Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ Abandoned Soul ❯ attempted murder ( Chapter 1 )

Disclaimer: I don´t own it. Squaresoft do. (And that´s the reason why I´m pouting!)

Author´s note: For Elisheva. If you need me: I´m there for you. (always) ^-^

Warning: Not for Rinoa lovers. Extrem-Rinoa-Bashing!!! (Sorry, don´t like her)

Part 2

By Little Leila

Monday morning, the day where everyone went to work. Even a Star like Seifer.

He sat in his office and studied the monitor in front of him. In the end, his curiosity won and he decided to postpone his suicide attempt. He wanted to know, how the cute blond......yeah he was definitely cute, got away so easy. He sat there in his chair since 6 in the morning and watched the tapes of the security cameras. The tapes were recorded on Saturday to sunday morning. But there wasn´t anything strange on the tape. Nobody sneaked in or broken into the firm.

~He couldn´t hide somewhere since friday, impossible. Then again..........he disappeared, didn´t he?~

Everything was so confusing for him. First he wanted to kill himself, then a blond boy without a name came out of nowhere and stopped him successfully and when Seifer went after him, he vanished. Was he hallucinating? Why should he be hallucinating over a blonde teenage boy? Why did he called him a coward? Maybe he became insane now, it would be a possible answer to this problem. The weirdest thing was, he felt attracted to him. He started daydreaming over the blond´s deep blue, heartstopping eyes. He didn´t knew the name but started daydreaming already. His thoughts and dreams were interrupted when somebody knocked on the door. Almost startled he answered it.

"Come in!"

A brunette woman walked in with three tapes in her left hand. She looked to him and handed him the tapes. Yes, his secretary was a really reliable person.

"The tapes from Friday, sir. Anything else?"

He took the tapes from her with a slight smile.

"A coffee would be nice, thank you Eileen."

"Of course, sir."

Before she went out to get the coffee, she turned around.

"Uhm, sir before I forget it. Miss Trepe wanted to call you today. She mentioned something about the new movie."

That wasn´t anything new for Seifer, because when Quistis called him in his office, it was about his life as a Star. But today was supposed to be his free day. Sure, there was the new action movie and he had the main role (again). ~What now? I thought they would make the dangerous scenes with my double today.Well, we´ll see.~

"When she wanted to call?"

"At ten o´clock."

"Thanks, Eileen."

"You´re welcome, sir."

With that she left his office. It was nearly ten o´clock and Quistis would call him soon. Enough time to check the other tapes. He put the first tape in the VCR and watched how his employee´s went in and out. He looked also at new people or just at the deliverymen. When time goes by, his phone started to ring. In a mocking way he thought. ~Now......Who could *that* be???~

He looked on the digital display of the phone. Yep, that was Quistis' number. With the receiver in his hand, he answered her in a annoyed voice.

"Yeah, Quistis?"

"Seifer? Listen! We have problems on the location here."

He sighed in defeat. A free day was too good to be true. ~I knew it.~

"You don´t want to tell me that my stuntman is sick, do you?" Wait! Don´t say anything! He has the flue, right?"

"Seifer, this isn´t funny. I´m serious. You´re double can´t play his part, that´s right. But he isn´t sick. He is dead!"

"WHAT???

"Yes, the police is here and they say it wasn´t an accident. It was murder."

"On the set? In broad daylight? You have to be kidding me. Who would do that? Tell me what happened!"

"Well we shoot the scene for the movie. The scene, in the movie, where you should drive a car, in high speed, along the cliffs and jump out before it falls down. Well, everything was fine, till the part where the stuntman should jump out. He didn´t! After the police investigated the wreckage, they found out that the doors were locked."

"He could have unlock it. I don´t see the problem."

"No, you don´t understand. The mechanism was blocked. He couldn´t open it, even if he wanted to. Now a few people here got superstitious. They say, it was a phantom."

When Quistis mentionend the word: *phantom*, Seifer thought of the little blond. He was like a phantom. He came and go and Seifer didn´t know, where or how he managed to do it.

"We need you here on the location for other scenes. The action part can wait until we find a new double for you."

"Ok, I´ll come as soon as possible. But I have a meeting first, so be patient."

"Screw that meeting!!! You come here, now!!!"

"Like I said, as soon as possible."

"I know that Seifer, don´t dare to trick me! If you´re not here in thirty minutes I............."

Before she could say anything else he cut her off.

"Yeah. Sure. Bye Quistis."

He put the receiver down and started to massage his temples. This woman was more than annoying, he was glad that he was more attracted to men. Just right in time for a break, Eileen knocked on the door again. She brought his coffee and the reports from last week. He thanked her and settled back in his comfortable chair. After the first sip of his coffee he brought his attention back to the monitor.

~~~

On the location, all hell has broken loose. Police cars where standing outside the gates to the studios. People were running around and the media demanded an answer. Reporters were standing in front of the studios and asked questions to everyone who had just the luck to run into them. Especially the great Seifer Almasy had to go through this torture. However, he was relieved when he passed the gates in one piece.

Quistis waited impatiently for him. When Seifer got out of his Jaguar, she began to preach about his behaviour. That he *should* show more responsibility. How he *should* be an idol for other people. Yes he should, but most of the time he asked himself why. The walked together into their studio and he asked her about the situation.

"Well Seifer, since we can´t shoot the action part we have to make another one. I spoke with the director already. We decided to shoot the romantic scene."

Seifer looked at her with wide eyes. He was shocked because his double should take his place instead. He don´t wanted a romantic scene with a female. It weren´t that worse, if it was any other woman on the planet. He wouldn´t complain even if Quistis would take the role. But to his dismay, the female was nobody else than........Rinoa Heartilly.

Yes, everyone else would kill, to take his place for a romantic scene with Rinoa. Everyone, who didn´t knew anything about her real character. He knew her character. She was a wailling, sqeaky, clingy, spoiled, annoying, stupid bimbo, who didn´t have enough brain to realise, that he wasn´t interrested in her or any other woman. Sure, she looked pretty with her slim body, the black shoulderlenght hair and her almond-shaped eyes. But her appearance wasn´t important, the soul was all that matters for him. They met each other, when she had a minor part, in his last movie: 'Master of the Wind'. Since that time, she is obsessed with him and couldn´t take 'no' as an answer. It was still a riddle, how she got the female main role in this movie.

Seifer was sure, Rinoa did that because of him. She wanted him and she will go to any lenghts. That made her even more scary. He wouldn´t do that. No chance in hell. He recovered from the first shock and glared at Quistis. She knew perfectly about his preferences and his revulsion towards Rinoa. She couldn´t be serious.

"I don´t do that and you know also why! I never complained about the scenes or roles you offered me, but we´re talking about Rinoa. You have to agree with me that she is nuts and stupid."

Quistis sighed, there was the Rinoa-problem again.

"I know Seifer, but it was the directors choice. I only do my job, you have to understand my point of view, too."

"I know your point of view and I don´t like it!

Seifer was angry and disappointed at the same time. He was angry, because of Rinoa and disappointed that Quistis was concerned about how much money they loose, if he don´t shoot the scene with Rinoa. But the choice wasn´t his. So he did the best out of it.

"Ok, ok. But first I have to stop at the dry cleaner´s and after the scene I need Ivory soap."

Quistis was confused by now. She knew that he gave his favourite white coat with the red crosses on the sleeves to the dry cleaner´s. She couldn´t imagine why he needed Ivory soap. She blinked and then asked him.

"Huh? For what do you need that?"

He hoped she would ask him and if it´s only for a chance to tease his manager. He smirked at her and walked slowly to the exit.

"To wash out my mouth after I said sweet words to her."

He didn´t turn around to see her face. He knew it had an annoyed expression. So he kept walking to his car. Unoticed by both, a shadow had heard everthing they had said. The shadow left his dark hiding place to follow one of them.

~~~

He was lucky there was a gap on the other side of the dry cleaner´s. A perfect place to park his car. He drove the car to the gap. Then he rummaged in his glove compartment, to find the note for the dry cleaner´s. He found it and got out of his car, when he heard a familar voice.

"WATCH OUT!"

Seifer turned to face the street and saw a car with high speed drove towards him. Without to think he jumped quickly and rolled over the hood of his Jaguar into safety, like he saw it from the stuntmen on the location. The dark blue Mercedes hit the side of his car and fled with squealing tires. After a few minutes, he regained his five senses and glanced across the street to the front of the dry cleaner´s. The little blond stood there with a concerned expression on his face. Seifer had hoped to see him again. He wanted to ask him so many questions. Why he saved him his life yesterday. Why he saved him today. How he found out about his suicide attempt. How he could vanish so easily.

He wanted to walk over to him, but then a bus drove along the street and his view was obstructed. The bus passed but the blond disappeared again, in these few seconds when the bus passed

~~~

tbc

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