Roxas blinked, fireworks exploding behind his eyes, and looked at the clock again. 2:15 a.m., central standard time. He hadn't gotten any sleep since Axel had forced him to go to bed, and the redhead was still up, watching some stupid cartoon that Roxas had been listening to through the door.
He began listening to the rhythmic ticking of the clock, trying to find some sort of constant beat or melody in it. Anything to take his mind off of a) how bored he was and b) how pissed off he was.
Axel had tried to feed him the crap about his parents not coming to get him again, but this time, instead of making him upset, he had gotten really, really mad. He also felt that it was necessary to share these feelings with his captor using rather…profane language; an action which had earned him a punch in the face, the subsequent shiner and split lip inevitable.
Even that, however, hadn't done anything to calm him down. Really, in retrospect, the entire situation that he was in was Axel's fault. If the redhead hadn't been a complete, self-absorbed asshole and decided that he needed to kidnap Roxas for his parents' money, he would probably be home in a comfortable bed surrounded by the affection of (most) of his family.
He sighed and turned over to lay on his back, staring at the dark ceiling. Lights from the other room were starting to seep in from the crack under the door, and they provided the blonde with a little lighting. However, this small amount of light cast many shadows, and regardless of how angry he was, those shadows scared Roxas.
In the other room, Axel let out another burst of his annoying laughter, and Roxas frowned. "Asshole…" He breathed, closing his eyes tight and imagining all of the things that he would do to Axel if their circumstances were just a little different.
That seemingly simple action must have taken him a long time, because the next thing he was aware of was the bedroom door being cracked open. He opened his eyes and noticed that there was no more light coming from the living room, but he could still faintly make out Axel's silhouette in the darkness.
The redhead didn't say anything; just stripped down to his boxers and slid slowly underneath the warm blankets beside his captive. Roxas silently vowed that one day, when Axel came to bed, he would stab him in the back with a cleaver.
There was silence between them for a moment, each of them listening to the sounds of the other's even breathing. Roxas was just about livid, the action of taking no action using up just about all of his energy.
Roxas's eyes just began to drift shut when he heard Axel suck in a deep breath, and for a moment thought something was wrong until he heard the purr that followed. The blonde blinked, listening to what he thought the redhead was doing for a little while longer just to confirm what he was thinking.
Axel huffed softly and groaned, and Roxas could feel the heat radiating off of his captor's body. "Ah…fuck."
Roxas all but gagged, a disgusting bile rising in the pit of his stomach. Axel groaned softly again, and Roxas felt the sheets shift as the redhead parted his legs further.
They continued on like this for a few minutes before the little blonde couldn't take any more and elbowed Axel square in the back. "You're so disgusting." He spat out.
Axel stopped in his ministrations immediately, turning on Roxas with an expression of pure shock. "You're awake?"
"No shit." Roxas hissed. "And you're…you're jerking off."
"No shit!" Axel turned over to face Roxas, slowly moving from shocked to pissed off to relatively surprised. "How long were you listening?"
"Long enough." The blonde grumbled, crossing his arms and snorting. "So nasty…"
"If it was so nasty, why didn't you stop me sooner?" Axel asked. Before Roxas could form a response, however, he heard the redhead lean over, and soon a light was on in the bedroom.
Roxas immediately noticed two things. One, Axel's face was flushed a very deep red color, and it almost looked like he was blushing. A lot. Two, he was grinning like a maniac, and had a gleam in his eyes that told Roxas he was probably up to something.
"I…" Roxas opened his mouth to respond, but when no valid excuse came out he just narrowed his eyes. "Why the hell do you care, anyway?"
"I think you were enjoying it." Axel purred, leaning forward. "I think you were getting off on hearing me jerk."
"You're so disgusting." Roxas spat, propping himself up on his elbows and leaning away from his captor. "I can barely stand to me in the same room as you, so something makes me highly doubt that theory, as well."
"I don't believe you." Axel said simply. Roxas shrugged.
"That's your problem. But believe you me; I was not getting aroused."
"I think we should check." Axel said in a low voice, the glint in his eyes taking on a rather malicious quality. Before the blonde had a chance to protest, Axel's hand was between his legs, his lips at Roxas's ear.
"Are you going to give me a chance to be proven wrong?" He purred.
"Get off of me." Roxas growled at him in response, shoving at Axel's shoulder. The redhead, however, was far stronger than the blonde, and barely budged an inch.
"I don't like the way that answer sounds." Axel moved his hand up slowly, taking time to caress Roxas's thigh beneath the sheets.
Roxas shuddered and snorted, closing his legs, trapping Axel's hand just below his cock. "It's not like I care, you pervert. Get away from me."
Axel sighed. "What if I don't want to?"
"That's really too bad for you!" Roxas yelled in his face, and Axel laughed. The blonde continued glaring at him for a moment before the insecurity set in and Roxas leaned stubbornly against the headboard.
"What's so funny?" He muttered, casting his eyes down.
"You're so cute when you try to fight it." Axel answered, giving Roxas puppy dog eyes for a brief time before pulling his hand free. "But you know I'm going to get what I want one way or the other."
He moved from his position on the left side of the bed and crawled on top of Roxas, pulling the sheet down. "So really, all you're succeeding in doing is buying yourself a few more minutes."
"You make me sick." Roxas spat, inching as far away from Axel as he could but actually moving back only a few centimeters.
"That's really unfortunate, because you make me really hot." He leaned down so that his lips were just in front of Roxas's, that psychotic grin still in place. "Now, be a good boy and give me a kiss."
The blonde chose to instead spit in Axel's face, and smirked briefly before yelling. "You're so disgusting! If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be in this whole mess anyway. I hate you! Got it memorized, Axel?"
Axel sat up and wiped the saliva from his cheek, shaking his head slowly. "Man, kid. You really don't learn, do you?"
Roxas opened his mouth to spit some more curses at Axel, but before any sound had escaped his throat, the redhead backhanded him across the cheek; an action that was met with a loud crack that resounded throughout the room.
He grabbed Roxas's neck and wrapped his fingers and tightly as he pleased, enjoying the soft choking sound that the blonde made and the way his eyes widened. "Now, listen up." He hissed. "If you ever try to pull any shit like that again, the next time your parents will be seeing you will be in a body bag. You don't want that to happen now, do you?"
Roxas shook his head 'no' as fast and as many times as he could, and Axel nodded, released his throat. The blonde gasped for air, all of the fight that had been in him immediately disappearing to be replaced by fear. All of his false confidence and melted away to reveal what had truly been fueling him; fear.
"And to think that I was planning on being gentle tonight." Axel said, sighing and shaking his head. "Well, you made your bed. Now you have the lie in it."
Roxas gulped and shook his head again, taking Axel by the shoulder. "No, I'm sorry. I-I didn't mean it. I'm just angry. At my parents. Because they…they haven't paid you yet. I don't know. I'm sorry."
"I'm feeling inclined not to believe you." Axel said coldly, shrugging Roxas's hand off of his shoulder. "However, anger is the second stage of grief."
"Uhm…what?" Roxas asked, blinking.
Axel ignored his question and slid his hand underneath Roxas's boxers, using his thumb and forefinger to pinch and stroke the blonde's length. Roxas let out a choked gasp and grabbed the edge of the bed, his fingernails digging into the mattress.
"P-please…" He gasped. "Please stop…"
"No thanks." Axel said, and continued in his ministrations, his stroking fingers gaining speed. "I'm rather enjoying myself."
Roxas pinched his eyes shut and squeezed the edge of the mattress harder, and he swore he could feel his nails break through the thin fabric of the sheets. What he couldn't believe was how incredibly gentle for Axel this action was. It was killing him.
Axel moved his thumb over Roxas's sensitive, (should be) virgin head, rubbing it hard. Roxas, in response, began to let out a soft moan, but before it had even fully exited his lips he clapped a hand over his mouth and whimpered.
"Ah…you like that, don't you, Roxas?" Axel purred. When Roxas didn't respond, he continued massaging the boy's hardening length; an action which earned him a loud whimper from his captive.
"That's what I thought." He smirked and withdrew his hand from the boy's boxers, licking the precum from his fingers and moving back to his side of the bed.
Roxas slowly let his hand fall from his mouth and opened his eyes, glancing at Axel in surprise. His captor smirked and pointed to the bathroom. "You can finish in here, in front of me, or finish in their, and sleep in the shower tonight. Take your pick."
The blonde's mouth opened, half to say something and half in shock. Axel expected him to…to masturbate in front of him? What the hell was this guy thinking?
"Am I allowed to pick neither?" He whispered. Axel laughed.
"You expect me to believe that you're going to go the rest of the night, trying to fall asleep with that between your legs?" He indicated Roxas's cock, which was, by now, pretty much a full-fledged erection, and raised his eyebrows.
Roxas swallowed and nodded slowly, crossed his legs. Axel just shook his head. "No. You're not allowed to choose neither."
The blonde closed his eyes once more and thought about both of his options, and both of them had their cons (neither of them really had their pros). It was already very clear to him which option he was going to choose, but he would give anything to have a door number three.
"Come on, kid. Make up your mind already. I'm tired and I want to go to bed." Roxas could hear the impatience in Axel's voice, and cursed God for not letting him put this off any longer.
Slowly, he reached down between his legs and rubbed his dick through the fabric of his boxers, whimpering softly. He could feel Axel's gaze burning into him, and he tried his best to ignore that and focus on the pleasure, even if it was coming from his own hand.
"Ah…" He slowly slid down off the headboard and onto the mattress, rubbing and squeezing himself harder, the redhead beside him quickly being forgotten.
"So--" The name began to slip from his lips, but he was immediately silenced as Axel's lips were crushed against his.
"Be careful who's name you moan." He breathed softly, grabbed Roxas's hand, and helped him finish. The blonde cried out as he came, no name escaping his lips. Instead, he contented himself in a series of indistinguishable sounds of pleasure.
He collapsed back on the mattress as soon as he was finished, which took a surprisingly short amount of time, and looked to Axel to make sure that the perv was satisfied.
"Good boy." The redhead said, stroking Roxas's hair and taking his right hand from where it lay beside his captive's body. Deliberately, his tongue slid around each of Roxas's fingers, licking the viscous white liquid from them.
"Now…" He said, finishing his treat and pulling the blankets up to Roxas's chin. The blonde was looking at him with a look of complete disgust on his face, mentally cursing himself for letting Axel have this kind of control over him.
"Who are you made at?"
Roxas took a deep breath, trying to keep the malice out of his voice. "My parents."
"Good boy." Axel said again. He patted Roxas on the head and leaned to his left, clicked the light on his nightstand out.
The room was plunged into darkness once more, and after recovering himself a little, Roxas looked over at the clock. 3:45 a.m. He sighed and was about to lay on his side when he felt Axel tap his shoulder.
"Hey kid." He murmured. "Come here."
Roxas glanced over his shoulder and stared at Axel in surprise for a moment, trying to understand what the redhead meant. "I'm…sorry?"
"Come here." Axel said again, and placed a hand on Roxas's hip. Then the blonde got it, shock coming over him briefly. Axel expected him to…cuddle?
"I'm growing impatient, Roxas." Axel said shortly, and almost immediately Roxas moved over and curled up, very uncomfortably, against Axel's side.
He felt a strong arm encircle his waist, and Axel pressed his face in the blonde's hair. "You know the only reason I do these things to you is because you make me, right? This could have been a rather pleasurable night for you, but you just had to go and be defiant."
Roxas nodded slowly, and Axel sighed. "Well, I guess that's okay. I have a feeling that we're going to have plenty of time for you to warm up to me."
Fat chance. Roxas thought, but just nodded again. Axel chuckled softly and kissed Roxas on the top of his head, and the blonde could feel him relax.
"Well, get some sleep. I'm not going to have you passing out in the middle of the day because you're tired."
They were silent after that, and Roxas closed his eyes, doing his best to fall asleep. He tried to fool himself into believing that it wasn't Axel he was laying against. It wasn't the steady bass of Axel's heart beat that helped him relax, or Axel's rhythmic breathing that eventually put him to sleep.
A/N: I LOVE this chapter! I hope you guise like it as much as I do. It makes me happai. ^^ Urm...yeah. I think I'm going to get through the fourth stage of grief before Xigbar comes in, and after the stages of grief are over, get ready for some Dem Dem. ;D 'Cept I'm pretty sure you guise are going to hate Demyx's role...xD coughcoughHe'stheroadblockcoughcough
Yup! Enjoy!
~Sara
