moonstrualcycle | no running in the halls!

[that gets a quiet laugh out of her, too; both Lea's reaction and the Demyx impression.]

I'm not sure, the amount of teasing and innuendo she'd get for a declaration like that might have been enough to keep her quiet. But that would involve thinking about something before actually saying it, so you're probably right.

Yeah, that was never really her style.

[ This is a good time to remember that, aside from the circle that were in the sleeping realm, and the other RG folks that were on the ground when Lea woke up, she has no idea about anyone else being around. ]

Hey. You don't seem too broken up about being stuck here, for someone who was just hanging out with me on the beach.

What would be the point? It wouldn't take me back there, and you're handling it alright. Anyway, me, broken up about something?

[this is a lie, we know from canon now that Isa holds onto shit for years, although she rarely lets anyone see it. if she's not a Cancer then i don't know anyone who is.

let's see, so people around she could actually talk about would be Terra/Aqua/Ven, and i guess Even and Demyx, and AtW. except that Even would entail explaining about how she was good all along and helped get Lea's kids back and also Nami.]

Oh, my mistake, nothing ever gets to you.

[ You are full of shit, you know you're full of shit, I know you're full of shit...

Also please, god, tell her Demyx is alive again and was chosen as a vessel. She'll pop something from laughing. ]

There's no real point, but I've had time. If you don't deal with it now you'll deal with it later. I'm just not sure how that'll be.

[bah, time to distract Lea from all this feelings talk, because honestly, she's fine! she'll continue to be fine, and nothing is weird, and she definitely won't be weird and possessive because she has Lea all to herself and has no idea when that might change.]

It'll be fine, stop worrying. Speaking of Demyx, she rejoined the Organization too. She was supposed to be another of Xehanort's vessels.

[ That is all very suspicious, and it's fortunate she can't read this. But wait. You've successfully distracted her! You've also broken her. ]

......why?

[score. she shrugs.]

No clue. She ended up benched anyway, as she put it. Got replaced by one of Vexen's replicas.

Full offense, but she's not someone I would've chosen either.

[ Ew. Does that mean she was going to be one if she'd stayed loyal? Get killed and then revive along with everyone else to be a Horcrux? No thanks. ]

So Replicas and Demyx. Sounds pretty desperate.

Numbers ten through twelve, also. I doubt by choice, for Marluxia and Larxene.

[probably, yeah. tbh Larxene's notion of a cereal bowl being a better vessel than Demyx also applies to the two backstabbers. at least the Replicas were relatively loyal. Axel would've been there going "ugh, Xemnas" right next to Larxene.]

So like, every incarnation of Xehanort, replicas, and the coup squad. And you.

[ Unbelievable. She's trying to come across as judgmental, so, of course, she's doing her best Saïx face. ]

Hey, the good guys had a group that was just as scattered. At least our side still had matching outfits.

[she is immune to that face, but good try. and honestly, what was up with Lea also having the coat through everything, she couldn't even still portal anywhere! it wasn't out of loyalty, we know that much.]

You mean we don't synchronize? I wanted to be the red one.

[ Like Power Rangers! ]

How long has it been for you? Since things ended.

Oh, you were the red one, don't worry. Uh... two weeks. Almost three. Ienzo made me stay in Radiant Garden for a few days after I woke up, to make sure I was stable.

[we're now fully in headcanon territory, i guess, since the game didn't cover this part.]

That's really not long at all.

[ Holy shit. So, uh... ]

So— we've been hanging out? Did I miss some impactful reunion?

Nah, the impactful stuff happened as I was dying, as it should've. And yeah we've been hanging out, us and like.

[she has to count on her fingers (possibly just for show), hang on. there are at least two instances of what is deinitely three people that come as a set, make of that what you will.]

A dozen other people, max. It's not all of them all the time, thank god.

Did we move in together or something?

[ Unbelievable. How can you imply that things went down while you were dying and leave her itching with curiosity? Horrible best friend— wait. Huh? ]

A dozen?

[ She's going to silently tick names off of her own fingers, and it's a struggle to come up with any after five. Eventually she reaches six, then stops. Demyx? Huh? Huh? She's hoping Isa says yes, to get rid of this hope: ]

I guess we made new friends?

[she's welcome to try and dig that bit out of Isa, it actually wouldn't take that much. would probably knock this insufferably smug expression off her face, too.]

Wouldn't you like to know? And yes, we did. Some of them were already your friends, though.

[a real friend might not enjoy watching Lea squirm this much, but here we are. she'd love to tell her, honest! but it might fuck things up, so she really shouldn't, which means instead she's just going to verbally bait Lea and laugh a little at the outcome. out of love, of course.]

Uh huh...

[ Her eyes are fixed on Isa's face, trying to find anything that isn't totally shut off. It's impossible though, even as well as she knows her. She's too damn good at this.

Some of them? So more than one. It's gotta be the island trio. Oh well. She expected that. Moving on— ]

Right. So, back to the impactful stuff.

[she folds her arms again, and shifts her gaze off to the side, the most nonchalant person who has ever existed.]

It wasn't that impactful, jeez.

[yes it was. but that involves Xion as well, dammit.]

It definitely was, or you wouldn't be so vague about it. Come on, are you really going to wait for me to go back and live it all?

[ h-huff why are you so mean to me even with a heart.

Deadpan: ]

Unless it was a confession.

[ughhhhhhhhhh. she doesn't respond for several seconds, and then heaves a big disgruntled sigh and continues not looking at Lea.]

It was. I told you you wouldn't hear it a second time, but... I admitted that I was jealous. Of what you had with Roxas and-- and that you seemed to just give up on me, and him, when that was the whole reason we were there at all.

[she hates this, but part of her is curious if Lea will react the same way.]

[ Well— she was kidding, and insinuating that it was a romantic confession. That she said, or is saying this now, has Lea stunned. She's quiet for a while. (At least, for her.) ]

You admit it.

[ Enjoy how she says that in the same exact way. Lea kind of looks like she could cry, picturing all of this, but even though her emotions are already strung tight from Isa's appearance and everything, she doesn't. ]

I didn't give up. I don't know why you thought I would.

[the identical phrasing and tone make her flinch slightly, and she tries to disguise it by shifting on the couch. hearing it again just drives home how unfair it was to everyone involved but especially Lea that she (Isa) was such a horrendous bitch about it all. her hair's screening her expression now, not that there's much of anything readable in it.]

I know you didn't. I was the idiot for diving right back into things when chances were even slimmer than before that I'd find out what happened to him. At least I-- dammit.

[it's so hard to explain things or drop hints when Lea doesn't know about Xion.]

[ God dammit her cool badass image in the DR is going to get shattered. That's probably why she's so wibbly right now. Her lost reputation. (Spoilers: that's not it, and it's actually seeing Saix-now-Isa being... who she remembers her to be.) ]

Hey. Relax. You know better now. It's not your fault you've always been this stubborn.

[ She hesitates, then bumps her shoulder against Isa, and stays there. ]

Doesn't help that it felt like I gave up on you. And I guess part of me did, for a little while.

[who's being wibbly here, certainly not either of these two. she's grateful for the shoulderbump, honestly; it makes her feel like things are normal, even though they definitely aren't.]

Who's stubborn? And yeah, you did, but I was also being an ultra bitch to you about it. You were the sensible one, for once, to find nicer people to spend your time with.

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