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

[perplexme]

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.]

Comments

[action]

[flaring]

[Guess who is leaning on your doorway.]

Implying something?

[earthrumblegod.livejournal.com]

I never believe anyone who says it's for my own good. I mean, what would they know what's good for me? I figure I know well enough what's good for myself, thanks. Pressure 'em until they spill.

[action]

[perplexme]

[Ah. This again. Hey Axel.]

What do you think?

[perplexme]

That's my point, most people should be able to take care of themselves and handle the truth.

What about if it's somebody who doesn't crack under pressure though?

[action]

[flaring]

Very sneaky, Roxas.

[action]

[perplexme]

I learned a few tips from a professional. [Maybe he's kind of just glaring. Maybe.]

[earthrumblegod.livejournal.com]

Can you trick it out of them?

[Action]

[flaring]

So you still can't fully remember anything from the last time, huh?

[ voice ]

[sniperkingftw.livejournal.com]

I think it depends on what it's about. Sometimes there are things your friends just won't tell you about; it doesn't make them not your friends to have secrets then. [ He doesn't go around asking for all of his nakama's flashback stories, after all. ]

[ voice ]

[perplexme]

What if it's about something really important to you and your closest friends and it'll effect all of you?

[perplexme]

Maybe. He's kind of really hard to trick. ...unless you have a good idea?

[ voice ]

[sniperkingftw.livejournal.com]

Then them keeping it secret would just hurt everyone eventually, wouldn't it? You could try telling them that.

[Action]

[perplexme]

Xion has told me everything, but I know there's something I'm missing. Both of you keep giving each other these looks.

[Action]

[flaring]

...I don't know what else could be missing then.

[ voice ]

[perplexme]

I guess so...but does that actually work?

[earthrumblegod.livejournal.com]

I guess it depends on the person and the secret, really. I mean, you could persuade it out or guilt trip it out or even beat it out of them. But lots of people don't like doing the last one. Is it a big secret or something little?

[ voice ]

[sniperkingftw.livejournal.com]

It would work on my friends. No one ever really wants to end up hurting people they care about.

voice;

[pathtoseele.livejournal.com]

I don't like it when people keep things from me that are important. They can't know if it's really good for you not to know or not.

[Action]

[perplexme]

I didn't think anything could have been missing from what you told me about Castle Oblivion the first time, but then you told me about what you did. You didn't tell me for over two years. I didn't know about anything with Xion, but she told me you knew other things you weren't telling me. She told me things about you that you haven't told me yourself, and it's not fair.

So...you tell me. What else could be missing?

[perplexme]

We've fought before, I'd rather not do it again just yet. And persuasion might not work, but guilt-tripping...mm. That's the thing, I don't know what kind of secret it is. There are a lot of them.

[ voice ]

[perplexme]

...why is that? [You know, why don't people want to hurt other people. Even though Xion always ends up telling him almost everything, he's still got Axel to worry about.]

voice;

[perplexme]

From the sounds of it nobody likes it, but it happens anyway. I guess I just don't understand it, and I want to know why people do it. Especially because of that, they can't know if it's really good or not, even if they are your friends.

[Action]

[flaring]

[He pauses, just staring there are Roxas almost blankly. Honestly there was a lot of things he hasn't told Roxas or anyone, and as more time passes it's harder to keep track of what he has told them and what he hasn't. He closes his eyes a moment and then laughs quietly, shaking his head before looking at Roxas again.]

Man, you really do keep the dates memorized.

[ voice ]

[sniperkingftw.livejournal.com]

Hurting your friends is kind of like hurting yourself, isn't it?

[Action]

[perplexme]

Stop it. [This was the one thing that drove him crazy about Axel, if anyone confronted him, he'd just change the subject or talk in circles. He didn't want this to get ugly, but he was starting to reach the end of his rope. What if Axel knew something that could save Sora and Xion? He'd tell him, right? He hoped so.]

Axel. [He would expand on that, but he was hoping that just saying the other Nobody's name would get his point across.]