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Okay, let's see here... Push this one, uh... Then that--Whoa!

_{[After some fumbling (and a near drop), the device finally flickers to life to show a hooded figure peering down into the camera. At first he's dead silent, his mouth opening and closing a few times as he tries to figure out what to say before he decides to take a chance and shake a proverbial fin.]}

Soooooo, I guess I should probably introduce myself or something... I gotta admit I'm totally lost even with that chick telling me the basics. Either way-- _{[He reaches up to push the hood back Light what is wrong with his hair.]} You guys can just call me Demyx, and this is gonna sound really dumb considering the whole... y'know, circumstances, but does anyone know a good place to grab a bite to eat? I figure it'd be better to get some grub while I try to make sense of some of this stuff, anyway.

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[Now there's an unexpected familiar face. Of all people to show up, Demyx is about the last one he would have expected to get randomly recruited for any sort of insurgence. Have a snort of laughter.]

Boy, they really sent the wrong guy for the job this time.

_{[Any room on that boat for one more? Because he's just going to stare at the device for a few seconds.]}

Axel? You're here too?

[Eyeroll. Hurr durr, Demyx, if he wasn't here he couldn't be talking to you, could he?]

Nah, I'm just a figment of your imagination.

Dude, I haven't seen you in what feels like ages--Is this where you've been disappearing to?

_{[Axel are you dead

because he's seeing dead people.]}

[A snort of laughter.] Can't feel like ages if we can't feel. [Yeah, he's splitting hairs; no, he doesn't care.] Did you sleep through the briefing that said I was going to C.O. with the others or did you just forget? [Seriously, either option seems believable to him.]

_{[He makes a face and opens his mouth to protest, up until Axel mentions C.O.]}

Uh, Axel? That briefing was a few months ago.

[He quirks an eyebrow, then scratches his head, a little unsettled. Granted Demyx's information isn't always accurate, but he didn't think he was that bad; can't he gauge the passage of time a little more accurately?]

Well, I was there for like a month and a half, but... I think you're getting a little ahead of yourself.

Edited 2012-11-15 07:23 (UTC)

I know. I remember when everyone--Well, when you came back since everyone else bit the dust and it's been awhile since that happened. Roxas ditched the Organization and then you kinda bailed...

_{[He frowns a bit, turning his attention away from the tablet. Part of Demyx knew he sounded crazy, but it was the truth! Really!]}

[More eyebrow. Demyx stahp u drunk.]

Uh, wanna run that by me again, IX? [He twists his pinkie in one ear.] Could'a sworn you just said Roxas ditched the Organization, and while I do kinda think he's a little too nice for this sort of work, it's not like he's really got the common sense to go anywhere. He's still half-zombie, remember?

[And then he looks indignant.] And whaddaya mean I bailed? Are you out of your gourd? Like I'm gonna risk getting turned into a Dusk that way--sheesh. Seriously, did you get into Xigbar's liquor cabinet or something before you got here?

[Oh, he's sure Xigbar's got one.]

_{[Axel you're going to run out of eyebrows at this rate.]}

Yeah, well that half-zombie whooped ol' X-Face's butt when he ditched. I dunno what he got all pissy over, but that's just what I remember. Heck, I was sent to try getting him back and he beat me up! Twice!

_{[And the second time turned out so great.]} 'n to answer thae second part? You bailed and I don't really drink, remember? 'sides, if I wanted to get drunk I'd go to... I dunno, Port Royal or something. Look, I'm just telling you what happened before I was dumped here, okay? _{[A beat.]} Come to think of it, I wonder if this means I quit...

[Am I being punked?]

[Axel waves his hands then--whoa, whoa, slow down there, son--and shakes his head.]

Wait wait... wait. X-face--you mean Saïx? Roxas whooped Saïx's butt? [And then he laughs. Less because he doesn't think Roxas could whoop Saïx's butt if it came to it and more because that's probably about the silliest thing he's heard since he got here.]

Demyx, please. If you're gonna pull my leg about what happened while I was gone at least make the story a little more believable.

[He wipes a false tear from his eye and shakes his head.] Okay enough playing around, were you sent here to find me or something? I know I was a little late, but I didn't expect a retrieval party. I mean, this is a little elaborate for tardiness punishment, even for Saïx.

[Part of him really wants Demyx to go, 'Psych! Aww, you caught us. Okay come home now, seriously.' Because this whole not being able to leave schtick is getting a little unsettling. Before he lost his heart and joined the Organization, Lea had had no access to other worlds and had been fairly content with keeping his feet planted in the one he'd grown up on... but now after tasting the freedom of being able to go anywhere anytime he wanted, suddenly being stranded like this left a sour sort of taste in his mouth. It was like claustrophobia only not quite, and he didn't like it one bit.]

_{[Was he laughing? He was, wasn't he? That alone is enough to get Demyx to glower at Axel. Anger wasn't his favorite emotion, but at this point he's willing to grab whatever he can get his hands on.]}

I'm not playing around, Axel. Believe me, I would've preferred to find you over tracking down Roxas 'cuz at least I know you wouldn't-- _{[Demyx nearly snarls. He was dead and he didn't know how to say it. He wanted to say he knew Axel wouldn't kill him, but that was too heartless even for him.]}

I would've at least had a chance.

_{[He could've had the chance to go home or--hell, maybe even run off with Axel! Granted that would only get him in trouble, but it would've been better than ceasing to exist, right? To Demyx, it sure sounded like a good alternative.]}

[Demyx has always been a bit easier to read than the others--he's never made much of an effort to hide things, and while Axel knows there's a bit more to the younger Nobody than face value, sometimes face value is all that's needed. Demyx suddenly looks really angry, and Axel can't quite figure why. Good grief, he can't actually be serious, can he?]

Demyx, come on, y-you're just yanking my chain, aren't you? There's no way all that happened in the time I was gone. [All the mirth has bled out of his face and the laughter is quickly forgotten at the tone in Demyx's voice. Severity had never been IX's strong point, but he's doing a pretty good job of it right now.

[Wait, Demyx had said he had already come back and it had been a while. But how was that possible? Something really doesn't add up.]

Okay, just... hang on a second. What do you mean I already came back and it's been a while? That can't be right--I haven't even gone back to the castle yet. I got stuck here on my way. [He shakes his head.] Saïx is gonna have my neck.

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I know what I saw. I know I act clueless sometimes but there's a lot more going on in my head than you guys realize. I know what I went through--I dunno why you don't remember any of it, but I'm... The Organization lost more than the Dream Team.

_{[He didn't know why Axel was acting like this. Maybe he hit his head or something--that happened in the movies, right? This could've been like this, or maybe it was just the stress from whatever war was going on.]}

Believe me, I'd rather it be like what you're saying. It's just... It's really bad right now, Axel.

[Okay hold the walkie.]

You're serious? Like you're really serious and you're not just doing this because you lost a bet with Xigbar or something?

[He lifts a hand to his forehead, sort of kneading it a moment. Well that was just plain absurd--Axel didn't just forget things! He couldn't very well demand that people memorize things if he didn't lead by example, after all!

[Could Castle Oblivion be to blame? No, that didn't make any sense either, why would it cause him to forget something that happened after he left? Was that even possible? This had to be a gag taken too far, there was no way this was real.

[His eyes flicked back to Demyx, then lowered again. No... no, Demyx looked pretty darn serious about this. He knew Demyx was fond of pranks (he'd fallen for the whoopie cushion on his chair in The Round Room twice now, and he'd be lying if he said he wasn't a little abashed about it), but Demyx usually gave himself away when he was fibbing for the sake of a laugh. Unless he'd been doing some hardcore pokerface training with Luxord in his absence, this wasn't a joke.

[Pressing both hands to his face and grinding the heels of his hands into his eyes, Axel waited until black and red bloomed against his eyelids, then pulled his hands away with a grunt.]

Okay, this makes absolutely no sense... [He met Demyx's eye and gave him a rare unsettled look.] ... but I'm pretty sure you're not just screwing with me. [He scratches his head again and the unsettled look is gone, replaced with something like suspicion, which sits a little more comfortably on his face.] How... how much time am I missing here, about? 'Cuz so far as I know, I ain't even made it back to Never Was yet.

[This has got to be a long lucid dream or something. Like is any of this for real or not?]

Yes, I'm serious.

_{[All Demyx can do is send Axel a pleading look until he starts talking again. At least he wasn't angry about it... Yet, anyway.]}

...At least a couple months. Trust me, I wouldn't be screwing around with you over something like this. You know me better than that, right? _{[And even if he was, Demyx knew he would've been in very big trouble.]} Not when it concerns the three of us. I dunno what the others are up to or if they've even noticed I bit it yet.

_{[Wait, shit. He said that outloud, didn't he?]}

[He looks a little indignant, though erring more on the Demyx pls side of the spectrum than anything like anger.] I dunno, do I know you better than that? How well does anybody in this Organization know one another, in the end? How well do you know me?

[Do you know I'm a murderer? Did you think I could kill a superior member with my own hands? Stand by and watch as I forced someone to kill another? Do you know me well enough to know I'm capable of that? Did anyone?

[It's not really a challenge, more just a question left hanging in the air. Axel has made a point of keeping his cards close to his, er, heart, as it were, even from someone who seems as harmless as Demyx does. He knows better than to expose his back to anyone--even Demyx. All 'knowing' someone means is that they can hurt you more easily. Excluding Saïx and maybe Roxas, Axel didn't presume to know any of his colleagues well.

[But he did have to suppose Demyx had a point: one didn't have to know him well to be able to read him fairly easily.

[He makes a face then.] Three of us? [He supposes they're as close as any three members might have been... Axel's not even sure he can say he and Saïx are that close these days: something had changed in his old friend recently, and he couldn't quite put a finger on what, but he had been keeping more and more of his thoughts to himself lately. Besides, Demyx hates Saïx, so he wouldn't have counted him in a trio any more than Axel would have included Xigbar in one, despite how close he knew Demyx was with him. So that left... He narrows his eyes and counts on one hand.] You, me, and...? [Roxas, he has to assume, but what about Xion? He'd never even seen her face, but Roxas seemed pretty attached to her; he couldn't imagine the kid would have just cast her aside.] Aren't you missing someone? Did something happen to Xion?

[And then he blinks, looking startled.]

Bit it? [Squint. Wat. Demyx srsly stahp ur drunk.] Demyx, what have I told you about putting things in your mouth? [He can't possibly be implying what Axel thinks he's implying--that's impossible, he's sitting right there how could he be dead? Demyx pls.]

Axel! _{[His tone was sharper than it normally was, desperation making its presence known in his voice.]} You know what I mean on both accounts! I don't... _{[Demyx makes a frustrated sound and he almost, almost throws the tablet.

He decides not to as he started to fold it.]}

Look. One, you know what I mean. Two, I'm not; there's you, me and Roxas, and who the hell is Xion? Three, just... Forget I said anything. I didn't--It's not something I wanna talk about right now, okay? _{[It shouldn't bother him this much. Axel was a friend. He shouldn't be getting this frustrated with him, especially over something like this. If it were Xigbar? Sure, he'd do it just to see how far he could take it with the old man, but Axel? No, Axel was one of the few in the Organization that he felt he could talk to on a normal basis.]}

And you guys call me thick. Maybe you drank some bad water or... Or maybe you hit your head or something. That's gotta be the only reason why you don't remember anything!

[Yes, he knows what Demyx means, but he can't quite believe it, for more than one reason. Demyx is probably the only person in the Organization with stronger survival instincts than he has, and that's saying something. If anyone's superpower was flight over fight, it was Demyx's, and so the very idea that he'd been killed seemed absurd to Axel, if only because if he somehow managed to wind up in a perilous situation, he would have just run away! But more than that--]

Demyx, would you listen to yourself for a second? Just... stop and think about this for one second. Just one. [He makes a gesture with both hands at him.] You're sitting right there. And you don't look undead or zombie-like or even beaten up! How can you ask me to not think you're pulling my leg when you say you bit it when you're clearly perfectly fine?

[He kept the ragged, harried tone out of his voice, but it managed to bubble through at the end there. Few things get Axel on-edge quite so much as not being in charge of the situation at hand, and not having an understanding of the situation at hand was already one foot in that particular grave.

[And then he just makes a hopeless face.]

Wh--and now you're gonna ask me who Xion is? Demyx, are you sure you're not the one who's a little loopy? I was the one in the castle that eats people's memories for breakfast, and you've forgotten the people right in front of you who were there the whole time.

Xion. You know... [He holds a hand out to approximately Roxas' height in demonstration.] short, kinda thin, always has the hood up... think she's a girl, but I'm not sure cuz I've never seen her face or heard her talk but... [Aaand Demyx is looking at him like he's lost it.] You know, Number XIV? Come on, I can't believe you didn't work together even once while I was gone, how could you forget a fellow member?

[This was getting ridiculous. They were apparently both talking about things that only made sense to themselves.]

Axel! Come on! The only chick we had in the Organization was--Well, you know!

_{[He gives the screen a pleading look before he throws his hands up in the air.]}

Ugh! The witch! Larxene! She's the only chick I know of!

_{[So why was Axel talking about this other girl? He would've remembered her if she was there, right? Axel had to have been crazy. Demyx knew he acted clueless from time to time, but he didn't just forget people like that!]}

Axel, you listen to yourself! Put yourself in my shoes for a minute! I just got here and you're telling me I should remember this girl? B-Besides, if she was XIV, why the heck are we still called Organization XIII?

[Axel just makes a face. Something about all of this just really makes no sense and it's making him a little uncomfortable. He waves his free hand at the level of his neck, trying to signal for Demyx to just stop for a moment.]

First of all, I don't know if Xion's a girl or not, I just think she is--you don't have to have a panic attack, I didn't mean to bring up traumatic memories of Larxene, sheesh.

And I dunno, maybe Xemnas forgot how numbers work. All I know is we got a fourteenth member a couple of weeks before I left... You're telling me you really don't remember? I'm pretty sure you were there when she was inducted, though I guess it's possible you were sleeping through the briefing again...

[Demyx is a little spacey, sure, but he really didn't think he was that bad. Axel has a feeling--er... 'feeling', that is--that there's something more going on here.]

I wasn't sleeping through it this time! The only time I fall asleep is when Xemnas keeps going on and on and on about the same stuff--!

_{[Making a frustrated noise, Demyx throws his hands up for the second time and in turn, nearly flips the tablet over.]}

_Crap! Look, I remember what I remember, okay? I'm not having a panic attack. The last time I saw you, you pretty much ditched, stole my clothes _{(kinda weird since my coat is fitted differently)}, and I have no idea where you went after that. Maybe--Maybe all of the stuff that went down at C.O. messed with your head or something, but I know what happened on my end.

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