Prompt: Axel. Endings.
In retrospect, there were lots of endings.
First there had been the ending of his life, and his new birth into a nobody. But that 'newness', that shiny quality that came with all things new, eventually wore off, and he didn't bother to metaphorically polish it again. It was old. It was another end, highlighted all the more by not being the last number anymore in the Organization.
So his days were filled with missions, filtered into specific types, and then, ones which were important. Which were none. None of them particularly stood out – everything blended into one. He was just relaxing – not like Demyx, who practically could be a piece of the castle decor for all the work he did – but he didn't extend much effort. He went solo, he worked solo. He came back solo. But that was fine. It wasn't desirable, but it was practical. Besides, he didn't have anything to feel about it anymore.
Yet, that had ended too.
It ended the day when that spiky haired boy first appeared, staring at his shoes, or perhaps the grass, or perhaps at nothing at all. The superior had told him to watch over him – grudgingly, Axel had. But at the time, he hadn't known that an ending was in sight, that there was a pinprick on the horizon that would make things change; that, he would be the one to cause it, by deciding to get more involved with number thirteen, by deciding that maybe, just maybe, he was amusing, and then, that he was a friend, and then—
His solo days were over.
But that was fine. Maybe the beginning that would follow would be better. And, as time passed, it was. It was the best beginning he had ever really had, something that couldn't easily be replaced. Axel wasn't stupid, though – he knew it too, would come to an end. His life always followed that pattern. The days he spent with Roxas, and then the days he spent with Roxas and Xion, Axel knew, that it would all be for nought, that one day they would part, and ultimately, it would end.
Still, Axel didn't wallow in those thoughts.
He knew now it was best to make the most of things whilst they lasted.