Vanitas couldn't get that question Ven asked him out of his head for the past few weeks. Would you still be there for our son if I died bringing him into this world? Did Ven know something he didn't? Vanitas took a step back to see the completely transformed spare room. Ven then came up from behind him and kissed his cheek.

"You know, if you can make a room look this pretty, then maybe you should be an interior designer." Vanitas put on a fake smile then turned around to kiss Ven. The blond noticed this fake smile, and for the past month, Ven had wondered why Vanitas wasn't himself lately.

"Vanitas, what's wrong with you? You haven't been yourself for a few weeks now and I'm really worried." Vanitas looked at Ven who was looking at him worriedly.

"I'm fine honey. Really." Vanitas said kissing his fiancé, but the blond wasn't having any of it. He just had to get to the bottom of this mystery.

"No you aren't something is bugging you and I want to know what it is." Then Ven looked like he had an idea and his eyes started to water up. "It's me... isn't it? Is it because I'm getting fat? My food demands are getting a bit more weird? My mood swings are getting more out of control?" Ven started to cry more as Vanitas kissed his tears away and looked at him apologetically.

"No. It's not you, you're perfect the way you are. It's me okay?" Ven started at his fiancé.

"What are you talking about?"

"Last month after you had that nightmare. That last question you asked me before you fell asleep in my arms and I quote, "Would you still be there for our son if I died bringing him into this world?", I just want to know why'd you ask me that kind of question and, is there anything you know that I should know about?"

"Vani, I think I was just asking that because I was over reacting to my dream. I guess I just wanted to go back to sleep with a comforting thought. As for the next thing... this isn't easy to say but... since I have the carrier gene-" Before Ven could finish his sentence, there was a knock at the door. Vanitas walked to the door with caution and when he opened it, Roxas was behind it with tear filled eyes looking like a complete emotional wreck. Instantly, he glomped on Vanitas who set Roxas on the couch and gave him a pillow to cry on. When Ven came down two minutes later seeing his brother in distress, he quickly waddled over to him.

"Roxas, what's wrong?" Roxas was trying to steady his breathing to answer, but he kept crying. Vanitas, without even guessing, had figured it was Axel not telling Roxas about his physical therapy. Ven caught the look and mentally glared at the ravenette. He fucking knows something! Ven thought calming his brother down. Once Roxas was calm, he spoke about his problems.

"I have a problem Ven. I think Axel's cheating on me!" Roxas said as he began to cry more.

"Why do you think that?" Ven and Vanitas asked simultaneously.

"He's not telling me anything! Any time I want to talk to him, he always says he's too damn busy to talk!"

"Maybe he's been trying to look for another job to start paying his rent on his own. His brother's been paying for him to live in his apartment for a couple of years now and frankly, the loan is wearing the poor guy out. Or, he's still in shock from the near death experience. A lot of people who have been shot are known to do that." Roxas broke into a small fit of hysterical laughter followed by more crying as he shook his head.

"It's not that! I actually saw the guy trying to take Axel away from me, he has blue hair and a scar on his face. Whenever I ask Axel about him, he always says that he was a friend of his. What do I do? Do I just let it go and keep pretending everything is okay or get to the bottom of this?"

"You can hire a private investigator to follow Axel or you can put a hidden camera in his living room and see what he's up to with that guy." Roxas stopped his crying remembering the toy bear with a hidden camera in its eye he got at a spy store.

"Maybe I should do that. Sorry to bother you brother, but I have to go do something at Axel's apartment." Roxas said leaving. When he was gone, Vanitas let out a sad sigh as Ven picked it up.

"Is there something you aren't telling me?" Ven asked.

"No. There's nothing."

"Are you sure? Because when Roxas was in here, you looked like you instantly knew what was wrong with him!" Ven snapped. All the blood from Vanitas's body seemed to drain when Ven said that.

"I know what's wrong with him, but I can't tell you. I promised Axel I wouldn't." Ven's eyes started to well up with tears.

"So you can't tell me what's wrong with my brother because of a promise you made?" Vanitas sadly nodded. "Fine. Just remember that I have something important to tell you about the carrier gene. Until you can tell me what's going on with Axel so I can know what's wrong with my brother, you'll be sleeping on the couch!" Ven said waddling up the stairs and slamming the bedroom door. Vanitas grabbed his jacket and got in his car to race to Axel's apartment. Luckily, Roxas hadn't gotten there yet. When he opened the door, it revealed Axel who was struggling to stand on his bad leg.

"Vanitas? What are you doing here?" Vanitas went in and turned around to face his friend who was confused.

"Axel you've gotta tell Roxas about your physical therapy."

"I can't! I don't want him to feel like he's paying a debt to me!" At that, Vanitas punched Axel in the face.

"Listen to me you pyromaniac! I know that you don't want any help or anything like that when it's clear you need it the most, but just stop being so stubborn for a damn minute and think about your boyfriend! Roxas really loves you and he wants you to get better real soon, I've seen guys take advantage of Roxas. Always cheating on him or using him to make someone jealous but, when he met you, he stopped feeling like that! Another thing, Roxas loves you and you getting shot in the leg two months ago helped him realize how much he cares for you and if you died, then he would've tried to commit suicide by now! You have to tell him about the therapy, he's already convinced himself that there's someone else and due to that he's a complete emotional wreck. Sorry for punching you. I'll show myself out." With that last sentence, Vanitas left. Roxas heard everything from outside.

"I'm sorry you had to hear it from me. Axel should've been the one to tell you." Roxas shook his head with a sad smile.

"Don't worry about it. I somehow knew Axel was going through physical therapy but given his stubborn nature, I didn't think that was an option." Roxas said as he walked into his boyfriend's apartment. They both looked at each other until one of them finally said something.

"Roxas... I'm sorry I didn't tell you about my physical therapy."

"Why didn't you tell me? If you loved me then you would've told me."

"I didn't want you to feel like you have some debt to owe me! I wanted to go through this alone."

"So having me a complete emotional wreck is better! When you got shot two months ago, I realized I loved you! When the doctor told me you would live and might've been able to walk again, I didn't care as long as you were still alive and with me! If you told me about it, then I would've been glad to take you to a good therapist! I would've done anything to help you get better because you mean that much to me! But... but... you didn't tell me. I think we need to take a break." Roxas said while crying.

"You mean our relationship...?" Axel asked as Roxas nodded.

"Just until you change for me. Then I'll take you back, otherwise... don't even bother." With that the blond walked out. God, why am I so stubborn?! Axel thought as he started to cry into a pillow. As he fell asleep, he got a flashback of his childhood.

FLASHBACK

Alone in a room sits an eight-year old boy with flaming red hair watching the snow fall with a sigh. He then gets up to see his father sobbing in front of a picture of his mother. About a month ago, his mother died giving birth to his little brother, and since then... his family started to grow rather distant. The boy looked at the picture of his mother in a beautiful white dress and her long red hair and bright emerald eyes smiling back at him.

"Mommy..." The boy whispered as his father turned to him with his tear filled eyes. The tall man then took the child into his arms and held his tears in not wanting to cry in front of his son.

"Daddy... I miss Mommy." The boy cried.

"I miss her too Axel. Just keep remembering the good times with your mother and you'll never miss her. As a big brother, it's your duty and Reno's duty to help me take care of Lea. Now dry your tears and be brave like Mommy kept telling you before she became an angel." Axel nodded as he went to his younger brother's room and watching him sleep completely oblivious to what's happening.

"Little brother... If only you knew what's happening right now then you'd be crying as much as me, Reno and Daddy are. Just so you know, we don't blame you for what happened to Mommy. When you get older and find out for yourself... never blame yourself." As Axel went back to his room, he heard yelling from his father's office.

"I don't care! I won't do that to my wife!... I know that was what she wanted to do to her body when she passed, but... Fine... I'll cremate her body, but you had better be there to explain what's happening to Axel because there is no way I am! Good-bye." Axel didn't know what his father was talking about but, the next day, his Aunt Risa was explaining what was going on when he asked why his mommy's body was turning into ash.

Axel looked at the urn containing his mother's remains. The engraving read "Yukiko Usaragi. Mother, wife, sister, daughter. Taken away from husband and sons too soon...".

"I'll be brave Mommy. I can't believe that bad fire destroyed you." Axel then thought about the flames. Those flames... they were so beautiful... I must recreate them again... Axel thought as he went to Reno's room in search of the matches and gasoline his brother hid.

END FLASHBACK

As Axel woke up with a jolt, he realized how he got so stubborn and became a pyromaniac. His father was too stubborn to cremate his mother's body and watching the flames at the cremation parlor consume his mother and burn her gave him a release to help cope with his mother's death. Then he got so much pleasure from the beautiful flames he couldn't stop. I just found the answer to my problems! Axel thought as he smiled.

"Now all I have to do is get Roxas to come back to me!" Axel cheered.

Meanwhile, Vanitas got back to his home to find Ven on the couch watching TV. Quietly, he went into the kitchen to grab some ice cream then came back and put the frozen treat in front of his lover.

"Ven, I owe you an explanation and..." Vanitas was cut off when a pair of lips topped his own.

"Don't talk, Roxas told me. I would've kept the secret. Now I still have to tell you about what I found out about the carrier gene."

"Take as much time as you need honey." About an hour passed.

"About a day after I told everyone I was pregnant while you were still in prison, my mother took me to see my grandfather Merlin because he knew something about the carrier gene. It turns out that every generation of Strife men have the carrier gene as part of a curse, but it was never discovered because none of the Strife men were gay until me and Roxas broke the cycle of unknowing men since we're gay. Anyways, Merlin said that there was a chance I could die giving birth to our son." Vanitas' eyes widened. Ven could die?

"How high is the risk?"

"The risk is seventy to thirty. Seventy being the risk of my death. I'm sorry I never told you this, but I was trying to figure out how." Vanitas then took Ven into his arms as the blond continued to cry.

"Don't worry. I'm not mad."

"I love you Vanitas Nightshadow."

"I love you too Ventus Strife." Vanitas said kissing his fiancé once more.

"You don't have to sleep on the couch tonight." Vanitas smiled. The next day Vanitas and Ven were in bed when the phone rings. Groaning, Vanitas answers the phone.

"Nightshadow residence. Vanitas speaking."

"Vanitas, it's Cloud! You and Ven need to come down here quick!" Cloud sounded frantic.

"Why what's wrong? Is everything okay?" Vanitas was now worried.

"Roxas disappeared!"

"Okay, we'll be there soon." Ven then woke up and looked at Vanitas' worried face.

"Vani, what's wrong?"

"There's no easy way to say this, but Roxas has been kidnapped." Ven started to cry because his brother was kidnapped. Quickly, they got dressed and headed to the Strife's home. When they got there, there was only one police car and two cops at the scene. There was even a motorcycle that was Axel's and the redhead was sitting on the ground crying. Vanitas and Ven split ways. Ven to comfort and grieve with his parents and sister, Vanitas to comfort Axel.

"Hey Axel, how are you taking this?" Vanitas asked.

"Terrible. I just found out why I burnt down all those things and why I'm so stubborn and I was going to get help and tell Roxas about it but then he got kidnapped. What are we gonna do?" Whenever Axel was in real trouble, he turned to Vanitas, but that wasn't in emotional cases.

"Just let the police handle it man. That's all we gotta do as free men. Don't take the law into our own hands."

"I already talked to a cop. They said that they can't do anything until Roxas has been missing for 24 hours. He's been missing for six hours." Axel then got onto his bike and drove off. Vanitas could only pray that Axel doesn't get himself into trouble.

Me: Whew! Can't believe this took me a couple of weeks to write! Okay, the reason I haven't updated in a while is because the other computer I found died! Then again it was about five years old. Anyways, I'm now using my Mac! My parents fixed the battery so I am now back online!

Vanitas: Can I ask the questions? I'm practically the star of the story!

Me: Sure Vanitas.

Vanitas: Now that Roxas has went missing, will Axel be able to find him? Also, with Ven's life on the line, is there any hope for us? And now that Axel's reasons for being stubborn and a pyromaniac have been discovered, will he go to therapy?

Me: Good job Vani! Also, we are nearing the end of the story so please, if you have any ideas for names, please enter your ideas! I added one I thought about but that doesn't give me much of a variety! Don't forget to review, favorite or follow! This is Janae A.K.A OrgyMemberXVII signing off! Bye :D