"How are you alive? I watched you die..."

Xion pushed through the gates and hugged Terra.

He looked down at her face. "Am I dead now?"

"But it's not possible! You are dead. They cut your freaking head off with an axe." Tears had begun to fall off of her curly black eyelashes.

"You're not one to cry, sister."

She grabbed him by the hands and pulled him through the gates. "I don't care what Mother says. You're my brother. You're still royalty."

He sighed. "Alyson..."

She had already dragged him through the doors of the gym.

She turned to him and grinned. "What's up?"

"Alright, I'm going to put this out there. I am dead."

"Then how are you in front of me?"

"The god, Ansem, brought me back for a mission."

"A mission? Of what kind?"

"I'm here to protect you."

"I don't need protecting." Xion's expression hardened.

"I've heard the rumors. Are you really marrying the prince?"

She sighed heavily.

"Alyson, speak to me. Tell me the truth."

"Uh...yes?"

Terra whistled a low note and ran his tanned fingers through his short, brown hair. "You know I'm going to have to kick his ass, right?"

"Yeah. Terra?"

"Yes?"

"Don't kill Riku, okay?"

"I won't kill him. I'll just...injure him greatly. To the point of near death."

She glared at him as he chuckled heartily. As he caught his breath, the air in the room began to drip with tension. Xion had a question on her tongue, and it wouldn't come off.

"So, um, what's it like to die?"

He looked up. "I'm not answering that."

"Why?"

"It's not the real question you're trying to ask. Spit it out." He knew her too well.

"Why are you really here?"

She didn't believe the "mission" story he told.

"I died when you were four. I never got a chance at a real life. I'm here to save Mom and to find love."

Xion was speechless. "How...old are you?"

"Thirty."

"You died..." She calculated it mentally. "...Eleven years ago?"

He nodded.

"Wow. Oh my Goddess."

He scratched the back of his head. "Hey, Squish?"

Squish was his nickname for her.

"Hm?"

"Where am I gonna sleep?"

"Where did you sleep before?"

"A hotel. Can I have some money to pay them later?"

She chuckled to herself as she went to get her wallet. When she came back, she frowned.

Terra was sleeping in the small corner near the weaponry. She ran back and brought him a small blanket. Vanille had gone to bed while she was absent. Xion sighed as she trudged up the stairs for the third time that night.

Riku hung his coat on the rack near the front door. He yawned as he walked up the stairs towards his room. In his room, which consisted of dark blue walls and dark wood flooring, Riku crawled into bed, said his prayers to the goddess, and fell asleep.

Namine poked her head into his room quietly. When she saw that he was asleep, she slipped back out and down the stairs. Her room was on the top floor, but she had left a pot to simmer too long, and tiptoed her way back to turn it off.

In the dungeon (her father liked to call it that. It's just a basement.), Namine's eyes began to glow red, compared to the vibrant blue they usually were. They, the gods, were trying to speak to her again, and she wasn't having it.

She cut the power to her overflowing pot on her stove.

'The poison marshmallows burned!' she thought. 'My rice crispies are ruined!'

Karma! Haravela, a goddess, yelled. She laughed.

"Shut up, Haravela." Namine muttered.

Aqua braided her hair intricately as she walked down the stairs in her favorite dress. Xehanort liked for her appearance to please him at dinner. Her dress was green, with small black and gold accents here and there, and long lace sleeves.

Both Adele and her husband looked up to see her. She bent down to her daughter.

"Adele," she whispered. "Can you go upstairs for Mommy? Daddy and I are going to have a grown-up talk."

She nodded. Picking up her plate of duck and mashed potatoes, Adele quietly left the tiny dining room.

"Xehanort, I have to talk to you."

He looked up. "What's the matter, dearest?"

"Cut the crap. Adele's upstairs."

He glared at her.

She smiled. "Listen, first of all, I'm pregnant. Again. And secondly..."

"It's not my baby."

He learns quickly. Crud.

She nodded. He stood from his seat and walked over to her. "Whose baby is it?" he asked quietly. He was beginning to tower over her, and it was intimidating.

Aqua backed up against the wall. "A man by the name of Terra."

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