Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts or any of the characters.
Warning: This is boy x boy (x boy XD), so if you don't like that, then just don't read it. It's really that simple.
Summary: Axel and Demyx balance each other out perfectly. But they're not complete. Axel x Demyx x Roxas. Will be in three parts.
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There's only one thing missing from Axel and Demyx's relationship. Just one small thing, and Axel would brush it off as inconsequential if he only knew how: emotion. It's just not there. There's no love, happiness, hate, sadness, envy, despair, loneliness, comfort, anger, pain….nothing. Their relationship just exists, the same way that they do. An unquestioned and unquestionable fact of their non-life.
They've been together for a long time, Axel realises. Long, cold days filled with nothing but survival. That's all they know, all they understand. Food, sleep, sex and survival. It's all they can do and all they are capable of doing. But they have been together for a long time. He wonders if that is an important fact, but he can't seem to grasp the idea that it means anything at all. It's just survival. Two together are stronger than one, and it helps to pass the time. There's nothing else to do. It's just existence.
They compliment each other perfectly. Axel is fire and Demyx is water. Any trait that the other is lacking is provided in the other. But they're not complete. They don't have hearts. They don't share anything more than a bed.
But then Roxas arrives. Quiet one moment and brutal the next, his words lash out at them as if he actually has a heart. Roxas behaves as though he has a heart. And no matter how many times Axel and Demyx point out to him that he doesn't, Roxas still behaves the same way. They're drawn to him, irresistibly, not hurt by his initial harsh words and actions and not discouraged by them either. It seems worth it all just to see a reaction, just to see Roxas kick Demyx and punch Axel. Eventually Roxas seems to resign himself to the fact that the two Nobodies are going to follow him around and refuse to leave him alone. Eventually, he finds that he doesn't mind it as much as he thought he would.
Roxas isn't sure how it happens. One moment he, Axel and Demyx are talking in Axel's room, and then the next he's waking up in Axel's bed, sandwiched between the two of them. He turns his face to the side, and sees Axel staring piercingly at him through the ever present gloom. Axel sees him looking, gives a feral smile, and then says, "Sorry, Roxas. But we've got you now and we're not going to let go of you without a fight."
And just like that they're finally complete. Roxas has a heart. It might only be one heart, but, between the three of them, it seems to spread out and fill in all the gaps. Whatever they can't feel, they know that they can look at Roxas and see it in his eyes. It's enough. They are together, and, no matter how imperfect, they are complete.
Part two will be up within the next few days…hope you've enjoyed!