Leven_The_Valkyrie: Ewon wrote and edited pretty much all of this so show their pretty face some love ❤

Ewonsama: So we had this chapter done but I'm a slow editor. Anyway, I hope you enjoy. Also shush up Leven you wrote it too


The soft sound of the a/c hummed throughout the otherwise still apartment. The aroma of sauce, spices, and bread was still floating around the room as the left-over spaghetti and garlic bread sat on the counter waiting for the man sleeping on the couch to awaken and ingest it. Down the hall, two doors down was a room which held two sleeping girls all tuckered out after a spending the day at a local park. Their bellies full and minds content with pleasant dreams. The room to the right of them, which directly saw out down hall and to the living room, sat a blond still fully awake - busying himself on his laptop like a mad man whose life is on a very thin line. Said blond was writing up an essay that was due in a few weeks' time, seen as how Roxas was not one to do things last minute.

Clicking away on the keyboard, Roxas muttered under his breath a reminder to go food shopping before the sale ends. The young man finished his paragraph, saved his paper, and sat back in his chair to take a small break. It was almost three in the morning and Roxas still had two more pages to write. It wasn't that bad but he was tired and in much need of water so the blond went straight to the kitchen only to notice that Axel was still dead asleep and the food had gone cold. Chuckling to himself, Roxas put the food away and gave Axel another blanket just in case the man was chilly. "Good lord, you must be really burned out."

"More than we both thought huh?" Axel stirred awake, tossing himself up right. The redhead stretched out and popped his sore back. "Your couch sucks."

Roxas smiled down at Axel, shaking his head in amusement. "And here I thought you wanted my couch."

"Don't be a cheeky bastard, it's too damn early for that." Axel checked the time on his phone, blinking his eyes awake a few times. "Damn, it really is early."

"Or late, depends on how you look at it. How was your long ass nap?" Roxas questioned, walking back to the kitchen to get the water he had gotten up to get in the first place.

"Decent I guess. I didn't realize how tired I've been. Sorry for leaving you alone with the small beasts."

Roxas snorted and almost choked on his glass of water. "Thank god they didn't get into the sugar." The blond wanted to tell Axel about the talk he had with Xion earlier, but that may have to stay between just him and the kids, for now anyway.

"Oh, that would be fun."

"Tell me about it. Anyway, I contacted your mom about you and Xion staying a while longer. I guess she figured out that you wouldn't be getting Marluxia tonight since she never called to ask about you getting him." Roxas casually said, sitting next to Axel who stole the water right from the blonde's hand.

"You talked to my mother? Boy I hope she didn't talk your ear off and offer to adopt you in her bundle of children from the fiery pits of hell."

Roxas rolled his eyes, smirking as he said, "No but she did ask when our wedding was and if your dick still looked like it did when you were shitting your diapers."

Axel spit the water he had just begun to drink, coughing and choking as some of the liquid had gone down the wrong pipe. The whole time Roxas was laughing at the reaction he knew he'd get if he told Axel that. The startled redhead stared at his friend in mild shock, panting to catch his breath as his face paled faster than the light of the bright full moon glowing in the dead of night. Some part of him knew Roxas was just joking but at the same time Axel had just woken up, so his brain wasn't fully functional at the moment. "The hell Roxas, you don't do that to a guy when he's drinking something. Wedding, right, maybe when hell freezes over or better yet, when the in-laws tell me they love me."

Roxas hummed while calming himself down. "Yeah, besides, I told her you're nothing but my sex slave who now resides on my couch. You're basically my maid and cute little house wife."

Axel scoffed at the remark, wiping his jaw and putting the glass on the ground. "Look, if anyone is going to be a maid or house wife it would be you. And I'm the best damn sex slave you'll ever get so you better treat me right or I might just rebel and bite your head off. That dick comment, I'll have you know it's the cutest little thing in the world." Axel said as a matter of fact. He was just that confident in his size that it didn't matter if Roxas wanted to tease him about it.

"Oh my god!" Roxas exclaimed, laughing so hard he literally fell to the floor holding his sides. The site got Axel joining in the laughter, neither realizing it might have just been a little too loud. "Fuck Axel, I'm so glad you aren't offended or disgusted by any of this. You're really a cool guy you know that?"

Axel raised a brow. "Why would I? It's all good fun." Roxas shook his head and just lay on the floor starting to feel pooped all over again. "What are you doing up this late anyway?"

"I was working on an essay. I'm almost done with it so I'm taking a much-needed break. Oh, there's pasta in the fridge but I could make you something else if you don't feel up to eating it. I honestly don't care for day old spaghetti myself."

"Nah, I don't mind. Besides, what kind of slave would I be if I didn't eat my maid's cooking? You didn't poison it did you?" Axel got up and sauntered off toward the kitchen to seize the glory that was sustenance for his empty gut.

"Oh yeah, most definitely, what kind of house wife do you take me for?"

"An abusive one that doesn't try to kill me but loves to see me in pain." Axel laughed.

"Damn you got me there. I guess I must run back to the sex dungeon and plan your punishment because the poison will not be enough of one." Roxas rose to his feet and headed over to join Axel.

"Aw you're going to make my dreams come true?"

"Only for you."

"..."

The busted out into more laughter, this time receiving a loud bag on the neighboring wall. Roxas rolled his eyes, took the food from Axel, and heated it up for him. "I sometimes hate living here."

"I bet, the walls are probably way too thin."

"Yep."

A comfortable silence settled between the two as they waited for Axel's grub to finish heating up. In the meanwhile, the redhead helped himself to some fruit punch. Once the food was done Axel sat and complimented Roxas on the taste causing the blond to blush and excuse himself back to his room to finish up his assignment. This left Axel alone with his thoughts - thoughts that he didn't want to be alone with at the moment or any time really.

Axel reflected on the other day continuing to replay the day's events and the future conversation he and his kids would have to have with Sora. The call was inevitable if he wanted the brunet to find his wife sooner rather than later or not at all. Axel took his final bite, got up and cleaned his mess. The redhead pulled his cell phone out of his pocket, checking the time and for any missed calls. Of course, there were none so he went to check on the girls who were somehow sleeping peacefully even through all his and Roxas' racket. Smiling fondly at the calm before the most likely storm later in the morning Axel shut the bed room door and went into Roxas' open one. There the blond was once again typing away on his keyboard. The sound of clicking made Axel shutter in reminder of his own nuisance of a job awaiting him in only a day's time.

"Hey." Roxas glanced briefly at Axel.

"Nice room you got here." Axel commented looking around the small room. He spotted the full twin size bed next to the far-right wall beneath the window. Roxas was to the left of his door entrance at his small desk. Other than the bed and desk there was a closet to far left wall and nothing else.

"Thanks, I'm best the decorator I know." The blond chuckled, turning in his chair to face Axel. "Let me know if you want me to do your place, free of charge of course."

"Think I'll pass." Axel laid on the bed, his head resting on his arms, eyes staring up at the popcorn covered ceiling.

"Your loss then." Roxas turned back around and continued on to work on his homework.

Axel went back to his thoughts deciding that he will call Sora tomorrow to schedule an appointment with him as soon as the brunet is available. As he lay there he started to reminisce about his life with Yuna and did his best to re-account if there were any signs of her ever being unhappy with him. Their years together, always being the normal couple. Sure, they argued but what relationship doesn't have its ups and downs? They always made up in the end. Mostly by means of make-up sex thanks to Yuna. One day Axel had found that Yuna got off on it more than she wanted to let on, which was just fine with Axel though once Marluxia was born it slowly died down.

It wasn't like sex was the only thing they ever did anyway but it was probably more than healthy amount. They went on dates, the two of them or the four of them. Axel would help as best he could with house work. Sure, he could have showed his appreciation a little more, maybe buy her flowers like he used to when they were just dating. Maybe Yuna was beginning to feel like he had no respect for her. Maybe she was tired of being a house wife. Maybe she really was just tired of Axel. He was quite literally the only man she had ever been with after all. Then again, Yuna was only the third women he too had been with. Maybe the tiredness wasn't once sided. Maybe it really was his fault.

Axel rolled onto his side and glared out the window. Even if it were truly his fault she left, why wouldn't she talk to him about how unhappy she was? Why would she put the kids through all this when he knew this was not the type of women she was. Axel let out a disgruntle groan. He didn't want to think anymore damn it.

"You okay?" Asked Roxas, the glow from his laptop vanishing leaving nothing but the two men in the dark room of now noiseless surroundings.

Axel, completely forgetting where he was and who was there jumped in mild surprise. "Oh shit, yeah I'm fine. Just tired."

Roxas got up and sat on the bed. "Tired? After how long you've been sleeping? Maybe you're just getting old." Chuckled the blond now lying beside Axel.

"Maybe." Was all Axel muttered back to the blond.

"..."

"..."

"Well, good night Axel."

"Yeah, night Roxas."

"..."

"Was I a bad husband?" The redhead lugubriously inquired of the blond.

Roxas rolled onto his side, facing Axel's back sympathetically reaching out to the man in question. The soft hand on his shoulder let Axel know his friend had heard him. Pivoting over Axel met the bright sapphires filled with tender solace. "I can't answer that Axel, but from what I've seen, you are a fantastic father and a more astonishing person. I don't want to admit it because it's a little embarrassing. But, I really admire you, Axel. You're undoubtedly a stronger man than you're acknowledging yourself to be."

Axel took a moment to let his friend's words sink in, although deep down he didn't know if he could take them to heart. Not right then at least. "Thank you."

"Get some more sleep old man."

The following the day Axel called Sora, and two days later, instead of being back in that small building, he was waiting with his children at home. Of course, he had to take the day off much to his boss's wrath. It didn't bother him as much it usually would. He supposed his mind was just that far away from anything he didn't deem important of late.

The house was clean, the kids were fed, and Axel was mentally dead. If Xion never had that talk with Roxas then she wouldn't be sitting next him, staring at his blank expression in worry. The raven-haired girl poked Axel's cheek and got no reaction from the man. Marluxia cried and threw a toy at his father's head and nothing happened. Xion was about to take Axel's phone out of his hand and call her grandma until she heard the doorbell ring. That got Axel to snap out of his daze and march toward the front door.

Sora stood there, trade mark smile and all. "Hello again Mr. Vin."

"Ah, yeah, hello Sora. The kids are in the living room." Axel managed to spit out, feeling embarrassed.

"Are you all right Mr. Vin? You seem out of sorts." Sora commented in concern for his client's wellbeing.

"I'm fine, just not getting enough sleep is all. Please, come in."

Sora nodded and entered the house hold, eyes studying his surroundings the whole time. The two men walked to the back of the house finding Xion and a naked Marluxia. Axel groaned, quickly picking up his son's clothes and said child. "Sorry, he does that."

"Children will be children." Sora laughed, still looking around with his eyes.

"Daddy, is this batman?" Xion asked in awe.

"Batman?" Sora grinned from ear to ear. "You must be Xion. I'm Sora and I'm one of Batman's assistants. I've come here to ask you for your help on a case. Do you think you can answer some questions for me?"

Xion looked Sora up and down, crossing her arms with a little pout. "But I wanted Batman to find Mommy."

"Xion, please answer Sora's questions. It's very important." Axel pleaded finally getting Marluxia dressed again.

Xion kept her pout and sat on the couch. "Okay Daddy."

"Axel, you are more than welcome to stay during the questioning as no doubt you are curious as to what I am going to ask, though I do request that you don't interrupt the process or answer for your children. I would like them to answer as honestly as possible." Sora sat down on the couch while Axel nodded and sat in the arm chair with the struggling Marluxia.

"Okay Xion, I'm going to ask you some questions and you just answer as best as you can." Sora gently spoke to the girl.

"Okay."

"Did your mommy and daddy ever fight?"

"Yes."

Axel felt his eye twitch as the young detective just got right into it without hesitation. He had to bite his tongue just to keep from speaking.

"Did your daddy ever hit you, your brother, or your mommy?"

"Hey!"

"Mr. Vin, I asked you not to interrupt us. Xion, don't be afraid to answer okay? Everything will be fine I promise." Sora patted the child's head while she stared at her grumpy looking father for reassurance.

Axel spoke as calmly as he could to his daughter without glaring daggers at Sora. "Xion, it's fine. Go ahead and answer."

Xion nodded, eyes going back to Sora. "Daddy spanks us. Mommy does too and I don't like getting spanked. But Mommy says she and Daddy don't like it either that's why we shouldn't be bad."

"What's being bad?"

"Smacking Marly or getting in trouble at school, or yelling back, shoving Marly in mud puddles." Axel wanted to face palm and Sora wanted to laugh a little.

"Why would you do that to your brother?"

"Cause he always tries to take Mommy away from me or he steals my toys. But I don't hurt him anymore cause Daddy says big sister's protect their little brothers. And big girls aren't bad."

Axel felt himself smile a little at that. His baby girl was so sweet to remember something he said a while ago and a few years ago. She was such a smart child.

Sora flipped a page in the note book he took out when he sat down. "Did mommy ever seem sad or say anything about being unhappy?"

"Only when Daddy came home from work late or when Grandpa said he wanted Mommy to get a uh um...divoice."

"Divorce?"

"Yeah that."

Sora looked over to a shocked looking Axel. The man loosened his grip on Marluxia who instantly took off out of the room screaming about being Ironman and wanting a cookie. The brunet felt pity for the man however he wasn't going to let that stop the meeting.

"Why does your grandpa want your mommy to leave your daddy?"

"I don't know, but Mommy was sad and mad at Grandpa. Mr. Sora, Grandpa says it's Daddy's fault Mommy left but Roxas says that it's not true. Roxas says Batman will find my Mommy because Daddy asked him too."

Sora paused and giggled. "Yes, Daddy asked batman to find her and I believe this Roxas is right. But Xion, who is Roxas?"

Xion beamed and began to bounce on the couch. "Roxas is Daddy's boyfriend! Roxas is Aqua's Uncle! Aqua is my best friend and she and I have sleep overs and one time we made breakfast and Roxas helped us and Roxas made cleaning fun but I like Daddy more than Roxas cause Roxas said he only gives candy on special days and that's weird."

"Slow down Xion." Sora laughed, a little stunned by the girl's new enthusiasm. Axel on the hand felt his face go completely red.

Xion giggled now full of energy. "I think Daddy loves Mommy more than Roxas but that's okay cause then when Batman finds Mommy we can all live together and and and Aqua and I can be sisters and,"

"X-Xion, can you go find where Marly went?"

"Okay Daddy!" Xion skipped off to look for her bother, leaving the two adults alone.

Sora cleared his throat to get Axel's attention. The man with the rose-colored face met Sora's curious stare. "Boyfriend?"

"Oh God, it's not what you think, I swear. Roxas is just a buddy of mine who I happen to meet the day Yuna went missing. Please don't take what Xion said to heart." Axel said waving his arms in front of himself frantically.

Dark blue eyes scanned to where the kids had gone, then back to Axel, "I'll believe you for now. But just so you know, if you are hiding anything from me that could compromise this case, I reserve all rights to drop it and still charge full price."

"Roxas is just my friend. Hell, I'd go as far to say he's my best friend. Like I said, I met him before I knew Yuna had vanished. He's helped me a lot with the kids." Axel told Sora. He spent a few minutes describing their friendship, leaving out how Roxas was gay. That wasn't his place to say.

Sora listened to Axel's every word, jotting down notes here and there. "Okay, from what you're telling me is that he's a good friend. Something is off though, but I'm keeping it to myself for now. Anyway, can you call the kids back so I can continue this meeting?"

"Yeah sure." Axel got up from his seat and went in search for his kids. They ended up being in the kitchen, elbows deep in a large bag of candy. Great.

After a small struggle to get the bag away from the kids, Axel managed to round them back into the living room with a small amount of candy to put on the coffee table for everyone to enjoy. The interaction continued. Sora kept asking question and Xion would provide an answer or say she didn't know. When Marluxia was asked he called Sora poopie head and that he wanted Roxas. Sora said he wasn't a poopie head and Marluxia was silly. An hour had passed since Sora's arrival and in that time the brunet had made up his mind about two things. One, he did not believe that Axel had anything to do with Yuna being kidnapped or possibly killed. And two...

"Well Axel I have all the information I need for now. I shall start investigating on the case of your missing wife. Now as for my fee you know how expensive it is. You are sure you can cover it all?" Sora asked standing by the front door with raised brow.

Axel rubbed the back of his head looking uncertain. "Even if I must take out a loan or two I will pay you for your services. I'm one hundred percent positive about this. Please, Sora, find my wife and the mother of my children."

"Of course." Sora shook Axel's hand, handed him a payment plan and left in his car.

Axel sat back on his couch and took a look at what would surely cost him more than putting Xion through college would. "What the?!" Axel said in astonishment. He wasn't sure if he was reading the bill right. It looked as if it were cut in half, no more than half. Surely Sora must be mistaken right? Axel read the paper carefully and saw a small note at the bottom. There it in neat little hand writing said that Axel was not mistaken and that Sora just felt like being nice, especially after seen how much he cares for his family and how much his kids care for him.

"Holy shit."

~X~x~X~x~

"Yo Axel! What are you doing after work tonight? Some of us are going to the bar, wanna join us?" A cheery, tall, blue eyed, dirty blonde coworker said in a sing song voice as he causally leaned against one end of Axel's cubical.

Axel stopped clicking around at his desk top, turning in his chair to face his unwanted guest. "Look, Demyx I've already told a few days ago that I can't hang out. I've got kids I need to take care of. I can't just take off like I used too."

Demyx dropped his head in disappointment when an idea popped into his head. "What about a sitter? You could just get one set up and then come out with the guys."

Axel shook his head and rubbed the bridge of his nose. They had already talked about this and Axel was getting to his limit. Good thing it was the weekend. Something Axel was looking forward too. Roxas was coming over and they planned to take the kids to either the zoo or movie to get away from the stress that was home. "Look Demyx, I'd like too but I can't afford a sitter and I am not going to ask my old lady or the in-laws. I just have a lot going on. But if you really want to hang out then just come over tomorrow. And only you, alright?"

"Sure, why the hell not. I've got nothing better to do. When should I head on over?"

"How about around six or whatever. Nothing before that because I'm taking the kids out."

"You got it." Demyx said with a wave as he walked back to the crowd near the elevator, yelling at them that Axel would not be coming out with them.

Axel rolled his eyes and got back to work when his cell phone rang. Axel wanted to slam his head against his desk. Speak of the devil, well think of the devil since he never said the name out loud. "Roxas, what's up?"

"Just letting you know that I got Xion and Marluxia with me. Your mother called me asking if I could get him. You gave her my number?" Roxas laughed through the phone.

"Yeah sorry about that. I should have asked if it was alright first. She just insisted that I did in case i couldn't be reached for some stupid ass reason." Axel explained and began to get back to work, holding his phone between his head and shoulder.

Roxas hummed on the other side, making Axel unknowingly smile just from the sound. "It's all right, I understand and she explained it all to me when she called. Haha, I just wanted to let you know now because who knows when you would have checked for a text. I hope you don't mind that I fed them already too."

"Oh no, man that's fine. Thank you actually because I might be later than I would like anyway. The boss man is on my ass more than usual all because I took a day off. Man I wish I could quit." Axel stopped working and just relaxed in his chair.

Roxas hummed again, his voice drifting off. "Xion wants to talk to you." Roxas laughed.

"Daddy, can Aqua spend the night again?" Xion pleaded over the phone.

"Yes Xion, Aqua can but you really should ask Roxas."

"Roxas? Yay! Thank you Daddy, thank you Roxas." Xion giggled and handed the phone back to Roxas as his voice became distant.

"Hello again, I take it you didn't tell her about tomorrow?" Roxas asked.

"Nope. It's going to be a surprise for them. Thanks for this by the way. I have no idea how I could do any of this without your help."

"No problem, well I better let you go now. See ya later Axel."

"Yeah, see ya." Axel hung up the phone only to jump in his chair at the sight of Demyx smiling at him from behind the cubical. "Demyx what the fuck?!"

"Sounds like you got date. Shame on you lying to me like that." Demyx teased. He knew about Yuna, almost the whole office floor knew about her going missing and Axel's struggle but being the new guy, Demyx only found out about a week ago, that being said he made it his mission to try and get Axel to a happy place.

Axel rolled his eyes wanting to snap at his eavesdropper. "Demyx, what the hell are you doing? I thought you were leaving."

"I was but then I remembered I don't know where you lived. That's when I heard you talking and I saw that smile on your face. Not that I'm judging or anything. You deserve to find someone new." Demyx said bluntly, not seeing how badly he just messed up.

Axel paused, saved his work and stood up. The redhead grabbed his shit and walked out of his small space, silently marching passed Demyx. The blond followed after him sensing the tension now in the air. "Sorry, I didn't mean anything by that. I just thought you should have some fun. Any kind of fun."

Axel clocked out and waited for the elevator, trying to control his temper. He took a deep breath and got into the small space along with Demyx. There Axel faced the blond, irritation in his eyes. "Demyx, just stop talking now. I don't have date, I was talking to a friend of mine who helps me with my kids. That's all you need to know. Here is my address." Axel grabbed Demyx hand and wrote it down, hoping that it would smudge up and be unreadable by the time they got outside.

"Sorry, must be one heck of a friend." Demyx replied sheepishly.

"Yeah, see ya later." Axel got off on the last stop and headed for his car while Demyx went back up for lord knows why. It didn't matter to Axel anyway. For now, he was going to go buy a lot of alcohol for tomorrow night or so he told himself.