Okay, God. Roxas began, furrowing his brow a little bit. The priest on the TV had said that if you didn't pray often, just say the first thing that came to your mind. It didn't seem much like praying to the blonde, but who would know better than someone who serves God himself?
I haven't really been much of a…believer. Ever. But I suppose that given the proper circumstances, anyone can find You. Or at least, that's what they say on TV. His brow furrowed again, but he shook his head and kept going.
I've been stuck with this pervert for like, eight months. I'm not really sure what my parents have been up to…not paying the ransom and anything…well, moving on. I swear over a Bible or whatever the hell (pun intended) you would like me to swear over that if you get me out of here, I will become your most loyal servant ever. Honestly.
"Hey, Roxas." Axel threw a pillow at the praying teen and crossed his arms impatiently. "Get your lazy ass out of bed. We're having company."
Roxas sat up and raised an eyebrow. "Company?"
"Don't get too excited." Axel said. "He's on my side, not yours. If anyone's going to save you from this "hell" that you're suffering, its definitely not going to be this guy."
The blonde slid out of bed slowly and pulled on a fresh outfit for the day, running a hand through his messy hair and popping a mint in his mouth in favor of brushing his teeth. "How do you know him?"
"Friend from the joint." The answer was short, but it was an answer.
"From jail?"
"No Roxas, from the marijuana." Axel rolled his eyes and motioned for Roxas to follow him into the living room. "Yes, from jail."
"What did you do to go to jail the first time?"
The redhead turned around and Roxas stopped immediately, watching Axel cautiously. "You're just full of questions today, aren't you?"
Roxas shrugged. "I guess so."
"Well, I'm not going to tell you why I was in jail. I'm not going to tell you why he was in jail. All you need to know is that his name is Xigbar, and you should be almost as afraid of him as you are of me. Got it memorized?"
"Yeah, I got it memorized." Roxas grumbled, plopped himself down on the couch. As much as he hated Axel, getting ignored at home was one thing. Getting ignored by the person who kidnapped you was entirely different. Plus, Axel had been the only human he'd interacted with in eight months. It got lonely.
"He should be here pretty soon." Axel interrupted Roxas's train of thought, and the blonde just nodded to show the redhead that he'd heard. "So use your manners."
"You're one to talk…"
Axel elbowed Roxas in the side, none too gently, and the blonde glared at his captor. "I said, manners."
"Alright, alright. Manners. Got it."
They sat there for a moment, both staring at a blank TV, waiting for the arrival of Axel's new partner. Roxas began praying silently again, this time promising the God that he didn't even believe was there that he would be nice to his step-sister and pretend that he liked his step-father. When that didn't work, he decided he could level with the man and say that he would be nice to his step-dad, too.
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The second there was a knock on the door, Axel was up and pulling it open with the most enthusiasm Roxas had ever seen his face wear. Ever.
"Xigbar!" He called, with was answered with a cry of "Axel!"
Roxas watched as the two old friends met in a "man hug," and frowned as he got a clear view of this Xigbar. Save for the salt-and-pepper ponytail and the huge scar across half of his face (the earrings didn't really stick out to Roxas) he looked pretty normal.
"Ah man, I feel like its been forever!" Xigbar said, clapped Axel on the back as the redhead shut the door. And locked it. Three times.
"Only about five centuries." Axel said, and they both erupted into laughter. After a moment of joking passed between them (jokes that, in Roxas's opinion, were so epically cheesy it was almost comical) Axel showed Xigbar in, introducing him to Roxas.
"Xigbar, meet the paycheck. Roxas, this is Xigbar." The redhead fixed Roxas with a look that said, 'You had better not say anything rude,' and Roxas smiled.
"So you're one of the people who's going to take money from my parents in exchange for my return?" He blinked a few times, using his sweet, innocent face on the new arrival.
Xigbar nodded. "That's the impression I got, yup. I take it you're the rich prick who's been giving Axel here a hard time?"
Roxas chuckled and shook his head, leaning back on the couch and kicking up his feet. "I've only given him what he deserves."
"Ah man…" Xigbar said, turning to Axel. "This kid must be a riot in bed."
Roxas choked, Xigbar smirked, and Axel laughed. "He would be, if only he cooperated with me sometimes. I've tried to tell him, but you know kids. So stubborn."
"Oh believe you me, I know." Xigbar replied. A moment of understanding passed through the two, and Roxas could swear his heart skipped a beat.
"Oh my God." He said, glancing furtively at Axel. "You've hired a pedophile. I mean, kidnapping and rape is one thing, but a pedophile?"
"I'm sorry Roxas; I don't recall asking for you opinion." Axel said, smiling a very controlled smile. "Now be a good boy and watch TV while I show Xigbar the rest of the house."
"Yeah, yeah. Whatever." Roxas grumbled. He picked up the remote for the TV and began surfing channels, listening as Axel walked his friend through the rest of the small house.
Oh dear God… He thought. I've tried to offer you some pretty sweet deals, and what do you give me in return? Now I have to deal with TWO of them. As if one wasn't enough. And one's even a career pedophile! I mean, Jesus Christ (pun intended). What if he tries to rape me too? Holy Mother of God…this is positively ridiculous.
"You've already seen the living room…" Roxas heard Axel say, taking Xigbar into the bedroom. "This is the bedroom, but you're going to be stuck on the couch while you're hear."
"Aw, you mean you don't want to sleep with me?" Xigbar asked, chuckling.
"Because you're such a catch." The redhead replied, sarcasm dripping from his voice. "No, I just have to keep an eye on that troublesome blonde in there. Let me tell you something; that kid is a handful. He's constantly being rude…"
Roxas snorted, but pretended he was watching TV and continued listening to Axel give Xigbar the rundown on how he would have to deal with the captive. "You're going to have to be on top of your game if you're alone with him. I'm just tired of staying in this fucking house…but while I'm here I'll keep an eye on him for you. Sound good?"
"Sounds good." Xigbar answered, and the two of them came back into the living room to find Roxas watching Law and Order like the good little dog he was supposed to be.
"Axel, I'm hungry." He said idly, glancing behind him and up at the redhead.
"That's too bad. You're not eating until dinner."
"Why not?" The blonde sat up bolt upright, trying to look as shocked and upset as he could manage.
"For starters, because I said so. Also, you weren't being polite to Xigbar when he got here. So this is your punishment."
The redhead walked over and sat down on the couch, and Roxas moved over to the other end of the couch more out of habit than actual desire at this point. Xigbar watched the two of them interact with an amused smile on his face, walking around to sit in the space between captor and captive.
"Ah, man. This is gonna be a blast."
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"Axel, come on. I'm starving."
"When's the last time you ate?"
"I…I don't know. Yesterday? I don't know." Roxas pouted up at his captor, drawing his knees into his chest. "Please, can I have something to eat?"
"No."
Roxas groaned and glanced around the room, still pouting. Xigbar had meandered off into the bedroom, and the blonde was quite sure that neither he nor his captor wanted to know exactly what he was doing in there.
"Why not?"
"I already told you." Axel groaned, tearing his face away from the screen of his laptop to fix Roxas with a glare. "You weren't being polite to Xigbar when he got here. And you weren't nice to me last night. You're being punished."
"You're such a dick sometimes." Roxas mumbled, leaning on the arm of the couch that he had been against almost all day and watching the TV uninterestedly.
"Wow. That's a shocker." Axel replied. "Tell you what. If you promise to be nice to me tonight and actually follow through, I'll feed you now and at dinner."
He smirked and continued typing away, and Roxas scoffed. God, why are You doing this to me? I mean, why on Earth would people follow You're lead if You can't even cut me a break for one day? ONE DAY???
"What qualifies being nice to you?" He mumbled, and Axel furrowed his brow.
"What did you say?" He asked, eyes still trained on the tiny screen.
"I said, what qualifies being nice to you?"
Axel laughed, completely ignoring the blonde's 'I-can't-believe-I'm-doing-this' look. "Don't fight me when I try to enjoy myself."
"Anything else?"
Axel stopped his typing and thought for a moment before shaking his head. "No, I don't think so."
Roxas sighed and lifted his chin in the most proud manner he could muster, sitting up a little straighter. "I'd like a bowl of ramen."
Axel's hands came to a complete halt, and he looked at the blonde with a look of undisguised shock on his face. "You've got to be joking."
Roxas didn't say anything; just gave the redhead the most blank expression that came to his face. He was absolutely disgusted with himself, hardly believing that he was going to let this pervert do things to him in exchange for a little snack before dinner.
When he didn't receive any response, Axel chuckled and stood up, locking his computer, walked into the kitchen. The entire way there, he kept muttering 'Alright.' or 'Okay then.'
It didn't take very long, and within minutes Roxas had a bowl of steaming hot ramen in front of him. His mouth was watering like crazy, and regardless of the way it burned his mouth, he shoveled forkfuls down his throat without hesitating once.
"By the way…" Axel muttered, opening up his laptop and typing in a password ridiculously quickly. "If you don't live up to your half of the deal, you won't eat for two days. Got it memorized?"
Roxas just nodded quickly, barely hearing the redhead, instead contenting himself with a long sip of the salty broth. After having not eaten anything in almost 36 hours, he thought it tasted pretty damn good.
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The terms of the deal he had made didn't strike him full force until Axel led him into the bedroom at midnight that night (or the following morning, rather) and they caught Xigbar fishing through his underwear drawer.
"Xigbar, what the hell are you doing?" Axel asked. His voice was more patient that Roxas thought it might be, and when the older of the two criminals looked up, he laughed nervously.
"I…uh…lost my…" Axel started shaking his head halfway through the bad excuse and sighed.
"Well, whatever. Get out. I've got something to do."
Xigbar glanced between Axel's patient, half-smirk and Roxas's look of half fear and half serious regret and nodded, grinned, and walked around the two standing in the doorway and into the living room. "You have fun with that, bro." He called, chuckling.
Roxas glanced up at Axel, who sighed and shook his head, and then was lead over to the bed. "Are you sure that there's nothing I can do of equal value to make up for this?" He asked for what seemed like the millionth time.
Also, for what seemed like the millionth time, Axel shook his head 'no' and began unbuttoning his jeans, right after stripping himself of his shirt. "Nope. You made a deal, now you have to live up to it. In a way, I'm teaching you responsibility."
Roxas groaned and walked as slowly as possible to sit on the bed, waiting for the redhead to be ready. "I can't tell you how much I don't want to do this."
"Oh, stop your complaining." Axel said, chuckling. "I think you might enjoy it more than you think you will. Now," He turned to face the blonde, wearing nothing but his boxers. "Undress. If I hear another word out of you that isn't either a moan or a whimper, I'll make sure you don't enjoy this. Got it--"
"Yeah, I got it memorized." Roxas said, pulling his shirt up over his head and quickly slipping his cargo shorts from his hips. Due to the lack of nutrition he had receive, he had lost some weight. It had actually benefited him looks wise, considering that now he was about thirty-five pounds lighter than he had been eight months ago.
Axel placed a hand on Roxas's right shoulder, pushing him down on the bed. Roxas swallowed loudly, and nervous bile rising in his throat. However, he didn't say a word, as he was commanded, and lay there in wait.
Far too slowly, Axel climbed on top of the kid and mounted his hips. Before he was even given a chance to think about what was going to follow into the morning, his captor was grinding against him, the temperature in the room going up about five thousand degrees.
--
Roxas laid against the redhead's chest, eyes shut tightly. Axel's arm was hanging limply from his shoulders, and he was so passed out that Roxas doubted even an animal stampede could wake him at this point.
He wasn't going to deny that it had felt good. Or, better than it had been before that. Not necessarily good, but definitely not bad. Of course, he didn't give Axel the satisfaction of letting him know that; the entire time the blonde didn't make one noise but a sigh of relief once it was finally over.
He could've sworn that Xigbar was listening to them through the door. He wasn't sure, but Roxas would bet his freedom that Pervert #2 was getting off on hearing Axel grunt as he thrust inside of Roxas over and over and over again. Which was disgusting in every way possible.
Despite the fact that the thought made Roxas want to kill himself, he figured that he felt safer with Axel than he would with Xigbar. At least he knew that Axel hadn't been in jail for molesting little boys. Plus, he knew Axel better, despite the lack of information he had on the redhead.
Dear God…He thought, closing his eyes. If being stuck with Axel means that I'm safe with Xigbar, than by all means continue answering my prayers.
A/N: Okay! Wow. Urm...it didn't take me very like to write this chapter, so if you guise don't like it I won't be really offended (actually I will, but I'm just saying that; just in case) Urm...yeah. So I think that Xigbar might help Roxas like Axel more if he keeps being all pervy and nasty. xD He was totally snarfing Roxy's underwear...PERV ALERT!
Just so you guise know, about one month, maybe three weeks has passed since the last chapter and Axel was all like...';D cuddle...' so...yeah. Just so you know. Roxas is kinda used to this stuff by now. xD Still hates it, but whatever. He'll get over it. Keep it up with the reviews. They maketh me happai. ^^