The Demyx Continuum: Drowning the Rose (Book 2 of 5?)

Chapter 6: Tragedy Strikes the Commitment

Marluxia handed him the letter that was on the rock, then through the rock back into the courtyard. Demyx took the letter and read, then reread and then he reread it again.

"You read it...it is completely..." He had his hand stretched out for Marluxia to read.

"What does it say?" Marluxia asked taking the letter from his love.

Marluxia read it once and caught everything that Paris had meant.

Marluxia just shook his head and crumbled up the letter. Then had his hand out.

"Axel can you burn this please." Marluxia asked irritated.

"Why? What it is?"

"He just repeated what he said yesterday...and that he wants battle with Demyx to see which one of them is the strongest."

Axel laughed. "That is the most stupidest thing I ever heard. Neither of them should prove that they love you...Demyx already paid that price to many times."

"The letter said that he wanted to meet me at his work. At midnight." Demyx said.

"When?" Axel asked.

"Tomorrow night." Marluxia answered.

Axel took the crumbled paper and burned it ...unfortunately Demyx had taken it out.

"Marly...what am I suppose to do? I don't want to fight him...I told him that."

"We will not be fighting him... we will simply ignore that fact that he had even sent us a letter regarding to fight him. He knows that he can't win this battle."

"Yes he can't and therefore he won't."

The rest of the day seemed to go so fast for Demyx, considering that he wasn't up at all that morning. Night came to quick and he found himself in bed again with Marluxia fast asleep. Demyx just lay there wondering what to do about tomorrow night, whether he should fight a fourth battle that could be the end of him or do what Marluxia had said and ignore the letter. He already knows that it'll bug him until it was dealt with, so ignoring the letter would be useless. But he can't leave Marluxia alone with another death on his mind either. If he did go he'd surrender and tell Paris that he rather be with Marluxia than to fight him. After that then he'd probably would be killed anyway, so going to Paris and dealing with the issue that they both want the same person will be pointless...

Demyx found sleep, but it wasn't a quiet one or a pleasant one. But he did found sleep. Even though it was one in the morning, when he found it. Marluxia got up four hours before they normally serve breakfast, he kept being hit and kicked by Demyx while he slept. So he knows that Demyx wasn't having a good night. Marluxia took his time in the shower then getting dressed. By the time he was done, it was an hour till the kitchen had opened for breakfast. He went to check on his planets and watered them, then he got back and went down to the kitchen. He saw that there was only a few people waiting for the kitchen to open. One of the people was Axel; he went over to him and waited with him.

"Morning, Mar...where's Demyx?" Axel asked.

"Still asleep... I think he couldn't sleep until late last night."

"Why?"

"I was up four hour ago, because he was kicking and hitting me...in his sleep."

"Oh..."

"Can you do me a favor?"

"Yeah, what is it?"

"Keep an eye on Demyx for me."

"Where are you going?"

"I'm going to find him and tell him that he won't win at this stupid game he's playing with us."