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Balamb Garden, Sick Bay, Friday Afternoon and Into Evening, Fandom Time (NFB)

Feb 18, 2011 18:44

Adel had been defeated, and Ellone rescued. The present danger had subsided, although the specter of Ultimecia -- the Sorceress from the future, who had been pulling strings and possessing minds -- had not departed. And in the meantime, there were lots of doctors, nurses and healers annoying the crap out of the Fandomites.

( Sick Bay: Jono and Raven )

knights: squall, ppl: quistis, stu: jono, stu: tara, stu: karla, stu: raven, plot: adel, where: balamb garden

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IC: Aftermath angelo_wings February 18 2011, 23:46:51 UTC

Tag in here to be lounging around at or near sick bay, for pings from other peeps.

Re: IC: Aftermath ff8_npcs February 19 2011, 00:57:16 UTC

Eventually, Quistis got some time to herself, to actually rest and breathe and watch the bustle of activity going on around her without having something she needed to be doing or someone coming up with an "urgent" matter that needed her attention. It was tiring.

She leaned against the wall in the waiting room and smiled at Squall and his new friends. He always did manage to inspire people to follow him, wherever he went.

Re: IC: Aftermath angelo_wings February 19 2011, 01:19:52 UTC

"Just like old times, isn't it?" Rinoa asked, not quite looking up from her seat.

Rinoa got kidnapped a lot. It was like she was Dawn or something.

Re: IC: Aftermath ff8_npcs February 19 2011, 01:27:28 UTC

"A bit," Quistis agreed with a smile. She went over to sit next to Rinoa. "Are you... alright?" she asked softly. Rinoa was physically fine -- the nurses had seen to that -- but she'd just been through something of an ordeal. "You can talk to me, you know."

It was obvious that Rinoa wasn't going away, and that Squall was never going to care for her the way she wanted him to, so she would try to stifle her jealousy and be Rinoa's friend. She gave Rinoa a hesitant but reassuring half-smile.

Re: IC: Aftermath angelo_wings February 19 2011, 01:39:45 UTC

"I tried to stop him," Rinoa said, knowing that Quistis wouldn't need clarification on 'him,' there. "He just came to tell me he was going, and that I should stay there. He wouldn't listen to reason, so I grabbed some friends to come along."

Re: IC: Aftermath ff8_npcs February 19 2011, 01:46:32 UTC

Quistis sighed and shook her head. "He's not normally this impulsive," she said. "He's not the type to just rush into things without a plan." Except for one other person, which Rinoa obviously knew. "He knew Garden was on its way. I wish he'd let me handle it."

Re: IC: Aftermath angelo_wings February 19 2011, 02:05:35 UTC

"We thought maybe Adel had woken up," Rinoa said. "We didn't know if there was time. Except ... if we had let you handle it, maybe she wouldn't have woken up, in the first place."

And that was going to bother her, yes.

"You should have seen him," she said, shivering. "He hadn't even thought to ask for back-up. He wasn't thinking, just ... reacting. He needed to get Ellone back."

Re: IC: Aftermath ff8_npcs February 19 2011, 02:10:23 UTC

Apparently, love turned Squall into Seifer.

"I've seen him like that before," Quistis pointed out. He got like that over Rinoa. And not her. It hurt a little.

"...What do you mean, she wouldn't have woken up?" she asked, picking up on what Rinoa had said. "I haven't gotten a full briefing on what happened, yet."

Re: IC: Aftermath angelo_wings February 19 2011, 02:20:09 UTC

Neither of them really had loving families to help them figure any of this out. Maybe that was why.

And to be fair, Quistis had never really been abducted by evil forces or anything.

Rinoa looked sheepish and hugged her knees. "We got Ellone out," she said. "Fujin and Raijin gave her to us, if we promised to help Seifer."

Who was apparently here, but Quistis didn't feel the need to tell anybody. Then again, people might be upset. It was hard to blame her.

Re: IC: Aftermath ff8_npcs February 19 2011, 02:35:21 UTC

Quistis didn't know if people would be upset or not. This way was safest.

"But... Adel was still frozen at the time? Seifer had been acting on his own?"

Which meant that Ultimecia could do at least some things without an awake Sorceress to puppet. Which was a scary thought.

Re: IC: Aftermath angelo_wings February 19 2011, 17:54:38 UTC

"They said he ... talked to her," Rinoa said, frowning to remember it. "If Adel wasn't awake, at least Ultimecia's presence was still there, to give him orders."

It was occurring to Rinoa that Quistis might well give her the lecture she'd been anticipating all morning, and that she might not be anticipating it after all.

"So we went to confront him, to see if we could talk him down, but he was ... too far gone."

Re: IC: Aftermath ff8_npcs February 19 2011, 18:52:38 UTC

Except that she was talking to the one person who wanted Seifer dead less than she did. Seifer was Quistis's biggest disappointment and greatest failure -- if she had been a better instructor, if she had been able to reach him, maybe none of this would have happened.

And now he was back to his old self. Maybe she could try to teach him anew.

"Too far gone?" Quistis asked. "Or too stubborn?" Once Seifer had made a wrongheaded decision, he usually stuck to it.

Re: IC: Aftermath angelo_wings February 19 2011, 19:25:27 UTC

"Maybe a little of both," Rinoa said. "He refused to back down, so we fought. It ... went badly."

And here. Quistis would get to see exactly how unprofessional Rinoa was. It was a good thing she'd never been a SeeD.

"For him, I mean. And he refused to give in. He was bleeding, and he slumped against the wall -- he dropped his gunblade. And I ... screamed."

Re: IC: Aftermath ff8_npcs February 19 2011, 20:16:00 UTC

Quistis nodded. She understood. She would have done the same thing. "You stopped Squall from killing him," she guessed. She knew Squall better than she knew Seifer -- she knew how that would play out. And she knew Rinoa, too.

She looked at Rinoa with an unreadable expression, not even sure herself what she was feeling. "Thank you," she said.

Re: IC: Aftermath angelo_wings February 19 2011, 21:45:52 UTC

Rinoa shook her head vehemently. "Don't," she said. "I was stupid. I made the wrong move. That's when everything went to hell. I pleaded with him, and he played along with it, and I let my guard down. I got a step too close, and he put a knife to my throat."

One she could still feel, if she closed her eyes and focused.

Re: IC: Aftermath ff8_npcs February 19 2011, 22:04:27 UTC

"I've known Seifer a lot longer than you have," Quistis told her. "And I still fell for his tricks all the time. He's... difficult. He makes you want to believe him. He's got a gift for that." She sighed. "He's the reason I lost my position as an instructor, you know. Him and Squall."

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