Axel/Roxas
I am INCREDIBLY sorry to anyone who was waiting to take this pairing. I finished it barely days after I claimed it, back in January, and thought I posted it - turns out, I missed it and posted it to another comm instead. Idiocy? Check. With that said, this was done before I played it in English. Mind, they still seem to be relatively IC. Still - I'm EXTREMELY sorry, I know how popular this pairing has gotten.
Axel/Roxas
Kingdom Hearts
Gamma
PG-13
1 x Ring
Roxas enjoys what he’s told might be his last true feelings - Axel’s palm pressed against his, a thigh brushing his hip, all warm and human and fascinating - because life goes full circle, and everyone knows and after losing your heart, your body stops feeling what it loves most.
2 x Hero
He laughs that loud, arrogant laugh, hooks his arm around the new kid’s neck, and declares that Roxas is the better hero - Roxas doesn’t quite get it, but everyone else does, and nothing more needs to be said.
3 x Memory
Axel leans against the door-frame, his broad shoulders contrasted against his slim waist, watching Roxas clutch his head, trying to remember a past that doesn’t need to be remembered - Axel only cares for the present, the present where he has Roxas now and he didn’t back then.
4 x Box
Axel asks if he’s sure it’s going to work - Roxas just grins and hops down from the step-stool, and both look up at the box full of paint, propped up on the top of the half-open door - which is, to their great amusement, the door from Vexen’s lab.
5 x Run
Every day Roxas gets farther and farther away from the Organization, and each day, Axel cares less and less about the rules he will break to save him.
6 x Hurricane
A violent uproar or outburst; Axel knows the feeling well, when he can’t stand what’s happening and just explodes in flames, because he’d rather kill his friend than lose him to someone else.
7 x Wings
Vexen tries to explain the newest idea in research; Roxas, Axel and Demyx don’t really care - they’re too busy making crude shadow-animal skits on the projector, and Axel’s bird is flapping too close to Roxas’ bird.
8 x Cold
He rubs his hands together and blows on them to keep them warm, but it suddenly becomes a fruitless effort when Axel - jokingly, he prays - lights the hem of his pants on fire.
9 x Red
Roxas looks up and sees nothing but a paradox of red-flame spikes, and realizes that Axel has fallen asleep on him.
10 x Drink
Axel passes Roxas the bottle without hesitation and watches as he tips back his head to finish off the rest of the wine, and they talk of nothing but themselves, for once.
11 x Midnight
Late one night, Axel and Roxas heave Larxene’s mattress up, ignoring the sleeping girl on it, and carry it to the top of a staircase, where they push it down and laugh as she wakes up to find herself plummeting down four flights of stairs; the two exchange a high-five and head off to bed.
12 x Temptation
It would be so easy, so fucking easy, just to reach over, snag the other boy’s jaw with his fingers and pull him over to his own face, but he resists because he knows that perhaps that boy doesn’t even remember where they’ve been together.
13 x View
Roxas didn’t like being the short one, the one to always be looking up, but when Axel shoved him down onto the bed in a gentle sort of ferocity, he suddenly found himself careless.
14 x Music
Axel isn’t sure how fucking drop-dead drunk he is when Demyx starts strumming out that stupid upbeat song, but all he knows is that he wants to dance, and fuck whoever wants to stop him from seizing Roxas’ hand and dancing him away.
15 x Silk
Axel drapes himself in silk sheets that he can’t really feel, the warm body under him still squirming from the rush, and all is rational in a castle where nonsense governs.
16 x Cover
Axel’s nearly sitting on Roxas, the two are crammed so tightly into the alcove - Roxas can feel one of Axel’s knees digging into his side - and the two cling to each others hands as they hold their breath and hope Lexaeus - who is covered in paint, which is, um, er, not their fault at all? - does not find them.
17 x Promise
I’m not going to let him find you, I’m not going to lose you.
18 x Dream
“I’m going to find out everything about me,” the dual-wielder tells the pyromaniac, and the one who normally plays with fire suddenly finds his best friend tampering with it.
19 x Candle
Through the darkness, Roxas can see the solitary lick of a flame, illuminating jade eyes and pale skin, and without question, he follows.
20 x Talent
He can’t bring himself to kill his best friend, but nor can he really bring himself to compliment him on his abilities in battle.
21 x Silence
The room is oddly quiet without Axel’s idle chatter and Demyx’s deranged little snippets of song, but Roxas doesn’t mind, considering how both are fast asleep on either side of him, their warm bodies curled against his.
22 x Journey
Having stopped caring about destinations a long time ago, he realizes he doesn’t care where he is, as long as he’s having fun and has Roxas in reach.
23 x Fire
“From what I’ve tasted of desire, I hold with those who favour-” he says, but is cut off by Axel’s smug smirk - suddenly, he knows why he was asked to recite those lines - but he smiles back and says, “Fire.”
24 x Strength
Axel wonders if Roxas would have fought him with the same ferocity if he had known that they had loved each other once.
25 x Mask
When he first met Axel, both of their faces were masked under a deep hood that shadowed their faces, but they both exchanged a grin as if they understood each other immediately.
26 x Ice
With eyes like Roxas’, Axel wonders how much heat it would take to melt him.
27 x Fall
Axel falls to the ground and lays there, a stupid smile on his face, and he can’t bring himself to move when the world comes crashing down on top of him.
28 x Forgotten
Axel doesn’t remember when he forgot that Sora and Roxas are the same person and are destined to be together - all he knows is that he considers Roxas a best friend, a companion, a lover, even, whereas Sora’s just that bastard that’s going to take Roxas away from him.
29 x Dance
The Dusks move around him with their elastic, pulsing dance, and Axel wishes he could reserve this treatment for less favourable people.
30 x Body
Axel looks at Sora and snorts, and finds that he likes the kid so much more when he’s blond, naked and in his bed.
31 x Sacred
Roxas can take care of himself, he can get by perfectly fine on his own, but that doesn’t make him inviolate, and nor does it mean he wants to be on his own.
32 x Farewells
He realizes he has to let go of him when he realizes that Roxas has found all the answers to the questions.
33 x World
Axel knows that Sora once dreamed to see all the worlds out there, and he knows that he never wants Roxas to remember that.
34 x Formal
“Fancy a fuck?” Axel asks, and when Roxas’ head turns in a strange sort of shock, he smirks and corrects himself with, “Sorry, would you like to sleep with me?”
35 x Fear
Funny, how he used to consider himself as fearless as fire, but then he realizes that even fire - who devours everything, and destroys darkness, and melts ice, and yadda, yadda, yadda - fears the rain that could be its end.
36 x Laugh
The two, along with Demyx, drive the entire castle insane with their loud and honest laughter, and everyone else inside the walls feels uneasy as they are confronted with the first genuine laughs they’ve heard in years.
37 x Lies
Axel claims he hates Sora for being a thief - really, he hates Sora, because he wasn’t born as two people in the first place.
38 x Forever
“The Organization is always,” Axel tells him on his first day, giving a wicked, teeth-baring grin, and pulls him close - Roxas realizes, with his nose a few centimetres from Axel’s lower lip, that it’s the concept that’s always, not the people.
39 x Overwhelmed
Sora’s back is pressed against his, and Axel realizes that they - they being Axel and Sora, but he imagines Roxas is there too, and that Roxas’ life depends on this too - are not going to make it out of here alive if nothing is done on his part.
40 x Whisper
Axel’s long fingers hook around Roxas’ waist and pull him close, so that his cheek is pressed against Roxas’, and quietly tells him every secret he’s ever kept.
41 x Wait
Roxas closes his eyes, takes ten paces (like a shoot out, he thinks, only there’s no malicious intentions here) and waits for Axel to slink up behind him.
42 x Talk
During times when the Elders can’t think of anything to boss them around with, the more “immature” neophytes often spend long hours together, just chatting, because the Elders are hardened and cold, and they’re young and still remember what it was like to breathe, have friends, and make love.
43 x Search
Roxas knows how to take the hit - when Axel is caught for the latest shenanigan around the castle and he isn’t, he gladly ends the Elders’ harrowing hunt for any other culprits, and the two suffer the verbal berating together.
44 x Hope
It feels so surreal that someone in his state could muster the effort to even pretend to feel it, but when Roxas links his arm with his and grins up at him, he feels it bubbling from him like a volcano.
45 x Eclipse
They watch the sky together, from a top window in the castle, and after observing a million little things they don’t know the names of, they decide it’s much more fun to spend their time doing things that would make everyone else’s toes curl.
46 x Gravity
The weight in his shoes is unbearable - Roxas finds the void in his chest heavy as he leaves the Organization’s headquarters, having left someone behind - and he wonders if his own story means more to him than his friends.
47 x Highway
Sometimes they feel as if they’ve been put on the rarely-used, boring, dusty country roads of existence instead of the busy, fast-paced, big-city highway of reality, and having each other - for friendship and otherwise - just makes it a bit more tolerable.
48 x Unknown
The second he draws up his hood or dons his coat, he is reminded that he doesn’t belong with the rest of the world, and every time that happens, he wants to go back to what he had taken for granted.
49 x Lock
Axel holds one of the keyblades, he grabs it by the shaft and turns it over in his palm, and wonders if every key has a lock somewhere, or if, maybe, there are keys out there that will never lead to anything.
50 x Breathe
Roxas’ head rests against Axel’s chest - Axel breathes air his lungs don’t need to function, and Roxas’ head lifts - it’s ridiculous, it’s childish, but it’s a wonderful thing.
edit: apparently, this hates me. HTML fixed.
Axel/Roxas
Kingdom Hearts
Gamma
PG-13
1 x Ring
Roxas enjoys what he’s told might be his last true feelings - Axel’s palm pressed against his, a thigh brushing his hip, all warm and human and fascinating - because life goes full circle, and everyone knows and after losing your heart, your body stops feeling what it loves most.
2 x Hero
He laughs that loud, arrogant laugh, hooks his arm around the new kid’s neck, and declares that Roxas is the better hero - Roxas doesn’t quite get it, but everyone else does, and nothing more needs to be said.
3 x Memory
Axel leans against the door-frame, his broad shoulders contrasted against his slim waist, watching Roxas clutch his head, trying to remember a past that doesn’t need to be remembered - Axel only cares for the present, the present where he has Roxas now and he didn’t back then.
4 x Box
Axel asks if he’s sure it’s going to work - Roxas just grins and hops down from the step-stool, and both look up at the box full of paint, propped up on the top of the half-open door - which is, to their great amusement, the door from Vexen’s lab.
5 x Run
Every day Roxas gets farther and farther away from the Organization, and each day, Axel cares less and less about the rules he will break to save him.
6 x Hurricane
A violent uproar or outburst; Axel knows the feeling well, when he can’t stand what’s happening and just explodes in flames, because he’d rather kill his friend than lose him to someone else.
7 x Wings
Vexen tries to explain the newest idea in research; Roxas, Axel and Demyx don’t really care - they’re too busy making crude shadow-animal skits on the projector, and Axel’s bird is flapping too close to Roxas’ bird.
8 x Cold
He rubs his hands together and blows on them to keep them warm, but it suddenly becomes a fruitless effort when Axel - jokingly, he prays - lights the hem of his pants on fire.
9 x Red
Roxas looks up and sees nothing but a paradox of red-flame spikes, and realizes that Axel has fallen asleep on him.
10 x Drink
Axel passes Roxas the bottle without hesitation and watches as he tips back his head to finish off the rest of the wine, and they talk of nothing but themselves, for once.
11 x Midnight
Late one night, Axel and Roxas heave Larxene’s mattress up, ignoring the sleeping girl on it, and carry it to the top of a staircase, where they push it down and laugh as she wakes up to find herself plummeting down four flights of stairs; the two exchange a high-five and head off to bed.
12 x Temptation
It would be so easy, so fucking easy, just to reach over, snag the other boy’s jaw with his fingers and pull him over to his own face, but he resists because he knows that perhaps that boy doesn’t even remember where they’ve been together.
13 x View
Roxas didn’t like being the short one, the one to always be looking up, but when Axel shoved him down onto the bed in a gentle sort of ferocity, he suddenly found himself careless.
14 x Music
Axel isn’t sure how fucking drop-dead drunk he is when Demyx starts strumming out that stupid upbeat song, but all he knows is that he wants to dance, and fuck whoever wants to stop him from seizing Roxas’ hand and dancing him away.
15 x Silk
Axel drapes himself in silk sheets that he can’t really feel, the warm body under him still squirming from the rush, and all is rational in a castle where nonsense governs.
16 x Cover
Axel’s nearly sitting on Roxas, the two are crammed so tightly into the alcove - Roxas can feel one of Axel’s knees digging into his side - and the two cling to each others hands as they hold their breath and hope Lexaeus - who is covered in paint, which is, um, er, not their fault at all? - does not find them.
17 x Promise
I’m not going to let him find you, I’m not going to lose you.
18 x Dream
“I’m going to find out everything about me,” the dual-wielder tells the pyromaniac, and the one who normally plays with fire suddenly finds his best friend tampering with it.
19 x Candle
Through the darkness, Roxas can see the solitary lick of a flame, illuminating jade eyes and pale skin, and without question, he follows.
20 x Talent
He can’t bring himself to kill his best friend, but nor can he really bring himself to compliment him on his abilities in battle.
21 x Silence
The room is oddly quiet without Axel’s idle chatter and Demyx’s deranged little snippets of song, but Roxas doesn’t mind, considering how both are fast asleep on either side of him, their warm bodies curled against his.
22 x Journey
Having stopped caring about destinations a long time ago, he realizes he doesn’t care where he is, as long as he’s having fun and has Roxas in reach.
23 x Fire
“From what I’ve tasted of desire, I hold with those who favour-” he says, but is cut off by Axel’s smug smirk - suddenly, he knows why he was asked to recite those lines - but he smiles back and says, “Fire.”
24 x Strength
Axel wonders if Roxas would have fought him with the same ferocity if he had known that they had loved each other once.
25 x Mask
When he first met Axel, both of their faces were masked under a deep hood that shadowed their faces, but they both exchanged a grin as if they understood each other immediately.
26 x Ice
With eyes like Roxas’, Axel wonders how much heat it would take to melt him.
27 x Fall
Axel falls to the ground and lays there, a stupid smile on his face, and he can’t bring himself to move when the world comes crashing down on top of him.
28 x Forgotten
Axel doesn’t remember when he forgot that Sora and Roxas are the same person and are destined to be together - all he knows is that he considers Roxas a best friend, a companion, a lover, even, whereas Sora’s just that bastard that’s going to take Roxas away from him.
29 x Dance
The Dusks move around him with their elastic, pulsing dance, and Axel wishes he could reserve this treatment for less favourable people.
30 x Body
Axel looks at Sora and snorts, and finds that he likes the kid so much more when he’s blond, naked and in his bed.
31 x Sacred
Roxas can take care of himself, he can get by perfectly fine on his own, but that doesn’t make him inviolate, and nor does it mean he wants to be on his own.
32 x Farewells
He realizes he has to let go of him when he realizes that Roxas has found all the answers to the questions.
33 x World
Axel knows that Sora once dreamed to see all the worlds out there, and he knows that he never wants Roxas to remember that.
34 x Formal
“Fancy a fuck?” Axel asks, and when Roxas’ head turns in a strange sort of shock, he smirks and corrects himself with, “Sorry, would you like to sleep with me?”
35 x Fear
Funny, how he used to consider himself as fearless as fire, but then he realizes that even fire - who devours everything, and destroys darkness, and melts ice, and yadda, yadda, yadda - fears the rain that could be its end.
36 x Laugh
The two, along with Demyx, drive the entire castle insane with their loud and honest laughter, and everyone else inside the walls feels uneasy as they are confronted with the first genuine laughs they’ve heard in years.
37 x Lies
Axel claims he hates Sora for being a thief - really, he hates Sora, because he wasn’t born as two people in the first place.
38 x Forever
“The Organization is always,” Axel tells him on his first day, giving a wicked, teeth-baring grin, and pulls him close - Roxas realizes, with his nose a few centimetres from Axel’s lower lip, that it’s the concept that’s always, not the people.
39 x Overwhelmed
Sora’s back is pressed against his, and Axel realizes that they - they being Axel and Sora, but he imagines Roxas is there too, and that Roxas’ life depends on this too - are not going to make it out of here alive if nothing is done on his part.
40 x Whisper
Axel’s long fingers hook around Roxas’ waist and pull him close, so that his cheek is pressed against Roxas’, and quietly tells him every secret he’s ever kept.
41 x Wait
Roxas closes his eyes, takes ten paces (like a shoot out, he thinks, only there’s no malicious intentions here) and waits for Axel to slink up behind him.
42 x Talk
During times when the Elders can’t think of anything to boss them around with, the more “immature” neophytes often spend long hours together, just chatting, because the Elders are hardened and cold, and they’re young and still remember what it was like to breathe, have friends, and make love.
43 x Search
Roxas knows how to take the hit - when Axel is caught for the latest shenanigan around the castle and he isn’t, he gladly ends the Elders’ harrowing hunt for any other culprits, and the two suffer the verbal berating together.
44 x Hope
It feels so surreal that someone in his state could muster the effort to even pretend to feel it, but when Roxas links his arm with his and grins up at him, he feels it bubbling from him like a volcano.
45 x Eclipse
They watch the sky together, from a top window in the castle, and after observing a million little things they don’t know the names of, they decide it’s much more fun to spend their time doing things that would make everyone else’s toes curl.
46 x Gravity
The weight in his shoes is unbearable - Roxas finds the void in his chest heavy as he leaves the Organization’s headquarters, having left someone behind - and he wonders if his own story means more to him than his friends.
47 x Highway
Sometimes they feel as if they’ve been put on the rarely-used, boring, dusty country roads of existence instead of the busy, fast-paced, big-city highway of reality, and having each other - for friendship and otherwise - just makes it a bit more tolerable.
48 x Unknown
The second he draws up his hood or dons his coat, he is reminded that he doesn’t belong with the rest of the world, and every time that happens, he wants to go back to what he had taken for granted.
49 x Lock
Axel holds one of the keyblades, he grabs it by the shaft and turns it over in his palm, and wonders if every key has a lock somewhere, or if, maybe, there are keys out there that will never lead to anything.
50 x Breathe
Roxas’ head rests against Axel’s chest - Axel breathes air his lungs don’t need to function, and Roxas’ head lifts - it’s ridiculous, it’s childish, but it’s a wonderful thing.
edit: apparently, this hates me. HTML fixed.