HAPPY LATE NEW YEARS EVERYONE!
I kinda hate myself for doing this... Some of you might hate me for it, but personally, I've always wanted to do this =3 And I found something really interesting o.o I'm a lot like how I depicted Roxas, hard to forgive, a little cold, ect XD And my sister is more like Sora XD Forgives easily, kind of easily usable, easily breakable, stuff like that. Odd XD
Phlyx: Awwehs, there's such a cute song for this chappy =3 You all know I'd come for you by Nickelback, right? Yeah, it's showing up XD
Thank you The Poet's Raven, LiTTLeMeLLox3 and MeeShee Muhffin for your creative comments that always end up making me smile (I would have said this before, but yeah... this and that.)
And sorry for the crappy format, everything kept messing up so I'm leaving it as it is.
Fall Into Your Sunlight
Chapter Nine
The way lies in Sacrifice
Sora
Once I wake up, I am hit with the second-worst news.
Kairi is in a coma, and the doctor person-thingy doesn't think she'll wake up. Which Namine is beside herself with worry.
I watch my reflection in the window that shows the outside world, outside this sterile and stale room full of nothing but bad memories. But mostly I do that because I can see Roxas whenever I look at my reflection. It's a way to remind myself he's not... well, dead. But even so, his voice fills my head half the time so it's hard to think that.
"She talks all the time." Axel, sitting nearer to the patient's bed, snorts. "And snores. I'm just sayin' that if she doesn't wake up from her own noises, I think it's the end of the world."
"Clearly I've been thinking him smarter than he truly is all these years." His voice flits from my mind sarcastically. Call me crazy, but sometimes I can even see him stand or sit beside me, albeit he is see-through.
You give him too much credit. I tell him evenly, counting the clouds for no particular reason. He makes a sound that resembles one of agreement.
"But really, she's said a bunch of gibberish lately. I recon she started saying something about a recipe?" He laughs a little. "'How to make cookies', hmm..."
Be nice! She probably doesn't know what's going on.
"I think she does. Remember when she kept bringing up the word 'sacrifice' randomly, her eyes open eerily?"
Of course. It's the only time she looked at Namine.
"Soo...~"
You think... it has something to do with us?
"Genius!" He claps sarcastically for me, making me scowl at his reflection. He sticks out his tongue at me in return.
I'm scared of finding out, really. I bring my feet up onto the chair I'm sitting on and rest my chin on my knees, hugging my legs to my chest.
"Yeah. So am I."
Third person
It was just the silence of the night, the few nurses walking about outside the chilly room that were of no comfort to the human soul. The beeping of the machine rang ominous and silent in the room, and shallow, gentle breathing ringing in the room as everything rested. There was no light except from the monitor beside the bed of the girl, green and frightening.
"Sacrifice..."
That gentle word breathed out breaks that spell of silence, shattering it and turning everything into dust. The figure of the girl on the bed moves, but the monitor does not record the change in her heartbeat. Perhaps because there is none. She sits up, opening eyes that reassure the darkness little, half-closed but not with a single flicker of life.
Right hand moving, as if she's possessed, grabbing the IV feed on her arm, the thing keeping her blood alive. Ripping it out, leaving a gash to let the blood flow out generously. Removing the clear thin tube underneath her nose that allows her to breathe, barely flinching at the pain. Blood staining the bed as she lays her head back down again, a smile on her lips as it starts to drip slowly onto the floor, creating a puddle of crimson darkness.
Drip, drip, drip.
Sora
The police won't leave me alone. They're certain one of us did it - no one thinks she could have done it herself, the poor girl was asleep (their words, not mine) - and they know it's not Namine.
Actually, Namine never woke up.
Yet, they haven't concidered the fact that maybe we're in a lot of pain, a lot of sadness as being blamed for this. Just because we were in her room when it happened. But I want to head home. I know there's something waiting there for me, but I am confused as to what it may be.
They seem to be most suspicious of Axel, though, mostly because of the way he looks. And Roxas has been unnaturally quiet, too.
"You can go. But we're putting you under watch for three weeks. There will be two officers around the premeses of your house during that time." He informs me curtly. I just nod, my mind elsewhere.
Just One more moment, that's all that's needed.
Like wounded soldiers in need of healing.
I tell Axel and Demyx I'll see them once they're free. If it's not one thing, it's another. It seems like we're never allowed to be left alone.
Roxas? I ask as I turn down onto the street where the Sakura blossoms fall like rain. I slow my pace only a fraction to watch in wonder.
But I get no answer from him. Maybe he's sleeping.
I turn into the yard, closing the gate behind me and locking it. I can feel the sadness and the tears right there at the back of my throat, waiting to errupt and overwhelm me. It scared me, finding Kairi dead like that, and Namine dead in a different manner. But both of them were smiling, that was probably the worst part.
I slip off my shoes and leave them at the entrance, walking into the bedroom. I think probably that sleeping would be the best right now.
Time to be honest, this time I'm bleeding
Please don't dwell on it, cause I didn't mean it.
"Ow! Damnit all!" I think I jumped five feet in the air. I can tell because my head almost hit the roof. It was just so quiet, and then...
I cant believe I said I'd lay our love on the ground
But it doesn't matter cause I've made it up forgive me now
Everyday I spend away my souls inside out
Gotta be someway that I can make it up to you now, somehow.
"If it's not one thing, it's another." The voice continues to speak, mostly to itself as I walk around the wall towards the kitchen. I stop at the edge of the wall and peer slightly around it.
"You should be grateful, furball." His back is to me, and he's crouching onto the ground, pointedly glaring at something. "I almost had it in me to leave you there. But, you are, after all, probably a good present for him."
The little white and fluffy cat hissed at him.
"Yeah, yeah, everyone's a critic." At that it extends a clawed paw and scratches him on the hand.
"Hey! That's twice now!"
"Um... Roxas?" He turns his head around, like if it was on a recoil.
By now you'd know that I'd come for you
No one but you, yes I'd come for you
But only if you told me to
And I'd fight for you
I'd lie, it's true
Give my life for you
You know I'd always come for you
"Y...yeah?" He asks uncertainly, slowly standing up. Though my own legs are having trouble holding me up.
"Why didn't you answer me when I called you?" I come out from behind the wall, walking up towards him.
"That's easy enough to explain." He lets out a single, short laugh. "This thing here was on me when I woke up in gods know where, and I've been struggling with it ever since. Demonic this just isn't grateful."
"It's a cat!" I bend down to pick up the fluffy thing, and it purrs as soon as I do. He gives me an incredulous look, eyes wide like if he was almost expecting me to get clawed by it. "I think he likes me." I giggle as it licks my cheek.
"Glad it does. I wanted to give him to you as a gift. Since he hated the guts out of me, I hoped he'd like you."
I smile at him. "Thank you."
I was blindfolded, but now I'm seeing
My mind was closing, now I'm believing
I finally know just what it means to let someone in
To see the side of me that no one does or ever will
I put the cat back down and it rubs itself against my leg, demanding attention. I ignore it for a moment to instead hug Roxas tightly, probably making the cat hiss again. Only then can I feel myself shaking, the anxiety I've been feeling welling up and finally leeking over through the tears in my eyes.
"You're back." I end up whispering over and over - in case you haven't known, it's been half a month now that he'd been gone. Sure, seeing him every night as I slept was fine, but it just wasn't the same. I just couldn't hold him the same, he didn't feel the same. Even his voice wasn't the same.
"I think we covered that already." He laughs in my ear, but I notice his sigh, as if he, too, had noticed that it hadn't been the same.
So if your ever lost and find yourself all alone
I'd search forever just to bring you home,
Here and now this I vow
"Plus, I'm starting to fear my life. That little demon thing might bite me for even touching you. Little thing thinks he's got dibs on you." He laughs as he pulls away, but he stays close, hands still holding both of mine.
"That's cute of him, but he needs a name."
"How about Aspirin?"
"Why Aspirin?" I blink at him.
"Ass-purrrrin." He shrugs. I laugh. "No? How about Anestophles (A.N.: Say this name really slowly, you'll understand.), or Duster?"
"What's with the odd names?"
"I dunno." He shrugs.
"How about Sparta?" I ask, looking to the cat. He meows at me, looks at Roxas, and hisses.
By now you'd know that I'd come for you
No one but you, yes I'd come for you
But only if you told me to
And I'd fight for you
I'd lie, it's true
Give my life for you
You know I'd always come for you
You know I'd always come for you
"It's your cat. He's got his eye on you, I see."
"Not creepy at all." Already I'm more calm, and I'm finding it a little easier to breathe. He has that effect on me.
Roxas laughs suddenly. I raise my eyebrow at him.
"Haven't you noticed how this is a 'Guys only' house so far?" I laugh with him at that statement, letting the sound of my stomach growling reach our ears when we stop and smile.
"Hungry?" I nod frantically at his question. "I'll make you something. And don't give me that look, it won't kill you."
"Ah, I wasn't scared of that." I lied, laughing. Sighing and messing up my hair because he knows I am, he lets go of one of my hands to pull me along.
"And you might want to feed that thing. I think he's contemplating on eating my foot." He cringes slightly, joking around.
Yes I'd come for you, no one but you,
Yes I'd come for you
But only if you told me to
"I don't think he'd do that." I search through the fridge for some fish while he goes to search for something else to make.
Already treating him like a little pet. I hear him think to himself. I stick my tongue out at his back while he's not looking at me.
And I'd fight for you
I'd lie, it's true
Give my life for you
You know I'd always come for you
I'm glad he's back... even if they were the sacrifices.
No matter what gets in my way
As long as there's still life in me
No matter what, remember you know I'll always come for you
I'd crawl across this world for you
Do anything you want me to
No matter what, remember you know I'll always come for you
You know I'll always come for you
Well, here we are! One of the turners! I'm sorry at how sudden it may be or how crappy it may be as well, but bleagh, it came out this way, and I don't really wanna change it.
Kairi's ghost: Why the f**k did you kill me?
Oh, just for fun, and because I hate your ass. Now beat it! Namine, you too! I dun like you too! 8D
Sora: Aww, that's not nice!
Roxas: Meh, I kinda agree with her.
Power to the people, mouhahaha!
Axel (Omg his first appearance in the after comments!): Power to the sadistic author, more like it.
Shut up.