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Rinoa looked down at Selphie's prone form, placing her hand on Angelo's head. As he whined, large brown eyes looked up at her worriedly.

"It's okay, Angelo, Selphie will be okay." She said, more to reassure herself than her dog. Looking to Irvine, who had fallen asleep as Selphie's side. Cowboy hat resting on the nightstand, his coat hanging on the coat hanger behind him.

His hand clasped over Selphie's. Rinoa took a took on Selphie's left, brushing a few strands of hair off of Selphie's forehead. Her chest slowly rising and falling, Angelo resting his head on Rinoa's lap. When someone cleared his throat. Looking up, Rinoa saw Squall standing there, leaning against the door frame in his SeeD uniform. Gunblade in hand. Squall looked from Angelo to Rinoa.

"Going out on patrol?" Rinoa asked. Squall nodded. "How's Quistis?"

"Good," Squall said, "She's in her dorm, Zell's been watching over her." He then looked to Selphie. "Are you going to continue to stay with Selphie?"

Rinoa shook her head, then look to Irvine who was slowly beginning to wake up, yawning he rubbed the sleep from his eyes and looked to Squall.

"I'm...I'm coming with you, this guy is going to pay for hurting my Selphie." He growled, grabbing his hat and his coat.

"Fine," Squall said, turning away. "Irvine, grab your gun and meet me at the entrance." He then turned to Rinoa. "Uh, Rinoa I know you're probably not going to like what I am about to ask."

"Rinoa looked up at him. "What?"

"I wanted to know if I could borrow Angelo. I mean not on patrol but to keep guard over Selphie, while I station two SeeDs to guard outside the door." Rinoa looked down at Angelo, who was looking at Squall, had tilted to one side, tongue hanging out, before looking to Rinoa.

Rinoa looked at Squall and nodded before walking up to him.

"I'll take responsibility if something happens to him." He reassured her, placing a hand on her shoulder. Rinoa nodded before walking past him.

Melissa looked down at the man, as he lay on the stretcher, bandages wrapped around his abdomen, next to him stood the mans friend. Running a hand through his pink hair.

"Can you tell me what exactly happened?" She asked, notebook in hand.

The young man scratched the back of his head, looking down at his feet. "Well...me and Johnny, " he said gesturing to his friend. "Well we decided that, well before I tell you anything there's something else you might know."

Melissa tore her eyes from her notepad, pen to paper, raising an eyebrow. The pink haired man spoke up.

"Before we had entered the bar, we had seen your suspect attack a young woman, club her over the head. And then dragged her into a nearby alley, so we stopped near the alley and that's went we caught a glimpse of her attacker. It was the same guy that stabbed my friend here." He said, looking to the man on the stretcher.

Melissa jotted it down. "Now tell me about the bar incident."

"Well shortly after the incident in the alley we spotted the same that attacked the girl, head into the bathroom, blood on his hands. So while my friend and I distracted, stalling him and such. Then when we had done that, I was to get the bartender to call the police. Sadly things didn't seem to go that way, as you can see." He said shaking his head.

"Guess you're pretty lucky, that the bartender was his face on the news and called it in. Or we wouldn't have come." Melissa said, before turning away and exited the ambulance as the paramedics closed the doors and pulled away.

"So," Kelly said. "What do you plan on doing now?"

"Interview some of the other bar patrons, see if anyone saw where our suspect was heading." Melissa said, heading backing into the bar.

Douglas glanced out from behind the tree, making sure no one was watching as he changed into his uniform. Taking his hair out of its usual ponytail, placing his backpack onto his shoulders before heading towards the entrance of Balamb Garden. Hair falling into his eyes, watching a couple of other students walk past him. Keeping an eye out of anybody that could recognize him, Douglas headed to the infirmary.

He knew Selphie was there, so vulnerable and defenceless. Reaching into his pocket for his knife, smiling to himself, boy would they be in for a surprise when they went in to check on her in the morning.

Zell watched a Quistis cried into her pillow, he was never good at things like this, even when his grandfather died when he was a young boy. When his mother would cry her eyes out on the bed. Turning toward the the door, he slowly walked out and stood beside the door, keeping watch. Arms crossed over his broad chest, eyes narrowed.

"Trying to make yourself look bad ass," a voice spoke up. "You know you're trying too hard." Looking up Zell saw Xu standing there, hands on her hips, solemn expression on her face.

"How is she?" She asked. Looking past him, at Quistis' door.

"Crying her eyes out, still upset about what happened to Selphie." Zell said, looking down the darkened hallway. Running a hand through his hair as he looked back to Xu. "Squall and Irvine on patrol?"

Xu nodded then looked past him as she heard the door unlock and Quistis stepped out of the room. Eyes red rimmed and puffy from crying, at the moment she was cleaning her glasses with the corner of her shirt.

"Zell I'm gonna go to the training center, Xu you can come along if you like." She offered, looking to the other woman, who gave Quistis a small smile as the three of them headed to the training center.

Douglas resisted the urge to grin as he came to the infirmary entrance. No guards, no witnesses, this was too easy. Slowly and deliberately Douglas made his way into the infirmary, knife in hand, wiping sweat away with the back of his hand as the doors slid open, revealing a sleeping Selphie. Her chest rising and falling slowly. Douglas sat at the foot of her bed, knife raised above his head, when he stopped.

Staying completely still, did he just hear something growl? No, it was just the wind. Thunder maybe. Grinning as he looked out the window, his smile disappeared. Well there went that assumption about the noise being thunder. His eyes widened as he saw something move in the corner, followed by the sound of growling again. Just as that something lunged at him, knocking him down, his knife falling out of his hands.

Screaming as he felt the creature bite down on his wrist that once held the knife. A dog! He thought. There was a fucking dog in here. Trying to get away from the enraged beast, Douglas tried to free himself, kicking, punching and even biting. Screaming as its teeth broke through the skin on his wrist, blood spilling down his wrist. Grunting as he finally did break free, he felt around frantically for his knife, grinning as he found it. Just as the dog lunged for him again. Its teeth sinking into his ankle, dragging him to the ground.

Snarling Douglas brought his knife down on the dog, slicing through its left eye, receiving a yelp from the beast as it released him, standing up he limped over to where the light switch was and turned on the lights, revealing a still sleeping Selphie and a black and white dog. Teeth bared, blood dribbling down its face. Barking the dog glanced at Selphie.

Must be some potent pain killers they got her on. Douglas thought, as he limped toward the dog, bring the knife down on its right shoulder. Yelping the dog backed away before lunging at him again. Growling Douglas brought the knife down on the dogs neck, laughing triumphantly as the dog dropped to the ground, dead. But his victory was short lived as he heard several people running down the hall toward the infirmary.

Cursing Douglas slipped out the window, unfortunately this did not go unnoticed...

Well here you guys go, chapter 19, sorry the chapters seem to be slow going story wise. But hope you enjoy it.