New Year is coming! Do you have any plans? I'm oging to spend the night with friends, party like crazy, you know, probably fall asleep at 00:01. Yeah, I'm an old lady inside.
"Aqua, it's been three weeks. I could have died and you wouldn't even have known! Actually, I even came this close to dying."
"So you did?" She absent mindedly said, absorbed in her book. She was in the Castle of Dream, taking a break after defeating an enormous Unversed that had been threatening Cinderella. Vanitas appeared at a crucial point of her book and she couldn't just stop reading.
"You don't care, do you?"
"The thing I care about right now, Vanitas, is whether Inej is going to have her leg broken or not. Can you give me a minute please?"
"What? Who's that? If I break her leg myself, will you listen to me?"
Aqua sighed and closed her book.
"Vanitas. I appreciate you. Believe me, I really do, and there isn't a single day when I don't feel bad because we are not on the same side. But you need to understand that I don't have to give you all my attention every time we are together. There are times when I need some quiet. Please."
He shrugged. "Your book is closed now anyway, so your attention is now fully available!"
She massaged her temples. She knew she couldn't start his whole education over. She'd better let it go.
"Fine. What was that story about almost dying?"
He smirked. "So now you care? Well, you see, after the last time we met, it felt like my head was about to explode, there was a fire in my lungs and I could barely sleep, not matter how many Cura I'd cast on myself."
Aqua chuckled. "Same here. That was quite some cold we caught. It took me a whole week to get better, and then Terra and Ven got sick as well and I had to help the Master take care of them, and we've been really busy for so long that you had plenty of time to spread Unversed all over the worlds and it took a while to... regulate that. What is even the purpose of that? You create Unversed, we destroy them. We are saving the worlds. But what is your point exactly?"
Vanitas pouted. "So you don't want to hear my story of how I vanquished the fire in my lungs."
"It was a cold, Vanitas. I suppose you took some medicines and... Wait, Master Xehanort did give you some medicines, right? He took care of you?"
Vanitas gave her a sarcastic glare and she put her book down, all her attention turned to him.
"Okay. Tell me that story."
"He told me that if I couldn't fight that by myself, I was worthless. I've been struggling for two days, unable to stand up, to walk, even to cast any spell at all. I kept on creating Unversed that I could not control ; the old man simply opened portals to free them on the worlds. I was on the verge of losing consciousness when an Unversed came back to me. Care to guess who?"
Tiny ears wriggled behind him, and the Unversed bounced right to Aqua's lap.
"Well, hello there, pretty you! It's been a while!" Aqua hugged the creature that squeaked of happiness.
"Can't believe you react that way to her but blandly ignored me. Anyway. She came back with a Hi-Potion. You really have a poor influence on my Unversed, you know that? You turned Memo... good." He said the last word with disdain. "The Hi-Potion kept me alive, but that wasn't enough. So Memo would run to every world through my Master's portals, and she would bring me back not only potions, but also berries, fruits, any kind of food she could find. It gave me the strength to cast Curas, but... that wasn't enough. The pain in my head gave me hallucinations. And then, Memo started to bring some pills. I'm guessing where she got them from, but... She shouldn't have been able to. That's the only place the old man isn't opening portals to. But I must say, that was pretty effective, and after two weeks of intolerable pain, I was back on my feet!"
Aqua patted Memo's head.
"Good girl. I'm proud of you. You are the first Unversed I know to save a life! You did well. You are the one who stole the pills from my room, then? I should tell you that stealing is not okay, but... That was an exceptional situation. How did you get in there, though?"
Memo squeaked, and Aqua smiled. She was glad Vanitas was okay, but if his Unversed could come freely to her world, that was an issue. She noticed the blue ribbon tied around the creature's neck.
"That ribbon... That's the one I put to her! Doesn't it disappear every time you summon her back? Do you put it back every time?"
Vanitas furrowed his eyebrows, thinking. "No. Quite frankly I never noticed you tied that around her neck."
"That was so that she could be recognized..." Aqua blushed. "Terra promised not to hurt her."
It got her wondering, though. What if that ribbon was what allowed Memo to travel to her world? That was a bit far-fetched, but perhaps that built a kind of connection.
"Anyway, you're safe now, that's all that matters. How is your magic training doing?"
Vanitas sat next to her and started showing the progress he made. They talked until night fell and it was time for Aqua to leave.
"Oh, one last thing, Vanitas!"
She kissed him on the cheek.
"I'm happy you did not die."
And from the bottom of her heart, she was.
Although she's still annoyed she doesn't know the end of her chapter. Don't interrupt someone reading, even if it is to tell them the story of how you almost die, people! Books are important stuff!
(don't we all hate that person coming up when you are completely immersed in your book and who goes "oh what are you reading what is it about?" LET ME READ IN PEACE RANDOM PERSON [no, just me? Oh okay.] )
Tomorrow, a fic that is somehow a spinoff of Secret Place as well as one of my prompts and is basically the origin of many things in my headcanon~
Also, I've just finished KH1 like 30 minutes ago, I got the Secret Ending with Roxas, I'm so happy! (and so sad because you know that's Kingdom Hearts). That concludes step 2 of my KH marathon, next game is 358/2 Days!
Happy New Year :D