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Waiting

Bouncing on his heels, Ven was the very picture of impatience as he waited at Terra's bedside. It appeared the shock of seeing his older friend bedridden had finally worn off, and Ven was being as pushy and demanding as always. Terra did his best to ignore him, to drown out Ven's voice so all he heard was his mind repeating the words on the page before him.

"Anything?"

Terra signed, and flipped another page of Xehanort's report. "Keep waiting, Ven. I can't tell you anything if I haven't read them yet."

"But I thought you and the Master already did!"

Cursing lightly, Terra set the report down. Pressure pulsed through his skull, like his brain was saying it was about to implode.

Ven put his face right next to Terra's head and said, "Sooo?"

"Nothing," Terra grumbled. He had an urge to toss the report at a wall.

Ven frowned, and then stole the report. Terra let him, and he watched the younger boy for about two minutes, which marked the time it took for Ven to go cross-eyed and hand it back.

Terra smirked and said, "If you want to read something of this level, you need to stop reading picture books, Ven."

"Hey! I don't read picture books!" Ven whined.

"That's not what I heard."

As Ven pouted off to the side, Terra continued to leaf through Xehanort's works. At last, he set it down, his throat simultaneously constricting so it could hold back his frustrated scream.

"Nothing," he said. He didn't throw the report against a wall, but he did throw it onto the bed. "Xehanort has no idea where Vanitas went!"

"Yeah, I know," Ven said. He flopped onto the bed next to Terra's chest.

And Terra said, "What do you mean that you know?"

Ven shrugged, studying his interlocked fingers. "Xehanort pretty much told me that."

"You spoke to Xehanort about this!" This time, the pain had lessened enough that Terra could actually push himself up. "Why didn't you tell me about this earlier?"

Ven cringed. "It . . . it didn't seem very important. All he said was that he didn't know where Vanitas could have gone."

"Is that all he said? That's everything? He didn't offer any suggestions?"

"Not about where Vanitas was," Ven said.

"But he did say something." Terra placed his hand on Ven's shoulder. "Ven, what did he say?"

"He said he didn't know where Vanitas was if he hadn't," Ven scrunched up his face, "united with me?"

"United with you?" Terra said slowly.

"I don't know what it means either," Ven said.

"And we're back to where we started," Terra lamented. "We know it's not her darkness, because darkness doesn't give you a split personality. So, what then?"

"What does unite mean?" Ven asked.

"To join together," Terra said. "To become one. To merge-"

Both of them froze.

"It can't be," he whispered. And it couldn't be. It was impossible.

But it was the only answer they had.


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