Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ TKO- Total Knock Out ❯ Chapter 22 ( Chapter 22 )

Chapter 22

Zell walked home that night more confused then when he'd left. He didn't know what his encounter with Seifer meant. He got out what he needed to say to the other man but Seifer never really responded. After sucking Seifer off Zell tried to look for any signs of acceptance but all he got was pushed away again. He swallowed back tears and could still taste the cum in his mouth. He sighed into the cold air remembering what happened after.

(When Seifer finished spilling into Zell's mouth he backed off and wiped it with his jacket sleeve. He stood close in front of the panting man and leaned in kissing him. Gently and with passion, the way he would if they were together. At first Seifer welcomed the kiss and returned it but then he pushed the little blonde away. Zell looked at him confused about what was going on. Seifer sat up and fixed his pants. Seifer rested his elbows on his knees and dropped his head in his hands.

"Seifer?" Zell asked cautiously, he waited a minute for a reply and opened his mouth to speak again but was interrupted. "Go home Zell." Seifer spoke up quietly. "But-"

"Just go home." He said again a little louder never looking up at the heartbroken blonde. Zell thought about saying something else not wanting to give up so easily but he did. After another minute of waiting he finally turned and left the gym.)

Zell got back to the apartment and went inside before going into the elevator, he looked at the clock over the landlords desk. 'Nine fifteen' He read in his mind and went to his floor. The apartment door was still open and when he went inside Squall was waiting for him on the couch.

"Got your note." He said holding up the piece of paper. Zell just nodded and took his jacket off. "What happened?" Squall asked noticing Zell's depressed expression. "I blew it." The little boxer said and he couldn't keep the tears back anymore.

Squall made a sympathetic face and went over to hug his friend. "Come on tell me what happened." He said guiding Zell towards the couch. When they sat down Zell sniffed in and wiped his eyes with his hands. Squall sat beside him waiting patiently to listen.

"I went to the gym you know to just think and Seifer was there." Squall nodded. "I tried talking to him. I wanted to know why he pushed me away like that he wouldn't tell me anything. He just kept telling me to leave so I got desperate and-" Zell cut himself off remembering what happened next.

"What?" Squall asked.

Zell wiped his face again and let out some air. He hesitated before speaking. "I- I gave him a blow job." "What!" Squall yelled. Zell just put his head down not wanting to look at his friend right now. Feeling his own shame and humiliation.

"Zell how could you? I mean you barely know him and after what he did to you. What were you thinking? I thought we agreed to forget about all this until after Friday's game?"

"I know and I'm sorry but I couldn't just let it go. I love him Squall." Zell said lifting his head a little. Squall stood up and put his hands in his hair pulling lightly. "Hyne I don't need this." He dropped his hands and stood near Zell watching him carefully. "Is there anything else you haven't told me about you and Seifer?" He asked not meaning to sound so harsh but he couldn't help it.

Zell nodded slowly.

"Well what is it? You weren't doing drugs with him were you?" "No of course not. You know that but a few nights ago we- when we went out to celebrate making it to the championship," Squall braced himself for what Zell was about to say. "we slept together." He rushed out quietly.

Squall was speechless and could only stare down at Zell. "I thought he liked me, I thought he might have felt the same way about me that I do him," Zell started rambling and sobbing again. "turns out he was just drunk and now probably hates me. I fucked up big, gods he's not even gay. I'm sorry Squall it just kinda happened." He cried a little harder into his hands and Squall sat down beside him putting an arm around him for comfort.

"Alright don't worry about it, its fine. Those things happen. I just wish you would have told me sooner. Look if you really love this guy just give him some time and space and yourself. Things will sort out eventually you'll see. Now are you gonna be o.k.?" Squall asked.

Zell sniffed in and nodded. "Good, why don't you go wash up and get to bed. We can talk more about it later."

Zell slowly got up rubbing his nose and headed for the bathroom. "Don't forget we got training early tomorrow." Squall called after him. He sighed when Zell closed the bathroom door and slumped in the couch. "We should have never come here." He said to himself then sighed again and lied his head back against the cushion.

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< br> Seifer went into the apartment and slammed the door behind him. Irvine immediately appeared out in the living room from his bedroom.

"What the hell is wrong with you are you tryna get us thrown outta here?" He asked in a hushed tone. Seifer ignored him and went to the fridge getting himself some water. Irvine watched him take the cap off and pour the water over his head drowning himself in it, then he shook it off.

"Please tell me you weren't out there smoking, drinking, sniffing, sticking or popping anything?" Irvine asked with disappointment. Seifer took a drink from the water left in the bottle then capped it.

"No I wasn't and you shouldn't be so quick to assume," He answered sharply. "I was at the gym."

He went back inside the refrigerator looking for some food. "Sorry I just thought, well you looked so messed up I- I don't know." Irvine said walking over to the counter and he sat at one of the stools. "So you wanna tell me what happened. Its obvious somethin' happened."

Seifer backed away from the fridge and closed it. "Why is there never any food in here?" He asked in the same sharp tone taking a seat across from Irvine.

"Well you could have came back to the bar for dinner instead of letting me eat alone. Now tell me what happened." Irvine said. "That fucking kid!" Seifer shouted slamming his hands on the counter top. "Who Zell? He's only a year under you." Irvine said. Seifer flashed Irvine an annoyed glare.

"I know that. You're fucking talk rubs off okay? He might as well be a kid the way he's acting. How am I supposed to avoid him if he keeps following me?" He asked getting his voice back to a normal tone.

"I don't think he's following you Seif' more like bumping into you. He kinda doesn't have a choice being in the same profession and all." "You're no help you know that." Seifer said and Irvine laughed slightly.

"Well I try. So what happened? He shows up at the gym and........." "And he tries talking to me about what happened. I guess trying to convince me that he could be more than a hit and run." Seifer started but Irvine chimed in. "So do you want him to be more than that?" "I don't know, let me finish please. So I told him to leave and there's nothing to talk about. I was too fucked up in the head to talk then. You won't believe what he does next. I'm going into the weight room and sit on the bench press. Next thing I know he's kissing me then sucking my dick." Irvine sat up straight and smiled.

"What?" He asked slightly laughing. "Its not funny he just went for it and I let him. Like a fucking idiot I let him. I should have stopped it but it was too late." Seifer dropped his face in his hands and shook his head. "Now I know exactly why he didn't push me away that night. He couldn't." He said through his hands.

"There there it'll be ok. So how'd it feel? Good huh." Irvine asked still having that playfulness in his voice. He laughed when Seifer looked up at him angrily, then his expression changed and he laughed. "Actually it was." He said and they both started laughing.

"Well I don't see what the problem is then go for it. You need some change in your life." Irvine said getting serious again.

"Nope can't do that. I don't know if that's what I want, if he's who I want. This is too new for me. Sure I like him and he is good company-" "Gives good head too." Irvine threw in. "Whatever but besides that the game is coming up and getting into anything now would just end up like shit. I don't want that." Seifer stood up to go to his room.

"So you do care about him." Irvine asked turning and following the tall blonde with his eyes. Seifer stopped in the middle of the living room and turned around. "I didn't say that, don't put words in my mouth."

"You didn't have to I could hear it in your voice." Seifer furrowed his brow and turned away continuing to his room. "It'll get to you soon enough. Hey don't be lazin' around in bed tomorrow we got training." Irvine called after him. The only response he got was the bedroom door closing. "Kids." He sighed out and shook his head.

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At the news station Rinoa ran inside excitedly with her new footage of the two boxers. 'I am going to make reporter of the millennium for this one.' She said to herself while she went into the dark room to develop the pictures. When she was inside she took out her role of film and searched the red lit room for the solution to develop them.

"Maybe I could have a little fun with these pictures first before putting then on the air. I bet the papers would pay a fortune to have these." She laughed to herself and began working on the film.

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The next morning Seifer and Irvine woke up early and got dressed for the days training at the gym. They had a small breakfast and were out the door.

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In the apartment below, an hour later Squall had just gotten up and cursed the clock for what time it was. Sleep didn't come easy the night before thinking about Zell and his problem and Irvine and his own problems.

He went into Zell's room and turned the light on going to the bed he shook him awake. Zell grumbled and rolled over on his back shielding his eyes with an arm. "Get up its already past eight." Squall said leaving the room. Zell yawned and threw himself out of bed and slunked his way to the bathroom.

Squall was in the kitchen pouring orange juice and making frozen waffles. After a few minutes Zell joined him looking a little more alive then before. "So what about school?" He asked taking the plate that was passed to him. "No school for the rest of the week. I already called and explained the situation. They gave me your work and you can bring it with you Monday." Squall said and he took his own plate and began eating.

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Seifer and Irvine were at the gym using the weights first. Irvine stood beside Seifer and spotted him on the bench press.

"So was this the same spot you two love birds were at last night?" Irvine asked smiling. "Very funny. This just happens to be my favorite one." Seifer said back lifting the barbell. "Yeah I bet it is now. Heh heh."

"Just shut up and do your job."

"I am, gettin on peoples nerves is my job." Irvine replied in all seriousness. Seifer made a low noise of annoyance and kept lifting.

"What about you and your lover boy, did you give up on him or did he finally realize what a loser you are?" Seifer asked dropping the weight and sitting up. "Very funny yourself. We're just havin' a few problems that's all. I'm giving him his space." Irvine answered almost to himself thinking about the situation between him and Squall.

"Maybe he's not worth the wait then." Seifer got off the bench and he and Irvine walked over to the leg machines.

"Oh yeah you'd know all about that huh?" Irvine said watching Seifer get himself situated on the machine. "Well he is worth the wait. I just don't know how long he's gonna wait." "Maybe you should ask him." Seifer said pushing his legs up lifting the weights of the machine. Irvine turned towards the door and saw Squall and Zell walking in.

"Shit, what are they doin' here?" Irvine said more to himself. Seifer stopped working out and got up to follow Irvine.

"What are you doing here?" Irvine asked Squall and Squall looked confused at the question.

"What do you think I'm doing here, we're training." Squall said. Irvine stood right in front of Squall with his arms crossed and Seifer behind him. Zell stood farther back from Squall off to the side so he had a good view of Seifer. He watched him from the short distance not caring if anyone noticed his obvious staring. Seifer was busy trying to avoid looking Zell's way so he watched Squall and Irvine or looked off in space.

"Well you can't do it now I'm using the gym." Irvine said. "And? You don't own the gym." Squall said back. 'I can't believe he's doing this,' Squall thought. 'Did I really hurt him that much?'

"Come on Squall you know Seifer and I train alone and since Zell's part of the competition I'd rather you not be here." 'Oh gods he probably thinks I hate him or something. I just can't break my own rule. Ever since I can remember Seifer and I have worked out alone, practiced alone, trained alone. That's just the way it is.' Irvine thought.

"So what am I supposed to do memorize your whole fucking schedule to avoid being here when you are?" Squall yelled. "I didn't say that I'm just saying I'm using the gym now so you should go somewhere else or wait. I'll even call and let you know when we're done." Irvine said calmly and tried to touch Squall's shoulder but he smacked his hand away.

"I'm not gonna rearrange my damn schedule for you." Squall said still with his voice raised.

'What's wrong with them,' Zell thought. 'Now we can't even be in the same gym together. Its all my fault, Seifer probably told Irvine what I did and now they both hate us. You really screwed up this time Dincht.'

"You know what, forget it. I don't have time for this. Take the fucking gym have it all day if you want. Come on Zell." Squall said tightly and he turned away to go back out the door. Irvine gave Zell an apologetic look and Zell nodded in acknowledgement then followed behind Squall. Irvine sighed when they were both out of sight and he put a hand to his forehead and turned to Seifer.

"Sure he's still worth it?" Seifer asked and Irvine scowled at him. "Get back on the machine pretty boy."

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< br> "Thank you very much miss Caraway." The newspaper editor of the Deling's Deal said shaking the young woman's hand. "It was a pleasure doing business with you sir. Remember our deal you put the rumor out and I'll confirm it on the news tonight night." Rinoa said. She rose from the brown leather chair in the editors office and showed herself out.

The editor started reading over the article headline for the paper and smiling to himself. "We're gonna have to work fast if I'm gonna have this out by the afternoon." He put the paper and small photo Rinoa gave him on his desk and he pushed a call button for his news team to meet in his office.

"Now to find the coaches and get the story." Rinoa said to herself on her way out of the building. She held onto an envelope with the pictures enlarged in it.

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"Can you believe them. This is so fucking stupid and pointless." Squall said getting into his car with Zell. "Its not that big a deal Squall." Zell said getting situated in his seat. Squall looked at him questioningly. "What did he hypnotize you last night? Its not right to take claims on something built for public use. What are we supposed to do untill they're done?" Squall said to Zell still angry with the situation. "I don't know I'm sorry." Zell said feeling guilty about the whole thing.

Squall stared at his miserable friend and calmed himself down. "Don't be, its not your fault. This has nothing to do with you and Seifer. Its me and Irvine that have a problem. I just wish you weren't caught up in it." He rubbed Zell's back then started the car.

"Are you sure?" Zell asked "Yeah, its not that big a deal anyway. Like you said. We'll just go to the arena and work out there." Squall said and Zell nodded.

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< br> The printing machines were busy going to work on the Deling Deal and the front page had a large sized shot of Seifer and Zell in the gym at the bench press. From the angle of the picture you couldn't exactly tell what was going on but it was enough to stir up trouble for the two.

Men were waiting by the machines to take off the finished products and put the paper together. So it'd be ready to go out.

Rinoa had her own plans for the pictures, she was going to go to Squall and Irvine first in hopes that she could get some money out of the deal. She was also hoping to get the real story from one of them for her news exclusive.

"I'll call it A Total Knock Out of the closet hm hm." She laughed quaintly to herself at the heading. She got into her car and checked to make sure she had her tape recorder ready. Since she didn't know exactly where either of them would be she decided to try the arena first.

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Zell was in the ring sparing with another local boxer while Squall watched from a corner in the ring.

"That's good, stay inside." Squall called to Zell. The other boy went for a punch but Zell blocked it and sent back his own. Squall watched closely with his arms crossed over his chest. 'I hope he doesn't let that Seifer thing interfere with his game. He's come too far to lose it now on some guy. Maybe I should have a talk with him unless Irvine hasn't already.'

Before Squall could even get into thoughts about Irvine he shook it away and refocused on Zell's game.

"Keep it up, you're doing fine. Put more force behind it.." Squall called to Zell and the dark haired sports reporter walked up behind him. "Excuse me," She said from below the ring. Squall turned around and looked down at her with a frown. He remembered her from the clinic and that night on the news when they'd been talking about the drugs.

"What do you want?" He asked. She looked past him to Zell fighting then back at Squall. "I was wondering if I could get a word with you about Fridays upcoming game."

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"Please it won't take long." She tried again and Squall sighed looking back at Zell.

"Keep fighting I'll be right back." He said to him and Zell gave him a nod and watched him get out of the ring. He also got a glimpse of who Squall was with. 'That's that reporter, wonder what she wants?' He thought to himself then went back to boxing with the other boy.

The two walked over to a nearby bench and Rinoa checked her hidden recorder inside her hand bag to make sure it was running. They both sat down..

"What do you want?" Squall asked again. "Well I was hoping to get some personal info on the boxers that made it to the championship game." Rinoa said. "What do you mean personal?" Squall asked with a raised eyebrow. "Well like who uh-"

"Zell."

"Right, who Zell is behind the gloves." Squall gave her a questioning look not sure if she was telling the truth or not.

"What is it exactly that you want to know, why don't you talk to him?" He said. "Because he's obviously busy and I hear the coaches are very close to their students right?" Squall nodded absently. "So what's Zell like outside of the ring?" She asked and moved so her recorder would have a better hearing range.

"Well he's a good kid, has his head on straight, gets good grades, doesn't do drugs. I don't know what else to tell you." Squall shrugged. "Ok but what about his sexual preferences." Rinoa whispered and Squall furrowed his brows and stared at her hard.

"What kind of question is that?" He asked not moving. "A simple one. I think the people have the right to know about our gay boxing society." She said while digging into her handbag and pulling out the photos she enlarged. "Here's my proof and if you don't give me the full story I'll have them up all over the place, in papers, in arenas on T.V." She said very cockily and Squall snatched the photos and looked through them all. His face grew angrier with every one he saw.

When he reached the last he looked at Rinoa. "The hell do you think you're doing? Where did you get these?"

"Its a professional journalist oath not to tell their secrets." She said and took the pictures back quickly. Zell heard the commotion from the ring and he stopped and looked in his coaches direction. Squall stood up and gave Rinoa a real old fashioned boxers punch in the face. She screamed and fell to the floor off the bench.

Everyone in the arena was watching now and the owner ran over to see what was going on, Zell was right behind him jumping from the ring.

"Take your bullshit and go harass someone else!" Squall shouted as she got up from the floor holding her eye. "You can't stop me from putting this out there. I have proof and nothing you say can change that." She said.

"What's going on?" The owner asked trying to get a look at Rinoa's face. "Nothing get away from me." She said and she took her things and stormed out.

"Squall what happened?" Zell asked looking to his enraged friend for answers. "Lets go home, I'll tell you there." Squall said and he stormed out after Rinoa with Zell behind him trying to get his gloves off.

Before Rinoa could drive off Squall looked inside the window. "What do you want from us? Why does his being gay matter to you or anyone else?" He asked still angry.

"I'm just doing my job reporting about the world of sports and all it has to offer." She answered back.

"We don't have any money." Squall said. "Well then I guess I'll be telling your story. Maybe I could get the story from his boy toy. I'm sure Deling would love to find out about their champs hidden lifestyle." Squall backed away from the window and she drove off.

He didn't know what else to do but watch her leave. "Squall what's going on?" Zell asked. "She knows about you and Seifer." "What!? How?" Zell asked. "She was there last night, pictures. I don't know what she wants but if there's a possibility it'll ruin your chances of fighting we have to stop her. Fuck! I don't need this right now." Squall grabbed his messed strands of hair and went for his car.

Zell stood in the street staring in horror after where Rinoa had just drove off. 'This is all my fault.' He thought and went to the car himself.

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