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Axel does more than stalk Roxas for six days. Axel hopes. He follows him, often without the boy knowing, though he can see that suspicious glance he always gives behind him. He knows it well, and he wants to merely grip that disobedient lock and pull his head back and kiss him senseless like he always used to.
He always wants to. He always hopes that Roxas will just look a little harder and see him, expertly hidden in the world that he sticks out in so damn much. He even hopes as the pod opens, Roxas's baby blues glued on the part of him that's been missing.
The part of him that has always plagued him, but Roxas never complains. Axel wished he had complained a little more, but it's all underneath the hope that the blonde will turn away, will come back to him.
And much like his heart, Axel's hopes are nonexistent, or at least they must be, because nothing ever happens, no matter how hard he tries.
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