The Queen of Hearts
Chapter Ten: Hold the Celebration
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts.
The water was running through the faucet while Xion bringing her hand to the water cupping it and then raising to her lips. Xion was rinsing the smell and taste of vomit out of her mouth. She repeated this several times before shutting off the water.
Xion then running her fingers through her short black hair, "symptoms...finally are showing, damn" the twenty-year old muttered to herself. The girl stared at herself into the mirror and sighed. Right now Xion could pass off as a sick person.
"Me...A mother at my age" her mind kept telling her. Xion had known she was pregnant for quite some time; she'd gone to the doctor for a run of a mil check up and came back with something else, Xion still hadn't told anyone not any of the other girls or even her own family; she especially hadn't told Vanitas this news.
Xion knew about this baby for a near four months. Xion still couldn't get over the fact that her body was barely showing; she consulted a doctor over it. The doctor told her that it was normal for some women not show based on certain body types. But the doctor told Xion to be just as careful if she were showing.
"Van, come you here please" she surprisingly calling him out, knowing that he was in their bedroom. "What!" he yelled back as he was getting ready to head over to the club as the girls needed a dress rehearsal before the small show Xehanort arranged tonight. The man claiming to have some news for them all
Again Xion sighed, "I need to tell you something and it's vitally important, mind you" she said.
"Well what is it?" asked Vanitas as he opened the door to the private bathroom. Vanitas dressing in one of his designer black suits; his crimson tie was still undone but hanging around his neck. Xion going over to him and tying it for him, Xion's hands nearing his neck as she did his tie; Vanitas was sneaking kisses on to the side of her face.
"Van...I" the next kiss on her lips, "I'm pregnant" she finally said to him which halted the black haired boy in his tracks.
"...Come again?" Vanitas actually being stunned for once in life, "Why do you think I've been sick lately?"
Vanitas still hadn't said anything "I said, I'm pregnant and it's beginning to scare me" said Xion
The only thought that could run in Vanitas's mind was, "Did Xehanort suspect something?"
Xehanort rode in the back of his limousine as pressed the button for the window divider which was sound proof. Securing his silence in the car; pulling out his cell phone and vastly dialed in a number.
"I'm calling in on a favor and I need it now" spoke the cruel man. "Well, I need this problem taken care of now. And I know you are the man to do it or do I have to send a man of my own to make sure you comply" threatened Xehanort.
"What do you mean you're a member of the organization now?" Axel practically screamed in the break room.
"It means Xehanort now has his greedy little claws into me now." Replied Terra, who was unhappy as Axel was "But why would you let him do that?" asked Axel
"Because if I had said no, then I know he would have tried to use Sora, to get to these supposed shares that we are suddenly entitled too." Explained Terra "It doesn't take a genius to figure that one out Axel." added Terra, as he put money into the vending machine for a soda.
"Yeah, I guess better you then Sora. I mean after all your brother is a bit too trust worthy." Axel adding in his own opinion "After all he's friends with you" Terra then said.
"That's tr...Hey!" Axel realizing he was just insulted. Terra merely shrugged as he mentally panicked on the inside.
"Whatever, I have to get out of here and speak to my mother about this" Terra sighed as he clocked out for the last time.
"I'm so glad you called" Ventus said into the phone receiver, "So am I" said a nervous female. "So, how have you been" she asked him,
"Good...good and yourself" he replied.
"Good" she said.
The phone conversation quickly turning into an awkward silence, Ventus being the first one to speak up "Hey, Olette, I don't know if you have anything going on today but would you like to meet up for a coffee? That way we can talk in person and not feel so awkward like we are now." Ventus swallowing his fear as he asked the kingdom hearts performer out.
"I would like that it's just, I have a dress rehearsal and a performance tonight but I was planning on spending tomorrow with my friend, Namine" Olette told Ven.
"I know this may sound desperate on my part but, you can bring her along and I can bring my brother Roxas, they do know one another and it would ease our nerves of being alone together" Ventus becoming determined to have a at least one date with her; even if he made himself sound like desperate but it was a sacrifice Ventus was willing to make.
"That sounds...okay with me but I'll have to ask Namine, so can I call you back" spoke Olette.
"Sure" they both hang up.
"Roxas, you're going to owe me big time for this" said Ventus as he went to get his twin.
"Terra, how could you do this? You know what type of man your cousin is" His mother screamed at him as Terra went to over to his old childhood home.
"Yeah, I know mom, I'm not an idiot but how could you not tell me about the club or the shares that dad left for me and Sora" Terra screamed back as he told his mother about his last minute career change. "And not to mention, I did it to protect Sora, because if I said, no. you know as much as I do he would have gone to Sora." added the brunette.
That caused silence between the two. "Hey, why are you guys screaming?" as oil covered Sora entered the house after spending the morning working with Riku on his car.
Malelly looked to her older son, with the expression of 'don't you dare tell him' "Oh, were just 'discussing' the shares of the Kingdom Hearts club, Dad let for us." Terra told his brother
"What?" The younger man said Sora being floored by this sudden news "Terra!" Malelly screamed to her son.
"And guess what Sora, Xehanort made me apart of his special group and he wants me to look over the club, isn't that great" Terra speaking with such sarcasm.
"Why would do something that stupid Terra!" said Sora, "that's a rate of ten on the scale of stupidity" added the younger brother.
"Well to make matters worse, he's chosen to celebrate this moment at the club tonight and we're all invited and yes mother, even Aunt Maleficent will be there" spoke Terra.
Malelly cringe at the mention of her twin sister. Silence filled out in the Enix house until Terra opened his mouth "Look we all know, Xehanort could have killed me and Sora for those shares but he didn't" he said.
Malelly looked like she was going to add something, "Mom, I figured that if I do work at the club for while get on Xehanort's good side, I can sell the shares to him and be rid of him, Vanitas , Aunt Maleficent and the club once and for all. " said Terra.
"But would you want to forget the girl" his mind asked him
Malelly looked to her son, "its good plan Terra" she said "In theory" she added.
Aqua waiting for cue to start singing as the music began to play it was her rehearsal for Peggy Lee's 'Fever' the changed the song to a nice jazz like ballad. She'd sang this song once before for Xehanort but it didn't feel true to her so she hadn't sang it ever since.
But then Aqua wondered perhaps she didn't think of Xehanort during the song but perhaps someone else and that was when 'he' popped into her
Never know how much I love you;
never know how much I care.
When you put your arms around me,
I get a fever that's so hard to bear.
Aqua had thought of the man who saved her that thought more about him then her near death experience and she didn't know why. Mostly due to the reason being, she didn't know anything about this man and it wasn't likely that they would ever meet again.
"You give me fever,
when you kiss me,
fever when you hold me tight.
Fever! In the morning,
fever all through the night."
But yet she remembered how good it felt to have his arms wrapped around her, it made her feel safe and secure while Xehanort's embrace made her feel like a possession.
"Now you've listened to my story,
here's the point that I have made:
fever! 'till you sizzle"
"Terra" Her mind recalling his name
"What a lovely way to burn
what a lovely way to burn
what a lovely way to burn"
Aqua remembering that kisses they shared, ironically they did leave her with a fever.
"What a lovely way to burn."' Aqua sang out the last note.
End Chapter.