"Do you think when this is all over that we'll all die or just be severely maimed up real good?" Axel cast a weary glance towards the open door of the study when he heard Luxord voice echo down the hall.
"Oh we're most certainly all going to die for this, no doubt about it." Xigbar snorted.
"Well I'll make sure you two are buried together." Xaldin nodded at them.
"What?" Axel drew his brows deeply. "I don't get it."
"Don't play dumb with me I know you two are secretly dancing in the bed when no one is looking."
"Of course we are." Xigbar smirked. "At least we're getting some unlike you who's so sexually deprived you've forgotten what that thing hangin between you legs is actually for."
"We are not!" Axel bit out.
"At least I have something between my legs." Xaldin smirked ignoring Axel completely. "We all know you're a little bitch wishing he was a real man."
Xigbar sat back in the couch and crossed his arms over his chest. "You've got it all wrong man Axel's my little bitch." He shrugged dismissively. "Don't take it out on us that you're sexually deprived. I'm sure Vexen will be more than happy to satisfy you all you have to do is ask."
"HEY!" Axel defended. "I'm not a bitch!"
"Hmm..." Xaldin arched a dark brow at his one eyed friend. "If I even remotely doubted the relationship between you two his big mouth just confirmed it." He smirked as he looked at the red head. "What's the matter you can dish it out but you can't take it? So tell me boy who holds that special twinkle in your eye if it isn't Cyclops here?"
"You." He leered trying to back peddle realizing he opened the door to every insult and everything else Xaldin could come up with by getting so defensive and for no real reason. It had to be a momentary lapse of better judgment.
"Too late boy you've already shown us all the truth."
"So what." He waved a dismissive hand through the air. "This isn't about me this is about you and Vexen."
"I agree." Xigbar nodded. "So what's the real deal with you anyway? Vexy practically worships the ground you walk on. He would give you the world... well his world of everyone hopped out of their minds with his homemade drugs." He snorted.
"Yea he looooves you." Axel swooned.
"It's a delusion he made up in his own mind. Next month it'll be someone else he's gushing all over;" he smirked at them. "even one of you two."
"Hardly." Xigbar grunted. "The fact of the matter is this, Vexen has had a crush on you for a long long time but he knows you don't want anything to do with him. It's hard to love someone that doesn't love you back it makes you do stupid stuff to ease the pain of rejection."
"Yea like date impulsively but no sex ever." Axel gave a small shake of his head and looked over at Xigbar. "Should we tell him?"
"No," Xigbar shook his head. "that's Vexen's little secret and if he wants Xaldin to know then he'll tell him himself."
"Tell me what." Xaldin stared suspiciously at the two of them.
"Well maybe you should talk to Vexen yourself and find out what it is." Axel pointed out. "It'll knock your socks off when you find out what it is." He smirked.
Xaldin glowered at the two of them knowing full well that he wasn't going to get anything out of either of them. That was the problem with Axel and Xigbar they could keep tight lipped when it served their own purposes.
xx
"Larxene..." Marluxia drawled out her name coldly.
"What do you want?" She bit back.
"I WANT to know if you solved this problem with your daughter." He hissed. "And I want to know what you plan on doing about your son. Luxord," he narrowed his eyes upon the man in question when he opened his mouth silencing him instantly. "is about to find out about both of them and you and I both know the consequences if he does. Someone is going to get hurt and my guess is it'll be both those kids."
"IF HE LAYS ONE HAND ON MY BABIES I'LL KILL HIM!"
Marluxia arched a brow at Luxord who was suddenly glowering at the phone.
"My sweet Lexaeus would never let him do anything to our kids, I just know it." She growled determinedly. "And..."
"Shush," Saïx nudged Luxord's shoulder. "I think what she's about to say gong to be good." He whispered.
"And what?" Marluxia growled when she suddenly went quiet.
"I don't want to marry the emperor's son. I'm going to call it off and finally be with the man I truly love and my kids."
Marluxia glanced over at Zexion when he went stiff in the spine, clutched Naminé tighter to his chest, and moved closer to him. "Really?" He questioned back. "And do tell how do you propose to accomplish such a feat without disgracing your family?"
"I don't know I'll think of something." She bit out. "But whatever it is I'll make sure my family is okay because it's all about them after all! No one cares about me and what I want. I'm the one having to pay with my life so MY family can continue to be in the good graces of Qing who will NEVER open the boarders. Luxord thinks he knows what the hell is going on here but he doesn't know shit. Qing is just taking him for a ride keeping him complaisant because he needs Luxord's backing when they attack the middle east after Luxord dethrones that bastard of a king."
"WHAT?!" Luxord bellowed with a struggle against his bonds before anyone could do or say anything to stop him.
"MARLUXIA YOU BASTARD YOU SET ME UP!" Larxene yelled into the phone.
"You're the one that surrounded yourself into your own web of lies. It was only a matter of time until they all fell apart."
"Let me up." Luxord hissed at Saïx.
Saïx looked from Luxord to Marluxia who shook his head then looked back a Luxord. "No."
"We're not quite done yet." Marluxia nodded at his long time friend. "Thank you Larxene." He hissed into the phone then flipped it closed and handed it back to Lexaeus. "Now," he stared hard at Luxord. "are you going to face the fact that your sister is nothing but a conniving liar or do you need more proof. Which mind you I can get."
"She wouldn't have done it," he growled darkly as he stared deadly at Lexaeus. "if she wasn't taken advantage of."
"I..." Lexaeus started but stopped when Marluxia cut him off.
"Yes pass the blame and live in the safety of a lie to avoid facing the fact that your sister is a liar." He glared at him. "Face the facts Luxord you built Larxene up into something she's NOT and this isn't all Lexaeus' fault."
"She manipulated you." Saïx nodded. "Even I can figure that much out and I don't even know her. Now the question is why would she do that and go through so much trouble just to keep you in the dark about what she's really doing?" When Luxord opened his mouth he interrupted him. "No," he shook his head. "take a minute and REALLY think about it before you answer." He crossed his arms over his chest. "Then REALLY think about why everyone around you kept it a secret. I mean really Luxord I don't even know your sister or what was going on with her and Lexaeus and I figured out that Naminé and Demyx were related to you."
"Yes I too find it rather peculiar that you didn't figure it out." Vexen nodded at the man tied to the bed. "You're usually the first one to figure what's going on."
"No." Marluxia gave a small shake of his head. "He knew he just didn't want to admit the truth to himself."
"Silence." Luxord growled as he stared hard at Lexaeus. "You will tell me everything and maybe you'll be lucky enough to walk away with nothing but a damn good beating."
Lexaeus gave a small nod at his employer. "I have been with your sister on and off from the first day we met. I wanted to tell you but she told me no."
"Why didn't she want you to tell him?" Saïx questioned when Lexaeus just fell silent.
"She said he wouldn't understand and he wouldn't approve. It wasn't long after that that we found out she was pregnant with Demyx." He cast a small quick glance over at Vexen.
Luxord followed his glance and stared at the doctor knowing full well he'd have a lot so say on the subject.
Vexen sighed deeply. "Yes it was I that helped hide the pregnancy and the child from you," He looked over at Naminé when Zexion sat down on the bed and began rocking her. "both children Lexaeus' children."
"Both? Are you saying they had more than just the two?" Zexion stared wide eyed up at him.
"No the two we have here are Lexaeus' only children with Larxene but that doesn't mean she didn't have another with someone else." He looked from Luxord to Marluxia who in turn drew his brows deeply. "She had your child."
"What?!" His sapphire eyes widened hugely.
Vexen sighed deeply and moved to sit in the chair feeling like he was going to faint. "As you know we were looking for a surrogate to produce you a child and I had your sperm frozen in my lab in case we found someone."
"Yes." Marluxia hissed not liking where this was going and if he wasn't injured as he was he would have belted the doctor in the mouth for not telling him about it when it happened.
"Let me guess." Saïx sighed trying not to laugh at the absurdity of the situation. "She stole it, impregnated herself with it, and now Marluxia is a daddy but not only that he's the father of someone else in this house."
Luxord looked from Saïx to Vexen and narrowed his eyes deeply. "Who?" He growled darkly.
"Wait a minute!" Zexion jumped to his feet stopping Vexen from answering the question. "Why would she do that? She hates Marluxia as much as he hates her."
"I asked her the same question." Vexen sighed.
"And what did she say?" Saïx sat down next to Luxord and began to mindlessly run his fingers through his hair in hopes of preventing the man from having a heart attack.
"Marluxia was the next best choice in creating an heir to," he stared at Luxord a little nervously knowing full well he was next on his hit list. "to take everything you have. She believed a child with Marluxia would have the same strong drive for power that they both share."
Luxord felt like he was going to be sick, this was too much and all in one sitting.
"She actually wanted to have your child and tried to talk me into helping her acquire the necessary sample needed." He exaggerated the word sample as he stared at Luxord.
Everyone stared in wide eyed shock at the doctor but none so much so as Luxord. "What?" He whispered as his throat went dry.
"I of course refused so I can only assume she moved onto the next best candidate." He glanced at Marluxia. "Stole his sperm from my lab and viola she's the mother of child number three or more to the point child number one."
"Wow." Zexion sat back down onto the bed. "At the rate things are going I wouldn't be surprised if you said Larxene isn't really Luxord's sister."
"No as far as I know she's his sister." Vexen slumped ever further into the chair.
"Wait you said child number one." Saïx drew his brows. "So are you saying that whoever this mystery child is he or she is older than Demyx?"
"Yes" He nodded. "As a matter of fact he's three years older and nothing like Larxene imagined him to be." He snorted. "For that matter he's the exact opposite to her personality in every way possible. Hence how you came to be daddy number two." He stared at a rather pale looking Lexaeus. "She figured if someone the same as her produced a child opposite to her then someone opposite to her would give her what she wanted."
"But Demyx is nothing like her and how would she know he was nothing like her or Marly especially at three years old?" Zexion pointed out. "So why have a second child with him.
"No one ever said she was smart." Marluxia moved to sit in the chair on the other side of the table next to Vexen.
"There was no one else left." He nodded at Marluxia's statement. "At least that's what I figured or she did actually fall in love with Lexaeus." Vexen shrugged.
"Let me up." Luxord whispered tiredly to Saïx.
Saïx nodded and released the belt binding his hands to the headboard then got up to make the man a drink, he was sure he needed one. As he looked around the room it looked like everyone needed one at the moment including him. "Maybe we should take this into Luxord's office." He nodded. "I think we all need something to choke this down with."
"I agree." Lexaeus nodded and was the first one out of the room feeling rather ill about this whole mess.