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[chakramkeyblade]

[Permanent, open interaction post for Lea (and Axel). Let me know if you'd prefer me to do a starter, or just jump in with whatever!]

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[heartismyown]

"I'll tell him, but not right now since he kind of left me here for you." Roxas pointed out and huffed a little bit. He got separated from Sora, finally, he was getting to have his own life and his best friend was still looking awfully pale.

"Some kind of welcome this is." He teased a little. "Here I thought you'd at least bring me ice cream."

Roxas shrugged a little at the question. "There are a lot of hearts connected to Sora's. He's trying to untangle them all. Mine included. He knows what he's doing."

[chakramkeyblade]

"...That's not exactly reassuring, you know." Sora was kind of an idiot, after all. A well-meaning idiot with way too much power. But still an idiot.

Lea sighed. Part of him still wanted this to be a dream. That he was unconscious somewhere with a bump on his head and a thief rummaging through his pockets. But another part of him was louder. He walked to Roxas and put both hands on the kid's shoulders, fingers lightly squeezing. Making sure he was solid. Real.

He blinked hard, but his throat was tight. "I missed you. You know that, right?"

[heartismyown]

His lips pulled into a bit of a smile at that and he shrugged lightly. Whether or not that was meant to be comforting, the matter of the fact was that Sora was handling it. What that meant for the worlds would remain to be seen.

Roxas was solid and completely real under his fingers, the familiar Organization coat feeling the same as it always did, although he sucked in a gentle breath at the touch. It had been a long time since he'd truly felt it. A long time living inside Sora. He almost felt like a completely new Nobody again, but fortunately forgoing the amnesia. If he'd have lost himself then this would never have worked.

"I know that." He smiled. He'd hoped it, but it made sense to him. He brought his hands up to squeeze Lea's arms gently. "I missed you too, a lot."

It wasn't really fair of Sora to have left him here for Lea to deal with. "It had to be him. I'm just glad he found a way. It's been awhile and I wanted to see you again."

[chakramkeyblade]

He chokes at the feeling of Roxas's grip on his arm. He's real. He's here. This stupid, stubborn, willful kid that is so much like Sora and yet is so different...

And he knows. He knows through the keyblade, can actually sense the keyblade in Roxas, too. "You...ended up with a heart of your own. That's why, isn't it. Why he's trying to sort everyone out."

If he put himself in Sora's shoes he could see why. It was way too much like Xehanort. How long had it been eating at him...? No use wondering too much, though. It was Sora. Getting him to talk about emotional baggage was like pulling teeth.

Instead he pulled Roxas into a tight hug. So weird, seeing the same face for as long as he had, and seeing it unchanged. Still the same age as when he first met Ventus all those years ago. But he doesn't care. He doesn't care why, or how, just that the one friend he had in the Organization was back with him.

"Knew you'd come back someday...just can't stay away, can you."

[heartismyown]

The hug is entirely too overwhelming and yet not enough at the same time. His arms came around Lea's body and linked to squeeze him back, clinging to him a little more desperately than he might have were he more adjusted.

"Well, I'm kind of addicted to having a best friend. And sea salt ice cream." Roxas laughed, the noise a happy one because he was so glad to be back. It was then he addressed the rest of it, nodding.

"Yeah. I grew my own heart. I made it myself. I don't know if it's full or perfect yet, but it's there. Sora...Sora's a good guy. He didn't want to trap me if I did that much." Roxas tilted his head back to look at Lea because that jerk was still so much taller than him.

"We got a next life." He said softly. "Thanks to Sora."