Generic Mistletoe Fic

“Headmaster!”
“Stop calling me that.” Zell pushed past Squall into the headmaster’s office. Zell dropped a box on his desk, knocking over documents. “Solstice is coming up.”
“Is that my present?” Squall asked, his voice dry.
“Not even close. Decorations. Selphie insisted.”
“Whatever.” Squall ignored him as he worked, refusing to acknowledge the box long enough to move it.
“That’s [...]

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Sibling, Rivalry

Ellone watched the moon over the Garden and wondered how to get her brother back.
She’d watched, worrying over him during her years in hiding, and been crushed when Ultimecia overtook Matron Edea. When she finally found her brother, another sorceress was there.
She knew him better than Rinoa could. She’d spent years with him in the [...]

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Fairy Tale

I was sweeping dirt and pine needles off the walk when the stranger opened the gate and stepped inside with a flourish.
“Don’t worry, young man, I’ve come for the Sorceress. You’ll be free soon.”
I just stared at him for a minute. “What?”

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Nothing

It was quiet here. Peaceful, almost. Squall could appreciate that. After the fighting, the yelling, that indescribable noise at the end- he hadn’t even known what it was, only that it stopped, and the silence was its own kind of noise.
He started walking, having nothing better to do, and wondered where Ultimecia had flung him. [...]

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How You Play

“I wanted you to know that I’m glad you stayed at your post,” Cid said. Dr. Kadowaki hadn’t heard him come in, and she jumped in her seat.
“Oh! Headmaster. You surprised me.”
“I’m not Headmaster for much longer. I just wanted you to know that, though. I was afraid you might think I was upset you [...]

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Becoming

Edea’s only thought was to keep the strange woman away from the children, just in case. Then she realize who – or rather what – she was. A sorceress, badly injured, who needed to pass on her power.
Ultimecia took Edea’s small hand in her own, and pressed her lips to the woman’s forehead, and Edea [...]

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Mistaken

He seemed so dashing, rushing off where wiser men feared to tread. Wiser, less dashing men, like her husband, helped open orphanages on the edge of the world, far away from…
“-just a crazy sorceress,” Laguna was saying when Edea stepped back into the conversation. She tried not to take it personally.
“It’s brave of you to [...]

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Retirement

Their island was quiet after the kids left – not that they could really call them kids anymore, regardless of whether the Deling government would allow them to buy porn.
“Sometimes I think… we should have done something else. Done it some other way,” Cid frowned as the Garden disappeared over the horizon.
Edea shook her head. [...]

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Never

“Yes, Edie?”
“Promise me you’ll let me go when the time comes.” She was chewing on her lower lip in that way he could never resist.
Cid put his hands on her hips and pulled her to him. “I’ll never let you go. I couldn’t.” He kissed her lightly, but she pulled away.
“I’m serious,” Edea told him.
“So [...]

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Storks

“Would you like to have a child around the house?” Edea asked him suddenly.
Cid blinked and sputtered. “I, er, hadn’t thought about it.” He was quiet for a minute before asking “Why?”
“I just… thought it might be nice,” she answered, smiling softly in the way he knew meant she was planning something.
Could she be pregnant, [...]

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