Baba was gone. They had been in the corridor. Vil knew that much. He had felt them bumping up against them as they all crashed through the portal. But Baba wasn't here with them right now, which could only mean that they had ended up somewhere else in Twilight Town.
...A town that Axel liked to go to.
"Fuck!" Vil swore, panicked. He rushed to his feet. When he glanced around, hoping that Kate was wrong, he couldn't find Baba anywhere. He had already lost Lira to the organization. If he lost Baba too...
He curled his hands up into fists and bit his lip.
"They must have ended up somewhere else," Vil said, still looking around in the hopes that they were just past the gate or within the forest. "I lost my focus when we went through the corridor. We're on the same world, but they're not here with us. Which means they have to be..."
A sinking feeling formed in his gut.
"...in town," he said.
Which is where Axel went to most.
Please, Vil thought, begging the powers that be that he didn't really believe in, let Baba be as far away from the clock tower as possible.
xXx
Elsewhere in Twilight Town, a corridor of darkness subtly opened at the very top of the clock tower. Axel, of course, could have just easily taken the stairs up the clock tower, but being a Nobody had few perks. The least he could do was take advantage of one of them.
He arrived with two popsicles, just like he usually did. He knew one of them would go to waste, but he wasn't exactly short on money these days. He could indulge in some nostalgia and hope that Vil would finally take him up on his offer. If he was there, of course. What had once been a daily routine had become less of one ever since Vil left the organization, and Axel found himself struggling to come here every single day after a mission like he used to years ago.
Axel gazed out at the sunset city, a ghost of a smile on his face at the memory of Vil—Levi back then—tugging him to the clock tower's edge back when he was just a tiny little kid. Six or seven, maybe. Saix had thrown a fit the first time he found out Axel had brought the kid with him to that spot, but he hadn't ever fought it. Axel couldn't guess why.
Axel sat down on the edge, black coat and fit dangling over the town down below. Too caught up in the nostalgia, he was completely unaware that he wasn't the only one atop the clock tower.
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