Disclaimer: I do not own these characters, they belong to Square Enix/Disney and Tetusya Nomura.

AN: Still loving the Story Alerts and Reviews, but...one thing I ask is. Please. If you're gonna review a fanfic of mine, please, for the love that is all sacred if you don't want me to gon on a Chocobo slaughtering spree, please...Don't overanalyze a fanfic. I know in Tides, I made the timeline a LITTLE off kelter in regards to the school timeline and Axel leaving and such and then surprise return at the end of Tides, but you know what folks. THIS. IS. PURE. FICTION. YOU CAN SKIP AROUND ON THE TIMELINE OF THINGS! IF ITS SET IN SCHOOL...IT DOESN'T HAVE TO FOLLOW THE TYPICAL SCHOOL YEAR! PURE. FAN. FICTION. Please. If you don't want me to have to POINT this out in Author Notes over and over, then you will PLEASE respect the fact that this IS a work of fanfiction, meaning, the FAN can make it however they want! I could even make Axel be a woman and in few short months give birth to some baby! Just please...don't overanalyze my works of fanfiction. It makes me sad, mad, and makes this kind of rant here and the one that should be on my Profile come about.

Thanks.

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Chapter 6

Rinoa gave her son one last embrace before standing before her son that was becoming a man, "…So, anything you want to say or ask me before I leave?"

She was trying to hide her nervousness about leaving her son alone at a time like this when he had had his heart broken, the fear of getting a call from the School or even the Dorm Head Representative that they had found her son lying dead in a bathtub with his wrists slit or something even worse unnerved her. Roxas didn't seem like himself since last night, it was like looking at a zombie or someone that lacked the common form of possessing a heart and that frightened her, but the thing she heard next seemed to put her at a better ease of mind.

"…Can I come visit you this weekend if things with classes don't bog me down?" that was all she needed to hear to assure her that leaving him alone in the dorm room by himself was going to be a good idea, "…I know I'm going to want to use the time away from campus after a week of first week classes."

She had to fight crying in front of her son, but they weren't sad tears, "…Yes, you can come home and visit any time you want…you don't have to be stranger to your own home…" her arms wrapped her son lovingly as the tears softly started to roll, "…Anytime, anytime…"

"…Thanks Mom," Roxas softly whispered the words against his Mom's ear as a faint kiss was left on his cheek by his Mom as he shut the bedroom door; among the floor were boxes upon boxes of his things.

"…Thanks…" Roxas tried to stay calm, clear headed and overall, sane, but the simple word 'Thanks' triggered much more, "THANKS FOR NOTHING! THANKS FOR RUINING MY LIFE! THANKS FOR SCREWING WITH MY EMOTIONS AND STRINGING ME ALONG YOU UNGRATEFUL, TWO FACED, SON OF A BITCH!"

Rinoa was halfway down the stairway when she heard the screams, the other students were busy with putting their things away and the commotion sounds of conversations, stereo's playing in rooms to make sure they survived the trip to the University seemed to drown out Roxas' screams. Sadly enough for Rinoa, she could hear every heart wrenching screaming, curse, swear, and vulgar word that had fallen from her son's innocent's lips as she held back a sob in her throat as she started running for her car where the tears began to fall. Hell had come back with a vengeance, but this time; she wasn't the cause of it. Another female had taken the place of her to make her son's life a living Hell and it was destroying her to have to live with a son that before she had hidden and masked the vision field to see the Hell Roxas was going through when she had been the cause.

"…God, is this how it was when I was the one causing him pain? Please…if you can see it to be…please…please, I beg you…please make my son happy again…" no one seemed to see her sobbing in her car; it was as if she was an invisible blimp on the College's radar.

Eventually, Roxas had managed to fall asleep to the sound of his own tears as he curled up on the bed in his dorm; it felt empty without Axel being that room had been assigned for two people and they were going to share it together, but that dream was gone now that Axel was laying in a bed with a blonde banshee that had sunk her claws into him. As the first week of school started and the weekend to began to creep up on the calendar, but even as it came and slowly went through; Roxas had found reason to stay away from home and in his room, even after placing his things in the room.

The room itself had never been picked up since the boy had started school, "Roxas, you've got to come home and visit some time soon…you can't keep yourself locked up in your room forever…please…for me, please try and come home this weekend?" Rinoa had fallen to the realm of pleading with her son to at least visit her to let her see him and assure herself that he was not like he had seen her in several nightmares she had been having since leaving him at the Dorm.

"…I'll think about it, okay Mom?" Roxas didn't sound as sure as he seemed to playing off on the phone, "I'll try and make it home this weekend."

"…Thank you, Roxas," Rinoa hung up the phone with a dejected sigh, "…Well, he's coming this weekend, what do you think we should?"

Leon and Cloud sat on the sofa near her as Leon placed an arm around her as Cloud shifted his weight to sit on the other side of her, "All we can do, is try and talk to him and see how things are going. Bringing up…Axel…is only going to set him off, let's try and get him to talk about School and see how things go from there."

"I want to do that, but…"Rinoa was at loss for what to say, "…I'm afraid I'm losing him…I got a call from the School Psychologist who said she had seen Roxas due to one of the Teachers had suggested he speak to her. He's not getting enough sleep, he looks malnourished and…"

Both men held her tightly, "He's coming home for the weekend…that's good enough, Rinoa."

"Roxas, Roxas, ROXAS!" headphones were ripped off the boy's head while the one that had been calling after him had to duck away to avoid getting docked by the boy's fist, "Geez man, I haven't seen you since school started and the first chance I get to speak to you, you try and deck me! What is with you lately?"

Once vibrant blue eyes had become hollowed, distant pools of grey, "Sorry Demyx…I've just got a lot on my mind…" his voice seemed distant and without feeling, it was like talking to a brick wall or even a robot.

Demyx finally sighed as he ruffled his young friend's hair, any other time, Roxas would've pushed the hand away and told Demyx to not touch him, but even now, even that action was halfhearted, "Hey, its cool…I was just getting worried about you…" he took one last look around before wrapping an arm around the boy's shoulders and walking with him, "…Even Zexion is worried, we're all worried for you."

"Thanks…"Roxas had become a shell of his former self ever since coming to the College and even now and again seeing Axel in passing; there had been one incident about a week and a half into the Semester that Axel had approached him, but it hadn't turned out as well as he planned it out in his head.

"Hey Roxas…"Axel moved up slowly to the boy as he sat on a bench doing homework as it seemed, "…Can we talk?"

Without even lifting his head to look into Axel's eyes, Roxas gave him his definitive answer with a gesture of his hand, "What's there to talk about, you showed to me who you really like being with, you seem happy, why should I speak to you because I'm sure your little girlfriend…oh wait, its Fiancée, isn't it?"

Time seemed to stand still at the sound of a resounding smack as Roxas sat unmoving while Axel stared at him intently with fire in his eyes, "You're such an ass…"

"And you're an ASSHOLE!"

From there, a fight had broken out where books, book bags, backpacks, papers and other things began to fly about the room as Roxas lunged at the man, slamming him onto the floor as he began to slug at the man, but Axel started at one point, gain the upper hand. Even if the two were trying to kill one another, Campus Security had gotten called but before any one of the two men could be questioned, Roxas had disappeared back to his dorm, but even that day had not ended on a good note. Later that evening Axel showed up at the dorm where he knew Roxas had been staying, at first, it seemed like only friendly banter in hopes to try and talk about what had happened and try an patch things up. But when a knock came at the door and Larxene's voice could be heard; their fight from early that afternoon had begun.

"YOU SON OF A BITCH!"

"ROXAS!"

A vase flew over the man's head as it hit the mirror behind him, shattering instantly with the vase as small speckles of the shards hit at the back of the man's neck; he stared hard at the angry, tearful glare on his boyfriend's face. He had never seen him this angry, if you don't count the anniversary when he walked in on the man doing laundry in the nude with the new tenant of the apartment he had been living at. Roxas hadn't spoken to him for almost a week and a half after that, but they managed to forgive one another. Right now, that wasn't the case. Axel's father had shown up on the defense of a girl that Axel had at one time crushed on at his old High School; his father was less then pleased with his life choices. He was now determined to make Axel give up this "fade", as he put it, and return to the life he would've had if he hadn't fallen for Demyx's prank.

"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU! YOU LIED TO ME! YOU FREAKING LIED TO ME! YOU TOLD ME YOUR PARENTS, BOTH OF YOUR PARENTS WERE FINE WITH YOU COMING BACK HERE! YOU LIKED TO ME!" Roxas' eyes were a blaze with a fire that could've killed, "YOU ASSHOLE!"

Axel dodged another item chucked at his head as he was blindsided by it, tumbling slightly back towards the trashed dresser, "I didn't lie to you! My Mom told me she'd talk to my Dad about it, and she told me he was cool with it! I didn't know he had changed his mind!"

Roxas' hand was on a pair of scissors he had found on the side table, "Why do you expect me to believe that load of crap…after the last time you told me everything…you told me all about Demyx…but you never…you never…" the scissors fell from his hand as he fell to his knees, overwhelmed by emotion.

"Roxas…"Axel moved towards him, hoping to console him, but as he kneeled down near him; he felt the cold hard response, and it wasn't in the way the boy spoke, it was the tip of the scissors at his throat.

"…Say one more word and I'll slit your throat open like a gutted fish."

And that's where it had been left. Axel left with Larxene and returnedto the apartment that they had taken to staying at outside of the campus and for the next few weeks, Roxas had begun to spiral downwards even further then when he had first been hurt and it was showing in his studies. Even one of his Professor had shown concern for Roxas and appointed that young man visit the Campus Psychologist and no matter how much he was forced into talking about; it only had worked to draw the young man into a spiral of downward depression.

"I heard from your Mom that you're going home for the weekend," Demyx smiled happily for his friend, "That's good."

"Yeah…"Roxas seemed happy in a way, but it didn't show on his face or in the way he spoke, "…Mom said it would good for me to come home for a little while, if only for the weekend."