Axel looked out at the blond, grinning. So what if he was watching a kid wonder around town, so what if he was a stalker? This was his pass time. He liked following mid-teens around. Especially cute little blondies like the one in front of him.
He, for a moment, felt guilty of what he planned to do. The kid had no fucking idea what shit he was about to get himself into. No idea at all. But then he thought of the fight he'd seen, outside of the Twilight Town High School. How the blond had just started wailing on some brunette.
"If he kicked that kids ass, wonder how strong he is." Axel thought watching the boy, dressed in only a thin white T-shirt and jeans plus red and black checkered converses, shiver in the cold. No matter what, Axel knew he could fight off the brat. He didn't want to scare him though. He wanted to trick him.
"And the little babe is in the lion's territory." Axel thought, a smirk playing across his lips. The blonde had gone into a part of town that didn't have many people. The fact it was night made it even better.
"Be patient. Don't pounce just yet. Your a professional lurker, your good at this. Good at catching little kids, good at this. Even if this one is better than the others, don't let it get to you head." grinning to himself, he chuckled softly, following the kid from his car.
Roxas knew he was a dumbass. He ran away from school after kicking his brother, Sora's, ass and knew if he went home he'd be in deep shit. Not his fault thought. Sora should know when to close his goddamn mouth by now. It was bad enough that he got in trouble at home, but why did Sora have to blab to Riku about it?
And to add to that, Roxas was freezing. He'd left his hoodie, not that that would even help, at school and the fact that it was starting to snow made the day better. Cursing under his breath, he wrapped his arms around him, dropping to the ground.
It was just to cold. He watched the few cars that drove by, some slowing to look at him, waiting for one of them to stop. None of them stopped until a black Honda Civic, slowed to a stop, one window rolling down.
"You okay kid?" the voice asked, and a twenty-something redhead asked, poking his head out of the window. He had a black, long-sleeved T-shirt on and dark purple upside down tear drop tattoos on his face.
"Um...Y-Yeah, I-I guess." he said and the window slowly began to roll up again. Shocked he jump forward, one had held out. "I-I mean n-no. Can I get...get a ride or something?"
"Sure kid." he said and as Roxas walked forward, he felt warm air from inside the vehicle hit him. "Well hurry up." he added, slightly annoyed at the kid's hesitation.
"Sure." Roxas murmured, opening the door and hopping inside. He felt pinpricks as the air warmed his skin.
"I'm Axel." the redhead said, starting to drive the car again. "A-X-E-L. Got it memorized?" he added, pointing to his temple.
"Uh, y-yeah. I-I really don't have a place to go." he said after a moment. "I'm Roxas by the way."
"Well Roxas, you could crash at my place for the weekend. Then we can work on getting you home." he offered and Roxas suddenly realized how stupid he was being.
He'd gotten in a car with a complete stranger who was offering to take him home. A small squeak escaped his lips and instantly one hand was on the handle. But one look showed he didn't know where the hell he was.
"Whats the problem Roxas? If you don't wanna stay its fine. Anyway, there's two other people like, my age, their little brothers and my sis. If you wanna stay, you can. If you wanna go home, give me an address." Axel offered again and Roxas felt his body relax. He was just being a little to suspicious for his own good.
"N-No. I'm just a little freaked. Picking a ride with a stranger wasn't the smartest thing I've ever done in my life. Ya know, it could have been a perv or something."
"True. Bet you just got lucky. Hopefully you're not a fucking psychopath or something." he thought, yawning and reaching for a styrofoam cup in front of him. "Wanna sip?"
"Y-Yeah." Roxas murmured, thankful for what ever it was. After one sip he figured out it was hot chocolate. Even if it tasted a little weird.
"So what you doing walking around in the dead of night? Aren't you scared of monsters at this age?" he asked, chuckling to himself.
"I'm not that young." Roxas snapped. "I'm a sophomore already." he said and Axel rolled his bright emerald eyes.
"Really now. So, your what, 16?" Axel asked, making a sharp left turn that sent Roxas forward slightly.
"15. I'll be 16 in April." he said, taking another gulp of hot chocolate, feeling it warm his insides. "What about you?"
"I'm 24. Birthdays on the 22nd of April." he said and smirked at Roxas. "What day for you?"
"The 25th." he said and added. "I have a brother, Sora, who's my twin." he explained and Axel nodded, understandingly.
"He a brat? My sis is. Always yelling and complaining. And that high-pitch voice of hers. Most annoying girl on the planet."
"Sora's a brat alright. We got into a fight today. I ran away from school. Parents are pissed off probably."
"You can let it blow over. Say a bad man kidnapped you or something." he said, laughing loudly. Roxas joined in, feeling completely at ease around the older redhead who made another sharp turn, stopping the car.
"That your house?" Roxas asked stupidly, pointing to the normal two story, light blue home. Axel nodded, stepping out of his car and walking over to Roxas' door in a few quick strides.
Roxas hadn't noticed how thin and tall the man was. He towered over the blond easily and was almost anorexic thin. The redhead opened the door, holding out a hand to help pull him out. Cautiously, Roxas grabbed the large hand that covered his completely and pulled the blond from the vehicle, into the cold night air.
"You gonna stay here as long as you want. Kairi, my sister, has some little chica over today so the guest rooms taken. You could room with me, or see if someone else is out and take there room." he told Roxas, opening the door.
Axel felt great. The kid was naïve as hell. When he grabbed the door handle he was scared the kid had caught on, but a little talking and sharing some information with him calmed him down fine. And the hot cocoa had been spiked with rohypnol and he had some ketamine stashed at home.
Roxas wasn't showing signs yet, it had only been about twenty minutes, he had about ten more left until Roxas started to feel the effects of it. He knew how the drug worked perfectly and was eager to try ketamine out later. He wouldn't do anything tonight, no. The others would expect that.
Even as he walked in, letting the kid enter ahead of him, he felt the horrified gazes of the older roommates siblings. Well, besides Kairi and Naminé, who had no idea what he did to the kids he brought back oh so often.
"Axel, why is Roxas here?" Riku, Marluxia's brother, asked softly.
"Oh so you know him? He was freezing his ass off so of course I invited him to come over." Axel said innocently before Zexion glanced up from his book.
"Axel, we need to have a brief chat. Would you mind leaving the boy in here with the other children?"
"'Course Zexy." he said, looking at Roxas. "If he gets sleepy, show him to my room, 'kay?" he said in a happy voice that had a slightly violent undertone only Riku and Zexion's adoptive brother, Demyx, noticed.
Roxas had to admit it was weird seeing some of his and Sora's friends at the house. Riku wasn't even angry about the fight he'd gotten in with Sora.
"Roxas, where did you see Axel?" Demyx asked, the blondish brunette sounding worried.
"I was walking on the side walk and he just pulled up." Roxas said, having to blink to clear his vision.
"And you got in the car with a stranger? What sort of fucking retard are you?" Riku snapped. "Getting in a car with a possible pedo who said you could crash at his place? Do your parents even know?"
"Hell no! If I told them I'd been in the cemetery already." he said, blinking hard. Why the hell was he so sleepy all of the sudden?
"You need to go home tomorrow. I'll call Sora if you want." Demyx offered but his voice was hard. Kairi watched, sitting next to Naminé and listening to the conversation.
"I....yeah." he muttered, yawning. He felt weird. Not tired. No more like.....what was the right word?
"Are you okay Roxas?" Demyx asked worried. "He didn't, give you something to eat or drink that you didn't know what was right?"
"No.....hot chocolate....That's...that all." he murmured and Demyx sighed, grabbing his shoulder.
"I'll show you to Axel's room." he said but sounded like he'd rather do anything but.
"Axel, you brought another one here? And Kairi's friends over tonight too. Are you a freaking idiot." Zexion hissed.
"Oh lighten up. He's my type. Innocent, blond, naïve, and has a pretty face."
"That's because your a fucking pedophile. Do. Not. Get. Me. Involved." he growled and Axel grinned like the Cheshire Cat himself.
"Fine, but don't let you brother rat me out. I even spiked it with rohypnol. You know what I have to do to get that?"
"No and I don't want to. Just....be careful okay? Your not the only one doing something illegal in this house and if you get caught, Marluxia and I get caught too."
"Fine, fine. Just chill okay. If you don't mind, he should be in the drunk or sleepy state at the moment and I need to make sure Riku hasn't tried to scare him off yet." Axel said, walking out of the the room that Zexion had pulled him in, smirking contently the whole time.
"The kids got a point. One flame and the whole card house burns down. After we all worked so hard to make it work to." he thought, sighing deeply. Leave it to Zexion to ruin a good time.
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Okay, before I even hear it from the like, two people?, online who know I exist. I knew there is a story extremely similar but I'd only figured that out when my friend Morgan told me. This was a story written purely on a whim, because I found a lack of ones like this. After all, everyone says "Axel's a pedo" all the time so I wanted to make it real.
Thanks to you all, please be kind and review of what I did wrong(because I know I did a lot wrong). I love the two people who are aware of me.