"He'd Like to Believe" and the general concept of "He'd Like to Believe" is completely copyright Orin Drake 2006. All characters contained within and terms like "Organization XIII" are owned by Square-Enix and Disney.
Background: I really have no idea what this is, exactly... or where it came from. It just kinda wrote itself. I think the characters are perfectly open to interpretation... but personally... it feels to me like Xemnas and Saix. What does it mean? What happened? Where does it fit? ...If I knew, it would probably be longer.
He'd Like to Believe
by
Orin Drake
Blood. Everywhere. Pooled around him... cooling over his skin... He must have fallen, must have... collapsed or...
A horrified sound, somewhere in the edges of his consciousness. Then words, feathering around his own heartbeat. Over... and over... "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I... I didn't mean to... I... Sorry. I'm sorry..."
Didn't mean to..? To what? He didn't really... feel anything. Some cold and some aching, but... pain didn't seem to be a part of it... At least, not until he tried to move. Then pain surged through his entire body in white hot bolts, pain with the power to split and rend and tear. But it didn't. It never did.
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry..."
That was not a loving touch over his shoulders, no. It was the mimicry of one... the empty gesture. Just like the lying apologies. He allowed it, though; not that he could do anything else. If he had the strength, he'd have pushed those hands away. Or so he'd like to believe