Lexaeus stared at the boy in front of him and was utterly speechless. It wasn't so much that his son was here but what was he going to do with him? With the issues with Sephiroth now wasn't the time for fatherhood.

"Dad?" Demyx questioned timidly.

Zexion looked up from wiping down Marluxia's wounds and stared at the large man. "Lexy are you just going to stare at him all day?"

Lexaeus shook his head to clear it. "Why are you here?"

Demyx cocked his head slightly. "Mom said that it was time to come visit you for awhile because gramps wanted me gone." He nodded.

"How horrible." Zexion gasped as he looked over at the boy.

Lexaeus sighed deeply and looked at Marluxia. "I can't take him home."

"Why?" Marluxia questioned suspiciously.

Lexaeus stared at the pink haired attorney for a long moment. "Can I speak with you in private?"

Marluxia cocked a brow then nodded and rose from his chair. "Zexion take Demyx to the kitchen and make me something to eat I'm starving."

Zexion stared up at his lover and nodded even though he really didn't want to miss out on what Lexaeus was going to say. "Come on Demyx lets make dinner." Zexion nodded at the boy as he made for the door.

Demyx looked over at his father then followed Zexion out of the room.

Lexaeus waited until they were gone then ran his fingers through his hair in agitation. "I can't believe she sent him here." Lexaeus growled.

Marluxia watched as the generally silent and composed man paced the living room and muttered to himself. Whatever the issue was with Demyx and Lexaeus it must be serious for Lexaeus to be behaving in such a way. So he waited patiently for Lexaeus to tell him what was going on.

Lexaeus suddenly stopped and stared at the attorney. "Can I depend on you to keep a secret from Luxord?"

At that Marluxia's sapphires widened hugely. No one ever asked him to keep a secret from Luxord for they didn't think he could nor did he ever. "It depends." Marluxia nodded. "How serious is this?"

Lexaeus slumped in the shoulder. "If he found out I can assure you I would be dead." He nodded.

"It can't be that serious." Marluxia nodded.

"It is." Lexaeus stared at the attorney seriously. "Larxene is Demyx's mother."

Marluxia froze and stared wide eyed at the man. "And you are his father." He whispered as a vision of what Luxord would do to the man if he found out ran through his mind.

"The baby." Lexaeus sighed deeply.

"What baby?" He snapped out of his dazed shock.

Lexaeus looked over to the bassinet containing the sleeping baby his biological sleeping baby. "She's Demyx's sister." He sighed tiredly.

Marluxia felt as if someone had just hit him in the chest with a baseball bat. "Do you know what will happen if Luxord finds out?"

Lexaeus nodded. "I do. That's why Larxene and I decided it would be best if we gave her up but Demyx." He shook his head. "She just wouldn't let him go so she sent him to a special school to keep him a secret and still be able to visit him."

"How? Why?" Marluxia just couldn't wrap his mind around this sudden turn of events.

"It's been on and off between us for well over fifteen years now. I wanted to tell Luxord when it first started but she refused and made me promise to keep it a secret. So I did in hopes that one day we could finally be together. Then during one of our breaks she met the emperor's son fell in love and ended it for good." He snorted. "Or so I thought." He plopped down onto the sofa and stared at the shocked attorney. "During our last trip to China we got back together and," he nodded over at the bassinet. "well you're now the father of the end result."

"Fuck!' Marluxia hissed as that seemed to be the only word that he could get to come out. He always knew Larxene was nothing but trouble and now they were all in a world of it. "Why her of all the women in the world?"

Lexaeus shook his head slowly. "She's different around me then she is around others and I do… did truly love her."

Marluxia shook his head. "And Vexen has known all this time?"

Lexaeus nodded his head. "He's known from day one. Demyx was a sickly child and Vexen was his doctor. We couldn't keep it a secret and I suppose that's why Larxene became attached to him."

The attorney sighed deeply as he processed all this information and tried to work out some sort of solution that would keep Luxord from killing them all. "Well we can keep Naminé a secret since she can't talk and only you, myself, Larxene, and Vexen know about her but the boy is a whole different matter."

Lexaeus nodded. "I don't want anything to happen to him myself I don't care but he's still my son and if I have to I will kill for his life."

"No that won't be necessary." Marluxia shook his head. "We need to keep him from telling anyone who his mother is that's the only way we can make sure Luxord doesn't find out and everyone lives a long Anathema free life." He walked over to the end table and picked up the phone and began punching in a long series of numbers.

Lexaeus watched the attorney then widened his eyes when Marluxia stared at him.

"I wish to speak with Larxene La Vache."

xx

"And that's what happened." Saïx sighed.

Luxord stared intently at him and ground his teeth together. "If you would have just minded your own none of this would be happening right now." He growled. "I had everything well under control and you may have cost me everything."

Saïx just stared at the Brit. He had nothing to say since he knew that he was destine to die whether it be by Sephiroth's hand or Luxord's. It really didn't matter one way or the other as his life was null anyway. Cast away by his own brother, a tool by Sephiroth, and hated by Luxord what was left for him in this life?

Luxord was on the verge of taking him down to the sanctuary and beating him to death but what good would that do anyone? Nothing. So instead he grabbed the pills Vexen gave him from his pocket and downed them with a glass of the strongest whiskey he had.

Once the burning in his gut subsided he stared at Saïx and decided that another drink was definitely in order to calm his ire. Then another when he locked stares with the boy's deep ambers. Another when he thought about the poison running through his veins and another as he thought about Xemnas and the hell the man had created in his life. And on he drank until there was nothing left in the bottle and nothing left in his head to worry about.

Saïx stared at the man as he drank glass after glass of the alcohol until the bottle was empty and when Luxord went for the second bottle he decided that Luxord had had quite enough. He stood up and walked over to the Brit. "No." He nodded as he grabbed the full bottle from his hand. "Inebriation will do nothing to fix this situation."

"You will bite your tongue." Luxord growled as he stared at the slowly blurring figure before him. The alcohol was taking quick effect and he fell welcoming into it's warm mind numbing embrace.

Saïx stared at him and shook his head. "No, once I'm dead all your troubles will be gone."

Luxord narrowed his eyes upon the blurry blue figure before him. "Your death will only anger me more." He grabbed him by the shirt and pulled him in until they were nose to nose. "You belong to me and your death will only come when I decide that you no longer serve a purpose on this earth."

Saïx cocked his head slightly. "And what purpose do I serve now? I'm nothing more than a possession that isn't even worthy of my brother's love." He reached up and ran his finger across the scar on his brow. "He scarred me for no other purpose than to mock you and harm me and you see me as no better then he does. I have no humanity I am a tool to serve another's means."

"Do not speak such nonsense." Luxord slurred slightly. "You have a purpose here."

Saïx cocked his head as he locked his ambers with his silver blues not that he had a choice since Luxord wasn't letting him go. "As what? Your punching bag?"

Luxord glowered at the male. "Bushi."

Saïx drew his brows deeply. "What?"

"Bushi." Luxord growled irritably before he released his shirt, grabbed his shoulders, and slammed him against his chest. "Ài shàng." He rumbled through his chest.

"I don't know what you're saying." Saïx nodded against his shoulder.

"Chén mò. " Luxord ordered as he breathed in the scent of his hair as every ounce of irritation within him fell away. "Yǒu qíng rén zhōng chéng juàn shǔ ."

Saïx opened his mouth to respond to that when Luxord suddenly pulled him away at arms length and stared pointedly at him.

"Hēi xiū. " Luxord nodded slowly.

Saïx just stared at the Brit having no idea what he was saying. He didn't speak Chinese nor did he know a single word of it and at the moment he really wished he was fluent in the language so he would know what the man was saying. Then again what he was saying couldn't be all bad as his voice didn't sound as angry as it usually did. However he was getting drunker by the second as the alcohol took effect so as far as he was concerned he could be saying anything up to and including threatening him. "I think you should go to bed and sleep it off."

Luxord smirked a dopey smirk. "Wěi ." He nodded.

Saïx shook his head. "Speak English I don't know what you're saying."

"I saaaying," he slurred. "yesssss"

"How can you slur your English but not your Chinese?" He sighed deeply, moved to Luxord's side, and wrapped his arm around his waist. "Come let's get you to bed."

"Wěi ." Luxord agreed suggestively.

"Speak English." Saïx growled. "I don't know what you want or what you're saying."

Luxord grunted when he clipped the corner of the door as they made their way through it. "Weeeere goings to beeeed." Luxord nodded.

"Yes." Saïx nodded as tried to keep Luxord from stumbling over and taking them both to the floor. Although it was a wasted effort when Luxord turned and walked them right into the wall forcing them to fall to the floor.

"Hmm…" Luxord hummed. "Wyz da flur waaaay up herre?"

Saïx didn't bother to respond as he climbed back up to his feet. He cast the Brit an annoyed glare before he bent over and began pulling him up to his feet.

"What happened?" Vexen questioned as he hurriedly and made his way down the hall to the two males.

"He's drunk and took the pills you gave him." Saïx answered with a tired sigh.

Vexen shook his head. "Fool." He growled as he helped Saïx get him to his feet.

Luxord looked over at the blonde. "Vexy," he grinned. "yew soo purty."

"Shut-up." The doctor bit out as he and Saïx practically carried him to his room and laid him down on his bed. "If you were anyone else the pills and the alcohol would have killed you by now." He hissed and pulled a needle and a jar from his bag.

"What's that?" Saïx questioned as he watched the doctor.

"It's an antidote for the pills." Vexen nodded then jabbed the needle into Luxord's arm.

"Owwieeee!" Luxord whined.

"It's no more than you deserve." Vexen bit out. "No go to sleep."

"Yesss mother." Luxord nodded and closed his eyes.

Vexen ground his teeth together then looked over at Saïx. "Come so you can tell me what Sephiroth did to you and we can figure out a cure."

Saïx nodded at the doctor then cast the Brit in the bed a glance before he followed Vexen out of the room.