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As much as I hate it, this is the final chapter of Just Desserts. I would like to say thanks to everyone who's read this ^.^ I makes me happy that my stories are being read. Thank You.


Chapter 9: Ugly Relavations

Several hours and a few books after Zexion had sent away he sat in the dining hall with a half eaten sandwich. Zexion sighed irritably as he poked at his food with disinterest.

"Didn't your mother tell you not to play with your food?" Demyx commented as he sat down across from him.

Zexion gave him a droll stare. "Why are you so cheery?"

"Cheery?" Demyx blinked at him. "I'm not cheery…"

"Whatever." Zexion said as he went back to poking at his food, only to interrupted once again several minutes later. "Hey Zexion?" Zexion glanced up at Demyx who yawned and didn't notice the glare he was giving him.

"Yes Nine?"

"Where do you think everyone is at?"

Zexion frowned at Demyx before taking a glance around the room. The normal buzzing of the other members was missing. There were only three of them in the room, him, Demyx, and Xaldin.

"I've no idea." Zexion said as he yawned. "Maybe they're out on missions."

"Perhaps you're right." Demyx returned his yawn.

"I'm going to check on Vexen." Zexion said as he pushed away his food. "Besides, I don't feel like eating anyways."

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"Vexen?" Zexion called as he looked around for the older nobody. "Ixivio?" he called on second thought. When nobody answered him he sighed and inhaled deeply. The smell of the chemicals linger thickly over the half empty lab. But underneath the faint smell of tears and fear came from the loft.

Zexion followed his nose and slowly made his way to the loft where he found Ixivio asleep on the bed, asleep caught in the thicket of a nightmare. The was tossing and turning on the bed tears leaking from his eyes.

"Ixivio, hey Ixivio," Zexion called gently as he laid a hand on his shoulder. "Ixivio you've got to wake up." he gently nudged the boy. "Ixivio."

The boy stilled as he opened his eyes, Normally bright green they were almost black with dark shadows... Zexion shrank back slightly as he stared at the boy. "Ixivio. Are you alright?"

"Zesshion?" the boy whispered tears in his eyes. "I don't feel good…" Ixivio said before falling forward into Zexion's chest. "I want my papa…" he groaned as he fell back into unconsciousness.

"Ixivio." Zexion felt of the boy's forehead, which was almost as warm as Axel usually felt, hot. "Crap."

The sound of a portal opening behind him made him turn to find Xemnas standing there. A small tinge of… Fear? Yeah fear, ran through him as he looked up into Xemnas's cold golden gaze. "Superior." Zexion lowered his gaze. "The boy is ill."

"It is just a clone." Xemnas grumbled as he watched Zexion intently. The younger nobody tightened his grip on the clone. "An imperfect specimen. It is of no worry of mine what happens to it."

"Then why are you here?" the words were out of Zexion's mouth before he could stop himself.

"I've come to check on it to see if it's made any progress. After all it was infected with the Noir virus. I want to see what kind of heartless this creature will become. Perhaps it will be useful to me."

But his noir virus wasn't active… unless…

Zexion gazed up into Xemnas's eyes once more. "You activated his virus?"

"Did you think I'd really let you keep the thing as a pet? You worthless bastards will never regain your hearts wasting you fledgling emotions on this creature."

Zexion's eyes widened. "But… to have emotions… you need a heart. Are you telling me… the we have hearts?"

Xemnas smirked. "Hearts are trifle things… it is possible that a you could develop a heart through exposure to others. After all it is when other's perceive you that you are given a sense of self."

Zexion narrowed his eyes at Xemnas. He inhaled and twitched his nose. "Namine." The illusion of Xemnas faded to reveal the girl standing there, bruised and slightly battered.

"I should have known that I couldn't fool you for long." she smiled weakly.

"What are you doing here?"

Namine sighed as she pulled her sketchbook from behind her back, revealing a group picture, featuring Axel Demyx, Lexeaus, Roxas, Vexen, Ixivio… and the start of another outline… "He made me do it…" she whispered as he frowned at her. "I'm not done… there's… one more person to finish…" Namine's voice was tight as she stared at her drawing. "He's… he's set a spell on me… I have to finish this."

"Then why haven't you?"

"I… I don't think it's right… and I'm fighting it…" she gripped the pencil behind her ear.

"…" Zexion stared at Namine. He knew her will wasn't as bold as it had once been. He had very little doubt that she was near her breaking point. He decided to give her something else to think about in hope of prolonging her spell. "What you said while you were disguised as Xemnas… is any of that true?"

Namine looked down at Ixivio tightly secured in Zexion's arms. "You tell me." She said as she held her sketchpad in front of her, staring blankly at it. "Finish…" She breathed under her breath.

"Memories… emotions… they're kept in the heart…" Zexion whispered.

"Papa…" The boy whimpered as the smell of darkness began to permeate the room. "Shit. He's falling into the final stages of Noir."

"Zexion… follow me." Namine said as she reopened the portal. Zexion frowned at her. "Why should I trust you?"

"Because it's the only way to save him. Now hurry before Xemnas realizes that I haven't erased you memories yet."

The portal opened up into the laboratory at Castle Oblivion. Vexen was slumped over in a chair, drooling slightly in his forced rest. Zexion stared around at the new lab quickly taking in the new equipment…

"Over here." Namine said as she pulled a chain and led Zexion through a hallway to a hidden part of the lab. Ixivio twitched violently in his arms as his little body spasmed as the darkness flooded his body. The hall opened to a small room, filled with clear-doored tubes… "It's… the cryogenic freezers that Vexen created in Radiant Garden…" He turned to look at Namine. "How did you know about this?"

"I've already stripped Vexen of his memories." she said as she pulled out the pencil and began to work on her picture. Zexion cringed as he felt her spell leech from him. "I suggest you hurry… I've no control of my body."

Zexion set Ixivio down in the machine before turning to glare at her. "How can you stand to do this?" He growled.

A single tear leaked from Namine's right eye as she tried to lift her head to look at him as he walked over to her. "It's him, Zexion not me."

"Fine then." Zexion rubbed at his eyes, which had began to itch from the spell. "Tell me…" he said through gritted teeth as he worked on the computer. "Do you remember the night we first met?"

The pencil stopped momentarily as Namine was caught off guard by his inquiry. "My introduction was just like everyone else's…"

"No not in this existence I meant before."

"Before?"

Zexion growled as the computer displayed a slowly filling meter. The chamber began to fill with the plasma encasing the boy. "You came running into the lab to see your uncle Ansem. It was just after he had brought me and my sister to the castle…"

"You looked so weird in that little lab coat…" Namine smiled weakly as she gave a short laugh. "Even growled that I shouldn't be playing in the lab… and Uncle Ansem just gave him a knowing look to get him to back down." She finally broke her head free form the geas' grip. "How… how did you remember that?"

"Because.. I had never seen a prettier girl before. You were so… bright. like the world itself had blessed you to be there… despite the circumstances that led both of us to be there." Zexion said as the spell eased. He shakily took a step towards her, sleep screamed at every muscle in his body. "And then you kicked my butt in dodge ball, and showed my just how much of a tomboy you really could be."

The computer beeped, drawing his weary attention back to the monitor. It was requiring a time release. He sighed as he glance back at Namine who was still drawing the finer details to his form… He set the thing for five years… Kingdom Hearts willing… he'd have his memories back…he gripped the counter tightly as he tried to stay on his feet, his vision began to blur as his eyes refused to focus.

"You won't completely forget him… but… as you know… with out a cure… he will be lost." Namine stood up, her sketchbook fell to the floor. "I won't let you forget Ixivio… not forever…" she slowly walked over to him.

"Namine… why is Xemnas making you do this?"

"I don't know why… but if I had to guess.. It's to rid you of the fledgling emotions…" she stood in front of him a tenderly weak smile alight on her lips. "Its time to sleep Zexion. Time to forget all that has happened in this long time you have spent here… so that you can start a new…"

"No, please…" Zexion tried to fight it… as he slid to his knees. Namine lowered himself to his level, her blues eyes regretful and sad.

"I'm sorry." She said before kissing him. His life as a nobody began to pass in his mind's eyes, rewinding, unbecoming to him… and vanishing leaving a hollow blank slate in his mind as he finally fell into blissful darkness…

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Zexion awoke as he slammed into the ceiling before being rolled into the floor as the gravity in his room reversed and rolled him from the ceiling and back to the floor on the opposite side of the room.

"Damn you Xigbar." he growled as he sat up on the cold floor.

"Time to get up. There's a new member. Xemnas wants us in the throne room pronto." Xigbar grinned as he teleported out of the room.

Zexion sighed as he stretched his abused body and went to pull on his discarded cloak. "So we've finally got a number thirteen eh? I wonder what his name is." Zexion mused aloud before opening the portal to his own throne.