Chapter 2.

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Notes: Hi! I've been away for a week with no internet, no TV (well three and a half channels) so I've already written a few chapters of this now. So sorry to kay-Mika but I've already done SeiferxZell scenes now!

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The lift dinged signalling that it had arrived at its destination on the third floor. Evan peered out in the single corridor with one lone door directly in front of him. The silence with deafening. He took a few steps forward, the lift doors closed behind him so he had no choice but to go forward towards the light above the door.

It was so quiet, so spooky. He walked forward, took a deep breath and knocked on the wood.

No answer.

He tried again harder this time.

No answer.

Evan tried the door handle and was surprised when the door opened for him. He stuck his head around the door and looked inside. For some reason he had expected the commander to be mean and old and professional and….

He didn't expect to see a young man about his age asleep at his desk.

Evan quietly let himself in and walked up to the desk. The young man had his head on his forearm on the desk and his chocolate brown hair rested on the paperwork that he was probably supposed to be working on. The Seeds turned his head to look into the very young looking face, peaceful in sleep. He put a hand on the other man's shoulder and shook him gently.

The brunette awoke instantly making Evan jump back slightly at the quickness. Greyish blue eyes narrowed on him suspiciously.

"Who are you?"

Evan smiled at him. "I'm Evan McCathy I just transferred here today."

The sleepy man nodded slightly. "From Trabia was it? I read that… somewhere." He looked down at his desk, flicked through some paperwork with a scowl on his beautiful face. "I don't always sleep in here." He added looking back up at the new guy.

Evan waved a hand. "It's cool, I used to always fall asleep in my lessons, my teachers were surprised when I made Seed."

Squall nodded.

"Late night? Or something?"

Squall nodded. "I wanted to finish my paperwork so I didn't go home."

"You mean you've been here all night and all day?"

"Pretty much."

Evan stared at him. "You're not what I expected." He admitted.

Squall frowned. "Is that a bad thing?"

"No." He grinned at him. "Anyway I wanted to ask if I needed permission to redecorate my dorm room?"

"Urm…" Squall paused remembering the talk the headmaster has given him about all the workings of garden. He thought about the forms for changes to dorm rooms, now where did he put those? Did it really matter? Did he really care? That would mean more paperwork. They had decorated Selphie dorm for her birthday and they'd haven't used the forms for that so…

Evan blinked at the commander who sat there in his own little world staring into space. For a moment he thought he had been forgotten about.

"No." Squall finally said, looking at the amused Seed. "What?" He asked.

Evan smiled. "Nothing." The new Seed looked up behind and to Squall's right at the large green plant he had in there.

"You sure have a lot of plants." He looked about the room. The window sill was littered with pots. A half dead brown twiggy thing stood by the green old sofa.

"Apparently I need more life in here." Squall explained.

Evan backed up front desk. "Listen -um- I was going to have little decorating party thing tomorrow night, I've invited Quistis and her friend and Zell so if you wanted to come…"

"Me?" Squall frowned in surprise.

"Sure." Evan grinned at him. "And bring someone, yeah? The more the merrier."

"I'll think about it." Squall said.

"Cool, okay I might see you later then." He smiled and left.

Squall sighed and tried to figure out where he had got up to in the paperwork before he fell asleep.

As soon as he had picked up his pen the door to his office burst open again. "Squall!!" Irvine yelled as he stormed in, a look of anger on his face.

The brunette looked up in concern. "What is it? Did something happen?"

"Something bad has happened Squall!" He stopped in front of Squall's desk jostling all the stationary and a few things fell off.

"I've been replaced!"

"What?" Squall frowned.

"This new guy, he's the talk of garden, all the girls want him all the guys want to be him! They ignored me today!"

The brunette's lips quirked up slightly.

"It's not funny! He's got to Quistis, Rinoa and even my Seffie!" He threw his arms up. "He's got them under a spell or something! I swear, all they do is rave about the hotness and greatness of this Evan." He spat the Seed's name out. "They're all excited about some decorating party he's having tomorrow and they don't want to hang out with me." Irvine's eyes narrowed. "I saw him leave here a second ago, don't tell me he's got to you too Squall?"

Squall sighed. "Irvine don't be ridiculous."

"But Squall-!"

"Everyone's just excited because he's new and good looking, everything will settle down soon and then-"

"You think he's good looking?" He walked to the sofa and flopped down in despair staring into space in defeat. "My god, things are worse than I thought."

Squall sighed pushing up from his chair at his desk to walk over and sit beside the cowboy.

"Is being popular that important to you?"

Irvine glanced at him. "Well…. Yes."

Squall shook his head.

"And it's not just about being popular, all my friends are leaving me."

"That's ridiculous."

"Seriously. The girls, Zell, you, and I even saw him with Seifer."

"Irvine all he did was invite me to a party."

"He invited you?" You're not going right?"

Squall shrugged. "I haven't decided yet."

"You can't go Squall!" The cowboy looked at him, desperately.

"He did say I could bring someone, why not come with me?"

"Or-" Irvine grinned, turned to lean in close to the brunette, a hand landing on his thigh squeezing the leather slightly. "-We could both not go to the party and instead we find other ways to amuse ourselves-" His hand rose higher on Squall's thigh. "-In my bedroom."

Squall sighed and expertly extracted himself from the cowboy's hold.

"I'm going and so are you. You might like him."

Irvine scoffed. "Yeah and Zell might turn straight."

Squall rolled his eyes. "Or you could spend all night questioning him and trying to find a weakness instead of having a good time." Squall suggested sarcastically.

"That's a great idea! No one's that perfect! I bet he has his secrets!" He grinned at the brunette. "Thanks Squall!"

Squall blinked. "Wait! I was just- I didn't mean-"

"So what time is this little party then?"

Squall shrugged. "I'm not sure, ask Zell or one of the girls."

Irvine nodded heading for the door. "You're not going to wear anything too sexy to the party are you? No leather and for god's sake don't take off your shirt!" Those were his last words as he left Squall's office not giving the brunette time to comment.

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"God Nida, why do you need some many things?" Zell lifted a box through Seifer's doorway and into his new bedroom, which Seifer had using to stash porn… or at least that's what Zell thought.

"I don't have that much stuff just a few essentials."

"I didn't think essentials weighed this much." He set the box on the floor watching Seifer follow him in with another box. "Do you want me to open this or-?"

"Yeah you can do." Nida then looked at the writing on the side. "Wait! Don't! Not that one!"

Zell blinked in shock as the pilot hurried over and took the box away from Zell. The little blonde glanced up at Seifer who leant on the doorframe chuckling.

"What's in the box, Nida?" Seifer asked.

"Nothing." He blushed.

"Oh! A porn box?" Zell asked.

"Or dildos?" Seifer laughed.

The pilot glared at them. "None of your business."

The blondes grinned at each other.

"You're not going to decorate this room like your old room right? I don't think I can stand having boy band posters covering the walls."

Zell laughed. "I would love to come in here and find out Seifer Almasy likes boy bands!"

Seifer gave him a look. "Yeah, yeah laugh it up short stuff."

Nida frowned. "You don't have girls over do you? I almost got roomed with Irvine, how traumatic would that have been!"

Zell chuckled. "Seifer doesn't have much luck with girls, do you Seifer?"

The taller man frowned. "Shut up I could do if I wanted to! I just don't want to at the moment that's all!"

"Not now you have him to flirt with." Nida said gesturing to Zell on the floor.

The little blonde gaped at him and then scoffed. "What?!" He laughed.

Seifer frowned. "What the hell are you talking about?"

The pilot blinked and glanced between Seifer's shocked face and Zell's amused disbelief and shrugged. "Sorry guess I was mistaken."

Zell shook his head and got up. "Any more boxes you want me to move?"

Nida looked about. "No I think I'm done, thanks guys."

They nodded and headed out of Nida's new room. "What did you do with all the stuff that you had in there?" Zell asked Seifer.

"Nothing yet." He pointed into his own bedroom.

"Oh my god!" Zell said looking in at a huge pile of stuff, some in bags, boxes and the rest was just heaped on the bed. "How could you have so much stuff? I don't have this much stuff." Zell walked towards Seifer's room.

"Sure you do, you even have two bedrooms. One here and one in Balamb so you probably have double the stuff that I have." He followed his friend inside and walked ahead of him. The taller man picked up a bag of stuff and emptied it.

"You have bags old clothes? Why not just throw them out like normal people?" Zell asked.

Seifer gave him a look and held up an old jacket. "I brought this when I was sixteen I can't just throw it away."

The little blonde smiled. "I never pictured you as being sentimental."

Seifer huffed. "It's not that…" He muttered, sounding embarrassed now.

"Well you could give these to matron, since she's opened the orphanage again I'm sure she knows some teens in need of clothes or something." Zell suggested.

Seifer shrugged. "I guess." He rolled the jacket back up and put it back in the bag moving the bag towards the door. He then picked up a few other similar bags and also put them over there. "You have to ring her though and give them to her, I don't people to think I've gone soft."

Zell scoffed. "I hate to break it to you Seif, but you've been soft for a couple of years now."

Seifer looked horrified. "Seriously?"

Zell nodded. "I think last Christmas when you agreed to be a Reindeer in kids panto probably didn't do the tough guy image any good."

Seifer chuckled. "But I was just the front half of the reindeer, Irvine was the tail end."

Zell grinned and sat on the edge of the bed pushing things out of his way. He picked up a photo in a frame is Fujin kicking Raijin in the shins. He put it on his lap.

"Do you miss them?"

"Hmm?" Seifer asked, now putting some stuff in his cupboard.

Zell held up the photo.

The taller man shrugged. "I spoke to Fujin last week, she's going to try and get down here to visit soon."

Zell nodded. "Do you think she'll be surprised that you're consorting with the enemy?"

Seifer grinned. "I keep her up to date but yeah I think she was a bit at first." He took the photo and walked into the living room to put it up somewhere.

"You're not going to put it in the bedroom?" Zell teased.

"I don't love Fujin that much." He scoffed, walking back to the cupboard. "I wonder if I still have those pants I wore when we redecorated Selphie's dorm."

"You mean to wear to the painting party thing?"

"Yeah."

"You could go naked." Zell suggested with a grin.

Seifer raised an eyebrow. "But then everyone would be too busy staring at me because I'm such a god to bother doing any work."

Zell scoffed. "Yeah right."

"Go and get ready to go, we don't want to keep the new guy waiting." He grinned.

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TBC