Always

Rebekah’s breath caught. So it was true. He really did have feelings for her. And the way he saw her was so different from the way she viewed herself. How did she see him? Kind. Selfless. Sometimes annoying and irrational, but maybe in a sort of cute way. Not to mention handsome. But the biggest question: did she love him? Either she still wasn’t sure yet, or she didn’t want to admit to herself that she was in love. “Felix...I don’t know what to say...” she whispered. ------------------------------------------------------------ Alexis wiped the tears away and touched James’s face. “I just hope they don’t come after you, since one of your Inhabiters is Sephiroth,” she said shakily. She put her arms around him tightly before getting out of the Jeep.

Oh, I'm sure you'll do great then. The ASVAB is super easy, from what I hear. ^_^

Welcome to KH13!!!

Good luck!!

That's always an awesome thing!!

I eagerly await that day.

Rebekah felt incredibly self-conscious and automatically put her hands behind her back, which were dirty from evening out the hole she had just dug. It turned out that a Keyblade couldn’t make a very smooth hole in the soil. Her heart quickened at Scott’s words, and she felt her face getting warm again. She tried to sound casual as she spoke, and failed miserably. “Thinking about me?” she asked. ------------------------------------------------------------ Jacksons... Alexis had heard the name before, but it hadn’t really meant much to her. Was Scott being honest about them? It was hard to tell. Still, she decided to go with it. Maybe it would help their cause of getting James to work with them. She put a horrified look on her face, and said, speaking at a normal pace this time, “Oh, yeah! I think they were the ones who had me followed and tried to finish me off at one point. I barely escaped with my life!” She teared up at the “memory.” ------------------------------------------------------------ “Usually, we get along really well,” Mariah replied. “We have our differences, but we’re very much alike in most ways. We’ve been through a lot together, and we support each other a lot. In fact, she’s the one who literally kept me alive this past year. Honestly, it’s kind of hard for me to remember what it was like back when she wasn’t Inhabiting me.”

(LOL Not-with-a-whimper hasn't been online in three days... Oh, and sorry I missed what Tudi said about the relatives. ) “Yeah...” Mariah agreed quietly. So Roxas was his Inhabiter. She didn’t know who that was, but Tifa seemed to recognize him, though not by name. She said he reminded her of Sora, someone else Mariah wasn’t familiar with. Mariah smiled again. Both Alex and Roxas seemed like nice kids. It was sweet that Alex was trying to distract her from her dreary thoughts. “And how do you like being Inhabited? I assume you and Roxas get along well?” she asked, trying to carry on a conversation.

Well, it would be great, but it would mean shelling out another $200 for a Japanese 3DS... http://kh13.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/sleep.png

Eh, she's a bit off, IMO. For one thing, there's not much that's "spiritual" about her. And teaching Roxas lessons? That makes me think of a TV show for preschoolers.

http://animeyume.com/blog/2012/03/27/why-guilty-crown-isnt-that-bad/

Yeah, but referring to Naminé as a "spiritual guide for Roxas who comes down and teaches him lessons about who he really is and informs him in an easy way what life is really about?" I mean, seriously?! Come on!!!! XD I still love her, though.

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Not that I hate Brittany Snow or anything, and I'm sure that she didn't know much about the entire script at the time, but...REALLY?! I don't even...

Aw, when it said Amazon.com, I thought it might've meant that this Ultimania was coming out in the U.S. LOL it should say Amazon.co.jp.

Lightning, Noctis, Vincent, Red XIII, Sazh, Fang, and Locke! ^This.

Mariah was snapped out of her deep thoughts and looked at Alex, giving him a small smile. “Oh, I could be better,” she replied, downplaying her feelings of worry and anger and frustration. She began gathering the proper plants according to what Alex had told her. “I just...hope that Joy’s alright.” She closed her eyes and shook her head. “So who’s your Inhabiter again?” ------------------------------------------------------------ Keilani looked at what was left of their bus. “Hey, I’m going to go and see if there’s anything we can use in there,” she said. “Who knows what would be stashed in a bus like that? There’s probably sleeping bags or pillows and blankets, and maybe even some food and cooking utensils. Wanna join me?” she asked Troy. ------------------------------------------------------------ To Alexis’s frustration, James didn’t acknowledge what she had said. Was he just ignoring her words, or had he not understood them? Geez, she hadn’t been speaking that quickly. Maybe he had grown up further west, among all the retards who took an hour to form a single sentence. She maintained the fearful expression and glanced at Scott for a split second, wondering if he would help her out. She didn’t set her hopes too high, though, because she was starting to think that he was more unpredictable than anyone she had ever met.

Absolutely! First KH OST to be released outside of Japan since the KH1 OST? You bet!!!

Mariah turned to the boy. “Oh! Alex, right? Um, sure, I’ll help.” Worrying wouldn’t do anything to help her situation right now since there was nothing she could do except wait, so she might as well at least try to act normal. “Lead the way,” she said, gesturing in the general direction where she guessed edible plants would be. As she waited for Alex to lead the way, she unexpectedly thought of James. What had happened to him after she and Joy had kissed? He must have left, unable to bear the sight of it. Well, at the moment, she was still too angry with him for what he said to Joy while everyone believed that she wasn’t awake and listening, so his absence didn’t bother her as much as it would have otherwise. ------------------------------------------------------------ Rebekah was a little surprised at Felix’s sudden apparent high spirits, but she felt weird asking about it, and so she only followed him silently. As she did, she tried to bury her nervousness by zoning out, and her mind wandered to Callum. It seemed that Vanitas had completely taken him over. She hoped there was a way for him to be rid of Vanitas without being harmed, but it seemed unlikely. Wait, why did she care so much? After all, really the only things she knew about Callum were his name and his Inhabiter. Other than that, he was a total stranger. But he had obviously taken some kind of interest to her, mystifying as that was. Maybe that was why she thought of him--because she was curious as to what he saw in her. And this brought her thoughts back to Felix. If he saw something in her, what was it? Aside from being Inhabited, there was nothing special about her--she was quiet, untrusting, and easily irritated. Felix, though he was sometimes obnoxious and made stupid choices, was a very kind-hearted person overall, too kind-hearted for someone like her. She shook her head and thought of other matters, like how she would dig a hole. She didn’t expect any shovels to just be laying around in the forest, and forget digging with her hands. It seemed like the only other option was to use Aqua’s Keyblade. The very idea was almost sacrilegious to her, but she asked Aqua about it. “Don’t worry, it’s not a big deal,” Aqua reassured her. “Gotta be resourceful out here, right?” ------------------------------------------------------------ Alexis whirled around in her seat to see what had just happened. “What the--?!” She had witnessed plenty of explosions before, even arranged a few herself, but an entire hotel? It even shocked her. She wondered who possibly could have done it--an old client? A scorned man who had fallen victim to one of her charades? It wouldn’t be the first time one of them had gone after her, but no one had gotten so close before. Maybe, though, it wasn’t about her. She turned and eyed Scott, but hid the suspicion from her face. She might just be paranoid, but this guy made her nervous. She had no idea about his real agenda--there had to be a reason he wanted to take out the other Inhabiters. At any rate, he was extremely powerful, and Alexis was beginning to believe he might also be slightly out of his mind. Whatever was going on, she decided to try to use this incident to her advantage, and deal with Scott later. She acted scared and vulnerable to make James feel protective of her, and began speaking quickly, as if she was hardly in control of the words tumbling out of her mouth. “That was way too close. It could’ve been meant for us, you know? Maybe those other Inhabiters knew we were there and planted that bomb. And look what they did! Bombed a whole hotel full of innocent people just to take us out! How’s that for being such great people? They’re hypocrites!” She then “calmed down.” “No, maybe I’m overreacting. I’m just kind of jumpy after...no, never mind.” She shook her head as she said that last part. “Still, I wouldn’t put it past any of them.”

Yaaaayyyy!!! *feeds you carrot cake*

Thanks!!! *noms on waffles* I LIKE CARROTS CAKE, TOO.

86 days and 17 hours!

Feed me some waffles, too!!!

When Rebekah saw Felix blush, her own face did the same again as she anticipated what he might say to her once they were alone. “Y-yeah,” she said. “I'd be glad to help.” The moment the words left her mouth, she regretted it somewhat. Was she ready to hear what he would tell her? Mostly the idea of it scared her to death, but she didn't know why. Maybe it was because no one that she knew of had ever had romantic feelings for her. And maybe she was afraid to fall in love... Then again, there was always the possibility that this idea that Felix cared for her in a special way was just that—an idea, nothing more than her imagination going out of wack. And what then? Would she be relieved if that turned out to be the case, or...disappointed? Despite the inner turmoil, she managed a smile. “Ready when you are. T-to set up camp, I mean,” she said awkwardly. Ugh, why did she have to add on that last part? It would've been perfectly fine if she hadn't. ------------------------------------------------------------ “Thanks, Felix,” Mariah said. He seemed to be great at figuring out the whole transportation thing. What she really wanted was to go after Joy now, but she knew that she couldn't convince anybody else at this point, except maybe Elie. Even if she could get Elie to go with her, though, the thought of traveling alone with her seemed awkward and...well, irritating, to be honest. Especially because it had appeared that Joy might return some feelings for her, based off of the look that was on his face when she had spontaneously kissed him. And besides all of that, Mariah could really feel the exhaustion overtaking her, despite the two short naps she had taken unintentionally. Even though she was feeling stronger, she still wasn't at her best, which was becoming more apparent to her by the minute. She shook her head tiredly and looked at Rebekah and Felix. “Okay, so I'm guessing you two will go ahead of the rest of us and set up camp, then we'll all follow behind?” ------------------------------------------------------------ After Reilly had disappeared, Keilani went up beside Troy and put her arm around him, glad that Reilly was gone. She hoped that Troy could handle staying up a few extra hours to keep watch, but she didn't want to say anything to him about it because she was afraid she might offend him again. From the way he had been acting since the moment she had been rescued from Scott and Ethan, she was beginning to guess that he was feeling like a failure, like he wasn't strong enough or something. She sighed. Such a boy thing. When would they ever learn that they didn't have to work so hard or possess superhuman physical strength to prove themselves as great human beings? ------------------------------------------------------------ Alexis smirked. “Nice ride,” she said as she climbed into the car. “Cracker Barrel it is, then.” As Ethan's phone rang, she began thinking of how she would start convincing James to unleash Sephiroth and fight on their side. Of course, there was no telling what Sephiroth would do to her, Scott, and Ethan after everyone else was obliterated. Maybe he would do nothing, or maybe he would feel like there wasn't room for all four of them in the world. Either way, she was going to ditch her “allies” as soon as the goody-goods were taken care of. And good luck to whomever decided to try tracking her down.

About a week, I think. I played the beginning of TWEWY...again.

Aw, like what? LOL besides the KH Final Mixes...