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Chapter 11: Blooming Love, Faltering Faith

"Is it ethically legal to stock pile funds against clients accounts for the use of own purposeful use for one's own everyday needs?" Axel read over the text as his eyes were fixed on the book, but his eyes were soon on Roxas; the boy seemed lost in his own world, "Roxas, what's the answer?"

Roxas had seemed lost in thought ever since they had gotten back to his house, something was bothering him but he couldn't bring himself to handle it, the very thoughts of Leon being his Father. They were scary, unnatural, and awkward, if it leaked out to the school that he was the Principal's son, everyone would start treating him differently, and he didn't want that.

Axel's hand on his shoulder as if the hand that had been flashing up and down the front of his face wasn't enough to rock his world, "Hey, you in there or am I talking to a kissable brick wall?" his face was contorted in worry over the boy; he had heard from Roxas that Leon was the boy's Father and even after hearing it, he could tell Roxas seemed out of sorts.

"Hmm…sorry, I guess I got lost in my own world, and the answer is not only is not ethical, it is immoral and punishable by a long prison sentence as well as utter downfall of the company owned by the individual," Roxas closed the book as he shifted off the bed and started pacing, "…Please tell me or do something to make me forget about everything…I just…I don't know what to do about this whole, Principal Leonhart being my Father…it doesn't seem possible."

Axel watched the boy pace like a lion caged up in a cage smaller then its own form, the boy's hands were wringing themselves over and over as if they would cause a fire to spark, "Roxas…" he stood in front of him with his own hands intermixed with Roxas' as he softly kissed him, "….It'll be okay, it'll work out."

"…How can you be so sure? Your family can't be as dysfunctional as mine has been," Roxas let go of him as he walked over to his doorway; he thought he had heard a door open downstairs.

In the past, the door opening could only mean the sounds of his psychotic mother coming home, drunk, hung over, and pissed off, but as he cracked open the door and glanced down the stairway. A different face he hadn't seen since his near breakdown after the first time Axel had decided to make the moves on him, greeted his face and line of vision as she looked up from the kitchen counter.

"Well, well, if it isn't my favorite little nephew," Aerith seemed almost too pleasant as she watched Roxas coming down with the slightly shy figure of Axel following him like a lost puppy, "You going to introduce me to your new shadow or do I have call Leon to come help expel the elusive intruder tailing you?"

Roxas felt taken back by his Aunt's mood lately and her words seemed to almost make Axel high tail it back to Roxas' room to escape out the bedroom window, "He's harmless, Aunt Aerith," Roxas wound his hand in Axel's as he lead him down the stairs as he brought him towards her as he nudged himself up closer against the man, "…This is my boyfriend."

Axel tightened his grip on the boy's hand as he stood as a firm support for him, fearing that this woman that was the boy's aunt would lunge at him like the boy's psycho Mother had, but she seemed different. Her features softened as she sat down what she had had her hands on as she embraced Axel; it made him flinch at her touch but her voice in his ear, softly laced with tears.

"…Thank you for saving him," as she pulled back, her hands cupped around his face as to admire the face of her nephew's saving grace.

Whoever said afterschool meetings between students and teachers was something that could be a boring experience, never told that to Demyx, the sight of clouding had appeared on the window of the classroom that had been darkened. Breathing was soft from the figures in the room as Demyx lay on his back, his shirt open as he attempted to catch his breath. Zexion was at the window admiring the moonlight that had come upon the small room in the time he had locked them in the room.

Demyx sat up as he looked over at the Teacher, "Well…that was a fun learning experience, can we do it again sometime soon, Professor?" he waited for Zexion to remark on his comment, even if it was too early to be making such remarks.

Zexion was never one to answer too soon, but, "…Depends on whether or not you can keep up in my class," his eyes stared back at him as he moved towards him, his fingers working through the boy's hair, "Because I think you are a very bright student and you seem like someone who could excel in this class."

"Mnh…if I could get a kiss like before to seal that deal…I'm willing to stick around," Demyx seemed as cocky as ever as he ran his fingers through the Teacher's lilac hair as he pulled him in, crushing their lips together as hard as it had before.

"…This is going to be a very exciting last year," Zexion returned it as he crawled up on the table after Demyx as their fun from before returned with a full force, and with much more.

"You have one new message."

"Axel, this is your Father, try answering your phone for once because this is important."

"Don't do this to him over an answering machine."

"I'll do whatever I want."

"Don't do this to him…"
"We're moving again, and this time, you don't have a say in the matter, we'll be in town in a couple of weeks, be ready to move when we come to town."

"End of message."

Leon turned the machine off as he took the tape out, his mind told him to do the right thing and toss the incriminating tape in the trash to save Axel, but another side told him, maybe, it was time that Roxas learned to stand on his own two feet. He had been put back up on his own two feet and was stable without the common denominator in his life everyday.

"…I'm sorry, Roxas…but its time…you learned to fly out of the nest…You were going to have to learn soon enough with High School almost over, and college a short time away," his fingers placed the tape back in the machine, rewound it back to the start of the new message, and left it as be, "Being responsible is a bitch."

Getting back into his car as he slid into the driver's seat, a pair of blue eyes fell on him as a hand placed its self in the man's lap, "It'll be alright…"

"How can you be so sure, Cloud? I left him to be raised by that monster and now…all I'm doing is running from my responsibility as a Parent, because I'm the only parent he's got right now."

"So, you're going to take on the responsibility of being 'Daddy' because I know from working at the Prison, that psycho woman is getting released soon," Cloud watched as Leon's hands gripped the steering wheel to a grip that turned the man's knuckles white, his face became an ashen gray as if sick with hearing the news, "I'm so sorry, Leon…I meant to tell you sooner."

Leon tried to keep himself from yelling at Cloud, lashing out at him, screaming into the night his hatred, but he felt sick to his stomach as he buried his head into the steering wheel column. Cloud wrapped his arms around the man as he listened to the man softly crying, "…I'm sorry…I'm so sorry…"

Papers of release from a world that's held us from the world outside us can give us relief, release, and utter peace, but when those we've hurt have hoped that we wouldn't see the individual again are released, "Mommy's coming home, baby, time to make us one big happy family again," the woman's smile was enough to make a sociopath turn towards the side of good as her arm linked with the man she had months before shooed out of her home, "Let's go get my son…time to make this 'Family' thing work, once and for all."

"Whatever, as long as you don't decide to chew me out again and be the psychotic bitch you were last time," the man quickened his pace as he seemed to drag her along, "Let's get going before I change my mind about us."

"Fine, but first, a drink to celebrate this happy occasion," it had been almost six months since she had had a drop of alcohol, but, in an instant, that was about to change, "And you're buying."

Dinner seemed awkward at Roxas' house as he tried to keep Axel from trying to foreplay him under the table from playing with his feet, wrapping his leg around Roxas', "accidentally" dropping something on the floor just to catch a head at getting Roxas to blush as red as Axel's hair. With each attempt, he found himself getting Roxas glaring at him, trying to smack him off and trying to verbally but yet not verbally telling him to stop.

There was one thing he didn't appreciate and that was the man's head in his lap as he sunk a hand with fingernails razor sharp in his scalp as made an excuse to look for something, "…Either you knock off the sex at the table foreplay before my Aunt catches you, or else…no sex till Graduation," he held a fork at the man's head as Axel took the hint.

"Geez…touchy much or are you just lacking some needed attention to unwind you," he wasn't scoring any points with the blonde as he saw Roxas was being serious, foreplay with his Aunt watching them, not aware that they were already doing one another as it was, "…Point taken and noted."

Aerith walked back into the room with some dessert for the boys as she saw that you could cut the tension with a knife, "Have you two gone all the way yet with one another?" leave it up to the Aunt to be as blunt as possible as Roxas nearly choked on the ice cream in his mouth with Axel looking on as a look of utter disbelief crossed his face, "…I guess I can take that utter silence as a 'Yes'?"

If looks could kill, then Roxas' blue face was enough to tell her she was pushing her limits, "Aunt Aerith! Aren't you the least bit concerned about the fact that I'm hooked up with a guy?"

"Roxas…are you ashamed of me?" Axel's pout looked as if it could melt the hardest hearts as he seemed to hang all over Roxas like a puppy looking for affection after having his Master yell at him, "Am I that bad a person that you have to ask such a question?"

Aerith could see Roxas was going to have to pull something off to fix this, unaware Axel was playing around, "I'm not concerned, I'm just glad to see you happier then I've seen you in the longest time, besides," she picked up the dishes as she put them in the sink of the kitchen,"…You've turned your choice in people around from that little blonde who dared call you her boyfriend."

"…Namine wasn't my first choice…she forced her self on me to get in good with my Mom, they are one in the same person," Roxas pushed away from the table as he walked out the front door as he sat on the stairs to watch the night sky.

Axel knew it had been a long and hard road to get from the pit of despair he had found him in, to reach this point now, but even with all his help, it was going to take some effort from Roxas to push himself up and move on, "You know Axel…the day Roxas called me up asking for my help, I had to ask myself, 'What happened this time? What did she do to push him this far now? What sight would I become upon this time, cops, blood, him locked away in his room to avoid her, glass broken on the floor?" her eyes looked up at him as she walked over to him, "…I didn't come upon half of those things, except for a heart broken boy who was confused about something someone had said to him…a promise to come back and tell him everything about himself."

"I meant to come back, but when you see someone who might have something to do with the broken doll in the house…its better to just leave its shattered self alone other then helping it up," his footsteps carried over to the front door as he joined Roxas outside, Sometimes…that's all it needs…time.

Time can either be the catalyst of our destruction or the one catalyst of healing one needs to heal through all our pains and sorrows, rain is also such an elemental factor in all. Strange weather had decided to rain upon the two lovers as they raced back towards Axel's place because it seemed awkward for both of them to stay in at Roxas' place. Within the rains of a storm, people can find themselves lost in one another and when such things come, things happen.

"Come on, get your butt in here before I have to nail it to get it warm again…"Axel's charm was really out tonight as he pulled Roxas in by the collar as the boy took the lead as he wrapped his arms around the man's neck as he nipped at his lips, "…Okay, that's almost pushing it."

Roxas lightly chuckled as he did it again as he locked his lips with the man's as he pushed him back into the bed, "This pushing enough for you…or do you want more push?"

The man's hands wrapped around the boy's waist as he pulled him to lay beside him, "You really need something to unwind you…" the man rolled over on top of Roxas as he started to straddle him, his lips crushing over Roxas' the all too familiar foreplay was playing out, "…Let's unwind you."

Roxas was ready for anything as he felt it all coming upon them again, the same acts of love as he could feel himself gasping for more, faster, harder, more of Axel against him, but by some fateful accident, the boy's hand hit the answering machine as the message played.

He tried to stop the man's foreplay as he pushed him, "…Stop."

"What's wrong?"

"…I…I…I gotta go."

"Roxas?"

"I knew this couldn't last, I knew for some reason, you would be leaving…you've just been playing this out as long as you could until, well, congratulations asshole, you won!"

"Roxas, wait!"

The door had slammed in the man's face as he opened it quickly, charging down the apartment stairs as he raced after the boy in the crashing, pouring down rain and storm as he grabbed a hold of the boy's wrist; his voice was screaming to be heard over the roar of the storm, "Will you just stop for one damn minute?"

"Alright, you have one minute! And one minute only!"

"…I never knew they would be coming back to get me to make me move with them."

Roxas stood shivering in the cold, trying to hide the hurt on his face as he stood with his arms crossed across his chest, "Please, believe me Roxas."

"I do…"

Axel seemed puzzled at the boy's sudden answer, "You do?"

"Yeah, I believe that you LIED TO ME! YOU PLAYED ME! I THOUGHT WE MEANT SOMETHING!"

"Roxas please don't…"

"NO! I'VE HAD IT! WE'RE OVER! GET OUT OF MY LIFE, STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM ME, AND DON'T EVEN BOTHER SHOWING UP AT SCHOOL AGAIN!"

"Will you stop being an ass?! I'm trying to apologize and it's hard to apologize to a jackass who doesn't want listen or stop for anyone."

"No…so why don't you go back to your oh so wonderful little life you had before me, leave town forever…don't worry. I'll survive, I'll find a way on my own out of the Hell I'm in…" he threw his hands in the air as he continued on down the road, "Look for me in the Obituaries in a few years."

In that few fleeting seconds, it was over, everything, the happiness rollercoaster, had come crashing down into a fiery pile of nothing as thunder crashed around the site of the accident. It had taken two lives that night, a life of love that had started, and the life of Roxas', a life that had become happy, and now, was gone.