A/N : Roxas Chapter! Please enjoy. (Just a note, these are all coming out at the same time)
Warnings: A little gross at the end?
Disclaimer: Still don't own it
Roxas POV
My alarm clock is more of a joke at this point. It tells me to sleep more than telling me to wake up. Like "oh 6am better catch that two hours of sleep before Cloud wakes up." Normally I just ignore it, and today is no different.
6 am means I can go play video games. I sneak out of my room, past Cloud and Leon's door. I'm almost down the stairs before I hear the floor creak behind me. I look up and sigh in relief, it's just Leon. "Mornin'," I mumble to him.
He nods at me and pushes past me, not even bothering to miss the creaky stairs. I shake my head at him and follow him out to the kitchen. I go over to the freezer and pull out two chocolate chip waffles and pop them in the toaster while Leon stares down a cup of instant coffee.
I grab out the cream cheese and wait for the toaster to pop my waffles. Leon and I only sort of jump when the toaster pops. As I'm smearing cream cheese on my waffles I ask Leon for a cup of coffee and he chuckles at me, "When was the last time you slept?"
I glare at him, "Not that long ago."
He chuckles again and shakes his head, "Nope."
"Bitch," I mutter under my breath, causing him to laugh again as he makes his way into the living room. I grab a glass of milk and go to sit down in the living room. If Leon's up that means no video games. I should have remembered that it's Monday, and if it wasn't he would already be at work.
He flips the TV to some channel that sells stuff all day. It's his and I's version of mindless television. They're currently doing an electronic segment, which is my favorite because all the products are just bullshit. Who even uses electronic picture frames anymore.
After I'm done my waffles I go out to grab something else to eat. I'm bored and tired but don't want to sleep so I'm going to eat to stay awake. Leon watches me from the couch, he knows what I'm doing.
I grab a bag of chocolate chip cookies, and when I come back into the living room Leon shakes his head at me. "What?"
"You are such a 21-year-old."
I grin at him and dig into the cookies.
We watch television for a while before Cloud comes down. He wraps his arms around Leon's shoulders and they kiss for a minute. He looks like he slept well at least. He comes over and sits next to me on the love seat. I offer him some cookies and he takes a few. "Thanks." He mumbles yawning into his hand. "Why are they even trying to sell this?" He asks motioning go the TV and shoving a cookie in his mouth. "Who the fuck wants a stand alone GPS anymore?"
Leon laughs at us, "I swear it's you two who are the twins."
Cloud and I look at each other. "I don't see it." We both say in unison. Leon laughs again and Cloud smiles softly.
Just before lunch time I start to get tired enough that food isn't keeping me awake. Cloud pushes me towards my bedroom and tells me to rest since we're going grocery shopping tonight.
I sleep for about three hours before I start to have a nightmare, and my service dog in training Daisy wakes me. I scratch her head, and throw the ball to her a few times, I don't have anything breakable in my room anyway.
Cloud comes up hearing Daisy's ball bouncing against the wall. He sits down on my bed and ruffles my hair. "Are you going to need to go back to the hospital again soon?" He asks after a moment of silence.
I shrug, "Probably." I mutter quietly.
He hums and brushes his hand through my hair again. I sigh and curl tightly against myself. Daisy licks my face a few times before climbing up on the bed and laying across my hips. I scratch her fur. I pull a treat out of the bag on my side table and hand it to her. She eats it and I go back to petting her.
"Do you want to come and sit outside? I'm going to be doing some yard work." He says after a few minutes, I meet his eyes and he smiles, "You don't have to help today."
I snort, "Okay."
He moves to stand up and leaves the room. I lay there for a few more minutes, thinking about how much I don't want to have to go back to the hospital. It's kind of inevitable that I'll end up there again. My sleep is getting so bad that I'm starting to hallucinate while I'm awake. This is really no way to live.
I get up and go to take a cold shower. I dress in a loose tee-shirt and a pair of shorts. Honestly, I think the shirt is Leon's, but he never minds me wearing his clothes. I grab some lunch and take it and a book out to the porch.
As I'm eating Cloud starts to mow the lawn, I see that Reno and Rude's SUV isn't in their driveway, so I figure they must have gone to pick up Reno's younger brother. I've heard a bunch of Cloud and Reno's conversations about the elusive younger brother that Reno's never mentioned until now.
I know Reno's mom died like almost two years ago now, and that's when I started to hear about this Axel Sinclair character. Ever since Reno has been driving somewhere every Tuesday morning, and being gone for most of the morning. Cloud's been frustrated because Tuesdays were when Reno and he met to discuss their book, now that has to be Thursdays. I've always thought Cloud was too anal about keeping things on a schedule.
Anyway, I heard the other night that Reno and Rude are bringing the little bugger home. I kind of wonder if he's much younger since I've caught sips of 'a large age gap'. Maybe he's been in foster care or something. I didn't hear about Reno's dad dying, though, then again I've never heard anything about Reno's dad.
I perk up as I see Reno and Rude pull up in their SUV. Cloud even stops mowing the grass.
Instead of a younger kid, a lanky 20 something drags himself out of the car. He's wearing a sweatshirt even though it's 75+ degrees out. He has large black bags under his eyes, making him look like he spent the entire night doing heroin. You can tell he's skinny, even under the frumpy sweatshirt and baggy jeans.
I'm kind of nervous at how hard my heart starts beating.
He doesn't really look around just kind of follows Rude's directions to the house and then he's gone.
Cloud and I share a look, he cocks his head at me and I shake mine. Rude waves at us and we both wave back. Axel doesn't have a lot of stuff, one trip with a few bags and that's it. I watch as Cloud gives me one last look before he moves on to mowing the lawn.
Leon comes out to the porch a while later, as Cloud starts to weed the flowers Aerith planted in our front yard. Leon hands me a water and goes to give one to Cloud. The whisper to each other for a few minutes, before Cloud gently presses his lips to Leon's forehead. They both smile at each other and I make a gagging noise.
"You two are gross."
Leon laughs and Cloud glares at me, "Hush, or I'm making you help me."
"Okay, mom," I say sarcastically, Cloud rolls his eyes and goes back to weeding the flowers.
Leon comes over and sits next to me on the porch swing. We don't talk, instead choosing to both watch Cloud, though I'm pretty sure Leo's staring at his butt. The swing rocks a bit and I look at Leon to see him fidgeting. We eye each other for a few minutes before I decide to speak, "Rough night?"
He hums and I take that as a yes.
"I could tell this morning," I say kicking my legs a bit. "If you need to talk you know I'm here."
Leon scruffs my hair and it makes me feel a bit like I did when I was a kid. "Thanks, Rox."
I nudge him, "If Daisy is more to your liking you're free to steal her for an hour or two. I'll only charge you $50 for your time with her."
He cracks up causing Cloud to look up in our direction. "If you two are feeling well enough to laugh, you should be over here helping me weed."
"No thanks, mom," I say making Cloud roll his eyes. Leon sighs and stands up and goes to help Cloud out with the flowers.
When we were kids, I never thought I'd see Cloud be in a caretaker position. Especially not for two grown adults, though if I brought it up with him he'd deny it saying he was just taking care of his family. Even then, though, he's always been closed off to his emotions. A fight through things and never deal with the aftershocks kind of a guy.
When I first met Leon, I was in my fifth hospital stay. Cloud brought him, because, after this stay, Cloud was granted full legal custody of me even though I was 19 years old, and I was going back to his house instead of going back to my parents or going to- God forbid- a group home. I should meet the person who Cloud was dating at least once.
The second Leon walked through the door to my room, I knew he had been through some shit. I think it was the blank look in his eyes like he was on a different planet. Cloud was so nervous while introducing us, I mean I'm a fairly blunt person, and God forbid I upset the love of Clouds life. His nervousness was justified.
Leon and I looked at each other for a while. His gray eyes roamed over my self-harm marks and my overly thin body. My own blue ones watched small sparks of life make their way into his eyes. "You two could be twins." He mumbled after around five minutes of Cloud hovering over us. He looked up at Cloud, and something else sparked in those silvery eyes. That's when I decided to try and help Cloud make this work. I'd never seen anyone look at my brother like that, it was the kind of spark my mom got when she looked at my dad and vice-versa.
Cloud smiled at him and gripped his shoulder for a second before sitting down on the bed next to me.
Once I moved in with Cloud, I realized just how much Cloud was enamored with him. Cloud liked to sleep, he liked it a lot, so the first night I came out of my room at 2am only to hear Cloud sleepily talking on the phone, I knew that man was something special.
I slowly got to know Leon more as he started slowly moving his stuff into Clouds house. I seemed to be the only person who noticed that now half the shit in this house belonged to Leon and that most our laundry was mixed together.
When I found a pair of cum-stained boxers that most certainly did not belong to Mr. Boxer-Briefs, I brought it up. We were eating Pizza together, watching a movie. I was on the love seat, which I had claimed as my own despite the flowery print, and Leon and Cloud were sitting way too close to one another for people who were eating.
"Leon," He looked at me and hummed, "I think you should move in."
Cloud started to hack and cough on his piece of pizza and Leon slowly patted his back while still keeping his attention focused on me. "Why's that?" He asked finally looking to see if Cloud was okay.
"I'm sick of doing your laundry."
Leon moved that weekend.
