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Chapter 16
Third Person~
"D-dead?" Marleen stuttered.
Roxas nodded sadly.
"So...Aerith was your mom...which means...Cloud must be your dad!" Denzel reasoned.
Roxas stared at him, then shook his head slowly. 'My dad's name is-' he stopped and erased 'is'. He rewrote his message so it read 'My dad's name was Zack Fair.'
"Hm. I guess Aerith said no..." Marleen mumbled, sort of sadly.
'What do you mean?'
"Well, about...seventeen years ago, Cloud asked Aerith to marry him. We never got to know what she said, though."
Then a realization hit the silent teen before them.
'How do you know my mom?'
Denzel winced. Marleen chewed her lip.
"It's a reeaaalllllyy long story." Marleen murmured.
'I got time.' Roxas replied, leaning against a tree trunk.
Denzel sighed. "When we were a few years younger, we were kidnapped by the Shinra Electric Company. Your dad's Zack, so you must know about SOLDIER and Shinra."
Roxas nodded and quickly wrote a question: 'Why would they capture two kids?'
"I was getting to that part. Well, they had successfully created a super human adult, so they wanted to know what happens when a child is infused with mako energy."
Roxas winced, remembering the painful process.
"The experiment was a disaster." Denzel interrupted his thoughts. "It gave me Geostigma, a bad cell decease, and halted our bodies' growth forever."
Roxas was pretty stunned.
He began to write but Marleen reached out and put her hand on his. "It's ok." she whispered, as if she knew exactly what he was going to say.
Marleen smiled slightly. "Ok, we've told you about us. Now you have to tell us about you."
He told them everything.
From his mother getting killed to meeting Xion to the threats from AVALANCHE to his own kidnapping and mako infusion.
By the time he was done, it was dusk.
'I should get back.' he told them, before standing. The two still on the ground nodded.
"When will we see you again?" Marleen asked, tugging on her braid.
Roxas shrugged 'I'll try to knock myself out again real soon.' he promised.
"Roxas?" Denzel said. "Can...can you tell Cloud we're alright? He tends to blame himself for everything and we don't want him to worry."
Roxas nodded and set off.
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Cloud stood at the edge of the woods where Roxas had disappeared. They seemed endless
Roxas sat in a tree branch, having figured he would be sleeping in the forest. He hadn't a drop of energy left, not an ounce of strength.
He heard footsteps from the direction of civilization. Cloud came into view. He looked up at Roxas.
"Hey, kid." he said. Roxas waved a little.
"Come on, we gotta get home."
With difficulty, Roxas had his feet on solid ground in a few minutes.
The two began walking.
When they got back to Cloud's car, Roxas noticed the vehicle was empty.
"I took Xion and Tifa home." Cloud told him.
Can everyone read my thoughts? Roxas wondered.
Before Cloud put the key in the ignition, Roxas wrote a question: 'Are you mad?'
Cloud smiled slightly. "No. I get it. I'm not mad."
The car ride was silent, of course.
They got home and nothing was said about Roxas running away, or the funeral. He didn't tell Cloud about Denzel and Marleen, wanting to actually tell him. You know?
Roxas noticed Xion staring at him.
'What?' he mouthed.
She pointed to his face. "You've got a huge scratch on your cheek."
Roxas looked in the mirror over the mantle.
Sure enough, there was a long gash down the side of his face. It curved from his temple to the corner of his lips.
The scratch seemed to be new, barley closed.
Roxas shrugged and dismissed it as a scrape from a tree branch.
Everyone went to bed and Roxas' last thought before he went to sleep was
I might die tomorrow.
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Yeah...this chapter seemed pretty rushed. But I wanna get to the operation! Lots of exiting stuff...;)
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