Game: Kingdom Hearts
Title: This Heart
Words: 217
Pairing: AxelxRoxas (or AkuRoku)
Summary: Somehow... I thought the heart would be different.
A/N: Dedicated to everyone who has encouraged an supported my writing and my best friends who continue to do so with unending fervour.
He sat on top of the bell tower, legs tightly pressed to his chest. The feeling of being unable to breathe sinking in
Somehow... I thought the heart would be different.
"Roxas." Axel's voice was soft and delicate, a lonely whisper in a quiet room.
Not something I would find in the palm of my hand.
"Axel..." Roxas responded, his voice a little stiff and muffled, face pressed against his knees.
Not something I would find in the sound of a voice.
"Are... you alright?" he asked, his mouth going dry and now, he found himself unable to swallow.
A sound which would resonate through this heart,
He didn't respond, he already knew Axel knew, and with that, he pushed back a handful of blonde hair.
And resound so deeply, it caused this heart to bleed.
"You can't turn on the Organisation!" Axel gasped sharply. "You get on their bad side and they'll destroy you!"
An open wound, torn through a fragile chest, to discover the emptiness that he left.
"No one would miss me." Was the weak and muffled response.
To ache, and bleed, and miss. Was that all a heart did?
"That's not true!"
But still...
"I would..."
I didn't expect to find it in the palm of my hand, the sound of his voice...