007 - Three
Three words were stuck in his throat that day – that week, that month, that entire year – and no matter how many times he swallowed they never seemed to be able to surface. It was worse yet, as he watched the light flit ever farther away from him, leaving the only illumination in Memory's Skyscraper to be the disgustingly fake florescent lamps that could never banish anything but the penumbra of a world that close to the darkness – a world trapped that far in limbo; a world that never was.
"No one would miss me," Roxas said.
I love you, his mind shouted, loud and clear as his throat couldn't be.
"I would," he whispered helplessly as the dark portal swallowed his light whole. As soon as he was gone, everything got darker and he slammed his fist into the wall.
"I LOVE YOU!"
The words were no longer stuck, but he was just as hollow as ever.
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