The Start of Something [Ray Cozart]

[Ray Cozart]

"Hmm, no, I doubt that I could, from what you've told me, she's kind of an airhead." he chuckled slightly. "Well, what's your first question?"

[Alex Faith]

"Hm..." She thought, not wanting to jump right into the really personal stuff. "This is going to seem like a silly question, but I have to ask. Don't act all embarrassed either, 'cause I'm just curious. What do you look for in a girl, as far as like... for a girlfriend."

[Ray Cozart]

"Well, that's a new one." he said, almost shocked. "Well, someone who's strong, both physically and emotionally. Of course I have to like their mind, body, and personality." He shrugged. "A~and that's about it. My turn, what do you look for in a guy, like for a boyfriend?" He countered her question.

[Alex Faith]

"Countering my question I see." She chuckled. "Well... A kind-hearted, loving person. Someone who I, being a highly distrustful person, can trust without a second thought. Great personality, quick learner, and least importantly, a nice body." She was fine until she realized that everything she had just said applied to the man sitting beside her. Then her face turned a little red. However, it was almost unnoticeable.

"Well, next question." Alex was actually kind of enjoying this game. "When was the last time you had new clothes?" She asked with a playful, good-natured laugh.

[Ray Cozart]

"Um," he began, looking up as he thought, "about five years? Yeah, five years sounds right. Hmm, what's your favorite kind of soup?"

[Alex Faith]

She couldn't help but chuckle at the completely random question. "Despite all the different kinds of fancy soup I can make, my favorite is chicken noodle soup." Alex answered with a smile. Then, her smile faded and she looked away. She had to ask, before it ate her up inside... but she didn't really want to.

[Ray Cozart]

"Good choice." he chuckled with her. "Your turn," he said, then noticed her pause, "really, it's OK, you can ask me anything. OK, actually not anything but you know what I mean."

[Alex Faith]

Normally, the perverted implications would have been funny, but right now, they just weren't. "Then I'm going to hold you to that and ask what I've wanted to know all morning. You never did give me a straight answer and I... I'm sorry if it bothers you to tell me, but I really don't want to punch the TV again." She tried to make a joke before she had to just kill every shred of happy. "Why don't you sleep? I understand it's a rather personal question, so feel free to ask one of me as well..."

[Ray Cozart]

He looked at the floor with sorrow in his eyes. He sighed before looking her straight in her own eyes. "It's because every time I sleep, I watch my mom get turned into one of those things, over, and over, and over again."

[Alex Faith]

Alex immediately regretted asking. "That's... understandable then... I hate to be the bearer of bad news... but you have to sleep sometime. You'll die with out sleep and I... I'd rather not lose the only guy to ever gain most of my trust." Alex tried to say without her voice shaking. "Anyway, I'll let you ask a question now. Try to get your mind off of that. Go on. Ask anything, no mater how personal."

[Ray Cozart]

He looked up again, as he was deep in thought once more. Then he came to an answer, well, a question actually. "Why do you stay so close to the Darkness, isn't that how people become Heartless?"

[Alex Faith]

"Heh... I uh. I was wondering if you'd ask about that." Alex started, looking up at the ceiling, then the floor. She was obvious a little ashamed of the answer. "I never meant to end up following in my grandfather's footsteps... I never meant for any of this to happen.... According to Kaylee, I wasn't always like this. She said that my Darkness didn't really even show until about a month before mom was killed and dad was taken. At that point, it sky rocketed. So much that all of Seiflan could feel it.... Though most people don't know it was me, they say that as the darkness got worse, an all powerful Heartless appeared and... and wreaked Seiflan as well as kidnapping the wealthiest man in all the worlds and killing his wife." Alex had to stop for a moment to regain control of her shaking voice. "A year after the supposed attack, I woke up in the hospital, barely able to function. Kaylee was the one who had found me, barely alive. She said that... She said that the only thing that saved my life was the Darkness... I forced my self to leave and hone my control of it. At first I thought nothing of how weak my Light was... but after I gained full control over it, I realized that I was too reliant on it... I trained to have control over them both. However... I started piecing everything together and realized that, according to all the evidence..." Finally, the brunette broke down, tears streaming silently, but abundantly down her face. "I'm... It's my fault that my mother is dead and my father is gone... I got them killed because of my inability to control my Darkness when it first arose... So I decided that I would use the very thing that got my dad kidnapped to find him...." When she finally finished her story, she just stared at the ground, crying. To see her crying was one thing, but to hear her actually tell this story was rarer still. It was after all, one of her most personal secrets. And she just shared it all, with a guy she barely knew, yet trusted. That, was one of the rarest things of all.

[Ray Cozart]

"Aw shit." he mumbled as he scooted over to her and placed a hand on her knee. "Well, I already promised that I'd help you out, yeah? So don't worry, we can do it, hopefully."

[Alex Faith]

Alex let out a quiet chuckle and looked over at him. The tears in her eyes actually brought out the color in her eyes, making them brighter, seemingly more sincere. "With a Light like that guiding me, I might actually be able to get somewhere."

[Ray Cozart]

"That's the plan." he said, giving a goofy smile. Suddenly he felt a power surge through him and he knew that it was his Keyblades speaking to him. He held out his hand and summoned the Kingdom Key. He coated it in Light, trying to make the Keychain transfer, only for it to change back to the base weapon. "Damn, so close."