Two weeks.

That's how long I'd been here. I hadn't left Roxas' side except for food and to go the bathroom and necessary stuff like that. My mom had come after me when I didn't come home after two days and I never answered my phone. In my defense, it'd been mostly dead when I got home to find Roxas. She brought me enough clothes to last a month and money for food every day along with some other essential stuff, like my phone charger. Cloud visited every few days but we never talked too much; he was more the stern silent type. I figured work had him really busy because of all the Organization members showing up dead lately. Riku and Kairi came to visit me and Roxas a few times and Ariel and Snow came to visit often, although it was also part of their job.

I'm so glad it's summer; I couldn't leave Roxas' side. If someone really was hunting him, there was no way I could leave him alone. It wasn't like we could get police protection for him or anything. Cloud didn't have the money to hire a security guy and we couldn't tell the police Roxas was a potential member. They would detain him as soon as he woke up!

I talked to Roxas a lot. I'd gotten used to the one sided conversation now. Once you get around the feeling of going insane and talking to a completely unresponsive person as if they were extremely talkative, it wasn't so hard. Most of the time I just rambled about something or just spoke my thoughts out loud. It was kind of embarrassing when I was talking then someone walked in.

I gaze at Roxas for a moment as I stretch my stiff muscles before speaking, " Morning."

"Mornin'." I jumped at the unexpected answer, looking at Roxas, but he was still asleep. Plus, that didn't sound like him. I turned around to see a very unexpected, very unwelcome person.

"Axel." I all but growled, scowling at him fiercely.

"Hey there, Sora. How's our little Roxas doing?" The red head grinned, walking casually closer to me.

"Just fine." I stood up, preventing him from getting too close to Roxas' comatose form.

"I hear he's been out for about two weeks now." Axel said, peering over me at him.

"That all you hear?"

Axel grinned again, coming further into the room. I tensed up and glared at him. "I also hear he's lucky to be alive. He took on some pretty powerful people."

"What do you know about what happened to him?" I snapped, wishing he'd get to the point and get the Hell out.

"Enough." My eye twitched slightly as he shrugged his shoulders with a cocky smirk.

"Tell me what you know about it or I'll-" I demanded.

"You'll what? What can you do?" he asked mockingly, getting in my face.

"Enough." I said just as mockingly, not backing away and glaring at him full in the face. He grinned again for some reason, making me even angrier, and backed up.

He suddenly grabbed me by the arm and yanked me roughly forward. "What are you doing?!" I shouted.

Tensing and prepared to punch him, I suddenly felt him whispering next to my ear, "Listen here, pip squeak; we were part of Organization XIII. They made you and your family a target to be executed." he said quietly. " He joined to prevent that from happening. The Organization is dead now, along with mostly everyone else in it. We made sure of that. And he did it all to keep you safe."

" Why are you telling me this?"

" He told me if anything happened to him, to make sure you knew what happened and why. He didn't abandon you for us, he saved your life. Got it memorized?"

An old, mean looking nurse came into the room loudly, startling me in my shocked state, "Is something wrong here boys?" she asked challengingly, daring us to yell again.

" No ma'am, I was just leaving." Axel let go of my arm, gave me a serious look, and left, the nurse following him out huffing.

After the shock wore off I fell back into my chair limply. He did it… for me? I looked at him and stared. I said all those horrible things to him and he's in a coma, lost two weeks of his life, because he was trying to save me and my family. How was I supposed to live with myself now? " Roxas you really need to wake up…" I need to talk to you so badly…I closed my eyes and shock my head, guilt and worry weighing down on me. Sighing, my gaze traveled to the window where the sun was hiding behind darkening clouds.

Cloud. I need to tell Cloud.

Just as I reached for my phone the door opened and I hastily shoved it back in my pocket, knowing it was probably Snow. A small bag of food was dropped in my lap suddenly, making me jump. " Thought you might be tired of hospital food." Cloud said off handedly as he walked into the room.

" Cloud. I-I was just about to call you."

" Why? Something change?" I felt guilty at the spark of hope that showed in his face.

" No, not exactly. But I…I know why he joined."

Cloud's eyes narrowed at me. " How?"

"Axel was just here, he knew." Cloud didn't ask for me to tell him, he silently demanded it. Which is kind of intimidating coming from him. " Roxas was part of Organization XIII. He said that he joined because…because he told him that my family became their next target. He joined to save me. He and Axel they…they killed everyone."

The blonde remained silent for several minutes, digesting the information while he gazed at his little brother. " That explains some things then."

" Huh?"

" It explains why there are nine dead bodies and hardly a trace of evidence."

" What?" How is that even possible?

" The members are trained to be assassins. They're trained to not make mistakes or leave any evidence behind… even when mortally injured." His gaze turned to Roxas. Looking at him just laying there sleeping, he looked so peaceful and innocent. It was hard to believe that he was an assassin or killer of any kind. If I didn't know him as well as I did, I wouldn't believe he was capable of any of this. Not the killing and not the self sacrificing. But I do know him. And this is something he would do for his friends.

Roxas had always been strong. Like when we were in kindergarten together, there was a second grader that liked to bully me. Roxas always stood up for me and even fought him one time. He won too. I've gotten better at defending myself but it's not like that mattered because Roxas would always be right there to defend me whenever something happened if I needed him to be. And if I didn't, he would still be right there for me and pick me up when he knew I needed it.

" I never knew he was in the Organization. I only realized he had changed. Reacted differently and always seemed tired. He barely talked at all after you two got into that fight. He would leave early and get back late until finally he just didn't come home at all."

" I'm sorry…I should have done something…" I said.

" Knowing Roxas, he probably had wanted to distance you from him. And didn't come home when things got serious to make sure I stayed out of it." He looked down at me. His face was stern, but I could see just a little bit of sympathy in his eyes. Just a tad bit.

" What do you mean?"

" If he really did join them to save you, he probably wanted you as far away from him as he could get you to try to keep you out of the cross fire. He put himself in between you and some of the most powerful people this area has ever known."

I looked back down at Roxas. So he probably planned half that fight; thought of the cruelest, most hurtful things he could and yelled them in the most hateful way at me, to protect me. " I don't know whether to be grateful or pissed as Hell at him." I laughed hollowly.

" Be both." Cloud smirked at me.