kh_drabble | Challenge post.

Challenge: [159] In Another Life
Title: Shattered Thoughts
Word Count: 327
Spoilers: None
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 (Some "off-screen" violence)
Notes: Thanks go to

crimsoncookie for the beta, and for planting the initial seed of this idea in my head.
Summary: Fujin starts to recall some odd memories while resting in the infirmary.

The visions had started not long after she woke in the Balamb Garden infirmary.

In most of them, she was younger, as were her friends Seifer and Raijin. She wasn’t sure where the runt in the goofy blue robe and the wizard hat came from. It was as she lay in her infirmary bed, staring at the ceiling, that his name came to her. "VIVI."

The doctor poked her head into the room. "Fujin? Did you say something?"

Fujin clamped her mouth shut. She hadn’t meant to be so loud. She waved a hand to tell her not to worry. NEVER going to get used to this. Don’t know what (EYE) happened.

The day passed and more visions appeared. She saw Seifer wearing a black beanie and swinging around a strange bat. They and Raijin (RAI?) argued with another group of kids. Seifer always got in arguments with the other group’s leader. Not that loner dweeb Squall – some other kid. Hayner. She clenched at her bed sheet and scowled. RAGE. Can’t believe he… Why am I angry? NEVER met him or his friends before. NEVER heard of Twilight Town or Struggle, either. WHY?

Fujin reached up and touched the mass of medical padding and tape that hid what remained of her left eye. The doctor had told her she had been stabbed through the eye during a training exercise – blade had pierced her brain. Aphasia? That was the diagnosis. BROKEN?

Another memory flashed in her mind of when she was younger and wore her hair over her dead eye. HIDE my bad eye like I used t—NO! NEVER happened! Just lost my eye! Just started talking (SHOUTING) like, like...

She sighed. Her head hurt. PAIN. CRAZY? Dreaming(MEMORY)? Fuu’s the same. Still trying to keep Seifer and Raijin (RAI) in order. Maybe, maybe Fuu is just me from another life? REAL?

She stroked the padded mass covering her destroyed eye. Hope I remember to duck next time.