Title- Chance to Change

Pairings- Akuroku, Zemyx, Cloud/Zack

Rating- T

Warnings: abuse of many kinds rape, human experimentation… there's so many morbid things here!

Disclaimer: If I owned Kingdom Hearts Siax would be more chibi, and he's have wolf ears and a tail. And Axel and Roxas would've at least kissed!

Chapter 2 – The First (Taste of Cinnamon)

Axel:

I am conflicted. Or at least that's what Mrs. Daisy, the school nurse, says. I'm not too sure what it means yet. I just know that I don't know if I want or even need to be here. It's not my choice anyway.

Mrs. Daisy brought me here, to Happy Hearts. She told me I'll get better here. But I'm already 'better.' My bruises are feeling better and my cuts have scabbed already. 'Cept the one on my right shoulder…. But Mrs. Daisy took care of that.

As I'm thinking of my bruises, a pretty lady wearing a pink dress comes out. I don't notice her till she's kneeling in front of me.

"Hello there little one! My name is Aerith." She smiles and holds her hand out to me, "Come here little one."

"M'not little." I say, loud and proud-like. I move in front of Mrs. Daisy and cross my arms,

The lad-Aerith, giggles "I can see that! You're such a big, strong boy.' and she reaches into her pocket. She pulls out a piece of candy and holds it out to me.

I just stare at it. After all…

She never said it was okay to have it. And Daddy didn't like it when I took his things.

"You can take it. I won't hurt you." She smiles softly.

Slowly I make my over to her and grab the candy, which I now see is a lollipop. Then she stands and smiles as I tear the wrapper off and stick the candy in my mouth.

It's a really good flavor. Kinda spicy! I wonder what it's called…

"Cinnamon." Huh? I musta said that out loud. Weird. She turns to me and holds out her hand, but this time there's nothing in it. "Come now, wave goodbye to Mrs. Daisy." I did. She waved back, then walked away.

"Cinnamon huh? I like it!" I smile, then she smiles again.

Then I look at her weird. Her hand's still out, and I don't know what she wants me to do with it.

She sees my puzzled face and says softly, "C'mon. Take my hand and we'll go meet the others."

"M'Kay." I say softly.

"Then let's mosey!" She says with a wide smile and a dramatic finger point. Then we enter the building.

By the time I finish my sucker we've standing in front of a white door. I lightly tug her hand and stop walking. She turns to me and questions, "What's wrong sweetie?"

Sweetie? Why'd she call me that? What's that even mean?

I don't realize I've spoken aloud till she stoops down to be eye level with me. She looks so… Sad. An' her eyes are all wet. Suddenly she pulls my close to her. Reeeeaaaly close. She's kinda crushing me. I feel like she's never gonna let me go, but I don't hate it. It actually feels…nice.

She pulls back and she's smiling again. She does that a lot. "I called you sweetie because you're such a sweet boy!"

"You don't know that." Her smile gets smaller. "No one's ever called me sweet before."

"Well I'm calling you sweet now!" She's got the big smile again. "Now come on! We're here!" she says, opening the door and pushing me in.

I gulp. I still don't really know why I'm here. I don't really know Aerith, I have no clue where we are, or how to get back. I'm… scared. Just a little bit.

When I get through the door the first thing I see is a man leaning against the wall. He's really tall and has spikey hair like mine. 'Cept his is black and a piece or two falls in his face.

"Hey there Aerith! Is this the new kid?" he doesn't wait for her answer and crouches down in front of me. Damn tall people. One day I'll be taller than all of them!

"…en we released the chocobo who sent the cake flying all over Cloud!" I realize he's been talking to me the entire time.

"Who's Cloud?" It's the first thing I wanna know. Maybe I'll ask him about the chocobo incident later…

"That would be me."

I jump right outta my skin and spin around towards the voice. It came from a blond man with spikey-er hair. I was sure nobody was behind me….

Zack:

Hahahahah! Nobody ever notices Cloud! That kid jumped about a foot in the air! I think I like this kid. Might as well introduce myself now.

"I'm Zack Fair, and that" I point to the brooding blond "is my husband Cloud."

He just nods. How disappointing. Normally they make a bi-"

"HUSBAND!? GUYS CAN DO THAT!?" his jaw drops as his eyes grow wide and he spins looking back and forth between us.

THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN' 'BOUT! YEAH! THAT FACE IS PRICELESS!

"Well we did!" I say with a big smile on my face. I then sling an arm over Cloud's (who magically appeared beside me) shoulder and gave him a squeeze. I see Aerith behind the kid. She's got that soft smile on her face she gets whenever she's trying to be motherly without being invasive.

She gently questions him, "Does that bother you?"

This is where things can go sour. I see him scrunch up his nose and look downwards with his arms crossed. Awwwww… That is such a cute thinking face! And I mean that in a non-pedo, totally platonic way!

"Naw. Not really." He says. SCORE! He's in! "I think it's kinda nice!" he says smiling at Aerith.

The smile shows all his missing teeth.

I glance at Cloud and Aerith. We're all thinking the same thing.

This kid/child/squirt is…

Then he pouts and says, "So why am I here?"

It's Aerith who answers. "Hun, do you know what 'therapy' or 'abuse' is?"

He stares at her, thinking, with that cute face of his. "Therapy's when you go to talk to someone to help fix somethin' right?"

Well this'll be a little easier then. "That's what you're here for kiddo."

"But nothin's wrong with me." He looks genuinely confused.

Aerith smiles sadly.

"Then where do your injuries come from Axel?"

A/N: So here's the next chapter! YAY PLOT! I would like to warn anyone who reads this that the chapters will be varying lengths, and updates will be spastic. There will be perspective changes a lot. I would like to give my thanks to my wonderful reviewers, Guest and Animeloverx175! I WROTE THIS FOR YOU!