Truth is hard to swallow [Vertigo Visions Week 2]
WHO: ANYONE! -- Add your own entry tags!
WHAT: Vertigo Visions Responses
WHERE: Specific Threads identify your location
WHEN: Night of Day 249 (Monday 12/1) and Day 250 (12/2) through the night of Day 256 (Monday 12/8)
( So you pray to God // To justify the way you // Live a lie, live a lie, live a lie ---- Reply here with vision responses as your character sees the Mysterious Haze. )
WHAT: Vertigo Visions Responses
WHERE: Specific Threads identify your location
WHEN: Night of Day 249 (Monday 12/1) and Day 250 (12/2) through the night of Day 256 (Monday 12/8)
( So you pray to God // To justify the way you // Live a lie, live a lie, live a lie ---- Reply here with vision responses as your character sees the Mysterious Haze. )
Roxas appears suddenly, and Axel plays it cool. “You’re finally awake?”
Roxas jumps, and looks up at Axel. “Axel!”
“Heh, or maybe you’re falling asleep.” He sighs and sits down. “Soon, I won’t even be able to talk to you like this.”
“I… I’m going back to how I was,” Roxas says with assertion, and Axel looks away.
“I’ve thought about it a lot,” he muses. “Namine said the same thing.”
… Maybe that’s it. “Roxas, you have a heart, don’t you? But me and Namine, we… really don’t, do we?”
“I don’t really know…”
“Guess not.” Axel sighs. Even if that is the harsh reality of the situation - that he truly has no heart - it’s so good to see Roxas again, to talk to him, that Axel doesn’t care.
“But the heart’s not something you can see,” Roxas says, smiling. “I’ve started wondering if it’s something you can’t quite feel, either. If that’s the case, then…”
Axel raises an eyebrow, looking at the blond boy with curiosity.
“Nah, never mind.”
Oh, don’t stop now, Roxas. You know how much Axel hates it when you withhold your thoughts like that. “So wait, what are you trying to say?”
Roxas smiles. “I’m sure Sora will find the answer. After all… he’s me.”
Doesn’t Axel know it. “Sure is.”
Talking like this, watching the sunset… they both sit there quietly, for a bit, and then, somehow, there is ice cream. Just like old times. Axel hands Roxas a bar of the blue ice cream, before taking a small bite.
And yet…
“This really takes me back… remember? We met on that first day, when you got your new name. And then we came here to watch the sunset.”
“Yeah. This is where I’m from. Everyone … Hayner, Pence and Olette… I hope they’re okay.”
Axel bristles at the mention of those three, but he understands that somewhere, in the depths of Sora’s - Roxas’s - heart, there’s enough room for him and other people.
“You should go and see them again, while you’re out looking for your answers.”
Roxas looks down. “Yeah… Um, I have to go. Sora’s waiting for me.”
Don’t leave, Roxas. Stay.
Please.
“Yeah, I guess he is…”
Don’t leave me alone in oblivion. Axel turns and takes a huge bite of his ice cream. “Whoa, jeez, this ice cream is really salty!”
In a flash of light, Roxas is fading. “Goodbye, Axel.”
Axel’s fading too. Fading, and trying his hardest not to cry. He’s crying anyway. “Bye… buddy.”
--
It ends as suddenly as its begun, and Axel woke up, laying on the floor. He jerked up into a sitting position with a gasp, and gave himself a thorough pat-down, just to make sure he was still there, and still alive. His breathing was rapid and shallow, and when he spoke, his voice was quiet and... sad.
"I... I have to go," he stammered, standing up quickly, and making a bee-line for the door.
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But then Axel had gotten right back up and walked out, seeming shocked.
It was still a big whatever. With Axel gone, Sho went back to his real job - busboy, janitor, and manager.
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