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The Exception to the Rule

Chapter Four: The Nobody Who Was a Somebody

Axel and I stood in the Back Alley of Twilight Town, watching Roxas as he conversed with his new friends inside 'The Usual Spot'. I smiled at the fact that he seemed to be content except he was different. I couldn't exactly put my finger on it but he was different. Axel watched in silence as I made my observations.

"Are you going to confront him again?" I ask Axel as we leaned against the brick wall in the alley, seen by no one until we allowed it.

"Yea."

"Do you think he'll come back, I mean if he has his memories back?" I asked him.

"Yes, no, maybe-what does it matter he doesn't have a choice."

"I don't know, I just feel guilty about bringing him back, he seems happy."

"Guilty? We can't feel anything Helena, remember. We're nobodies." He told me harshly. I was surprised to hear this from him, because out of us all he faked emotions more than anyone else.

"Just because I can't feel Axel, doesn't mean that he can't, for all we know he has his heart back and he's complete! Isn't that all we really want? To be complete?" My reasoning baffled him.

"He doesn't have a heart. I can tell." Axel told me. I closed my eyes, I didn't matter we didn't have hearts so we couldn't truly understand.

"Here he comes." I said quietly. Roxas followed his friends out, waved to them and turned to go in a different direction.

"Now Axel!" I told him. He waved his hand at me and stepped into sight. Time itself froze and I watched as I was trained to.

"Roxas." Axel said.

"Axel?" Roxas replied.

"You remember me now!" Axel smiled to me from where I was hiding but didn't give me away.

"Ok this is great but I still need to test you…hmmm…I know what's our boss's name?" Axel asked him. Roxas remained silent for along time. Axel looked so tired at that point.

"Roxas, Roxas…" Then the nobodies attacked. Roxas took care of them fairly quickly. Then when Axel moved to attack time froze again this time only Roxas and I were mobile.

"Roxas to the mansion!" I heard a voice tell Roxas. Roxas stared at Axel for a moment before running to the mansion. I quickly followed.

Roxas arrived at the gate in time to open it with one of his keyblades. I ran through after him. He seemed to know where he was going. He ran into a room. I stood on the outside and listened to Roxas talk to a girl.

"Roxas, you need to become whole! We're not fated to live in darkness! You need to become whole so you can save Helena!" I started. Save me? Why would he need to save me? I resisted a scream of frustration that was fighting its way up my throat.

"Roxas, she can't stay with the nobodies! She's not a nobody! She's whole, she retains her heart!" The girl continued urgently.

"Namine, I fear you have said too much." Another voice broke in.

"What are you doing!" Roxas shouted.

"Roxas, we won't fade! Become who-" The girl who I assumed was Namine was cut off.

"What's going on? I have the right to know!" Roxas asked angrily.

"You are a nobody you have no right to know anything, now you must return to Sora." The man replied. Roxas runs out the door almost running into me, then down the stairs. I follow him into a hidden workroom that I even didn't know about he looked around. He saw the computers. I studied them behind them at a distance as he suddenly summoned the keyblade and started to destroy them. My heart went out to him; I felt sorrow for his pain. I followed Roxas into the next room when Axel appeared.

"Axel I-"

"Oh so you remember me now? I'm so flattered!" Axel shouted at him as he lunged at Roxas. I was thrown in to the wall as Axel summoned a firewall. My cover dropped and I watched in horror as they fought. When Roxas got through Axels blow and Axel dropped.

"Axel!" I screamed. Roxas turned and saw me; Axel looked up at me as I bent over him.

"Its ok Helena, I'll see you later." I bit my lip as I watched him begin to disappear.

"I'll see you in the next life Roxas."

"Yea, I'll be waiting." Roxas replied.

"Silly, just because you have another life-" Then he disappeared. I hugged myself as my legs gave out.

"Helena!" Roxas grabbed me.

"Helena! Your whole you're a person you have a heart!" I looked at him sadly.

"Then why can't I feel anything-" I stopped myself from finishing that sentence.

"Come on, you need to be whole Roxas." I said as I stood up.

We walked slowly into the room where Sora was. He was in a glass container. Roxas sighed as he looked up at Sora.

"You have no idea how lucky you are, do you?" He pondered aloud. I watched as Roxas reached out and touched Sora. There was a bright light and only Sora remained. I was gone before Sora finished opening his eyes.

I returned to the Castle. I couldn't just leave like Roxas did. I had no where to go, besides no matter how much I wanted to believe it, it didn't seem right, there something else that was vital to it that was missing. I just had to find out what it was.

"Xemnas, Sora is awake." I said carefully as I walked into Xemnas's office.

"I know, and Axel has, left us." He told me in turn. I showed no reaction I just nodded and left. I knew Axel hadn't faded; he had too much of a will for that. But he had left me. I was alone among enemies.

-End Chapter-