fourteen | oo30 [ voice // action ]

( Sokka | Locked 100% )

... I need your help. And you can't tell anyone, okay?

( Aqua | Locked 100% )

Aqua... I know we haven't spoken that much, but I need to ask you a really, really big favor.

( Sanji | Locked 100% )

[ a long silence goes here. ] ... could I stay at your house tonight?

( Luke | Locked 100% )

I'd -- [ ... ] Can I see you?

[ Xion is out of the house today. Mostly because it's become almost impossible to stay there. She hasn't slept for more than a handful of hours since Vanitas attacked -- three days ago. She's so exhausted she can barely stay on her feet, but better awake and moving than a sitting target.

Who could sleep, knowing that at any minute someone stronger than you and your friends could break into your home and kill you whenever he wanted?

It's this question that drives her to address Luceti at large, once she's got herself settled on the railing of That One Bridge. Hey, it's like right next to her house and she wanted to sit on a bridge, so sue her. ]

( filtered AWAY from Vanitas and Saix | Locked 100% )

What would you do if you didn't feel safe in your own home anymore?

[ and this is to say nothing -- not a damn thing -- of how she feels about Roxas right now. He had no excuse -- what defense could you give? -- and Axel almost died -- for what? Why? Why had any of this happened? Does she blame Roxas, for extending the invitation, or Vanitas, for taking it? Even if she had something to say to him, she couldn't -- he hasn't been home in days.

It's a very numb Poppet that's sitting on that there railing, swinging her legs and staring at the water below. Please interrupt her thoughts -- for they are very grim ones. ]

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You asked for it!

[... But since she is a girl he'll give her mercy, so with an extra hard ruffle, he lets her go--!

Only to bust out laughing, because now her hair is everywhere.]

H-Hey! [ SHE SEES YOU LAUGHING MISTER. and she can guess why. slightly pink in the face, she tries to flatten her hair down, but it's an irrecoverable mess. Luke will get a playful shove in the arm for his troubles. ]

[Luke will just take a step back from the shove as his laughter dissolves to snickering behind his hand. His next comment is so childish and he knows it, but he can't stop it.]

You shove like a girl!

[ WHAT. hdu. somewhat indignant!, Xion advances on him. ] What's that supposed to mean? [ SHOVE. 8| she's still grinning, though. ]

[GRIN. He takes another little stumble back, but then reaches out to hold her back... by the top of her head. JUST TRY TO SHOVE HIM NOW.]

What else could it mean?

[ ALJDKGHALSKF. flails her arms for a moment, then .... gets this devious little grin on her face. ]

Oh, that's it!

[ she's gonna duck under his arm and TACKLE HIM. bodily. WILL THEY BOTH COLLAPSE INTO A HEAP ON THE BRIDGE Y/N? ]

[N BECAUSE LUKE IS LIKE A WALL OF STEEL

... Only not, so DOWN THEY GO. IFUTJLJGDHD UNEXPECTED.]

H-Hey!

[ down they go! of course, she lands on top of him, and just dissolves into giggles again. ]

Now who shoves like a girl, huh?

[TOPPED BY A GIRL, WHAT.

THIS FACE.]

You call that a shove?

[ always, Luke. always.

she does roll off him, though, and sit up, leaning back on her hands to smile unrepentantly at him ]

... I guess it was more of a tackle ... but still, I won!

[Someday. Someday.

Luke just crosses his arms and SCOWLS. Xion you are so lucky you aren't Guy or else he'd TACKLE YOU AND FLIP YOU OFF THE BRIDGE.]

At least I won the real battle!

[ pffffff hahahahaha. more giggling -- at least until he says that. that shuts her up, and even gets an indignant gasp out of her! ]

What real battle?

[Well. At this, Luke scratches his shaggy hair for a second before he looks up at the sky.]

Getting you to laugh.

[ ... ]

[ ... was all of that ... really just ... ]

[ ... just to make her smile? and laugh? and ... ]

[ ...

well.

then maybe he did win the real battle after all. ]

[ it's ... hard to know what to say to that. it helps little that she's visibly, obviously blushing, the gesture having, well, really touched her. and she hadn't even realized!

jeez, this feeling ... it's familiar, she knows it.

after a moment of just contemplating him in silence, Xion pulls her knees up to her chest, hugs them, and gives him one of the sweetest smiles she's ever given anybody. ]

... okay, I guess maybe you do win after all.

[... Well also he just really likes teasing and wrestling, but yes, that was the main reason for all of it.

But more importantly! HAHA, SHE ADMITTED IT. Luke grins and breaks his gaze away from the sky to look up at her from the ground.]

Ha!

[... Only to be caught off-guard by that smile. He hardly ever gets ones like that...]

[... Oh jeez, there's that little feeling he never figured out. DEFENSE MECHANISM GO: TSUNDERE MODE.]

O-Of course I do. I knew I was going to win!

[ they're both blushing. at each other. this is one of the few times Xion really realizes it. jeez, they must look really silly right now...

smiling crookedly, she edges out a toe to nudge him. ]

Did you really?

[Of course, the only thing Luke realizes is that he's plain flustered. gdit Xion.]

Yeah! I mean, I was...hoping I would.

[ that makes her laugh. he's so sweet. she stands, and offers him a hand up, still smiling. ]

... I do feel better. Thank you, Luke. I'm glad I asked you to come see me.

... Yeah. I'm glad, too. [He reaches to take her hand and help himself up, his blush clearing a little in favor of a smile.]

You should get some sleep, too. Do you have a place to stay for the night?

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[Action] BEST pillow since I am an AWESOME pillow

[Action] ^ excellent. /GOES TO BED AFTER THIS THOUGH

[Action] Do you know of any other pillows that smell like delishus cookies?

[Action] ........................................... /eats?

[Action] ........ YOU JUST ATE A PILLOW

[Action] and it tasted like delicious cookies.

[Action] You crazy 8(

[Action] .............. crazy delicious 8']

[Action] .............../EATS

[Action] ... /sits ... in your stomach .... so how do I taste 8|

[Action] ... Delishus 8D

[Action] ... :| gross. now I'm stuck here.

[Action] I bet it's nice and cozy in there :>

[Action] .... dammit Luke. hang on. 1/?

[Action] 2/ALL YOUR FAULT

[Action] 3/lalala

[Action] 4/5?

[Action] 5/5 also /ESCAPES FROM YOUR STOMACH AND LAUNCHES YOU INTO SPACE

[Action] 1/3 SEE NOW THIS ONE'S YOUR FAULT

[Action] 2/3

[Action] 3/3 also GOOD THING I LIKE SPACE

[Action] I HOPE YOU FREEZE OUT THERE.

[Action] SO KIND YOU ARE ;A;

[Action] damn straight I am. B) this is why you love me.

[Action] ... Yeah you're right B(

[Action] tsun tsun dere dere? :3 ... also /plans something terrible.

[Action] ...8[ What are you planning you

[Action] ... B)

[Action] ... OH MY