"Axel, you aren't going THERE again, are you?"
"You can't really be expecting..."
"...No chance that he..."
"...accept that he's gone."
Axel ignored the other organization member's remarks and stepped into the darkness, letting it swallow him up and commanded it to take him to that place. That special place where Axel had thought he had a heart whenever he went there. But it was not the place that brought out such sweet thoughts. No; it was the person who was always there to meet him.
The person who wasn't there now.
Axel stepped out of the portal of darkness and leaned against the wall at the top of the clocktower in Twilight Town. He looked out over Twilight Town and imagined the boy who sat with him there in the past. The boy with sandy blond hair and bright blue eyes. The boy who loved sea salt ice cream. The kind that Axel would share with him, even though the red haired man did not like the taste. However, Axel always acted as if he liked the salty-sweet stuff just so he had something he could share with the boy. Axel bowed his head and stared at the spot where that person sat. Where the person that made this place so special always sat...
"Roxas," Axel whispered. He raised his bright green eyes to the sky, looking out over the horizon at the setting sun. "Roxas, where are you? Why did you leave me...?" Axel sat on the ledge of the clock tower. He held his face in his gloved hands. "Where are you? Roxas..."
"Man, you sound like you popped right out of a soap opera." Axel's head snapped up and he rubbed at his eyes, as if trying to scrub the emotion and pain and wetness out of them. "Superior sent me to come get you," Larxene muttered. Axel stood and looked at the blond girl.
"Yeah, yeah. I'm coming." Axel turned to leave.
"Roxas isn't coming back, Axel." Axel tensed as Larxene continued. "He's gone. No matter how many times you come back here, no matter how hard you wish, he isn't coming back. Just get a grip." Larxene frowned and turned to the portal. "C'mon, Axel." She turned to the man and beckoned him to follow. The two left as the sun fell below the horizon and the world was enveloped in darkness.