Disclaimer: Well, let me put it this way – If I did own it, there'd be a little more than necessary amounts of cross-dressing.
Note: FF may delete spaces, punctuation marks, letters, etc. from the story... So if there's something there that I don't catch, sorry!
Warning: Boy-Love/Yaoi
WARNING WARNING: Lime follow-up in this chapter. At the very beginning.
Title: Broken Clockwork
Chapter: 13; On the Next Episode of LOST
Summary: Roxas was always on top of things, following time down to the second. Until he met Axel, carefree and fun. What happens when you mix two opposite elements of life together?
luluNOTE:
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"Mmnn…" I moaned into his mouth. The kiss was broken as my shirt came sliding off. Axel threw it onto another bed and leaned right back down to suck on my lip again. His mouth started moving down my neck and onto my chest. "Axel… S-stop…" was all I could manage. "I'm n-not… gay…"
"Is that still your answer, Roxy? 'Cause that-," he licked one of my nipples, "-isn't going to get you the million dollar prize sitting right on your lap."
"Bi?" I breathed out.
"No-no-no," Axel put his hand to my cheek. "Try again," he used his other hand and started pushing down the edge of my pants.
"Nngh… Bi… is as far… as I'm going…" his hand moved even further down and it lightly touched the quickly forming tent in my pants. "Ah!" I gasped.
"The million dollars aren't going any further till you say the magic words…" through half-lidded eyes, I saw Axel smirk. He touched ever so slightly again.
"I… I'm gay – Just- just do it already!" I panted, breathless.
"What? I don't think the audience heard you," Axel loved to tease. He loved to tease. GOD I HATED HIM!
"I'm gay! I'm a homosexual! I like boys!" I said angrily.
"That's exactly-," Axel placed a kiss on my snarled lips."-what I wanted to hear."
"Axel?" I heard Reno call from the other side of the door. My head was getting so dizzy, I couldn't even think about what to do if he came in right then. My cheeks were flushed pink and I was half naked, not to mention breathless and underneath the school's temporary nurse. "Axel… Are you banging the poor boy?"
I felt Axel lift his head up and saw him turn towards the door. "No, you dumbass. I'm treating a very sick patient, here." Was Axel allowed to call his own boss a dumbass? Wasn't that kind of against the rules or whatever?
"Uh-huh. Okay. I'll leave you two alone, then," Reno's smirk could be heard from a mile away. He obviously wasn't buying this.
"Shit," Axel looked back down at me. "He's going to come in here any second. We'll have to continue this at a later date," he said with an annoyed tone hinting in his voice. He lifted his upper body and looked down at his handiwork… then started to laugh.
"What?!" I glared at him, a deeper scarlet spread over my cheeks.
"Nothing, nothing," he said, laughter dying down a bit. "You just look so vulnerable and cute in all your sexy gloriousness." He put his hands on my chest and leaned pack down to place a kiss on my lips. He missed, though, when I moved my head to the side. He lifted himself up again. "Adorable."
"Sh-shut up, pervert," I said, not even attempting to hide how embarrassed I was. He climbed off the bed and straightened his white shirt, smirking the entire while. I was so tired and defenseless, not to mention worn out. And we hadn't even done anything! Thank god I was still a virgin. Then I was startled as I realized something.
THAT WAS MY FIRST KISS. STOLEN BY A PERVERTED, MADE ME CONFESS I WAS GAY, REDHEADED, IDIOTIC, EMERALD-EYED, BEAUTIFUL MAN.
I told you I changed my mind too quick, and too easily. I had never kissed Naminé before, just in case you were skeptical. The relationship never got to that point, I guess.
Before I knew what was happening, the covers from another bed were being tugged over my bare chest and the light from the lamp on Axel's desk was being shut off. I watched with droopy eyes as the door was cracked open and Axel stepped out of the clinic, turning around to wink at me before shutting all light out from the room. I couldn't help but feel sleepy as I closed my eyes and drifted off into a dream.
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The crowd was cheering as I swayed with the microphone on stage.
Can't say exactly what it was
He's not the usual type
He wore a plain white shirt
With his blazing red hair
And a smirk that stretched a mile
Then he pulled out a pen
And surprised me when
He wrote his number on my hand
Then he was gone
But from now on
I'm gonna be a different man
I could hardly believe what was coming out of my mouth as I sang. What was I singing about? A guy? …Axel?
Just another day
It started out like any other
Just another guy
Who took my breath away
Then he turned around
He took me down
Just another day that I
Had the best day of my life
I realized that the weight really was off my shoulders and that it really wasn't that bad of a morning start. I mean, I came into the nurse's office to check out the new nurse, right? And I mean, what happened…?
I guess it goes to show
You never really know
When everything's about to change
Just another day
It started out like any other
Just another boy
Who took my breath away
Then he turned around
He took me down
Just another day that I
Had the best day of my life
I closed my eyes as I sang one last note and bathed in the surrounding cheers. When I opened them again, I looked down and saw just what I had expected: A guy with blazing red hair, a plain white shirt, and that unmovable smirk. Instead of waking up this time, I actually jumped off the stage to stand right in front of this man. I stood on my tip toes and he bent down as our lips brushed ever so gently. I smiled at the man.
The man who's name was Axel.
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"Looks like Roxas is having a good dream. He's smiling like crazy," I heard somebody say from my bedside. I kept my eyes closed, trying to keep the scene of my dream in my head. I wondered who was talking, but decided to ignore it for the time being. "Hey, wake up, buddy." A hand started to shake me gently.
"Mmph," was all I could respond with. I rolled onto my side, away from the voice.
"Roxas, you've got to wake up. You have classes to go to. The nurse can't write you a pass for the entire day until you actually go home," the voice continued. I cracked open one eye and watched as the person walked around the end of the bed until he had reached the other side, standing right in front of me. Camouflage pants…
"Hayner…?" I looked up slowly, blinking and squinting my eyes. The whole time I was trying to keep the image of me and Axel under the stage lights in my mind.
"Come on, Roxas. You got classes to go to. It's no fair if you get to sleep here the entire day and I have to go to class and sit by myself," Hayner frowned.
"Where's A—" I stopped short. "—the nurse?" I corrected myself. I couldn't have Hayner knowing that just a few moments ago, the school nurse and I were kissing on the very bed I was sleeping on at the moment. He may have been my best friend, but I couldn't tell him I was gay…
I gulped. That thought sounded really, really scary. I tried to get myself to believe that I had just come out of the closet. I'm. Gay. I'm. Gay. I chanted in my head.
"I don't know. Why do you care? Let's get out of here. The beds are creeping me out. Imagine if some poor little school girl got raped in here or something," Hayner looked around the room with a grim look on his face. I gulped again.
"Haha…" I faked a chuckle. "That'd be… gross…" I shivered. Was that really suspicious of me? Should I have just kept my mouth shut? I hurriedly threw the blankets off my body and stood up. A cold gust of wind seemed to hit my entire upper body as I stood there. I had forgotten that my shirt had been thrown aside earlier. Hayner turned to look back at me and gave me a once-over. I swear I saw something in his eyes… I blushed as I quickly grabbed my shirt off the bed right next to me, jerkily putting it on. I had to be careful around all the guys. Who knew which one of them was gay as well?! Oh, no! What was I going to do in the locker rooms after PE? I swear my face could have started a blood donating factory. Come get your free nosebled blood here!
It wasn't that I had a bad body or anything, because, quite frankly, my body was actually pretty good. I liked it, at least. I didn't have any flab, but it wasn't like I had no meat at all. I had enough muscle to keep myself slim, but not bulky, and no matter how much cake I ate, I never gained any weight. My arms were slim and I didn't have any chest hair. The fact I had no chest hair had bothered me for a while, but I decided that it was probably hereditary since Sora didn't have any chest hair and my dad didn't have too much, either. But now I was glad I didn't have any. How embarrassing would that have been if Axel had torn off my shirt and saw a huge mass of…HAIR!? I shivered. Ew.
"Let's go, then," I said, laughing nervously. Hayner was awfully close. I put my hands on his biceps and tried to turn him around so we could leave. I couldn't exactly get out of the room if he was in the way.
Hayner opened his mouth and put his finger up, but stopped and shook his head. He turned around and we left the clinic and entered the main office.
"Hi… Reno," I still thought it sounded kind of awkward to call your principle by his first name, but nobody even knew his last name, so I guess there was nothing I could do about it.
"Heya, kid. Feeling… better?" he raised his eyebrows as if he knew something. He… He knew nothing! Fear grew inside of me very quickly as I darted my eyes anywhere but into his.
"Uh… Yes!" I said uncomfortably. "Can I get a nurse's pass so I can go back to class?"
"The nurse just might make a pass for you… if you know what I mean," Reno continued his play on words and I just tried to hide my blush. His secretary, Rude, laughed with him and Reno turned around. "Axel!" he called.
"What is it?" I could hear Axel's voice from another room connected to the office. The hint of annoyance was still in his voice.
"Is that the thanks I get for getting you a job? Get over here and write blondie a nurse's pass," Reno joked. Reno had gotten Axel the job as the nurse? Did they know each other?
"What? Okay…" the tone had lifted a bit and I heard a chair being pushed out. Axel came walking through the door, hands in the pockets of his baggy blue jeans. "Oh, hey, Roxas!" A warm smile spread across his face and he reached out a skinny, long arm to rustle my hair. Then he saw Hayner and his expression totally changed. What was that look?
"Who is… this?" Axel asked me as he stared at Hayner, hand resting on my head. Hayner stared back, eyes zipping back and forth from Axel's face to his hand on my head.
"This is Hayner. He's my best friend," I replied, not really noticing the tension growing between the two. It was mostly coming from Axel, though. Hayner was just confused.
Axel took his hand off my head, eyes never leaving Hayner's face. He took a pen from the desk and slowly edged his eyes away from my friend and onto a pink slip of paper. He scribbled down a few things, then signed it with a messy signature. It looked like a rock star's, I swear.
"See you later, Roxie," Axel had regained about half his composure, still a little wary about Hayner. He looked at me and smirked. "Come back soon." The smirk sent a wave of chills down my spine and I turned around to face to door back to the hallway.
"See you later, Mr. Nurse," I tried to emphasize the importance of secrecy. I wasn't sure if Axel had any sense of secrecy in him at all.
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"Oh, Riiikuuu," I sang as I glided over to my BOYFRIEND (BUDUM YEAH!)'s side. Oh, my man was so beautiful. He was sitting on one of the big silver furnaces up next to the window. His hair was shining with the sunlight dancing on every strand as he looked out on the small courtyard on the other side of the window. He turned to see me and a brilliantly sexy smile spread across his face.
"Lunch time?" Riku asked as I snuggled up next to him on the furnace.
"Yep," I said perkily. "What do you want for lunch today?"
"You," Riku kissed my forehead and then my lips. I giggled.
"You're funny. No, seriously, let's get some lunch. I'm starving. My stomach was growling all through English," I informed him. It was very necessary information when you wanted food. An empty stomach during English was never a good thing.
"No, I'm serious, too," Riku replied, placing a graceful hand on my cheek. I looked up at him and he looked down at me with his deep, aquamarine eyes.
"KYAAA!!!" We both turned at the same time to see a growing group of ugly girls gathering around us. We exchanged glances of horror.
"AHHH!!!" We made a dash for it and ran to the lunch room, followed by the same group of girls, if not more groups.
Life was not easy being popular and gay!
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Roxas sat on his bed with his acoustic guitar and hummed to himself. He strummed a chord and took out the pencil behind his ear. He wrote the chord down on the small piece of paper in front of him.
"Hm… I just don't want another…" he hummed the song quietly as he played the notes on the guitar. "No, no. That doesn't work…" he told himself, crossing out a few things on the paper. I zoomed the camera in closer on him as I watched from behind the closet door with Cloud. We tried very hard to suppress our fits of giggles as we watched Roxas write his new song. I had no idea that Roxas was a singer! He never said anything about it and he wasn't part of the school choir or anything.
"I don't want another pretty face. I don't want just anyone to hold. I don't want…" Roxas stopped playing and scratched his head. "Another minute gone to waste? No... I'm already putting that here…" He played a few chords on the guitar and started over. "I don't want another pretty face. I don't want just anyone to hold. I don't want my love to go to waste… Yeah! That's it!" Roxas exclaimed as he jotted down the new notes and words on the piece of paper. He grinned like a little kid and then readjusted himself on the mattress of his bed.
"Oh, oh, okay. Here he goes, I think," Cloud whispered in my ear. I made sure the camera was in a good position and zoomed in a bit more so that Roxas was right in the middle of the screen. Roxas began playing his newly written song. It didn't sound half bad.
"I don't want another pretty face. I don't want just anyone to hold. I don't want my love to go waste. I want you and your beautiful soul. You're the one I wanna chase. You're the one I wanna hold. I won't let another minute go to waste. I want you and your beautiful so-oul." I knew Roxas had a good singing voice! I knew it! I turned to Cloud with a triumphant look on my face. We both grinned and turned back to the footage on the camera. This was awesome. It was going to be the next hit on YouTube. Smack dab in the middle of the front page!
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"Your beautiful soul… Yeah…" I finished. I was very proud of my work. It was the first time in a while that I had finished a song. I guess I had been inspired to finish it by… and I hated to admit this, but… Inspired by Axel. I smiled as I sat on my sheets, listening to the resonant sound of the guitar after the last chord was hit. I heard a noise and my head jerked up from looking down at my music. "Who's there?"
I swear I heard a "Shhh" and then a giggle.
"Sora…? Is that you?" I said suspiciously. I swear, if he was planning something… I pushed the guitar off my lap and over onto the bed. "Sora… I know you're here somewhere." Another giggle emerged. I could tell it was from the closet door directly in front of me. I climbed off the bed and walked slowly toward my closet door. I heard a "shit, he's coming over here!" and then a bunch of clunks and metal banging each other quietly. The first thing that raced through my head was, Are they playing with my belts? I shook my head and rethought about the situation as I neared the entrance to my clothing emporium. I froze. A CAMCORDER. I dove for the door knob and yanked it open, watching as the camera lens trailed around a sharp corner.
The chase began.
I started running after the camera lens and eventually, after a few turns around the pants area, the belt area, and the sock area, I saw Sora's entire back and… Cloud's back?! Those two! I growled as I increased my speed. Then Sora disappeared behind my closet door again, entering back into my room. That little rascal! No – those two runts was more like it! I wrenched the door open to find Sora right in my room, ready to escape to the hallway. I chased after him and Cloud all the way down to the living room, yelling the whole time.
"DELETE IT, SORA! YOU GUYS BETTER DELETE THAT VIDEO!" I was getting tired, but unfortunately for me, neither Sora nor Cloud was getting the least bit slower as they ran all around the house. Finally, I had to stop and put my hands on my knees, heaving in copious amounts of air to keep myself alive. When I looked up, both of them were gone and I was left in some part of the house that I'd never been in with no guitar, no music, and no video.
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Oh my god… Roxas was a beast! He could run forever if he had to. Me and Cloud were getting pretty tired ourselves, but we had to keep our pace so we could discourage my twin. Obviously we were both sugar high and all, but that doesn't add TOO much to your energy. Only about an couple hours or so.
"Did we...pant…lose him?" I collapsed onto a foreign couch that I had never seen before.
"I…pant…think so," Cloud replied, falling down next to me. "Do you think…pant…he'll come…pant…back?"
"Where…pant…the hell…pant…are we!?" I looked all around me to see nothing about the room familiar. Aw man! I was lost in my own house… AGAIN? The last time this happened was in 2nd grade. It took the maid a total of 4 hours to find me. That wasn't too bad of a time, but it was a lot easier for her since I was bawling like crazy. I whipped my head all over the place and stood up. My energy came back very quickly, mind you. I started to walk around, looking in all the doorways leading to the room we were in, but none of them looked familiar. I grabbed my hair and my pupils dilated. "AAAAHHHH!! WE'RE LOST!!" I exclaimed, starting to tear up.
"Sora… Don't do it…" I bit my lip and kept walking around in circles. Cloud was still sitting on the couch, not so quick to gain his energy back. "Sora… We'll get out. Don't worry. I don't want to hear you wailing for another 4 hours like last time. Remem—"
"YES, I REMEMBER!" I started getting frantic. I hated being lost. It was the worst feeling in the world. If I were on an adventure, that would be fine and all since I would have purposely gotten lost, but when I got lost and didn't know which way to go… That was when things got scary.
Cloud pushed himself laboriously off the couch and walked over to me. "Come on," he said, trying to sound comforting. "Let's start making our way out. Let's go this way and see what happens." He pointed to a hallway entrance and I nodded slowly. "It'll be like an adventure. You like adventures, right?" I nodded again, slowly. And with that, we began our adventure.
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"WHERE AM I!?" I screamed. "SORA! WHERE ARE YOU?!" I yelled at the top of my lungs. I plopped down on a chair up against the wall and sighed. This happened to Sora in 2nd grade. After that incident, I never wanted to explore the house with him ever again. I think that was probably the time when I lost all sense of curiosity. We had both gotten lost in the house, separated after Sora had gone too far and too fast for me. I had found my way back to the main living room, but Sora hadn't. The maid had to go find him after I told her what happened.
I looked around me and tried to think about the situation shrewdly. I got up off the chair and walked up the stairs. The upstairs were probably a lot less… well, big. Even if it was just the second floor. Our house had 3 floors above ground and a basement. Nobody ever went to the 3rd floor and we basically treated it like a storage space or an attic, even though we had an attic. I reached the second floor and starting walking down the long hallway. Since I knew all the rooms were single rooms leading to only bathrooms or just another room upstairs, I just kept walking down the hallway. Eventually I found a hallway that looked rather familiar and took a break. I slid my back down against the wall and sat on the ground. I sat for a moment or two before my cell phone began to vibrate and sing.
I'm just a kid and life is a nightma –
I fumbled with the phone and brought it up to my ear.
"Hello?"
"Hey, Roxy," a sickening tattooed redhead sounded from the other side. I scoffed before answering.
"What do you want, Axel?" I replied, beginning to lie down on the carpeting. Some parts of our house had carpeting, some parts didn't. It was one of the tricks of finding out where you were when roaming the house.
"Nothing, I guess. I'm bored. What are you up to?" he said.
"Well, I'm lost in my own house right now… so… yeaaah…"
"Oh, that sounds like fun," Axel said, sounding unsure of what else there was to say. "Wait…You got lost in your own house!? Is that even possible?! My God… I had no idea your house was THAT big. I mean I knew it was big and all, but… Big enough to get lost in?! That's crazy…"
"Well, Sora did it in 2nd grade."
"Sheesh…" There was a few seconds of silence before Axel spoke up again. "Need some help?"
"What? What do you mean?"
"Well, I could come over and we could play Marco Polo. I'd be at the front door and you'd be at wherever, right?" Whoa. Axel was smart. I hadn't even thought about that.
"That's a really good i- I mean – That could work, I guess," I told him, not wanting him to think I actually even thought for a second that he was smart. No, wait. I already did. Shoot. "Get over here, then! Do you remember where my house is?"
"Um, DUH," he replied. I could hear him getting his jacket on already. His keys jingled noisily as he began walking out of his house. I wondered what kind of house he lived in. He kind of told me where he lived, but not really what the house looked like. Hm…
"Hey, Axel?" I began.
"Hm?"
"What does your house look like?" I asked him.
"Nothing like yours," he laughed. "You should come over and meet my friends."
"Yeah, sure!" I was excited, jerking my body up off the ground and grinning.
"Let me get over there first," Axel laughed. "Gosh, you're like a little kid." I blushed madly.
"Well, get over here then. I don't want to be lost forever," I told him, a bit angry now. Nobody called me a little kid!
"I'm already out of the door, Miss Prissy Pants," He informed me. Hmph. Miss Prissy Pants…
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luluNOTE:
I have to admit: This was a rather scattered plot chapter… Well, we'll see what happens…
Unfortunately, I'm going to have to take a break from writing the fanfic for about 2 weeks, because of Midterms and stuff. Ugh – I know. I hate them, too. I was planning on studying during Christmas/Holiday break, but… Procrastinator Lulu decided to write her fanfic and draw about a million pictures of Roxas in a skirt (lol).
Anyways, though. Hope you liked the chapter!
Oh, look! Something to look forward to…
Next Chapter: Axel helps Roxas get… unlost… and Roxas travels to the world of the suburbs and the real city – with the hobos and stuff. Sora tries to make his and Riku's relationship a bit more interesting. Demyx talks about his long lost past with a certain blueberry-headed man.
NOW REVIEW! RAWR! YOU MUST!
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References:
The song Roxas was singing in his dream is a revised (by me) version of The Best Day of My Life by Jesse McCartney
The song that Roxas writes and sings on his bed is Beautiful Soul by Jesse McCartney
Please note that almost all the songs Roxas will sing in this story will be by Jesse McCartney.