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One (Last) Chance	By : RotSeele Category: Final Fantasy VIII > Yaoi - Male/Male > Seifer/Squall Views: 3721 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Twenty-Eight - Seifer POV

I stared at Squall in confusion, as did Ellone. Squall visibly shivered, then started to leave Ellone’s room at the same time the loudspeaker began to blare, “Red Alert! Red Alert! All units report to med lab. Stat!”
“Shit.” I hurried after Squall with Ellone right behind me. Something was wrong with Rinoa. We’d left her in the med lab, still asleep. The alert was calling for aid to go to the med lab. It wasn’t hard to put two and two together.
Squall drew up short and looked at Ellone. “Go wait in the control room.”
“But.”
“Just do it. And hide.”
Ellone nodded, taking a step away from us and hesitating. “Okay. Be careful, alright?”
“We’ll be fine.”
I wished I had Squall’s confidence. Once Ellone had gone, Squall led me back to the med lab. I was shocked into stillness when I saw her coming toward us, her steps awkward and jerky. I started toward her, but Squall grabbed my wrist.
“She’s not awake.” he said, his voice low. “Ultimecia is controlling her.”
“What do we do?!”
“There’s nothing we can do.” Squall replied. “We have to let her out.”
I sucked in a deep breath and used the air to curse colorfully. “So you’re saying we’re just to stand back and let her wake Adel up?”
Squall looked at me. He didn’t nod, didn’t give me any form of affirmative, just looked at me. I cursed again. “Shit. I don’t like this. I don’t like this at all.”
Rinoa glided past us into the control room. We followed, but there was nothing we could do to stop her. An aide tried to get her away from the console, only to be blasted back by some unseen force. She stood over a control panel, wobbling this way and that, as if she couldn’t figure out what it was she was looking for.
“That is Adel’s Tomb’s seal deactivation device.” Piet said, his voice shaky.
The loudspeaker blared, “Adel’s Tomb Level One Seal Deactivated. Level One Seal has been deactivated.”
Her task done, Rinoa turned around and glided out, her face blank and eyes unseeing. She didn’t recognize any of us, just glided past us without fear of being stopped. Piet gave a wordless cry, drawing our gazes back to him. “Fuck.” I spat, staring as the monsters on the moon began to move as one huge creature. “It’s overflowing with them!”
Piet whimpered. “It’s finally starting...”
“The Lunar Cry...”
I stared at Squall, getting a shiver down my spine from the way his words were whispered.
“If that’s the case,” Piet said suddenly, “we definitely have to stop her. If she plans to free Adel, she’ll have to go out there. The Level Two seal is located on Adel’s Tomb.”
Squall and I left the control room then, me slightly before him. As we passed some of the crew, one cried out, pointing toward the moon. I stopped and stared, watching as the monsters swelled into one big globule of beastie and exploded, streaming down from the moon toward the planet. I looked at Squall’s face, taking into consideration his utter stillness. Yes, he’d expected this to happen, but not so soon. He had expected to have a few more moments before this whole thing started.
Squall caught one of the crew members by the shoulder. “Have you seen a girl come by here?”
The man nodded. “Yes. She went into that locker room.”
I was a step ahead of Squall then, reaching the locker room first. I looked around, trying to find her, but I couldn’t see her anywhere.
There! Carbuncle said, directing my attention toward the far side of the room. Rinoa stood behind a sealed division, already geared up for going out into space. I was frozen for a second, but Squall wasn’t. He grabbed a spacesuit of his own and was already bundled up and heading after Rinoa. I looked for a suit for myself, but I couldn’t find one. I was left waiting for Squall to bring Rinoa back. He returned empty-handed.
“She’s outside already.” Squall said, a slight growl in his voice.
“I take it you wanted to make sure she didn’t get that far.”
“At least not by herself.”
“Why?”
He didn’t answer me. Instead he ran back to the hallway, me at his heels. We passed a trio of struggling men, two arguing with the one as they hauled him toward an evacuation capsule. I barely caught the man’s words, but I was pretty sure ‘Ellone’ was one of them. We entered the control room where Piet and Ellone were watching, waiting. Piet was close to a console, his hands curled into fists as he stared out the window.
“Dammit,” he cursed, “the seal’s gonna be broken!”
I watched with a lump of fear in my throat as Rinoa floated closer to the tomb. The tomb shifted, disengaging from whatever was keeping it in place and it was caught up in the stream of monsters heading to the planet. It disappeared from sight. So did Rinoa.
“Come on.” Piet said, pushing himself away from the console. “We have to evacuate! Now!”
“What about Rinoa?” I snapped. “We can’t just leave her!”
Piet ignored me. Much to my dismay, so did Squall. Ellone reached to grab my arm to keep me from grabbing Squall and shoving him against the wall. I looked down at her, saw her lips drawn in a thin line, her eyes filled with fear. I looked at Squall.
“We have to get out, now.” Squall said, his voice quiet. “I won’t let Rinoa die.”
He wasn’t giving me a choice now. Neither was Ellone. Between the two of them, we were hustled into the escape pod after Piet. Piet strapped himself down in one seat. Ellone took another. I grabbed a third seat and held on tightly as the escape pod rocked from a vibration. It was only after I strapped myself in that I realized Squall wasn’t there. I tried to get the mechanism pinning me into the chair to unlock, but it refused. Then Squall entered the escape pod, and pushed the launch button, shooting us out safely. I glared at him, hating the way he had scared me to death life that. He picked himself up and gripped onto a hook in the side of the pod, steadying himself.
“Seifer.”
I looked at him, narrowing my eyes. “What the hell, Squall? Are you trying to give me a heart attack?”
His lips quirked. “Take care of Ellone.”
“What?”
“Take care of Ellone. Don’t let her get hurt.”
“Squall, what are you talking about?”
He didn’t say anything. He just looked at Ellone. “Sis, take me back to the nearest past for Rinoa. I need to reach her.”
Ellone stared at him with watery eyes. “I remember those eyes. You just looked at me with the same eyes you had when you were little. Those curious, innocent, puppy dog eyes. I loved those eyes.”
Squall smiled, looking beautiful as he did so. “Sis. I have to help Rinoa now.”
“Yes. I know.” Ellone took a deep breath. “Are you ready? To the nearest past... To the closest present to the future...”
Both of them stilled. Ellone’s eyes were closed and Squall was staring off somewhere past my shoulder. Whatever they were doing, I knew it had to deal with Ellone’s powers. When they came back to themselves, Ellone sucked in a deep breath, and she slumped in her chair. Squall straightened and held tighter to the handle he’d been using to steady himself before.
“Thanks, Sis.” Squall said quietly.
“Squall, be careful.”
He smiled at her, then regarded me. “Wait for us. We’ll be back soon.”
I felt a flash of cold. “Squall, what the hell are you talking about?”
He didn’t answer me. He yanked on the handle and was suddenly drawn up to the ceiling of the pod. An opening appeared in the ceiling and he went through, vanishing from sight as the door closed.
“Squall? Squall!”
“Idiot!” Piet snapped. “There’s no way he can get back! He’s insane! He’s gonna run out of fuel and life-support in no time. They’re both gonna die.”
“They won’t die.” Ellone said with confidence. “My little brother won’t die. He won’t let Rinoa die. You’ll see.”
I closed my eyes tight. He had told me that he had rescued Rinoa from space and that they had made it safely back to the earth together, but he hadn’t told me that he’d gone out there like a freaking maverick, risking himself for her. Rinoa wouldn’t have wanted him to sacrifice himself for her. Idiot. Idiot! He hadn’t told me because he hadn’t wanted me to stop him. He hadn’t wanted me to risk myself for something he knew how to do already. He had rescued Rinoa Before, and he could do it again. I listened to Piet grumble about Squall’s stupidity and felt anger flare in me.
I opened my eyes and looked at Piet. “Say one more word about Squall’s intelligence, and I’ll introduce my fist to your teeth.”
He stared at me with wide eyes.
Ellone let out a shaky breath. “He’ll be okay. They’ll both be okay.”
“Yeah.” I said. “They’ll be okay. We just have to wait for them. Hey, Ellone.”
She looked up at me, trying not to cry and trying to look brave, even though her eyes watered and her lower lip trembled.
“I’ll protect you, okay? I promised Squall. Don’t worry about anything, alright? He’ll come back to us, and we’ll get through this. You know he’s gonna survive this. You know it.”
She nodded, giving a shaky breath. I gripped my seat tightly and held on, hoping that this time around, Squall wasn’t going to end up floating dead in space. Everything had gone exactly as he’d wanted so far, but there was always room for error. Things always had the potential to go wrong. I decided I would beat the crap out of him when he came back to me. He had lied to me by omission, and that pissed me off. That thought cheered me a little bit, so I held on, and waited for the landing that would come.
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