A/N: Another one of those khyaoi community requests, only this one took forever because I wanted to verse myself better with both Axel and Marluxia in COM before I attempted to write them together. Inspiration is Toxic by Britney Spears. You know it's sexy. Reviews make me squee, and make me fangirl you if you leave some concrit too!
Toxic
He hates the way Marluxia dangles his newfound power in everyone's face. Like how just because he's master of Castle Oblivion everyone's going to kneel down in front of him.
Axel for one refuses to do that. He's VIII and Marluxia's XI; anyone can do the counting and can tell that what Axel does is automatically better, automatically comes first.
He still walks with his head held high, still walks through those white pristine halls, all confidence and bonfires. And when he crosses paths with the Graceful Assassin again Axel only smirks at Marluxia, who smiles back at him with a poison he doesn't remember seeing before.
"Insubordination, VIII," Marluxia purrs, "is a crime."
Before Axel can spit out a fiery comeback, or even wonder what he's done wrong, tight thick green vines wrap around his legs, constrict him, strike him where he stands. They grasp at him like reanimated arms, root him where he is so that Marluxia can finally see Axel kneeling, kneeling down to his king while trying to fight the vines off.
"Careful. The more you move," XI warns prettily, "the more it hurts."
And suddenly it did hurt, suddenly the thorns bit at cloak and skin, marred Axel's pale flesh, made him cry out against the palm pressing down at his mouth.
"What are you trying to pull—?" Axel starts angrily when Marluxia removes his hand, but instead the Graceful Assassin tangles his fingers in Axel's wild sharp hair and presses their mouths together, hot, slick, demanding.
Marluxia tastes like rosary peas, like poisonous plants that could kill you with one brush against your lips. But it's poisoned paradise, it's sickly sweet, it's a poison that's settling in and getting Axel all set up for addiction.
Axel's ashamed that he wants more, kneeling in front of Marluxia like a slave. But Marluxia keeps offering up that poison paradise mouth and so Axel takes it, takes more and more of it because he can't get enough.
AndAxel knows Marluxia will eventually kill him, will poison his blood with rosary peas and vines and thorns sticking up into him.
And he doesn't even care.
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