9. Telephone
Really, their relationship had started with a 1930s Bakelite telephone, Seifer mused.
Roxas and Seifer had been trying to cook up a plan to get Hayner out of his current (abusive) relationship with Setzer, but every time they tried to get Hayner to leave, an 'accident' would occur that would make him stay. And he still didn't see how much the violet-eyed Struggle champion was hurting him.
But one day, Seifer snapped and slammed Hayner into a wall, ready to yell at him, but had ended up kissing him so fiercely that the brown-eyed boy's breath had been snatched away.
"I love you." Seifer didn't know how, but it had slipped out and the next thing he knew, Hayner was out of his bed and running.
When Hayner had stumbled home, limping tellingly and with a faint hickey hidden by his shirt, Setzer had been waiting for him.
"You little shit! You cheating, lying little whore!" The older man had slammed him into a wall, much as Seifer had, and proceeded to rip Hayner's clothing in an attempt to undress him as quickly as possible. "Am I not fucking enough for you, huh? Not enough, so you have to go and screw that fucking kid, Almasy?!" Hayner didn't question how he knew; he never did. Hayner had screamed for help, but no one came, so he had grabbed the first thing he could and hit the side of Setzer's head with it. Luckily it had been the old, black telephone that Setzer had insisted upon keeping for some reason, and as a result of its heaviness, it had knocked him out cold.
Seifer had heard a rapid, hard knocking at his door and slammed it open angrily, only to have Hayner fall into his arms, trembling and clutching desperately at him.
And so, in a way, if Hayner hadn't happened to hit Setzer with that old-fashioned phone, maybe none of this would have happened. He would have been raped and possibly killed by that bastard. Seifer shuddered at that thought and pulled his sleeping lover closer to him, nuzzling the soft skin at the nape of his neck and thanking his stars that that telephone had been close enough.
AN: Yeah, those telephones are really quite heavy. :( Hayner, if you're going to cheat on your abusive partner, then at least make sure it's not so obvious. Honestly.
