A/N: So, it seems that misfortune still seems to plague me. My own laptop got infected by a virus yesterday. Thankfully, I managed to back everything up on a flash drive, and a friend of mine is coming over sometime on Sunday to look at it. He says that he'll have to reconstruct my entire computer-boo. But, it's fixable, so that's good. Anyway, luckily I took Bond's advice (thanks Bond, by the way!) and uploaded several chapters of this to ffnet already, so that's good. I'm borrowing my mom's laptop at the moment, and I hope I'll have mine back by Tuesday, which is when I intend to upload the next chapter. So, I bid you adieu for the moment-I won't be terribly active on the site with my laptop out of comission.

In other news, related more to the AEM universe, I figure that, in order to save some confusion, I can shed a little more light on the family structure of the Valentine family, yeah? Some readers know more than others, but just so I don't lose you guys utterly...

Eraqus and Kida McArthur are Aqua's parents. Aqua is an only child. Eraqus's brother is Auron, who along with Megara are Terra's parents. Auron and Megara died when Terra was young, after which he was raised alongside Aqua by Eraqus and Kida. They may be cousins by blood, but Terra and Aqua function more like siblings, hence Xion calling him "Uncle Terra".

Vincent and Aurora Valentine are the parents of Ventus and Vanitas. Vanitas is obviously married to Aqua, and their only child is their daughter, Xion. As for Ven, his situation is explained more in Wrecked on Pop-Tarts and Sex, but in case you haven't read that story...he was first married to Belle, and their child is Sora. Ven and Belle mutually divorced, after which Ven married Kairi, and together they had the twins Namine and Roxas. Belle went on to marry Adam (aka the Beast), but they don't have any children. Okay? There, now I won't have to explain that a million times to different reviewers. Not that I don't like talking about AEM, but it does get tiresome, repeating the same thing over and over again. So there you go. More of AEM will be revealed as we go on, of course. :)

Warnings: A sheer lack of tact. Sadness.

Dedication: To Ghostwriter and Lauren, always.

Disclaimer: See chapter 1

Mangoes and Limes

Prompt 10: First Tragedy

In later years, she could have kicked herself for asking it. But Xion had been mildly oblivious when she was eight years old, and so she really had thought nothing of asking such a question.

She had asked, "Uncle Terra, where are your Mommy and Daddy?" She had understood enough to know that Grandpa Eraqus and Grandma Kida weren't his parents.

"They're…not here."

"Where are they?"

"…In Heaven."

"How'd they get there?"

"…They died."

"What's that?" She had noticed Daddy wearing that funny expression that he made sometimes.

"It's when…someone has to go away. And you can't see them anymore."