His lips caressed my neck as he spoke my name. I groaned and opened my eyes. His gorgeous green eyes were staring into my dark blue eyes. The urge to kiss him, to touch him, to love him spread through my whole body. I wanted him and he wanted me.

"Good morning," he said, stroking my cheek with the back on his gloved hand. I yearned for the heat that I had felt yesterday. I looked at my hands, remembering that I had blisters all over them. They were bandaged and stung a bit when I moved them. I cringed when he gently intertwined our fingers.

"Do they hurt?" he asked

"Only a little," I replied, nuzzling my head onto his chest.
"I'm sorry."
"Not your fault. I'm the moron who wanted it remember?"

"But I'm the idiot who let you."

"Don't beat yourself up, ok?"

My heart raced as his warm lips touched mine. My bandaged hands wrapped around his neck as I deepened the kiss. I wanted him. All of him, but would I get it?

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Axel didn't hold my hand the whole entire way to school for two reasons. One my mother was in the car and she didn't even know that Sora had a boyfriend and two he was afraid to touch me. I asked him if he was when we were on our way to science class. He said no, but I didn't believe him. I was his best friend since God knows when. I know when he's lying.

The day went by quickly and I didn't pay attention to any of the lessons. I was too busy trying to think of ways to get Axel to not be afraid of touching me and the lessons were really boring too.

"Have fun at detention!" Sora said, smirking as he ran over to Riku.

"Want me to stay with you?" Axel asked.

"I'll be fine. Go hang out with Riku and Sora. Riku's leaving tonight remember?" I said.

"Yeah, alright see you later."

I waved good bye and headed to Marluxia's room. I took a deep breathe before I knocked on the door and entered.

"Well if it isn't my little Roxie," He said, his red lips curving into a smirk, "come sit down."

I did as he asked and began to take out my books, but as I was about to put it on my desk he threw them off. His face was inches from mine. I shot to my feet, practically sprinting away from him.

"I won't hurt you Roxie," he said, pinning me to the ground, "I didn't hurt you in summer camp."

"Maybe not physically but you did emotionally," I whispered, trying to push him off.

"Don't fight it."

I ignored him, obviously, fighting as hard as I could before he slapped me across the face. Blood dripped from my mouth, the copper taste covering my tongue. I whimpered as he pulled off my belt and began taking off my pants. I closed my eyes telling myself that it would be over soon enough. Then a scream filled the silence, I didn't realize it was my own until Marluxia shoved his shirt into my mouth.

Just think of Axel I told myself, keeping my eyes close until I heard a scream. I knew for sure it wasn't me this time. I opened my eyes to see a barrier of fire around Axel. The same fire glowed in his eyes as he grabbed Marluxia's throat without his gloves on. The pink haired man screamed in agony, grabbing at the hands on his throat. Axel threw him onto the ground, breathing deeply. The fire around him was dissipating as he fell to his knees.

I jumped onto my hands and knees, crawling over to Axel. I touched his shoulder gently and rubbed it as he tried to regain his normal breathing.

"Are you ok?" I asked.

"Y-Yeah are you?" he asked, shrugging my hand off.

"I was until you shrugged my hand off."

"I don't want to hurt you."

"You won't. Your chest is not really hot, remember?"

"I can still hurt you. You saw what I did."

"You won't do that if I'm close to you. I trust you Axel, why can't you trust yourself?"

He was shaking and I could see the tears forming in his eyes, but I didn't see them due to him crushing my face into his chest as his arms wrapped around me. I wrapped my arms around his waist, absorbing the heat that was radiant off his body and onto mine.

"How can you trust a monster like me?" he asked, his grip tightening.

"You're not a monster. You're my Axel."

I looked up to see him crying, something I had never seen Axel do. This dissolved immediately once they touched his cheeks. I winced as the burning sensation started to hit my back. It was then that Axel realized he was touching me without his gloves. He tried to draw them back, but I kept them there.
"I'm hurting you," Axel said.

"I don't care. I just want you to hold me," I said, nuzzling into his chest. I could endure this pain for a while, it was actually pretty nice. My hands fell from his shoulders as sleep was beginning to take its hold. I didn't want to sleep yet. I wanted to be with Axel for a few more minutes, but my body wouldn't allow me. Soon the world around was beginning to disappear around me and everything was quiet.

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"Roxas?" his voice echoed in my ears as my eyes squinted and opened. His face was close to mine and his hands had gloves on them again. I looked around, noticing that we weren't in my room.

"Where are we?" I asked, rubbing my eyes. I flinched when I saw that my hand had a tube in it, "you took me to a hospital?"

"Sorry, but they said I had to," He explained, brushing my hair out of my face.

"Ugh I hate hospitals. Where's Marluxia?"

"The room next door with MANY cops around him. They're treating his burns. He's lucky that I didn't kill him."

"I'm glad that you didn't. That would've been very bad."

"He deserves to have those scars on his neck forever. That way he'll remember what he did for the rest of his life."

"You're sexy when you're angry."

A slight blush spread through his face as his eyes widened. I giggled, kissing him as I touched his cheek. His hand touched my cheek and for a split second I was sad. I wanted to feel his hand on my cheek but all I felt was the glove. His fire problem was in the way, but I didn't care as long as he was with me.

His lips curved into a smirk as the heart monitor started to speed up. I rolled my eyes and play punched him.

"Someone's happy," he said.

"Shut up. So why did they make you bring me here?"

"...They saw the burn marks on your back and thought you fainted when they saw you unconscious."

"Oh, how are my burns?"

"You'll have scars. I'm sorry."

"It's not your fault. It was mine plus I can deal with scars. It's about time I got some physical scars to match my emotional scars."

I laughed, failing to make Axel smile. His mind was somewhere else and he didn't look happy. I touched his cheek, snapping him back into reality.

"I'm here because of you. I would've probably been killed my Marluxia that time because I was fighting back," I said, "You're my hero. Got it memorized?"

He smiled and touched my hand, "that's my line."

I smiled, kissing him causing my heart to race. We both smirked when the hear monitor was quickening drastically.

"You need to calm down," Axel said, smiling as he kissed my hand.
"Yes MOM," I said, "by the way will my hands have scars?"

"I don't know."

"Well that's going to be something else to wonder about. Maybe we can be glove buddies."

He chuckled as we put our hands against the others. My fingers were shorter and my hands were pretty small compared to Axel's big hands with long fingers. We intertwined our fingers, the heart monitor quickening once again.

"You REALLY need to calm down," Axel said, "I'll be back with some food."

"And so my prince leaves me for food," I said, smiling as I watched him leave the room, "curse that man for having such a nice ass."

"I heard that!"

Heat rose in my cheeks. Not only did he have abnormal body temperature, he had abnormal hearing! I lied down, cringing at the pain I felt on my lower back. I closed my eyes. I hadn't realized how tired I was until now.

I fluttered my eyes open when I felt a cold, wet substance against my back. I looked up to see Axel looking at me.

"Whatcha doing?" I asked, giving a half smile.
"Putting ice on your back," Axel said, "what are you doing?"

"I WAS sleeping until someone decided to be a worry wart and wake me up with a cold ice pack."

"Sorry."

I sat up, ignoring the pain shooting through my back. I held his gloved hands and put them to my cheek, trying to absorb Axel's natural warmth.

"I don't like the cold," I said, "I enjoy the heat."

"I know," he said, sitting next to me on the bed and then pushing my head against his chest. His warmth radiated off of him and was absorbed into my cheek. My arms slung around his waist as I nuzzled my head into his chest.

"You're one weird kid," Axel said, chuckling

"Says the one who can shoot fire out of his hands."

"Heh I guess I can't argue with that."

His lips met my forehead, not that I really noticed. Sleep was beginning to engulf me every second. I struggled to keep my eyes open but sleep won the battle in the end.

"Good night Roxie," Axel whispered before I fell into the darkness.

sorry this chapter wasn't that long guys. i didn't get that much inspiration. hoped you enjoyed it =D reviews are goooood!