hey y'all, long time no upload! On this account, I'm trying to consolidate all the fanfic I've published online. These particular drabbles were posted on kh_drabble on Livejournal, under the username deadarchitect, in late 2009/early 2010.

anyway, I hope you enjoy. Kingdom Hearts and all affiliated characters do not belong to me.


theme: Apology

[he chooses the color she will never see outside a paper wrapping]

"This is enough to keep you busy?"

She bowed her head over the sketchbook and folded her hands. "Not even books," he continued, shaking his head. Namine wondered if this action was pitying – his color was hard to tell – "I can't read," she said. She watched his color change to a warmly-tinted purple as his eyes widened. "I beg your pardon?"

Namine winced and immediately hoped that her hair covered her face. The other one Marluxia was tinted a darker purple (royal, suggested the part of her that wasn't really there) than this one Zexion but he was dangerous, so dangerous, it would be silly to alter his color more than necessary. "I'm sorry," she muttered.

"You're sorry?"

Namine felt a shiver go down her spine as she watched his colors flutter from redviolet to the more sedate lavender he had introduced himself as. "You have nothing to be sorry for," he said, drawing himself inwards and up. "It is your Somebody who has withdrawn reading as well as emotion. Shame on her." His color darkened as he looked at her bowed head a little longer. "Give me your sketchpad, please." He flipped it open and took a crayon from those scattered on the table – pale green, she noted – and printed in large letters N-A-M-I-N-E. "Your name," he said, his color mellowing again.

Namine noticed her cheeks – they were doing something funny, they almost hurt with the feeling of it – and decided (lamely) that she rather liked this one, this Zexion.