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Notes: Written for LJ's "30kisses" comm for Theme 26: Wishing I Could Make You Mine.Green
"Where did he go now?"
"Who? Zexion?" Vexen asked, looking to the doorway where Axel stood. "You know very well where he went," he said with disdain.
It was true, Axel really hadn't needed to ask. It wasn't rare for Zexion to disappear in the middle of a conversation or seemingly for no reason. It wasn't rare either for him to appear when one thought him busy elsewhere. Where it was he went to, and where it was he came from, while he refused to mention or acknowledge it, everyone knew. No one really said anything about it though, it was more like a little taboo they had especially for him.
The Superior favored Zexion because Zexion favored the Superior.
"Then I suppose there was no point in me coming down here."
"Indeed. If you had business with him you know well that his business elsewhere is priority. You'll have to find him later."
"Hm."
Axel left the room, having no interest in further conversation. Alone in the hall, Axel's thoughts no longer felt stifled by company, allowing him to lose himself in his envy. It was a jealousy he wouldn't deign to admit-- least of all to himself --but that he knew was there every time he noticed Zexion was missing, or every time showed up late.
Axel had not used to be an avaricious or envious person, but there had never been a time he had not been driven by lust. And lust, like any vice, could often lure out the rest of the vices lying dormant within him with a mean kiss, thus letting loose the demons of Greed and Want.
Axel, still in the hall outside the cellar door, looked to the ceiling with green eyes, as if they would be able to see the two people far above him. He knew he would forever stay this loveless wreck he had become, because one cannot take what already belongs to the Superior, and yet Axel couldn't stop wanting it.