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Because I fail at paying attention...

Who: Seifer and Selphie, then Squall to the rescue.
What: Probably a beating.
When: Evening, some time after the bodyswitch event.
Where: Barrier.
Summary: Selphie finally runs across Seifer, we'll see what ensues.
Rating: Undoubtedly at least Mature for violence and Seifer's mouth.

Now that things were relatively back to normal, as normal as they ever got in Luceti anyway, Seifer was back to his routine. This mostly consisted of patrolling the village for a while, skulking about in the woods, and kicking the barrier uselessly in frustration. As much "fun" as it was to be around all those people he knew from his past, and had beaten the tar out of him, he wasn't particularly comfortable with it at all.

Though Seifer was glad they weren't sharing the same fate, he did miss his posse.

Of course being far too caught up in one's thoughts offered the perfect opportunities to be snuck up on by someone he wasn't expecting. An often yellow-clad someone, in this case.

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See what he gets for not being more paranoid? Hit on the head, again. Why were people always hitting his head? Seifer jumped, whirled around, and glared scathingly at the offender.

"The fuck's wrong with you, Messenger Girl!?" He was half tempted to smack her down with Hyperion, but he hardly wanted Leonhart trying to kill him. So for now he was behaving himself. Slightly.

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"I don't owe you shit, Messenger Girl." Well, now he had her name, but he wasn't about to use it. Generally attacking the potentially insane guy was not the best way to strike up a conversation.

Actually it would be more disturbing if she was bouncing and woohoo-ing. Seifer didn't move to draw Hyperion yet, but he was definitely more alert and wary now that the nunchucks came out. Wasn't about to go down without a fight, not to this little shrimp.

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Of course it was about this, he knew it the moment she clocked him upside the head. At least someone was sufficiently angry about it finally, unfortunately that would never, ever, net an apology. Ever.

"Lost count." Coldly.

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She just got a cold smirk at that. Oh yes, he knew quite well what he was. No reason to dance around it, or deny it, after all.

"Military institution," He corrected, still in a cold, uncaring tone. "Orders are orders."

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"..." Yes well, he was following orders afterward, wasn't he? Or maybe she forgot that part. In fact he was a very good guard dog.

Oh Hyne, don't start crying. "They were being trained to destroy the Sorceress." Seifer was remarkably good at that cold tone right now, actually. Probably not making the situation any better, but he was full on the defensive now, and not one to explain himself to anyone. Much less someone who was pretty much a stranger.

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The same way Squall and Quistis had. Seifer, on the other hand, never had Irvine to spell things out for him so his memories were still uncertain and vague. Not that he'd argue that, or ever bring it up.

Fortunately Selphie didn't try, and just did exactly what he expected her to, lash out. Unfortunately Selphie was pretty darn fast, and he hadn't been smart enough to draw Hyperion yet. So Strange Vision hit, and hit hard. But Seifer's tough, and that doesn't take him down right away.

He jumps back, snarls, and draws Hyperion. If it's a fight she wants it's a fight she's getting.

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Selphie seemed to be the only one of the group with some damn sense, violent sense, but sense that Seifer could understand. Revenge. That was always a good motivator, and predictable.

Seifer wasn't a slouch in the combat department, and between all the spars and random fights he'd been in recently, he was in pretty damn good shape. Still, many of her hits landed but he was able to deflect enough damage to keep himself from getting anything vital hit. Any opening he saw, he would dive in for an attack in return.

No chance in hell he'd just stand there and let her beat the shit out of him.

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Seifer didn't have that drive for revenge, just staying alive. That much was at least keeping him from being pounded unconscious so far. Furious Selphie was a rather impressive force to be reckoned with.

Selphie will someday find that little of what Seifer does will ever make sense.

Seifer only paused long enough to respond with: "I'm not answering any of your damn questions." Which frankly could mean anything, honestly. Mostly it meant that he was stubborn, and not going to talk. She might as well just keep beating him down, because that's what he was trying to do to her.

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It is pretty satisfying, ask Squall.

She wasn't going to get anything out of him, not what she wanted to know anyway. No matter how hard she beat him or how many times she screamed it, as far as he was concerned she'd get nothing more than blood. And that'd just have to do. "Fuck off, Messenger Girl." Still not getting her named used, either. It really was a battle of wills at this point.

However, Haste just made things ten times more annoying. Seifer didn't have any augmentation spells, mostly just some fires and a few Sleeps left. He didn't want to waste them throwing them at someone he could barely hit so instead went on the defensive, doing everything in his power to avoid being beaten down too much. Not that it was working well at this point. Kind of like trying to fight a swarm of bees, really.

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One day Seifer should really learn to not enrage so many people, not that that was likely to ever happen. So, of course, he was going to stubbornly insist on not only refusing to call Selphie by her name, but also not being smug and nonchalant. In fact, he might only make it worse.

"Damn, was tryin' for the whole school." Learn to shut up, Seifer.

He was taking more and more of a beating as Selphie kept hitting harder and faster, and yet still that wasn't enough to make him stop acting like an arrogant jerk. This was all starting to hurt quiet a bit, however.

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If she knew anything about Seifer she'd know that he was always a jerk no matter what, but she was thinking precisely what he wanted her to think and that was what he'd been aiming for. Good, then she'd stop asking questions.

Instead she'll just beat him bloody. Considering the ferocity with which she was pummeling him that didn't really leave any room for getting hits in himself. Nope, instead he just took a very thorough beating and by now wasn't even managing to keep his footing.

Now he was just fighting to stay conscious, honestly. Just like old times. This might not have been the wisest decision he's ever made.

Probably not the best decision at all. Although it could be argued that Seifer never made smart decisions, regardless of who else was involved.

Fortunately for him, they weren't the only ones out in the forest today. Squall's patrols took him out in that direction on a regular basis and Selphie wasn't exactly being quiet about it. So much for things calming down, and why did he always seem to be the one have to take care of what Seifer left behind?

"Selphie," he called as soon as he got close enough to be heard. "That's enough."

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For once, Seifer was sharing Selphie's sentiments. Why did Leonhart have to show up now? His timing was always impeccably irritating, wasn't it? Granted, Squall probably did just save Seifer some internal bleeding, but he hated the idea of having to be "saved".

He grunted, and was just about to step away when the kick connected with his knee, sending him down on it painfully. Little bit more to add to the humiliation pile of the day. He was tempted to keep it going by tossing a fireball at her, but had a feeling he'd just get another Stop or something for his efforts.

"Get lost, Leonhart." Instead he decided to be more of an ass.

Squall couldn't have told you why he always seemed to show up at just the right time to keep Seifer from getting the shit knocked out of him. He just... did, much to his frequent chagrin. So in the long run, Seifer would just have to get used to being 'saved'.

He didn't answer Seifer's comment right away, instead opting to give him a thoroughly unimpressed look as he weighed his options. He wasn't going to leave him to Selphie's mercy, and that meant leaving was definitely out of the picture.

"Make me."

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Beating the tar out of them?

Seifer scowled, considered a few moments and decided he would attempt to do just that. Unfortunately standing back up was proving to be a little more of a hassle than he was expecting. Selphie had already delivered a pretty nice beating. Still, it appeared Seifer was going to give making Squall leave a go.

As soon as he got over there, yep. "Don't need you buttin' in, Leonhart. Stay out of it. Messenger Girl's got a score to settle." Right, Selphie? Beat the tar out of the monster, that's what you're supposed to do!

He was certainly free to try, but Squall wasn't about to leave any time soon. Tempers were running high and if he ended up having both of them angry at him by the time this was over, he'd just have to deal with.

"No, you can't," he commented to Selphie, totally ignoring Seifer's remarks. "Not until you can promise me you're thinking clearly."

And from what little he'd seen so far, he was pretty sure she wasn't.

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Seifer had a remarkable talent for sending people into a frothing rage. Especially once he discovered those specific buttons that worked so well in setting someone off. Such as the blatant refusal to refer to Selphie by her name.

Oh good, no more beatings. Now Seifer was at least given a moment to manage to stand without wobbling too much. It wasn't so much blood loss but simply beatings, since those nunchucks did a lot less breaking the skin and a lot more heavy bruising and crushing bone. Fortunately it didn't seem like anything too important was broken, except for pride. And no, Selphie would not be getting an apology and there was no way in hell Seifer was letting her forgive him, if he had anything to say about it.

That sudden mood shift got a bewildered raised eyebrow. "...The hell you on?" Clearly, she was more insane than he thought.

'All done'? Squall highly doubted that. Not that he was going to say so past simply raising any eyebrow but that was as good an indicator as him calling her out on it, to those who were particularly familiar with his mannerisms.

"Beating him up isn't going to bring Trabia back," he explained, even though he was pretty sure she already know that. It might be wonderfully cathartic, but that wasn't enough.

"Besides, he's always been an idiot."

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"Hey!" Spat at Squall irritably, at the moment it was quite true, but still. That just wasn't polite, Squall. Hey, it might not bring Trabia back, but it might make her feel a little better? Damnit Squall, see you just depressed your friend.

"I don't." He murmured once he was fairly certain she was out of earshot. It was true, if anyone bothered to pay attention to his patrol schedule, Seifer didn't sleep much. He leveled a cold stare back at Squall.

"Don't need you shadowin' me everywhere, Leonhart."

Unintentionally, perhaps, but it looked that way. But on the bright side at least it meant that Seifer wasn't in any more danger of getting his ass handed to him?

"I'm not," Squall answered bluntly. He might have a slight tendency to run into Seifer, but as far as he was concerned most of what Seifer did was up to him. Or at least enough for him not honestly care. "I'm just here to keep an eye on who I'm supposed to."

Namely, the other SeeDs.

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That would have been horrifying. Absolutely horrifying. It's far better this way.

He watched Selphie tromp off, then snorted at Squall. "Best go chase her, then." Seifer's just going to go hobble off until he can pretend that he wasn't just soundly beaten by someone about a foot shorter than him. He swung Hyperion lightly onto his shoulder and did his best impression of impassive and uncaring. Easy act, at this point.

Nunchucks hurt.

Horrifying to Seifer maybe. Squall would have found the whole affair rather amusing, if only because of Seifer's reaction to it.

He didn't bother actually replying to Seifer's comment, though, choosing instead to to give him a pointed look (this one meaning approximately 'I know that') before heading off in the general direction Selphie had vanished to. It would (hopefully) be easier to talk to her without Seifer hanging around.

As an afterthough, he sent a Cure Seifer's way before vanishing into the trees.

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Ffff damnit ~~thanks~~, Squall.

Seifer grunted, then turned to make his way back through the forest. He wasn't done inspecting the barrier, but he wasn't going to stick around to draw Selphie's attention again.

Squall had only really offered as the merest courtesy, anyway. That and because he knew that Seifer would be too stubborn to ask for the help. Besides, he was fairly certain it had to be better than wandering around with the pain.

"Sorry about that."

Sorry about bringing up what he did, that was. He wasn't going apologize for what Seifer did.

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Say rather, he wouldn't hold it against her given who she'd been fighting with. With Seifer around losing one's temper seemed to be far more frequent than it really had a right to be.

"He's good at that," Squall answered with a shrug. It was the way things had always been, really. Probably the way it always would be, too.

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Squall just sighed at that. Trying to explain Seifer (as he saw him) was a daunting task, and not really something he wanted to get into. Seifer was Seifer, really. And that's all there was to it.

"Maybe he doesn't want the reminder either?"

It probably wasn't the greatest of feelings to know you were responsible for an entire Garden's worth of deaths, after all. And that wasn't taking Ultimecia into account either.

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No, all he wanted was to be thoroughly annoying. You could not want a reminder without wanting to move on, right? You could be perfectly fine forgetting something. BUt he would admit that he wasn't the greatest at that sort of thing.

"Don't bother. He probably won't listen anyway."

That or he would and would decide that what better time for a second round. For whatever odd twisted reason that jumped into his head.

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There was a moment of silence from Squall at that. Just because Seifer was a jerk wasn't a really good reason to be one back. But one the other hand, it was Seifer and if there was anything he was good at it was convincing people to not care about him.

"It might mean you'd be wasting your time."

But he wasn't going to stop Selphie either, if that was what she'd made up her mind to do.

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