genessia | The way to dawn...

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lea,
★ xion

The way to dawn...

Who: AU Lea and you. Yes, YOU!
Where: Several locations in Genessia City
When: Any time during the AU event
What: AU shenanigans.
Warnings: Probably none? Will update if needed.

A. At the apartment (For Xion and neighbors)

Lea had been baffled to wake up that morning and find an Organization XIII uniform in his closet. He'd been even more baffled to find very little else. He'd have though that they'd been robbed, somehow if not for the fact that nothing else was disturbed. He'd scratched his head and stared at his closet for a good five minutes, as if that would somehow make his clothes reappear. Finally, with no other options, he'd dressed in what was there; clearly he'd have to go clothes shopping later if he couldn't locate the rest of his wardrobe.

Now he was in the kitchen area, cheerfully whistling "Jingle Bells", while cooking bacon and scrambled eggs. Nothing like a hot breakfast on a cold day, after all!

B. Clothes shopping (OTA)

With the strange disappearance of his clothes, Lea was forced to go out looking like a member of the Organization. Hopefully, that wouldn't be the case for long though; he was determined to come home with no less than three full outfits today! Maybe he could even find something that Xion would like while he was out; that girl needed to expand her horizons a bit.

C. Hard at work (OTA)

With so much strangeness going on, Lea had taken it upon himself to step it up when it came to his role as Deputy Guardian. Especially with Karla being... well. Someone had to pick up the slack til she was herself again.

So Lea had taken to patrolling more of Genessia City than he usually did. Hey, it beat trying to do double paperwork!

D. Wildcard! (OTA)

(AKA, come up with your own scenario!)

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That he was cooking didn't confuse her much. At least not once she was awake enough to remember she was in Genessia, not the castle. But the whistling was odd. She moved as quietly as she could, wondering if someone else was in the apartment. She would have called in her Keyblade but after he got so upset....

So she's just staying close to the walls, moving slowly and quietly until she gets to the kitchen and cautiously peers around the edge. The fingers of one hand and half her face would be all he'd see if he happened to turn and look just then....

Lea was blissfully unaware of Xion's suspicions or even that she was awake as he placed strips of crispy bacon on both their plates. He turned to call over his shoulder, "Xion! Breakfast is-" Then he spotted her and grinned. "Oh hey, good morning! Didn't hear you get up. You want anything with your eggs, like cheese, ketchup, or salt and pepper?"

She had started to ask him about the whistling then just stopped and stared at him. "Ketchup?"

"Yeah, you know, that big squeeze bottle full of red stuff in the fridge," he said. "Made from tomatoes, tries to pretend it's a vegetable rather than a condiment?" When she still seemed to be confused he just smiled and shook his head. "You know, never mind," he said and added eggs to both their plates. "Like I was saying, breakfast is ready, so come and get it while it's hot."

He set the plates on the table at their respective places and went to get two juice glasses out of the cupboard. "Oh and hey... there wasn't anything missing from your room this morning by any chance, was there?", he said.

She gave him a slightly odd look as she climbed into her chair. This was an... odd mood he was in today... "Aren't they a fruit?" She thought? Maybe? She was confused.

"Missing from my room?" she asked. She hadn't exactly bothered to count her sea shells. The big plush dog was there. She didn't really own much, except whatever he brought her. A couple sticks from her ice cream were on the window ledge and probably should be cleaned up... "I... don't think so... why?" Had he tried to surprise her and she missed noticing?

"Well yeah, tomatoes are technically a fruit," Lea said. "But most everybody eats them like a vegetable, so they tend to just get lumped into that food group."

He set the glasses at their places on the table and got the juice out of the fridge. "Well, when I woke up this morning, almost all of my clothes were gone," he said. "All that was there was this Organization uniform. Which means either there's a burglar with some very strange tastes out there, or we've got some very hungry moths. I'd suspect that it was a prank, except well... you don't do pranks."

She looked confused. "But...your uniform is all your clothes...." she said, giving him an odd look. Was she missing something?

And Lea looked confused right back as he paused in pouring the juice. "Huh?", he said. "I've never had an Organization uniform. Why would I? And I remember I had half a dozen outfits worth of clothes in there yesterday. They couldn't have just disappeared."

"What do you mean you never had a uniform?" she asked, startled. She scrambled out of her seat. Something was weird here. Something wasn't right...

"I mean I never had one," he repeated, still confused. "I was never in the Organization. You were, but you're way nicer than most of them; I could tell the first time I saw you."

"Wh....who are you? What did you do with Lea? Is he hurt?" Her keyblade came out as she pulled a defensive stance. "Or...." she froze, going very still. "Namine..." she whispered. Her Keyblade lowered. Namine was here...and did something to Axel. To Lea. No.... No. She wouldn't let her!

Except.... Except everything he told her the night she found out who was across the hall now... had... Had Lea found Namine and asked... asked to have his past erased? Altered? Why?

Shaking, her keyblade vanished and she turned and ran, first for her room, but after two steps she changed directions, and ran full speed towards the terrace.

Lea reflexively stepped back a pace, putting his hands up in a placating gesture when she drew her Keyblade on him. "Hey, take it easy!", he said. "I am Lea, I swear!"

He was mildly relieved when the Keyblade vanished, but only for a moment, because then she took off running. "Wait!", he called out darting after her. She was quick; it was only due to his longer stride that he was able to catch her, nabbing her by the arm. "Wait," he repeated, more calmly this time. "Look, calm down OK? Freaking out and running off isn't going to help us solve this. And I can prove I'm Lea, if you'll let me. Alright?"

She turned in his grip when he grabbed her arm, but only to face him, not to pull away. "Namine?" she asked softly, emotions she hardly had names for in her voice and eyes. Fear. Anger. Concern. Worry. Guilt. "Whatever she did to you... for you... She's Namine...I... just tell me where she is." And she'll find out why Namine did this to him. If he had wanted it... should she support him? Or fix things? Or... what? She wished Roxas were here....

Lea shook his head. "Naminé has nothing to do with this," he said. "I don't know what's going on, but it's not her fault. I don't think she's even here."

"Look... I remember when we first met here in Genessia," he said. "I was eating a sea salt ice cream bar and ran into you on the street. You asked if I'd gotten you one, and I didn't know what you were talking about, but that sparked a conversation and we ended up going out for pizza. Which I had to teach you how to eat, pretty much, since you'd never had it before; you dropped the toppings in your lap and used ice magic to clean it up."

"Now, would anybody else know that besides me?", he said.

"I know you're you, but if she did something to your memories...." She closed her eyes. "She made you forget me, and now she's made you forget...."

Her eyes flew open. "Roxas... if you don't remember being Axel... did... did you forget Roxas?" She might never forgive Namine for this, even if Lea had asked her to do it.

Lea frowned thoughtfully. "I remember everything you've told me about him," he said. "About how he was your best friend in the Organization; him and Xiyffue. But I've never heard of anyone named Axel; I've always been Lea." He sighed. "Which I'm guessing isn't what you want to hear."

"But look... if there is something going on here, then charging off into the blue to try and fix it isn't going to help anyone," he said. "Obviously both our memories can't be right. But you notice one thing that's the same? We're still friends, either way. So that means we stick with each other and work together to try and figure this out. Got it memorized?"

"Do you know about Namine? Back home? She's a witch who can alter memories. She's altered yours before, that has to be what's happened now."

Really the only questions were why.... and had he wanted this to happen?

But... even if his memories were changed, this time... he still was her friend, he didn't forget her completely. Which... made her think he had wanted this. But to be willing to forget Roxas as anything other than stories? No. No way. Lea was part of Axel - or the other way around - no way he's ever willingly forget Roxas.

They had to find Namine.

Lea thought for a moment. "I know about her and what she can do, yeah," he said. "But only second hand."

"And I hate to break it to you, but that doesn't have to be what's happening now," he said. "Remember all the crazy things that were happening around Halloween, including some people turning into monsters? This place can do weird things on its own sometimes. Which I frankly think is more likely than a sudden appearance by Naminé when neither of us has heard anything about her being here up til now. Well at least I haven't; have you?"

"Point is, we can't just go blaming her until we have some kind of proof," he said. "Right now all we have to go on is that this is apparently similar to something that happened before. Maybe it's her and maybe it isn't; we can look into things and try to find more evidence one way or another after breakfast."

"Right now, it's early, I'm hungry, and our eggs are getting cold," he said. "We'll think better on a full stomach. Especially me, since memory problems or not, I still have to go to work later today."

Xion could and would continue to blame her until proven otherwise, thank you very much.

"I thought you said that no one would make us Dusks for not working here. If that's so...why would you go to work like this? Shouldn't figuring out what happened be more important than earning munny?"

"Ah-ha," Lea said, holding up one finger academically. "But that's the beauty of it, see? I'd have to do patrol work today anyway. So if I'm going to be walking around the city looking for suspicious things either way, might as well get paid for it, right?"

"You could even come in with me, if you wanted," Lea said. "I could show you around the office and maybe introduce you to David, Karla, and the others before we set out. I don't think they'd have any objections to you patrolling with me either. Might be fun, actually."

"Y....you... want me to come with you....?" If he was acting so differently, did he need someone to keep an eye on him? She didn't really want to meet people... but she did want to make sure he was okay. He would have done it for her. And... she'd done missions with Roxas before. This... could be fun... or at least... could have been if she wasn't worried about him.

"Alright."

"Well, yeah," Lea said. "I mean, two sets of eyes are better than one, right? Besides if it is Naminé, you'll be the only one who might have a clue what's going on. And if it's not, you'll know right away, and we can start looking for the real culprit together. It's a perfect plan!" He grinned at his own apparent cleverness. One thing about this new Lea, he wasn't quite as serious about things as he normally was.

"Alright!", he said. "Now that that's settled, let's get back to breakfast. Can't investigate on an empty stomach after all." And that was apparently that as he went' back to his chair and sat down to eat, obviously expecting Xion to join him.

She watched him for a moment, before slowly going back inside. She'd find Namine while they were out. She was sure of it. And then she'd get to the bottom of this. If Lea had somehow asked her for this, she didn't know what she would do... But he couldn't have. Lea never would have wanted memories where he only knew Roxas as stories. So this had to have been done TO him, not For him. And if she had to fight Namine to get her to fix him... she would.

Her mind clearly was not on her food as she sat back down.

Lea gave her a reassuring smile as she sat down. "Don't worry so much," he said. "Things'll work out. You'll see; we'll get to the bottom of this and be back before sunset."

((OOC: We could either handwave things from here or do a timeskip to the Guardian office and do a bit there before we end off. Which one would you prefer?))

Lea... not worry? That alone was worrisome, to her. But things would work out, he was right about that. Because she's MAKE them work out.

This Lea hadn't learned to worry so much, for better or worse. But soon enough their breakfast was finished, and they were off to the Guardian's office. It was distinctly unimpressive when they first walked in; just a large empty room with a desk, a water cooler, a few chairs and a couple of potted plants. But Lea led Xion downstairs to the 'secret' base in the basement which was much more impressive.

Parked around were a jet, a car, and a motorcycle with a sidecar. There was a fully-stocked wetbar, and a vending machine for the kids that doesn't require money. There was a small medical wing (which resembles your average school nurse's office), a quiet room with a comfortable leather sofa where one could get some shuteye if they were too tired to go home, and an eating area with a microwave, sink, coffeemaker, and a toaster.

There's also a few additional desks, one of which has a little placard with Lea's name on it. It's a bit messy, with papers scattered across it and a laptop-style computer. There's also a cute dragon pencil holder with a number of pens and pencils as well as a letter opener in it, a goofy solar dancing flamingo, and a pyramid shaped puzzle toy that looks well fiddled with.

But the desk isn't where Lea's attention is drawn. Instead, he's looking at the eating area. "Huh, that's weird...", he said. "Karla's usually here by now."

She was more looking around for Namine than anything else, staying close behind him, hood up. So she didn't really notice all the cool stuff, though she did see that one of the desks had LEa's name on it. That was odd, and she wasn't sure what to make of it. But his confusion...

"Maybe something is wrong with her memories too?" Presumuming Karla was a her? Sounded like a her? Maybe? She still wasn't quite sure about names without an X in them.

"Maybe," Lea said, frowning thoughtfully. "But why would Naminé do anything to her? I mean me, you, or one of the Organization members that's here, I could understand, but Karla isn't even from our world. What would be the point?"

So he agreed it was Namine now? "I do not know... I don't understand why she does any of the things she does, really," she admitted.

Actually this was just more evidence for it not to be Naminé, but Lea was more concerned at the thought of Karla being affected too than he was about proving himself right at the moment. He went to his desk and quickly logged himself in before checking to see if there'd been any messages.

"She didn't post anything to let us know she'd be late," Lea said. "And from the looks of the reports that are starting to come in, I'm not the only one who's acting weird." He frowned. "I don't like this..."

"What are we going to do?" she asked. "The mission is recon? Find Namine? Who do we report to when we find her?"

"The 'mission' is still to find out what's going on," Lea said. "And to help anybody that might need it. Given what I've seen, it's becoming less and less likely that it's Naminé, but knowing what isn't causing it doesn't help us much."

He made note of a few names and locations before closing out his computer and standing up. "C'mon. We've got some investigating to do."

She nodded ane called in her Keyblade as she moved to follow. She wasn't sure how this investigating would differ from an actual recon mission, but she was ready to back him up.

And Lea was glad to have the backup. If someone or something was doing some large-scale messing with people's memories, it wasn't something he wanted to go up against alone.

She moved with him, looking for a slight blond in a white dress....who had much to answer for.

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Just FYI- Xiyffue= AU Yuffie's Nobody, pronounced SHEE-foo

How teacherly.

I'll take that as a compliment. XD

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Time skip works!

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Good place to wrap this one, you think? :3

Sure. in time to actually meet Namine!