Note: Okay, just so you know I am NOT happy with this chapter. .
Its short, and it just...well read it to find out.
And sorry this took so long, was down for SOOO long . I lost all insentive to write I guess.
Ugh...*stabs chapter* I want to hurt it, really I do. It sucks so friken bad...
Whatever just read...
Note about chapter name: XD when Kiddy was begging for a new chapter, she kept calling it "Chapter Marluixa". And I couldnt think of a name for it so...XD here, have a Chapter Marluxia.
And no, sorry Marly fans, he is not in this chapter or story in general. Well not yet at least.
"Axles?" His reflection gave a quizzical look.
"Yeah, but spelled differently. Like that singer, from that one band umm…I don't remember their name…"
"Spelled how?"
"A-X-E-L, Axel."
Axel nodded, "Right! I'll commit it to memory!"
Roxas laughed, "You'll do what?"
"Commit it to memory…Remember it?"
"Well I would hope you would remember your own name."
The two sat laughing at the stupidity of Axel.
Well Roxas laughed at Axel, Axel laughed at Roxas laughing. He missed the joke.
A glance at the clock told Roxas it was four thirty. Dad would be home soon.
Laying back, he sighed.
"What's wrong Roxie?" Axel asked, sitting on the bed next to him.
"Dad's going to be home soon and…I was thinking, maybe I should…"
"What"
"Tell him the truth."
"I told you before," Axel shook a finger at him, "The truth will set you free."
"What if it doesn't?" Roxas asked sitting back up. He tried to look Axel in the eyes, but the height difference meant he had to look up, "Or what if I don't want to be set free?"
Axel sighed and leaned close to Roxas, "Freedom is mankind's greatest achievement."
Roxas hated when he got all mythical like that, "I thought the wheel was, or fire."
Axel laughed and hugged Roxas tight, "Your such a silly head Roxie!"
A hug. By a reflection. By someone that was…transparent!
But it oddly felt warm, and whole.
It felt like something was there, something Roxas couldn't put his finger on.
But he knew that something, made him no longer care if Axel called him "Roxie".
Hell, he could call him "Rocky" or "Rockas" or "Hilary" for all he cared.
Axel stopped hugging him way to soon for Roxas' comfort, "Umm Roxie?"
"Yes Axel?"
"When I hug you, your supposed to hug back."
Roxas blushed again, in all his thought, he forgot to hug Axel back.
Trying to fix his mistake he latched onto Axel in a tight, awkward hug.
Axel simply smiled and hugged him back softly, enjoying his slight sent of some citrus shampoo that promised energy.
There they stayed for some time, until Roxas' father burst in, and somehow Axel disappeared.
Roxas felt straight forward on the bed. On his face.
"Hi dad…" he mumbled though the sheets.
"Get…Up….Now Roxas."
Roxas slowly sat up, his first sense the smell of alcohol, the second a hard, thick bottle to his face.
Roxas was knocked off his bed, onto his less then-fall-softening carpet.
"Why the fuck are you home!?" Roxas heard his father yell at him.
He also tasted way to much blood.
Why was there so much blood?
Roxas' world was beginning to go black as he looked up to his father, who was kneeling over him now, a shard of glass in hand.
'Why didn't Axel catch me again, to save me from falling…?' Roxas wondered as he felt a sharp pain in his stomach. His vision blurred and blackened. His sense of time and space fell short.
He fell into a sleep.
"Roxie?" Axel was shaking him awake.
"Roxie?" Axel was shaking him harder.
"Roxie?!" Axel was poking him in the face, a sharp painful jab of his right cheek.
"What!?" Roxas groaned and shifted to his side.
Then something much more painful, Axel was hugging him tight, "Oh my god…Your awake!!"
"OW!" Roxas pushed off Axel and sat up, "Of course I'm awake! You were poking me hard enough!"
Axel looked hurt, he pouted and said, "I…Just wanted to make sure you were ok…I bandaged you up."
"What? Why I'm not-" Roxas looked down at his unclothed stomach, a bloody bandage was wrapped around his midsection carefully.
"What happened?" He asked, placing a hand onto his stomach. Warm. Wet. Blood. He hated how it felt.
"Your dad stabbed you…"
The words pierced Roxas' eardrums like the glass did his stomach, "W-why?"
"Drunk…Works hard I guess…"
Roxas sat in silence for some time, "Axel?"
"Yes?"
"Why didn't you catch me?"
Axel looked down, "Roxie…You're the only one that can see me…"
"But…Sora and Riku…"
Axel placed a finger to Roxas' lips, "Its hard to explain, but in time it all will be ok?"
Roxas pushed his hand away, "I'm getting really sick of this "In time" crap…"
"Roxie…I'm so sorry but I don't really know, I cant tell you until I figure it out for myself…" Axel looked deep into Roxas' sea blue eyes, "You should get some rest…"
Roxas nodded, laid back, and fell asleep quickly.
Roxas woke up it something groping his stomach, a tug and some pulls then it felt like that someone was pouring warm water on him.
"W-what's going on?" Roxas asked, not bothering to open his eyes.
No reply.
"Hello?" He asked, sitting up he saw Axel, cleaning up the blood that was dried on his stomach.
Fresh blood making his rags damp.
"Axel?" Roxas looked at him. He seemed different.
He seemed…Real.
Thick.
Full.
"Axel?" He asked again.
Finally he looked up from his work, a hand firmly holding a rag on Roxas' bleeding stomach, "Yeah?"
"What are you doing?"
"Fixing up your bandages, its morning."
Morning? When? Of what day? How long was he asleep?
"Wednesday?"
Axel nodded, and continued cleaning Roxas' stomach.
The wound wasn't as bad as it felt. A small hole that bleed a lot.
If it was so small, why did it hurt so much?
Roxas quickly got his answer, Axel grabbed a pair of tweezers that were off to the side in his first aid box, and stared closely at the cut.
Slowly, surely, painfully Axel extracted a very small fragment of glass.
Then another.
And another.
He placed them all within a cup that held many more like it.
"How long have you been getting those out for?" Roxas asked the busy redhead.
"About two hours. Small pieces, little buggers…"
'Two hours!? Doctors don't even work that hard!'
Roxas smiled, and didn't even catch himself blushing, "Thanks Axel…"
After Axel had finished taking most of the glass from Roxas' adnominal, he helped him to the couch, were they sat for some time watching TV.
Roxas was doing most of the talking, explaining how a TV works and how those people get so tiny and onto a screen like that.
Roxas couldn't remember the last time he was so comfortable.
That is until it was about five.
He heard the Ominous sound of footsteps up the stairs, his heart dropped.
"I should just leave now…" Roxas told himself, Axel was enthralled in this new amazing thing called "the news".
The door slammed open, and walked in a very intoxicated Cloud.
He tripped over himself more then once, and fell into the seat next to Roxas. The one Axel had been in seconds beforehand.
A drunken arm fell over Roxas' shoulder, "Roke! My boy!" His father laughed, slurred, spat.
"Roke, you are such a handsome boy! But such a shame! Do you know how much I hate you Roke?"
Cloud spat into Roxas' eye at the word hate.
That was it. Roxas' last straw.
Why was he sitting here, taking his?
This man, his father, the man was should be caring and loving him, had stabbed him.
Now he was sitting there, spitting in his face, telling him how much hate he had for him?
"No, I don't Cloud." Roxas stood, staring at the drunken mess of his father.
"I don't know how much you hate me, and I don't intend to find out."
Roxas sped into his room, dumped the contents of his backpack onto his bed, and looked into his mirror.
Axel was staring back at him, "What are you doing?"
"Running away." Roxas replied as he began to fill his backpack with his 'necessities of life'.
"Can I come?" Axel stepped out of the mirror, and placed a hand on Roxas' shoulder, "I don't want you getting hurt again…"
Roxas stopped packing his things, but didn't look up from his pack, "If you didn't want me getting hurt, you would have stopped my dad…"
Notes: God this chapter was so short, it makes me sad. And it sucked to top it all off.
Well I'm sorry, the next chapter wont be so lame and take so long.
This chapter was nessesary for the next one to happen. . So shoot me.
Anyway, sorry for what I did to Roxas XD. Please review, fav, alert and such.
OH! Guess what!
I got my Sora necklace :D and I broke the clasp already....
Last thing: Please go read my fairytale one shot, It needs a name and reviews! Thanks!
