Part 3.

IIIII

The mission as expected was a waste of time. The 'monster' turned out to be a pile of seaweed and a lot of people's imaginations. Squall hadn't bothered to look for the 'monster' at all he disappeared off to the card tournament as soon as they arrived. Irvine insisted that they all go to the club on the second day of the mission.

Zell had sat in the corner alone whilst the others, including a very drunk Squall, danced. He sat there, dressed in Seifer's shirt, clutching his drink. Selphie was annoyed when he because she saw a girl ask him to dance and he refused. She said he should get his mind off his troubles. His 'troubles' involving a certain tall blonde whom he could smell whenever he turned his head. You wouldn't think one kiss would be too much of a problem, even if it was a good kiss, a very good kiss.

He woke up screaming one night because he had a dream.... a sex dream with a mystery person... male type of person in.... a male type of person who was probably.... Seifer, because he had never had a dream like that before the kiss. And okay so he thought the other man was attractive but that just meant he had eyes right? It didn't mean anything. You only had to look to see that Seifer was good looking; he was tall and well built but not overly so, and he had a ton of confidence... some say too much confidence.

Zell sighed for the hundredth time on the flight back to garden, back to his troubles, back to Seifer. Selphie glanced over at him. "What's the problem this time?" She asked. "Or is this the same problem as last time?"

He gave her a look. "You still didn't tell me what to do." He said. "I thought you would have interfered by now."

"And every time I do I get told off for it so... not this time." She smiled.

Irvine walked past them on his way back to his seat next to Squall, who was flying. "If you want Seifer so badly just go and do something about it." He said. "It's easy." He added, looking at the blonde.

Zell gaped at him and then at Selphie. "You told him?!"

She looked innocently. "I didn't say anything."

"I heard you fussing over someone." He said. "And then the other night you whispered his name in your sleep so..." He shrugged. "I put two and two together."

Zell stared. "I. Did. Not...."

"How do you know? You were asleep." The cowboy pointed out.

"You're making it up."

Irvine shrugged again. "I'm not, sorry." He continued walking back to the seat.

Zell just shook his head, mouth open not knowing what to say. Selphie was grinning at him though. "Shut up." He said.

"But I didn't say anything."

"I know what you were thinking and I don't want to hear it."

"Okay." She said cheerfully.

"I know that you're going to say that I should go back to Seifer and... kiss him back or something but - but-" He pointed a finger at her. "I didn't feel anything for him three days ago!! This is all some..." He shook his head, looking for the right word. "...Temporary insanity."

She nodded along though she looked doubtful. "Well if it's only temporary then you might as well sleep with him in the mean time."

He stared at her. "How will that help?"

She smiled. "If someone told me I could sleep with Seifer for a while I'd say yes please." She laughed.

He rolled his eyes. "Well I'm not you."

"I know; there's only room for one person as beautiful, generous and wonderful as me." She smiled at him. "Why not just go and see him? He might not want anymore kissing or anything else, he might have moved on."

"And if not?"

"If not.....? I say go for it, you're not getting any younger." She patted him on the shoulder and walked off.

"Oh gee thanks." He said.

"And you're not getting any better offers at the moment." Quistis added from across the room.

"Does everyone know about this?!" Zell asked.

He got a chorus of 'yeses'.

The Ragnorok set down outside of garden, its tail taking a hedge with it. "Nice flying Squall." Selphie said, patting him on the arm. "I never liked that hedge anyway."

The brunette just blinked at her then glanced up at his lover, looking slightly confused.

Irvine chuckled. "Don't worry about it darlin'."

They all walked down the ramp discussing Zell's problem between them. Squall who had been silent so far stopped so suddenly that Irvine almost walked into him.

"Why do you make things so difficult?" He glared at Zell, walking past him. He was getting sick of hearing about it.

Zell watched him walk away. "Well how did you get Irvine then?"

"I gave him a blow job." He said casually.

Selphie laughed. "Really?"

Irvine nodded. "He did, he said he wanted to talk to me, to get me into his dorm." He grinned. "You could do that to Seifer." He suggested.

Zell frowned. "I don't think so." He stopped in the lobby staring up the lifts. Selphie nudged him forward. "Go. And. See. Him." She demanded, shoved him the right direction.

"I thought you weren't going to get involved." He dug his heels in.

"I wasn't but then you wouldn't do anything would you?"

Zell sighed. "Fine I'm going, happy?"

"Yep." She grinned, watching him until he disappeared.

Once in the dorms Zell grew nervous again. He walked slowly down to Seifer's dorm and was plucking up the courage to knock when the door opened and Raijin almost walked into him.

"Whoa! Oh hey Zell, you looking for Seifer?"

He nodded, biting his lip.

The dark man turned and went back in. "Seifer!" He heard him call, followed by some inaudible words in two voices. Raijin came back, walked past him and open the door. "See you later, you know."

"Yeah later." He said then took a deep breath.

"Oh it's you." Seifer said as he approached, looking disappointed.

Zell frowned, folding his arms. "Were you expecting someone else?"

"Yes actually." He frowned.

"Oh." He glanced down. "Anyone.... important?"

Seifer shrugged. "I guess not, what did you want then chicken?" He stared down on him, looking bored.

"Err... I um.... w-won't be able to return your clothes until tomorrow." He said, lamely. He mentally winced.

Seifer raised an eyebrow. "Was that it?"

Zell bit his lip. "You... err.... haven't thought about w-what you want from me have you? You know... the favour?"

Seifer blinked. "Oh yeah, that." He looked at his watch. "I err-"

Someone knocked on the door and the tall blonde looked nervously at it.

"Who's that?" Zell said.

"Err... hang on a minute." He answered the door and Zell stood on his toes, struggling to see who was at the door.

"Hey, you ready to go?"

Zell heard someone say. A male voice.

"You have a date?!" He yelled at Seifer.

Seifer frowned back at Zell. "Sort of.... yes but..."

"I can't believe this!"

The other guy, who Zell didn't know, glanced between the two of them. "Am I interrupting something here?"

"Yes!" Seifer said at the same time as Zell said. "No!"

They glared at each other.

The brunette in the doorway pointed back down the hall. "Maybe I'll just go and-"

"No!" Zell said. "Why should you go? I'll go!"

"Wait!" Seifer said, grabbed the blonde's arm to stop him leaving.

Zell pulled his arm from Seifer's grip. "Get off me!"

"Will you stop being such a little shit?" Seifer said.

"I'm being a shit?! That's funny! You know, I can't believe I was worried about what the hell I was going to say to you after you kissed me!"

The brunette's eyes widened and he shuffled backwards out of the room unnoticed.

Zell was still annoyed and yelled a whole load of stuff, half of which didn't make any sense.

"Worried in the good way? Or in a bad way?" Seifer asked.

"What?" He glanced at the door, seeing the brunette gone he looked around for him. "Where did he go?"

Seifer rolled his eyes, shutting the door. "I don't really want the whole garden to hear this, though I think they've heard you already."

Zell just glared at him.

"Fujin set me up on a blind date." He said. "I didn't want to go but she said she had already set up it so I couldn't say no."

"A blind date?"

"She said she was sick of me whine about…." He almost said 'you' but then thought better of it. "….Stuff." He ended lamely, turning and wandered back into his room like he forgot Zell was there.

"So that was the blind date?" Zell said following him after a second.

"Yeah, thanks for scaring him off for me." He smiled.

He walked into his kitchen. "Want a beer?" He asked. Not waiting for a reply he handed a bottle to the blonde, took one for himself and walked into the living room.

"So we're even then right?" Zell said, coming to sit on the arm of the sofa. "I repaid you by.... scaring your date away." He frowned.

"Yeah we convinced him that we're both crazy. No doubt the whole garden will believe it tomorrow as well." He sat on the other end of the sofa. "Come here." He said. Patting the seat next him, noticing how far away Zell sat. "I'm not going to bite." He added, smirking.

Zell rolled his eyes and moved to sit nearer to the blonde, though not right next to him.

Seifer leaned closer and made a 'biting' gesture causing Zell to flinch slightly. He laughed.

"Shut up." Zell punched him lightly in the arm, watching Seifer laugh at him.

"So that's it right? We're even and it's over?" He got up to leave but he did it overly slowly in case Seifer wanted to stop.

The taller blonde smirked knowing Zell wanted him to stop him so he did. He grabbed the blonde's upper arm and pulled him back hard so that he stumbled back, tripped over his feet and ended up in Seifer's lap.

Zell's blushed, realizing where he ended up while Seifer just looked pleased. The smaller blonde tried to rise and maybe sit next to the other man but he was being held on to and his efforts only made friction between the two of them, making Zell aware that he was sitting on the other man's crotch.

Seifer chuckled.

Zell's blush deepened, he could feel…. Seifer was getting hard.

"If I knew you'd look so good just squirming in my lap I'd have done something about it sooner." He said.

"Huh?" Zell said, intelligently. His eyes widened when Seifer's hands were in his hair and pulled him in until there were lips against his own. He shut his eyes and kissed the blonde back, when one of those hands landed on his ass his eyes shot open again and he heard Seifer chuckle against his ear. The hand squeezed and pulled him forward so that his own growing erection came into contact with Seifer's and he groaned suddenly, he put a hand over his mouth as if not realizing before that the sound came from him.

Seifer smirked at him and grabbed the hand from in front of Zell's mouth, moving it and then leaned into kiss him again.

They were so into their kisses, and Seifer's hand that snaked down the back of Zell's pants that they didn't hear the door open or the footsteps.

"Oh my god, you know!"

Zell jumped, staring up at Raijin who looked shocked at first and then rolled his eyes and stared at Seifer. The taller man slowly looked up at his friend with an irritated look on his face. "What do you want? Can't you see I'm busy here?"

"I really thought you were joking about that love affair with Zell, I didn't know you were serious, you know?!"

Zell tried to rise. "I'll go."

"No you won't." Seifer pulled him back down.

"This is my room too you know." Raijin whined, heading for bedroom.

The door closed and a minute later loud music started up from inside.

Seifer laughed.

Zell punched him in the arm, harder this time. "It's not funny asshole! How am I going to look Raijin in the eye again?!"

"I could be worse."

"How?!"

"You still had your clothes on."

"Ugh." Zell got up and managed to get away from Seifer this time.

"Where are you going?" Seifer said.

"Away." When he got to door he added. "My room."

"You don't have roommate right?" Seifer said curiously. "Can I come?" He started to follow, not really waiting for the reply.

"Pun intended?" The little blonde asked.

Seifer chuckled, following Zell to his room.

III

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