twenty-eighth key | [voice]

[onlytwilight]

[Roxas breathes heavily into the device, sighing.]

Jerk locked me in a closet. What the heck is his problem!?

Ugh...I feel so strange. Gotta get far away from here.

[Click. The device turns off.]

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[onlytwilight.livejournal.com]

No, you'll be staying where you are. I'll find some place to hide and lay low for a while...then come find you.

[of-flames.livejournal.com]

Some person you don't know locked you in a damned closet! He's searching for more things to bind you with. You expect me to just sit by and do nothing?

[onlytwilight.livejournal.com]

And if you die, I said IF, where does that leave me?

[of-flames.livejournal.com]

Unlike you, I come back.

[onlytwilight.livejournal.com]

Maybe if you weren't trying to drag me back somewhere I didn't want to go, or if I remembered...

Forget it. Just forget it.

[of-flames.livejournal.com]

I have never tried to drag you back into anything. What do you mean 'remembered'?

You want to stay with him, don't you?

[onlytwilight.livejournal.com]

You were going to take me back to the Organization and then you were going to kill me. He took my memories, damn it, he took everything I had and you still wanted to drag me back to them.

No! Why do you think I'm running away from him!?

[of-flames.livejournal.com]

I was not! Roxas... you don't understand. I don't think you ever did. I wasn't going to kill you. Scare you, yes. Kill, no.

Then why don't you want me to help you?

[onlytwilight.livejournal.com]

And what were you going to do if you beat me senseless in our fight? That wasn't for show, Axel.

Because he wants you dead, not me.

[of-flames.livejournal.com]

I was going to take you away, somewhere that they couldn't find you. Hide you somewhere. I was already bringing them down from within. It was just a matter of time.

I don't care if he wants me dead. That's never mattered.

[onlytwilight.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. I didn't... I'm sorry.

It matters to me.

[of-flames.livejournal.com]

Don't be sorry. I think I've had this conversation with every single one of you, and it all goes the same. You're sorry, I'm sorry. I can't remember half of it since I died. One of the Rikus said that I didn't remember the chain of events anymore after I died.

I doesn't to me! He's trying to keep you prisoner, and no one chains you to anything but me. That's the end of the story.

[onlytwilight.livejournal.com]

You forgot because... How many times have you died here?

Well it does to me! You've died because of me before. ...And by the way, you're not chaining me to any radiator.

[of-flames.livejournal.com]

Once or twice. It doesn't matter anymore. I was dead anyways to start with.

It does to me, not when someone wants to hurt you. I will chain you to that radiator as much and as often as I need to. I forged those links myself, so I know they'll hold. I just won't make the mistake of dropping you into a rain barrel next time you won't wake up. It didn't help matters any.

[onlytwilight.livejournal.com]

...Dropping me into a rain barrel?

[of-flames.livejournal.com]

You wouldn't wake up! I wasn't trying to drown you no matter what anyone says.

[onlytwilight.livejournal.com]

Weirdo.

[of-flames.livejournal.com]

It wasn't like that, Roxas. You weren't waking up, and I didn't know what to do. Sora was dead or dying, I don't remember which, and you went to sleep. I had to wake you up somehow, but you kept rising to the top.

I hate water.

So I poked you in the forehead so you would go back down. They said I was trying to drown you.

[onlytwilight.livejournal.com]

I'll try not to worry you again like that. Sorry. I wonder if he came here...what would happen to me.

It's okay, don't worry. I get it. But I can see why it would look bad for you.

[of-flames.livejournal.com]

He's been here before while you were. The one was a friend of mine in a way. The other didn't know who I was, but he wanted to kill me. You were fine both times, same as when Namine` and Kairi were here together.

Whatever they tell you are lies. Trust me.

[onlytwilight.livejournal.com]

Huh. I'm...surprised Sora would want to kill you. Did you tell him what you did for me?

I do trust you. You know that.