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Roxas never cared what his dad did with his life. Until he fell in love with the boyfriend's younger brother. They're engaged to be married, but will the young lovers stand up for their relationship? I mean it's not REALLY incest!

It is written in first person, chapters switching viewpoints from Axel to Roxas. Axel for odd numbered chapters, Roxas for even numbered chapters.

This chapter switches to Cloud's POV for a flashback to make explaining things simpler.

-Voice over the phone-

I was running after Axel as fast as I possibly could, tripping over and over, Zexion helping me up each time and I continued to run. The yelling voices were getting clearer, and I distinctly heard my dad and Reno.

"Let go of the knife and talk to me!"

"I won't!"

"Cloud, no!"

I froze in my tracks. There was a scream of pain, but it wasn't Dad, or even Reno. To my horror, the bloodcurdling death wail was definitely Axel. I felt my heart stop, and Zexion placed his hands on my shoulders, telling me that I had to keep going. We broke back into a sprint. Tears were stinging the corners of my eyes as I heard my dad shriek next.

I burst into the house. "DAD!" I cried, embracing him, sobbing against his shoulder. "Dad… I'm sorry… I'm sorry I said those things about Mom… and that it was your fault Xemnas did those things, and I'm sorry I said you didn't love me… Dad, I don't hate you… I'm sorry!"

"Roxas…?" he hugged me tightly in return. "Roxas! Don't cry, son, don't be sorry, I shouldn't have yelled at you… I didn't mean to hit you… Forgive me…"

"I do… I forgive you, dad…"

"Axel… Axel, wake up! Ax, can you hear me?" I heard Reno beside me. I turned to look at him, he was holding Axel in his arms, shaking him lightly. "Axel?"

There was a butcher knife embedded in his leg and he wasn't moving. "Axel!" I wailed.

Axel made a sound of pain, jerking the knife out of his flesh and dropping it to the floor before going limp in Reno's arms.

"Axel!"

Reno shook him again. "Axel? Axel… Axel, wake up…" I saw tears in his eyes, and he wasn't reacting to Axel's blood seeping into his clothes. "Ax… Axel…" he brushed some of the crazy red hair out of Axel's face like a surgeon. "I'm sorry, Axel…"

My dad was bleeding badly from his arm as well, and I saw that he was also crying.

"Roxas, call the hospital."

Dad passed out from blood loss after awhile, and Reno carried him and Axel upstairs one at a time, and we washed their wounds (which wasn't as awkward as it should have been to strip down my lover and dad with a guy I didn't really like and wash them. At least I had seen Axel naked before and I used to take baths with my dad when I was younger, and Reno probably had to give Axel baths as a kid, and he was Dad's fiancé… I almost gagged when I thought of Reno as Dad's fiancé.). Reno showed me how to properly wrap bandages, apparently he had to teach Axel the same skill when he was hurt and couldn't bandage himself. Listening to Reno talk was actually enjoyable. You know, when the talk was about something other than my Dad and me.

We put fresh clothes on Axel and Dad then changed ourselves. (Again, it wasn't all that awkward to change in the same room as Reno, either.)

A doctor arrived and checked out Axel's leg and my dad's arm, saying that we had done everything properly and to simply change the bandages every hour or so and call if anything worsened. I felt proud when the doctor said that I did a good job. I was glad Reno had shown me how to wrap bandages. I'd never learned a skill before, and being praised for doing something correctly made me feel good.

I wiped some sweat from Axel's brow with a cloth, murmuring to myself because Reno had left the room. I actually wasn't aware I had been speaking aloud until I heard a reply to my words.

"Didn't mean what? Why are you sorry? I don't understand…"

"Axel!" I exclaimed, my heart fluttering at the sight of those green eyes open again.

"Axel. Axel…" he whispered.

"Are you okay?" I didn't wait for a reply, spinning around and calling out the door. "Reno! Axel's awake!"

"Reno…"

Reno rushed into the room, relief washing over his features. He passed me and I walked across the hall to my dad's room. He was sitting up and gazing sadly out the window. "Dad?" I called tentatively.

He turned to me, smiling. "Roxas. Nice to see you."

"How are you feeling?"

"Better than I was. I'm so happy you're here, Roxas."

"What exactly happened, dad?"

(Flashback: Cloud's POV)

-Mister Strife, we're sorry, but we have other matters to attend to at the moment. We're putting the search to an end for now. If your son isn't back within a week, we'll try again. Have a good day.-

I hung up the phone and sobbed. 'Roxas could be dead in a week!'

"Cloud, what are you doing?"

I whirled around at Reno's touch on my shoulders. "Roxas."

"What about Roxas?"

"They said they gave up the search. They've been looking for almost twelve hours and they said… they said to wait a week to see if he comes home on his own."

"Well, Roxas can't stay mad at you for that long, doll. He'll come home soon, I promise. Axel went to find him, remember? He's not going to give up, even if the police did. Okay?"

"I hate you. I hate you and Reno and Xemnas and even Mom! I hate all of you! I fucking HATE you!"

"But that's just it! Roxas was really upset… he's never even threatened to run away before! He doesn't want to come back because he hates me!"

Reno wiped my eyes. "That's not true, and you know it. Cloud, Roxas couldn't hate you. Kids do stupid things sometimes. I always came back when I ran away, and I wasn't exactly in a happy home of rainbows and love. Roxas knows you love him. He'll come back."

"You don't care because you don't even love me anymore because you have Reno! You never pay attention to me anyways!"

"His… his mother… died because I couldn't stop her…"

"What? Couldn't stop her? Stop her from what?"

"IT WAS YOUR FAULT MOM DIED! You failed her, and because of that, she died!"

"She left because she was angry with me… and she was hit by a car. I was able to keep Roxas with me when she tried to take him with her… but I couldn't stop her from leaving… Even… Even if I had just been able to stall her… for just one more minute… she wouldn't have… she wouldn't have died…"

"Cloud, that's not your fault at all! And you saved Roxas, didn't you?"

"Consider me lost!"

"But I couldn't stop him from leaving me either! He left me because he was mad at me just like she did! What if Roxas is dead somewhere, too? My baby…"

"Cloud… Cloud, Roxas is safe, I know he is. And Axel's going to find him, and he's going to come home and tell you that he didn't mean any of what he said, and… and someday we'll get married. Everything will work out…" I kissed his forehead. "I love you."

"That reminds me… Roxas doesn't want us to get married… that's actually how this argument started."

"Axel reacted the same way, but I don't think we should give up on the idea just yet. They're really close, and the idea of becoming an uncle-nephew thing is just really strange for them. They'll come around."

"You know what? You're being ignorant, Dad! He doesn't like me! He's USING me to get to YOU! And you're willingly wrapping yourself around his little finger! I thought you were a smarter person than that! Reno doesn't even want me in the picture! You would marry him in a heartbeat if you didn't have me, and ever since you started dating him you've been caring less and less about what happens to me as long as you get your nightly fuck! Reno hates me!"

"Reno… do you… hate him?"

"Hate who?"

"My son."

"Why would I hate your son? I wouldn't have asked you to marry me if I didn't like Roxas. I understand that he's important to you, and that makes him important to me, too. Cloud, I love you, and I love Roxas. I want Roxas to be my son too. When you told me you had a son, I didn't break up with you. I knew that he was part of the deal, and I stayed with you. When I met him, I was really upset that he didn't like me. Cloud, I want to be with you and Roxas. I care about Roxas, and I care about you. Please. Don't think that I hate him. That's not true at all."

-BREAK-

My head felt like it was being torn in half.

"Cloud! Cloud, what's wrong? Are you okay?"

"Get away!" I pushed the concerned Reno off of me and rushed into the kitchen, unable to control the overpowering desire to escape. I put a knife on the counter.

"Cloud, what's going on?" Reno grabbed me. "What are you doing?"

"Without Roxas… I don't have a purpose…" I mumbled, no longer in control of my actions. I fell to my knees on the floor, knife in hand.

"What? Cloud. Cloud, what are you doing?"

"I don't have a reason to live…"

"Cloud?"

"I'm sorry, Roxas. I should have been a better father…"

"Cloud. Cloud!"

I held the knife over my wrist, feeling nothing but the tears on my face. "I'm sorry. Forgive me, Roxas."

"Cloud, stop!"

I went to slice my wrist and end everything with a swift cut, but Reno knocked my hand back to make me cut higher up my arm, stopping my first attempt to take my life. We fought over the knife for a minute, and when I was about to stab my chest, Axel was there, with the knife in his leg. He screamed in pain, bringing me back to reality just as Axel collapsed in front of me. I shrieked in realization that not only had I tried to commit suicide, I had stabbed Axel.

(Back to Roxas' POV)

"You ran in then, and I was so relieved that you were there…"

"Dad, when you said you'd break, I though you meant you'd be sad! I didn't know you would try to kill yourself!"

"Neither did I. I never imagined even thinking about taking my life. Something… Something else made me do it. They think I have a stress disorder of some sort, so they gave me these pills."

He held up a bottle of antidepressants. I sighed. "Dad…"

"I… I want to talk to Reno. Can you fetch him for me?"

"Yeah. Of course I will."

"Oh, and Roxas…"

I turned back to him. "Yeah?"

"I love you. Never, ever forget that I love you."

"I won't. I love you too, dad."

I walked back over to the other room, where Reno was roughhousing with Axel even though the doctor had told him not to. I raised an eyebrow and spoke just loud enough to be heard.

"Reno? Dad wants to talk to you. Can… can I speak with Axel alone for a minute?"

"Sure thing, Roxas…" he ruffled my hair as he walked by and I closed the door, walking over to Axel and sitting on the bed.

"Hey, cutie," he cooed.

"Axel…" I hugged him (okay, so I actually pretty much lay on top of him, but same thing). "Thank you… for saving my dad… It means a lot that you did that…"

He touched my hair, something that always calmed me down. "Shh… Don't cry, Rox. Hey, how's my leg?"

"You'll be fine after a few days. You might need stitches, but you should be alright."

"And your dad?"

"He might have some sort of post-traumatic stress thing. But other than that, he's fine. They say that he should be okay after awhile of having me back. It was because of all those horrible things I said to him about Xemnas being right and him being responsible for Mom's death and that I hated him…"

"You'd better make sure he knows you don't hate him."

"Yeah."

He kissed me. "Love you, baby."

Giving off a soft whine, I pressed back into the kiss, opening my mouth even more and whimpering until his tongue invaded my mouth. I couldn't suppress a moan, which fueled his desire to continue his actions.

I smiled softly, resting my head against his chest when I broke our kiss. I was panting for air, but my lightheadedness was comforting and all too welcome. I interlocked our fingers.

"I love you…" I said wearily.

"Love you too," Axel replied as he pet me to sleep.

I remained in a half-conscious state as he talked to Reno (it's surprisingly difficult to stay fully asleep when your pillow is vibrating and making noise) and felt Axel pull me up to lay by his side, where I settled into peaceful slumber in my lover's arms.

End of the fight arc!

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