Darkness Inside [Complete]

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Characters: Marluxia and Kovu
Content: Marluxia picks up Larxene's slack and has a "chat" with Kovu.
Setting: Wouldn't you like to know. ;D
Time: It's a secret. ♥
Warnings: None... yet.


Unexpectedly he'd had Larxene's other experiment subjects passed to him and she'd gone to... recover it seemed. He was a little out of touch with things as he'd only the other day and had been rather thrust into things, starting with that mess outside the gate. At least that had been taken cared of, and finally they had all those who had been intended for capture.

Admittedly Marluxia's interest in the experiments was less than some of his colleagues. Perhaps it was because of Vexen. It was no real secret Marluxia didn't get along very well with the grumpy Organization elder. Still, Marluxia took the order without question.

His first subject was one of their more stranger captures but apparently one of interest, a lion, by the name of Kovu, from what he'd been able to ascertain. A bit of memory reading would most certainly be in order.

Sending the dusks to fetch the captive, he waited patiently for them to return with him so he could begin. They were a little behind schedule due to the capture issues at the gate, and the last thing they needed was for Vexen to start getting impatient.

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"I'm not that kind of person!" Kovu snarled, a little too quickly and defensively. "And I'm not the one taking hostages and... and..." the lion glanced down at the restraints around his legs and tugged at one of the chains sharply, "doing this to people! Maybe you should be checking yourself for darkness, huh?"

The conversation was going downhill far more quickly than he could have ever imagined. Even as he insisted he wasn't full of darkness, a little twinge of doubt made him wonder if there was something deep down he was hiding. He'd turned away from the path of Scar in time to avoid doing something he could never take back, hadn't he? Even though Simba had exiled him, it had all been due to a misunderstanding - rather, to one of his mother's lies. He'd never actually raised a paw against the king, despite all his training to the contrary. Didn't that mean he'd beaten out the darkness that his mother had tried to fill him with? Didn't that mean he was basically good?

Sure, he'd originally taken part in the plan to kill Simba, but that was before he knew better... And all he'd really done in that part of the scheme was to rescue Kiara from a fire that his siblings had started. Maybe the fire was partially his fault since he'd been involved in the plan, but at least nobody had gotten hurt... Or, at least, nobody important that he knew about. (He decided not to speculate on the fate of the various herd animals in the area. They were prey anyway, and if any of them had died, someone had probably gotten a good meal out of it later.)

Anyway, he didn't think he'd done anything that really justified the theory that he was really an evil person, deep down. Being cruel was a choice... wasn't it? Even if he was technically capable of anything, he could choose not to follow that path... right?

He hoped so.

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Marluxia noted how quick the lion had jumped to defend against the question, and was unphased by the lion's fierce snarls. His expression remained neutral as he replied, "Ah, but I am not the one in question here."

"Hmm... You did almost succeed at attacking Simba however, didn't you?" he questioned after a moment of searching through Kovu's memories, finding a moment when Kovu had been watching Simba at a watering hole. "You would have done it then, wouldn't you?"

"If Kiara hadn't gotten in your way," Marluxia added, "A pity."

((OOC: lawd horribly pathetic for waiting so long, but at least it's finally something D: ))