Dance With the Devil
AN: Alright, Chapter three, its getting good now I guess… hope you like it.
Roxas still couldn't move, or speak, he didn't know how long he'd been standing there but it felt like an eternity.
"Roxas, your supposed to welcome people in, not stare at them giving them a complex." Xigbar smirked at Axel over Roxas' head and clapped the teen on the shoulder, motioning for Axel to come inside the house "Welcome to my humble abode Axel… nice to see you again."
"Likewise Xigbar… glad to see your out of the coffin after… how many ears? Seven?" Xigbar shrugged as he walked back into the main part of the house, arms still around Roxas' shoulders and smile on his face.
"I'm pretty sure it's seven! I don't know, I didn't think I could really sleep that long, but I did it… I think I'll work myself up to ten next time!"
"Interesting… but Roxas here couldn't have been old enough to start guarding you then… don't tell us you spent the entire time unprotected Xigbar." Axel starting up a conversation he really wasn't interested in.
"Well yeah, its not like I didn't hide myself. The story on how Roxas and I met is even more interesting though…" Roxas made to stand up and away from Xigbar before he was pulled back down and against the mans side.
"Xigbar… let me go, I'm hungry, I still haven't eaten yet." Roxas looking up with his clueless expression he'd figured out that Xigbar couldn't say no to and the man let him go, allowing him to pop up and head into the kitchen to grab something to eat out of the kitchen, grabbing one of the buns and some cheese he'd picked up. Putting the cheese onto a plate with a pear and some strawberries.
"Hey Xigbar… I'm going upstairs for a bit." Roxas turned the corner to go up the stairs but was stopped when he walked into Xigbar's chest. "Ow!" he was about to fall but Xigbar grabbed his shoulders and rebalanced him. "Just hang out in one of the downstairs rooms right now Roxas… I don't want something happening, alright?"
With a slight sigh Roxas nodded and turned towards the workout room, knowing it was nothing but a big empty room with hardwood flooring. "Fine. I'll be down here." he turned towards the room and turned his head around. "Tell whatever stories you want Xigbar… I don't really care."
Before anyone could really say anything that Roxas heard he closed the door behind him and sat down in the far corner so he could keep an eye on the door if it opened or moved in any way.
Roxas had gotten through all his food and stood up, grabbing his plate to put it back into the kitchen, scowl on his face as a couple making out on the counter got in his way.
"Excuse me." the two didn't move and he let out a growl, pushing them out of his way and setting the dirty plate in the sink before turning to the fridge and getting another face full of Xigbar chest.
"Stop doing that will you?" Roxas walked around him and opened the freezer, grabbing out a strawberry flavored Melona ice-cream bar before turning towards the parlor. "What did I do now Xigbar?"
"I want to give you a tour of the house to Axel. Sïax is going to be staying the day. I've already called your father and he's okayed you staying the night as well as day. Axel will be staying in the room beside yours, I just need you to show him around, let him know where the basement is and show him around." Roxas nodded, pulling the wrapper off and raising the ice-cream to his mouth and taking a lick of the square shaped bar.
"Alright… want me to show him around now or later?" Xigbar shrugged as he turned back towards the main area where everyone was.
"He'll come to you when he wants you to show him around… and try and actually talk to him this time kid… I don't think you want to scream gay do you?"
"Only to the right people Xigbar… see ya." Xigbar turned a corner and Roxas let out a sigh, turning towards the large painting of London by starlight and letting out a sigh, only wishing that he might be able to go there one day. To see Big Ben, and walk passed Buckingham Palace, trying to get the guards to move. He'd love seeing that city be it day or night.
"Hello Mute… are you my guide?" Roxas looked over, bright blue eyes wide with the shock of not hearing someone approach, even though he was still getting used to it.
"The name isn't Mute, or kid for that matter. Its Roxas. And yeah, I'll get to it once I'm done my ice-cream."
"Well you've been sitting there sucking on that stick and looking at the painting. I'm starting to think that you're got nothing going for you but your looks kid."
"I'm not a kid. The name is Roxas you asshole. Ant that's one thing I got going for me that you don't I guess, so forgive me for thinking of my old dreams." with a huff Roxas stood up and turned towards the stars. "Up the stairs and the first door to the right is the bathroom. The second door to the right is an empty room. First on the left is my room that you cant go into and beside that is the room you'll be staying in. the door I vanished into before is the workout room and across the hall from the kitchen is the door to the basement where they'll be staying. Consider the tour over, if you need a towel for a shower or something their under the sink in the bathroom, you'll have to order in any food you want that you don't find. Have a good night, hope you enjoyed the VIP tour and I hope you never come again."
Roxas turned back around and Axel let out a sigh behind him. "Well, my name isn't Asshole. Its Axel. A-X-E-L. got it memorized?"
"Yes."
"Cool… now I'm sorry for acting a bit like a prick, but I've spent the last three years working my ass off for Sïax and I don't like it. Now can you please show me around so I know where the hell I'm going?" looking over and seeing the bright green eyes boring into his Roxas let out a sigh and stood up.
"Fine… we'll start upstairs and work our way down. Just give me a minute."
Roxas walked into the living room and looked at Xigbar with his 'innocent face' as he was starting to call it. "Xigbar… can I get out of this tuxedo now please?"
"No. not until my guests are gone." with a sigh Roxas tried once more but Xigbar didn't budge.
"Fine. I'm going to show Axel around now, be back in a bit." Xigbar nodded and Roxas stuffed his hands into his pockets to the best of his ability, jerking his head for Axel to follow him up the stairs.
~Ó~
Roxas' phone was going haywire, he poked his head out of the plush comforters and looked at the screen going red and green with images of the basement door cracked a bit.
"Shit!" Roxas grabbed his phone and started working on shutting it off as he hopped down the stairs almost falling at several points. It was only six in the morning, he was supposed to get another hour, he's only been asleep for three.
He gripped the end of the banister and swung around, seeing Axel coming out of the basement with a scowl on his face.
"Where are they? What did you do with them kid?" his scowl turning into a glare when he saw Roxas standing there before rushing for the door himself and bounding down to see what Axel had done.
Nothing was there, literally, and for that Roxas let out a sigh of relief. "What are you talking about Axel? Its fine." he rolled his eyes, heart starting to slow down as he climbed the stairs again and walked into the kitchen, deciding to just get some hot chocolate on the stove so his mind could follow his body and wake up.
"What do you mean its fine? They aren't down there! I went to bed after them, unlike you! Who the heck goes to bed at four in the morning during a party where all the guests are vampires? Are you asking to get bitten or something?"
"Xigbar promised me protection when I sighed the promise. And as for their whereabouts right now I don't exactly know, but he has me watching the house so their here somewhere. Its safer if we don't know." Roxas looked around the kitchen noticing that he didn't get any kind of breakfast food.
"Feel like running to the store with me Axel? I'm sure your probably hungry." Axel just stared at Roxas for a minute, wondering how the kid could be so laid back about not knowing where his vampire was. He hated Sïax with every fiber of his being, but he still freaked out because it was his job to know, and his life depended on it too.
"N-not really… what'll we do if-"
"Security system. I would leave you hear alone, but that defeats the purpose of me being here, don't cha think? And I'm hungry."
"Fine. We can go, but no more then half an hour Roxie."
Roxas' face flushed red at that one single word, his heart picking up a few beats as he nodded and turned back towards the cup boards, grabbing out the only two cups and setting them out
"Would you like some hot chocolate?"
"Sure, I guess that'd be good… got any marshmallows to go with it?" Roxas shook his head, looking around the kitchen to see if Xigbar left any money lying around.
"No… and it looks like I'm going to be using my own pocket money to buy cereal too." he let out a huff as he hopped up onto the counter, looking around the room before turning towards Axel and deciding to turn some music on. "Hope you don't mind, but I'm a music hound, and I seriously need some right about now."
Axel just shrugged as Roxas hopped over the counter and divider, walking up to the remote and flipping the TV on, going right to the generic music channel for the company it was coming from.
"So… what do you usually do in a day?"
"Don't know yet. Yesterday I was literally watching as guys came into the house… they were bringing in stuff and setting it up…hectic really. But I'm planning on working on my summer project."
"Oh… what grade are you in?"
"Going into Eleven. The local high school here."
"Really… I'm impressed, I thought you were going into grade ten." Axel raising his eye brows as Roxas rolled his eyes, picking up his phone and dialing his dads number to at least leave a message.
"Just give me a minute Axel, before I get back to chewing you out." Axel just scoffed as Roxas turned back towards the living room, starting a slow relaxed pace just so he was moving, tapping his left hands fingers on the wall on his way back and his leg as he walked away.
"Hello Roxas… Why are you calling so early?" Clouds voice tired as he grumbled to his son over the phone.
"Sorry… thought you'd have left your phone downstairs again. I was just going to let you know that I'm still alright. Xigbar's left already and just letting you know that I'm going to be going to the store… need me to get anything?"
"Yeah. I need my son to get a brain."
"Sorry dad… I don't know where to get Sora a brain… but I'll be sure to look." a smirk playing on his lips as he turned back towards the kitchen, noticing the water on the stove boiling and Axel looking like a loon not knowing what to do.
"I was talking about my blonde son… but I suppose either could use a brain. Goodbye Roxas… call if you need anything."
"Alright dad… see you later." he took the water from the stove, pushing Axel out of the way and pouring the water into the cups, stirring it gently as he hung up and stuffed his phone back into his pocket, Carameldansen came on over the TV.
"Ha! I love this song!" Roxas started to hop up and down, head moving side to side as he sang along with the odd lyrics.
"Wow… aren't you full of surprises." Roxas froze for a split second, almost forgetting he wasn't alone before he stopped stirring Axels hot chocolate and handed it to him.
"Not really… just like up beat music… the best of it's found in Japan." a smile covering his face as he tried to hide the blush caused by the red head.
Axel took the spoon out of the hot chocolate and stuck it in his mouth for a moment, licking off all the little chocolate clumps and sticking it back into Roxas' "No point wasting a spoon, right Roxie?"
"Roxas… and I suppose not. Anyhow… what grade are you going into?" Axel looked over with a smile as he took another sip of the hot liquid, his hands holding the cup as if the hot liquid wasn't hot at all.
"I'm going to be graduating, the local high school too, then I get to spend every fucking waking and sleeping moment of my life will be devoted to Sïax, like my father and his before that."
Roxas froze, seeing the anger in the acid green eyes and tilting his head to the side. "So… Sïax roped your family into it?" Axel nodded, looking down into his cup of hot chocolate with a scowl.
"Yeah, I'm the fourth generation to watch him… my brother died doing it… my kids would have taken over."
"Why would have? You didn't have a vasectomy or something did you?" Roxas looked horrified wondering how far someone would go to make sure that it wouldn't happen to their own kids.
"God no… I'm not that messed in the head. I'm gay, not gonna have kids. Sïax is thinking about forcing me to procreate but he cant make me. The damn bastard is loosing his day guards with me and that's it. What about you? How long as Xigbar roped you into it?"
Roxas shrugged "I never actually looked at that on the contract… it was really dark. All I know is that it stops with me. He's not going to make my kids do it."
"Cause your not having any either, right? I'm sure he saw your earring." Roxas blushed slightly again before nodding once.
"Yeah… most likely. But I didn't turn gay just so I wouldn't have kids."
"I didn't either… I just like men. Cant really explain it, girls scare me to be honest. Their bitches, and whores, and all the ones I've met are just terrible. Guys are so much easier to deal with for me…"
Roxas just nodded, taking another sip of his hot chocolate and moving around Axel to get to the couch, wondering what his day was going to be like with the red head there too.
"What do you usually do Axel? During your day I mean." Axel just shrugged, following Roxas into the living room and sitting down beside the blonde.
"Nothing really… play video games, read a book… I think I tried to write a book once, but it didn't turn out all that great in the end."
"What are you doing for your summer project for school?"
"It's a secret. What about your project?"
Roxas smirked as he set his drink down on a coaster looking at the TV screen as the music video changed to another random song. "I'm writing a song. A rhapsody of my very own, with a cello and clarinet duet. A song that has given me inspiration through my entire life… one that always seems to be nagging me in the back of my head to write it down… one that just seems to follow me through life. Odd sounding I know… a little like I'm a musical nut."
"Nah… it just sounds like your passionate. So, what instrument do you play?"
"Common, save a little Q&A for our grocery trip today will ya? You make it hard to be a mysterious brooding teen here." Roxas smirked as he looked over to the curtained off window before turning back to Axel. "Your not sensitive to light… are you?"
"No, I rather enjoy it." Roxas smiled as he hopped up from the couch and threw the drapes open, letting out a sigh as the bright light of sunrise hit his face.
"I love sun rise and sun set… something about the colors painted across the sky that just makes me want to play."
"So why don't you?"
"We have to go to the store. And there isn't really any time to do both right now."
Axel looked over, eyebrow raised as Roxas moved towards the parlor before stopping himself.
"If you want to play then play. We can go to the store when you get it out of your system. I don't really care what happens, I'll just work on my project." Axel turned the TV off and walked behind Roxas with both hot chocolates, watching as Roxas moved over to the black piano in his rumpled t-shirt and baggy sweat pants, his hair more messed up then the night before. Alex himself looked absolutely dapper still, wearing jeans and a t-shirt bright smile in place and his red hair combed back into his usual spiked style.
Roxas lifted the lid of the grand piano and opened the key cover, shivering slightly at what beautiful sound might come out of the instrument he'd never gotten the privilege to try but knew what it should sound like and how to play.
The moment his first finger pressed down he was in heaven, his mind swimming as his fingers just glided over the ivory keys, eyes closed and his mind remembering what rhythms and what notes he was playing as his body began to sway to the song he was playing.
The moment he stopped he noticed that there was another body beside his, their breath entering and leaving their body as slowly and calmly as his own. He looked over seeing Axel sitting there, green eyes closed and his red hair just a wild mane around his head as he slowly opened his eyes, looking at Roxas and letting out a sigh.
"Is that it?" Roxas nodded, heart thumping in his chest as his face turned slightly red while Axel leaned slightly closer before moving back and standing up. "Well now I want to go so I can come back and listen to more. Common Roxas, I'm hungry." Roxas nodded and stood up before looking down at his clothes.
"Um… can I-"
"Yes… go get changed, promise I wont go down into the basement." Roxas nodded, pausing only for a moment and making sure he had his phone as he went up into the bathroom, grabbing a fresh white towel from under the counter and turning the water on so he could get cleaned up.
~Ó~
Roxas felt like a stupid giggling school girl with Axel there beside him through the grocery store. Grabbing actual food that he realized meant that they'd be staying for much more then just the one day.
"So… how long are the two of you actually staying?"
"I'm not sure. I think Sïax might be thinking a week, but it could be just until he gets his own place here in town. His hide out is a good three hundred miles away. But he's been friends with Xigbar for a long time. Longer then my family's been working for the freak. And no, I wouldn't be saying that if we were back at the house, simply because they can hear it."
"They what?"
"They can hear us. They know everything that goes on upstairs when their sleeping… well, I'm pretty sure."
"I knew Xigbar could hear my cello… he said so last night when he woke up… but I thought that's just because it was loud." Axel shrugged, grabbing a couple boxed of crackers and tossing them into the basket he was holding.
"Well Xigbar might have some different sound proof buriers. Who knows. Vampires are a hard thing to figure out." Roxas nodded in agreement, grabbing a couple more boxes of Pocky since they were there. "You like sweets, don't you?"
"Yep! We're hitting the ice-cream isle next! I need more sea-salt ice-cream bars and Melona bars!" Roxas threw his fist into the air and hopped down the isle, right up to the ice-cream section and he smirked as he found new flavors of the delicious treats he loved.
The moment the two got up to the counter Roxas regretted his decision to go to that market, Riku was the only one on the tills and he knew that he'd be reamed out for being with a guy.
It was no news to his and Sora's group of friends that they were both gay, but where Riku supported Sora he hated the fact that Roxas was gay too.
"Shit." his voice low but still loud enough for Axel to catch it as the red head started putting items on the belt.
"Hey… its Rox-ass. How you doing man? Haven't seen you since summer started."
"Its been two days Riku." Roxas ground his teeth together hearing the distinction of syllables in his name.
"Oh, touchy are we? don't tell me your on your period." Roxas ground his teeth together as he started loading the conveyer belt with his own stuff, motioning that it was all together.
"So… I see you finally got yourself a boyfriend, red hair… exotic. How the hell did you land a guy at all man?"
"Alright Riku, first off; shut the fuck up. Secondly; he's not my boyfriend. And thirdly; what the fuck is you problem with me? Sora tells everyone that he's gay and your on the band wagon for supporting him, and I do the same, and its like you hate my filthy black guts- and yes; I know their filthy black guts. So spit it out now or I swear I'll rip your limbs off and stuff them down your own throat."
Riku's aquamarine eyes widened as he looked at the pissed blonde teen before looking over at the smirking red head, fear running through him seeing the pure malice in the younger teens face.
"And I swear to god if you pick up your fucking phone and text my brother or father once I leave I'll just come back and kill you. I didn't even get to my car before they were calling me, jumping down my throat like it was a game. I'm tired of you pushing your way into my life like its yours and you know what's better or how to-"
Roxas was cut off as Axels hand slipped over his mouth, the red head held the small blonde from behind. "I think we'll just take our groceries and be on our way, I'm pretty sure Roxas is just tired… I had him up late last night." with a wink Axel worked his hand into Roxas' pocket, pulling out his wallet and grabbing his credit card, handing it over as Roxas wormed his way out of the grasp with the loosened relief thanks to only having one hand on him and storming out of the store and slamming his car door shut, trying to calm himself down.
"Holly shit." Roxas let his head roll back onto the head rest, trying to ignore the beating of his hart and the lingering feel of Axels hand in his front pocket. "Fuck, what the hell is wrong with him?"
It was no news to Roxas that he had a crush on the red head, he figured that out the moment he saw him in the door way, and the fact that he learned that said red head was gay, well that was just his icing on the cake, but he didn't want the stupid red head to put his hand down his pants! That was just a big ass no-no in his books.
"Hey… sorry about that Roxie, didn't mean for it to take me so long." Axel smiled widely as he hopped into the seat beside Roxas, setting the bags of groceries in the back seat as he pulled his belt on.
"Your kidding me right? After that shit you just pulled your apologizing for taking a few minutes! I think you owe me a much bigger apology you fucked up pervert!" Roxas' face still red as he glared at the red head, wanting nothing more then to at least slap him.
"What? You mean the pocket thing? How else was I going to get your wallet man? And its not like you made it easy and put it in your back pocket like normal guys… its like you were asking me to go for it."
"What? How the hell do you figure that? I swear to god, you ever even think of touching me or coming within two feet of me I'll-"
"Too late. We're kinda a foot away from each other."
"Shut the fuck up!" Roxas turned the key and ground his teeth together. As he pulled out of the parking lot, heading towards the house, noticing right away that the gate was open; something he didn't do. And his phone hadn't gone off either.
Axel was out of the car as Roxas was skimming through all the cameras with his phone, seeing nothing as he grabbed the groceries and followed Axel inside.
Axel ran right for the basement but saw nothing, turning around and noticing Roxas playing with his phone.
"Is this really the time to-"
"I've got the security system wired to my phone. The house perimeter wasn't broken… and if you give me a minute- there. It was just a few kids. They just opened the gate. Demyx is such an ass." he rolled his eyes, seeing the dirty blonde mullet wearing teen opening the gate and running up to the house, tapping the front porch and rushing back out, chuckling with a bunch of friends.
"No one but Demyx. Common, help me put the food away will you?" Axel let out a sigh, still wondering how Roxas could be so calm about it.
"Why doesn't it bother you?"
"Xigbar said that I just had to do the best of my ability to protect his life. If my phone had gone off and I had just walked back, then I would have died. But if I do absolutely everything within my power to keep him safe, then I wont die, only if I try and kill him. But since I don't even know where the hell he sleeps, I doubt that'll happen."
Axel only nodded as he helped Roxas put the food away, before grabbing his own laptop and getting started on his summer project: 'A Book on the Summer of a Young and Talented Composer as he Strives to Compose his Life's Work in a Single Summer' he knew the title needed work, it wasn't hard to figure that out.
~Ó~
The moment Xigbar woke up he noticed the distinct sound of both a cello and a piano, his ears filling with the wonderful sound and he pushed the lid open on his coffin, sitting up and looking over at the second coffin and seeing it open as well. Sïax sitting up as calmly as ever, pale face too white to pass for human.
It'd been three weeks since the blue haired vampire and his red haired day watcher had been living with them, and Xigbar was getting tired of it to be honest. Roxas and he were both running out of excuses to give Cloud about why Roxas had to keep spending the night. He let out a short sigh before speaking.
"Should we hunt before wrecking their playtime?"
"Axel usually lures my food in for me… I suppose I could make an exception though… he does his other job well enough. Who are we having?"
"What? The town is fresh out of known criminals, so I'm on deer at the moment. Hope you don't mind, but if your looking for a place around here you'd best get used to it." Sïax let out a growl as he got out of his coffin, standing up and stretching before moving towards the hidden door in the wall that fooled both their day guards.
"Is it not unsafe for your day guard to not know where you are? What if someone attacks?"
"Then he'll have nothing to tell them if they take him. The kid is nice and all, but I'm sure he'd squeal under pressure. And I'd appreciate if you didn't tell Axel… they don't need to know about the secret door." Xigbar looked at Sïax in the dark with his almost shining amber vampire eyes, and he saw the man nod as they both moved towards the hidden door.
The moment the hidden door opened the sound grew louder and Sïax rolled his eyes "I hate this sound… so old, I'm tired of the old days Xigbar… make them stop when we get back."
"Cant do. Roxas is doing his summer project. Promised his dad I'd let him work as much as he wanted."
"Your choosing a human over me Xigbar? What's happened to you?"
"Nothing. I'm choosing the kids education. If he doesn't know school shit he's never going to be able to protect me during the day." Sïax just rolled his eyes and flit out of the house, so fast that neither teen would have known if Roxas' phone hadn't beeped.
The teen stopped playing his cello and picked the phone up, Axel slowly stopping his fingers over the keys Roxas had taught him to play.
"Thanks for letting me know you were up Xigbar." Roxas rolled his eyes, putting his phone back down on the bench beside Axel before noticing Xigbar standing in the entrance way.
"Well I was going to. That was Sïax leaving to hunt. It's probably going to be a little messy since Axel isn't with him, so I don't want to go."
"Axel?" Roxas tilted his head to the side, not understanding what Axel had to do with Sïax hunting.
"Vampires now a days are lazy Roxas. Sïax has me lure people back to him most of the time. And if animals are what he gets he usually make me go out with him and shoot it. Remember when I tell you that you've got it easy with Xigbar here… what'd he do for you to get you to sign on to this anyways?"
"He saved me… I got scared in a thunder storm last day of school on my way home. The only shelter was a crypt in the local graveyard, turned out to be Xigbar's. by the time the storm passed I was too cold and too weak to re-open the stone door… he opened it for me after I signed the contract… I owe him my life so I protect his." Axel nodded, wishing he had some kind of emotional connection to Sïax, at least thinking the guy was good would make him feel better.
"Well… I'm just glad that I got to meet you Roxie… kinda nice knowing there's another day guard out there that isn't a total fucked up shit, well you are… but at least you're a pretty good music teacher."
"Didn't you take music as an elective if you like it so much?"
"Nah. Sïax is like my only family… killed everyone else off so I'd have no one to go back to if my contract breaks… but I don't know where he moved it. it's the only way to break a blood promise; to break the stone its written on."
"Why are you telling me this with Xigbar in the room?"
"Because I would have told you the same thing. I have little to hide form you Roxas, that isn't one of them. I'm not going to lie; I have hidden our promise, but aside from that you know how to free yourself… and relax, your only roped in until your dead… what can that be? Eighty more years?"
Roxas rolled his eyes. "Then I hope you know I'll try and break it."
"And you have every right to Roxas… its what makes this game so fun. You'll try and break the promise and not kill me, because killing me kills you. Sounds fun, right?" Roxas just shrugged before his phone went off.
"R-Roxas… what the hell happened?"
"Dad? What's wrong why do you sound funny?" Roxas gripped his phone tighter hearing his fathers strained voice and coughing from the other side.
"Some guy just broke into the house… he was chanting something about 'Roxas this' and 'Roxas that'… and something about Xigbar… what happened? It was like the guy was a monster, his face… and his eyes-" the phone was ripped out of Roxas' hand by Xigbar who raised it to his own ear.
"Mr. Vertex… did this man have blue hair?"
"Y-Yes… Sora… he took Sora. What-what happened?"
"Mr. Vertex… I'll be there in a moment with Roxas and paramedics… I'll be there as soon as possible sir." Xigbar hung up and noticed Roxas was shaking slightly, his entire body almost vibrating with how scared he was.
"Axel… I don't care what Sïax has done to tie you to him, stay with us, or I'll kill you along with him. That fucked, messed vampire has finally gone off the handle."
"Where- where is S-S-S-Sora?" Roxas looked up with bright blue eyes ready with tears.
"I don't know Roxas… Sïax has him. We're going to your house. I'm going to leave you there and take Axel with me to find Sora."
"Xigbar… your forgetting neither of us can kill him. You made a promise to him a thousand years ago and I'm bound that if I know he's going to die and don't do anything I die too."
"That's why he's not going to die. I'm not telling you anymore Axel… just help me by picking Roxas up while I get his car started." Axel nodded and grabbed the cello before Roxas could drop it and set it gently down on its side, wrapping the teens arm around his shoulders, pulling him towards the front door where the sounds of the car were already hitting his ears.
"God… how the hell did this happen?" Axel was more freaked with the fact that he would die in the process of trying to get Sïax to stop his rampage.
The ambulance was already there when Xigbar drove up the driveway, police talking with a sullen and broken looking Cloud and a silent frightened Zexion.
Roxas wormed out of the passenger seat and rushed up the drive towards his dad, wrapping his arms around the taller blonde and hiding his head. "I'm sorry dad… I'm so sorry… I should have just told you the truth… god, three weeks and I've messed up so hugely… I'm sorry, I'm so, so, so sorry."
"R-Roxas? What's wrong? Why are you apologizing?" Roxas just shook his head, burying his face in his fathers shoulder and sniffling.
"Sora's gone… and its all because of me. I, I cant tell you anymore right now… I want to, but… but I cant dad. I'm so sorry." Cloud just returned the hug, standing up with Roxas still in his arms and moving inside the house, ready to hear what his son had to say as Xigbar and Axel followed him inside, having met them both over at Xigbar's home for a movie night Sïax hadn't taken part in.
The house was empty, police had gotten what they needed and paramedics were done, concluding that whoever did it was savage and animal-like.
"Dad… Xigbar is a vampire. That day after school, when I was in the crypt… he got me out. I would have frozen otherwise and I promised him I'd protect him in the daytime while he slept in return for him saving me from the crypt. I don't really know what happened but Sïax has-"
"I can explain it sir. Sïax is starting to think that my tie to Roxas is becoming more then just vampire and day guard. The point is he's gone off the handle again and taken Sora as his hostage. I can get him back- I've done it before… I'm just not sure how long its going to take, and if its going to be too late or not. Axel is going to help, but it still might take a while. The only thing I can ask of you is to move into my house for a while, I can protect you all better there."
"How-how are you… what?" Cloud turned to Xigbar with a glare as he pulled Roxas closer, away from Xigbar.
"I am a vampire, Cloud. See?" Xigbar opened his mouth wide for the first time, and Roxas watched in awe as the two large fangs grew out; sharp points more menacing looking then Roxas had ever seen before.
"I'm going to go get Sora back now, with Axel… do me a favor and take Roxas and Zexion back to my place."
"No… what do you think I am? A fool? My son has been working for a- a vampire. And you want me to go back to your house! What the hell are you thinking! My son has been taken by another one of you- one that you seem to know pretty fucking well… and you want me to be calm?"
"Dad… I trust Xigbar… he can get Sora back, the police wont be able to track Sora… Xigbar and Axel can do it… I know I should have told you, and get mad at me for that dad, not Sora. He needs them right now. Its part of my contract with Xigbar for him to keep me and my family safe. Please dad… don't make Sora pay, I'm begging you not to."
Xigbar looked deeply into Clouds eyes, hiding the truth from Roxas and Axel that he was silently compelling Cloud into his bidding to go back to his house with Roxas.
Cloud stood up and did a few paces, before turning around with a hard glare. "What are you waiting for! If its in your fucking contract get going!" Xigbar and Axel nodded before getting up and leaving. Xigbar being able to see the trail Sïax left behind.
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"So… you are Sora. You look just like him you know… the same stupid blue eyes, same annoying face, if you tossed your hair to the side you'd have the same damn style. So what is so special about you? Huh? What is so special about 'Roxas' that I'm just not getting?
"Why has my oldest and dearest friend chosen a snot nosed kid over me? Huh, why is 'Roxas' such a special boy? Tell me!" Sïax gripped Sora's hair and pulled his head back, bearing the slender pale throat that he was debating on biting or not.
"Aaaahhh! I-I don't know what your talking about! I don't even know who the hell you are! I swear! Roxas and I did nothing!" Sora tried to fight against the restraints that were far too tight around his wrists and ankles, keeping him pinned to the chair Sïax had put him in.
"Well he's turned everyone against me… my own day guard would rather spend time with a gay fairy then me!"
"Don't talk about my brother like that! I swear, when the police find you… their going to put you in jail forever!"
"Ha! The police cant get me! I'm a vampire kid… they cant find me and you cant escape! Hahahahahaha! How sad for you! And with such a delectable looking neck… I wonder what blood type you are." his finger slid up the soft column before he bent down, resting his long sharp fangs on the warm flesh that mirrored the flesh he wanted to rip into pieces.
"I hope you know… that your precious twin brought this hell upon you. He could stop all this pain… but he wont. He doesn't care about you. At all." with that, his fangs sunk into Sora's flesh and he gulped in the thick, warm blood of a human his body had been craving for so long.
AN: Alright! Cliffhanger! I'll be posting chapter 4 soon hopefully! I put chapters 1-3 up at the same time because it really give you're a chance to read through all the boring stuff and see that it really does have a plot line. I hope you like it, and Please Review!