Hey guys. I've come upon the realization that if I don't have someone or something to push me forward to write, then I won't. I just won't do anything and I'll start a fic and leave it. Forever. I'm not sure why considering I like the couplings. I'm a dork. So, This is for my friend Kare-Bear. It was her birthday a little while back and I wanted this to be done by then... Totally didn't happen. Missed it by a lot. But I guess that's okay because I was searching for a plot. Of which I had none and still have none. But it will be more than one chapter. Another thing you should know is that I have never played the second Kingdom Hearts game. The way my schedule has been, I haven't had time to play anything. So, I'm kinda still on the first one... *dodges random crap being thrown* However, I can name all the members of Organization XIII and junk like that so whatever. Love most of them anyway.
This is based off of a book called Evernight. It's a really good series by Claudia Grey. Read it!! But the only thing I am borrowing is the place. I'm not using the plot. I'm using the school that is in the book. And that's that.
I, of course, don't own any of the characters. Yet... I might throw an OC for Kare-Bear. But for now! I own none of them. Yeah... Have fun. Enjoy!
He hated it. It was supposed to be a help. Supposed to help him get caught up on the wonders of modern technology so he could fit in. Bullshit. This Evernight Academy was a complete and total giant, gray, cold stone annoyance. Axel sat outside of the almost castle-like boarding school underneath one of the many trees that littered the grounds before you got to the actual forest. It was lunch and unlike most schools, here you had to fix it for yourself. Which he generally ate the filth he could gather up for himself or he went hungry. So was the extent of his labor. It was painful especially for creatures like him.
He looked up at a small squirrel that was innocently making its way through the tree above him. Inhumanly fast, the brown furry thing was in Axel's hands. He sighed as the animal squirmed. How he hated this place. He moved his thumb gently (to him but fatally to the other), breaking the small creatures neck before biting into it. Yes, the red-headed teen was in fact a vampire. Almost all other the people who attended Evernight were… with some exceptions. They had begun allowing humans into the school. They knew, of course, the humans did. They were required to have a decent knowledge of the other creature before they could even have the chance to enroll. Otherwise, it could clearly be dangerous for them. Most of them stuck together though, still slightly scared of the other groups of vampires. Except one.
There was one particular human who, despite looking the nicest and having being here nearly one semester, just didn't seem to fit in with anyone. Axel had been watching him for a little while, surprised that no one had taken the adorable kid under their wing. In fact, he just seemed to push people away.
Axel took a glance at the door to see the blonde who was just a figment of his thoughts a few seconds ago walk out the door. Like everyone, he wore the uniformed sweater and plaid pants but something about the boy's petite frame, still childish face, and still slightly unsure movements made the human a more interesting thing to watch. And Axel had caught himself doing that more than should be accepted. He often just felt that twinge of longing; wanting to be friends with the kid that everyone else had been failing to see. And then lately it'd been different. A downright different emotion entirely. He wanted him. He wanted the smaller's throat in his hands, feel the pulse under that pale cream-colored skin, to bite that flesh and –.
Axel shook his head, moving those thoughts to the back of his mind. He knew it was awful and he could get in huge amounts of trouble for even thinking them but... It was still hot.
Roxas took his time crossing the grounds. He normally didn't eat lunch, replacing the time for studying instead but today, he had the luxury. All the normal cliques sat together in their whispering groups of gossip both on the inside and the outside of the building. A lot of the Evernight students didn't enjoy the outdoors so there were less out here and it had a peaceful quiet to it. Only a few people here or there. He held his little paper lunch bag in one hand and his tote bag strapped on the other. He was the perfect symbol of a nerd, laughing inwardly to himself. No wonder people don't hang out with me. All I'm missing are glasses. He was supposed to get them last fall. His thoughts continued as he crossed over to a patch of the trees.
The blonde looked around as he walked. Seeing two of the especially snobby vampires out under the gazebo he moved his glance away quickly; some really stupid blonde chick with short hair and this flamboyantly gay guy with strawberry hair that seemed to have an opinion for everything. He tried to avoid them as much as possible since they almost always seemed to watch him. But there was another one. This red-head named Axel who had gotten into just as many fights as Roxas had read books. It was weird. Roxas had begun to feel weird lately. Yeah, people say they feel weird all the time but have you ever had the feeling that you're being watched for more than a few minutes. Well that's the feeling and it was ALL the time. During classes, late at night, it didn't seem to matter. The odd feeling would just pop up. And he'd begun to notice that it was always around Axel.
Roxas lifted his gaze off the path to glance at the red-head he'd noticed under the tree. Their eyes locked. Why is he staring?
There was a path that led to the front doors of the school. It was dirt and lined with old-fashioned stone slabs that looked great with the building but often seemed detrimental to students. Roxas, not being the most balanced person in the world, knew the slabs were there but didn't pay any attention to them at this time.
Roxas fell forward, dropping his lunch immediately, grabbing onto his tote in hopes of leverage and found none. He saw the ground rising up fast, a stone where his head would be, and squeezed his eyes shut. The pain that should have come didn't. Instead, he felt a hand on his back and arm. He opened his eyes, realizing he was steadied, only to see bright green orbs staring into his blue ones. It was the same stare he'd been seeing for weeks. It took him a few moments to register that the nicely pointed nose and strong bone structure on whose face they belonged was Axel's. He felt his face become hot. He moved himself out of the taller's grasp and started picking up paper and books that had fallen from his bag. Straightening back up, he kept his gaze on the ground.
"Uh... thanks," He stammered out. Axel's eyes flickered slightly. He'd never heard him speak other that in class and not only had he just gotten him to speak, but he was blushing and the red-head hadn't even said anything. He grinned.
"No problem," He replied, holding out the paper lunch that had also been discarded. "I'm Axel and you're... Roxas, right?" He knew, of course, but conversation was nice. He extended his hand.
"Yeah." The blonde relaxed a little until the vampire extended his hand. Roxas had never been great at meeting people especially when they were this open. But he took Axel's hand out of courtesy and looked into his face. It was nicely made, structured with angles for his chin and cheekbones but not in a way that made him seem old.
Roxas was staring. Axel just smiled. This was great. He was probably one of the few people in this school to even shake hands or speak with this kid. If the other vampires knew how smooth his skin was or how small his wrist was, they'd be all over him. He was petite, fragile, and his personality kind of matched. Axel suddenly felt thirsty just thinking about how easily he could take advantage of Roxas. When was the last time he'd drank anything? His smile vanished.
"Uh, hey. I just remembered that I was supposed to meet, uh... Zexion to tutor me in... Um... Literature. I'll talk to you later, kid." Axel let his hand drop. Roxas looked like he had something to say but before he could hear the blonde's voice again, Axel was halfway up the dorm stairs in the main hall. Roxas looked down at his lunch. He felt like he could eat a cow.
The awful thing was that when Roxas got nervous, he ate and he ate quite a bit. Naturally, his high metabolism tried to keep up but it had a hard time doing so. This last week had been awful. On top of semester exams, projects, and homework, he had a bad-boy-wannabe-vampire-stalker that seemed to be looking at him at every opportune moment. At first, the blonde that it was kind of cute for an older guy to be acting like a little kid. And yeah, he thought that he was pretty hot with his nicely worked out body and his fire-engine red hair that made his eyes just pop. And then he'd remember the stalking part. Recently, once things started to disappear, that this could very easily become extremely dangerous. Vampires are known to steal things from their prey.
It was one of those days after the final final exam that Roxas sat on his bed nibbling on some Doritos – which was his second choice but it's too cold for ice cream – and still reading one of the text books when his roommate finally said something. Demyx was a sandier blonde and was generally much more emotional than Roxas was. Hey would flip over the smallest things, over react about most things, and loved almost everything. He was currently flitting about his and Roxas' room searching for his text book that he was supposed to turn in earlier that day. He had been telling Roxas about it but Roxas had been hardly been paying attention. Demyx looked up at him from one of his desk drawers. "Rox, what's wrong?" This was odd because he was also normally oblivious to things, so Roxas looked up, clearly surprised. "You've been eating like crazy and been looking depressed. Your hair is an absolute mess, and," He paused. "You're gaining weight." Roxas sighed. He'd been hoping no one would notice, vampire or not. Demyx was a vampire but a pretty dense one. If he's noticed then it probably means that Axel's noticed, too. Roxas blushed thinking about it.
"Nothing is wrong," he lied. "Just stressed out over exams and such." He looked at the dorito he was about to eat before placing it back in the bag.
"Why?! You're the smartest kid I know. Okay. Second smartest but I don't think emo's count." Demyx smiled at his own joke. Then it faded when he looked back at Roxas. "That's not it, Roxy. Tell me what's wrong. Please?" He sat on the side of the bed next to Roxas.
"No telling, right?" Demyx nodded fiercely before Roxas could continue. "I think Axel likes me." Demyx smiled for a minute – he'd only really caught the 'someone likes me' not the name – and then frowned and gave Roxas a confused look.
"That's weird." He stated. "How?" Roxas moved his things off the bed so that he could directly face him.
"He watches me, all the time! Every time I look at him, he's just staring. And he took my pencil. Just walked up beside me and took it! What's up with that? Either he's stalking me or flirting and I don't know!" Demyx nodded thoroughly.
"That makes perfect sense... except for he's a douche! I wonder what his deal is." And that was it for Roxas side of the conversation. From there, Demyx ranted on about being careful about who he should and shouldn't date along with who he needed to watch out for at the school and there was even a little bit of a sex talk. There wasn't even a real chance for him to jump into the conversation. Instead he just stayed quiet and continued to eat his Doritos.
Axel wasn't exactly having a great time with his roommate either. Although it was Axel who did all of the talking. Literally. Even thought Axel knew that the periwinkle-haired near emo boy wouldn't give more than a nod or a small "uh-huh" to anything Axel still continued. Axel was walking around their room rather excitedly, waving his arms around in gestures as he spoke, his voice level changing all the time as Zexion continued to read his latest book.
"How do you think I should go about this? I mean, should I just continue to be like this or should I take action?" He paused, one hand on his hip and the other holding his chin. "Maybe I should straight up tell him... What do you think Zex? Zex?" He looked over at the other teenage looking vampire. "Zexion?" The other nodded blankly. Axel frowned. Walking over he put one knee on the bed to reach and grab the book away.
"Hey!" Zexion squeaked, reaching forward to grab it back. He failed though, Axel holding it high above his head. Zexion slumped back on the bed. "Okay, what do you want?"
"I want an answer," Axel smirked. "What do you think I should do?" He asked, flipping the pages of the book in his hands. Zexion crossed his arms and moved his head back to look at the ceiling.
"Well first off, you know how much trouble you can get into right?" The red-head nodded.
"I'm not that stupid." He laughed. Zexion smiled.
"Sometimes I wonder about that," He said under his breath, ignoring when Axel yelled 'Hey'. "I think you should do something about it. I mean you have a complete disregard for the rules as it is so I don't think that it should matter to you." He stopped evaluating whether Axel's face said it was a good answer. "Now, can I have my book back?" He held out his hand. Axel smiled and nodded.
"I don't know what you read this trash anyway." He laughed, gently tossing the Twilight book onto the bed. "It's all lies anyway." He went to the mirror and sprayed a little more Got2Be on the back of his head and walked on the door just in time to hear his roommate yell something about Taylor Lautner being made of sex.
It was nearly dark outside, the last few rays of the sunset being swallowed up by shades of deep purple and black. Axel walked around in the hallways that would normally be occupied by the students in the day. He couldn't exactly say that he liked any of the classrooms that were lined up on either side of him hidden by darkly colored wooden doors but walking made him feel better and allowed him time to think. He had been thinking about how he could get the little blonde boy alone or at least in a space that not many other people could hear them conversing. But every scenario he'd come up with either ended with him being a total ass or he scared the other off. "This is more complicated than I thought," he whispered to himself, scratching his neck absently.
He'd began to turn a corner when he saw light streaming down from the end of the hall accompanied softly by voices. It was very close to curfew and Axel really hadn't wanted to get caught early in the night. He was about to turn and go back the way he came when he realized whose voice it was.
"Sorry for coming by here so late. Demyx had lost his book and I found it but couldn't find him. So, I just brought it to you." The voice carried easily down the empty hallway. Axel stopped and moved again so that he could see back down the hallway, an idea popping into his head. The hallway the red-head was currently in happened to be the only hallway to get back to the dorms. Eventually Roxas would have to come through here. He listened as their modern technology teacher, Saix, complained about Demyx momentarily before thanking Roxas and telling him to go before curfew began. Axel waited for them to give their goodbyes and heard footsteps before Axel rushed down the hall to a classroom to wait for the blonde.
He looked around the room he'd walked into, only to frown again. The headmaster's class... great. That was okay for what he had planned, though. As soon as the small footsteps were close to the door, Axel pulled it open a crack to see how close the blonde was. He wasn't disappointed. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, He moved.
Roxas had only been trying to be a good friend and return a book that his friend had been too dense to find himself. How was he supposed to know that he was going to get jumped in the hallway? It wasn't even two minutes ago that he'd been talking with his teacher about how Demyx wasn't the brightest crayon in the box. And now here he was with a hand over his mouth being held from behind being pulled into a classroom. His first thought was to scream but that plan was quickly cancelled by the hand. He took a deep breath to steady himself as he heard the door lock behind him. He wouldn't be scared even though he already felt like he would pee himself.
"I'll let you go now if you promise not to scream. And I'll know if you are lying, Roxy." The voice came breathily from beside his ear. He recognized the voice even if he couldn't place it so he swallowed hard and nodded. His next intention was to scream as soon as he found the first possible moment but after seeing who it was, he lost all resolve and just gaped wide-eyed at him instead. Fear crept in even though he didn't know why. Axel wasn't exactly a scary person but the reality that Roxas was locked in a dark room with a vampire just crossed his mind. It crept in his brain slowly and he had to grab onto a desk behind him so that he could keep steady as his legs felt like they would give out from under him. Axel took in all of this and smiled.
"Calm down, Roxy. I just wanna talk." The red-head said, holding his hands out to the side, shrugging. Roxas swallowed and quickly got the nerve to speak.
"Oh, really? Is that why you locked the door?" Axel lost his smile and adorned a more confused look.
"Uh, yeah, pretty much," he replied seriously, taking a seat on the front desk. Roxas was calming down a little. What if he really did only want to talk? Roxas believed that Axel was indeed dumb and rash enough to not think of another solution. The blonde relaxed himself as much as possible and then looked the taller in the eyes.
"Alright, what do you want to talk about?" Roxas asked, his blue eyes still wide from the previous adrenaline rush. The smile rushed back to the other's face.
"Oh! That went easier than I thought it would..." he mumbled halfway to himself. "Well, Roxy, First off, I'm pretty sure this will be a first for this place and I certainly haven't felt this way for a human. But personally don't think it matter; for the most part. And it's dangerous for you. Not sure that the headmaster will be all that happy with me either but –"
"Will you just get to the point!?" Roxas hadn't meant to yell but his voice came out enough to echo slightly in the empty room. Axel's happy tone vanished, his face turning to one of slight sadness.
"Aw. Please calm down, Roxy. It's been a while since I've tried to court someone." Roxas felt his face flush. This was a little embarrassing, even though Axel – who continued on – didn't think so. "I think the last time I did was in the 70s but she was an absolute asshole." Roxas was sure he looked like a fish; mouth opening and closing like he was gasping for breath. He couldn't form words. He had been set that he was a target for the red-head for food. This was completely different. His brain wasn't functioning correctly. He didn't even notice that Axel had stopped speaking to himself and back to the blonde until he was literally up in his face. The smaller's face got hotter as he evaluated the situation. He was almost bent backwards over the desk with one of the larger's hands on the side of the desk, basically holding it up. Axel's face so close to his he could almost feel him breath and the other hand holding the blonde's face still.
"How 'bout it, Roxy?" Roxas came to his senses as Axel face began to get closer to his. The blonde lifted his hands that had before been like jello and smacked Axel's arm away. His smirk left vanished as the sound reverberated around the room. Axel took a step back to allow the other to stand up straight again. Roxas was defiantly flustered. He wanted to be angry, he wanted to glare and yell and punch the other but his body wouldn't, his mind was saying different things. He opened his mouth to say something but closed it again because his breathing was more ragged that he would have liked. Had he been holding his breath? He took a deep one and then exhaled slowly.
"I think," he began slowly. "That we should get to know each other a little better before we make this decision." He tried his best to keep his voice flat but it didn't help much. He could tell by the creeper smile that plastered itself back to the red-head's face. But Axel was okay with that. Even thought he basically knew everything about the human, he didn't know anything about the vampire. Axel crossed his arms and nodded slowly.
"Whatever you say, Roxy." He smiled and left, unlocking the door and stepping out. Within minutes, Axle was stepping into the darkness of his and Zexion's room, walking quietly so not to wake the other. It wasn't until he was shirtless and in sleep pants that the vampire on the other side of the room stirred.
"How'd it go?" the blue-haired male asked. Axel only chuckled a small bit and gave the other a thumbs up. He apparently saw since he turned back over. This would be fun.