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kinkfestTitle: Tidal Resonance
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syvia
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Dub-con
Word Count: 1167
Summary: Xemnas has found a new way to study Kingdom Hearts and Saix’ connection to it.
Author's Notes:crimsoncookie betaed again and osmandias encouraged me earlier! *hugs them* *smirks* I had trouble with this one up until tonight- fic refused to continue after the last line. ...So I added more to the middle. ;)
Prompt: -Kingdom Hearts, Xemnas/Kairi/Saix: Drawn to the moon - The moonlight shines down interstellar beams
He could remember moonlight.
This was more.
He stood beneath the shower of gold that was Kingdom Hearts and felt. He felt. He told the Organization, over and over, that they had no hearts because when he stood beneath the world they were building, he could feel them- he could sense them, the flutter of their emotions like insect wings against a glass jar- and he was the jar they could not fly into.
He knew what they were- he knew how to manage them, but he couldn't care. He couldn't feel sympathy or compassion for them. He could feel them, but he couldn't feel like them.
It was one of many things that made his Diviner so intriguing. They had found Saix on the day the first mark of gold lingered in the air above the castle. The first upwelling of Darkness and the first great migration of Hearts- the first time Kingdom Hearts had been large enough to be a true, visible presence in their sky.
Saix had always reacted to it. Standing beneath the moon with eyes as gold as its glow, he grew full of it- full of emotion as true as anything they had experienced in life. Xemnas had made a full study of the phenomenon- knew how real it was and how it consumed Number VII. He had provided any number of stimuli as an attempt to provoke different reactions- the emotions were not Saix', and therefore not related to the situation, thus, unpredictable. Still, Xemnas persevered. A breakthrough came when he realized it was not stimuli to Saix which swayed the emotion (usually rage- at having been ripped from its body), but stimulus to Kingdom Hearts itself.
He felt the change as soon as they arrived.
The whisper of Kingdom Hearts, like the rebellious stirrings of an angry mob, grew hushed, reverent.
princess... heart... princess... kairi...
Xemnas smiled.
The sound which had been growing louder with every step continued to echo in her ears- in the center of her heart which felt empty as a drum, bouncing and pounding in her ears until it filled up, still pounding with the beat of her own name,
kai-ri
kai-ri
and she stared at the heart-shaped moon. Her heart was beating too quickly, worse than a sugar-rush, worse than caffeine... this must be what drugs felt like. She was terrified, but it didn't lessen the elation in her chest- the sense that she was moving a hundred miles a second- if only with her mind.
She couldn't stop staring.
Saix' fingers on her shoulder was the only thing to keep her moving forward until a hand claimed hers and the berserker left her to stand close to the railing, to act as she had, and stare, and stare.
kai-ri
"So many hearts have left the Garden and become accepted here. It does not surprise me that they should know you still, Princess."
She couldn't look at him. She almost tried, but she couldn't turn away from the moon- like she hadn't turned away from the ocean so many times, lost in the tumble of the waves. Moonbeams changed in shape and thickness from moment to moment, and each one carried a sound- a touch. They called her repeatedly from slightly different directions and she couldn't. Stop. Staring.
He clasped her left hand in his and cupped the right about her shoulder. The touch was comforting, warmer than she would expect from someone without a heart. He didn't have one- he drew her back against his chest and she could feel that he didn't have one.
She didn't care- accepting the solidity of him- an anchor against the beating of Kingdom Hearts. She was still staring- anything could have happened and she wouldn't have looked away. It was terrifying through the pulse of reverence all around her.
Please...
"Please?"
She hadn't thought she was speaking out loud- couldn't hear herself above the roar. She wasn't sure she was speaking now. It was too... too much... too...
The hand on her shoulder traveled upward, passing over her ear, her forehead, like a magician drawing the curtain, he covered her eyes. Kairi sobbed once, and part of her was glad that she couldn't see it anymore- and the rest felt lost- unsettled. She clutched his hand to her face and tried not to make small, distressed sounds.
She didn't want to be up here- to say nothing of the Nobodies. She felt strange- unlike herself. She-
was small, eyes covered against the darkness- because it was dark, very dark in the room, which had things that little girls should not see. But she had wanted to go into the lab with them- had wanted to know and listen even when she couldn't see. His hands were safe- he'd said he'd make sure nothing bad happened to her and-
Xehanort.
"Not anymore, Princess," he murmured. "Close your eyes."
Her eyes were closed. They stayed closed- shut tight against the moonbeams as he took his hand away. She could still hear them,
kai-ri
kai-ri
and she pressed herself closer to whatever Xehanort had become. It was instinct. She knew she couldn't trust him and some part of her felt that he was the last place to look for comfort- but part of her remembered being that little girl and what else did she have to hold on to?
"Kairi..."
She jerked back from the hand brushing her cheek- her head connected firmly with the Nobody's chest although he didn't react with pain.
"Shhh- he takes in that which is Kingdom Hearts- you have nothing to fear from him."
Saix' hand followed the movement of her head, but it was gentle, and he wasn't gentle.
"The hearts above revere you- they have no wish to do you harm. They wish to be whatever would best please you."
What would have best pleased her, would have been to go home. To find her friends safe and all of them back on the Islands.
She couldn't hold on to the thought for more than a second. It wriggled like a minnow through her fingers and was carried away on the tide.
She was comforted by Xehanort's words, by the waves of emotion and Saix was touching her- hands warm through the smooth gloves and Kingdom Hearts... she could feel it through him. He knelt yet, reaching up and pressing firmly into her back- drawing downward, kneading.
But she was also scared- she was scared of the emotions that weren't hers beating against her and she felt herself drifting- pulled from sands that had eroded beneath her feet and left her treading water- barely able to keep her head above the surface. They still washed over and over her heart, even with her eyes closed to them, they were there- they were right in front of her, reaching her through Saix' hands.
She felt the passing of air over her face just before he leaned in.
He kissed her and she drowned.
Author/Artist:
syviaRating: PG-13
Warnings: Dub-con
Word Count: 1167
Summary: Xemnas has found a new way to study Kingdom Hearts and Saix’ connection to it.
Author's Notes:
crimsoncookie betaed again and osmandias encouraged me earlier! *hugs them* *smirks* I had trouble with this one up until tonight- fic refused to continue after the last line. ...So I added more to the middle. ;)Prompt: -Kingdom Hearts, Xemnas/Kairi/Saix: Drawn to the moon - The moonlight shines down interstellar beams
He could remember moonlight.
This was more.
He stood beneath the shower of gold that was Kingdom Hearts and felt. He felt. He told the Organization, over and over, that they had no hearts because when he stood beneath the world they were building, he could feel them- he could sense them, the flutter of their emotions like insect wings against a glass jar- and he was the jar they could not fly into.
He knew what they were- he knew how to manage them, but he couldn't care. He couldn't feel sympathy or compassion for them. He could feel them, but he couldn't feel like them.
It was one of many things that made his Diviner so intriguing. They had found Saix on the day the first mark of gold lingered in the air above the castle. The first upwelling of Darkness and the first great migration of Hearts- the first time Kingdom Hearts had been large enough to be a true, visible presence in their sky.
Saix had always reacted to it. Standing beneath the moon with eyes as gold as its glow, he grew full of it- full of emotion as true as anything they had experienced in life. Xemnas had made a full study of the phenomenon- knew how real it was and how it consumed Number VII. He had provided any number of stimuli as an attempt to provoke different reactions- the emotions were not Saix', and therefore not related to the situation, thus, unpredictable. Still, Xemnas persevered. A breakthrough came when he realized it was not stimuli to Saix which swayed the emotion (usually rage- at having been ripped from its body), but stimulus to Kingdom Hearts itself.
He felt the change as soon as they arrived.
The whisper of Kingdom Hearts, like the rebellious stirrings of an angry mob, grew hushed, reverent.
princess... heart... princess... kairi...
Xemnas smiled.
The sound which had been growing louder with every step continued to echo in her ears- in the center of her heart which felt empty as a drum, bouncing and pounding in her ears until it filled up, still pounding with the beat of her own name,
kai-ri
kai-ri
and she stared at the heart-shaped moon. Her heart was beating too quickly, worse than a sugar-rush, worse than caffeine... this must be what drugs felt like. She was terrified, but it didn't lessen the elation in her chest- the sense that she was moving a hundred miles a second- if only with her mind.
She couldn't stop staring.
Saix' fingers on her shoulder was the only thing to keep her moving forward until a hand claimed hers and the berserker left her to stand close to the railing, to act as she had, and stare, and stare.
kai-ri
"So many hearts have left the Garden and become accepted here. It does not surprise me that they should know you still, Princess."
She couldn't look at him. She almost tried, but she couldn't turn away from the moon- like she hadn't turned away from the ocean so many times, lost in the tumble of the waves. Moonbeams changed in shape and thickness from moment to moment, and each one carried a sound- a touch. They called her repeatedly from slightly different directions and she couldn't. Stop. Staring.
He clasped her left hand in his and cupped the right about her shoulder. The touch was comforting, warmer than she would expect from someone without a heart. He didn't have one- he drew her back against his chest and she could feel that he didn't have one.
She didn't care- accepting the solidity of him- an anchor against the beating of Kingdom Hearts. She was still staring- anything could have happened and she wouldn't have looked away. It was terrifying through the pulse of reverence all around her.
Please...
"Please?"
She hadn't thought she was speaking out loud- couldn't hear herself above the roar. She wasn't sure she was speaking now. It was too... too much... too...
The hand on her shoulder traveled upward, passing over her ear, her forehead, like a magician drawing the curtain, he covered her eyes. Kairi sobbed once, and part of her was glad that she couldn't see it anymore- and the rest felt lost- unsettled. She clutched his hand to her face and tried not to make small, distressed sounds.
She didn't want to be up here- to say nothing of the Nobodies. She felt strange- unlike herself. She-
was small, eyes covered against the darkness- because it was dark, very dark in the room, which had things that little girls should not see. But she had wanted to go into the lab with them- had wanted to know and listen even when she couldn't see. His hands were safe- he'd said he'd make sure nothing bad happened to her and-
Xehanort.
"Not anymore, Princess," he murmured. "Close your eyes."
Her eyes were closed. They stayed closed- shut tight against the moonbeams as he took his hand away. She could still hear them,
kai-ri
kai-ri
and she pressed herself closer to whatever Xehanort had become. It was instinct. She knew she couldn't trust him and some part of her felt that he was the last place to look for comfort- but part of her remembered being that little girl and what else did she have to hold on to?
"Kairi..."
She jerked back from the hand brushing her cheek- her head connected firmly with the Nobody's chest although he didn't react with pain.
"Shhh- he takes in that which is Kingdom Hearts- you have nothing to fear from him."
Saix' hand followed the movement of her head, but it was gentle, and he wasn't gentle.
"The hearts above revere you- they have no wish to do you harm. They wish to be whatever would best please you."
What would have best pleased her, would have been to go home. To find her friends safe and all of them back on the Islands.
She couldn't hold on to the thought for more than a second. It wriggled like a minnow through her fingers and was carried away on the tide.
She was comforted by Xehanort's words, by the waves of emotion and Saix was touching her- hands warm through the smooth gloves and Kingdom Hearts... she could feel it through him. He knelt yet, reaching up and pressing firmly into her back- drawing downward, kneading.
But she was also scared- she was scared of the emotions that weren't hers beating against her and she felt herself drifting- pulled from sands that had eroded beneath her feet and left her treading water- barely able to keep her head above the surface. They still washed over and over her heart, even with her eyes closed to them, they were there- they were right in front of her, reaching her through Saix' hands.
She felt the passing of air over her face just before he leaned in.
He kissed her and she drowned.
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Date: 2008-02-15 06:23 am (UTC)I can honestly say I've never really liked Kairi (found her boring and bland) but I couldn't stop reading this. You've given her life that (imo) the game couldn't really give her, and I loved the description of the Kingdom Hearts pulsing "kai-ri" and Saix being drawn towards the "moon" as well.
*internet claps*
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Date: 2008-02-15 12:09 pm (UTC)Yeah- the games gave her the shaft (but fic does it better *wink*). As much as they tried to make her 'not just a damsel in distress', she just wasn't there in the story long enough to get her own part of it. I like her, but I must admit, I'm more fond of the good fic versions. (I'm fortunate to know more than one. XD)
I'm glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for the review~!
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Date: 2008-02-16 04:33 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-06-12 12:26 pm (UTC)This Kairi/Saix interaction was just... wow! A+