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Fujin and Raijin had left the camp an hour ago. They had promised to Seifer to report back to the Garden and tell the situation. Seifer and Zell were now officially on a training mission. Well, to tell you the truth, this wasn’t entirely bought by the students of Garden. Wild rumors were told between the lessons; everyone had a different view of what was going on between the two of them. Those who were bold enough even spread rumors of sex being involved. This only drove fan girls over the edge. Garden always had had those who loved pairing people up, especially SeeD guys with each other. Even though Seifer and Zell pairing wasn’t the most popular one, people started to see the potential of it. Love; hate; cruel fate that kept those two apart. Most of the stories were filled with dark subjects and rough situations.

And the girls went wild. Selphie got tons of emails to publish different short stories, some of them were a bit odd; some of them were even cute. Selphie was just carrying her notes to the print when she ran into Squall.

“Long time no see Squall!” She greeted the guy with a nod because her hands were full of papers.

“Hey Selphie! Didn’t know you were so busy. I haven’t seen you around much these days.” Squall greeted, taking a small pile of the papers off her lap.

“Can I walk you to the classroom?” He asked wanting to get a word with Selphie about the situation. She had always been the one with the best sense of relationships and stuff.

“Okie.” She answered chirpily and smiled to Squall.

When the two of them were alone in the classroom and Selphie had put the printing machine to do its work, she turned to Squall.

“So, you wanted to talk about something?”

Squall nodded and sat on the edge of the nearest desk.

“Are you okay?” He asked after a couple of seconds of silence. There was a hint of concern in his voice.

“Of course I am! Why wouldn’t I be?” The girl answered without hesitation. “I have been busy with work and the school exams. And now that we know that the Zell is doing fine, I need to focus on myself too.” She added tugging her yellow dress’s hem downward with her right hand. Somehow she wasn’t feeling too happy.

“I mean, I was just wondering… Because we haven’t seen Zell for over a month or so… I just thought that you missed him because the two of you were like siblings.” Squall murmured rubbing the back of his head.

“I miss him, I do. But I think I have never meant much to Zell after all.” There was sadness in her voice as she turned her back to the fighter. “He has always seen you guys as his friends, I have been only a doll to drag behind. And now he has tossed me aside.” She added angrily.

Squall closed the distance between them and hugged the girl from behind as he soothed her.

“You know that’s not true. You have been our little sister that we have been protecting and caring a lot. Zell loves you even though he only shows it in a weird way. But that’s who he is.”

Taking her hand, Squall kissed it in a noble manner and continued. “Zell will be back and hopefully with happy news. Give him time to be happy, he needs some light in his life right now.” Selphie nodded her head which was still bowed low towards floor.

“I hope he comes back soon.” She said wiping the tears from her eyes. “Because I need some light in my life too and Zell is the only one who can bring it!” The girl’s face was now lightening up with a huge smile and she stood her head up to meet the fighter’s eyes. They both smiled and understood now a little better each other. In times like these, you need a friend to listen up your worries and to understand.

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Seifer was collecting wood from the forest they were camping, because the campfire was getting smaller by every minute and the day was setting quickly. The autumn breeze was making him shiver as he hadn’t taken much of anything with him as he had run off the Garden to meet Zell. Luckily he had now his Hyperion which Fujin had given back to him.

After he had collected a good junk of wood he headed back to the camp to see that Zell had finally got up and was fully clothed. Bummer, he thought smirking. I was kinda hoping to sneak in to the tent and get a warm welcome from him. He was standing at the edge of the camp, just by the high pine trees that were giving them shelter and he watched the fighter to do his “morning” routine. He was splashing tepid water to his face. Raijin had warmed the water to clean up the blood stains but now it had stand there for hours so it wasn’t warm anymore and they didn’t have enough wood to get much of warm water anymore. Seifer was holding the last decent junk of wood in his arms. This might be enough to cook a diner to them but not anything else. The night would be an interesting one because it was getting colder after nightfall. Seifer smirked once more and headed towards the tent.

“Hey Zelly!” He greeted and dropped the logs near the campfire. “Make me dinner, woman!” He shouted in a husky voice and winked to Zell who shot a deadly gaze back to the knight.

“You wish but we don’t really have anything to eat or make a diner out of. I assume that you didn’t bring a take-away from the Garden’s cafeteria with you, did you?” He mocked while he knew more than well that he hadn’t eaten much of anything after he departed the FH. He only had a jar of cookies in his pack bag. His stocmach was giving him a hard time.

“Zelly-o-Zelly then I must be our Prince Charming because I have…” He took his bag and raised a three dead rabbits just like the magician does his old “rabbit in a hat” –trick. “…these! Praise me and tell me how good I am!” With a victory smile, Seifer was more than pleased to see hunger appear to Zell’s eyes as he saw the big rabbits hanging by their ears in the Seifer’s fist. To tell you the truth, Raijin had got those saladchompers and brought them with him. Seifer was more than happy to have friends like Raijin and Fujin who would do anything for him and more. They had always looked after him as they had because friends. But this he didn’t tell to Zell.

“You don’t happen to have a Bambi in there too…?” Zell came towards the fire and tried to peak to Seifer’s bag to see what else there was.

“Just these three, Thumper and his siblings.” The knight pointed and reached out to get some sticks to pierce the rabbits.

“No no no! You don’t just put them above the fire like that!” Zell reacted out and snapped the fuzzy animals from the other blonde guy and started making some preparations. Zell knew something about cooking and after thirty minutes of hard working he had successfully separated the skin and the meat from rabbits and started cooking the meat on the fire. Seifer sniffed the air and a weak scent of the meat was already floating in air around the camp.

“Not bad, Zell.” He admitted. “I could get use to this.”

“Use to what?” Zell asked, not raising his eyes from the fire.

“This! Us being friendly to each other.” The knight said and got Zell to lose his balance. He laughed on the ground, not seeing the dark longing in knight’s eyes as he stand there watching Zell.

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Fujin and Raijin had left the camp an hour ago. They had promised to Seifer to report back to the Garden and tell the situation. Seifer and Zell were now officially on a training mission. Well, to tell you the truth, this wasn’t entirely bought by the students of Garden. Wild rumors were told between the lessons; everyone had a different view of what was going on between the two of them. Those who were bold enough even spread rumors of sex being involved. This only drove fan girls over the edge. Garden always had had those who loved pairing people up, especially SeeD guys with each other. Even though Seifer and Zell pairing wasn’t the most popular one, people started to see the potential of it. Love; hate; cruel fate that kept those two apart. Most of the stories were filled with dark subjects and rough situations.

And the girls went wild. Selphie got tons of emails to publish different short stories, some of them were a bit odd; some of them were even cute. Selphie was just carrying her notes to the print when she ran into Squall.

“Long time no see Squall!” She greeted the guy with a nod because her hands were full of papers.

“Hey Selphie! Didn’t know you were so busy. I haven’t seen you around much these days.” Squall greeted, taking a small pile of the papers off her lap.

“Can I walk you to the classroom?” He asked wanting to get a word with Selphie about the situation. She had always been the one with the best sense of relationships and stuff.

“Okie.” She answered chirpily and smiled to Squall.

When the two of them were alone in the classroom and Selphie had put the printing machine to do its work, she turned to Squall.

“So, you wanted to talk about something?”

Squall nodded and sat on the edge of the nearest desk.

“Are you okay?” He asked after a couple of seconds of silence. There was a hint of concern in his voice.

“Of course I am! Why wouldn’t I be?” The girl answered without hesitation. “I have been busy with work and the school exams. And now that we know that the Zell is doing fine, I need to focus on myself too.” She added tugging her yellow dress’s hem downward with her right hand. Somehow she wasn’t feeling too happy.

“I mean, I was just wondering… Because we haven’t seen Zell for over a month or so… I just thought that you missed him because the two of you were like siblings.” Squall murmured rubbing the back of his head.

“I miss him, I do. But I think I have never meant much to Zell after all.” There was sadness in her voice as she turned her back to the fighter. “He has always seen you guys as his friends, I have been only a doll to drag behind. And now he has tossed me aside.” She added angrily.

Squall closed the distance between them and hugged the girl from behind as he soothed her.

“You know that’s not true. You have been our little sister that we have been protecting and caring a lot. Zell loves you even though he only shows it in a weird way. But that’s who he is.”

Taking her hand, Squall kissed it in a noble manner and continued. “Zell will be back and hopefully with happy news. Give him time to be happy, he needs some light in his life right now.” Selphie nodded her head which was still bowed low towards floor.

“I hope he comes back soon.” She said wiping the tears from her eyes. “Because I need some light in my life too and Zell is the only one who can bring it!” The girl’s face was now lightening up with a huge smile and she stood her head up to meet the fighter’s eyes. They both smiled and understood now a little better each other. In times like these, you need a friend to listen up your worries and to understand.

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Seifer was collecting wood from the forest they were camping, because the campfire was getting smaller by every minute and the day was setting quickly. The autumn breeze was making him shiver as he hadn’t taken much of anything with him as he had run off the Garden to meet Zell. Luckily he had now his Hyperion which Fujin had given back to him.

After he had collected a good junk of wood he headed back to the camp to see that Zell had finally got up and was fully clothed. Bummer, he thought smirking. I was kinda hoping to sneak in to the tent and get a warm welcome from him. He was standing at the edge of the camp, just by the high pine trees that were giving them shelter and he watched the fighter to do his “morning” routine. He was splashing tepid water to his face. Raijin had warmed the water to clean up the blood stains but now it had stand there for hours so it wasn’t warm anymore and they didn’t have enough wood to get much of warm water anymore. Seifer was holding the last decent junk of wood in his arms. This might be enough to cook a diner to them but not anything else. The night would be an interesting one because it was getting colder after nightfall. Seifer smirked once more and headed towards the tent.

“Hey Zelly!” He greeted and dropped the logs near the campfire. “Make me dinner, woman!” He shouted in a husky voice and winked to Zell who shot a deadly gaze back to the knight.

“You wish but we don’t really have anything to eat or make a diner out of. I assume that you didn’t bring a take-away from the Garden’s cafeteria with you, did you?” He mocked while he knew more than well that he hadn’t eaten much of anything after he departed the FH. He only had a jar of cookies in his pack bag. His stocmach was giving him a hard time.

“Zelly-o-Zelly then I must be our Prince Charming because I have…” He took his bag and raised a three dead rabbits just like the magician does his old “rabbit in a hat” –trick. “…these! Praise me and tell me how good I am!” With a victory smile, Seifer was more than pleased to see hunger appear to Zell’s eyes as he saw the big rabbits hanging by their ears in the Seifer’s fist. To tell you the truth, Raijin had got those saladchompers and brought them with him. Seifer was more than happy to have friends like Raijin and Fujin who would do anything for him and more. They had always looked after him as they had because friends. But this he didn’t tell to Zell.

“You don’t happen to have a Bambi in there too…?” Zell came towards the fire and tried to peak to Seifer’s bag to see what else there was.

“Just these three, Thumper and his siblings.” The knight pointed and reached out to get some sticks to pierce the rabbits.

“No no no! You don’t just put them above the fire like that!” Zell reacted out and snapped the fuzzy animals from the other blonde guy and started making some preparations. Zell knew something about cooking and after thirty minutes of hard working he had successfully separated the skin and the meat from rabbits and started cooking the meat on the fire. Seifer sniffed the air and a weak scent of the meat was already floating in air around the camp.

“Not bad, Zell.” He admitted. “I could get use to this.”

“Use to what?” Zell asked, not raising his eyes from the fire.

“This! Us being friendly to each other.” The knight said and got Zell to lose his balance. He laughed on the ground, not seeing the dark longing in knight’s eyes as he stand there watching Zell.