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Xion [AU] ([personal profile] whereibelong) wrote in [community profile] destinystrings2012-11-18 12:10 am
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There were skies that burst open

Who: Xion and Lea [personal profile] travelsthefarthest
Where: Kitchen area of Lea's apartment, then Xion's apartment so as to avoid waking the bitty
Summary: Xion and Lea have a lot of things to talk about still, things they couldn't talk about while a certain too-young-to-understand someone was awake.
Warnings: Standard Kingdom Hearts is Suffering disclaimer - possible mentions of being speared by Heartless and nearly self-sacrificial tendencies

There'd been several clues that not all was as it seemed. In addition to all the things they hadn't talked about simply because Roxas was too young and knew too little to understand - her not being a Nobody least among them, there was also the factor of the name change Ax- Lea had requested. Xion knew as well as he did that the "because I left the Organization" reasoning was more for Roxas' benefit than either of theirs. It made for a good excuse, but something else was going on here. He hadn't changed his name in all the time they'd been fugitives. Why start now?

Had something happened when they'd found Aqua?

There was also the matter of certain things they just... hadn't been able to discuss with Roxas there. Things that... would really be too much for him right now, having just arrived in Hinoto-Ri, having just found out Ax- Lea was still alive... She didn't want to burden him with all the knowledge of things that were going to happen - of what she was, what might happen... especially with what Riku remembered.

She hadn't found a chance to bring it up though, even though she was thinking about it. They were jammed all together in Lea's room, her and Roxas curled up on the bed and Lea taking a corner of the bedroom - maybe not the smartest of ideas, but... they'd figure something out soon. She could sleep in her room if they really needed to work something out. For now though, they were sleeping, or at least trying to in her's and Lea's case. Roxas had already clearly dropped off a while ago, if his slow, steady breathing was anything to go by.

Lea had gone to do... something out in the kitchen area, and he wasn't back yet. Hm...

Careful not to disturb Roxas, Xion slipped out from under the covers and tiptoed to the door out into the kitchen area, slipping out and shutting it behind her. That done, she turned around, looking for her friend.

"Ax- Lea?" she called out quietly, silently berating herself for the slip-up. This was going to take some getting used to...
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[personal profile] travelsthefarthest 2012-11-23 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
Nodding as she spoke, Lea's eyes widened at the revelation. He knew Riku was apparently from a different reality than the one he was familiar with, but they hadn't really discussed the gritty details of just how they differed. The gears in his head turned quickly and his eyes lowered to his lap, his brow furrowed as he tried to process all of this.

"Promenade," he echoed, chewing briefly on the inside of his lower lip. "That's the same place Aqua mentioned." Were they from the same 'version' of the universe, then? No, that couldn't be right; Aqua was from a point in time about six years ago, but... Riku would have only been about ten years old then, so he couldn't have known Xion then anyway! But... if people came to these worlds from different points in time, like he and Xion had, then it was still possible, right? Light, this was confusing.

His thoughts went down the exact road Xion mentioned next, that somehow, wherever and whenever Riku had come from, they hadn't been able to stop her, and she'd vanished without a trace. His eyes snapped to hers, clouded with dismay.

"But..."

It was like he suddenly forgot what words were; his jaw hung ajar and his throat was dry. He had spent so long trying not to imagine what would have happened if they'd been too late, and now he had no choice but to wonder if that wasn't precisely what had happened in the series of events Riku knew. With a blustery exhale he sort of sagged further back on his hands, like maybe his spine just decided it didn't want to do its job anymore.

"Damn."

Not exactly the articulate response he'd been going for, but accurate all the same.