Little Light of Love Chapter 4
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:52 pm
A Little Light
By: The Engrish Spy
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy 8. Those people at Square do. So don't come to my door begging for money, and I mean in the form of lawyers.
A/N: More jumping this time. Mental movie montage moment, which means you have to picture what, is going on along with some music I'll note the time and place.
?Have you ever felt that you were alone in the world?? Lily questioned as she sat with her lap in her mothers.
?Many times.? Selphie coed to her daughter in a soft voice and stoked her hair.
Lily shifted her head and then closed her eyes.
?Why did they not search for Julia?? The girl asked as a little girl would about the world
Selphie hesitated, "I don't know honey. I don't know"
~*~
(AN: Insert music. I would recommend Romance from the Escaflowne soundtrack by Yoko Kanno. It has the memory quality to it. I would also recommend Very Little Wishes from the Macross Plus Soundtrack. Or anything else by Yoko Kanno she has good quality of music and is a great composer.)
"So how are you doing?" A woman in a white skirt and blue green top asked the man in a white button down shirt and black pants.
"Fine I guess." He sighed and then looked towards the horizon
"When do you guys have to clean out her room and gather her personal effects?" Ellone pushed back her hair as the breeze played with it.
"Rinoa wants to leave it. I think it should be transferred to the little nursery that use to be hers." He said with a flick of his wrist to check the time.
"Do you remember the day we sat in the field and you told me all about mom?" He asked the woman
"Who could forget? It was just before the Ethstar guards came and took me away." She giggled
"I did." He said solemnly
"That's not your fault." She replied and placed a hand on his shoulder and pulled him into a side ways hug.
"Well I think it was one of the most perfect days in my life. Next to the day I met Rinoa." He uttered
"I think seeing your daughter born would have been the most perfect day of your life would it not?" she said as she watched him carefully
"It would. I keep playing images in my mind. Julia is being born in the infirmary. The warm breeze coming in off the sea, seeing Rinoa and her happy face. I help her. I coach her and I love her." He said in a soft voice.
"Well maybe I could give you a little taste of what you missed." Ellone whispered
Squall glanced over at Ellone and then the sharp pain hit his skull. He was out cold.
He was in his father's body. It was in a room in the presidential place of Ethstar. Opulent but a breeze came in from the large windows. He glanced over at Rinoa. Her face was contorted in pain as well as covered with sweat. He watched from in Laguna's mind as He coached Rinoa to give birth, which seem to take forever. Just as Rinoa was about to give up, the doctors pulled the baby from her body. The little girl was tiny, screaming and pink. He could feel his heart tear and break at the sight. He immediately fell in love with the tiny baby she held.
He was jerked out of Laguna's body quickly and placed into another. He could see things and hear things and they were all of his daughter and what the others had seen as she grew up.
(AN: Montage moment)
(Fad into Quistis and Rinoa naming her)
(Fad into Rinoa giving Julia her first bath)
(Fad into Rinoa putting Julia to bed)
(Fad into Rinoa and Laguna taking Julia to the park)
(Fad into Julia smiling)
(Fad into Julia's first steps)
(Fad into Julia and her mother talking about her father)
(Fad into Julia playing with Lily and Raymond)
(Fad into Rinoa and Julia dancing during Quistis' wedding reception)
(Fad into Julia's first day as a cadet)
(Fad into the many bumps and bruises she receives)
(Fad into Julia receiving her dog Princess)
(Fad into Rinoa popping her head into sees Rinoa practice a kata in the sunlit studio)
(Fad into Raymond trying to teach Julia how to play one of his video games.)
(Fad into the Dance class for the cadets and teaching them the waltz for the moon and other dances they need to know. Julia fumbling and then getting the hang of the dance)
(Fad into Julia smiling again)
(Fad into Julia receiving her SeeD commission)
(Fad into Julia looking at the photo album)
(Fad into Julia fingering the photo of Squall and Rinoa)
(Fad into Julia hugging her mom goodbye)
~*~
He came to instantly. Squall looked at Ellone. She was smiling happy she had given her little brother a chance to witness his daughter's life. He mouthed a silent thank you and picked himself up and walked off on a mission to try and save whatever it was he had to save.
~*~
Rinoa sat in her classroom. She wore a pair of black rimmed reading glasses and was bent over the papers her first year cadets had given her a few days ago. The sunlight streamed into the classroom. She did not notice that the door had opened. A shadow came to rest over her. It distracted her. She pulled off her glasses and glanced up at her visitor.
In front of her stood Squall. He looked at her with a twinkle in his eye and then offered her his hand. She accepted it and they left the room together.
~*~
She sat in the blackness. She was scared and alone. There was no way to escape this prison. She would either have to comply with the sorceress plans or face an untimely death. She shuddered at the thought of her last meeting with the sorceress.
~*~
(Unknown portal of Time)
"Little one do you know what power you are kappable of?" The woman said in a sly voice
Julia shook her head and then watched the woman come closer to her with her eyes, never leaving her.
"You my dear are to be the most powerful sorceress of all time. By my sources I was told I was to be the most powerful sorceress of all time." She said in an evil voice
Julia continued to stare at the woman in front of her.
"Well this is were I kome to my dilemma. You see that once your pitiful sorceress of a mother and your pathetic spat of a father defeated me in my Time Kompression, I had to pass my great powers on to someone. It seems that I found the one you call Matron. She accepted some of my power with whole heart. She soon became mad with my powers. But it seemed that she only received half of my power" The woman paused for a moment and moved to the other side of Julia in a languid movement.
?Matron?s power, my power passed onto your disgraceful mother. Then it passed onto you when you were born. And you are thinking now where did the other part of my power go? The answer is that the other half of my power went somewhere into time where I kould not detect it. I did not realize it till recently that it was hidden under the ocean in a Test Facility. As you kame of age and into you powers, like your mother did in her seventeenth year, the attacks on Ethstar Test Facility happened. The monsters of the underground, normally peacefully kreaturs kould sense my power and tried to protect the GF. Ethstar sent for you and then you kame to me.? She said the last word close in Julia?s ears
~*~
Julia curled up into a little ball. What followed after was something she would never want to remember ever but it haunted her every time she closed her eyes for sleep. Ultimacia had invaded her mine, made her see things that no one at any age should see. She saw war, as well as the death and mangled SeeD that littered the outside of Ultimacia. She then was subjected to images of her friends, aunts and uncles and her mother dead, no life left in them. It was what broke her to no extent. She was dead inside.
~*~
?Thank you for helping me to do this.? Rinoa said to Squall as they reached Julia?s dorm room door.
?It?s no problem.? He replied and then looked at the door.
Under the dorm room number was a little nameplate. ?Heartilly, Julia?. Rinoa tapped the plate and then crossed her arms
?Zell made that for her.? She said sadly
?Was she close to Zell?? Squall asked and looked at Rinoa.
?He was like a father to her. Her and Raymond had something in common. They both had a missing parent. Zell tells me that Raymond sees me as the mother he never had? She said to him.
Squall nodded and then placed then entry code into the data pad and unlocked the door. He let Rinoa go before him. As he entered she took a quick glance around. It was neat, but not military neat like his was in the past. It was comfortable, much like Rinoa?s room. There were pictures around the room of her and her friends. On her bead there was a worn teddy with a red ribbon. Rinoa went to it as soon as she entered Squall sat down next to her.
?Laguna gave this to her when she was born.? She said and handed him the teddy bear. Squall played with the ribbon. ?I used to have a security toy. It was a purple elephant,? She continued. She turned to face him. Tears were in her eyes, ?Did you ever have a toy?? She asked him
?Yeah? He replied as he rubbed the back of his neck. He turned the bear up side down to look at the tag. In bold black writing it said Julia. Under it in faded red there was two letters. Squall squinted to make out the words. S L.
?Squall Leonheart.? Squall muttered under his breath
Rinoa perked up, ?That was your bear?? She questioned
"Yeah it?s the one that Matron gave to me after I came to the orphanage. She told me it was a gift from my father. When I questioned her about Laguna she wouldn?t tell me anything. I remeber this one time Seifer stole it from me and called me a baby,? He said with sadness.
Rinoa stood up and began to walk around the room. She looked at the photos on her bookshelf. There was the one she took of her and her friends on the day they had become SeeDs. She moved to the big picture she had of Quistis? wedding. In the corner of the picture was the little picture of her and Squall. She plucked it out of the frame and turned it over. She read the writing on the back.
?Squall and Rinoa together forever.?
Squall came up behind her and placed both of his hand on her shoulder. She turned her head towards him.
?I remember that day.? He said in a soft voice
?I do to.? She replied back to him
?It was the day after we defeated Ultimacia. That night I told you I loved you.? He spun her around to face him.
Rinoa looked into his blue eyes and then brought her fingers to trace the fading scar on his forehead. Squall looked back into her brown ones. He began to lean forward. Rinoa closed her eyes as she leaned into Squall. Their lips meet in a whispered touch. It sent shivers up and down each other?s spines. It was like their first kiss all over.
?I?m sorry to bother you.? Said a soft voice
Both Squall and Rinoa broke apart fast. Squall turned red as Rinoa turned to the newcomer. It was Lily and her eyes were red from crying.
?Lily it?s good to see you.? Rinoa said as she moved towards the girl in the door way
?Mom said that she lent you her vegetarian cookbook, but she needs it back so she can cook us Bean Stir Fry.? She said in a timid voice.
Rinoa?s eyes widened and then she placed a hand on her head. ?Oh I forgot to give that back to her. Come on Lily we?ll go to my place together to get it.? She said as she grabbed the girl?s hand and walked her out of the room.
Squall watched Rinoa leave and then shook his head. He walked over to the bed and sat down again and picked up the bear. As he surveyed the room again he noticed a book on her desk that was lying open. He stood and went over to see what it was. He picked it up and read the first line
?6046, New Moon,
My name is Julia Heartilly and today is my thirteenth birthday.?
Squall continued to read it intrigued him to know that his daughter wanted him in her life as much as she did. He heard a rap at the door and quickly pocketed the journal. It was Zell and he had a grim look and his face.
~*~
?What the matter with Ray?? Lilly asked as she looked at the sedated Raymond on the bed in the infirmary.
?We don?t know dear.? Irvine said with reassurance as he began to do a body scan of Raymond.
Zell was in the corner bighting his nails. Rinoa began to translate the data into information so she could find the right magic to cure whatever possible virus Raymond would have. Squall stood patiently next to Zell hoping that his composure would help Zell. Soon the warning lights went off.
?He?s a lot worse off then I thought he was when I first scanned him when he got back.? Irvine said and then turned to Lily. ?Lily did anything else happen that you failed to tell me.?
?He ended up come in contact with a force field. It was GF magic I think.? She said like a ghost
?All right that answers a lot of my questions.? Irvine said with gloomy look
?What?s the matter Irv?? Zell asked Squall placed a hand on his shoulder trying to calm the blond haired man.
?He?s been affected by a time distortion.? He said grimly
Everyone?s face fell.
TBC?
By: The Engrish Spy
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy 8. Those people at Square do. So don't come to my door begging for money, and I mean in the form of lawyers.
A/N: More jumping this time. Mental movie montage moment, which means you have to picture what, is going on along with some music I'll note the time and place.
?Have you ever felt that you were alone in the world?? Lily questioned as she sat with her lap in her mothers.
?Many times.? Selphie coed to her daughter in a soft voice and stoked her hair.
Lily shifted her head and then closed her eyes.
?Why did they not search for Julia?? The girl asked as a little girl would about the world
Selphie hesitated, "I don't know honey. I don't know"
~*~
(AN: Insert music. I would recommend Romance from the Escaflowne soundtrack by Yoko Kanno. It has the memory quality to it. I would also recommend Very Little Wishes from the Macross Plus Soundtrack. Or anything else by Yoko Kanno she has good quality of music and is a great composer.)
"So how are you doing?" A woman in a white skirt and blue green top asked the man in a white button down shirt and black pants.
"Fine I guess." He sighed and then looked towards the horizon
"When do you guys have to clean out her room and gather her personal effects?" Ellone pushed back her hair as the breeze played with it.
"Rinoa wants to leave it. I think it should be transferred to the little nursery that use to be hers." He said with a flick of his wrist to check the time.
"Do you remember the day we sat in the field and you told me all about mom?" He asked the woman
"Who could forget? It was just before the Ethstar guards came and took me away." She giggled
"I did." He said solemnly
"That's not your fault." She replied and placed a hand on his shoulder and pulled him into a side ways hug.
"Well I think it was one of the most perfect days in my life. Next to the day I met Rinoa." He uttered
"I think seeing your daughter born would have been the most perfect day of your life would it not?" she said as she watched him carefully
"It would. I keep playing images in my mind. Julia is being born in the infirmary. The warm breeze coming in off the sea, seeing Rinoa and her happy face. I help her. I coach her and I love her." He said in a soft voice.
"Well maybe I could give you a little taste of what you missed." Ellone whispered
Squall glanced over at Ellone and then the sharp pain hit his skull. He was out cold.
He was in his father's body. It was in a room in the presidential place of Ethstar. Opulent but a breeze came in from the large windows. He glanced over at Rinoa. Her face was contorted in pain as well as covered with sweat. He watched from in Laguna's mind as He coached Rinoa to give birth, which seem to take forever. Just as Rinoa was about to give up, the doctors pulled the baby from her body. The little girl was tiny, screaming and pink. He could feel his heart tear and break at the sight. He immediately fell in love with the tiny baby she held.
He was jerked out of Laguna's body quickly and placed into another. He could see things and hear things and they were all of his daughter and what the others had seen as she grew up.
(AN: Montage moment)
(Fad into Quistis and Rinoa naming her)
(Fad into Rinoa giving Julia her first bath)
(Fad into Rinoa putting Julia to bed)
(Fad into Rinoa and Laguna taking Julia to the park)
(Fad into Julia smiling)
(Fad into Julia's first steps)
(Fad into Julia and her mother talking about her father)
(Fad into Julia playing with Lily and Raymond)
(Fad into Rinoa and Julia dancing during Quistis' wedding reception)
(Fad into Julia's first day as a cadet)
(Fad into the many bumps and bruises she receives)
(Fad into Julia receiving her dog Princess)
(Fad into Rinoa popping her head into sees Rinoa practice a kata in the sunlit studio)
(Fad into Raymond trying to teach Julia how to play one of his video games.)
(Fad into the Dance class for the cadets and teaching them the waltz for the moon and other dances they need to know. Julia fumbling and then getting the hang of the dance)
(Fad into Julia smiling again)
(Fad into Julia receiving her SeeD commission)
(Fad into Julia looking at the photo album)
(Fad into Julia fingering the photo of Squall and Rinoa)
(Fad into Julia hugging her mom goodbye)
~*~
He came to instantly. Squall looked at Ellone. She was smiling happy she had given her little brother a chance to witness his daughter's life. He mouthed a silent thank you and picked himself up and walked off on a mission to try and save whatever it was he had to save.
~*~
Rinoa sat in her classroom. She wore a pair of black rimmed reading glasses and was bent over the papers her first year cadets had given her a few days ago. The sunlight streamed into the classroom. She did not notice that the door had opened. A shadow came to rest over her. It distracted her. She pulled off her glasses and glanced up at her visitor.
In front of her stood Squall. He looked at her with a twinkle in his eye and then offered her his hand. She accepted it and they left the room together.
~*~
She sat in the blackness. She was scared and alone. There was no way to escape this prison. She would either have to comply with the sorceress plans or face an untimely death. She shuddered at the thought of her last meeting with the sorceress.
~*~
(Unknown portal of Time)
"Little one do you know what power you are kappable of?" The woman said in a sly voice
Julia shook her head and then watched the woman come closer to her with her eyes, never leaving her.
"You my dear are to be the most powerful sorceress of all time. By my sources I was told I was to be the most powerful sorceress of all time." She said in an evil voice
Julia continued to stare at the woman in front of her.
"Well this is were I kome to my dilemma. You see that once your pitiful sorceress of a mother and your pathetic spat of a father defeated me in my Time Kompression, I had to pass my great powers on to someone. It seems that I found the one you call Matron. She accepted some of my power with whole heart. She soon became mad with my powers. But it seemed that she only received half of my power" The woman paused for a moment and moved to the other side of Julia in a languid movement.
?Matron?s power, my power passed onto your disgraceful mother. Then it passed onto you when you were born. And you are thinking now where did the other part of my power go? The answer is that the other half of my power went somewhere into time where I kould not detect it. I did not realize it till recently that it was hidden under the ocean in a Test Facility. As you kame of age and into you powers, like your mother did in her seventeenth year, the attacks on Ethstar Test Facility happened. The monsters of the underground, normally peacefully kreaturs kould sense my power and tried to protect the GF. Ethstar sent for you and then you kame to me.? She said the last word close in Julia?s ears
~*~
Julia curled up into a little ball. What followed after was something she would never want to remember ever but it haunted her every time she closed her eyes for sleep. Ultimacia had invaded her mine, made her see things that no one at any age should see. She saw war, as well as the death and mangled SeeD that littered the outside of Ultimacia. She then was subjected to images of her friends, aunts and uncles and her mother dead, no life left in them. It was what broke her to no extent. She was dead inside.
~*~
?Thank you for helping me to do this.? Rinoa said to Squall as they reached Julia?s dorm room door.
?It?s no problem.? He replied and then looked at the door.
Under the dorm room number was a little nameplate. ?Heartilly, Julia?. Rinoa tapped the plate and then crossed her arms
?Zell made that for her.? She said sadly
?Was she close to Zell?? Squall asked and looked at Rinoa.
?He was like a father to her. Her and Raymond had something in common. They both had a missing parent. Zell tells me that Raymond sees me as the mother he never had? She said to him.
Squall nodded and then placed then entry code into the data pad and unlocked the door. He let Rinoa go before him. As he entered she took a quick glance around. It was neat, but not military neat like his was in the past. It was comfortable, much like Rinoa?s room. There were pictures around the room of her and her friends. On her bead there was a worn teddy with a red ribbon. Rinoa went to it as soon as she entered Squall sat down next to her.
?Laguna gave this to her when she was born.? She said and handed him the teddy bear. Squall played with the ribbon. ?I used to have a security toy. It was a purple elephant,? She continued. She turned to face him. Tears were in her eyes, ?Did you ever have a toy?? She asked him
?Yeah? He replied as he rubbed the back of his neck. He turned the bear up side down to look at the tag. In bold black writing it said Julia. Under it in faded red there was two letters. Squall squinted to make out the words. S L.
?Squall Leonheart.? Squall muttered under his breath
Rinoa perked up, ?That was your bear?? She questioned
"Yeah it?s the one that Matron gave to me after I came to the orphanage. She told me it was a gift from my father. When I questioned her about Laguna she wouldn?t tell me anything. I remeber this one time Seifer stole it from me and called me a baby,? He said with sadness.
Rinoa stood up and began to walk around the room. She looked at the photos on her bookshelf. There was the one she took of her and her friends on the day they had become SeeDs. She moved to the big picture she had of Quistis? wedding. In the corner of the picture was the little picture of her and Squall. She plucked it out of the frame and turned it over. She read the writing on the back.
?Squall and Rinoa together forever.?
Squall came up behind her and placed both of his hand on her shoulder. She turned her head towards him.
?I remember that day.? He said in a soft voice
?I do to.? She replied back to him
?It was the day after we defeated Ultimacia. That night I told you I loved you.? He spun her around to face him.
Rinoa looked into his blue eyes and then brought her fingers to trace the fading scar on his forehead. Squall looked back into her brown ones. He began to lean forward. Rinoa closed her eyes as she leaned into Squall. Their lips meet in a whispered touch. It sent shivers up and down each other?s spines. It was like their first kiss all over.
?I?m sorry to bother you.? Said a soft voice
Both Squall and Rinoa broke apart fast. Squall turned red as Rinoa turned to the newcomer. It was Lily and her eyes were red from crying.
?Lily it?s good to see you.? Rinoa said as she moved towards the girl in the door way
?Mom said that she lent you her vegetarian cookbook, but she needs it back so she can cook us Bean Stir Fry.? She said in a timid voice.
Rinoa?s eyes widened and then she placed a hand on her head. ?Oh I forgot to give that back to her. Come on Lily we?ll go to my place together to get it.? She said as she grabbed the girl?s hand and walked her out of the room.
Squall watched Rinoa leave and then shook his head. He walked over to the bed and sat down again and picked up the bear. As he surveyed the room again he noticed a book on her desk that was lying open. He stood and went over to see what it was. He picked it up and read the first line
?6046, New Moon,
My name is Julia Heartilly and today is my thirteenth birthday.?
Squall continued to read it intrigued him to know that his daughter wanted him in her life as much as she did. He heard a rap at the door and quickly pocketed the journal. It was Zell and he had a grim look and his face.
~*~
?What the matter with Ray?? Lilly asked as she looked at the sedated Raymond on the bed in the infirmary.
?We don?t know dear.? Irvine said with reassurance as he began to do a body scan of Raymond.
Zell was in the corner bighting his nails. Rinoa began to translate the data into information so she could find the right magic to cure whatever possible virus Raymond would have. Squall stood patiently next to Zell hoping that his composure would help Zell. Soon the warning lights went off.
?He?s a lot worse off then I thought he was when I first scanned him when he got back.? Irvine said and then turned to Lily. ?Lily did anything else happen that you failed to tell me.?
?He ended up come in contact with a force field. It was GF magic I think.? She said like a ghost
?All right that answers a lot of my questions.? Irvine said with gloomy look
?What?s the matter Irv?? Zell asked Squall placed a hand on his shoulder trying to calm the blond haired man.
?He?s been affected by a time distortion.? He said grimly
Everyone?s face fell.
TBC?