-I PREFER THE RAIN-
A GW/KH2 Crossover
By Axel Ingleson
-Chapter 02-
"Please, please be alive," Demyx prayed quietly as he opened the door to the bedroom where Axel was resting. He couldn't bear it if the redhead died. Demyx loved Axel with every part of his being. There had been no other member of the Organization who made him smile the way Axel did. And Axel had stood up for him on many occasions.
Now, almost entirely alone on a new world he could not identify, and which he did not recognize from the O-13 database, he was counting on Axel to pull through, because without Axel, Demyx would be lost. He had no one here who would take care of him. None of them could ever hope to understand what it was like to be a Nobody. Only Axel could understand him. Axel was his only hope.
"I believe this belongs to you," said a voice from behind him.
Demyx turned and saw a man with short blond hair standing, holding the one thing that Demyx cherished more than any other object.
"Arpeggio!" he exclaimed. "Thank you!" he hugged the sitar to himself, then stepped quietly into Axel's room.
Sitting on the edge of the bed in which Axel slept, Demyx tested the strings of his sitar. They were all perfectly tuned and tightened. He looked down at Axel and smiled. He decided he would awaken the Flurry with a love-song.
Playing his sitar, he began to sing a little tune of his own devising:
Your fire lights my way
That's why I seek you out each day.
Your fiery red spikes of hair
Drive me mad in every way.
Please don't sleep. Awaken soon
I wish this was our honeymoon.
He paused at this, and wondered what he would do if Axel proposed. It would have to be Axel who proposed. Demyx didn't have the courage to ask. He feared rejection too much.
Looking down, he saw that Axel had not stirred at all during the entire song.
"Have you tried waking him with a kiss?" the blond inquired. "It works in all the fairy tales my sisters used to tell me. You never know. Stranger things have happened."
Demyx gulped. "I can't…" he admitted. "I'm too scared. What if he wakes up and he gets mad at me? Besides, I know for a fact that Axel's never been kissed. I can't steal his first kiss like that. It wouldn't be right."
"I understand," the blond smiled. "I never got a chance to introduce myself before. My name is Quatre Raberba Winner. Why don't you come and I'll introduce you to the others?"
"I can't leave Axel," Demyx shook his head. "He's all I have in this world. He's the only other person who understands what it's like to be a Nobody."
"Axel will be fine," Quatre assured him. "Come meet the others. Axel needs his rest anyhow."
Demyx would not budge, however.
"Very well, then," Quatre decided. "I'll bring the others here. If that's okay with you."
"That's fine," Demyx agreed. He watched Quatre leave to fetch his friends, then turned back to Axel. "Please, wake up! Please, Axel? I need you to wake up."