Disclaimer: I do not own kingdom hearts
Summery: Axel had never imagined that picking up the stray little boy in the snow would change his life forever.
This is a side story for a story my friend and I are working on. I thought the idea was cute so I elaborated. ^_^
The sky was dark as Axel made his way back home. It had been a long day of trying to find a job. It was hard especially since he was only sixteen. But he knew whatever he didn't pay for now he'd just end up owing later. It was mid-November and the first snow was already falling. Oh how he hated the snow. He remembered when his parents told him that he'd have a big surprise waiting for him when he awoke on Christmas morning. He thought it was odd when mommy fed him a strange looking pill and tucked him into his car seat. The next thing he knew he was awake and in a strange place. It was cold and nether of his parents were in sight. He cried, he cried hard. But no one came to comfort him. He had no one and they were gone, he was completely alone at the age of six. For a year he wandered aimlessly on the streets until he met Saix. Who's parents provided a place for him to stay. It was his own apartment. He was happy then and thought he had found someone who actually might care. But he found out all to soon that he would owe them every dime they spent on him. From his rent to his clothes. Still, it was better than being on the streets. And now here he was at sixteen trying to make a living for himself. His thoughts shifted back to reality when he saw what looked like a snow covered lump in the shape of a tiny body. He felt all the air in his lungs leave him as he slowly walked up to the pile afraid of what he might find. So tiny; too tiny. Axel began franticly digging the show out from around and off the small boy's body. "Still breathing." he whispered as he picked the weightless boy up. The small blonde was cold to the touch and needed to be warmed as soon as possible. Axel ran as fast as his legs could go. When he reached his apartment he fumbled for his keys. When he finally managed to get in he set the small boy on the couch and grabbed a heating pad he had barrowed from his friend and several blankets. He also brought his smallest pajama shirt and striped the boy of the cold wet clothes. His shirt went all the way down to the boy's ankles. He then applied a thin blanket and the heating pad followed by a few more blankets. "There, that should help. I hope." he said aloud. Axel went to the bathroom and pulled out the small thermometer he had been given as a child and brought it out to the boy. Checking his temperature he found the boy had not fallen ill. He was just very cold. Axel sighed with relief when he boy started to gain color in his face and warm up.
Roxas woke up to strange surroundings. Hadn't he been outside before? Now he was inside and covered by many blankets. He looked to his side to see a blood red mane of hair and the body of a long boy. "too wharm." he said aloud. The body below him shifted and green eyes met blue. "Your awake." Axel said as he positioned himself to face the small boy. He removed most of the blankets and the heating pad just throwing them on the floor. Axel had no idea what to say first. What exactly happened to this boy in the first place. "so, um, " Axel said as he scratched the back of his head. "My name's Axel, do you know yours?" he asked first. "Roxas." the boy answered. "okay, Roxas then, um, how are you feeling?" Axel asked, in way he was trying to prolong talking about how or why the poor thing ended up almost freezing to death. If Roxas even remembered at all. "wharm and hungry." he replied. Of course he was going to say something like that he looked like he wasn't even 7 yet. "uh, stay right there I'll get something for you to eat." Axel said as he got up and went into the kitchen. It was small, he knew, but even then the cupboards and the fridge were mostly empty. He took out a can of soup and heated it on the stove. When he was done he brought it out to Roxas and set it on the coffee table. "I know it's not much but hopefully it don't taste to bad." Axel said as he helped Roxas sit up in front of the food. Roxas only stared at the bowl of hot soup and then back at Axel. "what, never had soup before?" Axel asked. Roxas shook his head and continued to stare. "alright then, this is how you eat it." Axel said as he picked up the spoon with some of the liquid on it and popped it in his mouth. "now you try." he said wiping the spoon off. Roxas looked at it very unsure. This was not how he was taught. But he couldn't ignore the growing hunger in his stomach. So he gulped and took a bite of the soup. His face scrunched up and he automatically spit It out. "That bad hugh?" Axel asked. "it's all I really have so you'll have to deal with the taste." Axel said in a small voice. He was ashamed that he didn't have more food. "No more." Roxas said as he pushed the bowl away from himself. "okay, I'll just stick it in the fridge for another time." Axel said as he put the bowl away. When he came back he saw Roxas sitting on the couch cuddled up to one of the blankets that had been on the floor. Axel took a seat next to the boy and sighed. "I'm scared." Roxas whispered.
Axel looked over to see the boy slightly shaking. "they left brother alone and took me away. They said they'd come back. They lied." He mumbled. Axel was afraid to ask but he couldn't help it. "Who are "they"." Roxas looked straight into Axel's eyes. "mommy and daddy." Roxas replied. Axel felt his heart sink and that familiar feeling he remembered from ten years back came flooding into his psyche. This boy had suffered the same fate as him, only it was worse he had lost a brother who could very well be wandering the streets alone. Axel could feel his anger rising. These people who had no right to be called parents had abandoned the one thing they were suppose to protect. "Tell you what. I don't have much and I'm not really sure how it will all work out but you can stay here with me." Axel said in hopes of raising the boy's spirits. Little blue eyes lit up as a wide smile crossed his lips. "Really?" Axel nodded to his response. The next thing axel knew he was knocked over by a huge hug. Was it natural for a toddler to hug someone they considered a stranger? Roxas was so happy. He couldn't contain himself. Not only had Axel brought him out of the cold and warmed him, he was now going to be able to live in a real home. He didn't want to think about the past. It hurt to much. "only him, only him." he kept on repeating in his head.
A few moments past and axel began to pull Roxas away, but Roxas wasn't moving. No, far from it. From the time Roxas had made himself so close to Axel something had changed. what Axel didn't know, what Roxas was unaware of had become all to apparent. Roxas was different, As small protruding teeth sunk into Axel's neck. "nnn, ow, t-t-that hurts." Axel cried. Within a few short seconds what ever happiness Axel felt for the small boy had turned into fear. What was going on? Was he seriously biting his neck? "w-what are you doing?" Axel continued. Roxas could feel the vibration of Axel's voice, the taste of his blood, the rate of his quickening heartbeat. A couple minutes later Roxas pulled away. He no longer felt hungry.
Axel was breathing heavily. Blood, there was blood on Roxas's mouth, blood on his own neck and small fangs could been seen protruding from Roxas's lips. "y-you're a vam-vampire?" Axel breathed. "n-no that can't be." he continued. Only in books and movies had Axel ever seen a vampire and he had always been told they did not really exist. Only now he had no choice but to believe they were real.
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"your not seriously going to keep it are you?" Demyx said as he made himself at home in the lazy boy chair. "well, I can't just bring him to the grown-ups they'd call him a demon and crucify him. He's not a normal human." Axel said as he picked Roxas up into his arms. "Yeah and that's exactly why you need to get rid of it man. What if it try's to kill you in the middle of the night. Its already bitten you hasn't it?" Demyx perused. "No I will not abandon him the way my Parents abandoned me." Axel said indefinitely. "Whatever man, its your funeral." Demyx replied.
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