A/N: Extra long chapter to make up for the short chapter and the wait. Hope you like!

Axel's POV

I blinked, staring at the head of blonde hair that had magically appeared in my sleeping bag during the night.

"Roxas?"

"Hm...?" he grumbled, opening an eye to look at me.

"When did you slip in here?"

"Oh. I don't know. I woke you up though."

"Obviously not well enough. You could think you've woke me up well enough, but I'll still be half asleep."

"I'll remember that."

I reached around him to unzip us. Roxas rolled out and I chuckled, standing up. Roxas groaned and followed my actions in getting up. I zipped my sleeping bag back up and rolled it, tying it so it wouldn't come loose.

"You leaving?"

"No, heading farther up."

"Into the mountains?" Roxas sounded worried.

"I've climbed before, Roxas. This isn't my first time." I assured him, and picked up my backpack. I tied my sleeping bag to it.

"What happens if you fall?"

"I have a cell phone. I can call someone."

"A cell phone? Can I have your number?"

I shrugged. "Why not?" I didn't have many numbers in my phone, just the most important ones. I pulled the little device from my pocket and handed it to him. "Can you put yours in mine too?" I asked him and he nodded. While he was doing so I poured water over the still smoking campfire and pulled my backpack on.

"Here." He handed my phone back to me.

"Thank you." I said, slipping it back into my pocket. "Time to find your friends."

Roxas's POV

I hummed, looking around for where Hayner, Pence, Olette and I had decided to stop and make camp. Axel was walking alongside me, humming along to his own tune. Not after long I spotted a pitiful excuse for a campfire surrounded by sleeping bags. I chuckled and crept up to the one I knew was Hayner's. Axel watched me curiously as I looked at it. He was obviously sleeping inside of it. I pulled out the water bottle I had gotten from Axel the night before and opened it, chuckling to myself as I dumped the rest of its contents onto the blonde's head.

"Hey!" he yelled, jumping up and getting tangled up in his sleeping bag. He gracefully fell and faceplanted the ground as Axel and myself started to laugh. Pence and Olette woke up quickly, hearing Hayner's outburst and our laughter.

"Roxas!" Olette squealed and attacked me, wrapping her arms around me in a hug. Pence rubbed his eyes.

"Dude, you scared us. We didn't know if you were dead or not."

"Why didn't you come looking for me?" I asked, trying to unwrap Olette from my body.

"It was too dark. Even with our flashlights." Hayner said. He had finally untangled himself from his sleeping bag and gotten up.

"How did you find us again?" Olette asked.

"Axel helped." I said, and looked at the red head. He waved.

"Hello." he said in greeting. Pence and Hayner looked him over suspiciously, and Olette grinned.

"Hello! Thanks for helping Roxxy get back."

"Roxxy?" Axel asked, and looked to me. I sighed.

"Nickname. I don't like it though."

"You don't like it? Of course you do!" Olette protested.

"Then why are you the only one who calls me that?"

"Because I gave it to you!"

"Exactly."

I sighed, rubbing my face. Olette was so hard to deal with sometimes. Axel looked at me.

"Roxas, you okay?" he asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I looked up and gave him a smile. "Thanks for helping me get back."

"No problem." he said, and smiled back. "Well, I guess I'm off."

"Bye." I said, and waved to him. Axel waved back and turned around, before walking back the way we had come. Hayner and Pence watched him leave.

"You sure that's a dude?" Hayner asked when Axel was gone.

"No guy has hips like those." Pence added. "It was almost creepy."

I stared at them, and finally peeled Olette away. "Yeah, Axel's a guy."

"He must be a fag then." Hayner said, making a disgusted face. Pence mimicked it.

I narrowed my eyes. "And what's wrong with him being a homosexual?"

"No way dude, he's seriously a fag?" Pence asked.

"Yeah. He is. What's wrong with that?"

"It's disgusting. And you spent the night with him?" Hayner made another disgusted face.

"He's not that bad." I told them.

"Are you turning into a faggot too? I thought you hated them."

"No, I don't Hayner. Don't just assume things. And you know I have no interest in either sex."

"Maybe you're lying to us. We all know you don't like girls, but you've never been with a guy."

"How old is he anyways?" Olette piped up. I looked at her.

"Five years older than me. He's twenty-seven."

"So you like older men, huh?" Hayner chuckled.

I picked up a rock and chucked it at him. "Shut up!" I yelled and watched as it hit him in the side of the face. It left a scratch. Hayner glared at me.

"Leave. Get your shit an leave."

"Hayner!" Pence and Olette yelled in unison.

"Roxas. Get the hell away from me. I don't ever want to see your face again."

"Fine." I hissed and picked up my backpack before turning and marching back through the woods to where our cars were parked.

"Wait! Roxas!" Pence called after me. "You don't have to leave."

I shrugged. "I'm fine with it. You guys have fun."

After a while of walking, I looked around. The trees were starting to thin out, and soon I saw the road that lead to where we had parked our cars. It had taken me half the time it took us to get to where they were camped now, just by walking straight through the trees. I smiled at my accomplishment and walked back to my car. I got back there just as it was going on two in the afternoon. Pulling out my cell phone I looked through my numbers. I wondered if Axel was done with his climbing, or if he had even gotten to the spot he was going to climb. I pressed the dial button.

Ring ring.

Ring ring.

Ring ring.

Ring... Hel-?

Crack.

Dial tone.

I stared at my phone. The call had suddenly ended. He had answered my call, but it suddenly hung up. "Stupid connection." I grumbled, and looked to see how many bars I had. Five. I reasoned that maybe it had been Axel's phone that had suddenly been cut off. But why would it end so abruptly? Then I remembered the cracking noise right before the call ended.

Oh shit.

Axel might be in some serious trouble.

Axel's POV

I couldn't comprehend what was happening. One moment, I was happily climbing up the mountain, the next I get a call from Roxas. Then, as I answer my phone, the rocks I'm on decide that they want to crumble. I drop my phone, and try to get a foothold and handhold, but it's too late, and I tumble down. I hit my head on numerous rocks, and everywhere else gets bruised and scratched up too. My arm hit a large rock and searing pain shot up it, then it's all over. I laid on my stomach at the base of the mountain, my brain going in circles.

What just happened?

I had never fallen while I climbed before. I was always the most carefully when I climbed these rocks. It must have been the phone call. I never got calls from anyone, usually I would be the one to call someone.

Who would call me?

Roxas. I remembered his name popping up on my screen as I opened the little device. Why would he call me?

Where was my phone anyways?

I picked my head off the ground and looked around. It was off to my left on the ground. It didn't look damaged, just dirty. I moved my arm, and a searing pain shot into my shoulder. That wasn't good. I tried to move my right arm and grit my teeth as pain extended along it. I tried to move my legs, and found I could without anything hurting. That was a good thing, but how was I going to get up if I couldn't move my arms? I groaned and set my head back down. I didn't think I was bleeding anywhere, just tons of bruises and my shoulder and arm. I looked back over at my phone. I needed to call someone, someone to come and get me. But who would come and look for me? I didn't know anyone who would give a damn. I could call the police, but they would take too long.

Roxas.

No, he wouldn't care. And if he did care enough, he'd probably get lost again. I couldn't call him. Anyways, he was the one who called and made me fall.

But why am I not upset?

It wasn't really his fault, I knew that. I could have just easily ignored the call. And how was I supposed to know that the rocks were unstable at that point? And Roxas couldn't have known I was climbing at the moment he called. I continued to stare at the phone. I would call Roxas, and hope he could get to me without getting lost.

I tried to push myself towards my phone with my legs, being careful not to hurt my arms anymore. I reached the phone, and looked at it. The screen was cracked a little, but it was still working. I sighed, and began to try and press the buttons with my nose, but I didn't get very far before it started ringing. I pressed the answer button.

"Axel?"

It was Roxas on the other end. I sighed a breath of relief. "Yeah, I'm here." I was able to choke out.

"Are you alright? What happened?"

"No, I'm not alright. I fell."

"Fell? Oh God. I'm so sorry."

"Don't be. The rocks were unstable. I didn't know that."

"Where are you? I'm coming."

"Halfway down the road from the parking lot. Up by the mountains."

"I'll be there as fast as I can."

"Don't get lost."

"I'll try not to."

I sighed and ended the call. Roxas was coming. But I suddenly wondered how he was going to me and himself back down to the road. I could walk, but my arms hurt really badly. I sighed and laid my head back down. I would have to get comfortable, it was going to take Roxas a while to find me.

Roxas's POV

I drove down the road, judging how far halfway was. I pulled over and turned it off, shoving my keys and cell phone into my pocket. I opened the door quickly and slammed it behind me, before running up the hill next to the road. I stumbled a bit before it eventually evened out, but where it evened out the woods started, and I had to duck and jump over branches and trees in my way.

It was my fault.

It was my obligation to go and find Axel. I had been the one to hurt him in the first place. He tried to deny the fact that I had been the one that had caused him to fall, but I knew he must be upset with me. At the speed I was going, I figured it would take me around ten minutes to get to the base of the mountains from where I had started. It had taken Hayner, Pence, Olette, and I a lot longer because we had come at an angle to the mountains.

I started tripping more and more over rocks the closer I got to the mountains, until I finally reached the tower of rock. I looked around. "Axel?" I called out, and spotted a head of red hair. "Axel!"

He looked up. "Hey." he said weakly as I ran over to him.

"What did you do?" I asked, looking him over. He had bruises all over the skin I could see, and I figured he had more under his clothes.

"Broke my right arm. I might have shattered my left shoulder." he told me. My eyes widened.

"Can I flip you over?" I asked. I wanted to see if there was anything else wrong.

"Be careful, but sure."

I picked him up, pulling him back into a sitting position. I could see him wince a little, but not much. I looked over his legs first. They seemed fine, but when I rolled is pants up, I noticed he had small scratches on his knees. They weren't bad enough to hinder our progress back. Then I pulled up the front of his shirt. He had bruises all over his chest, but they weren't the deep purple I expected them to be. I continued to stare, not noticing before how muscular it was. I shook my head and pulled his shirt back down.

"I think we should go now. Your arms need to be looked at, and you've got some scratches on your knees that should be cleaned."

"Alright. Can you help me up?" he asked me.

"Sure."

I picked him up around the waist and stood him up, holding onto him as he regained his balance. Once he regained his balance we started our trek back to my car.

Axel's POV

I was happy. Roxas hadn't gotten lost on his way to find me, but I wondered how he had gotten to me so fast.

"Where are we going?" I asked him.

"My car." he said plainly.

"What about Hayner, Pence, and Olette?"

"Hayner and I had an argument. I decided to leave."

"Oh." So that explained how he had gotten to me so fast. I had another question.

"What about my car?"

"I'll come back and get it if you want after I take you to the hospital."

"Take it where?"

"My apartment? I suppose you live by yourself."

"Yeah, but what does that have to do with anything?"

"Obviously with your arm broken and your shoulder hurt, it's going to be difficult for you to take care of yourself. I feel responsible for this happening to you, so if you don't object, I think I should take care of you."

"I don't need a babysitter, or help taking care of myself for that matter." I said to him stubbornly.

"I knew you'd refuse, but I want to take care of you. Is that a problem?"

"Of course it is! I don't need help taking care of myself."

"Yes you do Axel. I'm not going to let you go home when you can't use either of your arms without them hurting." Roxas seemed firm on this decision, and he probably was going to budge.

"Fine."

We walked in silence until we reached the car. Roxas helped me in and he went around to the other side. I hummed, and turned to look at Roxas. He seemed really upset.

"Roxas. I'm fine, really." He nodded his head and turned the key to start the car. It was a really nice car, and I wondered where Roxas worked to get this kind of money. He headed down the road, and the feeling in the car was really melancholy. I fidgeted in my seat; not being able to move my arms was bugging me.

"Roxas, turn some music on or something. It's annoying how quiet it is in here." Roxas blinked and looked at the radio.

"Um. What do you want to listen to?" he asked, glancing back up at the road. I shrugged.

"Just put something on."

He turned the radio on, and some weird music came out of the speakers. I stared at the radio. "What the hell is this?" I asked, turning to look at Roxas.

"Music?" he said plainly, and I listened to it. It sounded like a mesh of incomprehensible sound made by out of tune instruments accompanied by the screaming of lyrics.

"This is music?" I asked him incredulously.

"Yeah. Haven't you ever listened to heavy metal?"

"No. And I don't think I ever want to again." Roxas sighed and changed the station to something quieter.

"Better?"

"Yes. Much better."

I sat listening to the music, drifting in and out of sleep. I wasn't really tired, but the sound of the car and the music together made me sleepy. I fell asleep again, and when I woke up, I was in a completely different place. I blinked, and tried to sit up.

"Axel!"

I turned to the voice. Roxas was sitting next to me. I spotted machines behind him.

"Eh? Where am I?"

"The hospital. You fell asleep in the car, and were still asleep when we got here. So they came out to get you from the car. I think they gave you a shot of something to keep you asleep."

"Oh. How long was I out?"

"A couple of hours really. They had to fix your shoulder surgically because you really did shatter it, but your arm's fine. It just needs to be in a cast for a while."

"That's good."

I could tell Roxas was still worried about something. "Roxas' what's wrong?"

"Um. It's just... you hit your head a lot."

"I hit my head all the time Roxas, what's so different about it this time."

"A concussion and a cracked skull?"

I stared at him. "Your head's bruised a lot too. They're afraid blood may get into the crack."

"And that's not good?"

"I think they said something about pressure and if enough builds, you could loose your memory, or die if there's too much."

"That's... not good."

"No, it's not. But they also mentioned keeping you here for a week to make sure nothing happens. I'm glad about that part."

"A week? Damn. I've got work to do."

"What do you do for a job?" Roxas asked me. I chuckled.

"My favorite thing."

"Does it have to do with fire?"

"No, actually. Believe it or not, I have a completely normal job."

"As...?"

"Manager of a grocery store."

I think Roxas was expecting something different, because he startled me when he suddenly started laughing.

"Well! What do you do?"

He looked at me. "What do I do? Nothing actually. I'm still going to college."

College? But how...? "Really? How do you get the money?"

"My parents sort-of have a lot of it."

"Sort-of?"

"Well, my dad has a big company. It's a really important company too."

I blinked. "Wait... what?" I was stunned. Roxas was the son of a CEO of a big company?

"But I have an older brother who's going to take over everything. I can do what I want really." He shrugged it off. "My parents and I agreed that they would support me through college and until I got a good job. Then I'm supporting myself."

I hummed thoughtfully. "What are you going to college for?"

"Hopefully something I don't have to leave the house to do. I'm taking a bunch of computer courses to maybe do something like programming and whatnot."

"Sounds a lot more fun than managing a grocery store. I never went to college."

"You didn't? Why?"

"Didn't know what I wanted to do with my life at the time. Now it's sort of too late."

"It's never too late." Roxas insisted. "I could figure something out with my dad, he could loan-."

"I don't do loans Roxas. I hate owing people money." I told him and sighed, leaning back against the pillows.

"Do you need anything?" Roxas asked worriedly. I stared at him, and chuckled quietly to myself.

"I need a lot of things Roxas, and some of them would involve quality time with my hand." Roxas blinked before finally understanding the meaning behind my words.

"Ew, ew! I didn't need to know that Axel."

"Sure you did, lucky for you, I was just joking. Although something I do need would happen to be painkillers. My arm and my shoulder are starting to kill me."

Roxas nodded and hurried out of the room. I sighed, and closed my eyes. Images of upset Roxas flashed through my mind. I didn't want him to be unhappy. I wanted him to smile and laugh like he had the night before.

A nurse came in with Roxas and pulled out a small syringe. She picked up my hand and attached the end of it to my IV, placing the medication directly into my bloodstream. She walked away when she was done and Roxas sat back down.

"Feeling better?" he asked, leaning over to look at me.

I nodded. "Drowzy though." Roxas was suddenly a bit blurred, and I narrowed my eyes, trying to look at him better. My vision cleared, but now there was two Roxas's. I blinked a few times, and shook my head a little.

"Axel are you alright?"

I held up a finger, telling Roxas one minute. I pressed my eyes closed and opened them again. "I think the medication is screwing with my head. I'm going from blurred vision to double vision."

Roxas's eyes widened and suddenly I though he looked really cute like that. So cute, in fact, I wanted to kiss him. And I did.

"Roxas, come here, I think I see something on your face." The double vision had gone away, and at the moment I felt a little lightheaded. Roxas looked at me questioningly, but came over anyways.

"What do you see?" he asked.

"I can't tell lean down more." He sighed and his face got closer to mine. I leaned up, looking him straight in the eyes, before pressing my lips to his. He didn't expect it, and when it happened, he flew backwards, staring at me as I started laughing.

"Axel! Are you alright?" he said after catching his breath. I nodded.

"Yep. Perfectly sane."

"Um. Maybe you should sleep."

I pouted. "But I don't want to."

"Please?"

I thought carefully. "Lay down with me." I told him.

"I don't want to hurt your arms."

I narrowed my eyes. "They're wrapped in a ton of bandages. You think you'll hurt me?"

"Fine." he grunted and came back over. I could still tell he was confused about the kiss, but he got into my bed anyways. He moved my arm so that he wouldn't accidentally lay down on it.

"Sleep. Now."

"Yes mommy." I chuckled and he rolled his eyes. I closed mine and fell asleep.