A/N: was supposed to be part of a longer fic I'm working on but that one's not going anywhere and may just turn into a drabble-series. Hmm.

Disclaimer: not mine.

x

x

x

Ashes

x

And sometimes, he misses Axel so bad that Sora lets him cry—lets himself cry and feel a loss that was never his own—because what choice do they have other than to get through it together?

Sora, at least, has started coming to terms with it. Often, he wonders if he can make a contract, a compromise, but knows that it is next to impossible because of the way in which their primary interests conflict.

Sora wants to live, wants to be with Riku and Kairi and his family and the life he has come too close to loosing too many times for his liking.

Roxas wants to leave, to be with Axel, because he realized too late that nothing else ever mattered.

What it always eventually amounts to is:

I want to be your friend.

Then let me out of your fucking heart.