Title: Fire
Characters/Pairings: Axel, Xemnas ; Xemnas/Axel
Author's Notes: Written for my trio post at KH Request (on LJ), for Digimon Empress Yaten, with the prompt: fire can be a beautiful thing.
He is the first. As such, when another complains of being heartless, he feels no dark humor or annoyance. He truly feels nothing. In every empty cavity of his body there lurks only darkness, only a void unfulfilled.
It is not amusing to watch the others be ignorant of their gifts. Little traces of emotion they ignore or take for granted. They can't feel it. They can't see it. Yet there it is. Anger. Greed. Despair. The scientist in him is smiling; the Nobody of him is placid, yet intrigued.
None of them is a better example than Number Eight. Sly little smirks when he's wrapped up in a scheme he thinks is all his own. Entertainment at the futility of it all: his eyebrows raised, frowning slightly. Fury burning across his cheeks and ears; annoyance in the twitch of his fingers; relief in the subtle relaxed slump of his sharp shoulders.
Interesting. A little bit marvelous, maybe. Never surprising. After all, fire is energy, is fuel, is that which gives life and that which ends it. And Xemnas is not jealous, not ever jealous, does not feel that little nagging creature in the back of his brain that tells him fire is so very like a heartbeat.