Disclaimer: Final Fantasy 8 belongs to Sony, Squaresoft and lots of other people. That's obvious because if they belonged to me the boys would be all over each other, all the time.

Warnings: odd? Shounen-ai

This is not new! I've posted this twice before, but my account has been deleted twice as well .

~*~ Ice-cold ~*~

Zell gobbled down his jelly sandwich, wiped his mouth and got up quickly.

"I'm really sorry for leaving now Squall, but you know better than I do that this mission can't wait."

Squall just stood against the wall, waiting and watching Zell get all of his bags together. The blonde had only gotten his briefing late the evening before and was packing up to get it over with as quickly as possible while his lover just stood and waited.

"I'll be back as quickly as possible, I promise."

Zell scanned the room one last time, decided that he had everything he would need, then walked up to Squall and reached up for a soft kiss goodbye. Only their lips touched and as the martial artist drew back he softly whispered: "I love you." Gently brushing his fingertips across Squall's alabaster cheek he made a mental note to find a good way to make this up to his lover later.

Shouldering his bag, his large blue eyes met Squall's and not knowing what he saw there he misinterpreted it as indifference, which for the millionth time gave him some doubt about the nature of their relationship. The blonde got to the door and opened it to leave but when he wanted to walk through and get on with this damned mission, a leather-clad hand pulled at his shoulder and spun him around. Squall pressed him against the opened door and slowly advanced on him, the light in his eyes still the same but now not mistaken for indifference.

"Squall, baby, there's uh…no time for this right now. I should get going."

His statement was ignored as Squall still came closer.

"Baby? There are some uh…people over there…watching…"

This time Squall answered but it was almost inaudible.

"Let them 'watch'…"

Squall now stood right in front of Zell, so close by that their breath mingled and their noses could almost touch.

Then Squall did something quite unexpected. He lowered his head to face Zell more directly and slowly licked across the blonde's lower lip. After finishing that one he moved to the upper one and then gave a small lick to his lover's chin. The same was done to Zell's left cheekbone before Squall gave a last nibble to the martial artist's protruding lower lip and finally pulled back, leaving an incredibly stunned SeeD behind, still leaning in the doorway and still with a few, equally surprised, junior and senior classmen watching.

"You had some jelly on your face," was the only explanation that came and after a few seconds the blonde's mind snapped back to reality with the words. "It's time to go Zell."

He nodded, actually grabbed his bags again and left in the direction of the car park, throwing many loving, lusting and generally confused glances over his shoulder.

When the blonde had disappeared from the dormitory hallway and thereby out of sight Squall sighed imperceptibly and mouthed the words he had left unspoken:

"…Love you too…"

He then glared at the cadets, who were still staring at him and headed back into the dorm to get ready for his daily routine of 'playing' great Garden Commander Leonheart, cursing whatever God was listening for making him what he was:

…An ice-cold bastard…