Aaaah! It's been so long since I've updated! Sorry for such the long wait, everyone. Chapter 9 is finally up.


Bridget followed Rose up the silent clock tower, and at last they reached the top. Bridget looked up at the sky. On the west was the watery yellow light of the sun going down, and on the other side was the silver moon high up in the dark blue sky. Rose sat down on the edge of the tower.

"I've been lying for a while now..." she said.

Bridget followed her actions and sat down next to her.

"I've noticed. But why?" she asked.

"You see, you're different from everyone else. You have a heart."

"I do?"

"Yes, a dark heart."

"I thought I was a heartless!"

" Well, you are-sort of. To tell you the truth, I'm not sure what you are, Bridget. You still have a heart, somewhere deep down, but you've given into darkness...And you can talk to heartless. No one has ever been able to do that before, not even Ansem the Wise, who thought he knew everything about heartless."

"Ansem the Wise? You never told me about him before," Bridget said thoughtfully.

" He studied heartless for years, and thought he had figured everything out about us. He was a fool though. He said we were just mindless forms of darkness, the lesser forms of heartless. He never figured out that we have lives, dreams, thoughts, and we could even talk to each other. You're the first human to ever be able to communicate with us...Not even Maleficent could. And if you haven't noticed, most shadow heartless twitch constantly. It's because they're brainwashed."

Bridget sat for a moment, trying to take in what her little shadow heartless friend just said. She eyed Rose, who, unlike the brainwashed heartless, was sitting perfectly still, with her tiny legs dangling over the side of the clock tower.

"So...What am I then? Am I really not an enemy of the light?" she asked.

"I wish I knew..." Rose said finally.

The sky grew darker and the first stars were appearing. Rose was slowly beginning to blend into the shadows, her burning yellow eyes the only light on the clock tower.

"Rose..." Bridget said quietly, "What about Roxas?"

"What about him?"

"Do you think I have a chance with him?"

Bridget nervously waited for her answer. Rose was slow on answering again. Behind her yellow eyes Bridget could see her mind racing, searching for the words to say.

"I think..." Rose said, also quiet, "That maybe there is a chance..."

Bridget gave a sigh of relief, glad to know that someone else didn't think that her second try at love was hopeless.

Rose stood up beside her.

"Time to go?" Bridget asked.

"It's getting late," she stated.

"Mind if I stay out here for a while?"

"No, I guess. Just don't stay out to long."

Rose crept down from the edge of the clock tower, and disappeared into the shadows. Bridget, now alone, dug her hand into her pocket and pulled out a photo. She stared down at Sora, the young, spiky-haired boy, wondering if she was a fool back then.

Perhaps I wasn't a fool, she thought, Maybe this was the way it was supposed to happen...

"Aw, who am I kidding?" Bridget muttered, wiping a tear from her eye, "It was all because of that girl..."

Bridget stopped suddenly. The memory of Sora and that girl was still clear in her mind, but what was her name...?

"Kairi..." she choked out, her voice almost a whisper. She almost dropping her photo. Bridget stared at it again, shaking slightly from rage and dismay.

Another tear rolled down her cheek, and her grip tightened on Sora's image. She promised herself the night she met Rose in the forest, she wouldn't let herself cry, but her past was gaining on her.

"Was this how it was meant to be...?" Bridget choked out again.

The watery moonlight lit up the edge of the clock tower, where the trembling form of Bridget sat. If only, somewhere, somehow, Sora was watching her. If only he knew what had happened the last night he saw her, running into the forest to disappear for a year...


Thanks for reading! And please review! Oh, and I have editor(s) now. Their pen name is HRTSeekers. So hopefully now I won't have any stupid typos... "Lover her..." Haha! Well, thanks again for reading! Review please