Title: A Crystal In The Water

Pairing: Demyx X OC (Lily)

Rated: K+ (?) basically for language

Description: A pretty young girl is practically shielded from the world by her brother and her deadly disease. But what happens when she meets a reckless free spirit?

Author's notes: I've wanted to do a fanfic with demyx but I didn't know any good plot or whatever… I read this other fic (zemyx) where zexion and demyx both had these diseases that would kill them. I decided to only use one of those on one character (in this case my own) ^w^

I wasn't an average girl… That much I knew. But at the moment that wasn't what was bothering me. Hm, bothering isn't the right word… more like… I wasn't paying attention to me not being an average girl. Yeah that'll due. What had my attention, as of right now, was this guy infront of me. He didn't know I've been starring at his back for twenty minutes now, well atleast I hope he didn't , his hair was styled into in what looked to be a mullet and it was a great shade of dirty blond. I never was able to see his face but I could always hear him playing that big guitar thing.

I had been walking home one night after ending my shift at the Azurai Stage when I heard this beautiful noise. I tried to decide whether to just keep walking or to figure out what it was. Of course I chose the more sensible answer and looked to see where the hypnotic song was coming from. As luck would have it, I found this teenage boy whom was obviously focused on strumming his guitar….Thing. From the back he didn't look too old, I would guess around his twenties. He apparently didn't hear me, so I stood and heard him play this wonderful melody. The song seemed so sad though and I was compelled to ask him if he was alright. But when I had stepped out from behind the house I used to hide myself, he had vanished. I didn't even notice the music was gone. Things like that never really happened in Radient Gardens so I decided that I would see if he would be here the next day.

After work, I hid behind the house again and then the music began. I looked over and there he was, still facing the huge canyon we had and playing the same sad song. Normally I would skip my investigation and just say hi to him but something caught my eye. The clothes he was wearing wasn't like anything I've seen and that's when it hit me. I recalled my older brother,Leon, warning me about people in these black cloaks. Leon knew more than I did even if we were only a year apart so I told him that I would tell him about these people should I ever find them. But can this guy in black actually be bad? Was he in some cult or something? It didn't seem like he could be bad, I mean from the song he's playing and all plus it didn't look like he was destroying anything…So each night for a whole week I would wait and watch this man, to see if he would hurt anyone but he never did anything except play that song. Once I saw him leave… Well atleast I think I did…. This weird blob thing formed in the air and he had just walked in but then again I had been painting all day so the paint fumes were probably messing with me.

After two more days I planned to actually say hi to the mystery man, and that just happened to be tonight. I closed my eyes and walked to my usual spot but I did hear any strum of the guitar thing that he played. I waited ten more minutes before I got up and turned the corner to see why he wasn't playing until I had bumped into something hard. I blinked a little, was that metal in my face? They looked like little chains. My eyes began to work their way up and there was the mystery man. It didn't register in my brain that I had actually bumped into him until a minute passed and I stepped back. Maybe it didn't register for him either because he still looked a bit shocked that something-er, someone had accidentally hit him.

"Oh I'm sorry." He spoke softly and smiled. "I didn't see you there."

I just blinked and stared up at him. He was pretty cute, to be honest. He had these amazing teal eyes and little strands of dirty blond hair laid on his forehead, sort of like bangs.

"Uh…Hello?"

"Oh Sorry. I tend to space out a lot." I spoke quickly and smiled back at him.

"Hey me too!" He grinned and I couldn't help but laugh a little. "I'm Demyx by the way."

"Nice to finally meet you demyx. I'm Lily." I shook his outstretched hand.

"Finally? ….Wait….Then, you're that girl I keep seeing!"His eyes widened and he jumped back. "Why do you do that! Don't you know that's called stalking? And Zexion told me that stalking was bad." He grumbled something about this zexion person but I couldn't exactly understand it.

I facepalmed and laughed nervously. "I didn't know you knew I was there. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare or stalk you. I was sort of…Amazed by that song you keep playing on that weird guitar thing you have."

"Guitar?" He asked and thought for a moment. His eyes widened and he smiled, "Oh! You mean this." And out of nowhere, the item in question appeared in his hand. "This is called a sitar. Zexion said it was stupid but I named this Shika!"

I stood there, my lower jaw practically touching the ground as I stared at him. Where did the sitar come from? Thin air? I shook my head to clear it and began to back away. Maybe Leon was right. And speaking of leon, I knew he would coem searching for me if I didn't get back home soon. "Well demyx it was nice to meet you but I gotta go." I spoke quickly and ran as if my life depended on it.

There was Leon… Leaning on the living room wall and glaring daggers at me. " Well I'm in deep shit now…" I mumbled and looked at the brunette with the best apologetic smile I could make.

"Where have you been? It's one in the mourning." I flinched as soon as he spoke. He wasn't in the mood to take a stupid smile and call it a night. Isn't that just great for me?

"I-I'm sorry. I….Was just making sure the paint at the stage looked good." I lied and looked down at the old floorboards.

"You left before I did, Lily. Where did you go?" He practically growled this time. This was why I hardly had any friends, they were all scared because leon acted like a body guard. Maybe…Maybe he was like that because of what happened to our parents…

"I went out to look at the canyon." I lied again but now I stared straight into his eyes. Leon was so much like dad that it almost scared me. The long brown hair and the blue eyes. I didn't look like dad or mom but leon would tell me that I should be grateful for that. But why should I be grateful?

"You know how dangerous that is! What if the heartless attacked you!" He yelled at me. I hated it when he would raise his voice at me. I know he means well but it always scared me to death when he yelled at me. He wasn't always like this…But after mom died and dad walked out on us I guess something snapped. At first leon was like the dad we never had but now….Well… I missed that Leon.

"I'm seventeen years old, leon! I know how to defend myself! Why do you have to treat me like a kid?" I yelled back. Honestly, I knew fighting wouldn't always lead to a good thing but I'm not one to give in or ignore it. I guess that's what I loved and hated the most about me.

"Because you are one…And I don't want you to get hurt." Poor Leon. I know he's been traumatized ever since that day I passed out and had to go to the hospital ten years ago. I haven't gone back, but that day… That day changed everything about leon and I.

"You know I won't get hurt. I'm careful." I responded with a small smile.

He snorted and rolled his eyes. "Right. Like you were yesterday, when you nearly fell off the second story balcony at the stage?"

I pouted and turned away from him. Unfortunately for me, I am very clumsy so falling down stairs, cutting my finger, or even almost falling out of the second story tier happened a lot. "I bumped into the railing and it scared me!" I tried to defend myself.

"Of course. Well it's pretty late, go to bed. Tomorrow I'll try to fix the sound system for you." He yawned and hugged me. Typical Leon, after fighting for like two seconds, he goes and gives me a hug. I don't blame him for being Bi-polar (and bi-sexual) since you never know when you can die. So you might as well make up and see past any feud.

"Okay. Goodnight!" I hugged him and went upstairs. After changing, brushing my black hair, taking off my color contacts, and taking my medication, I laid down in my bed. My bright green eyes skimmed over the dark walls that were comforting- yet at the same time it felt like they would swallow me whole. I sighed and rolled over. I wish I didn't worry leon like this. Maybe if my heart didn't stop beating for those five seconds at the hospital, he wouldn't be this way. A wave of depression washed over me and then the feeling of being watched dawned. I looked around but there was nothing there…My eyes widened and I jumped out of bed. "LEON!" I screamed at the top of my lungs and tried to open the door. The darkness kept taking me deeper and deeper….This…This can't be happening.

A thought raced into my mind as my vision blurred and I couldn't see anything, Why was my family and I cursed like this? A dead mother, an uncaring and cold father, a traumatized older brother, and clumsy young girl with a disease that could kill her.

END~

What's this disease? What's happening to lily? ALL SHALL BE ANSWERED NEXT CHAPTER! Rate,review, do what you'd like ^w^