Chapter 10
Axel, Mushu, and Riku were all standing around the bed holding both Roxas and Sora, having protectively curled around his brothers head and refused to let go everyone left the brunette where he was. Axel was looking down at Roxas, the cuts and bruises all over his body making his skin shiver as they all waited for Ansem to return.
"So what the hell did you guys find? I know Sora said something about his uncle and psychopath, but why's Roxas so beaten up¾ and where's their uncle?" Mushu turned to Axel, his still cracking voice making him sound more stupid then confused.
Axel opened his mouth to tell Mushu to drop it but was cut off as the infirmary doors burst open and a large blonde man came rushing into the room, his odd black jacket only covering one arm and his shirt underneath showing off his muscled arm.
"Roxas! Sora!" He pushed the kids crowding around the bed out of the way and gave Sora a hug as the brunette sat up.
"Dad! I'm so sorry, I should have told you sooner, I-I should have told everyone. Th-this is all my¾"
"It's not, nothing's your fault Sora. Roxas is alright." Cloud looked down at his youngest son, seeing all the cuts and bruises making him want to kill his brother. "He's fine, your fine. It'll all work out." The man holding his son was extremely conflicted though, the thought of his own son killing his brother something that he hadn't want to accept when Ansem used Floo powder to come to their home. He'd just been reading a book when the white haired man had told Cloud everything and given him permission to come back to the school with him.
"D-dad, your smothering me." Sora didn't really want to say it, but he knew that if he said nothing his dad would certainly crush his ribs unintentionally.
"Sorry." Cloud let his eldest go and looked down at Roxas, gently inspecting his son for any serious injuries that needed more attention then they'd already been given. "How'd his hair get blood in it?"
"I-I think a rock hit him from the blast." Sora looked down at Roxas before getting off the bed and standing over beside Riku, using the aqua eyed boy for support.
"I'm sorry, but I'll have to ask you students to leave. It's far past curfew and you still have classes in the morning." All heads turned to the door as Ansem walked in, his hands clasped behind his back and under his cape. With light steps he made his way over to the bed, motioning for the Gryffindors and Ravenclaw to leave the hospital wing so they could get sleep.
"Sir, we're not going to sleep as it is. I don't think it could hurt to¾"
"No buts, and no speaking of this. Be on your way now." The students left without a word, Axel being the last gone, staying until the door was closed in his face by Ansem. "Now, Sora. Would you care to explain what happened?"
"I-I don't know, all I know is once I got in there spells were cast really fast and then I heard the unforgivable. A-after that Axel made me leave because I was crying and we didn't know who was dead." Sora was playing with his hands, looking at anything but the people in the room with him.
"Well either way, I suppose we should let Roxas rest. Unless of course you're pulling your boys out of the school, Mr. Fenrir."
"N-no. There's no more danger here for me to worry about." Cloud let out a sigh as he stood up, not really knowing what to do with the predicament. "I should probably hang around the school until the investigations are over though, I don't really want to have to come back for him." Cloud let out a sigh as he sunk down to a chair not too far off, he didn't want Roxas to have to go through more interviews about his stupid brother, but at the same time his son used an unforgivable spell and that meant the ministry had to make sure he had reason to fear for his life.
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Roxas groaned as he opened his eyes, his head was killing him and his left leg felt like it'd been torn apart then glued back together. 'What did I do? I-I used an unforgivable curse on family. This is just like Scar's story¾ oh no! He died in the castle!' Roxas sat up in the hospital bed, his head spinning and his heart beating a million miles a minute.
The blondes head was swiveling around the room, his eyes wide with fear as he looked for the ectoplasm remains of his uncle.
"I can see that you've realized the repercussions of a death happening inside the walls of this school." Roxas yelped as he voice echoed in the room, Ansem was standing by the door to the infirmary leaning up against the door jamb.
"A-Ansem! Where is¾ where is he?" Roxas turned his eyes back on the room, stopping only when he felt an arm around his waist tighten.
"Don't worry about it Roxas, he's been confined to the room where he was killed. Your dad had a good time yelling at him before I sealed the room off though, we've gotten his statement about the events. In the morning a few ministry members are going to question you though, your uncle said that you threw dangerous curses at him for no reason." Roxas let out a heavy sigh, he knew that it was extremely likely that his uncles ghost had tried to turn everything around on him.
However Roxas had the fact that his wounds hadn't been healed yet, so all the evidence of what Sephiroth had done was still fresh on his skin and in his mind. There was no way his ghost was going to not know that the ministry knew that Roxas wasn't going away.
"You're smiling, that's a good thing."
"I'm smiling because I was so stupid, I should have used a spell that'd have hurt him instead of one that causes painless death. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad I didn't make him suffer the way he made me suffer, but he deserved more pain."
"Don't worry about it Roxas, you killed him horribly enough that his ghost cant be viewed by the students. Do you know what spells you cast against him?" Roxas shook his head as he put his back against the headboard of the hospital bed, putting Sora's head on his lap so the blonde could still sleep.
"I don't know if that makes me feel better or not, but thanks for trying sir. I think I'll just try and get some more sleep."
"Do you think I came here just to check on you Mr. Fenrir? You have a guest. You can come in now." Ansem turned around and head towards the door, being passed half way by a forth year student, his body shrouded in a black cloak so no one would see him on his way over. His plan had failed however, so his hood was down to show off his obnoxiously red hair.
"Axel! Um, h-hi." Roxas covered his mouth as Sora moved, trying once again not to wake his brother.
"Hey Roxie, you alright?" Roxas nod his head as Axel sat down in the seat beside his bed, leaning his arms directly beside Roxas' thigh that wasn't occupied by a head, turning his face away from Roxas and letting out a sigh as his cheek came into contact with his folded forearms.
"Uh, y-yeah. A-are you¾"
"Good, I was worried about you. Couldn't sleep." Roxas' face went bright red as Axel nudged his leg a bit, he didn't know what to do as Sora moved so his head was back on the pillow and his arm was just draped over Roxas' hips.
"Night Axel."
"Night Sora." Axel couldn't really help but smirk as Roxas just sputtered "Night Roxie."
"Hey, you cant both just use my as your personal pillow! Get off." Axel raised his head and looked up at Roxas a moment before a smile took over his face.
"Fine I wont use your leg as a pillow." With a smirk he stood up and placed his knee on the bed beside Roxas' knee , moving Sora's arm up Roxas' stomach a little before grabbing the blondes hips himself. "I'll use your chest."
Axel quickly jerked his arms down until Roxas' head was back on the pillow beside Sora's head, "Well, at least your arm." Roxas was completely dumbfounded. Axel leaned down and pressed his lips to Roxas' in a quick kiss before sitting back down and hugging the blondes arm to fall asleep. "I really couldn't sleep, this feels much better."
Roxas let out a sigh before closing his eyes "You grow too quickly attached, don't you?"
"Probably. But I cant help it." Axel pressed his lips to Roxas' hand once more before settling in for sleep.
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Roxas woke the next morning in the hospital bed, completely alone with nothing but a note on the nightstand; 'We had to go to classes, see you at lunch. We'll make sure to bring you some sweets~ Axel'
"Well this is great, what am I supposed to do all day, just sit here?"
"Yes, that's what you do when your injured. You sit and you don't move much." Roxas turned to the side to see his father walking into the infirmary with a couple men Roxas had only seen during dinner parties or at the ministry itself.
"Oh, hi dad. Hello minister." Roxas folded the letter back up and placed it back on the night stand as his dad walked towards him with the men from the ministry.
"Hello Roxas, how are you this morning?"
"Fenrir, we said you could be here but¾"
"He's my son, of course I'm going to see how he's doing. Even if he weren't my son I'd ask how he's doing, he needs to be mentally stable for any form of questioning." Cloud ground his teeth together as he spoke, wanting nothing more then to hex his boss.
"It's alright dad, where do you guys want me to start?"
"How about why he brought you down into the dungeons?"
"I had detention with him for no reason." Roxas let out a sigh as eyebrows raised. "He said I failed a test when I didn't, my test scores for Defense Against the Dark Arts could never be low enough for me to get zero on the test."
"Alright, you can continue." 'Oh thank you, I so need your freaking permission. I would have died without¾ just tell them Roxas, getting frustrated wont help you.'
"I don't really know how it started, I sent my Patronus out to find Sora, h-he mentioned how he would just love for my Patronus to find him so he could do it again¾"
"Do what again?"
"F-five years ago, when you didn't believe me about him using an unforgivable curse on me. H-he made Sora use it too. He put Sora under the Imperio curse and forced him to use Crucio on me. S-so when Sora came into the room and I heard him. I-I couldn't take it. I couldn't have him do it again and not get rid of the memory again, half the pain last time was just to keep Sora safe. I couldn't take it again." Roxas looked down at his lap, his fingers fiddling with the scratchy blanket he'd had to sleep with.
Clouds eyes were wide as he looked at his son, seeing the tears welling in his eyes was making his chest constrict with anger towards his brother and confusion towards the boy who'd told him all this before. He never thought his brother was capable of something so cruel, he grew up with Sephiroth for goodness sakes!
"I don't know exactly what spells I said, I just heard 'Imper' and got scared again. He'd already used Crucio on me, I wasn't about to let him control Sora again. I just couldn't."
"Would you like to know the order the spells were cast in?" Roxas nod his head at the minister of magic, hoping he might answer the question he wanted to know; why did I use the killing curse?
"The spells he cast in order were; Imperio, Finite, Crucio. You're spells were; Reducto, Sectumsempra, and Avada Kadavra. As far as we could tell your Reducto stopped his Imperio, his Finite stopped your Reducto. Then your counter curse was Sectumsempra, it hit him and he hit you with Crucio right after. The fact you were able to throw another spell is amazing enough."
"Then if you guys know all of this, why are you questioning me?"
"Because we want to know why you threw the killing curse at him."
"Because I was scared, he's tortured me for hours on end. He needed to die, there was no reason for him to live any longer! He was a bloody-fucking Death Eater and he deserved to die!" Roxas stopped and clapped his hands over his mouth, his eyes wide as he looked at the men standing around his bed. Only Cloud looked like he understood the blondes reasons for killing.
"But he never threatened your life, did he?"
"That doesn't matter! He hurt me, and he hurt Sora! I couldn't let him live after hurting Sora, he is the epitome of bad and all things wrong with the magical world! He didn't deserve to take another breath after threatening him again! I don't regret it and I only wish I could do it again!" Roxas leaned back against the headboard of the bed again and curled into a ball, his arms crossed over his chest and his head down so he could glare at his knees.
"I don't think further questions are needed."
"Fenrir, we still have more questions for¾"
"No you don't. If you have any more questions for my son they will have to wait until he's out of the hospital wing and able to answer your questions properly."
"I don't need to tell them anymore. That's all they need. If they're going to put me in Azkaban for protecting my brother then fine, I'll go now. Have fun with all the publicity this is going to get Mr. Minister. I can see the headlines now 'Ministry puts teen in jail for saving his brother' and 'Avada Kedavra used to save brother, he's innocent.' I think the press would eat stuff like this up."
The minister and his followers left the room without another word, leaving Cloud and Roxas alone.
"Why didn't you ever tell me it was that bad?"
"I did, you just didn't believe me. I-I'd kinda like to be alone now dad, I need to think about what to say the next time they bug me."
"A-alright. I'll be back around dinner time." Cloud ruffled his sons hair briefly before leaving the hospital wing, he was taking over Sephiroths class until Ansem could get a replacement anyways, so he had a class to get back to.
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Roxas couldn't help but sigh, Butter beer tasted amazing! It was the best break he'd ever gotten! Axel was sitting beside him, leaning against the wall so Roxas could lean against him. "My god, I feel really bad about not having any before now. I feel so bad that I neglected to give my taste buds this nirvana." Roxas slipped down so he was more comfortably against Axel's chest.
His month had been hectic and it was his first actual chance to hang out with Axel since getting onto the school quiddich team and catching up on homework. He'd been bothered by a few reporters for 'being the only person to use an unforgivable curse and not go to jail' he'd just brushed them off and explained that he was busy on a date.
"Yeah, I told you that when you said no." The two had gone outside and were enjoying their drinks up against the side of the Three Broomsticks because Roxas had found inside to be too stuffy.
"Alright, you win. You were right Axe." Roxas looked up at Axel with a bright smile, rising a concerned eyebrow when he saw that Axel was looking really pissed. "Hey Axel, what's up?"
"Just thinking. I'm wondering what we're doing."
"Um, drinking Butter Beer¾ wait a minute, is this not butter beer? Axel, what am I drinking?!" The red head couldn't help but smirk and wrap an arm around Roxas' waist.
"Butter Beer. I'm just wonder what we are."
"Wizards."
"No I mean¾"
"It's up to you. I-I don't really like titles, but I like you¾ lots. I-I really like spending time with you and I really want to be with you lots. D-does that help."
"Not really, are we just going to be like this; not boyfriends, just friends who like each other and kiss?"
"No, I can tell that you're the kind of person who needs labels. So how about boyfriends?" Roxas looked up at Axel, seeing his jaw mostly because of the angle of his head.
"You'd do that?"
"It's not hard to do Axel, you've done so much for me and I can do this for you." Roxas gave Axel a huge smile and turned around, getting up on his tiptoes, intent on giving Axel a kiss until the red heads lips were just too far out of his reach.
"Something wrong Roxie?"
"Yes, I want to kiss you." Axel smirked and leaned down, pressing their lips together.
"Sorry, you'll have to get taller then me first." Roxas just pouted before wrapping his free arm around Axel's neck and pulling him back down for another kiss. "Or, you could be more forceful."
"I like option number two for right now." Roxas doubted he'd ever get taller then Axel, but finding higher ground wouldn't be too hard. With a bit of a smirk Roxas leaned forwards and pressed his lips back against Axel's for another kiss, the red head couldn't help but smirk and kiss back.
Long slender fingers grabbed Roxas' cup and pulled it out of his hand, setting it down beside them on the barrel with his cup. Axel wrapped his arms around Roxas' waist and pulled him closer hating that the cold weather was starting to bite at his blondes cold skin.
Roxas' face turned bright red the minute Axel initiated a hotter kiss, placing his hands on Axel's burning hot neck to warm them up.
"Shit! Cold, cold, cold, cold. Holly-how do you do that?!" Axel clenched his jaw against the frozen fingers against his neck, knowing that the blonde just wanted to get warmed up.
"Here, how about we head back up to the castle for a bit?" Axels smirk playing across his face as he spoke.
"What, you planning on snogging in the library or Slytherin common room?" Roxas raised an eyebrow and gave Axel a wry smile, half hoping he'd choose the latter as the red head grabbed the blondes hands to warm them up a bit more.
"I was actually thinking the Gryffindor commons, but if your willing to let me in then sure, why not."
"U-um, n-no. My house still hates me, so I don't think snogging with my boyfriend will be the best thing at least in a room filled with Slytherins. And why not here?"
"Because it's cold and you're freezing like an ice-cube Roxie, do you wanna freeze to death just to kiss me?"
"It's not that cold out, besides when I'm with you I don't feel cold anymore." Roxas gave it just a bit of a twist to his words, making Axel smirk at how clichéd the blonde made it sound.
"Yeah, yeah. I'll believe you Roxie." Axel leaned down and pressed his lips against Roxas' again, shivering at how cold they'd gotten before pulling away. "God, I cant do it. I feel like I'm kissing a dead person, I'm taking you back to get warmed up by a fire."
"Y-you just called me dead!"
"Yeah and I'll start calling you other things if you don't warm up some." Axel tossed Roxas over his shoulder, hooking his arms under the blondes legs and starting the walk back to the castle.
"Axel! Put me down, I cant believe¾"
"How long's it gonna take before you quit getting surprised at stuff I do Roxie-babe?"
"Don't call me that. And it's going to take as long as it does for you to stop throwing curve-balls at me. Now put me down so we can use my broom, will you?" Roxas' hands were pressed against the small of Axel's back so his face wouldn't be pushed into the red heads back, making him draped over Axel's shoulder in an awkward position.
"Fine, but we've got to get up to the dorms pronto, I need to give you your birthday gift."
"Axel, you don't have to¾"
"Course I do, it's really gift for my sake anyhow. It's selfish, I know, but I'm sure you'll love it all the same. I got one for Sora too."
Roxas pondered what the present could be the entire way back to the castle, Axel had taken the offered nimbus two thousand and one and kept the fairly dazed Roxas in front of him. Axel's smirk grew as they neared the courtyard and saw all their friends outside, smiling and throwing jibes at Sora.
"Hey lookit, the other birthday boy's here now." Demyx pulled Roxas into a headlock with Peter and Mushu, practically pulling the blonde off his feet.
"Awe, common guys, leave the little guy alone." Riku smirked a bit as Sora covered his mouth so Roxas wouldn't hear his laugh.
"Hey! I'm not little! Bug Sora, he's the older brother!" Roxas didn't know why all their friends were celebrating their birthday anyhow when it was the next day. "Leave me alone, I'm not even fourteen yet!"
"Yeah, but we've got that game tomorrow, or did you forget; Durmstrang." Roxas' eyes went wide at the realization that they'd be going up against their old school on their birthday. "Common Roxas, you forgot, didn't you?"
"Man Roxie, Get it memorized." Axel smirked as Roxas glared up at him, his head still cradled in Demyx's armpit.
"It's memorized, now let me go Dem." Roxas pulled out of the three's grasps and turned to bug Axel about his catchphrase before he realized that both his boyfriend and broom were gone. "Whatever I guess."
"Common Roxas, we're all headed to the library, we've got some celebrating to do." Demyx pushed Roxas good-naturedly towards Sora, making the blonde stumble a bit by accident.
"You should have helped me out Sora! They head locked me!" Sora just scoffed at Roxas' little brother jibe.
"Well my brother wasn't here to help me when they did it."
"You knew Axel and I were going out today." Sora just shrugged his shoulders as they walked, trying to be omniscient to his brothers predicament before breaking down.
"Sorry Rox! I'll make sure I beat up the big bullies for you." Sora gave his brother a funny face when wrapped his arms around Roxas in a tight hug. "It's not my fault! You upset me by leaving me without saying good morning." Roxas scoffed, he knew it was a weak argument, but it was one that Roxas was used to thanks to the few times he'd had to leave before Sora to spend extra time with Axel without everyone up their butts.
"Hey, it took you guys long enough."
"Hey! What're you doing on the nimbus? That's¾" Demyx was effectively cut off.
"He's allowed to use it Dem, so long as he tells me. Reducio." The Broom shrunk down as Roxas pointed his wand at it, pulling the pen-sized broom out of the red heads hand and walking into the library with Sora.
"Sorry Roxie, I didn't want it to take forever for me to get there and back." Axel wrapped his arm around Roxas' waist, pulling the blonde closer as he balanced a box on his other hip.
"I didn't say I was mad, you don't need to be forgiven for anything." Axel smirked and let Roxas' waist go as they got to the sitting area of the library, smirking as everyone sat down around the two brothers.
"Now, this is a collective gift from all of us to the both of you, because we've all agreed; you're really fucking cold people." Both Roxas and Sora frowned at that, they didn't think they were cold.
"So, here you go. I just want to let you know, my parents had a shitty time getting them, and I'm pretty sure the guys made my parents do it because they thought it'd be funny. Granted, I'd love to have seen it. But oh well, enjoy." Axel moved the box between the two boys, smirking as they both looked at the large green and silver bow, found specifically to look like their Slytherin ties.
Roxas hesitantly grabbed one side of the ribbon, not noticing as their friends got closer and looked at both him and Sora with bright smile and expectant faces.
Sora started pulling his ribbon just slightly before Roxas, having gotten impatient to find out what their friends had collaborated to get them. It wouldn't be their first present that they'd share, but he just hoped it could be something they could share. Judging by what he'd heard Axel and their friends say it was probably something really embarrassing, but the comment about being cold didn't help, it only made Sora think of a scarf.
Roxas and Sora both gasped at what was inside the box, neither wanted to move just to be sure that they wouldn't blow up in some kind of practical joke.
"You know, they wont bite¾ well, they might but you'd have to make them really mad first." Two miniature Welsh Greens were curled up in the bottom of the box.
Sora's eyes went huge as he looked up at Axel then back down at the box. "Are you guys shitting us? They're not going to blow up or something?"
"Nah, we've talked to your dad and he said it was fine, the schools fine with it, and you're guys' hands are freezing cold. These dragons enjoy seeking out cool temperatures, so they shouldn't mind being your pets much. And they'll heat up your hands really well, I'm sure they'd even like to sit around your neck in class or on your shoulder. The shop keeper said that they like being with their person, there is an instruction book in there if they haven't burned it." Axel smirked at Roxas as he sat down beside the blonde.
"Now your hands can be all warm and toasty when I'm not there." Axel kissed the blondes jaw before backing up a bit as Roxas and Sora reached into the box and each pulled out a dragon.
"Awe, he's got a little black spot on his head." Roxas couldn't hold the giggle in as the Dragon opens it's mouth in a yawn and a few sparks flew out.
"This one's got a white dot, did you're parents do this on purpose?" Sora looked up at Axel and the red head just nodded with a smirk. "Yeah, Mushu's dad is a dragon trainer, he told us about them, the parents were unique and these two were even more so. Apparently they picked them out for you guys, they're twins just like you." Mushu held up his hand so both boys gave him high-fives.
"Your parents are awesome Mushu." The red head smirked down at them and made the two blue horns on the top of his head grow slightly and made his face look more like a dragon.
"Awe, you guys make me all happy to wanna be a dragon trainer." Mushu made a quick funny face before shifting it back.
"Moosh, you're just a freaking metamorphmagus." Mushu just rolled his eyes at Axel before sitting back in his seat.
"Yeah, one that talked him into getting two teens a couple dragons for their birthdays. You don't understand how hard I had to plead to get my parents to say yes."
"Thank you Mushu!" Sora hopped up form his seat with his dragon calmly sat on Roxas' knee as he wrapped his arms around the shape shifters neck. "You're really a great friend! I've never had a pet before!"
Pretty much all eyes went wide as people looked from Roxas to Sora. "You're kidding, you guys have never had pets before?" Roxas shook his head at Rikku as he asked, trying not to blush as he pulled his dragon up to his face and looked into the small creatures eyes.
"I think I'll name you Oblivion, would you like that little guy." the dragon in front of Roxas opened it's mouth and a small flame came out, flicking it's tongue out and licking Roxas' nose. "I think you like that enough."
"Oathkeeper, right boy?" Sora raised his dragon with a bright smile and the dragon licked his chin before curling up in the brunettes hands.
"They'll get about the size so they fit in both your hands, right now you could hold them in one hand if you wanted. Make sure they're social and make sure that they're comfortable on your shoulders before going out because that's where they like to be."
Roxas and Sora nod their heads looking down at the small dragons and neither could help but giggle. "Think they'd like to fly with us too?" Said in perfect unison, the entire room burst into laughter as Roxas and Sora rolled their eyes.
AN: Thank you al for reading and I hope you enjoyed the show. I apologize about this being basically all crap drabble, but I figured it'd be something to get my mind set for writing the rest of this novel that's on my mind.
You guys are free to think that Roxas and Sora won the game against Durmstrang, I wouldn't say you're wrong. ;) I wish for all of you to have a good morning, afternoon, night, day, week, month, year life, time! Bye bye!