A/N : Okay so….this is going to be along chapter. I lied last time, you'll get 2 more chapters after this one. I decided to definitely go smut free (sorry, I enjoy it as much as you do) nd go more with the tragic-romance. I like tragic romance :9

Anyway…I mixed a certain Cetra in the story more…and gave some references to her certain Soldier (if you don't know what I'm saying that's fine.) I don't own Final Fantasy Seven, unfortunately. So she might be OOC, sorry if she is. Thank you all for reading…this story is helping me explore my own emotions a lot more than I expected…of course I don't have a redhead to come popping out of my stove to help me out like lucky Roxy-poo does, but oh well. Them's the breaks.

Warning: Language and LOVE

Disclaimer: I don't own 'em, just like writing about 'em. I HEART you forever, Square Enix and Nomura.

Special Thanks: CANDY~CHAN!! Ty sooo much for agreeing to read!!! And g.h.s.x….next story is all yours, if that offer is still valid?

The drive home was…interesting. Axel had been so busy thinking about what he wanted to buy he hadn't looked at his surroundings much. Roxas laughed on the inside. Axel had his face pressed to the window like an overexcited child, asking questions about everything. Whatever dimension he was from must have been pretty damn boring.

"What's that?"

"Wal-mart. Gigantic grocery store." they had made a stop there of course…Axel ate so much Roxas was afraid they'd run out of food.

And of course Axel bought more stuff. Gel, mousse, and a whole lot more hair stuff. Crazy amounts of snack-food and soda.

"Hey where's the ice-cream section?"

"Why?" Roxas asked cautiously. He was never, ever, taking Axel to the store again. They already had two carts of food. He ate as much as Sora, and that was saying something

something.

"Sea-salt ice cream of course!" Axel rolled his eyes, as if it was a no-brainer. "We always ate sea-salt ice cream!"

"Never heard of it." Roxas shook his head, but was distracted by a college chick approaching. "Can I help you?" he asked tersely. He had a headache, and he felt really hot…

"Hi!" the perky idiot said, ignoring the small blonde. "My name's Selphie!" she advanced on Axel. "Now, I don't think I've ever seen you around here before. Why not ditch your little friend here and hang out with me?" she grabbed Axel's arm, trying to pull him away.

Roxas just stared, shocked. His jaw hit the floor, however by someone's reaction.

"Hey slut, get your STD filled hands of his arm."

The world seemed to freeze. Roxas then realized, he had spoken.

Axel laughed. Draping his arm over Roxas' shoulders, he glared at Selphie. "Yeh, bitch go give yourself to some other guy that's not taken."

Grumbling something about hostile gays, the chick disappeared around the corner, grabbing a tub of ice cream on her way.

Axel nuzzled Roxas' cheek. "Possessive much?" he asked, chuckling as he searched in vain for sea-salt ice cream.

"I-I-I." Roxas couldn't seem to get it out. He stood there, while Axel added tub after tub of different flavored ice cream to the cart, mouth flapping like a caught fish. "I-I-I…"

"You stood up for me, is what you did." stepping closer to Roxas, he again draped his arm over the smaller boys shoulders. "You, my valiant knight in emo armor, chased off a 'threat' to our relationship." steering Roxas towards the checkout, the blonde still stuttering.

Roxas somehow managed to fit all the new food into his small apartment. They had to eat some of the ice cream, however. And most of the food in the fridge. And a lot of the older food from the cabinet.

He'd never felt so full…now he knew what human sacrifices felt like, being fed their last meal before dying to appease a god. He was being fattened up, surely.

He groaned when he realized how much working out he'd have to do to make sure he didn't get fat.

Axel burped loudly. "Excuse me." he laughed, and hiccupped. "Damn it now I have the hiccups."

Roxas laughed. "Serves you right." he gasped out. "You ate twice as much as I did. How the hell do you hold it all?"

"Practice." Axel said, hiccupping and then belching loudly again. "Ah I don't want to eat another bite…"

Noticing a lone French-fry, Axel grabbed it and stuffed it in his mouth. Swallowing slowly he met Roxas' glare with a look of innocence. "I couldn't let it go to waist!"

Correction, he eats more than Sora. Roxas thought to himself. He just ate more than a third-world country eats in a month. Rubbing his stretched tummy, Roxas sighed.

Standing up ever so slowly, Axel grabbed the bag of hair-care products they had bought. "I'm going to go take a shower." winking at the blonde he asked, "Wanna come join?"

Roxas blushed. "Umm…I'll pass, okay?"

Axel shrugged. "Whatever floats your boat's fine with me. Next time."

Roxas listened while Axel loudly started a shower, and even more loudly sang in it. Roxas had never heard the song before. Which made sense, since Axel wasn't form this world…the thought still seemed strange to him.

"When you walk away,

You won't hear me say;

Please, oh baby, don't go.

Simple and CLEAN buahahaha!!!

Is the way that your making me feel tonight."

Somehow Roxas very much doubted that yelling 'clean' and then laughing maniacally was part of the song. He listened, as Axel started the song again. He actually had a really nice voice, even though the song seemed a bit sad, which didn't fit Axel at all. Roxas liked it.

Axel ran into the room, rummaging through bags. Roxas' jaw hit the floor as he took in the full of Axel's body.

The redhead had totally run out of the bathroom without clothes.

"Forgot my clooothes Roxy-poo. Nothing to worry about." he singsonged.

Running back to the bathroom, he appeared a few minutes later, hair still dripping.

Roxas laughed. "Your hair! It's so…"

"Different? Yeh, I know." smiling ruefully, Axel sat down, running his fingers through his long hair. "I'm not going to bother to spike it for a while. All that gel and hair shit hurts after a while."

Roxas liked Axel's hair this way. Straight and fiery, it fell down past his shoulders in a crimson curtain. Shaking his hair out, Axel splashed Roxas with water droplets.

"Quit staring. Let's do the dishes." he stood up, grabbing a large pile. "I know I'm beautiful, but shucks, you make me feel like a god or something." laughing he quickly filled the sink with water. Roxas remembered his little joke about being fattened up like a sacrifice. Laughing nervously he stood up grabbing plates and pans.

"That song you were singing…" Roxas asked, while he brought the rest of the dishes over. They had used almost all of his dishes just for a meal.

Roxas was not looking forward to his water bill.

"Yeh, what about it?" scrubbing melted cheese off of a bowl, he handed it to Roxas who dried and stacked the bowl onto the drying rack. He should invest in a dishwasher…maybe…looking at the dishes left he nodded mentally. Definitely.

"It's beautiful. Who wrote it?"

"Oh, a friend of ours from the Organization. Demyx, the Melodious Nocturne. He wrote it as a love song for Zexion."

"Oh. He's good." Roxas accepted the pile of plates Axel passed him, and quickly dried them off.

"Yeh. They both died…I miss them a lot."

"I'm sorry." Roxas placed his hand on Axel's arm. "I hate it when people close to you die…"

"Yeh it must've been hard on you when Xion died. You were just a kid."

"Well yeah, her. Mine and Cloud's parents died a few years ago too." Roxas laughed darkly. "Even though I was really sad about it, and it still hurts…at least I know their together. Like I'm sure Zexion and Demyx are."

Axel turned to face Roxas, and Roxas wiped the lone tear form Axel's green eyes.

"I'm sorry." Axel said hoarsely, turning back to the dishes.

"It's okay. If it wasn't for them I wouldn't have been able to afford any of your stuff."

Drying off the last dish, Roxas clapped his hands. "Enough of that. What do you want to do now? I need to study…but I don't feel like it right now." Walking form the kitchen, he stepped into his bedroom to grab his textbooks. He really didn't feel like it. He was still really hot, and his tummy ached. "But I might as well."

Axel wagged his eyebrows. "There's always one thing we could do." Tackling the smaller boy, they landed with a loud oof! onto the bed. Pinning Roxas underneath him, he quickly and ferociously started kissing him, along his jaw line, all over his face.

Roxas gasped as Axel undid the buttons on his shirt, kissing quickly and hardly at the smaller boys chest, reaching for Roxas' pants. Grabbing Axel's hand, he pushed the redhead off.

"No." he gasped out, barely a whisper. A fit of coughing took him, and he sat there, hugging himself tightly as Axel kneeled on the edge of the bed, looking at him in concern and confusion.

The coughing fit lasted for a long time, and when it stopped, Roxas sat there gasping for breath, tears running down his face. A look of almost comical horror washed over his face. Running to the bathroom, he quickly disposed of that night's dinner.

Head hanging above the toilet, he whimpered as he noticed all of the half-digested food. Axel ran into the room, and wetting a wash-cloth with cold water, he placed it on the back of Roxas' neck. When he noticed how much Roxas was sweating, he quickly wiped his face, murmuring soothingly as Roxas again retched up more.

"What's wrong with me?" Roxas whimpered in between retching.

Axel just sat there on the tub, wiping Roxas with the wet cloth, cooling him off and calming his body as it purged itself. Starting a bath, he again started to undo Roxas' clothes.

"How can you think of sex after I just threw up?" Roxas weakly demanded.

"Yeh right," Axel snorted, "I'm starting a cool bath for you, love. Your burning up! Why didn't you tell me you didn't feel good?" he asked, concern written plainly on his face.

"I didn't really…just a little hot..."

Placing his forehead against the blonde's, Axel whistled. "You have a pretty high fever, if my body temp is normal. Do you have any potions around?" he asked, as he helped the now naked Roxas into the bath. Roxas shivered. He knew it couldn't be that cold, but it felt icy to him.

Teeth chattering, he shook his head. "I used the last of the medicines Aerith made on you." he chuckled. "I have a lot of loose herbs and fresh ones on the balcony, but I don't know how to use them all. Their all marked, and there's a book that Aerith made telling me how to use some of them."

"I wouldn't be able to recognise them anyway, judging by the plants I saw. Your herbs are way different than ours. I'm pretty sure what I mean by potions is different than what you mean."

Roxas looked around, embarrassed slightly by having Axel sit there on the floor, holding his hand while he lay naked in the bathtub. With the smell of vomit permeating the air.

"Hey. Where's the bathroom door?" he asked, confused.

"Umm well you see…I burned it down when you were in here last night bleeding to death." Axel said in a rush. "Sorry, I had to get to you fast."

"You burned my bathroom door down?" Roxas asked confused and stunned. "How the hell is that possible?"

Cupping his hands together, Axel concentrated and then breathed softly into them. Orange fire leaped forth, and Roxas felt his eyes grow big.

"I can control fire. Make it, put it out and so on. It's my closest friend after you." he smiled. "I'm going to go see if I can figure out what to use, be right back." Running from the room, he turned around and faced Roxas. "No getting up. And try not to fall asleep until I get back, I don't want to have saved you from bleeding out to lose you to drowning." Running back to the smaller boy, he kissed him softly on the head.

"I'll be right back."

Roxas looked stunned as he watched the redhead leave the room. Sexy, smart, funny, naturally smells good, and he has magical powers. What a catch. he thought to himself, sardonically. Wait… did I catch him? After all this I'm still not sure. Why would he want to be with someone useless like me? Someone who's a nothing, a nobody in all terms of the word?

The pain in his chest started again, the one he got whenever he was really depressed. Trying not to sob, he hugged himself tightly, shivering ever so slightly in the water.

"Here, chew these. Chamomile, feverfew, comfrey, peppermint, horehound and some other stuff. I don't know how good it'll taste but it should help if what she wrote is right." Roxas obediently chewed the herbs, which didn't taste all that bad. Axel stood him up carefully, and dried him off head to toe. Wrapping him in a comforter, he carried him bridal style to the bedroom.

Laying Roxas down, who now felt tired and sleepy and warm, he quickly stripped of his clothes. In his boxers, Axel grabbed more blankets, and curled his long frame around the smaller boy.

Hugging Roxas close to himself, he whispered to the drowsy boy, who was quickly nodding off. "Just sleep now. In the morning, if your still feeling bad, I have a trick that I want to try."

"Mmkay…" Roxas mumbled, sleep quickly taking over.

Morning came too soon, and Axel opened his eyes. The bed was wet, he noticed. His first thought was Demyx must have soaked him as a prank in the middle of the night…when he remembered where he was exactly. Sitting up quickly he realized why the bed was wet.

"Oh my Goddess Roxas!" the young boy was sweating profusely, and Axel laide his hand on the blonde's head.

It burned, hotter than anything Axel had felt before. Since he controlled fire, anything fire related felt pleasingly warm to him. Now he understood what it felt like to be burned.

"Ngh…" Roxas moaned turning in his sleep.

Axel started to panic. What the hell was he supposed to do? Those damn herbs didn't work…

Aerith. She had to be able to help!

Running to the bookcase, he grabbed the notebook she had written the herbal info in. Praying like a clergyman, he searched fitfully through it, hoping beyond hope that there was a full name, number, anything he could use to reach her.

Flipping through the pages, he almost dropped the book when he heard someone approaching behind him.

"A-Axel…I don't feel so good…" Roxas stood there panting, sweat pouring all over him.

Axel walked quickly to him, grabbing him as he stumbled and fell. Catching him before he hit the floor, Axel laid him down gently, grabbing pillows off of the couch. He looked down in shock at the large, red stain he saw on the cushion, and a flash of memory struck him like pink lightning (A.N. haha I used pink this time, gotta love me :9), one of a sudden, terrible pain. Then he had seen Roxas' face…he'd thought he'd died or something.

Shaking his head, and causing his now semi-fluffy hair to swirl around him like a red wave, he resumed his search.

Shouting out loud with triumph, he held up a business card.

Gainsborough-Fair Flowers

Rare and Exotic Blooms for Your Every Need

(671)-943-1157

Grabbing the receiver off the hook, he quickly dialed.

"Gainsborough-Fair Flow-" greeted a calm, kind voice.

"Is this Aerith?" he asked urgently.

"Yes," a pause, "How can I help you, Axel?"

"My names A-" he stopped himself short. "Wait how did you know my na-"

"Roxas is sick right? Don't worry honey, I'm on my way." she quickly hung up, and Axel stared at the phone in shock. Dropping it quickly, he picked up his Roxas and placed him on the couch. Running to the bedroom, he quickly changed the sheets out.

Ohmygod. That was weird. he though as he ran back to get Roxas and lay him down on the more comfortable bed.

A/N :P I thought the psychic kick would help make her more…magical than a regular chick with a thing for plants. that's just me though. Remember, review, review, review!! Hearts to all.