In any case, I just want you guys to know that no, this isn't the type of thing I normally write, and maybe some of you won't like it as much as the others, but I hope it won't be a total flop here. Please let me know what you think (my goal is still 100 and counting, help me reach my goal?) whether you like it or not!
(x) Date: 2006.05.22
(x) Author: Kuroi
(x) Pairing: Axel/Roxas
(x) Warnings: BL
(x) Kingdom Hearts II © Square Enix
(x) "Seasons of Love" © RENT Motion Picture Soundtrack
Installment: 09
Word Count: 649
"Moments"
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Sometimes, Demyx wished he had someone to play and sing for, as the Organization members weren't much of an audience. Axel, however, would listen to him sing even when he wasn't quite ready to perform a song yet, and would even clap for him. Demyx appreciated that.
"Isn't it supposed to be 'five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes?'" Axel asked as Demyx paused to figure out why his sitar was off tune.
"Yeah, it is," agreed Demyx jovially, although he was rather surprised that Axel even knew the lyrics to this particular song. "Why, what did I say instead?"
Axel shrugged, "You were singing 'one hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes.'"
"Really? Thanks, I won't make that mistake again." Having retuned his sitar, Demyx grinned at Axel and played a few notes before continuing where he left off. "How do you measure, measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee, in inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife?"
He was pleasantly surprised when Axel's voice joined in with his own to sing, "In five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes, how do you measure a year in the life?" Axel wasn't really singing, persay—it was too half-hearted for it to be a true harmony—but Axel was at least voicing the words, and although Demyx didn't know where Axel had heard the song or how Axel could have possibly known it well enough to actually sing it with him, it felt nice to sing with someone else and Demyx didn't ask anything of it.
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It was later, as Axel and Demyx sat around idly doing nothing, that the subject of Roxas was brought up. "Do you wish he'd just come back?" Demyx asked quietly as Axel leant back on his palms and looked up at the blank ceiling with an expression on his face that made Demyx wonder just what was going on in his mind.
There was a long silence as Axel thought about his answer before simply saying, "Yeah, I do."
Demyx kicked at the ground below him aimlessly and smiled at Axel. "I'm sure Roxas misses you as well, Axel," he said with an optimism that he was sure Axel didn't feel. "He always liked you best, anyway."
Axel smiled at that, and Demyx felt he had done something right by cheering up the older Nobody. "Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes..." Axel hummed softly, nodding his head to the rhythm of the song at the same time. "How do you measure, measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee..."
"Hey, Axel?" asked Demyx suddenly, pausing in his silent mouthing of the lyrics to look up at Axel who had his eyes closed to the music he was humming.
"Hm? What is it?"
Demyx looked away and didn't continue for a few moments as he wondered how to ask his question; he looked back up at Axel when he had finished wording it in his mind and asked, "How do you measure a year in life? Do you measure in love, like those people in the song?"
Axel chuckled slightly, but fell into a thoughtful silence anyway as he tried to come up with an answer to the question. It was with an awkward smile and sad eyes that Demyx thought didn't belong to him that he said, "I measure a year in life...in moments Roxas spent with me."
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Was written for my darling Gogo-chan, who said she liked it. (Uh, yes, this song was stuck in my head when I wrote this, why?) Waffy, fluffy-ish. More so than the other ones, anyway. Let me know what you think of it, I'll love you forever—!
Next drabble: "Replacement"
It hurt, when Axel looked at Sora, because Sora reminded him of Roxas but wasn't Roxas, and Roxas wasn't there anymore.
