A/N: I might end up rewriting these past two chapters over again. I hope that I'm not suffering Creator Breakdown.
Namine closed the door and walked down the hallway to where she had Reno sitting down with a cup of tea. "What's going to happen to him?" Reno asked unsure of what to do. He wasn't sure if he should apologize on his brother's behalf and beg for mercy, or let Kairi and Xion beat him within an inch of his life.
"Axel has...how shall I say it?-appetites that he hasn't bothered learning to control." Namine said slowly and carefully as she sipped from her cup. Suddenly Reno saw her demeanor change ever so slightly. Her shoulders slumped a little and she gave a sigh that sounded terribly sad. "You know, I really liked Axel," she said almost out of the blue, "and when I figured out what he was doing to my sisters, I was shocked..." Reno furrowed his brow in pure confusion. What was she confessing? What had his brother done?
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Axel knew why Kairi was angry. He understood it. He understood why Xion was angry. He knew why. He abused their bodies, taken advantage of their trust and used their weaknesses against them. He thought of the number of times he made Xion cry, how many times he bit her pale skin until splotches of red showed up as bite marks. How many times had he risked getting Kairi pregnant while ignoring her basic needs? He had done the worst to both of them and he deserved so much more harm to him than words could have expressed.
Kairi stood before him, trembling with rage. "How could you do this to me? How could you do this to us?" her voice was barely above a whisper. Axel forced himself to look up at her but couldn't look her in the eye. He was worse than naked in front of the both of them, exposure wasn't even the proper word in this situation. What he felt in the moment couldn't be expressed.
He was wrong. Axel was more than wrong about everything. His brother didn't hate him. These girls had actually come to love him. He was wrong about never losing. He was the loser the entire time. What in the world could have made him think that he could do such things and get away with it? The truth was already out and everything had collapsed on him.
"I'm sorry", he choked out. He couldn't say anything else. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry I'msorryi'msorry-" it almost became a mantra to him. He couldn't think about anything else. Nothing would be a good apology. He couldn't atone for what he had done. What kind of action could fix all this damage? Nothing. He didn't even realize how much he was ranting until Kairi and Xion both put their arms around him. It didn't make him feel better. He just stopped talking.
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"But I didn't do anything about it. I decided to let it go on because I was with him at least some of the time and that was all that mattered." The blonde haired girl tilted her head back and sucked in a breath as if to rid herself of tears. Reno got up and left her and went back to the room where he was sure he'd find his brother broken and bloody. Instead he found all three of them in tears. Kairi had untied Axel and he was on the floor between her and Xion, his head on each of their knees. Reno took a step back and stood in mostly in the shadow.
This must be what it's like to be broken.
What followed was something like a blur. Axel ended up going home with Reno, and some sort of understanding was reached between the five of them. Reno learned that the sisters were going to be working out their issues with some serious therapy. It reminded him that he and his brother were going to have to work out their differences as well. The worst part about everything was that there was no real way of describing what was going on, or what everyone was truly feeling. But there was this mild sense of calm. No real peace, just a lack of ill will. And that was motivation enough for them to move forward.
A/N: This is not the end of the fanfiction and it's hardly a cliffhanger. More will come of this I promise!