The blonde woke up to the feeling of his arms being wrapped around him by something very uncomfortable. Upon further inspection, he noticed that he as in a straight jacket. A quick look around the room revealed that he was in a nice, white padded room where he couldn't hurt himself. Or anyone else, for that matter.
Standing about four feet away from him, near the door, was the tall redhead that the blonde thought would be fun to blame for this whole mess. He had Roxas's folder in his hands, and he was watching his patient with a kind of disappointed expectancy.
"How are you feeling, Roxas?"
Roxas straightened up and was immediately met with a spinning sensation in his head, fell back against the surprisingly comfortable walls. "Peachy."
"Do you feel nauseous, have a headache…?" He walked over and sat Roxas up, undid the clasps that were holding the straight jacket around him. His arms released, he stretched immediately, and was satisfied as he heard his shoulders crack.
"No, I'm fine. I'm surprised that I haven't built up some sort of immunity to that stuff by now." He chuckled and turned to face his doctor, yawning. "What can I do you for, Doc?"
"Why did you attack that nurse?"
Roxas blinked. "What?"
"Are you trying to put more sticky notes on your file, or did you think it was necessary at the time?" Axel shook his head, sighing. "Roxas, I've only been here for two weeks and already I'm starting to wonder if I should be giving up on you."
"What the hell?" Roxas barked, shrugging the straight jacket the rest of the way off and stretching some more, all the while his eyes staying on Axel.
"Do you plan on answering me, or is this just a waste of my time? Right now, I'm pushing three appointments with patients back so that I can talk to you." He set the folder down on the small cot in the room and cracked his knuckles, shrugging. "So are you going to waste my time or not?"
"Okay, rewind." Roxas held a hand up and took a deep breath, and once he had made sure that he wasn't going to shoot the messenger, so to speak, he began. "I think you may have been misinformed."
"How so?"
"I didn't attack any nurse. She tried to help me get undressed for bed, I tried politely to tell her that I didn't need any help, and she took things a little out of context." He shrugged. "She was, by no means, attacked."
"She claimed that you raised your hand to her."
"Oh God…" Roxas shook his head. "No. What happened was, I was getting really frustrated, so I threw up my hands in exasperation. Duh." He demonstrated for Axel, who was nodding the entire time, and crossed his arms once he was finished. "I had no intention of hitting her."
"Well, what you intended to do and what she thought you were going to do turn out to be two completely different things." Axel walked over to Roxas and took him by the arm, led him over to the door that would lead the blonde back into the world of the living.
"So, that's it? I don't get any more severe punishment or anything? Just a few days in seclusion?"
"That's it." He took Roxas in the direction of his office, many nurses and other patients staring at him along the way.
"I guess word spreads pretty quickly." He murmured, unconsciously moving a little closer to Axel. The redhead looked down at him, surprised, but quickly shrugged it off.
"Three days."
"I was in seclusion for three days?" Roxas asked, incredulous. "How the hell did I sleep through all that?"
Axel shrugged again. "Due to the fact that you've had to be sedated so frequently, the nurses thought it a good idea to give you a little bit of a stronger drug this time." The answer was simple, but Roxas was a little surprised all the same. "They didn't want you waking up twenty minutes later."
"Oh." Was all that came out, and as soon as Axel led Roxas into his office and closed the door, the blonde sat down immediately.
Axel fished through a folder for a moment or two, and they were both silent. Roxas watched him expectantly, and for once in his entire time being in the ward, he actually didn't know what to say. For some reason, Axel was so different from all of his previous doctors. It was…interesting.
"Do you think I did it?" He murmured, and only after the words had exited his mouth did he realize he had actually conceived the thought. In hindsight, he didn't like the way his voice sounded weak. He sounded…dependant.
Axel glanced up in surprise, clearly having noticed the difference in his patient's demeanor. "I'm sorry?"
"Do you think I attacked the nurse?" This time, the question came out stronger. Roxas made a point to raise his head in a little bit of a proud gesture, erasing any doubt in Axel's mind that he was feeling submissive (for once).
"I…" Axel began, and shook his head. "I'd like to believe that you didn't. And honestly, I don't think you're a violent person. She's new, as well, so she probably just heard some rumor and got carried away with what she thought might happen."
Roxas nodded. "Okay."
"But all the same, I still need to make sure you're mentally stable." He chuckled humorlessly, and Roxas frowned.
"Now, let's begin. Have you been feeling any sense of hostility towards any of the nurses, particularly Nurse Goodhue?"
"No."
"Have you experienced abnormal feelings in general such as anger, sadness, suicidal thoughts, violent thoughts, or anything similar to those feelings?"
"No."
"Have you been regularly taking your medication?"
Roxas snorted. "Why do you even bother asking?"
Axel looked up from his sheet of questions and fixed Roxas with as much of a leveling gaze as he could muster before closing the small file containing the report (for some reason, the alleged attack report got its own folder separate of Roxas's main one) and sighed.
"Roxas, I want you to talk to me. Tell me the truth."
Immediately, the unexplained "warm" feelings the blonde had been feeling toward his doctor vanished. "I already told you the truth."
Axel shook his head. "I know you were lying to me. If you aren't ready to tell me the truth yet, that's fine. But I can't help you until you do."
"How can you help me if you don't know what's wrong with me?"
"How can I know what's wrong with you if you don't tell me the truth about your family?" He shrugged and fixed Roxas with a soft look, which was immediately shot down with a glare.
"Come on, Roxas. Talk to me. Let's just…just start with your sister. Tell me about her."
"You want the truth?" Roxas murmured. Now, he refused to meet the redhead's gaze. He was instead looking out the one window in the small office, cracking his knuckles.
"Nothing but."
Roxas sighed, and shrugged. "The reason I told you she was prostituting herself was because she has a new boyfriend about every two months. She's always in love with him, and she always wants to marry him, and she always has sex with him," At this he frowned, shrugged. "And then he breaks up with her and she hates him. Same old trick."
"You seem bitter about this." Axel remarked.
Roxas shrugged. "I just don't get it. I mean, she's fourteen. I'm seventeen, and I only just lost my virginity. Which I regret." He frowned. "Its unhealthy. And my parents don't even know what's going on. They're too busy living in their own little world to care what we're doing."
"You're homosexual, correct?"
Roxas looked at Axel, raising an eyebrow. "I thought we were supposed to be talking about my sister."
"You mentioned that you lost your virginity, and I thought that it might be attributed to your sister's promiscuity." He shrugged. "Tell me."
Roxas snorted. "No way in Hell, Doc."
"Why not?"
"Because I don't want to." He snorted. "I mean, I like to think that we're tight and all, but I don't really feel that its necessary to divulge that kind of personal information this early in our relationship."
Axel sighed. "All right, Roxas. Fair enough." He stood up and walked around the side of his desk, tapped the blonde on the shoulder. "Come on. You're going back to your room."
Roxas stood up and looked at his doctor, a little confused. "I'm not going back to the day room?"
"Your punishment for "attacking" the nurse is limited interaction for the duration of the day. Your meals will be brought to you, and we'll have to cancel our evening appointment."
"Sweet. About the first part." Roxas added. "I look forward to meeting up with you, Doc. Wasting your time is fun."
They reached the door to the blonde's room and Roxas went in, turned, and watched Axel. "I guess I'll see you tomorrow." He said, grinning.
Axel nodded. "Yeah. Tomorrow."