Forty-Fifth Keychain-[Written/Potentially Action for Axel and Xion]

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If you can't trust your friends, who can you trust?
What do you do when...no.
If something's based on life and de--

So...if people you know are keeping secrets from you, should you bother asking them about it until they cave in, or just believe them when they say it's for your own good? How would you know it's for your own good...actually, how would they know? It's your good, not theirs, right?

I can't settle for waiting and doing nothing until it's over.

[He left this unfiltered from certain people on purpose, mostly hoping he could draw out the answers he wanted. The strikes aren't too legible, but if a person squinted enough and tilted their head, they could probably make them out.]

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How do you know?

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All right, what would you have done?

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[He falters at that, because he didn't really expect that question.] I...don't know, but we could have thought of something I bet.

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[There's a long pause from him before he sighs.]

You can blame me, that's fine, but I can't take none of that back now. So I don't know what to tell you.

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I didn't say that you could. It just makes me wonder what else you're still keeping from me. [He makes his own pause then.]

Axel, have you ever told me the whole truth the entire time we've been friends?

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[This answer is going to hurt. Never mind it shouldn't, but he knows it is. Even not answering would be giving it away, so he has no choice-]

No.

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...[Yup. That's kind of what he was afraid of, and he's just going to shake his head, breaking eye contact completely.] ...why?

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[Damnit.]

Old habits die hard, I guess.

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So you've lied to me since the first day.

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Yeah, pretty much.

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...oh. [And really, what else can he say there? Just this look, Axel.]

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[That look. Whyyyy. He tries to grin a little.]

I'm being honest now, aren't I?

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I don't know, are you?

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Yeah, I am. Ask me something and I'll answer. Honestly.

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...tell me about you. Before the Organization, tell me everything you remember.

[Action] S'UP BBS SPOILER FOR AXEL HERE

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[He's hesitating. Like really bad. But... okay. Fine.]

Before the Organization, huh? Well... I came from Radiant Garden. Like a lot of the Organization members did. I even met a few back when we all had hearts. I remember one particular time when I was about your age I was trying to sneak into the castle with a friend and Xaldin picked us up and threw us out on our rears. It's funny now that I think back on it. We'd hang out and eat ice cream when we weren't plotting something. Other than that I'm still pretty much the same as I was back then. Just a different name and older now.

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...is that where the ice cream thing came from?

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It's always been a favorite of mine.

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I guess that makes more sense now. I always thought it was a little weird. [Here, have a tentative smile at least?]

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But you didn't seem to mind.

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I didn't really know what was going on at the time.

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I... guess.

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It's...a good tradition. Xion and I liked it.

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So, anything else you want to know?

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Depends. Anything else you're not telling me?