A/N: Originally my first entry for LJ's kh drabble community's challenge [266] Going back. Also, after I wrote this, I realized that this could be my answer to Wolfbane706, who requested a pairing that one would never expect. Hope you like! Enjoy. ;)

Hollow Bastion looked a heck of a lot better than the last time Axel had visited the place.

At first, he had no idea why he kept coming back here, until he started to see a pattern in his own thoughts and actions. That was when the name "Lea" was remembered again, his previous self, his Other, his Somebody. There were so many names for it and they all lead to the same memories, the same pain… the same girl.

That's right, once upon a time, Axel had been Lea. Silly, silly Lea for falling in love with someone else's girl. He had never made the same mistake again.

This twisted fairytale had all started on an extraordinarily sunny day. As always, Lea had been outside, playing with his frisbees. He was all alone because Isa, a.k.a. Saïx with a heart, had been too busy with studying, or something. He had told Lea to start studying, too, since his notes weren't that great and his parents wouldn't probably be too happy about that, either.

"Nah... Think I'll pass," he had said, grinning lazily.

How funny, he could still remember it like it was yesterday…

…After throwing one of those frisbees as hard as he can, it disappears behind a corner. Instantly, he hears a startled yelp, causing him to snigger. That's when he meets her, the angel. The girl ducked right in time and now that she sees what has tried to attack her, she grabs the object.

"Throw it back!" Lea exclaims, but she shakes her head and smiles brightly.

"I can't aim," she explains, with her beautiful smile and glistening, emerald green eyes, walking towards him with the frisbee in one hand and a basket with a few flowers in the other. "Be careful, though. You could hurt passersby."

But Lea insists on teaching her (Aerith is her name) how to properly throw a frisbee, showing her his best tricks. She stays, enjoying it and giving him a yellow and white lily in the end, as a 'Thank You.'

"See you around?" he asks then, rather hopefully.

"If you want to…"

Later, Lea often sees her on the market. He decides to ask her how she's doing, but in that other boy's presence he feels uneasy. It's like Aerith's choosing this Cloud over him.

When Cloud takes a flower out of her basket and puts it in her hair, Lea decides to leave, ignoring Aerith's calls. Cloud probably acts like he doesn't know what's going on, but Lea saw it in his eyes; Cloud wants her, too.

Days later, Aerith visits him, but he tells her he doesn't want to have anything to do with her anymore. He just can't. Eventually, Aerith gives up.

That's how Lea's fairytale ends.

Time had been good to her. She was even more beautiful now.

He kept coming back to watch her from a safe distance. Right now, she was gardening.

Axel wondered what she would say if she saw him. Would she recognize him? Had she missed him? Had she ever thought about him?

Just when he decided to approach her, another figure appeared behind her, which Axel immediately recognized. He would never forget those blond spikes. It was Cloud Strife.

Axel watched as the man gave her a flower. A white and yellow lily, to be more precise. The same flower as he had put in her hair ten years ago.

Was that a sign?

Axel sighed. Honestly, what was he doing? He was supposed to continue with his mission. Besides, she wasn't even that pretty. Spikes could keep her.

A/N: I'm fully aware that this might all seem to go a little fast (at least, for me) and I'm actually planning to write a longer version of this in which more will be explained. Of course, if you think that I should do you all a favor and stop right here, before I make a complete idiot out of myself, then I won't add another chapter to this.