Rating: M

Summary: His doubts about Vexen and Zexion's abilities faded away as he approached it. It looked as perfect as, "…Roxas?" Axel breathed. The look alike opened its ocean blue eyes, giving Axel a questioning stare.

A/N: Apologies that it's been a while, once agian. And.. Apologies because it might take me longer to update again, since I may be moving in a month or less and dunno when I'll get internet again besides at school.

Trick or Treat?

Chapter 2

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"Who are you?" Axel's attention focused on that voice that he had been wanting to hear for so long. A pity that it hadn't belonged to the real Roxas, he found himself thinking. Axel's blond had been asleep for over two months now.

The red-head scrutinized the clone for a moment or two, noting that the look alike had chosen to speak once they were alone. He couldn't think of 'Ventus' as anything but an 'it' and definitely not a 'he'.

"Name's Axel. A-X-E-L. Get it memorized." He nodded his head.

"Do I know you?" Roxas' doppelganger asked timidly.

"No. It seems I've made a mistake," Axel said, closing the distance between them slowly, thinking of several he'd just made.

"Oh… because you seem familiar to me too…" Axel said nothing. "Who's Roxas?"

"Don't worry about it, Ventus." A frown immediately crossed the blond's pouty lips.

"Call me Ven," he requested, "and why can't I know?"

"Because it doesn't concern you." The blond crossed his arms and looked away. Axel sighed, ready to leave the laboratory.

"Let's go." The clone didn't move. "Hellllo? Anyone there? Or are you just sitting there for aesthetical purposes?" He didn't reply. "Talk about blank with a capital B." Ven glared at the red-head. "C'mon. I don't have all day."

"No."

"Why the hell not?"

"I don't like you," he said, simply. A delicate eyebrow rose.

"Well, I'm afraid that that's beside the point because I have the privilege of babysitting you."

"I can take care of myself." The red-head grasped Ven's wrist, pulling him up and forcing him to stand.

"You don't have that option." The blond grimaced from the pressure.

"You're hurting me," Ven whimpered.

"I don't care."

"Axel, please," he pleaded, making the red-head hesitate. Axel closed his eyes, having to remind himself that 'it' wasn't Roxas.

"No."

The blond struggled as he was drug toward the door, but despite how much he dug his heels into the ground, he wasn't successful at stopping the red-head, who was much stronger. Ven didn't stop fighting, or making a scene, until he was brought to Axel's room and thrown down onto the bed roughly. The red-head crossed his arms once more as he scrutinized the blond.

"You do realize that you look ridiculous yelling for help, when everyone knows you're not in any danger, right?" Ven wouldn't look at the nobody. He refused to. Axel braced his back against the wall, continuing to watch the clone. "What? Are you pouting now? You're such a child." The blond glared up at him.

"I am not!" Axel snorted.

"Even your body begs to differ." Ven huffed. "Anyway, be a good… boy… and stay here. I have somewhere I need to be." The blond didn't reply looking away as Axel summoned a pathway through the darkness and slipped through it.

After a moment or two of silence, Ven looked to the side, where Axel had been, blinking in surprise He hadn't heard him leave, and assumed he'd gone through the door since he didn't see him do anything otherwise.

"Some babysitter," the blond muttered, getting up and going to the door. He gave the handle a testing turn, frustrated when he found it to be locked. He kicked the door. "Axel!" he yelled, pounding on it, "Hey! You can't just leave me in here!" When he continued to be ignored, he slumped down, bringing his knees to his chest, wondering why his 'friend', Zexion, had abandoned him, leaving him at the red-head's mercy.

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Axel sat beside Roxas, grasping his hand and sighing softly as his visit came to an end. He knew that he couldn't leave Ven alone for too long, just in case.

"Sorry, Rox," he murmured, squeezing his hand gently and kissing that mass of pristine spikes softly. "I've gotta go," he whispered before pulling away hesitantly. He hesitated once more then summoned the pathway through the darkness that would lead him to his room.

The red-head stepped into his room, scanning it quickly and not seeing the blond. He frowned, stepping inside further and inspecting it closer. He paused when he saw a familiar shade of blond and approached the boy, seeing that he'd fallen asleep in front of the door. Axel strode up to the him and, sighing softly, scooped him up, closing the distance to, and then laying him on the bed.

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Ven awoke, starting at his unfamiliar location before remembering where he was. The blond calmed but didn't relax. Instead he glanced around the room, his gaze falling on the slumbering, leather clad, red-head who had fallen asleep beside him, but was facing away. Ven sat up and examined the red-head that he didn't particularly like, slowly inching over to him until they were nearly touching, and then sitting beside him. Axel seemed so familiar to him still, but he still couldn't place why or how, so he couldn't help but wonder about him.

Asleep, Axel seemed to be perfectly harmless. Unconvinced, however, Ven rightly assumed that he had a fiery temper to match his fiery hair. The red-head was handsome, he supposed, being that he was tall and lanky, but had a nicely defined body, as well as fiery hair that contrasted beautifully with his pale skin. Ven's favorite thing about the red-head, besides the markings on his cheeks, was absent at the moment though, since the red-head was asleep. In his opinion, Axel's eyes were one of the primary things that made him stand out.

Moments of staring blankly at the nobody passed, before the blond's gaze lowered and he also found himself wondering about Axel's jacket, since Vexen and Zexion had had the same one. He vaguely wondered if the three were friends and if that's why he'd been entrusted to the red-head, since he couldn't remember anything about himself. Perhaps Zexion was simply too busy to take care of him... but it would have been nice of him to explain that beforehand.

And… Who was Roxas? He wondered, drawing a blank at the name. Ven exhaled heavily doubting he'd ever find out. The action made Axel stir. Panicking, Ven motioned to move away, wanting to pretend to be asleep, but he automatically froze as those breathtaking eyes fluttered open and emerald immediately met his sapphire. The smaller boy's mouth opened slightly as he tried to speak, but the words refused to come out. He tried to shift his gaze, but couldn't help but stare into those beautiful eyes, almost as if he were peering into Axel's soul, and into the very fabric of his being and as he did, he had the urge to learn anything and everything about the red-head. Another moment passed before Axel scowled.

"What?"

"N-nothing," Ven stammered, finally looking away. Axel humphed but said nothing, secretly wondering why Roxas' lookalike had gazed at him more intensely than Roxas ever had.

It was just a clone, some experiment… some… thing, after all, right?

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A/N: There's chapter two... hope it wasn't too bad.