Title: Certainty
Rating: K+?
Pairing: LexZex
Warning: Slight yaoi mentions, nothing hardcore
Word Count: 361
A/N: Yaaaay, something for one of my absolute favorite pairings. This was fast, written in about five minutes, and I didn't really put much thought into it, so I apologize if it's horrible.
Zexion was never easy to please.
Lexaeus discovered this soon after meeting the smaller Nobody. The Schemer was picky and petulant, stuck-up and overconfident, and even though he insisted that he was not to be treated like a child, he often acted like one. Things had to be a certain way, at a certain time, in a certain manner.
Luckily, Lexaeus was nothing if not a patient man. He remembered the way Ienzo used to act, and he really wasn't that different from Zexion... although Zexion couldn't properly be as emotional as Ienzo had been. Raging teenage hormones and the like, they seemed to evaporate once the change from human to Nobody was made. Zexion was still irrational, but possibly a bit more logical than Ienzo had been, despite still sharing the same intelligence. Nobodies were, after all, just the shells of the Somebodies they came from.
Lexaeus didn't think he was too terribly different from Aeleus. They were similar in so many ways, still, except that Lexaeus was incapable of loving Zexion, as Aeleus had loved Ienzo. And make no mistake, Aeleus had been in love with the youngest Apprentice. Unfortunately for him and his moral sense of right and wrong, Aeleus had never acted on his feelings, for fear of corrupting an underage boy.
But now that their consciences were gone... there had been nothing holding Lexaeus back from taking Zexion for himself. He hadn't been surprised when Zexion didn't protest; he'd been aware of the boy's desires (Ienzo had been no where near as subtle as Aeleus). Even as the Elders were establishing the Organization, it was always very clear that Zexion was Lexaeus' -- and no one was foolish enough to challenge that. Lexaeus was, physically, the strongest member, and he could easily beat the acceptance into whomever thought of harming Zexion or taking him from Lexaeus.
And despite all this, Zexion was never easy to please.
But there was always one thing that pleased him the most... and he was confident that it would always be there.
After all, Lexaeus had promised he wasn't going anywhere.