VIII-XIII hard times
Pairing: Axel/Roxas
Genre: Kingdom hearts II
The spiky redhead sighs, slumping down onto the sofa in his one bedroom apartment that he shares with his love. His blonde loves sits next to him cooing him and trying to cheer him up.
"It'll be alright, things will get better." He says hoping to cheer up the redhead, hes been like this for weeks. H kisses his neck, and then slowly starts to unbutton his shirt. The boy starts kissing his lips, shirt unbuttoned he starts to rub the older man's chest; sliding his hand down toward his pants the older man pushes him away. "Awww come on, Axel" The boy says trying to get sexual but getting pushed away.
"Not tonight Roxas." Axel says dully, "I'm gonna go take a shower." The red head had been like this for weeks. Ever since the strike started he had not been able to get into work and had gone three weeks with out a paycheck, if things get much worse Axel will need to quit his job, that means loosing all of his pension and all he's saved up for retirement. He wouldn't want to do that but his family is suffering because of the union strike.
Axel undresses and turns on the water. "Damnit!" He says quietly to himself as he gets in "I hate this" While Roxas was busy preparing dinner Axel decided to spend some time in the shower reflecting on what he should do."Damnit!" he says as he hits the wall "I don't know what to do." he says over and over to himself. "My family's suffering because I'm stubborn, but on the other hand, if I quit my job ill loose my retirement, health benefits and pension. I've made up my mind." he turns off the water and starts to dry off.
"Hey axel you almost done? Dinners ready" Roxas says walking by. Had he truly been in there that long? He doesn't ponder that much more, he thinks about happy things to cheer him up he dosent like frowning in front of his Roxas. It made him sad to watch him frown. He knows it's really hard, Roxas too but he smiles and acts cheery anyway.
Axel slowly creeps up behind Roxas embracing him from behind, making him jump. "Hey babe" he whispers in his ear. "I've made up my mind; I'm quitting my job if the strike doesn't end tomorrow." Normally Roxas would have argued but secretly he would have done the same and was going too suggest he find a new job. "Don't try to convince me otherwise either Roxas, I've decided and I'm not changing my mind." Roxas just nods and agrees with him.
"This must be hard" he says embracing him in a hug and not letting go, burying his head in the older mans chest. Axel, taken back by this, Roxas had not done this since their second date. The man just places his arms around the boy, not letting go. "It'll be ok babe, everything will be ok, well get through." And for the first time in his life Axel didn't care about his job, he only cared about the boy holding him, and the boy cared about nothing but the older man he was undoubtfully in absolute love with. As long as they were together nothing else mattered.