"You've shown me how to see that nothing is whole and nothing is broken." ~ Utada Hikaru
Axel was a Nobody. He wasn't supposed to be able to feel like this. Wasn't he an empty shell, incapable of any kind of emotion? So why was his chest aching at the sight of Xion's unconscious form? Why did he feel – yes, feel – so afraid at the thought that she might not wake up?
As a Nobody, he did not fully exist – right? Wasn't he just half a person? Wasn't he just a mind and a body with no heart? No feelings? He should not, then, felt so terrified at that moment. And yet... somehow, some way, he felt... felt... scared. Not just scared, either; there was something else, some other emotion tickling the back of his brain that he couldn't identify.
How did this kid manage to affect him like this? To break his brain, to make him hurt inside? Axel was starting to wonder if the things the Organization had taught him were really as true as he'd believed. Maybe things weren't so simple, after all.
What if he wasn't as broken as he'd thought? Or what if he wasn't broken at all?
