Heart Of Gears

Entry 4: Beautiful Boy

A small glimmer of hope can turn into a whirlwind of surprise. Apparently, science does have its good days! Months on end and Vexen was finally making progress on his project. His beauitful boy was being uncovered.

"Vexen, lunch!"

"Come in, come in!" The scientist said excitedly, he even opened the lab door rather than leaving it unlocked for The Freeshooter.

"Uhhh... hi."

"Come on, come on!" Vexen pulled him in and to the table. "What do you have for me today?"

Xigbar grinned at his excitement, something must've gone good today. "Well, here." He slid the tray onto the table. Today it was rigatoni in a light butter sauce spiced slightly with italian herbs and an unbuttered slicce of italian bread on the side.

Vexen sat down and smiled widely. "Thank you, Xigbar! How do you get these anyway?"

"Uhhh... freetime?"

The blonde had pocked up his fork but barely got to stabbing his first piece before he stopped. "You.. really make them?"

"Well... yeah. Why not if I got nothing better to do?"

"Wow.. I suppose you're right! Anyway - I've figured out something else I can do! An addition for my experiment!"

"And what is it that's got you so excited?"

"I can give it feelings!"

All feel silent. ".... You're going to what?"

"Give it feelings, Xigbar! Emotions. I know how to give it what we lack! Isn't that amazing?!"

Vexen was excited out of his mind but just simply didn't understand, obviously. From the outside looking in, this was bad. They were Nobodies, they couldn't honestly be excited or even understand what its like to be excited. But anyone can be an actor.

"My beautiful boy will be able to respect and love me as his master! This absolutely blows my original plans out of the water. It nearly breaks the sceience world!"

Yes, but... they all put their trust into Kingdom Hearts. If Vexen found a way to create emotions in things that wouldn't even have a heart to beat... surely..

"Vexen." Xigbar said sternly in a low voice.

"Huh..?" The happy rant stopped dead.

"Can you do that to us? Can you make us feel?"

"Ummm... I.. don't know."

"Would you mind looking into it? This should be reported to Xemnas."

"No, Xigbar. I don't want to help everyone. This is my own experiment and I don't want Xemans claiming he sent me on this project."

"But it could still be doing us good!"

"I don't want to help everyone in the Organization!"

Xigbar sighed and sat back. "I understand that." The man crossed his arms and watched as Vexen began to eat again. "Well... would yuo be willing to help me?"

The blonde looked up with curious green eyes. "Why wouldn't I?" The man shook his head. "You're an odd man, Xigbar. Why wouldn't I help a friend?" A genuine, non-crazy smile spread on his face for the first time in a long time.

Xigbar was a little startled by the kindness. The Freeshooter smiled back and leaned forward again. "Thanks."

Vexen shrugged and fought a blush from the returned pleasentries by his good friend. "Yeah, sure..." He went back to pushing around his pasta. "But I can't promise that this is safe."

"I'll take the risk when you're done." He smiled widely and tilted his head slightly. "Would you mind if I started to come more often?"

"Umm.. no." The blonde shook his head and shrugged.

"Hey, lets celebrate with dinner, eh?"