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Summary: Namine begins to feel conflicted while being held captive in Castle Oblivion. Slight Namixel.
Fairy tales were meant for Storybooks
"Once Upon A Time..."
It was the beginning to all her favorite stories. There would always be a princess in danger and always a knight in shining armor to come and rescue her.
The knight and the princess would fall deeply in love, and eventually live happily ever after.
Oh, how she hated, deeply hated the princess. Where was her happy ever after? She was stuck in a castle and was being held prisoner. All this time she was waiting, just waiting and drawing in her sketchbook. Was her knight late? Had he not found a noble steed to help him on his quest to rescue this blonde damsel in distress? Namine had run out of excuses for this make believe knight.
Sometimes, after she had run out of pages in her sketchbook or her hands were numb and hurting from spending hours drawing memories that didn't quite seem too memorable, she would tell the visiting birds fairy tales.
"Once upon a time..." She would begin. The birds would chirp and fly around. They were really her only good company. When the organization members would visit, listening to her story were the last thing on their agendas.
She didn't realize she kind of did live in her very own fairy tale. Kairi was the princess being held captive and Sora was coming to save her. Only it wasn't the Kairi that Sora quite remembered. Organization XIII were the bad guys, keeping her there and forcing Namine to do their own bidding. There were all sorts of great and magical characters. But Namine just didn't feel she was a necessary part of it. She realized now that this was just a messed up fairy tale. It was turned around and upside down.
It was a broken fairy tale and she was just an extra character.
Namine felt so jealous of Kairi. Why does she get have a happily ever after? Namine wanted an escape.
A curious, fiery redhead would sometimes come up to her room and listen against the door. He liked her stories, but he new she would never understand….
Life didn't always have to be a fairytale. There didn't always have to be a beautiful prince charming on a white horse coming to save her. And there most certainly didn't always have to be a princess in distress or magic or sorcery. Life wasn't always going to be happiness and there didn't always have to be a good side and a bad. It may always be light and dark.
Because while there existence may not have felt necessary, Axel wanted to hold her so tightly and tell her that her story didn't have to begin with 'once upon a time' and it may not end with a 'happily ever after'. Because they weren't going to, but that didn't mean she couldn't enjoy the ride.
But he was still going to let her tell her stories; he remained a small shadow in the doorway listening in.
-Fin.
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