Title: The Ultimate Winner
Universe: Kingdom Hearts
Theme/Topic: Memories
Rating: PG-13
Character/Pairing/s: Luxord/Demyx, Xigbar, Axel
Warnings/Spoilers: None, per se.
Word Count: 1010 (Yay!)
Summary: Luxord thinks about the past far too much, and when it does his train of thought often changes track mid-thought and stops in a completely different place.
Song: Faith Of The Heart – Russell Watson (which was ironic, really)
A/N: And that's that! –dusts off hands-
Disclaimer: If KH was mine Luxord would has his own casino. Case and point; neither KH nor Luxord are mine.
Distribution: Just tell me if you put it anywhere, please and thank you.

Luxord and Xigbar's relationship was love-hate at best. At worst it was rape-victim. But then again, Luxord supposed he'd brought the whole thing on himself when he'd first come to Organisation and met the other man.

Luxord stood in the middle of the huge white room, feeling trapped by the nine huge chairs that surrounded him.

He surveyed the men on the chairs with sharp eyes as he tried to figure out why in God's holy name he'd agreed to leave his family – hell, apparently his world – behind for some scary man and his pretty little cohort.

Oh, that's right; he'd been afraid of dying. Again. It hadn't been pleasant the first time and he didn't particularly was to experience it once more.

Some sort of wordless communication rippled through his watchers and some of them slipped their hoods off while others made themselves more comfortable on their chairs. One man in particular leaned forward in his chair and surveyed him with seeming interest, though he might have been falling asleep for all Luxord could see of his face.

"This is our newest member, who will be known as Luxord," stated their leader and a few heads turned to look at him while they listened.

One man, with scars on his left cheek and a patch on the opposite eye, raised his hand as if to ask a question, but was ignored.

"I expect you to at least be cordial to him, as we are all working to the same end and in-fighting is not what is required to complete our mission. Saïx will show you the important areas of the castle as well as your room, and tomorrow you will start your work. Understood?"

Luxord nodded up at him, glancing at the man who still had his hand raised. His recruiter sighed wearily, as if he knew what was going to come out of his mouth and didn't want to hear it.

"Yes, Xigbar?" he asked.

"I call dibs." Said the other man with a grin which Luxord found disturbing on many levels.

"What is this "dibs"?" he asked cautiously, still not liking the look on his senior's face or the vibes he was sending out.

"He essentially said that in the event that you're ever looking for a significant other he has the first shot at you," said the man who had been leaning forward to look at him.

Luxord's eyes widened and then narrowed as he turned to glare at Xigbar with thoughts of homicide racing through his brain.

"Even if I did desire the attention of other men, sir, I certainly would not accept it from some lecherous old man such as yourself," he spat out before realising where he was and that he was without a friend and surrounded by the other man's allies.

Or supposed allies; the man who had translated for him laughed outright at the sour look on Xigbar's face while a few other members, and even Xemnas himself, sniggered quietly.

"Well, you know how denial is," he said to the assembled members before disappearing into a dark portal.

From that moment on, up until and even past the point when Luxord had started being pursued by Demyx and had finally agreed to have him, Xigbar had been slinking around in his peripheral vision doing things that Luxord really didn't want to know about.

When he occasionally let his vision stray it was often to find Xigbar about to do something lewd or possibly criminal to either himself or Demyx. Apparently he'd also called "dibs" on Demyx and had received the same response from the musician as he'd gotten from Luxord.

Luxord's mind then turned to thinking about the smaller blond, with what could have been called a fond smile – if, of course, he could feel – and he recalled their first proper meeting after Demyx had disappeared following his becoming a member.

"This is the hallway with all of the quarters in it. You will also be assigned your own floor and area, which you can do with whatever you wish," stated Saïx in a monotone which Luxord was finding hypnotic – the type of hypnosis which puts one to sleep.

"Your room," he said, tapping on a door with the pad of his index finger before sweeping back down the hallway and out of sight, leaving the blond in front of his door feeling dazed and over-loaded with information.

A blond head popped out from the room directly across the hall from Luxord's and a smile quickly twinkled into existence on the young features therein.

"Luxord!" he chirped, leaving his doorway open as he took two steps towards the other man. Luxord turned to look at him with an eyebrow raised in a speculative manner.

Demyx was wearing a light blue tank top which was far to big for his small frame, as well as some shorts which were far too short and tight to be healthy and a mismatched pair of socks.

"Me and Axel were just about to start a game, you want in?" he asked, obviously trying in his own way to welcome him into the Organisation. Luxord's eyes were already glinting cunningly.

"What game, pray tell?" he asked, his mouth forming a grin of its own accord.

"We were thinking just poker!" called a voice from inside the room, which Luxord then moved to look into. A man with violently red hair leant his back on the bed, his arms resting on the top and an easy smirk on his face.

"I'm Axel, by the way. I was the one who told you what "dibs" meant. Don't worry about Xigbar, though; he was calling dibs on people even as a Somebody so it's probably no biggie."

Luxord opened his mouth to say something but Axel cut him off.

"A "biggie" is a "big deal". So: don't worry, Xigbar is probably not going to rape you; probably."

Luxord nodded hesitantly before he was dragged into the room.

"Let's just play already!" said Demyx happily.

Luxord's grin returned.

He smiled.