Welcome back to Inheritance (cuz nobody's voted so I decided on my own...). And thank you for reading this far!
Anyways...here's chapter 18!
Xion~
The auburn-haired nurse was sent to get me. She put her hand on my back and steered me down the hall. The taste of puke was still defiling my tongue.
We arrived at the Grey Area. My dad was reading-big surprise to me-and didn't seem to notice when I sat down.
After a long while of silence and wondering if this awful taste would ever leave my mouth, I said: "What are you reading?"
He looked up and at the cover, as if he had forgotten.
"Needed Goodbye. Listen to this: 'Though she is a diamond, and he is dazzled by her brilliance, you are the light. And he is not intrigued by you because you, like the sun, are always there. As he believes you always will be.'"
"Wow. I didn't know you liked poetry, Dad."
He tossed the book on the concrete table. "I don't. It was just really popular when I was younger, but I never had time to read it. But now that I can..." he looked at it and shook his head, causing his spiky hair to whip around his face.
"Why didn't you have time?" I wondered aloud.
"Well...I was working for Shinra, so I couldn't really." he shrugged, picking up a magazine labeled "Game Informer" an began flipping through it.
Shinra...wait...
"Were you in SOLDIER?" I asked, a bit baffled.
He smiled sheepishly "No. I was with security, basically a step below SOLDIER."
I picked up the book and examined the cover. On the front were three people: a beautiful blonde girl that looked like an angel, a shy-looking boy smiling at her, and a dark haired girl standing back-to-back with him. I started reading.
It didn't make to much sense, but I got the gist of it.
A boy and a girl lives in the same neighborhood. They had been best friends since they were kids. The girl secretly loves the boy. One day, a beautiful girl moves in and the boy falls in love with her. They get older and eventually the boy asks the beautiful girl to marry him. This breaks the other girl's heart. The newly wed couple moves far away. Before they leave, the girl promises the boy that she will always wait for him. Even if he doesn't return.
The couple was about to leave when Mrs. (she had to be married) Lucrecia came in.
"The operation is over, would you like to wait for Roxas to wake up?" she asked *smile*.
I tucked Needed Goodbye into my cargo pants pocket and we followed her out.
Roxas had been taken back to his room. An oxygen mask covered his mouth and nose. Attached to that was a long tube-thing that was hooked up to a large metal machine. A few extra machines that watched his heart rate, breathing rate and blood sugar.
Dr. Klause stood next to the bed. "The anesthesia should be wearing off about now." he told us.
I buzzed with excitement. Roxas was going to talk again!
My dad and I stood, anticipation coming off us in tsunamis.
Minutes passed.
"W-why isn't he waking up?" I asked Dr. Klause. He looked at the clipboard in his hand.
"Well..." he paused, thinking. Once he decided he had a good enough answer, the doctor continued to speak.
"Roxas may be more sensitive to the drug than other people. There's nothing to be worried about." he smiled sincerely.
Why do the people in this stupid hospital smile so much?!
More time ticked by.
Dr. Klause whispered something to Lucrecia and pointed at the screen that showed Roxas' heartbeat.
"What's wrong?!" I shouted.
Dad put his hand on my arm. "Xion. Calm down."
I turned to Roxas. He seemed to flinch in his sleep.
"Why won't he wake up?" I whispered.
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Third Person~
DiZ sat before the panel of computers.
Naminé stood behind him, bouncing on the balls of her feet.
"Please! I want to...want to..." she shivered with joy.
DiZ shivered with disgust. "I know exactly what you want to do. But we can't afford any more deaths. Even if it's just a civilian."
"LET ME OUT YOU DERANGED-!" a man's angry voice let out a string of curse words from the locked room to DiZ's left.
DiZ sighed. "Go on. Shut him up."
Naminé squealed with glee and threw open the blue door.
For a split second before she dashed in, DiZ could see a brunette man tied to a chair, struggling greatly. He had an X-shaped scar across his face.
The door closed.
"G-get away from me!" the man shouted, trying to keep the fear from his voice.
A maniacal laugh, a scream.
Silence.
Naminé left the room. Her previously white dress and pale hands were spattered with blood.
She grinned at DiZ, though he was focused on the screen in front of him.
"You didn't kill him, did you?" he asked, but it seemed like he couldn't care less.
"No. That would have been doing him a favor." she looked like an angel that had been trapped on Earth, and gone insane.
"You do a lot of people favors, then."
Her smile could give you a cavity and make you scream at the same time. "Well I'm a very nice person."
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Poor guy. But who is he? It'll be obvious to most of you FF fans, and maybe a few KH fanatics. And I don't know why I made the characters in Needed Goodbye look like Roxas Naminé and Xion. But whatever. If you don't like the new name...vote or PM me. Or live with it.