortly after he was born, she wondered if he thought she could figure it out for herself; he had always told her she was a rather intelligent girl and he was honest with her all the time, even with the bad stuff: like when he snuck out and went drinking, and when he forgotten when they were next going to see each other. While she was thinking about all this, Auron had faded away and suddenly her kidnapper had stalked in the room with mannerisms similar to that of a bad tempered bull. He looked quite angry and she could smell drink off of him… tonight was going to be very, very bad. She must have looked terrified because her captor looked at her and grinned in a sinister way.

"Why are you scared of me huh Rikku? I'm your old friend you don't need to be scared of me… now just you be quiet and listen to me, I am gonna do something to you that you may not like but I gonna love it… "

On The Airship

Tidus was drunk and was running all over the airship barroom singing, he and was making fun of Aaron, and how he was just standing there, reading a magazine. Yuna walked in and he jumped in front of her and started insulting and swearing at her when Aaron walked over and punched him in the face and he was knocked out and he took him upstairs and sat him on his bed and put a glass of water and 2 headache pills on the table next to his bed and left instructions telling him to take them when he woke up. He went back downstairs and saw Yuna sitting at the bar crying, he went behind the bar and over to her, to make sure she was okay.

"Hey, Yuna… are you… okay?"

"Not really, I'm having a hard time right now with Rikku being missing. We got a photo of her sent to the airship she looks bad, and the kidnapper said that he will do something horrible to her if we cant find the group of spheres he told us to! We weren't able to find the first one he asked for! It's all such a mess… can I have a drink ?"

Aaron gave her a sympathetic look and he fixed her a drink, like she asked.

"Here you go. So when did Rikku get taken?"

"Why?"

"I wanna help look for her. If you wouldn't mind?"

Yuna smiled and nodded, agreeing with him, saying that he could help. He glanced around the room to see if anyone was there and gestured for Yuna to come closer.

"If I tell you this, will you promise never to mutter a word to anyone else?"

Yuna nodded, promising the information would be kept a secret.

"My father was Sir Auron. I've got some of skill, I'm just as good as him, and when I was in the army I learned how to track people down really well and I really wanna help and if I tell you another secret, will you, again, not tell anyone not even Tidus?"

Yuna looked puzzled for a moment.

"Sure I wont tell anyone!"

Aaron took a deep breath and looked at Yuna

"I'm kinda Rikku's boyfriend… we started dating after Gippal dumped her… she was really cut up about it and I was there for her, then 1 day she told me she loved me and I told her the same thing and asked if she wanted to date me and she said yeah… we ended up just sleeping at my place in front of my fire. Since then she started spending all her time here. Just after we got together though, she said she didn't want you guys to know, so I agreed and we didn't tell you."

Yuna looked, not just looked but was completely stunned.

"Auron is your father and Rikku is your girlfriend?"

Aaron just laughed.

"I know I'm good at keeping secrets aren't I?!"

Yuna looked around as Tidus walked down stairs in a half drunken state. He had only slept for two hours. His head in his hand, he said thanks to Aaron for the pills he then turned to Yuna, a regretful look in his eyes

"I'm sorry about earlier I was upset about Rikku so I came and got a drink, but I may have had one too many…"

"You think? I know you're frustrated Tidus, we all are, Rikku is our friend and we want to find her, you just have to find a better way of dealing with your frustration."

"I'm so sorry, I'll never do it again!"

Aaron just looked at them both and smiled then went back to his magazine. Tidus noticed that there was advertisement for swords on the back and snatched it out of his hands, before he flipped it to the back he was smacked over the head by Aaron who then took his magazine back and opened it up back at the page he was on.

In Captivity (Kidnappers POV)

He was smiling to himself, he had just got somewhere with Rikku: she had been sleeping when he had crawled up next to her in the bed she was now handcuffed to, he had stroked her hair and when she woke up he kissed her and she ha been too weak to pull away

"Looks like we're getting somewhere at last, huh, gorgeous? You'll soon have no strength left to force me away from you… and then the real fun will begin… I sent a photo of you to your friends airship in it you look like crap compared to your normal, beautiful, self and I love that you chose to where your 'thief' outfit!"

He laughed at his last comment, when he had brought her here she was wearing her warrior outfit but after a lot of torture he had took enough strength off of her and he stripped her of her warrior outfit and enjoyed a nice long look at her body, he gently ran his hand down her spine and he made put on her thief outfit. She had then chose to bite his hand when he tried to touch her again, he made a mental note at that point, "The real torture has just started." Then he turned round and looked at her

"If I cant make you love me I'm a failure as a man ."