[kingdom hearts] Heartbeats: Volume III!
I've been a bad, bad ficcer, so prepare to have the crap loved out of you for the next couple days. Yes, in the form of ficspam! (Drabblespam, really. It's like Ficspam Lite, for those muses watching their weight.)
Title: Homegrown Reality
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts
Pairing: Marluxia/Roxas
Rating: PG
Summary: He’s waiting there at Twilight’s end. [for prompt: "Break Me, Shake Me" by Savage Garden, from llama_sama at kh_request!]
The boy’s conscious of something a little deeper than reality. It’s obvious to any perfect idiot. The way his eyes dart around, how they look past the sunset everyone else is so busy looking at. How he laughs and smiles but is never happy, never comfortable, not really.
Marluxia knows why. He has to be with his own kind. The world doesn’t welcome him like it does the others. It expects too much of him. Expects him to feel. That’s his only crutch, and the world preys on it until he can’t hear his friends’ incessant chatter, just the thoughts making his brain crazy: this isn’t my home, I don’t belong here, what’s wrong with me…
It’s a shame, really. The world is breaking him before Marluxia has a chance to. That won’t do. He demands to have some control over this subordinate, this Nobody, this boy. So he draws the realm closer to beauty, to show Roxas just how ugly he really is.
You’re not for this world.
There it is, but there it’s not; the echo of a whisper fills the empty alleyway and mocks him.
It was made for you, yet it hates you.
A voice on the breeze, that stirs a dandelion peeking through cement, but falls into silence immediately after.
Come with me.
Vines snake up a wall, twisting leaves that weep pink petals - Roxas swears that’s never been there before.
I’ll make you a new one.
He jerks awake, and there at his windowsill is a chrysanthemum, wet with dew and deathly white, perfectly severed at the stem.
Finally Roxas can’t take it anymore. The world is cracking, weeds hooking into it and bursting through the cracks. At the end of it all, there’s only the voice, this time with a body. It drifts toward him from a coal black cloak, familiar, something right because it’s just as wrong as he is. Something that doesn’t fit in this world. Something to take him away.
“Who are you?”
The figure extends a hand, and beneath the shadowed veil Roxas knows he is smiling.
Your world is waiting.
Title: Across the River
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts
Pairing: Axel/Kairi
Rating: G
Summary: She had something of a temper. He liked that about her - and making it rise. [for syvia at kh_request!]
“Don’t they ever wonder where you are?” Kairi sits on the gnarled bole of her favorite tree, braiding a crown of leaves. Axel prefers to stand, arms crossed, and look out at the horizon.
“Why should they? It’s not like I’m breaking a rule.”
“Isn’t there someplace you should be?”
He chuckles. “You want me to leave?”
“No,” she tells him, placing the crown aside and hopping down. “It just seems like they’re the sort of people who would want to know where you disappear to.”
Axel shrugs. Even though she stands face to face with him, his eyes stay on the burnt orange sea. “They don’t miss me.” Finally he looks at her, wearing a mask of amusement. “Why? Do you?”
Kairi sighs. “Sure, I wonder where you are. You get to see other worlds, right? Who wouldn’t wonder about that?”
His eyebrows rise in a mirthy frown. “You sound like you want to come with me.”
She doesn’t blink. “Maybe I do.”
Smirking, he leans off the soft bark and puts gloved fingers to her cheek. “You’re not ready for another world. You can barely handle this one.”
Affronted, she smacks his hand away. “I am! And if you won’t take me, I’ll find a way there myself!” Dry leaves crackle beneath her heavy footfalls as she stalks past him.
“Suit yourself,” he calls to her, already summoning a whorl of darkness, “but Charon charges.”
Title: Homegrown Reality
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts
Pairing: Marluxia/Roxas
Rating: PG
Summary: He’s waiting there at Twilight’s end. [for prompt: "Break Me, Shake Me" by Savage Garden, from llama_sama at kh_request!]
The boy’s conscious of something a little deeper than reality. It’s obvious to any perfect idiot. The way his eyes dart around, how they look past the sunset everyone else is so busy looking at. How he laughs and smiles but is never happy, never comfortable, not really.
Marluxia knows why. He has to be with his own kind. The world doesn’t welcome him like it does the others. It expects too much of him. Expects him to feel. That’s his only crutch, and the world preys on it until he can’t hear his friends’ incessant chatter, just the thoughts making his brain crazy: this isn’t my home, I don’t belong here, what’s wrong with me…
It’s a shame, really. The world is breaking him before Marluxia has a chance to. That won’t do. He demands to have some control over this subordinate, this Nobody, this boy. So he draws the realm closer to beauty, to show Roxas just how ugly he really is.
You’re not for this world.
There it is, but there it’s not; the echo of a whisper fills the empty alleyway and mocks him.
It was made for you, yet it hates you.
A voice on the breeze, that stirs a dandelion peeking through cement, but falls into silence immediately after.
Come with me.
Vines snake up a wall, twisting leaves that weep pink petals - Roxas swears that’s never been there before.
I’ll make you a new one.
He jerks awake, and there at his windowsill is a chrysanthemum, wet with dew and deathly white, perfectly severed at the stem.
Finally Roxas can’t take it anymore. The world is cracking, weeds hooking into it and bursting through the cracks. At the end of it all, there’s only the voice, this time with a body. It drifts toward him from a coal black cloak, familiar, something right because it’s just as wrong as he is. Something that doesn’t fit in this world. Something to take him away.
“Who are you?”
The figure extends a hand, and beneath the shadowed veil Roxas knows he is smiling.
Your world is waiting.
Title: Across the River
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts
Pairing: Axel/Kairi
Rating: G
Summary: She had something of a temper. He liked that about her - and making it rise. [for syvia at kh_request!]
“Don’t they ever wonder where you are?” Kairi sits on the gnarled bole of her favorite tree, braiding a crown of leaves. Axel prefers to stand, arms crossed, and look out at the horizon.
“Why should they? It’s not like I’m breaking a rule.”
“Isn’t there someplace you should be?”
He chuckles. “You want me to leave?”
“No,” she tells him, placing the crown aside and hopping down. “It just seems like they’re the sort of people who would want to know where you disappear to.”
Axel shrugs. Even though she stands face to face with him, his eyes stay on the burnt orange sea. “They don’t miss me.” Finally he looks at her, wearing a mask of amusement. “Why? Do you?”
Kairi sighs. “Sure, I wonder where you are. You get to see other worlds, right? Who wouldn’t wonder about that?”
His eyebrows rise in a mirthy frown. “You sound like you want to come with me.”
She doesn’t blink. “Maybe I do.”
Smirking, he leans off the soft bark and puts gloved fingers to her cheek. “You’re not ready for another world. You can barely handle this one.”
Affronted, she smacks his hand away. “I am! And if you won’t take me, I’ll find a way there myself!” Dry leaves crackle beneath her heavy footfalls as she stalks past him.
“Suit yourself,” he calls to her, already summoning a whorl of darkness, “but Charon charges.”