Title: Without Watermelon or Pretzels
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Heats II so sue me not for I have little except for this mind in my head.
Characters: Roxas, Sora
Author's Note: Roxas is a blue, blue panda bear.
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Roxas could never make it to the beach.
The beach was Sora's.
When he did make it to that place, it wasn't as himself. He was there. Grinning as he never had when it had just been him.
It has been just him whether he was with Axel or Haynar, Olette and Pence. He'd never grinned for them. Really grinning. Instead he'd runaway, confused, fought, cried…no; he'd only been able to shed a tear once he wasn't just him anymore.
Before he'd been himself? Right? Except did a no one who wasn't even a Nobody qualify as a himself?
There had been ice cream.
Once upon a time, there had been his first friend.
Neither remained.
But he had the water (of salt, salt of ice cream and tears unshed).
He had sand. The grains of time, something, when you held a handful of sand, you held everything.
Roxas made it to the beach, perhaps a little after summer, and there'd been snow in the passing, but he was there. On hands and knees.
Fin