"We're going to the park! We're going to the park!" Lexar sang as he skipped along the sidewalk with his parents behind him.
"It's annoying when Demyx does it but when Lexar does it it's kinda cute," Axel said as he watched his son.
"That's because Lexar is four and Demyx isn't," Rena answered.
They reached the park and Lexar ran inside.
"PARK! PARK! PARK!"
"He does a great Demyx impersonation."
Rena laughed as she watched Lexar's bright purple hair bouncing as he ran.
She could feel the other mothers watched them, but she didn't care.
So what if she and Axel were both wearing the long black cloaks of the Organization?
So what if she had blue hair and Axel had red?
So what if their child had bright purple?
She didn't care in the least what the other people thought because she loved her situation.
Rena smiled as she watched Lexar run to the monkey bars and Axel lifted him onto them.
He quickly climbed to the middle, hooked his feet over the rung, and hung upside down.
"Look Mommy!" he cried happily. "I'm like Uncle Xiggy!"
"Yes you are," she said with a laugh.
Axel sat down on a bench and watched his son.
The other mothers grouped up slowly and started whispering.
After a few minutes, one older mother, obviously the group delegate, approached her. The angry scowl on her face was sufficient enough to tell Rena what was on her mind.
She sighed and waited for the woman to reach her.
"Are you that child's mother?" she demanded, pointing at Lexar who was still hanging upside down.
"Yes, that's my son," Rena answered calmly.
"What are you doing? You should never let a child that young to hang upside down! He could get hurt so easily! You aren't even close enough to catch him if he falls! And you're husband is just sitting watching him! If he got hurt, he wouldn't care! And why would you dye your son's hair? He's practically a baby! It's bad enough that you and your husband dye your hair, but to dye a baby's? What do you-?"
Rena held up her hand to silence the woman.
Axel saw the woman yelling at Rena and got off the bench to join her.
"First, Lexar will be fine. He's much stronger than he looks and it takes a whole lot to hurt him. Even if he fell, he wouldn't feel a thing." The woman tried to interrupt but Rena kept going. "Second, that's not my husband. He may be Lexar's father, but we weren't allowed to get married. He's in an Organization that bans marriage of any kind. We want to get married, but we just can't. And he's watching him very closely. Axel is faster than wind and if Lexar fell, he'd catch him." The woman opened her mouth but Rena talked over her. "And I haven't dyed Lexar's hair! It's natural! Axel's and mine are too! We don't even use hair gel!"
The woman stared at her.
"W-What?"
The woman started to back away.
"You shouldn't be allowed to be here!" she yelled.
Axel's face darkened and he clenched his hands into fists and Rena smelled something burning.
"Don't do it, Axel," she warned under her breath, putting a hand on his shoulder.
"This woman is insulting my family, Rena! I want to do it!" he shouted.
Rena turned to him.
"Don't do it!"
Axel stared at her.
"She insulted you and Lexar! Let me do it, Rena!"
"No!"
Axel glared but unballed his hands.
"Fine." He turned to the woman. "You got off easy this time," he threatened.
Suddenly Lexar slipped off the monkey bars.
"Ah!" he yelled. "Daddy!"
The woman pointed at him.
"You see? What did I tell you? He fell!" she yelled.
As she yelled, Axel moved like lightning and caught Lexar in his arms.
Rena crossed her arms and turned to the woman.
"And what did I tell YOU?"
The woman was dumbfounded.
"B-But…how?" she demanded.
"I can move faster than almost anything," Axel stated as he put Lexar on his shoulders and walked back over to them. "Lexar will never get hurt. No matter what."
The woman's eyes had grown wide and she backed away further.
"You-You're a monster!"
She ran away and grabbed her kids.
"Come on! We're leaving!"
"But I don wanna go!" her little boy yelled.
"I don't care! We're going!"
Rena and Axel watched as she dragged her kids out of the park.
"At least I let my kids do what I want!" Axel called after her. "Oh! Don't forget your departing present!"
He grinned and shot a trail of fire after her. This time Rena didn't stop him.
Instead, she held Lexar for him and encouraged him.
"Don't mess with my family again!" Rena shot after her.
The family turned around to find an abandoned park.
"Yay! We get the park all do ourselves!" Lexar shouted happily.
AN:Yay! I got all my dA requests done! Next is one for evilgrrlstrike on !
If you want a request, just contact me!
So whoever requested the Axel/Rena, THANK YOU! I haven't written them in so long because I thought no one liked Rena...or Lexar...but I had fun writing this!
Okay, I gotta go! See ya soon!