Hello wonder people of fanfiction.
Here is the second installment of Unexpected Occurrences. i Hope you all enjoy!
I'm currently rewriting the third chapter and I should be fairly quickly.
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Chapter 2
Roxas wasn't too happy about the ultrasound. What they said was the baby looked nothing like it. It was more of a bean floating in a black space. It was kind of creepy.
"Well Mr. Strife, here is your baby!" Doctor Stephens said cheerfully.
Roxas curled his lip at the name and glanced at the her. She was a small, chubby woman with short black hair and a face that looked as if she had just ate a whole lemon. He scowled. Axel ran his fingers through his hair, grinning at the woman.
"Um, I think 'Roxas' has a nicer ring to it," the irate blond said with a hint of annoyance in his voice. Axel shrugged and mouthed out the word 'hormones.'
After dealing with Roxas for the last couple days, Axel was not only a victim of his strange addictions to Salt and Vinegar potato chips, but also the random bouts of violent mood swings. Just yesterday he was nearly decapitated by Roxas' Oblivion Keyblade for getting regular watermelon instead of seedless.
The woman blinked at the response but nodded her head in understanding.
"Alright then." She squeaked, and grabbed his medical chart. " Well, Mr…um, Roxas. Your urine shows that your glucose and protein levels are normal. Blood pressure is a little high, but it's nothing to worry about. Nothing out of the ordinary…" She looked back at the little screen and smiled. "So, have you experienced any nipple discharge yet?"
"What?" Roxas choked. His mother patted his head in a comforting gesture.
"It's okay sweetheart. Nipple discharge is a normal part of pregnancy." He gave a bitter look to his mother and then back at the doctor.
"No! I haven't had any kind of 'nipple discharge!'"
Axel swallowed as he looked away from the blond. "Actually Roxie, you kind of…are, discharging…"
Roxas' mouth hung when he heard Axel speak. "What--oh my god! When?" He asked with a disgusted look on his face.
"Now…" the redhead pointed at Roxas' shirt. He then ducked behind the pregnant teen's mother as he held her shoulders in attempt to use her as a shield.
Roxas looked at his nice white shirt. The image he saw cause his shock to quickly change into rage and sorrow. "Holy merciful crap! Oh my…Axel! This--this--!!" Roxas couldn't finish his sentence. His throat tightened as his eyes started to burn.
"Oh honey, it's alright. This is just your body's way of telling you it's getting ready for the baby."
"Mom you are not helping the situation!" Roxas said shrilly.
"Roxas please, calm down. It's normal---"
Roxas cut the Doctor off with a glare. "Normal? Damn it woman I'm a pregnant male! Nothing about this entire situation constitutes as normal!"
Doctor Stephens backed away a bit. "Roxas…I assure you, even though the circumstances are a little strange---"
"Do the words 'I am pregnant' not scream something more than a little strange?" Roxas bit his finger in an attempt to calm down. Yelling wasn't going to solve anything. It was just his hormones. Yeah, that's it. Just hormones. The same hormones that are messing with his body and causing things to leak out of places that they shouldn't!
He sighed. "I'm sorry. I--I'm just a little overwhelmed at the moment." And he was.
"It's alright Roxas. I'm used to it. Now, since you are experiencing this new symptom I believe that it is safe to say that your body is not rejecting the fetus. I was very worried that if such a situation were to occur that we would have to terminate the pregnancy," Doctor Stephens said with slightly hard tone.
Roxas nodded his head in understanding. He might not have liked the idea about being pregnant to much but, he was starting to warm up to the idea about being a parent. It still scared him to no ends but it was something that he knew he and Axel would get through. When he looked over at his lover he couldn't help but feel a warmth grow in his chest.
The fact of the matter was, that Axel could have said that he didn't want any part of the baby's life. He had that choice. But he instead decided to be with Roxas and see him through this. Never in his life had Roxas felt so lucky to have someone like the pyrokinetic. Seeing as how a lot of guys in Axel's situation leave.
His mother gave him a warm smile as Doctor Stephens wrote a few things down in his medical chart.
"Roxas, since you are about nine weeks in your pregnancy; this being your first baby and all, I would like to inform you that you will soon start to experience more…advanced symptoms."
Roxas raised a brow at this. "Advanced how?" He asked.
"Advanced as in weight gain, increased appetite, things of that nature. You might even start showing a bit. But you won't really see any significant changes until you're in your second trimester," She told him lightly. "But, you will have to take extra care. Don't over exert yourself, and have plenty of rest."
Roxas gave a bit of a withering look as he cleaned off the blue jelly like substance from his stomach. How exactly was he supposed to 'rest'? He had three term papers due, an art project he had to finish before next week and two books that he not only have to read, but he also had to compare and contrast both stories. Again he wondered; how exactly he was supposed to 'rest'?
Axel smiled at him before coming around his mother and placing a kiss on his blond head.
"I'll make you an appointment for next month. You should be starting your second trimester around that time. The baby should be developed enough to tell the sex! Isn't that exciting?" Doctor Stephens asked enthusiastically.
"Stimulatingly so." Roxas replied dryly. "I'm practically jumping out of my skin."
His mother tapped his forehead in disapproval at his comment. Roxas merely grinned back and pulled his shirt down. He could still feel the sticky jelly rubbing against him.
Doctor Stephens soon gave Roxas his new appointment and the three were then finally able to leave that god forsaken place. Whenever it came to hospitals Roxas always felt a little strange being there. It could have had something to do with the sterile smell of the place or the sight of sick people in the emergency room. Whatever it was, he thought it was best not to dwell on it.
Once he was home however the restlessness didn't subside. It somewhat increased. Not even the light touches of Axel's fingers on his stomach make him feel better.
"You alright, Roxie?" Axel asked lightly. Noticing the younger teens anxiety.
"Not really. For some reason I feel like something…weird, is going to happen."
Axel blinked. "Weird?" He echoed.
"Yeah, I can't really put my finger on it but---"
"Roxas!" Said blond jumped at his name and quickly searched for the source. His eyes caught spiky chocolate brown hair and cerulean blue eyes similar to his own.
"Sora!" said Roxas. He had almost forgotten about the other inhabitants he was living with. His cousin stared at him from the doorway leading to the kitchen.
"I heard from Riku that you were pregnant! Why didn't you tell me?" He asked with his infamous pout firmly placed on his face. Luckily for Roxas he was immune to that facial expression.
"Because I didn't want to get everyone's hopes up until I knew for sure that it wasn't some kind of tape worm," he said smoothly, hoping that Sora could accept that explanation. But no such luck seem to be with him that day.
"If it was a tape worm then why would Riku tell me something like that unless he knew you were pregnant?"
Damn. So much for being naïve.
Roxas let out a long insufferable sigh. "Fine, you got me. I'm sorry I didn't say anything, alright?" Sora's pout softened a bit. "I just got so preoccupied what with the new knowledge of being able to conceive looming over my head that I just simply forgot to inform everyone of my pregnancy!" Roxas snapped.
Sora's face twisted into a scowl at the statement. "There's no need to snap you know. I just wanted to know if it was true or not." Sora shot back in defense.
Roxas closed his eyes and rubbed at his temples. Curse these hormones. "I'm sorry Sora, I didn't mean to snap at you," he said slightly muffled. "It's the hormones."
The brunette's face fell a bit but his lips quickly changed and soon he was giving the blond one of his infamous grins. "Don't worry about it," Sora said, as he made his way from the kitchen to sit next to Roxas on the couch.
"So, how far along are you anyway?"
"About nine weeks. It's kind of weird. I didn't know that doctors went by weeks. I thought it was just nine months, but no. It has to be more complicated than that," Roxas said with a slight downward curl of his lips.
Axel poked him. "How could you not? Didn't you learn about all this during science class freshman year?"
"No! I wasn't interested in that sort of thing. It's disgusting! I mean, the way they would explain it. Could have gone my entire life without needing to know that women had a mucus membrane!"
Sora giggled. "It's okay. You never thought that you would actually have to know any of this. It's not like you were planning on having any kids. You're not even interested in women!"
Roxas nodded at his cousin. "Damn straight!" He left his hands drop to his stomach. "I'm guessing this is god's way of saying I should have paid attention in science class."
"Either that," said Axel. "Or he's into practical jokes."
Roxas scowled for the third time that day. "Shut up, Axel."
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Yazoo looked at the pictures from the ultrasound. A look of concentration on his unusually pretty face. He bit at his bottom lip as he checked over the black and grey photo. Roxas had absolutely no idea how Yazoo, or any doctor for that matter, could tell what they were looking at when it came to pictures containing the inside of a human body.
Roxas glanced over at Cloud and the older blond watched Yazoo with a slightly tired air about him.
"You alright, Cloud?" Roxas asked softly.
Cloud shook his head but nodded. "Yeah, just had a late night. Sephiroth was really drilling me last night." Cloud paused. "But not in the way you're thinking you little pervert."
"I didn't say anything," Roxas said innocently as he tried to hide the small pink of his cheeks.
Cloud sighed. "I have this exam coming up and it's worth seventy-five percent of my grade. Seph was just helping me study. If you can call it that." Cloud added.
"What do you mean by that?"
"I mean, if I got an answer wrong he would threaten me. It's not like I'm not used to his threats, but these weren't normal threats. If they were his usual normal threats then it wouldn't be a big deal, but no."
Roxas didn't press. He didn't really want to know what those threats were. He was a afraid that if he did he wouldn't be able to sleep for days due to either fear or arousal. And because of his unyielding pregnancy hormones the latter would seem more possible.
"We were up all night! And for some reason I can't sleep when the sun is up." Cloud shrugged. "Maybe it's my body's way of keeping me from getting some weird sleeping disorder."
Roxas stared at the older blond, but didn't comment. Yazoo smiled after looking over the sonogram again. "Well Roxas, you can take pride in knowing that you still have your little soldiers!"
Roxas visibility relaxed. "Oh good god, thank you Jesus!"
"Oh this is good news." Yazoo said cheerfully.
"Did you find out anything about his um…ovaries?" Cloud asked, feeling quite uncomfortable with the entire idea of his cousin with such 'equipment'.
"Nope! Nothing yet, but I was correct when I said that one of his lesser organs was what was used as the uterus. It's all just so fascinating!"
Roxas winced at the excitement Yazoo was emanating. He could feel it coming off the man in waves. For some strange reason all the extra emotion was making him feel sick.
"Yazoo, please, if you can hurry this up a bit." Roxas asked weakly holding onto his stomach. Yazoo sighed but complied.
"Fine. Well, everything looks as normal as one would think to expect. I can't exactly say what is or isn't normal, considering the circumstances. Anyway, have you been taking your prenatal vitamins?"
Roxas shook his head with a face of disgust. "No, it makes me feel like crap!"
"Roxas, didn't your mommy tell you what would happen if you didn't take your vitamins?" Cloud asked mockingly with a smirk playing at his lips. Yazoo glared at him and smacked the older blond in the head with the folder containing Roxas' updated medical records.
"You are not helping!" Yazoo snapped. "Roxas, try taking them at night. I'm certain they won't mess up your stomach if you do."
Roxas swallowed and nodded reluctantly. "Can I go now?" He asked weakly, hating the fact that he was being hit with a random bout of nausea. Yazoo let him go. Just when he was starting to make sense of the situation too.
Roxas rubbed his face, trying to will away the dizziness he felt. He was feeling a little irrational at the moment. He knew that the littlest thing even remotely heartbreaking or considerate would cause him to burst into tears.
Just then his mother found him laying face first in the couch. She smiled down at his defeated form and rubbed his blond spiked head.
"Are you alright sweetie?"
He shook his head. "No, I am a seventeen year old boy who's pregnant and so hormonal that I'm just about ready to burst!"
"My poor baby." She cooed. "Do you want something to eat?"
Roxas nodded his head pathetically as he turned his head to look at his mother.
"You want some ice cream?"
Another pathetic nod.
"Okay, I'll get you some ice cream."
Roxas bit his lip. The emotions that started to swell in the pit of his stomach was really starting to piss him off. It was just ice cream! Why was he feeling the need to cry tears of joy over ice cream? It was completely insane.
Once his mother returned with the ice cream he felt his eyes sting for the mere fact that she had added hot fudge.
"Oh mommy thank you for this…!" He said tearfully, taking a spoonful of the yummy chocolate ice creamy goodness into his mouth. It was just so good. The feel of it on his tongue and down his throat was better than sex! At least, the sex he had before he met Axel.
"Mom, not that I'm not glad that you're here but…why are you here?" he asked, swallowing another mouthful of his delicious frozen treat.
She giggled as she made herself comfortable next to her son. "Well why wouldn't I be? You are pregnant and my son. You need your mother! And I'll be damned if you think that I'm going to just sit at home with your father while my baby boy is with child!"
Roxas raised his brow at his mothers sudden little speech with the spoon still in his mouth. He wondered briefly if this was what he had to look forward too twenty years down the road. Would he be anything like his mother? Neurotic and completely unpredictable? Or would he be like his father? A loving a man with a job as a hit man. Who really knew. All he did know was that he was going to be a parent in seven months. It still scared him. This whole thing was such a big blow to his sanity he was sure he was going to lose it. He didn't even take into account what the hormones would do. If things continued the way they were he'd be hospitalized for psychiatric evaluation before he knew it.
His head soon started to throb with an oncoming headache. He really needed to stop thinking so much. Deciding it was better to go look for Axel than stay with his mother and random thoughts, Roxas finished his ice cream and headed out into the streets of Twilight Town to the house of the soon-to-be-father. He passed various houses, before he entered the market district where he came across someone he hadn't seen in two years.
"…Hayner?"
A blond boy with light brown eyes looked over from his spot in one of the tables outside the local café. His gaze turned from one of curiosity to surprise and then something else. It was a look that Roxas couldn't figure out.
"Roxas?"
Roxas was rooted to the spot. His face was grim but his brows furrowed. He held onto his stomach.
"What are you doing here?" Roxas asked non too politely and in a slightly bored tone.
Hayner smiled a bit and turned his attention to the ring of the café door where a brown haired, green eyed girl emerged with two Styrofoam cups. A tall slightly pudgy boy behind her with another cup.
"Olette? Pence?" Roxas called the names as his eyes grew wide.
The two other teens looked to see the flushed blond a few feet away from them.
"Oh my god…Roxas is that really you?" The girl named Olette said in mild shock.
Roxas didn't know how to feel just then. There in front of him were his two best friends and his ex. He wasn't sure if he should've been happy to see them or not.
"Roxas!" She squealed his name and then laughed as she placed the cups down and ran to boy. Giving him a bone crushing hug. "It's been so long!"
The other boy who he recognized as Pence smiled wide and made his way over to the shocked blond.
"How ya doin' man?" He asked, giving him a one armed hug.
"I'm fine--I mean, I'm great!" He replied. Finally coming to his senses. "I'm just great!" He echoed. "How about you guys? You two still together or what?" Roxas asked, completely ignoring Hayner for the time being. Hoping against hope he wouldn't have to talk to him. Unfortunately for him, hoping could only do so much.
The brunette girl blushed, and Pence gave her a warm grin. "Yeah, it'll be three years next month!" He said excitedly.
"Hey Roxas." Hayner said softly, eyeing him up and down. Gaining the boys attention.
Roxas bit his lip hard. And gave a half-hearted glare. "Hayner." He said stiffly. The other two teens looking back and forth between Roxas and Hayner.
"It's been awhile." Hayner said lowly with a small wince.
"It has." Roxas retorted. The awkwardness that passed was not lost on Roxas. "How's Seifer?" Roxas asked with a raise of his brow.
"Roxas…" Olette began, but was stopped by Pence.
"It's okay 'Lette." Hayner threw a small hurtful look at Roxas. "Seifer…that is to say--we…we broke it off."
Roxas' face went blank. He turned his eyes to his other friends and smiled. "What are you guys doing here?" He asked curiously.
Olette sighed but answered. "Our school's have a Struggle Battle competition with Twilight Town Academy this year. Hayner and Pence are both in the team at our school."
Roxas' face paled at this information. The Struggle Battle competition was a year long event! The fact that they were going against Twilight Town Academy meant that the team from the opposing school would be attending the rival school until the competition ended.
"What…?" Roxas squeaked, a bit out of breath. "You guys are going to be here in Twilight Town for the next twenty weeks?" He asked.
Pence nodded his head with a grin on his face. "Yep! Isn't it great?"
Roxas didn't reply. He merely blinked and swallowed. Suddenly he remembered about Axel.
"Um, that's great guys…really, but I, have to go now." He said weakly, slowly moving away from the three. "I'll see you around the campus. Alright?" He didn't wait for a response, before he took off running down the street. Being mindful not to go too fast, but still feeling the need to get out of there.
It didn't take him long to reach Axel's apartment. He pressed the button on the intercom, all the while looking around to make sure they didn't follow him. Axel's gravelly voice soon reached his ears. All he heard was mumbling.
"Axel! Let me in!" He nearly shouted. Not really in the mood to try and decipher what the redhead had said. And with a loud buzz the door was unlocked. Roxas pulled open the heavy metal door and came in contact with the familiar smell of disinfectant and urine. Ah the smell of the Twilight Town's apartment complex's always seemed to bring a bit of nostalgia upon Roxas.
The blond quickly pressed for the elevator. Once he was in the metal deathtrap the ride up to Axel's floor could not have been slower. As he made his way down the zigzag hallway he finally reached the pyro's apartment door.
The little rattling of locks were quickly opened, leaving before them a tired looking Axel in a white wife beater and smiley face boxers. He yawned and scratched at his head.
"Hello Roxie,…what brings you here at this time?" Axel asked, his voice slurred from sleep.
Roxas gave him a sour look. "Axel it is five in the afternoon!" The blond said fiercely when inside. Axel smirked.
"I've been up until seven this morning reading up on pregnancies after the sonogram. Did you know that baby's have fingernails when they are in the womb?"
Roxas raised a brow and lightly sneered. "Fingernails?"
Axel nodded. And Roxas sighed. "Axel, there's a Struggle Battle competition being held at school this year."
"And? They do this every couple years. Big deal." The redhead said, walking over to the attached kitchen in the living room. He grabbed a beer and twisted the cap. Roxas grumbled a bit before he went over and grabbed the bottle.
"If I can't have beer than neither can you!" Roxas poured the drink down the drain. "Lord knows what are hard week this has been without it." Roxas said sarcastically. Bringing a smile to Axel's pouting face.
"Alright, fine. I won't drink." At least not around you. Axel decided not to say that last part out loud. Roxas squinted his eyes and huffed. "Axel, a couple kids from my old town is in the opposing Struggle Battle team! Hayner is one of them!"
Axel's jaw dropped. "You're ex? He's in that stupid Struggle Battle thing? You're kidding me."
Roxas rolled his eyes as he roughly rubbed at his face. "No, I'm not kidding. This thing is going to last the rest of the school year!"
Axel gave him a confused look. "The rest of the school year?"
"You went to Twilight Town Academy, how is it that you don't know that the competition lasts that long?" Roxas asked incredulously. "They attend the school for five months!"
Axel shrugged. "It was a dumb game, and I had other things on my mind. Like, making-out with a certain little blond boy." He said with a grin. Roxas scowled but he was unable to fight the blush on his cheeks.
"The reason why it's so long is because they have two students from each school compete once a week. There are at least fifteen students on each team! And Hayner is going to be in the school! Oh my god! Axel!"
"Roxie, relax! Relax,…everything is okay. So you're ex is gonna be attending the same school as you." Axel soothed reasonably. He walked up to the blond and sat him down on his couch. "You broke it off with him years ago."
Roxas looked down at his favorite red flip-flops. He felt a little uneasy when he remembered the way Hayner looked at him. He sighed and snuggled up into Axel's arms.
"We're not married you know," Roxas said suddenly. Axel looked at him as if he were meeting the blond for the first time.
"Dude, we're a little married," said Axel.
Roxas smiled warmly at nothing in particular.
"I know," the blond said, looking up into Axel's neon green eyes. "And I love every minute of it."
Axel hummed as he stroked his young lover's arm. The feel of his warm akin under his touch. "Feel any better?"
Roxas nodded his head and sighed for what felt like the hundredth time that day. His eyes took on a worried and tired look.
"This whole thing is just another addition to our list of unexpected occurrences," he said lamely.
Axel grinned and nudged him playfully before saying, "That's the spirit, Roxie!"
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