001 ✘ watch the world i used to love

[worldsapart]

Characters: AU Xion and you
Location: All the floors ever. You pick!
Format: I'll match you
Summary: Xion explores the floors, trying to find answers... and food.
Warnings: Angst/emo/moe/etc.

Something is destroying worlds again.

Is it the darkness? Or the Organization...? Or some other threat? The note didn't explain what happened, and she even turned it over to look on the back.

(She thinks that the reason why she couldn't move when she first woke up has everything to do with being brought from the Deep Jungle to this world, whatever it is. She doesn't know why she saw the things she thinks she saw -- because for that time, which felt like forever, she thought she was in a pod, like Sora, like when Xemnas reprogrammed her, like when she was being created, but the faces outside the pod were fuzzy and even though she tried to fight her way out or call or yell or scream for help, because she can't move or breathe help please anyone can't you hear me -- but... but. She's pushing those things to the back of her mind. There are more important things to think about right now.)

There's some kind of network, she knows... and there are a lot of people here. Which means there are a lot of worlds that have been destroyed. Her hands tighten into fists at her sides. Is this her fault? Is this happening because Sora's still asleep? Her stomach churns. No... Don't jump to any conclusions. Do reconnaissance. Find out more about what's going on first. I'm sure someone has an idea...

Her stomach growls. Wasn't it just upset a few moments ago? Maybe she's really just that hungry... But... Where is she supposed to go to eat around here?

And where is she? How does she get back to her room?

Uh-oh.

Hello, Tower of Animus. There's a Sora walking around in an Organization coat looking incredibly lost and confused. ... and hungry. What do?

Comments

[justabignobody]

[He frowns, rather obviously worried - Naminé hadn't mentioned anything about her absorbing memories, so he hadn't thought it was an issue, not now at least... but then again with everyone's powers going haywire in the last few days...

Maybe he should have anticipated something like this. ...He'd better check on Sora once he had calmed her down.

As for her question...]

...Of course I do. You may look and sound like him, but you heart is still the same. Nothing can change that.

[Now it's his turn to ask some questions.]

Tell me what happened. Was it the tower?

[worldsapart]

[Riku.]

No... no. [She shakes her head.] I... I was like this before... before I woke up here.

It's all my fault.

[justabignobody]

[Wait... before she had...?

Then...]

...You are another Xion... aren't you? Did you just arrive?

[worldsapart]

[Another. Something twinges in her chest. She looks away.]

Yeah, I did. [She's not answering that first part.]

[justabignobody]

[She doesn't really need to. Besides... it... had come out kind of wrong, hadn't it?

He just nods, frowning thoughtfully.]

Has anyone told you about the Tower yet? If they have, how much do you know?

[Better they sort out those basics first. They could figure out just what had went wrong different in her universe later on.]

SOB THE MOST LATE

[worldsapart]

I... [Xion looks down.] The people who run this place aren't as nice as they pretended to be in the note. It's possible the worlds are still out there and they're just lying to us... and there are other worlds, other universes. Just like ours, except... something went different. Somebody made another decision, so things are different there than what we know.

It's okay! <3333

[justabignobody]

[So she knows that much already.

There is something sad flickering over his expression as he reaches over, carefully placing a hand on her shoulder.]

That's right. I assume... in the version of the worlds you are from... you won the fight?

[worldsapart]

[She nods mutely.]

[justabignobody]

[...There... isn't really much he can reply to that. 'I'm sorry' seems hollow, especially since he knows he couldn't have done anything... not in his universe... and it had likely been similar for the him in her universe.

He just tightens the grip of his hand just a little, just a squeeze of comfort, just so she knows she isn't alone, that he isn't about to leave either.]

[worldsapart]

And I... [Her head hangs.] I should've... gone back to the mansion, after... after what happened. But I couldn't. I just couldn't. So Sora's still...

[She knows this isn't the same Riku, but, it... doesn't matter, does it? He knows her. He knows her story.

Quietly, ashamed, she murmurs,] I'm sorry.

[justabignobody]

[He gives her shoulder another light squeeze, shaking his head.

There is no sign of blame on his face, only sadness. For the Organization had done to her. To Roxas. To Sora.]

It's okay. It wasn't your fault.

[The Organizations. Maybe in part his. But never hers.]

[worldsapart]

But I should've... I...

[after a moment, she finally manages,] I wasn't strong enough to stop it.

[justabignobody]

[He keeps shaking his head, hand releasing its grip, fingers curling in a little.]

You shouldn't have needed to be. If I hadn't lost my caution... and thought that things would go right once you made your decision... I might have been there to stop Axel from taking you back in first place.

[worldsapart]

[Xion manages to smile and give a little laugh, for him.] No... That's what I thought, too. It isn't your fault, Riku.

[justabignobody]

[He matches her smile with one of his own, though he probably can't quite keep some of his sadness from bleeding into it - despite of what she may say or think, he knows his own fault in this.

But instead of voicing that, he just nods.]

It isn't yours either.

[worldsapart]

That's... [Her gaze slides away from him.] I'll try to believe that.

[She's lying, because there isn't any way she can't feel guilty for killing one of her best friends. But... It'll make him feel better, right?]

[justabignobody]

...Alright.

[He can't really ask for more than that... not when he knows how long guilt can linger, how easy it is to be consumed by it.]