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Chapter Twenty Five
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"All right. Thanks, bye," Roxas hung up the phone and sighed heavily, "Insurance is going to cover everything but the paint job, but the shop said it'll be a few weeks to get all the work done. They're going to have to repaint the entire side of the truck..."
Axel tightened his arms around Roxas as they laid on the couch together, "They'll find whatever punk kid did this, Rox..."
"Kid? You still think this was random?" Roxas looked up at him, clearly still incredibly upset, "Whoever it was, they called me a whore... This was a personal attack."
"Do you still think it was Vanitas?"
The blond shook his head, "No... There's no way he'd do something like this. Besides, he was the one cheating on me. I'm not the whore in that situation."
Axel shrugged, "Then I have no idea-"
"Luxord," Roxas shot straight up, nearly bashing Axel in the face with his head. "Why didn't I think of him in the first place?!"
"Shit, Rox, Luxord might be a jerk, but something like this? I don't think he'd go that far..."
But Roxas had his mind set on the idea, "That guy probably hates me for running him off like that. It makes sense, Axel."
"But he hates me too. Why wouldn't he go after my car?"
"Hang on, Axe... Could this have been Saix?" he wondered, "Think about it. He obviously likes you, and he's probably pissed that you blew him off for me."
Axel scoffed, "I've known Saix for 30 years, Rox. He'd never do something like this."
"No... You knew him a billion years ago when you were teenagers. You have no idea how much he could have changed since then," Roxas pointed out, "What if he's secretly psychotic or something?"
"There's no way, Roxas. I still just think it was some punk kid trying to be funny."
"Well I'm not laughing," he settled back into Axel when suddenly his phone started going nuts in his pocket.
It was one of the foster kids he grew up with, Hayner Ferris. Why was he calling? They hadn't talked in years. "...Hello?"
"Dude, what the fuck is going on? Do you need help or something?"
"...Not that I'm aware of. What're you talking about?" Roxas raised an eyebrow curiously.
"I'm talking about your Facebook posts! One, you're going to get yourself banned, and two... When did you become a fucking pornstar?!"
Roxas sat up again and looked over at Axel, "Go get your laptop. I need to see something."
"I mean, what kind of a sick fuck are you, Roxas? You know our foster mom saw that? And Pence and Olette too! You're seriously disturbed."
Axel came back in with his laptop and gave him a confused look, "What's going on?"
"Go on Facebook and pull up my page..." Roxas told him, "And Hayner, I didn't post anything. I don't even know what the hell you're talking about."
"Yeah? What other Roxas Smith is there that looks exactly like you? It's a video, Roxas, and I'm not blind. Nobody needs to see that. God, I've never been so terrified of the autoplay function on Facebook... I might delete my account. And with men too? I didn't even know you were gay!"
The second that he pulled up his Facebook account, both men's jaws dropped. Somebody had gotten one of the scenes from the movie they'd been filming and posted it to his page, which clearly showed him and Axel hardcore fucking. The caption on the video was: "Hashtag new job! I'm gonna be a star!"
"Hayner, I didn't post this. I swear, I would never post anything like this anywhere."
"You might not have posted it, but you were still in the video. Don't bother coming to the reunion this year. None of us ever want to see you again," Hayner snapped, promptly hanging up on him.
Roxas dropped his phone and stared at the unedited video of them clearly posted for the world to see.
"Rox, someone shared this on a ton of different pages..." Axel told him, "It's got over five thousand views already..."
He snatched the laptop and tried to log into his account, but his password wouldn't work. Someone had hacked him and locked him out of his own Facebook. "Fuck... Fuck! I can't even delete it!" he shouted, trying to report the video instead.
"Facebook has deleted it a few times already, but it keeps popping up," Axel sighed, "If you type your name into Google, the video has already made it to numerous different websites..."
Roxas felt like curling up into a ball and dying when he heard the familiar chime of a Facebook notification.
"Rox... Did you maybe used to send Vanitas some pictures? Like... Naked ones?" Axel was staring at his phone in shock.
The blond snatched it from him. Filling the screen was an old selfie that he'd sent only to Vanitas where he was completely naked and in some ridiculous looking "sexy" pose. The caption on the picture read: "Ready for a good time tonight. ;D"
"It has to be Van... He was the only one who had that picture..." Roxas felt numb inside. He would never, ever post something like that on social media.
"Does your phone back up to your computer?" Axel wondered.
Roxas thought for a minute, "Yeah, but-"
Axel raised an eyebrow, "I know for a fact that you don't lock your account. If someone went on your computer they could have changed all of your passwords without even trying too hard."
"But who would have had access to my laptop?"
"I don't know, Rox... You leave that thing out all the time! You had it at work, at the hospital, at home with Vanitas..."
"So basically it could have been anyone," Roxas grumbled, "Fuck. My foster mom saw that..."
Axel sighed as his phone chimed again, "Fuck, Rox... How many pictures have you sent him?"
"It was something we did when he was on tour!" he defended himself, "How many did they post?!"
"At least twenty..." he mumbled, scanning through them, "Damn, you know exactly what angles look good for you..."
Roxas snatched his phone and tossed it aside, glaring at him, "Stop staring at them and help me! How can we get these taken down?!"
"It's the internet, Rox... We can't."
"I'm calling the police again..." he sighed, "Someone is attacking me. This is absolute bullshit."
Axel shook his head, "They're not going to be able to do anything, Rox. They're just gonna tell us we're shit out of luck like they did last night."
"They said they'd try to find the guy..."
"There was no evidence, Roxas! They have no leads! We're fucked."
He huffed, "We aren't anything, Axel. I'm fucked, and I think I know who's responsible."
"Saix wouldn't do something like this, Roxas..."
"Well we're going to find out for sure. C'mon, you're driving us to the hospital right now to see him."
Axel grabbed his arm, "This is ridiculous, Rox. We'll just give his name to the police and they can question him. There's no reason to be starting shit with him."
"That's easy for you to say when we're not talking about your life. Nobody is coming after you."
"Think about it for a second, Roxas, how could he have even gotten that video?"
The blond scowled, "I don't know! Xigbar'll do anything for a blowjob! Maybe we should ask him which psychopath decided to do this!"
"You need to calm down. You're getting mad at me for no reason. I obviously didn't have anything to do with this, so quit attacking me."
Roxas exhaled slowly and sat back down on the couch, "I'm sorry... I just don't understand what I did to deserve this..."
Axel pulled him into his arms, pressing a kiss against his forehead, "We'll figure it out, babe... I promise, I'm not going to rest until we find out who's doing this and why. ...And then I'm going to beat the living shit out of them."
"Nooo... I don't want you to go to jail," Roxas pouted, "Let me beat the shit out of him instead."
"But then you'd be in jail, and I wouldn't be able to do this," Axel leaned in and kissed him softly.
Roxas chuckled, "So then... We both beat him up, go to jail together and get all buff and hardened. Ooh, we could get matching neck tattoos and be prison wives!"
"Sounds good, baby," Axel laughed, snuggling against his boyfriend.
Whatever was happening, Roxas had a feeling that this was only the beginning. But one thing had him really worried... Something that if Axel found out, he'd likely run the other direction. If his attacker had that information, he was thoroughly ruined.
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A/N: All right, we're taking bets now. What could this huge piece of information be that might very well send Axel running for the hills?
Everyone seems to think it's either Saix or Luxord. Taking all final guesses!
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Simply Rexene