Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ Abandoned Soul ❯ The first victim ( Chapter 2 )

Disclaimer: I dunno, but how often do I have to say that??? I don´t own anything!!! Not even *my* room were I write the stories. -_-"

Author´s note: This is for Elisheva. I´ll make the chapter like you wanted it. ^^ I still need a beta-reader. Ok! Who wants to be the poor victim???

Warning: Not for Rinoa lovers. Extrem-Rinoa-Bashing!!! (Did you really thought, It would be only for one chapter??? ) ^_^ Also Nida-bashing, so beware. ^^

Part 2

By Little Leila

Seifer ran across the street, if he would hurry, maybe he would catch the blond in time.

Now he stood on the place were the young blond was before. He looked around, but saw nothing.

~Maybe he went inside?~

He wanted to the dry cleaner´s, anyway. Seifer opened the door and walked in. The red-haired woman stared at him with wide eyes, like he visited her the first time. But he was a regular-customer, so that wasn´t the reason. She blinked and spoke to him in a concerned voice.

"Sir, are you ok? Shall I call the police? Are you hurt?............"

Seifer lifted his hand to stop her babbling and she understood the gesture immediately. Then he took the time to look around. He couldn´t spot anybody else. So either the blond wasn´t here or he went out through the back exit. Seifer thought, that he won´t get an answer if he wouldn´t ask.

"Sorry miss, but did a young blond teenager ran inside here, a few seconds after the incident? With spiked up hair?"

The woman looked at him, like he asked her to jump from the highest building. Then she shook her head. Seifer was sure he was near him. He could feel him! It was a warm, heavy feeling. It was the same feeling, that he had when somebody hugged him or comforted him. But that was such a long time ago, he barely remembered it. He kept asking her. She must have seen something.........anything.

"He was outside, in front of window there. Did you saw in which direction he went? It´s really important."

The woman had really wide eyes now and gave him a look like he was insane. Something was wrong here and Seifer could see that in her face.

"Sir,............ I have a good view to the parking lot outside and I saw that this wasn´t an accident, too. But.............

She hestitated, because she was uncertain, if she should dare to continue. He was aware of that, but he didn´t know how to take her fear away. He thought it would be the best, if he would do, what he had done the last two years of his life. He let the actor out and played his role as good as he could.

He gave her an understanding glance, like it doesn´t matter to him what she would answer him. Of course it mattered to him. He didn´t show it, though. Then he talked to her in his best, indifferent voice, like he learned it from Squall.

"But, ........what?"

It worked! That took her fear from him and she wasn`t nervous anymore. Now with more courage in her voice she could answer him.

"................ there wasn´t anyone in front of our shop, sir."

~~~

"That´s it!!!! Now I´m sure I´m going insane."

Seifer was really frustrated by now. Tired and exhausted he flopped down on his bed and remembered the disturbing events of the day. After the Incident he called the police with his mobile phone, to settle things with the insurance. The Officer interrogated also the woman from the dry cleaner´s and several witnesses. He heard what they´d said about the hit-and-run accident. Yes, they saw how he had jumped over the hood of his car, but nobody of them mentionend a blond or somebody who yelled a warning to him. They pressumed that he had seen that car all by himself. Nobody had seen or heard the young teenager, except Seifer.

~I must be hallucinating. Yeah. Sure! I hallucinate over a blond teenager with spiked up hair and a hot Tattoo to save my live every time when I´m in danger. Of Course......... not! My Imagination cannot be that vivid, can it? He is real. He has to be real!~

Then there was the scene he had with Rinoa. Only the thought of her in that tight evenning dress made his stomach clench in disgust. The worsest was, he had to take it off in their faked hotelroom, in the studio, for the *hot, passionate sex-scene.* Of course he didn´t had sex with her. The mere thought of it revolted him to no end. He acted only as long as it was necessary, but not a second longer. Later he needed a long time to wash himself, because he felt so dirty and sick. Quistis praised him for his act and assured him, that he don´t have to do it again. They had the scene and the director was satisfied, too. If he had the choice, he would rather do that with his mysterious blond phantom.

~I wish I could get to know him. But what if he is really only a part of my imagination?~

With that last thought, he fell into a dreamless sleep.

~~~

The next day he went back to the location. Quistis wanted him to, or else........ . Well he don´t wanted to know what she would do to him. He knew her well enough to assume that his punishment had something to do with Rinoa. But then again, what was so important that it couldn´t wait?

~I wonder, with what she wants to torture me today?~

"THERE YOU ARE!"

Seifer started to panic. He knew only one person on the whole planet, who could have the same annoying, squeaky voice like Rinoa. Was it just him, or could it be that all who looked like her acted the same, too? Seifer covered his annoyed face with a mask out of pure indifference. Then he turned around to face Rinoa´s male clone, and greeted him with a bored voice.

"Hello Nida, how you doing?"

"Oh absolutely great, after I saw you."

Seifer knew about Nida´s crush on him. If he wasn´t the assistant of the director, then Seifer could at least avoid him, under these circumstances, he hadn´t a choice. But somehow both, Nida and Rinoa, are really similar to themselves. Nevertheless, both were not related to each other.

"Have you seen Quistis? She wanted to tell me something."

"Oh yes she is in studio C and waiting for you already. I think she can wait a bit longer for you and we´ll go to the next café, what do you think? Why I´m even asking, of course you want to, right?"

Nida grabbed his right arm and tried to drag him into the next café. Seifer couldn´t react. He was taken aback by Nida´s spontaneous behaviour. Normally, Nida was more the reserved guy, who wouldn´t dare to touch him, but sometimes he could really become a nuisance to Seifer. They made only five steps when the second squeaky voice could be heard across the streets.

"NIDA. What do you think, you´re doing with my Seify-pooh?"

Rinoa went in a quicker pace to them, with Quistis behind her. Seifer couldn´t hide his annoyance anymore. He glared at first at Rinoa, then at Nida and managed to free himself from Nida´s death grip. He noticed now, how Rinoa had called him only seconds ago.

~Suddenly, I feel the urge to throw up~

He rolled his emerald eyes, not wanting to hear their mindless argument. Luckily, Quistis approached him and cast him a tiny smile. Maybe she could stop them, from killing each other for nothing. Instead, Quistis started talking to him.

"Seifer, we found a new double for you. He can shoot the scene with Rinoa, now you have enough time for the firm."

She gave him a knowing nod. He was really glad that Quistis understood him in this case. With a lame excuse, like his position in the computer firm, she changed the directors mind and the double could play his part instead. Rinoa wasn´t very thrilled with the thought to have a double instead of the original. So she started bitching around and now she had a fight with Nida and it doesn´t seem like they could stop ever.

"Why don´t you get that, Nida? Seifer is mine! You haven´t any chance with him. He isn´t a faggot like you, right darling?"

~If she knew.....~

Seifer didn´t answer, but he frowned at that word. He didn´t like it, when people like Rinoa started bashing about gay couples. Either they should keep their mouth´s shut, or just look away. Nida was one of a few people who knew about the incident with Squall .......and Seifer´s preferences. Since that time, he didn´t quit stalking after him, in his desperate hope to get a date.

The situation escalated now. They were both shouting and Quistis tried to seperate them but failed. Seifer couldn´t take their yelling and looked around for an excuse to leave. He turned his head to the left and blinked several times.

~What the........?~

His haunting daydream stood there across the street, and leaned against the building with his left shoulder. He still had a worried expression on his face. For Seifer, it didn´t fit there, it doesn´t seem right. He looked more like a bouncing, energetic, happy guy and not like someone who should worry about the cruel world. He felt it again, this attraction. No, this obsession! The little blond had caught his heart in a few days and he didn´t even try it. Seifer didn´t have an explanation for his reaction. He didn´t know him!

Not his name, his birthday, his attitude nor his character and still, he felt attracted to him. But everything was so familar to Seifer. The way he stood there, the way he talked or just his simple, graceful movements. It was, like Seifer saw all of it a long time ago. A déjá vu. He felt how his lips became dry. How he started to shiver, though he felt warm, almost hot.

~How did he pass the gates? What If he is really just an imagination?

He lost his trail of thought´s when Nida grabbed his neck. Seifer didn´t realise what was going on. He remembered faint voices who were childish fighting about whether Seifer was gay or not.

"No *Rinny*. You believe that he is straight? Here I´ll show you!"

With that Nida pulled him into a forced, rude, emotionless kiss. Seifer felt more then terrible. The fact that a male was kissing him didn´t made the situation any better. Nida pulled away and saw, with an amused smile, how Rinoa gaped at them.

Seifer turned his head to the left to see, if his phantom was still there. If he saw that and what he would think of it. Would he be disgusted? Angry? Indifferent? Each of these possibilities wouldn´t be very pleasant. The blond was still there but now with a different expression on his cute face. The worry vanished and was replaced with.......... sadness? He lowered his head, pushed himself from the wall and turned around to walk away. Seifer ran after him, he expected all but not a sadness like the cute blond showed.

~Does that mean he really cares?~

He didn´t call after him, how should he? He didn´t know his name. Seifer was close when the blond went around the corner of the studio building. He thought he chaught up to him, when he went around the corner, too. But to his dismay, his cute daydream had vanished again.

~~~

Quistis was waiting for him when he came back from where he ran off. Nida had left already because the director had called him. And Rinoa stormed off with a terrifying look in her eyes. If Quistis wouldn´t know better she had thought that Rinoa became insane by now. But something was nagging in her mind. Why did he ran off in the first place? He looked like he would run after someone, but Quistis didn´t look in time to see who. Now he stood in front of her with a flushed face either from running or because he.............. .

"Seifer, where were you?"

He panted and looked at her with a now slight blushing face. Quistis assumed that whoever that person was, was someone who had Seifer´s affection. That disturbed her a bit. She wasn´t jealous. She doesn´t like Seifer this way, but if Seifer was in love it was bad for his reputation as a movie-star. The fans would turn him down and the directors would choose other actors. That was really bad for business.

Seifer realised her words and felt uneasy. What should he tell her? That he was after a blond, from which he didn´t knew the name? He couldn´t do that.

"Only a friend. Nobody important."

He was lying! Quistis was a blonde, but that doesn´t mean she was dense. She looked at him suspicious. No matter how hard he tried, she knew when he was lying. He would avoid to see in her eyes and he would give a taciturn reply to every question.

"Seifer, for me personally, it doesn´t matter with whom you´re in love, but it´s worse for your reputation and you know it.

~She saw him? Then maybe I´m not insane?~

Quistis didn´t saw him, but presumed, since she know Seifer exactly, that it was a man. However, if his fans find out, that would be the end of his career. She couldn´t let that happen. She would loose too much.

"We can´t risk that the media find out about it."

"Quistis I know you´re concerned but that´s my problem, not yours."

"It is my problem, because I´m your manager. Do you know how much trouble we´ll have if they ever find out? That it could ruin everything?

She spoke to him in a stern voice, like she would talk to a child. He was really stubborn sometimes and she knew him the best.

"I know what I´m doing, you won´t loose too much money don´t worry," he snapped and then left her alone.

Quistis was taken aback by his comment Did he really thought she would only care about the money? She walked back to the studio to settle things with the director, but she couldn´t get the comment out of her head for the rest of the day.

~~~

It was after midnight and everyone left the studio C already. Also the workers, the interior decorators and even the director. But one person refused to sleep. Nida was still up, he couldn´t sleep unless everything was beyond perfect. With his clipboard in his hands he moved through the rearranged studio. The interior decorators did really good work. But he wasn´t satisfied with the colour of the carpet.

"Oh God. Beige? What awful colour. We have to changed that."

Nida would never admitt it, but he was scared to be alone like this. So he spoke the words aloud just like he would talk to another person.

Suddenly there was a rattle in the dark corners of the studio. Nida was startled and looked carefully around to see who was in here, too. He couldn´t see a thing in the dark corner´s. Maybe someone was playing a prank on him.

"H.....Hello? "

This was riduculous he wasn´t a little kid anymore. He could handle that. Whoever this person was, should see that he wasn´t afraid of anything. With more courage in his voice he tried it again.

"Listen, this isn´t funny! Now come out!"

Nothing.

There was only a this unbearable silence and the knowledge that somebody or something was in here, too.

All of sudden a book fell down to his right. Nida was so startled that he fell on his bottom when he stepped back. He thought of the worsest, so he raised his arms to protect himself, when there was a soft sound.

"Meow" Followed by a purr.

Nida couldn´t believe his ears. He lowered his arms to look at the feline, black creature. Then he relaxed and began to laugh almost hysterical.

"A cat? A fucking cat? And I thought, someone would beat the shit out of me."

He calmed down and started to get up when there was another voice to be heard.

"You claiming things, that aren´t yours!"

The cracking sound of a spliting skull could be heard, but the cat was the only witness. Then there were more sounds. Sounds of slicing flesh and breaking bones. And now....... a new colour decorated the carpet.

Bloody red.

~~~

Tbc

(Sorry but I had to kill him. I needed a suitable victim. ^_~ )

If you want you can tell me who should be the next victim. Except Elisheva tells me who should be the next.

Thanks for the Review´s. I try to coninue as soon as I can. ^^