Here's my first entry to my own contest, the Heartbreak Challenge.
The Scenario: Xigbar has just told Axille of the demises of those lost in Castle Oblivion.
POV: Axille (an OC)
Theme: Missing Someone
"It's okay to cry. Even more so when you have a friend to cry on."
The second he said it, I wanted to cry.
No...
Please...please, no...
I stare up at him and desperately fight back tears, but they are overwhelming me. I can feel the anxious stares of the onlookers, waiting for me to break down. I want to...I am about to...
No...No, he's got to be lying...
There it was. The first tear slips from my eyes and splashes to the floor. My head drops and I can feel my shoulders begin to shake.
Please...please, let him be lying...it can't be true...
"Axille?" he asks me.
I stare up at him again, my desperation showing clear through my eyes.
"Axille?" he asks me again.
I am numb. I can't move, I let the tears just fall. They do, and they don't go unnoticed.
"Axille? C'mon...it'll be okay..." he says. He bends down to comfort me, I just back away. I am scared now.
It...It isn't a lie...
How could he? Xigbar...Xigbar, who was always there when I needed him...he was the shoulder I cried on...the person I could trust the most...how could he say this?
"We got the news today. The team that went to Castle Oblivion...they're all gone."
I am sad and confused. I am a Nobody, how can I be so sad? But...but it...it hurts...
Zexion...Lexaeus...Marluxia...Larxene...Vexen...they...they're all gone...?
It is strange; I always imagined myself as enjoying Marluxia and Larxene's deaths...but now...it is bittersweet.
I cry again as I think of Zexion.
"He...Zexion...I'll never see him again?" I ask him, though I know the answer. Xigbar looks at me with a soft eye and pulls me into a hug.
"'fraid not..." he murmurs. I want to pull away. I want to escape. But a large part of me tells me to stay right here. I am safe here. Safe in his arms. I am mad at him, but I am safe in his embrace. I almost laugh at the irony...almost.
I cry into his shoulder and he just sits there and lets me do it. I feel his hand running up and down my back comfortingly, and despite myself, I am comforted.
"It'll be okay." Xigbar says again.
I know it won't. I know it'll be forever until I get over this. But for now, I know at least Xigbar is still here.
Xigbar, the shoulder I cried on when I needed to.
Xigbar, the person I could trust the most.
Xigbar...the one who was always there when I needed him.
Now, I'd need him more than ever.
