His eyes blinked awake to an empty bed...
Demyx sighed pushing blonde locks out of his eyes...
/Maybe he's in the bathroom.../
Standing up he padded across the cold floor to the door he knew would be empty, but for the sake of hope he would knock anyway...
His closed fist rapped on the door three times when it finally creaked open, his hopes lifted and fell in less than a second.
Behind that door lay dark emptiness and nothing more.
A feeling like falling came over him, he had a very bad feeling about this...
Dragging his coat from the closet he pull his clothes on fast and throwing his bedroom door open ran through the halls...
His gaze overlooking the gardens searching for a small dark haired figure that might be him...
Eyes searching bedrooms as he passed them searching for anything that might indicate where he was...
Turning over every rock and finding nothing but empty space...
Finally he had one last room the room where everyone would be at this time in the morning, discussing their current situation or their plans to dispose of the keybearer...
Bursting in through the doors his eyes scanned the table.
"Well how nice of you to join us Demyx... Hey!"
Seeing Zexion was not at the table he turned tail and ran out into the garden, breathless and gasping his feet seemed to be working by themselves.
Turning a corner here, running through a gate, hopping a wall...
"WAIT!"
Just to see the last glimpse of Zexion disappearing into a dark portal, leaving him there, utterly alone.

The rest of the organisation were emerging from the castle now to see what was going on.
"Who do you think you are disturbing and then running out of our meeting?"
Demyx just stood there staring into the space where Zexion had stood moments before.
"Well? Are you just going to stand there or are you going to answer me?"
His eyes shifted from the space where Zexion had stood to the eyes of his superior they took on a hard look and without answering he shoved straight past him and he walked straight back towards the castle, leaving his superiors voice shouting after him.
The thoughts floating about his mind drowning out his voice.
/Why did he leave me... I thought... I dunno what I thought.../
In a daze he arrived back in his room and fell onto the futon he had previously slept on...
He was low enough to not see the empty bed, he could lay there and pretend Zexion was still sleeping peacefully, just out of his reach...
Always just out of reach, but now he didn't know where he was or how to find him.
So he lay there...
Pining...
Pretending...
For a time it worked...
He would replay the night in his head again and again...
It got so vivid he could almost make himself believe Zexion was leaning over and kissing his cheek again...
*I miss you*
He would hear his voice whisper as he woke up in a cold sweat.
"Zexion!"
Nothing but emptiness would meet his call...
Echoing black emptiness of the world that never was...

Days passed...
Then weeks...
Finally months...
Seasons changed as he stared out the window expecting some sign of him...
Anything...
The trees changed from green to brown from bare to green again...
Years...

He didn't leave his room anymore...
Axel visited him from time to time and to bring him his meals...
"You need to eat..."
But no matter how many times he said this, he never ate more than a few mouthfuls before pushing it away...
The redhead wondered if he could even talk anymore...
Despair had made his body thin and weak and his voice was probably the same...
"You know he's not coming back dude... Please... Just forget about him..."
Still his eyes stared blankly lit up by the golden sunset...
The one thing that had not been affected by the whole ordeal, his eyes...
Those bright blue eyes shone up with the hope the rest of his body seemed to have forgotten...
With a sigh Axel stood up and patting Demyx lightly on the back left him alone with his thoughts...

His eyes closed with the sunset that night...
Dreams of the last night he had spent with Zexion flooded his mind...
The kiss he had been remembering forever imprinted on his memory...
Relived...
Causing a smile to spread across his sleeping face...
*I love you...*

Axel kneeled beside his bed with his breakfast tray which he settled on the ground to pull the curtains.
"Oi! Wake up! It's morning!"
Picking up the tray he left it on his bedside table laughing.
"Jeez you must be wrecked man..."
He made to shake him to wake him up but when his hands touched his skin, it was like ice.
Acid green eyes opened wide as his now shaking hand searched for a pulse that it never found...

"They say he died because he was too weak from not eating... I know he died of a broken heart..."
Axel laid the last of the roses upon the grave and sighing walked away...
No one ever found out why Zexion left...
Or where he went to...
All they knew is that wherever he was, someone had truly loved him...

The end.