I just love these two so much, and wish that somehow they could be together on the show!
Alas, we know that is never to be. So thus, we turn to Fanfiction!
And we shall spread the word! I have just created the livejournal community for these two, and it needs lots of members, and lots of love! I want to create an AxlxSue theme but need to find a place to do that haha. Please check it out and join if you can!
axlxsue(dot)livejournal(dot)com (since FFnet doesn't allow links in stories, replace the (dot) with ".")
Enjoy, my lovelies.
It's Sunday, and with the Heck family that usually means a morning filled with running around, scrambling while trying to make it to church on time, falling asleep and then having a late brunch at a nearby place.
"Okay everyone, remember to order only off the specials menu, and try to pair up! Get something you can share with the person next you!"
"But mommmmm! I'm sitting next to Axl, and he eats everything before I can touch it!"
"Not my fault you're slow!" he flicks a napkin he recently converted into a miniature football towards his father's open hands and cheers. "Goal! Yes!"
"I'm not slow, Axl. You're just a pig!" Huffing, Sue glowers at her brother for effect. In return, Axl motions towards her, sniffing her and starts to oink. "Gross! Get away from me! Mom! Dad!"
"Axl. Stop bothering your sister. And Share." Monotone, Frankie eyes the menu, deciding what to share with Mike.
"Mom? May I point out that there are five of us? That means one person will be getting a meal entirely to themselves. To me, that makes your demand seem unfair, especially since there is no easy way to decide amongst us." Pointing around the table for emphasis, Brick then places his head down to whisper his ending words.
Sighing, Frankie realizes that her youngest son just about started the beginning of a war. Undoubtedly, Sue and Axl were going to fight to be the "winner" of Brick's brilliant conclusion, Mike would try to shut them up, "punish" them by saying he will be the one to get a meal to himself, and Brick will claim he is a growing boy in need of nutrition.
"We all know who it should go to! I need to be strong to play sports and I need all the food to myself!"
"Yeah right Axl, I'm the captain of the Wrestlerettes, remember? I need food too! Plus, it'll make up for all the time I have gone starving because for some reason I always sit next to you!"
"Now you two stop it! Neither of you are going to order a meal for yourselves with the way you are behaving, in fact, I'm going to order it for myself to teach you two a lesson, and heck, I pay the damn bill so I should be the one to decide!" His tone final, Mike slammed the menu down, signaling the waitress to come over.
"Dad, if I may, can I exercise the excuse that, as the youngest, I am growing at an astronomically slow rate, and in order to help move things along, I should be allowed the opportunity to have a meal to myself?"
"No, Brick, this discussion is over."
"Very well, then."
"Mike! You just turned down your own son that was asking for food to grow! Do you know how bad that makes you seem? Oh god, we're horrible parents!" Burying her face in her hands, Frankie drones on about how they just came from church and are already sinning.
"You know what? Fine! Brick gets to order the meal for himself. Happy?"
"Yes! Thank you, Mike."
"Thanks Dad!" Nodding, Brick continues to survey the menu. "Now what should I get…"
"What? No! He's going to take forever to choose! This isn't fair! This is favoritism I tell you!" somewhat hysterical, Axl flips his menu as an act of rebellion, hitting Sue in the face.
"Ow! Axl! You just hit me with the menu!" Punching his arm, Sue rubs her nose with her free hand.
"Ow! Oh, C'mon! It's not my fault you are accident prone!"
"Alright you two, stop you're bickering. The waitress is coming and I want her to think we are a fully functional, happy family!" Turning from a glare at her children, Frankie then falsely smiles as the waitress draws near.
Leaving the restaurant, Sue is starving, Axl is still hungry, Brick failed to eat everything on his plate, Mike is grimacing on how little he has in his wallet, and Frankie is just overall tired from it all.
"Alright, time to go home. Let's go!"
"Mom?" tentatively, Sue pulls her mother to the side. It's her first day out with her new look but she hasn't been anywhere to show it off yet. "I was hoping I could go to the mall today, I wanted to shop around. I wouldn't buy anything of course! Just thought it'd be nice to spend some time together."
Touched, Frankie smiled at her daughter's eagerness to go out, show off her look, and have her mother along for the ride. Unfortunately though, she remembered she promised to be available for Aunt Edie's call to come over and help her around the house.
"Oh sweetie, I wish I could…but I already have this afternoon planned. I have to help your Aunt Edie remember? It's been hard for her ever since Aunt Ginny passed away…"
"Oh…" visibly disheartened, Sue tried to stay positive. "I understand, really, no problem. I'll try and go with Carly during the week or something!"
"That sounds like a good idea. Now let's go."
Smiling, Sue walks around the car, preparing to get in when she finds Axl blocking the passenger door. "Axl, move."
Staying still, with his hands folded against his chest, Axl watched Sue for a moment before responding. "Listen up loser, I heard you ask mom about the mall thing and well, not that I want to be seen with you, but I have to go there to buy a new shirt after you destroyed the last one, remember? And, I guess, if you want, you can come with me."
"Really Axl?" elated, Sue is on the verge of squealing.
"Yeah, well, only if I get to drop you off a block away from the mall!"
"But…Axl…the highway feeds directly into the mall…"
"So?"
"Axl!"
"Fine!" pulling himself up, he opens the car door and waits. "Get in. We all took dad's car here together so we have to go back home first." Jumping in, Sue made sure to not mention that he held the door open for her, in fear that he would have slammed it shut before she got in. Moving in next to her, Axl frowns thinking on how he wasn't planning on buying a new shirt for awhile, wondering why he thought of the idea so suddenly.
If anyone were to ask Axl if he was having a fun time with his sister at the mall he would, without hesitation, quickly answer in the negative and probably throw in a few mean comments about how lame Sue was.
Luckily enough though, since no one was asking him, Axl didn't have to lie.
"Axl! Come quick! Look, it's a costume shop! Let's try on outfits so we know what we want to be for Halloween!" Running inside without waiting for her brother's response, Sue eagerly searched through the racks of clothing before her. "Ooo! Look at this one! I think it's a Viking Axl!"
With his hands in his pockets, Axl slowly trudged over to his sister's position and pretended to take interest in the costume she was pointing out. After embarrassingly yet oddly enough, amusingly, riding along side her on one of the malls moving toy machines, he being in a fire truck, and she being in a police car, he felt looking through costumes was a reprieve. "Yeah, Viking, lame. Where are all the cooler costumes! Like Assassins and Killer Robots!"
"Robots? How can they make a costume make you look like a Robot! We're Human Axl, we're not made up of wires!" Disappearing for a few seconds, Sue pops her head back out with another costume. "What about this? Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper! Oh! We can go as a pair!"
Snatching the costume from Sue with a crazed look, Axl places it back on the hanger and takes Sue's hand away from what he deems the lame section. "No. Absolutely not. I would never dress up with you for Halloween. Here. What about this?" Picking up a Scream mask, Axl hands it to his sister. "Now that you don't wear braces anymore you can put on a mask to cover up that mug you call a face! OH! BURN! The Ax man did it again!"
Undaunted, Sue simple pulls the mask off her face and smiles sweetly at her brother.
"Un-uh-uh Axl, you called me pretty last night! Re-memmmm-ber? So that means I don't need a mask and you're just trying to be mean! But I know how you really feel!" Skipping away, Sue exclaims over a childish custom as Axl sulks over his grave mistake from the other night.
Later, without knowing how or why, Axl is finding himself paying for two costumes. Sue's "They are on sale Axl, but only if we buy them together! We just have to!" and her little pout probably had something to do with it, but he refuses to believe his sister has the power to persuade him to spend his money on such silly items.
"Wizard of Oz's Dorothy and Tin Man, how cute! I always thought they would have made a cute couple, I mean, I know she liked the Scarecrow best, or whatever, but he didn't need a heart! Tin man did! And who gave it to him?" Waiting for someone to fill in, the blonde cashier leaves her words hanging in the air.
"Dorothy did!" Sue finally chimed in after being lost for a moment.
"Exactly! You two are a cute couple, so I'm sure you'll pull these costumes off perfectly! That'll be thirty-one dollars and fifty cents please!" Oblivious to the embarrassment she has caused, the cashier looks at the pair in front of her confused.
Awkwardly, Axl backs away, his hands in the hair waving for awhile before pointing between him and Sue. "Whoa, whoa, whoa…you have it all wrong! Ew! Gross!"
"Um…" fidgeting, Sue is at a loss for words. At first, when the cashier referred to them as a couple so off-handedly, it didn't register to Sue that the she was speaking about her and Axl. Her brother. Feeling the heat rise to her cheeks, the first thing she could do was look down at her feet and try to calm her heart down. Sure, Axl is her brother, but that doesn't necessarily make her blind. She knows Axl is attractive, that a lot of girls wish to go out with him, even her own best friend, but she's never been mistaken as his girlfriend before!
She tries to think about why the misunderstanding makes her so happy and eventually settles on the idea that, due to her new look, she is now actually physically appealing enough to be considered a girl worthy of someone like Axl. She dares not think there is any other possible reason.
"Oh. I'm sorry! I didn't mean to make you two uncomfortable! You just look so cute together, running around the store, holding outfits up to one another, most of them being, well, couple costumes, I just kinda assumed…" glancing away, the cashier trails off, unsure how to continue.
"Yeah, well, we're not dating. So, here, take this, a twenty, a ten and two singles, and keep the change! Let's go Sue!" Grabbing the bags with the costumes in them with one hand and taking Sue's hand in his other, Axl drags her out of the shop to avoid any more awkwardness.
Once clear from the scene, Axl sits on a nearby bench. Feeling parched, he looks up at Sue. "Thirsty? I am. Go get us a drink."
"Um…Axl? What happened back there…"
"I don't want to talk about it Sue! The sooner I forget the less chance I'll have of having a nightmare! I mean, why did you make me buy that stupid costume in the first place!"
"You said you wanted to be a robot!"
"Killer Robot. Not a Robot who walks around with two other losers all day and a small dog and a hallucinating girl! I don't even know if he really is a robot anyway! He's just made out of Tin, and the other half of his name is Man! Tin-Man! Does that sound like a robot to you Sue? It sounds like a loser who just likes to dress up in tin to me!"
Exasperated, Axl huffs and leans back against the bench. Sue, confused as to why he's so angry when he seemed to be enjoying himself just a few minutes earlier, sits on the bench next to him.
"I'm sorry Axl, I thought you liked the idea. I thought maybe we could then go home, tell mom and dad, and then get Dad to dress up as the scarecrow, and Mom as the lion, and Brick as Toto. I thought it would be really cool…but if you think it's stupid, we can just return them."
Sighing audibly, Axl faces Sue with an agitated face. "Stop it Sue, stop…giving in to me like that! If this is what's going to make you happy, then you should fight for it! I'm not really angry about the costumes anyway, and I'll probably only wear the costume inside the house anyway…and only one picture! I know you'll want a family picture but just one!"
"Wow, Axl. That's really nice of you! Wait. Why are you being so nice…?" Leaning in, Sue pokes Axl and stretches some of his skin. "Are you an alien that replaced my brother?"
Laughing shortly before catching himself, Axl sits up straighter. "Yeah, right. I'm an evil alien, like in Revenge of the Pod Zombies! Boo!"
"Ah!" scooting away from him but quickly realizing a second later that her brother was just teasing her, Sue sternly reprimands him. "Not funny Axl!"
"Sue, Sue!" there is fear in Axl's voice but Sue tries to ignore it. "Sue! Okay, okay! I was just kidding before but there really is a zombie right behind you! Sue-Look out!"
Screaming her head off, Sue dives into Axl's open arms, which were currently open only because he was convincingly pointing behind her. Instinctively, Axl wraps his hands around Sue's frame as she huddles against him. Wanting to stay in this position but not being able to stop himself, Axl laughs out loud, loosening his grip and allowing Sue to sit up properly and yell at him once more.
"You're horrible Axl! I'm going to get that drink now thank you very much! I hope the pod zombies come take you way while I'm gone!" Storming off, Axl is left to place his hands on his stomach to prevent it from exploding due to his uncontrollable laughter. As he starts to sober up, he loses his smile as Sue's image blends into the crowd.
Minutes pass, and then another five minutes goes by, and Axl has given up on nodding towards hot girls that pass him by for entertainment. Where was Sue? Surely it couldn't be that hard to get a drink and come back. Standing up, Axl starts to panic. What if she got lost? Sue wasn't known for her great sense of direction. What if she bumped into someone accidently and they picked a fight with her? Sue was a klutz. Picking up the bags, Axl starts to head into the general direction Sue went off in, wishing that he had just gone with her instead of sending her off alone.
"Sue? Sue! Where are you?" Not seeing her within the first minute of searching, Axl starts to sweat. "Sue!"
"Hey, did you loose someone?" A security guard stationed by a jewelry vendor walks up to him, concerned.
"Um, no, I mean, I don't know. She just went off to get a drink, I should have never let her go alone!"
"Alright guy, calm down, how old is this girl, four, five? How tall?"
"What?" Confused, Axl shakes his head and starts focusing on the security card instead of searching his surroundings. "No. Sue's fifteen! Wait-never mind! I think I see her, thanks!" Running off, Axl leaves the annoyed security guard muttering under his breath about teenagers and how they can't stand to be apart for a second with their lovey dovey ways and rushes to Sue.
"Sue! Where have you been?" Slowing down as he was drawing near, Axl had to do a double take at the situation before him. There was Sue, his dorky sister, surrounded by three guys as they…were they actually hitting on his sister? "Hey…What's going on here?"
Turning towards her brother, Sue beamed a smile in his direction before introducing him. "Axl! I was waiting on line to buy us drinks when these guys started talking to me about how bad the drinks were at that stand, so we came over here to "Juice Shack" and got some yummy smoothies! I know you don't really like healthy stuff, so I picked up a chocolate shake for you-here!"
Taking the drink numbly, Axl eyed the guys that were just standing off to the side, misplaced, and unwanted. "Sue…you can't just run off like that, I got really worried. And who are these guys?"
"Oh, sorry dude! We didn't mean to steal your girl away from you! My name is Chad." Holding out his hand for a few seconds but finding no-one willing to shake it, Chad in turn pointed to his buddies to continue introductions. "And this is Lee, and he is John."
"Johnnie. I like to be called Johnnie, but hey, what's your name?" Johnnie and Chad were taller than Axl and Lee was just an inch or two shorter. They all had tans and looked like they perused the mall for easy pick ups often.
"My name's Axl. Wait, did you just call her "my girl"?" Not a second time today! What was wrong with these people? Wanting to shout this thought, Axl instead tried to keep his composure.
"Well yeah, isn't that why you're so mad she took awhile getting back? Anyway, like I said, sorry! But you should really keep an eye on a cute girl like her, someone will want to steal her away in no time, am I right boys?" Chad winks at his friends and they all chime in with agreeable laughter.
Sue, red in the face, moves towards Axl quickly, whispering her ignorance. "I'm so sorry Axl, I just wanted to get you a good drink! I didn't know they were…Oh. My. God!" raising her voice, her face scrunching up in a mix of realization, excitement and curiosity, Sue turns to the guys before her. "Wait, so you guys were actually, oh my god! Hitting on me?"
Confused, the guys looked at each other before slowly nodding. In response, Sue broke out her happy dance, and that was when the interest died.
Content, Axl watched with a grin as the guys backed away slowly, obviously mistaken as to who they were talking to. Sue, oblivious to their retreat and so caught up in her dance, was forcibly stopped only when Axl patted her should, encasing his arm around her and guiding her in the direction of the Mall exit.
"Wait! Axl, where did those guys go? I didn't even give them my number, how will they call me?" Struggling lightly, Axl sighs and just continues to push her forward.
"Oh, they can just look you up in the yellow book Sue, don't worry." Seeming to take his answer as truth, Sue settles into his hold and walks alongside him.
"Gee Axl, this is probably the best mall experience I've ever had!"
"Yeah, whatever. Just don't run off like that with strangers again okay? Mom will kill me if I lost you."
Smiling, Sue hesitantly watched Axl for a moment before gathering up all her courage to kiss him on the cheek lightly. "Thanks Axl."
Blushing, Axl doesn't look at her and loosens his hold on her, feeling warm all of a sudden and wanting space. Ecstatic that he didn't freak out, Sue truly deemed this to be the best mall experience ever. Probably the best time she's ever had, actually.
Right then, Axl hears someone shout towards them and sees the security guard. Not wanting to slow down and hurry out of the mall, Axl just waves at the guy.
"Glad you found your girlfriend! Don't lose her again!"
Sighing, Axl doesn't attempt to correct the misunderstanding this time, believing it to be okay, just for today, for everyone to believe that Sue Heck was in fact, his girlfriend. After all, it sure did put a weird smile on her face to be, for once, noticed, and Axl found that he rather liked Sue's smile.
"Hey, Axl? You never got a chance to buy a new shirt!"
Exiting the Mall and entering his car, Axl merely shrugs. "Eh. There was nothing good enough there, maybe next time yeah?" Nodding, Sue inwardly takes this as an implied invitation to go to the mall together again, and treasures the future opportunity.
Fluff, fluff and more fluff! I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it! My usual style of writing is to have one "filler"/ placing all the pawns in place chapter, one plot chapter, one happy chapter, and then one sad/dramatic chapter. So be on the look out for the next one! It's sure to make you hate me, haha! :)
Please review, my lovelies, and see you next time!