"Maybe So" and the general concept of "Maybe So" is completely copyright Orin Drake 2006. All characters contained within and terms like "Organization XIII" are owned by Square-Enix and Disney.
Background: Yeah, well... this is my thought on the matter, anyway. Regardless of Xemnas' insistence that he was only remembering emotions... he seemed awfully desperate to be whole, didn't he..? (And yes, I personally thought that little conversation he had with our heroes at the end was... particularly enlightening for what remained unsaid. But I'm so weird like that.)
Maybe So
by Orin Drake
He'd been easily convinced that he didn't have a heart. After all, he was the very first Nobody. His heart had been removed from him--it didn't take science or logic to tell him that such an event had left him entirely without a heart.
Staring out at Kingdom Hearts the night before it all fell down, however... a very simple thought managed to come to mind. Something that was laughably immature, absolutely stupid... something that perhaps would have come from the childhood mouth of his Other. And yet... why did it give him pause? Why would the very idea make him... cold..?
That was when he knew, really. There was no hope for him. Not to regain his own heart, nor bring about the true Kingdom Hearts. Even then he refused to acknowledge it completely; it was just too simple-minded, too disturbingly ridiculous...
And yet, as the Keyblade Masters bound together and he drew what quite surprised him for being his final nonexistent breath... it echoed back at him. Really, now... it made as much sense as living in a world that didn't exist, didn't it?
Really... if Nobodies didn't retain something of a heart, then... why would they strive to be whole?