Real short drabble. Written some time ago for my sister, naiyad, who loves these two.

Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts is the property of Square Enix and Disney.

Chosen

On his table, there is a cluster of dead – if not rapidly arriving at what is supposedly the last plane of life – flora.

Vexen blinks. "And? Why have you soiled my table with your garden's rejected plants?"

"They weren't rejected," sighs Marluxia, as if he was expecting the response all along. "They were chosen."

He scoffs. "Chosen? For what occasion?"

"That," the assassin says, a small smile creeping into his expression as he reaches out to curl slender fingers around the stem of a blue rose before offering it to Vexen, "is a secret."