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3am Challenge Day 2
Prompt: #96 - One Moment (300 words)
Song: Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
Characters: Axel, Roxas
(dedicated to kaijuindigo on tumblr~)
Sunlight creeps along the skyline and dyes the heavens with a brilliant array of pinks and yellows, lavenders and reds. It's like stained glass, he thinks, like windows in a castle tower. It may very well be the most beautiful sunset he's even seen.
The wind smells like autumn, like the dying of summer and while it's fresh and calming, he doesn't want these sticky-hot days to end just yet. Not if it means an end to the hours where the sun refuses to sink down below the horizon without first burning everything in its wake with scarlet and gold.
He looks over at Roxas, a shining halo of blond in his peripherals. He stares for a moment, just observing the way his shorter companion balances the bare ice cream stick against his lower lip, sucking on it in thought while they sit in silence. Minutes pass like days and Roxas turns to face him.
The movement causes the sunbeams trapped behind Roxas' head to burst free. He is wrapped in radiance – bathed in the light of infinity and glowing like he is a celestial body all his own. It makes Axel think of the gilded, arching gates of his original home world and, just for a moment, Axel thinks he can feel something stirring in his empty chest. A wave of nostalgia crashes through him, knocking him off balance and out into unknown waters. Salt stings his eyes and it takes a moment for him to realize it's not the last vestiges of the ice cream still clinging to his tongue. He feels his breath catch in his throat.
Love.
He is in love.
Roxas blinks at him, eyes a stunning, perfect blue, and Axel cannot find the words to answer him against the phantom pounding behind his ribs.