Chapter 14 –
Roxas bolted out of bed. His body trembled harshly; his skin was soaked in sweat. He tried to swallow the whimpers threatening to escape from his throat, the tears spilling from his eyes didn't seem like they were going to stop.
Roxas hadn't remembered such a frightening dream ever in his life. It was so real to him. He glanced over at the body next to him. He breathed a sigh of relief. Axel was still there, his dream hadn't happened.
The blonde took a deep breath, trying to relax himself as much as possible. That dream was still too fresh in his mind to fall asleep anytime soon. He settled back down on the bed, scooting closer to Axel.
"Are you okay Roxas?" The question came from the "sleeping" red head. His arm wrapped around Roxas's thin waist, pulling him even closer in to his warm chest.
"Yeah… Just a bad dream, that's all." Axel kissed the top of Roxas's head before closing his eyes to go back to sleep. But he was interrupted by Roxas. "Axel… I think I should go home."
"You can sleepover, you know." Roxas sat up. "My mom won't mind." Axel sat up as well, trying to get the blonde to stay. Roxas was worried that Xemnas was waiting for him after school. And since he hadn't gone home right after school, he was bound to be mad.
"No I really think I should go home." Roxas climbed out of bed and grabbed his belongings. Axel also scrambled out of bed after Roxas. "It isn't like I don't want to, Axel. It's just… my… uncle might get worried."
"But I thought your uncle wasn't there." Axel cocked an eyebrow. Roxas paused at the door way.
"Y-Yeah… but he came back not too long ago. And I don't want him to worry." Roxas opened the door to Axel's bedroom and walked out with Axel following him like a lost kitten.
"At least let me drive you home."
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Axel's car came to a stop in Roxas's driveway. Rain had started to pour down with thunder and lightning. Roxas couldn't help but think that it was similar to Xemnas's mood.
"Thanks Axel. I'll see you tomorrow." Roxas smiled in his direction before unbuckling himself and opening the car door in to the cold rain outside.
Axel reached over and lightly grabbed Roxas's shoulder. "Call me if you need anything." He gave a soft warning glare before letting go. Roxas nodded, reached over and pulled Axel in for a soft chaste kiss.
"I will." With that Roxas jumped out and closed the car door. His hair immediately became soaked, forcing the spikes on his head to sag. He squinted through the rain at what Roxas hoped was the front door to his house.
He ran through the rain, being careful not to slip and fall. He dug through his pocket for his keys once he was under the safe haven of the porch. He pulled out his keys and jammed them in to the key hole on the knob.
The lock sounded with a soft click as Roxas pulled his key out and opened up the door. He waved to Axel and watched as the car drove away. The blonde took a deep breath before stepping in to the house.
He closed the door behind him before switching on the light in the small entry way. He kicked off his shoes and dropped his bag on to the floor before walking in to the kitchen. A red light flashed on the telephone on the wall. Roxas walked over and pressed the button to the voicemail.
"Message received at four thirty three P.M. today… Hey Roxas, it's me Cloud. You haven't come in to work for a couple days now and I've been worried. Please give me a call when you get this or come see me at the café so I know you're okay. Thanks. Message end. To replay message pre—"
Roxas deleted the message before exiting his voicemail. He sighed and walked out of the kitchen and in to the dark living room. At least Xemnas wasn't here to make everything worse right?
"You're stupider than I thought." Roxas froze. He knew that chilling voice way too well. But he wasn't supposed to be there in his house. Roxas didn't care where he was but anywhere but his house would have been better.
One of the lamps in the living room flicked on to reveal Xemnas sitting on the couch with his legs crossed glaring at the blonde. "I thought that you finally moved to another country to get away from me. Maybe you really do love me." A smirk crossed his features.
Roxas suddenly snapped. His fist clenched as his body moved across the room closer to Xemnas. "You have a lot of nerve saying that." Without any thoughts of stopping, Roxas punched Xemnas in the nose as hard as he could.
The man's head flung to the side as his hand quickly moved to hold his throbbing nose. The palm of his hand quickly drenched in blood as he quickly straightened his head to look at Roxas.
"So you want to be violent today. I'll let you see just how violent I can be." Xemnas quickly grabbed Roxas's arm before he could run to the door. He stood up from the couch and twisted Roxas's arm behind his back.
"Ouch! Xemnas let go!" The man harshly began to push Roxas along to the hallway to his bedroom and the bathroom. Xemnas pushed the blonde in to the bathroom on to the floor. He stepped in and closed and locked the door.
"Either you strip off your clothes or I'll do it for you." His eyes were nothing but serious. But something in Roxas just didn't want to take all this shit anymore.
"No. I'm tired of all of this. I don't remember doing anything to you so I don't know why I'm even taking this." Roxas picked himself up off the floor and dusted off his pants. "Now get out of my way. I'm leaving."
Xemnas's evil laugh echoed in the small bathroom and he stared at the determined Roxas. "Man. Brats like you crack me up sometimes." In one swift movement Xemnas walked over and grabbed on to Roxas's arm. "I don't think you understand. I own you Roxas. Every part of you belongs to me and you don't have a say in what happens to you when I'm around. Just shut up and do as I say or we'll really have a problem."
Roxas pulled his arm out of Xemnas's grasp. Either Roxas was on some kind of medication or the little confession to Axel really messed up his mind. "I belong to myself. I don't have to take any orders from you."
"What a shame. And I really did like your beautiful body." The man grabbed on to the blonde again but with a tighter hold. He pulled Roxas over to the bath tub and threw him in harshly. He turned on the water and plugged up the drain so the bathtub would fill up with the ice cold water.
Roxas tired to get out as soon as the cold water touched his skin but he was forced back down again by Xemnas. His clothes didn't take very long to become drenched and stick to his body as the bathtub slowly filled to the top.
"If you would have just followed my orders. All I wanted was a little pleasure." Roxas's head was smashed back against the bottom of the tub; water quickly engulfed his head until he was pulled back on to the surface.
The water was shut off after it had filled half of the tub. "I wonder where you were Roxas. A boyfriend's house maybe? I guess I haven't shown you properly that I own you. But first we'll have to clean your body of that man you went to go see."
"You don't know anything! Just go back to the hole you crawled out o—" Roxas's head was suddenly submerged in water.
"You just don't shut up do you?" Xemnas pulled off his tie and pulled Roxas's head from under the water. The blonde gasped for air after breathing in a mouth full of cold water. Xemnas tied his hands to the spigot above his head.
Roxas tried to break free but his tries all failed. He felt Xemnas's hand start to pull down his pants and boxers. Roxas thrashed some more, trying to make Xemnas release him.
Roxas's soaked bottom clothing was pulled free of his body and was tossed to the floor. He reached up and grabbed the bar of soap on the tray not far from him. "I think this will clean inside you nicely. Now just stay still."
He grabbed one of Roxas's legs and lifted it out of the water. He placed the bar of soap at Roxas's entrance and slowly pressed it in. Roxas thrashed again as the sudden pain of the object being forced inside of him. "Ahh! No! Stop please!" Roxas's back arched off of the bottom of the tub. The water splashed over the side of the bathtub and swayed back to hit the side of Roxas's body.
Roxas tried to keep his screaming to a minimum. He didn't know when Xemnas would push his head back in to the water. He could feel the large rectangle shape half way inside of him. He pulled at the bindings on his wrist; his hands were slowly becoming numb from the loss of circulation.
"You're skin is tearing." Xemnas chuckled as he stopped shoving the soap in to Roxas's ass. "Look, there's blood everywhere." Roxas blinked a few times before looking down at the water that had now turned a dark red color.
"Please… Just let me go." His voice came out as a soft whimper. He had lost a lot of blood and his head was starting to get fuzzy. "I… don't want to do this anymore…"
"I'm going to make it so you can never leave me." Roxas heard a soft click. He tilted his head to look at Xemnas to notice he had a knife in his hand with the blade switched out.
Roxas couldn't move anymore. His body was shivering violently from being in ice cold water. He was weak from losing blood and the pain from his back side sent radiations of pain up his spin every time he moved or even thought of moving.
Xemnas twisted the blonde's right foot to the side without any problem. He placed the blade a few inches above Roxas's heel. The knife stabbed in to the flesh and was dragged until a deep cut had appeared. Roxas screamed out at the top of his lungs as loud as he could from the pain.
He tried again to claw at the tie around his wrists and the tears started to flow down his cheeks and drop in to the water. He could see the water become a darker color of red and he could no long move or feel his right leg and foot.
His eye sight suddenly became fuzzy and it was hard to concentrate. He saw Xemnas lean over him with a smirk on his face. "You'll always belong to me. Don't forget that." That was the last thing Roxas heard before he fell unconscious from the loss of blood and pain in the bathtub filled with ice cold water.