A/N: So sorry for the wait, guys! I had written another AkuRoku one-shot called Sacrificial Love and I got wrapped up in that for a bit. And some other stuff happened… But! It's here now! XD
Thanks to; Xanjen, xHanako, RoseRiku, and Larxene12 for reviewing! I know others have read it you just haven't reviewed or replied on the forum. :P Meanie heads.
Disclaimer: I do not and will not ever own Kingdom Hearts. *sighs* Writing this makes me depressed…. T.T
The 'To Do' List: Chapter 10
WITH ROXAS
Roxas woke up the next morning and was instantly greeted by a painful thing called 'hangover'. He groaned and went to roll over and go back to sleep, only to discover he couldn't move. A certain red-head had him pinned against him. Roxas' eyes sprung open when he felt Axel's light chuckling.
"'Bout time you woke up, Roxas. I was beginning to think you had too much punch." Axel said to him, smirking.
Roxas glared at him and looked over at the window where the light was coming from that woke him up. He soon discovered that the morning after you drink a lot it is not a good idea to look at anything that's light, and especially not the sun. He quickly closed his eyes, trying to ignore the throbbing.
"Do you think you could shut the curtains, Axel?"
He didn't need to open his eyes to know Axel had gotten up. The instant cold sensation from lack of body heat was evidence enough. He shivered slightly and found himself snuggling further into the spot where Axel had been.
"Okay, you can open your eyes now." Axel said, his voice jumping all over the place. He was laughing at him. Jerk.
Roxas opened his eyes again, cautiously this time, and was relieved to see nothing but Axel in front of him. He sat up and stretched, his joints aching from being so cramped the night before. Axel did only have a twin bed. It was his fault for agreeing to sleep over at Axel's anyway.
"You want some aspirin? It might dull it a little." Axel offered, seeming to be sympathetic finally. Roxas nodded slowly, careful not to increase the throbbing, but even then he winced.
"How the hell can I get so bad just from one cup?" He groaned, holding the side of his head.
"Well, it was Demyx who spiked it. You'll have to ask him when he wakes up what he put in it." Axel said as he returned with the bottle of painkillers and a glass of water.
He handed both to Roxas who stuck the glass in-between his legs, and unscrewed the bottle and quickly dumped out two of the pills, closed the bottle, tossed it to Axel and popped the pills in his mouth at the same time, chasing them down with the water.
Axel shook his head at him. "You can't hold your alcohol can you?"
Roxas glared at him, and dumped the rest of the water on Axel's head as his response and walked quickly to put the glass in the sink before Axel tackled him, like he knew he would.
When he had successfully got the cup safely in the sink he expected Axel to be right behind him, glaring furiously and then the yelling would start. But Axel wasn't behind him. Roxas walked back to Axel's room and found him in the same position he left him in, only now, he was dripping wet. Which Roxas had to admit, was kinda sexy.
Axel slowly turned his head menacingly and stood up in the same manner. This was the part where Roxas would run to the bathroom and lock the door. If only he could run faster than Axel, unfortunately, he didn't have impossibly long legs…
Axel grabbed him before he even got half-way and dragged him back to the room. Once he had them both in there, he slammed the door with his foot, keeping a steel-grip on Roxas. He then pulled him flush against him, Roxas had his back to him, but he could just imagine Axel's expression.
"You got me wet." He hissed in his ear. Roxas couldn't stop the goose bumps from coming. He was so close.
To hide his reaction to the contact he replied, "What are you a girl?"
Roxas felt Axel's chest rumble a bit from laughter yet again. God, he loved it when he laughed.
"Nice one, Roxas. Didn't think you had that kind of humor." He said, as he moved them towards the bed, which Roxas was reluctant to go to. He didn't really need a repeat of the bathroom. Not that he didn't want to.
Roxas looked wearily at the bed getting closer by the second. "Well, I've been known to," he gulped when they hit the foot of it, "From time to time."
Axel threw him down on the bed, causing Roxas to bounce a little. He quickly followed, covering the younger boy completely. "You know," He started huskily, looking down on him intensely, Roxas couldn't help but get lost in the emerald pools. They were his weakness. And he had a feeling Axel knew that. "I haven't stopped thinking about what happened in the bathroom."
Roxas gulped for the second time. This couldn't be good.
He had to bite his lip to prevent the moan from Axel's hands roaming down, and sneaking under his shirt. He wasn't sure if he could make Axel stop anymore, he wasn't even sure he wanted him to.
"And I was thinking…" His fingers brushed over his nipples, Roxas couldn't stop the groan. He wanted him to touch him everywhere. That was suddenly the only thing that mattered. Axel. "Maybe we could continue? What do you think about that?"
"Mmm." Was the only thing he could get passed his lips as Axel's hands moved south. His fingers finally working on the button on Roxas pants.
Axel had just started the shrug them down eagerly when the door opened, revealing a very shocked looking Demyx, whose expression turned quickly to a wide smirk.
"Uh, sorry for the interruption lover boys, but Sora's here for Roxas. So, he might wanna get down there before Sora comes to get him and sees this." He said gesturing to the two who were frozen in place from the intrusion.
"Shit!" Roxas exclaimed, shoving Axel out of the way, ignoring the groan that escaped the red-head when he fixed and buttoned his pants.
He went to run out the door, when he stopped and turned to Demyx, who was still grinning like a mad-man at him. "How do I look?"
"If you mean, 'Do I look like I was just about to have sex with my best friend?' then no. But you might wanna fix your hair just in case."
Roxas glared at him and shot, "Bite me." at him before heading to door.
He hadn't closed it enough before Demyx's reply could get through. "Nah, but Axel would!"
Roxas muttered to himself, mussing his hair, and pulling at certain sections to make it as spiky as he could without gel. Sora's look was all he needed to know it didn't work.
"What happened to you? You fall off the couch or something?" Sora asked as Roxas climbing into his car, grumbling.
"No." Was all he could say without lying. He couldn't tell him he and Axel slept in the same bed. Otherwise, he would get another lecture about Axel, and he didn't need that right now.
Sora got in and drove out of the driveway, careful to avoid Axel's Harley.
Roxas looked at his brother, and noticed that he didn't look good either. His eyes were red-rimmed and he had bags under his eyes. He probably cried himself to sleep. He'd seen this when Kairi's parents had tried to prevent the two from going out. He cried then for weeks.
It was then when reality hit him like a ton of bricks. Their mother had left them. She was gone forever. He took a deep-breath before asking how their father was.
"He's in the hospital." Sora said emotionlessly.
Roxas' eyes bugged out. "What?!"
Sora sighed. "Dad drank too much last night. I had to take him to the ER. They're thinking about taking him to rehab."
So, now, both of their parents could possibly leave them. How could someone's life just take this big of a plunge in twenty-four hours?
"Well, have you seen him since?" Roxas asked.
Sora shook his head. "No. I was going to go later, but Kairi called and said she wanted me to help her celebrate her father's birthday."
"So, your girlfriend is more important than your own father?"
"Well, he hasn't exactly been there for us, Roxas. It was mostly mo-, her who helped us with our homework and stuff. He never did any of that."
"Still."
They pulled in and Sora turned in his seat to look at Roxas. "Look, if you want to go and see him, fine. But you're gonna have to take your bike or something. I'm going to Kairi's. I'll see you later."
Roxas glared at his brother and got out, slamming the car door shut as he went. Sora spun out, and Roxas didn't spare him a second glance when he beeped at him.
Swinging the door open, he crashed through the house. Running up the stairs to his room and begun grabbing things and throwing them across the room. He continued doing this until his carpet was no longer visible and he fell to his knees sobbing.
He heard a crunch of glass and looked down to find a family portrait of the four of them when he and Sora were just seven. Everyone was smiling and everything seemed perfect in that one, little picture. "How could you leave us, Mom?" He asked the picture, tears falling on it fast. "How could you?!" he was screaming at it now, "We didn't do anything! We didn't do anything." He screamed at it and threw it for a second time before laying on the floor, curling up in a ball, and bawling.
WITH AXEL
He groaned inwardly at his horrible luck.
That was twice now that they've been interrupted. That was two lost opportunities to finally complete the list and he was starting to think he could kiss the money good-bye. He was the only guy even close to completing it, but now, he wasn't so sure he could actually get Roxas to sleep with him before someone else completed theirs.
And there was also this nagging, annoying thing his stomach would do whenever he touched Roxas. Axel didn't know why, but when they kissed in the bathroom and just now, in his bedroom. It was different at the party, though. A different kind of feeling. One he had never experienced before this. He didn't really know what it meant because he hadn't had any alcohol that night and he had eaten before he went. He dismissed it as a reaction to the lights. Although, the smart part of his brain knew it wasn't that.
"Hey, Axel." Demyx said, leaning against Axel's bedroom doorway, smirking at him. "So? You and Roxas were about to…" He led off suggestively.
Axel stood up and sauntered over to Demyx and got an inch away from him to hiss, "We were until you decided to drop in." And then he stomped off towards to fridge, dragging out a 2 liter bottle of Pepsi and downing almost half of it while Demyx followed him.
"Well, actually, you slamming the door shut woke me up and Sora's phone call kept me up." He said slyly.
Axel snorted as he kept on chugging the Pepsi like he hadn't drank anything in days.
"So, you're actually having trouble with getting little Roxas into bed with you?" Demyx asked.
When Axel got to half of the Pepsi bottle he threw it back in the fridge and shrugged in response. "I guess. Not really, though. If it weren't for all the interruptions I would've had him crossed off by now." Never mind that when he was kissing Roxas the list wasn't in thought.
Demyx straightened and got a confused look on his face. "Wait, what? Interruptions? As in more than one?"
Axel nodded. "Yeah, we, uh, started in the school bathroom, then Xigbar walked in."
To Axel's extreme dislike, Demyx started laughing. No, guffawing. And he wasn't stopping.
"You-in-the-school-bathrooms?" He howled. "And-Xigbar caught-you!"
"Demyx." Axel growled warningly as he went back to his room and re-opened the closed curtains.
"Well," Demyx started, "You can't exactly blame me-" He got cut off by Axel's phone going off on the desk.
Axel groaned and strode over to the phone, and glanced at the caller ID. "It's Sora…" he said, confusion covering both his face and Demyx's as he flipped it open and greeted him.
"Hey, Sora. What's up?"
"Oh, god. It's Roxas. I-I think he's finally snapped!" Sora yelled into the phone. It was obvious he was crying. And as soon as he said 'Roxas' every nerve in Axel's being went on high alert.
Axel's eyes got wide. "What happened?!"
"Well, I went to go over Kairi's and then I remembered I forgot something in my room, so I came back to the house, and I went to check up on Roxas and found him lying on the floor, not even really talking, just mumbling stuff, and his room is trashed! I didn't know what else to do so I just called you. Do you think you could come over and talk some sense in him?" Sora rushed.
Axel didn't hesitate. He ran over to his bike keys and grabbed them and yelled at Demyx that he would be back soon. "Alright, Sora. I'm coming, I'll be there in two minutes." He promised as he shut his phone without saying good-bye or anything. He didn't really care at that point.
He had just gotten half-way to Roxas' house when he heard a siren wail behind him. He looked at his speed, he wasn't going fast enough for a ticket so he couldn't imagine why when he moved to the right of the road the cop car followed him.
So he pulled over, highly agitated and waited for the cop to get out of the car and approach him. He eventually decided to shut off his motorcycle and put the kick stand down, so he wouldn't waste gas. He got off of it, and leaned against it lightly.
When the cop finally approached him he was already four minutes behind the time he told Sora he'd be there. Roxas was waiting for him and this cop needed to make it fast or there was going to be some problems.
"Alright, well, son, I imagine you know why I pulled you over, correct?" The officer asked him. Axel rolled his eyes. Of course it couldn't be a female officer, it's got to be a dick.
"No. Can you just tell me so I can go?"
The cop narrowed his eyes at him. "You need to have a better attitude about this. A missing helmet is a serious thing if you get into a accident."
Axel almost started laughing right there. He got pulled over because he wasn't wearing a helmet for a couple mile ride. How stupid are these cops?
"Alright, I'll wear my helmet next time. So, now can I go?" he said impatiently.
The cop sighed. "Well, I'll give you a warning for now," he said as he handed him a piece of paper which he planned on throwing out as soon as he could, "But if I or any other cop finds you like this, they'll fine you. You understand, son?"
Axel gritted his teeth against being called, 'son'. Only his father ever called him 'son' and he wasn't fond of it or him. "Yup, see ya later." He mock saluted him and kicked the kickstand back up and started the bike up again, taking off, careful not to break any speed limits until the cop was out of sight and turned on another street.
"Stupid asshole." He muttered to himself as he finally drove into Roxas' driveway, parking on the left side of Sora's Escort and jumped off, taking the front steps by two and let himself in.
"Hello?!" Axel yelled, expecting to find Roxas and Sora's dad sitting on the couch still, but he wasn't there. He assumed he was upstairs with the boys and was actually paying attention to them for once.
"Up here!" He heard Sora yell.
Axel ran up the stairs and straight to Roxas' room. He had to stop and watch where he stepped because not only was the hallway a mess with paper and notebooks all over the place, but Roxas' room was worse.
Roxas, who was normally a very organized person to the point of almost OCD, was lying on the floor, curled in the fetal position, with Sora hovering over him, surrounded by glass and his bed covers.
"Shit." He said as he went to bend down near Roxas. "What happened to him, Sora?"
Sora sniffed a bit. "It's because our parents are assholes."
Axel was taken aback at this. For one thing, he already knew half of that but didn't know the Sora knew. For a second, Sora never swore, and he just called his parents assholes.
"Well, he told me what happened with his mom but he was fine last night and this morning. Nothing was wrong. How could he get all…" he searched for the right word, "in-coherent like this?"
Sora stared at him. "In-coherent? That's a pretty big word for you, Axel."
"Just answer the question." He shot back.
"Well, Dad's in the hospital cause he drank too much after…well, you know. I just told Roxas before I left for Kairi's." Sora explained, looking at Roxas sympathetically.
"Shit." He repeated.
They turned their heads toward Roxas as he started to move. "Axel?" he asked groggily, as if he had been asleep.
"Hey, Roxie. You okay?" He asked warmly.
Roxas seemed to nod, and looked around, looking surprised. "What happened?! Who trashed my room?" He asked, looking around wildly.
"Uh, you did, Roxas." Sora said.
This was getting really weird for Axel. Roxas was obviously convinced that he didn't do it, and he was acting like the end of the world was happening when he learned of his precious PS2 being smashed to pieces on the floor.
"What the fuck! I paid sixty dollars for that; used too! That was my entire summer job! What the hell!" He whined as he started crying over the console.
"Oh, no." Sora mumbled to himself as he looked at Roxas with pity. "I think I know what's going on now…"
Axel was still staring at Roxas continue to weep over his lost PS2 when he said, "What?"
"His blackouts must be back."
Axel tore his gaze away from the blond and turned to Sora. "What do you mean they're back?"
Axel remembered his blackouts. They first started when his parents started fighting more and Roxas used to come over to Axel's parent's house and hang out there until Roxas' parents came looking for him.
Roxas started having blackouts first at home on the occasion, then at school. It had become quite a problem by the time fifth grade rolled around and he couldn't remember what he did five minutes ago. Axel knew now that that was Roxas' way of coping with the increasing problems his parents were having. Maybe, because after his mom leaving and his father being an alcoholic even worse, like before, again triggered something.
"I mean, his blackouts are back. What else could it be? It's just like before, Axel. But, I don't think there's any getting better with this. Mom is gone, Dad is probably going to get drunk all the time. I can't stay here with him all the time… What the hell am I gonna do?" Sora exclaimed to himself, dropping his head in his hands.
Axel bit his lip, looking at Roxas, and he suddenly got a flashback of little Roxas, confused at ever as they talked in this same room about how his mother wouldn't stop yelling at his father. He couldn't let his Roxie end up like that again, he wouldn't.
"Can I do anything to help?" he asked.
"Yeah," Roxas yelled to them, "You can buy a new PS2!"
Axel smirked a bit at that. "I'll get it for your birthday."
Roxas groaned and trudged over to them. "But I want it now." He whined.
"Too bad. You'll get it in two months." Axel said.
Roxas glared at him. "Fine. Get out then. I have to clean my room." He grumbled.
Sora left but Axel stayed for a bit. He wanted to talk to Roxas alone for a bit.
"Roxas. If that happens again…well…you'll call won't you?" Axel asked him, locking eyes with him. He couldn't get this protective feeling to go away. He wasn't used to it. Ever since eighth grade he's been feeling a lot more intense around Roxas, and he doesn't know why or when it'll go away.
Roxas looked at him, obviously awed by his obvious concern. "Yeah, I'll call."
Axel turned and went to go out the door but the nagging wouldn't quit. He sighed to himself and spun around in his doorway. "Promise you'll call me tonight? Just to make sure you're okay?"
Roxas looked bewildered but he nodded. The nagging feeling subsided a little.
He blew out a breath as he trudged down both sets of stairs and over to his bike. He took off and headed back to his apartment, certain that he wasn't going to be completely okay until he got a call later that day.
A/N: Woohoo! *throws hands in air and starts to dance* DONE! Chapter ten is officially done and with nothing but Axel and Roxas! I'm so proud of myself! XD
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