Len: Hello, my faithful (and probably impatient) reviewers. I missed you all, I really did. I am sorry I haven't gotten around to this. But I got B's on both my midterms. ^.^ (In other words, I was studying.) I still have a few coming up, but who cares. You all need a break from my break. Please enjoy another chapter of Criminal Fantasies!

Chapter Six: Changed

"I heard a report that you screamed yesterday." Ansem said. He looked worried, even a little bit fatherly.

Roxas stared, then blushed. "R-Really?"

"No one would go down to check on you, but I wasn't in so I'm sorry we weren't protecting you well..."

"If he had attacked me, I'd be dead, right?" Roxas asked.

"Yes, but..."

"Please don't worry about me. I don't think I screamed." Roxas said convincingly.

"Oh, then..." Ansem was at a loss for words. "Dismissed then."

Roxas stood and walked normally out of Ansem's office. He turned the corner. Then he began to run. His heart was already pounding as it was. When he reached the cell he was breathing heavily. He looked at Axel, the words "No more!" Already out of his mouth.

His heart melted. He knew as he watched Axel breath in ash again, a slight smile curving his lips, he could never let this go. Axel read it in his face, and his smile widened. Roxas dropped his head and rested his hands and upper body weight on his slightly bent knees.

"You shouldn't do that after jogging so far." Axel said. "How long were you running to me?"

Roxas laughed a little "I was almost caught."

"Well, you're loud."

"Yah." Roxas suddenly walked up to the bars. "Are you bored, Axel?"

Axel shook his head. "Still content." He said.

"Keep me around?" Roxas asked.

"Of course." His lover replied.

"I'm moving."

"Where?" Axel asked, taking a puff.

"Out of Sora's. I'm getting my own place." Roxas said proudly.

"Congradulations." Silence. "Thanks for letting me know."

"We never really talk..." Roxas explained.

"I really never knew you wanted to." Axel said.

"I do."

"Good." It as quiet a while longer. "About what? I don't want to scare you."

"You feel like killing?"

"No...but that's because of you." Axel said.

"It doesn't frighten me." Roxas said, a bit bubbly about it.

"Oh? It doesn't to be compared to a murder?"

"Not anymore."

"you've changed."

"Because you have, Axel." Roxas told him.

"It...doesn't bother you at all anymore?"

"Axel..." Roxas sat at the base of the bars, not facing his lover. "Listen to me..It used to bother me because you used to do it. You'd want it. If you change, you change. You did it, yes, you wanted it,-that bothers me, yes. But just as you learned to live without it. I can learn to love you despite it. No- let me rephrase." he swiveled to face Axel. "i've already learned to love you."

"Hey, you're not crying." Axel pointed out.

Roxas smiled. "Well, I've gotten stronger."

"Maybe you just needed to scream." Axel said.

Roxas stood, smiling "I'm coming in." He said to Axel's surprize.

"W-what? In here? You're coming into the cell?"

"Yes. Why not?" Roxas took out his keys and unlocked the door.

Axel interestingly enough looked just as sexy with is eyes wide and jaw dropped "You're not allowed in here."

"What" Roxas said, opening the door. "I'm coming in here because you asked me to a while ago."

"I wasn't serious. I mean- you would- I thought you would- well, never really...really...."And Roxas was inside, hands in his pockets, keys in the door, smile on his face.

Axel smirked. "Alright." he didn't move. "Alright then." He took out a cigarette and Roxas got out a lighter. Axel put the cigarette in his mouth and Roxas lit it. Obviously Axel liked that idea, and the way Roxas had done it was no less than incredibly sexy.

Axel took a puff. "You know what's fun?" Roxas shook his head. "Welll, I get to see you in a sexy cop cosplay every day." Roxas blushed.

Axel took his hand, pulled him in. Roxas ended the move by putting his arms around Axel. Axel left the cig in his mouth to put both arms around Roxas. They squeezed hard once, laughed together and stayed in each others arms, just hugging lightly.

"What are you doing?" Roxas asked Axel as the red-head scribbled on paper. It had been two weeks since Roxas had first started coming in. Often he sat on the bed in Axel's arms for hours at a time. Other times Roxas would lean against the inside of the bars. They would talk about everything and nothing.

It wsn't that it hadn't crossed their minds, but they hadn't yet had any true sexual encounters as long as Roxas had been coming in.

"I'm writing letters."

"Well, that I can see."

"Oh, I get it. Well," Axel sighed, taking a break from writing. "I'm writing apology letters to all the families. I'm actually having a lot of trouble...I want to explain why, you know? Why I did it...but...I can't. I just don't get it anymore."

"That makes scence." Roxas said with a smile.

"It does?"

"Of course. Let me read one?" Roxas asked, a bit nosy.

Axel nodded easily. "Sure. My business is yours, Roxy."

Roxas picked up one of the letters and read it silently.

Dear Ven, Margaret, and Joan Kitredge,

I am unsure that you will open this letter when you have read the envelope and seen my name on it, but I had to try to give you closure to your son's death. This is not a joke. I am sorry. I can't think of any other way to say this, and I have no excuse. I'm sure that at some point I understood why I did the things I have done. But I can no longer seem to understand it or explain the way things were. I never would expect forgiveness, but only wish to calm your spirits in any way I can.

Sincerely, Axel.

"That's...whew. You should write them all this way." Roxas told him.

Axel gave him a slightly bland smile "Well..." He let it trail off.

"It's a lot of letters." Axel stretched "I've been going since you left last night."

"You haven't slept, love?" Roxas asked.

"No...I...I couldn't-"

"I see." Roxas said.

"Will you do me a favor? I hate to ask, but I can't do it..."

"What is it?" Roxas stared as Axel began gathering the letters.

"Will you find these families, Roxas?" Axel asked, looking his lover in the eye. "I need them to know..."

"Say no more." Roxas said, crawling over onto Axel's lap and wrapping his arms around him. Axel looked mildly surprised and very happy about this. "Of course I will. I'll do anything you need me to in order to help."

Len: Yes, I know it's short. It's not that I was in a hurry. It's always been this short. Most of the chapters are already written. I just...don't have time to edit them right now!