Author's notes: This story is credited to Einstein, who invented fanfiction. (just waking you up!)

I appreciate reviews! It's a bit of an off the wall fic, so any commentary is MUCH appreciated.

Chapter 2

Axel's POV

Marluxia tapped Axel on the shoulder smugly, "I'll be in the observation room."

Axel glowered at Marluxia. Was he unwilling to let up for even a second? "Geeze, lay off, Marluxia."

Marluxia hmphed in a mock offended tone. "Hey, that's doctor Marluxia to you! I gotta act like your superior once in awhile." He shrugged and threw open the door on the left. "You're just lucky it's me evaluating you and not… Xemnas or someone."

Axel gulped when he heard that. "Evaluated?" He squeaked, trying not to show his nervousness in front of his patient.

"Heh, maybe you'll even get to meet Roxas today." Marluxia muttered amusedly. "I kinda miss that kid."

Axel just furrowed his brow, wondering whether it was even worth trying to decipher things that Marluxia said. Sora himself was yelling 'Who's Roxas?!' in the background.

The pressure was on. He frowned to himself, deciding he would try his best to forget about Marluxia's annoying existence for the time being.

"Right this way, Sora." He gestured to the dull pink plush chairs inside an overly nice looking room. A fish tank bubbled quietly in the corner and a mini Zen garden sat on the table between the chairs. There was also a vase with a daisy in it, the bottom half filled with murky water.

"So… how was your day, Sora?" Axel asked for lack of better thing to say as he settled into the chair.

Sora's POV

Sora knew that most people wouldn't agree with him, but he knew Axel could be trusted. He knew Axel would die to keep him safe. This was again reinforced in his mind when Marluxia showed up to bother them. He saw Axel turn and glare at Marluxia, so he did too. Would these nobodies ever leave him alone?

Luckily, Axel was able to get Marluxia to leave them alone just by threatening him. He tried to stand behind him and look intimidating. He summoned his keyblade for good measure. Then, easily as that, Marluxia opened a portal to the darkness. Before he slipped out, he mumbled something about 'Roxas'.

"Who's Roxas?!" Sora hollered after him. Clenching his hands in tightly frustration, he frowned, "Why won't anyone tell me who Roxas is?!" He had half a mind to run after Marluxia, but before he could even act, the portal to the darkness had closed once again.

Sora huffed and resigned himself to obliging to Axel. He stared at the chair. This place was familiar! "Alice in Wonderland it must be." He decided. He was way too big for this chair. Way, way too big. Spotting the shrinking potion on the table, he grabbed it and took a long swig. Instantly he was shrinking. He decided to hop up onto the table before he got too small to get around reasonably. That way he could get to the chair like Axel had said. He hopped as far as his tiny body could manage and landed on the chair. He turned to face Axel who was sitting across from him.

"Oh Axel, I'll tell you all about my day!" Sora grinned, "But don't you think we should worry about the Organization members first?"

Axel's POV

Axel watched helplessly as Sora walked into the room and the first thing he did was grab the vase and down the dirty water in it. "Eww! I mean… stop!" Axel waved his hand to no avail. He didn't know whether to face palm or scream when Sora jumped on top of the table. Good thing that kid was relatively small, because the table probably would have collapsed under most people's weight.

"You can play Alice in Wonderland as long as you want later, just…" Axel was torn between giving the patient space and preventing him from being rambunctious. "Just get off the table!"

He saw Sora crouch and Axel panicked. "Oh no! You are not gonna jump you little…!" He lunged for Sora, but before he could get to him, Sora had pummeled himself full force into the chair. "Sora!"

Axel nearly collapsed in relief when he saw that this wasn't one of the head first dives Sora was famous for. He looked up at Sora who was scrunching up as small as he could in the large chair and squinting at Axel as if he were very far away. "Calm down, allright? It's a good chair. A nice chair! Let's stay in the chairs, how about that Sora? Chairs are good for sitting, aren't they?"

He took a deep breath, hurriedly trying to write down everything in his notes. "Uhh, the organization?" What organization? The hospital? "Um, I think we're okay here." He tried to be ambiguous enough to get the right answer, hoping he wouldn't set off some sort of spark in Sora that would get him going again.

Marluxia's POV

Marluxia was laughing hysterically as Axel helplessly tried to deal with Sora. There was no evaluation, he'd just made it all up. He knew Axel was going to kill him later, but it the panicked look on Axel's face right now was so worth it. He rolled off his chair, laughing so hard.

Suddenly the door was thrown open and his fits of laughter abruptly stopped.

"What the hell are you doing?" Demanded Xemnas' cold voice.

"Ummm…." Marluxia stalled. He really had no good reason to be on the floor laughing.

Xemnas wasn't impressed. "Do you honestly think you're getting paid to roll around on the floor?"

Marluxia sulked as he stood up and brushed himself off. He searched for a change of subject to get the topic off of his poor job performance. "Uh, actually, I had a question for you. I couldn't find the detailed records for Sora, Riku, or Kairi. I was only able to give Axel the basic stats report." The stats report simply held a diagnosis, the results of several different blood tests, and any possible dangerous tendencies the patient had displayed.

Xemnas crossed his arms impatiently as if it pained him to state the obvious. "You aren't privy to that information."

"Wha…?" Marluxia's jaw hung open, "But we sign a waiver when we… shouldn't I…. doesn't everyone that works here as a doctor have access to the same information?"

Xemnas shook his head, but besides that ignored Marluxia's question entirely.

Riku's POV

Sora was gone again. Maybe he'd gone out to the island? Hopping in his boat, he traveled out to the island, searching it fully, but even before he got done looking he knew. Sora wasn't anywhere. Not on the island, not by the paopu tree, not even in the cave either.

"Kairi!" He found her and started shaking her shoulders. "Where's Sora?!"

"He disappeared!" She panicked, looking in the direction of the door.

After getting no useful answer from her, he decided it was time to use that trick he knew. "Kairi… I have to do it." He ripped off a piece of his black sweatshirt and tied it around his eyes as a blindfold. "I have to navigate the darkness."

Kairi gasped and ran over to Riku, crying. "No Riku! You can't! You can't do this!"

Riku swallowed hard, but answered resolutely. "I have to do this Kairi. For him."

He stepped forward slowly, and opened the portal to the darkness as he swore he'd never do again. He took a deep breath. "Goodbye Kairi." And then he plunged into the darkness.

Larxene's POV

"Oh shit." One look around the corner had Larxene regretting that she even came up through this wing of the building. "That little lock picker!"

Riku was wandering about the hallway blindfolded, muttering about Sora. He would occasionally stumble into walls, then place his arms in front of him to 'navigate'. Larxene thought briefly of calling Xemnas, but she really didn't want to be around him when he found out that one of the patients labeled dangerous was out and about. She could just pretend she didn't see? Tempting, yes, but her curiosity got the better of her.

"Why hello Riku. How did you get out of your little cage?" She grinned.

Riku stiffened but did not choose to acknowledge her.

"What are you looking for?" She pressed.

Again, she was met with rigid silence.

She already knew this pattern. The two patients seemed to have a severely co-dependent relationship. "You're looking for Sora."

Riku broke at this. "Sora!" He whipped around to face her. "You know where he is?"

"Y…yeah." She was still so used to calling him Roxas. "He's with Axel."

In a second he was on her. "Take me to him."

Taken aback, she nodded until she realized the implications of wearing a blindfold and voiced her thoughts aloud. "Okay. Fine."

She closed up the door that now locked in Kairi, the most dangerous of the three patients in that room. At least she was contained. "Why do you wear a blindfold Riku?"

Riku looked like he struggled coming up with an answer for that one. "If I look at the darkness, something very bad will happen." Kairi had said so. "It would be like opening my heart to the darkness."

Sora's POV

"I'll have to say my day was pretty regular until you came along Axel." Sora got comfortable once he was assured that this place was hidden from the organization members. "I woke up, went for a swim, drew some stuff in the cave with Kairi, and Cid came by and provided me with some gummi blocks. I sat at the tree for a bit and talked with Riku. You know… just everyday stuff. I thought everything had gone back to normal until you came back. Back to… before everything happened with Kingdom Hearts."

Axel looked a little confused. "What do you mean 'before everything happened with Kingdom Hearts'?"

Sora shook his head. "Long story, my friend, but you should know everything after the time when I lost my memory. Basically, we lived on our island, me and Riku, then one day Kairi came and everything changed. Suddenly we wanted to see worlds outside our own, even though she couldn't tell us where she'd come from herself." That's how it had all started. "Then the door opened, and everything's been different ever since."

Sora waited patiently while Axel furiously scribbled on a notepad. "Heh, how do you control fire like that? It's cool." He wondered, noticing for the first time the flames dancing around in Axel's hands.

Axel's POV

Axel stared blankly at Sora until he looked down at his notebook. It had a flame design. "Ohhhh, heh heh." He wasn't really sure whether to confirm or deny that, so he just said, "Thanks." But he flipped the notebook around so the design wasn't apparent from just looking at it.

Sora was making good progress, despite the fact that stupid ass Marluxia had only given him a small fraction of Sora's chart that he needed. He was scribbling down the last of his sentence when Sora said, "Hey, why don't you come sit on this chair with me… its huge."

Axel stared blankly at Sora, unable to interpret the situation. "What?!" Sora wanted company in the chair? Talk about inappropriate doctor and patient relationship!

"Oh, okay fine, I'll drink the growing potion, but I'm warning you, I'll get REALLY big." He grabbed the vase and drank the rest of the nasty plant water, this time letting the vase fall from his hand smashing to bits on the floor.

"Oh my gosh! So big! Stop growing!" Sora rolled out of his chair and flopped on the ground. He stood up slowly, making sure to crouch to avoid the ceiling.

"Sora, calm down okay? This ceiling, uhh… expands for you, so don't worry."

Sora immediately calmed down. He took several deep breaths as he stared at the fish tank. Seconds turned into minutes as Sora stood mesmerized by the fishes.

Slowly, Sora turned to give Axel a very serious look. "My friends are in danger." He said gravely. "I've got to do something."

Sora's POV

Ursula was on the attack! Sora, being the hero he was, could not stand around and let his friends suffer. Talking with Axel would have to be put on hold.

"Here I come Atlantica!" He shouted as he dove into the ocean.

Axel's POV

Axel screamed in horror as Sora plummeted himself into the fish tank. How did he even get the lid off of that thing?!

To make matters worse, the door was thrown open at that moment. Larxene and blindfolded Riku walked in.

Larxene went wide eyed at the scene. Axel screaming, Sora in a fish tank, her with an escaped mental patient. "Normally I wouldn't break code." She said referring to her interrupting a doctor-patient session, "But you look like you're having a little bit of difficulty."

She immediately ran over and tried to help Axel pull Sora out of the fish tank, but it was no use. Sora wasn't coming out of there. He clung to the sides for dear life, keeping his head completely submerged.

"He's turning blue!" Larxene screamed.

"I KNOW!" Axel would have shot her in the face if he hadn't been trying to help Sora. Quite clearly he was having a problem, she needed to shut up and help better before Sora drowned.

Unknowingly to Axel or Larxene, Riku had ripped his blindfold off when he realized Sora was in danger. Taking in the situation, he dove headfirst into the fish tank after Sora.

"Oh no!" Axel cried, not Riku too! His job, life, and livelihood was over, right there! Forget the internship.

However instead of drowning them both, Riku pushed Sora up and out of the water. "Sora breathe!" He screamed in a moment of amazing clarity as he crawled out carrying Sora.

Sora's POV

Sora coughed up a bit of water as he exited Atlantica. It was always like that in the transition between a water world and a normal world. It was only natural, and he didn't see what Riku seemed to be worried about. All was well again since he'd managed to convince Eric to defeat Ursula once and for all. He'd still go back to visit friends of course though.

"Oh Riku, you were an eel… that's SO cool!" Donald had such magical powers! Too bad Sora was only a dolphin.

Riku's POV

Riku couldn't really place it but something was really, REALLY wrong. He surveyed the room. He saw the fish tank, but where was Atlantica? Had he missed it? He saw the alarmed looks on Axel and Larxene's faces. He knew those faces, but where the hell were they?!

"I'm scared Sora, something isn't right. Let's go back to the island." Riku really wanted to be in a safe, happy place where he knew Sora wouldn't be taken away from him. Somewhere inside of him, it told him that Sora had been in danger. Had Sora almost killed himself just now?! Riku couldn't shake the thought.

"Sora, I think you might have almost drowned."

Sora laughed and shook his head. "Nonsense." He assured Riku as he held up the soaking wet duck plushie. "This guy can do wonders! You should know, you were there too."

Riku slowly shook his head. He didn't remember Atlantica. All he remembered was Sora… in danger. It had snapped a little something in his mind.

"You started to remember stuff, haven't you Riku?" Axel said gently.

Riku stared at Axel, then looked to Larxene. Familiar faces, but why? Suddenly a huge flash of memories hit him. "Doctors?! You guys are doctors?!" Why were there doctors?! Why were they here?! He had the feeling that he really, REALLY didn't want to know. This feeling grew into a wild fear. Almost like he might just die if he discovered whatever horrific thing was going on in this nightmare.

He screamed and held his head in his hands as more memories flooded him. He felt around desperately for the blindfold. "Stop it! Stop it! Make it STOP!"