A/N: Roxas wakes from a coma, to find he has lost to years of his life. His brothers are older and just as worried about him, but who are these two new people claiming to be his guardians? He has a lot of questions, and they don't have all the answers. Axel to enter at a much later date.

Legal Stuff: I own nothing.

I've had a pretty miserable childhood. That's part of why I'm in a coma. Yes you heard me right, I'm currently laying on a hospital bed sleeping peacefully. My name is Roxas by the way, and I don't know how long I've been asleep. I was twelve when I slipped this time. I say this time because I've been in and out of a coma for years now.

Maybe I should start at the beginning instead of the middle. Well as close to the beginning as I can start. I've been told dozens of times how I came into the world. I guess it was a really hard delivery. My mom almost bled out and I wasn't breathing. Dad always blamed me for mom's poor health after that.

I remember mom getting sicker when I was five. Cloud and Sora kept saying it wasn't my fault. That didn't stop dad though. When mom went to the hospital he started yelling at me. I loved school, it was the only time I could be me. I was having fun in school and I had really good grades. Mom died when I was seven, a few months later dad started to hit me.

That's when it really started, I hated being home after supper so I would sneak out. They had already skipped me ahead a year in school by that time. I always took my book bag with me. Whenever I did stay home, Cloud would always try to keep dad calm. It helps that my grades were good.

I missed my first growth spurt though, so I'm really short. I had my first black out at the age of eight. They sent me home early, told my dad I was under nourished. He beat me for having to leave work that day. I studied harder and Xemnas, the principal at my school, had me tested. A month after my black out I was in Sora's class. That summer I stayed in summer school and started the next year with the class half finished.

It became normal for me to pass out in class and they stopped sending Sora and me home after the second one. I think Sora talked them into letting me stay, no one can say no to him. I didn't move ahead in school as fast after that.

Sometimes for fun and a challenge Cloud would let me do his work. So when Sora and I were going into High School we were both tested. Sora was placed in grade seven where I expected him to go, however they placed me two years ahead of him and only a year behind Cloud.

The summer after that I had my first coma. It didn't set me back much. I wasn't pushed ahead any after that. I lost the whole summer though, dad screamed at me when I finally came home. Cloud stepped between us before he could hit me.

Dad's beatings got worse after that, but I learned how to hide it. The problem was that I wasn't eating and I couldn't sleep for the pain I was in. I just hurt so much, I was sick when I did eat. Sora noticed it, he told Cloud. They did the best they could to keep me alive. We lived like that until my twelfth birthday.

Dad kept me home from school that day. I don't know why I listened. Well I guess I was scared of what he'd do if I didn't. When Cloud and Sora were gone he came after me. I remember him choking the life out of me. All the while he kept saying it was my fault. I went limp in his grasp, fainting. He must have thought I was dead, because I came to at the sound of a gun going off. I couldn't walk so I crawled into the room Dad was in. He was laying on the floor in a puddle of his own blood.

I made it to the phone and dialed 911, but that's as far as I made it. I passed out before the operator picked up. That's how I got here. From time to time I can hear Cloud and Sora. They tell me things but I don't remember any of it.

Wow I feel so much lighter now, but things seem so foggy. What's going on? What's that beeping? Wait a minute, I think I'm waking up. I am, things are getting louder.

End Note:

How long has Roxas been in a coma?

What has changed?

Is he still loved by his brothers?

Was it really his fault his mom died?

Is their father really dead?

These questions and more answered next time in Starting Over!