Roxas's heart rate plummeted as his older brother's panicked cries flowed over the phone and blared into his ear. The upset teen wasn't forming coherent sentences, but Roxas had an idea about what his older brother was trying to inform him of. Between every shaky deep breath, Sora continued his story. Roxas paid close attention to the sounds of unidentified objects smashing around. Their father was still around and furious about something. This thought made Roxas uneasy, possibly even more nervous about what exactly their father found out about.
Roxas placed a shaking hand over his agape mouth, sitting up in the bed, Axel sat nervously next to him. The red head gazed upon his blond lover with concern, over hearing the soft cries dripping over the receiver. Axel took Roxas's hand in his, softly rubbing his thumb over the smooth, pale flesh to reassure Roxas of any worry.
"Sora, Sora, listen to me. You can't tell anyone…Please, you know what'll happen if you do. Please, just get Riku up and I'll be over soon."
Axel noticed the lack of "we'll" in Roxas's sentence and felt his own hope of helping drop. Axel knew something bad happened to Sora, and Roxas was willing to leave their moment alone to go help Sora. Axel looked over at their clothes on the floor and sighed deeply.
"Rox." Axel whispered once Roxas hung up.
"Axel, please we have to go…Like right now." Roxas pushed past Axel and started to get dressed, the tears audible in his voice.
"What happened, Roxas?" Axel wanted, no he needed to know what had happened to Sora.
"I'll explain in the car, please get dressed." Roxas pleaded, his crystal eyes ready to release tears of frustration.
Without another word, Axel got himself situated and grabbed his keys, much to Roxas's pleasure. This wasn't exactly how Axel hoped to leave the motel. He was hoping to leave with Roxas in a content and blissful mood. Axel wanted to be holding his boyfriends hand, whispering about how much he loved Roxas. Instead, they were leaving in quickly, and in Roxas's case in a panic mode.
The red head placed his keys in Roxas's hands as he went to return the door key to the front desk. The man there seemed to be surprised at the sudden departure.
"That was one hell of a quickie." He laughed to himself, getting a hateful glare from Axel.
"Jerk off." Axel walked off saying to himself, not feeling like giving the rude man an explanation.
Axel jumped into the car, noticing Roxas had already started it and had his seat belt clicked on. The blond stared ahead of himself as Axel backed out rather quickly. Axel felt the tension in the car raise as Roxas stayed silent.
"Roxas, what's going on?" Axel asked, looking over at Roxas for a second.
"My father…he found out about Riku." Roxas whispered above the sound of passing cars beside them.
"I figured something like that happened…What'd the asshole do?" The blond next to him took a deep breathe, making Axel bit his lip.
"He…He went too far, Axel." Roxas closed his eyes and turned his head away from the red head.
Axel gripped the steering wheel tightly and slowed down the car for a red light. Axel looked over at Roxas, than his hand that was sitting on the arm rest beside him. Axel reached over with one hand and grabbed Roxas's hand.
"Roxas…"
"He fucking raped him!" Roxas shouted, tearing his hand away fro Axel's to bang against the dashboard.
Shocked with surprise and taken back by Roxas's words, Axel sat speechless. Roxas's father had finally crossed the line, he went over it by abusing both his children and now, now he was sexually abusing Sora?
The car behind Axel's honked it horn, snapping Axel out of his trance. The older boy realized the light was green and tore his eyes away from the crying blonde. This time, Axel was speeding to get to Roxas's house.
Upon arriving, Roxas barely waited to the car to stop before jumping out of the vehicle. Axel put the car in park and noticed the other car parked in front of his, Riku's pretty black Escalade. The fiery red head sighed and ran after Roxas, his feet carrying him up the stone steps until he was in the trashed living room. Axel looked around for Roxas when he caught the sound of Sora's cries upstairs. Taking two steps at a time, Axel hurried up the steps to see Sora on the ground holding Riku close to his tiny body.
A sudden panic hit Axel when he noticed Roxas wasn't in here with his brother.
"Sora...Are you okay?" Axel gently approached the teen, taking note of the blood stained sheets on the bed next to him. Sora's shirt was still on, but his pants were obviously thrown on in a hurry to cover himself. Axel swallowed thickly as he placed a comforting hand on the teens shoulder, worried he might scare the poor thing. Luckily, Sora only sobbed and cried out in pain from shifting his body to sit next to Riku's still unresponsive body.
"Please, Axel...Riku, wake him up." Sora cried, looking up at Axel with the same glassed over eyes that Roxas had.
"It's going to be okay, Sora. Okay?" Axel tried to calm Sora, thinking of where Roxas was.
"Axel, I found this..." Speaking of Roxas, Axel's lover appeared in the doorway with a medical kit in hand, his voice broken as he set his gaze on his brother. "Sora, let me take a look...oh god, I'm so sorry, Sora." Roxas whispered to his brother, gently helping the boy to sit on the bed. Sora sat and refused to look back at the little soaked spot of his blood on the bed. Fresh tears streamed down Sora's face as Roxas used a single finger to slowly push the fabric down.
"No!...It still hurts..." Sora whimpered, pushing Roxas's hand away.
"I know...It'll be okay, Sora...I promise." Roxas placed a soft kiss in Sora's messy hair, and wrapped his arms around the smaller boy, Axel sat with Riku's head in his lap watching the brothers. Axel knew the brothers were close because of how hard their home life was, and understood how loving they were of each other. He saw how much Roxas and Sora needed each other.
"We...we can't tell anyone." Sora spoke softly, threading his fingers through Roxas's hair.
"No, we can't." Axel barely heard Roxas respond as he began to clean a fresh cut on Riku's forehead.
Axel was a little disturbed at how the brothers both agreed to keep the horrible issue a secret. Why would anyone want to keep something this serious a secret? Axel figured they were more afraid of what would happen once their father's actions were exposed, than what goes on now. Either way, Axel wanted Roxas out of this house as soon as possible.
"How did this happen, Sora?" Roxas rocked the smaller boy in his lap as he asked.
"He was looking...for you." Sora whispered softly.
"...Did he find out?" Roxas looked into a mirror image of his eyes on Sora and felt a sudden guilt.
"About me and Riku, yes...We weren't even doing anything wrong." Sora closed his eyes painfully, not being able to look Roxas in the eye anymore.
"Sh, sh, sh...it's okay."
Axel found it hard to believe Sora was the older sibling right now. The way Sora was cuddled up in Roxas's lap like a child in his loving mothers lap, and how softly Roxas talked to him to calm him down. It was just a moment Axel found to be rare, and true to their family.
"Sora?"
All three teens looked down at the silver haired teen and sighed with relief. With the sense of knowing Riku was okay, put one less worry one their minds. Watching Riku sit up and hold his head made them all feel a little better. Axel helped Riku sit up, placing a strong hand the boys back for support.
"Riku!" Sora leaped from Roxas's lap and wraped his exhausted arms around Riku's neck. Riku didn't seem to mind as Sora fell on top of him and gave him a slight head ache from the sudden movements. Riku only smiled warmly and wrapped his arms around Sora in return.
"Are you," Riku started but coughed violently, "okay?" Riku tried again, getting a worried glance from both Axel and Roxas. He didn't like the looks Axel and Roxas were giving him, he was fine why did they look so worried?
"I'm fine as long as you are." Sora smiled, kissing Riku softly before burying his face in Riku's shoulder. Riku took a deeo breath of Sora's scent and pulled him closer, running his long fingers through the kids hair.
"...What did he do to you?" Riku asked as he let his hands travel down Sora's arms next, taking notice of how Sora flinched when he brushed over his forearms.
An awkward silence filled the room as all four boys sat there quietly, each waiting for another to answer. Sora looked down and bit his lip sadly, Riku looked up at Roxas and Axel with concern. As he looked at Roxas, Riku noticed the sheets behind the bed and let out a loud curse. Sora jumped back a little before he was pulled tightly against Riku.
"No...no" Riku struggled out as his fists clenched, "Don't tell me he did...Fuck, Sora!" Riku yelled accidentally, scaring the other three in the room. "Where the fuck is the bastard?" Riku stood up, taking Sora with him.
"No! Riku, you can't tell! Please, you can't! It'll only get worse." Sora pleaded, pulling on Rikus hand.
"...Where is he?" Riku asked again, ignoring the pleas.
Looking around, they all exchanged glances, before they realized the most startling fact. Nobody knew where the crazed man was.