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Just when you need it;

[There is something delicious being cooked up in the kitchen today, the aroma floating it's way down the hallway. This Terra is keeping busy cooking up various full meals- She seems to be stocking the refrigerator- and there is definitely plenty for anyone interested. As for that aroma? That's probably the freshly baked cookies that are currently sitting on the cooling rack.]

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[Attempts a smile, but it falls fairly quick.]

Good to know.

[She sees that. But she'll take a subtle approach.]

So how have you been? Are things good with your Namine?

[Wrong direction if you're trying to figure out what that attitude was about.]

Things are alright.

If they're alright, what was with the attitude before?

[Doesn't sound accusing, just worried.]

Don't worry about it. It's not your job.

It absolutely is, I care about you just as much as Roxas or Namine do.

Why?

[She blinks at that. Hesitating a second.]

What do you mean, 'why'? You're important to Roxas, so you're important to me. But that aside, you've proven yourself to be a good person and that's reason enough for you to be considered family.

There's your mistake- you have me confused with someone else if you really think I'm a "good person".

[She pulls up a chair beside him and looks at him directly.]

Riku, stop. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes, but it's our actions afterwards that define us as a person. You're good at heart, I see it. Even if you don't.

...You know how many times I've heard that speech?

Apparently not enough times if you still don't believe it. Why is it you think you're so terrible, please, share.

Why, so you can disprove that with your sunshine and optimism?

'Sunshine and optimism'? Oh, sweetheart, if Roxas has any of that, he definitely didn't learn it from me. I'm just telling you how I feel.

He certainly got the morale-boosting speech thing from you.

Actually, his biological father was pretty good at those too.

[She crosses her arms as she leans back into her chair.]

Please don't think that you're not deserving, or worthless, or any of that. Because you are. You have to stop comparing yourself to others.

How could you possibly know enough about me to know I'm deserving of anything?

Well, the way Roxas talks about you, tells me he thinks very highly of you. Don't brush that off, either. Roxas is very judgmental of people. For him to speak like that about anyone but his girlfriend is very rare.

And if that isn't enough of a reason, I can see who you really are through the little things you do. Like the way you put up with Roxas and all of his issues. You would help him through anything, wouldn't you? And the way you treat your Namine. I've seen you two together, you're gentle and kind... I guarantee you she has never had anything like that before.

[Talk about your all-knowing-mother-figure. That caught him a bit off-guard; it actually takes him a bit to think up a response.]

That's just the things you see and hear about going on. ...You don't know how it really is.

What, how you had a power trip and other issues with darkness, so it gave you a 'bad person' complex?

Riku, I don't think you realize how much Roxas tells me. He can't lie to me, so he doesn't bother. You shouldn't either.

[...Now he's internally panicking about how much Roxas may have told her about. well. everything.]

He wouldn't lie to his own mother. I don't have the same dilemma.

[Specifically, he doesn't have one to lie to.]

[Don't worry, she only knows the basics.]

Would you stop it? I know you and your true mother have issues, but that doesn't leave you without any family. We all care about you, that should be enough for you to understand.

[He is so going to yell at Roxas later for blabbing to Terra.]

Depending on how much that loudmouth told you, you should know I have this tendency to force my way into places I don't belong. And between Roxas and his family members is one of those places.

No, it is not one of those places. You are perfectly welcome to be a part of this family. As a matter of fact I think I'm the one forcing it.

[And she is forcing you into a hug now.]

Don't listen to whoever put those ideas in your head. You belong just as much as Roxas does.

[Doesn't really hug back, but he's not trying to get away from it.]

That's not true. He's your son.

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