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Why would you ask? I doubt you're feeling any concern.

["No, not really."]

Call it "nostalgia", kiddo.

[ The next bit sounds so very thoughtful. ]

So you haven't seen them.

[Cue the sinking sensation.]

Them who?

You do read the news, don't you, tiger?

It's been all over.

[brb checking the news]

[&*%@#*&%$#]

Why are they in the news? I figured they'd just gravitate toward the rest of you and start following orders if they showed up here. Like old times.

[!]

Hello? ... Is this Roxas?

Edited 2011-11-29 02:09 (UTC)

[And suddenly there's the faint sound of hurried chewing as he sets down the sandwich.]

Aqua!

...hi. Yeah, this is Roxas.

Hi, Roxas.

[This is not good. The embarrassment is already sort of seeping through.]

I... um. I just got off the phone with Terra.

[... There's a pause here. She's not sure what she expects him to say, but she's blanking.]

[For him, it's awkwardness that's palpable.]

You did?

[Terra knows just about everything about him. Definitely more than most people. That doesn't mean he'd share everything, though. ...right?]

Did he tell you I'm not Ven?

... Yes. He did. Everything you said, Terra confirmed.

[Feeling another one of those ill-timed pauses coming on. Time to skip right to the sincerity.]

Roxas... I'm sorry.

[He relaxes a little at that. It sounds like Terra handled it okay.]

It's okay. I'm pretty used to people not expecting the two of us to look alike. Terra didn't believe me, either, when we first met.

Even so. That was very rude of me.

[It's a little hard for her to imagine what Terra's reaction could have been like. ...]

Is there anything I can do to make it up to you? [Sounding rather hopeful.] Anything at all?

Don't worry about it.

[Stalking. His reaction was stalking. Also some shouting.]

Just don't hang up on me again? There's really not anything to make up for.

But you can ask any questions you have. Like I said...I'm pretty used to this by now.

[o Terra. Mumbling one more 'sorry' for good measure at the mention of hanging up.

Rude, rude, rude.]

I can assure you -- that won't be happening again.

[But ... questions?]

Well ... I am curious about a few things, but ...

[Is it appropriate to ask? ... He's seriously okay with this? Right off the bat?]

It can wait. I'm sure we'll be seeing each other in person soon.

All right. We definitely will—I hang out with Ven and Terra a lot, actually, but I knew you'd be settling in...

[He trails off, a little unsure now. Patience is good, but he knows for a fact how many things she must want to ask—he's been through it before—and leaving her with nothing yet seems wrong.]

Um. Aqua? I'm not sure what else Terra said, but we don't know for sure why Ven and I look the same. We tell people we're brothers, or they assume on their own.

And you aren't his Nobody.

[As a reminder to herself just as much as it is a confirmation for him.]

... Terra told me.

Ah.

[Right. He would have had to give her some explanation. Maybe it's even good that she already knows about Nobodies. That conversation is always uncomfortable.]

It's got to have something to do with Sora. Some kind of connection between their hearts. I'm just not sure what that is.

[Because obviously Terra would have explained Sora, too. Obviously.]

[Yes. Because Terra's explanations are always extremely multi-dimensional, thorough, and complete. It was a very long conversation. Almost three whole minutes.]

Sora? But...

[You can hear the frown in her voice.]

What does Ven have to do with Sora?

[ And what does Sora have to do with you? ]

[Roxas goes silent for nearly half a minute. Terra had explained Nobodies but left that out? That was like trying to read a book that was missing half its pages.

Which wasn't so different from Roxas, if he thought about it.]

I'm his Nobody.

[... Silence.]

[Waiting...waiting...]

Aqua?

[She almost sounds hoarse when she finally does manage to formulate a response.]

... ... How?

[The uncertainty in his voice is growing steadily, along with his discomfort.]

Didn't Terra tell you?

Edited 2011-11-29 20:20 (UTC)

[A little too flatly --]

No. He didn't.

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