☼ 005 - voice

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[His voice is raw and thin, a little bitter, a little angry, but it's more at himself than anyone else, so don't take it too hard, guys.]

Before anybody else asks about it, yes, Roxas is gone. His apartment is empty, his name is wiped from the registry--he's gone.

[He inhales like he's thinking of saying something else, then stops himself and

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[Around half an hour after the feed, a series of loud, somewhat obnoxious knocks will start raining down upon Axel's frown door.

And no.

They're not going to stop any time soon. Not until the door opens.]

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[He lets the knocks go for about thirty-eight seconds before they get a little too obnoxious to stand, and so he gets up off the couch where he had been trying to muffle the noise with pillows and he stalks to the door, pulling it open sharply.]

What? [He stops then, looking startled for half an instant at the figure standing in the doorway, and then he just furrows his brow a little.] Lea?

[action] ...Well, that was one of my more fitting typos, I think.

[prominence_glow]

No, I'm the Easter Bunny, couldn't you tell?

[After an obligatory teenager eyeroll, he goes through the large, bulging plastic bag he has. A wrapped up bar of sea-salt ice cream is thrown at Axel's face.]

C'mon.

[action] pffft

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[Axel catches the ice cream easily, still looking confused--well, at least Lea's still here; he wondered, since Demyx's inquiry about the kid's whereabouts--and then he is quiet for a long moment, just peering at Lea. Then he looks back at the ice cream, then at Lea again.

One eye narrows.]

Is it poisoned?

[Yes, this is Axel trying to pretend that nothing is wrong.]

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Pft, please. How could I get poison through the wrapper? If I was gonna do that, I'd put it in your cereal or something. That's easier.

[Yet another ice cream is retrieved, which doesn't seem to do anything to lessen the girth of the plastic bag. This one is shoved into Lea's own mouth before he starts to tap his foot.]

Are you just going to stay in here all day?

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Note to self: never have self over for breakfast.

[He unwraps the ice cream, then steps back to allow the kid to come inside if he wants. Taking a bite of the corner of the ice cream bar, he chews thoughtfully for a moment, then frowns.]

I dunno, maybe. Why? [Another bite of ice cream.] There a party I should know about?

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Yeah, the "Get A Life" Party. You're the guest of honor and luckily, it's being held aaaall over Vatheon. Except in your apartment. Let's go.

[And that's around the time Lea steps forward to loop one of his arms around one of Axel's and tries to tug him out of that god damn room. He's starting to get as tall as you, Axel; watch out.]

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Ah-- W-hey, Lea! [He almost drops the ice cream as the boy pulls at him, and pulls back half-assedly a moment, though the effort to get his arm back isn't really there. He shoves the ice cream in his mouth and lays a hand on Lea's arm, as if to push him away, but he doesn't do so--it's more going through the motions than an actual struggle.] Look, I d-- [He lets go of Lea's arm and takes the ice cream out of his mouth.] I don't really feel much like partying, actually, okay? I appreciate what you're trying to do--and I'm not just sayin' that to get rid of you--but... just let it be, okay?

[He pauses briefly, frowning at him, but not pulling away anymore.] I've got some thinking to do.

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"Thinking"? [If only his hands were free... But Lea's tone alone is enough to hint at the major quotation marks around that one word.] Last time I decided to think about something for a long while and it concerned my friends, I ended up almost getting frostbite in a park until some people talked to me.

So if you're going to think, you're going to do it out loud. Next to me. Possibly on a roof top. With ice cream.

I know I'm not leaving. You know I'm not leaving. I know you know I'm not leaving. Et cetera and all that stuff. So shut up and give in already or else I'll pester you all day.

[action] whoops, you saw no tense change fail

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Frostbite? [He gives a visible shudder.] I don't like Blizzard--what're you, trying to catch cold?

[Well, it seems the kid's adamant. With a long-suffering sigh, he just sticks one leg out to close the door with his foot (since his hands are occupied at the moment) and then gives Lea a helpless look.] Fine, fine. You can let go. [And he gives a tug on his arm to extricate it before moving toward the couch where his coat is draped over the arm. Sometimes he catches himself in the mirror wearing a tee-shirt and it's startling--he's so used to the coat all the time, but it's just kinda silly to wear it in the house. It's not like it's a uniform anymore, really. But he never leaves the house without it. Draping it over his shoulder, the ice cream hanging from his mouth.

Reaching up to take the stick, he looks thoughtful for a moment, then removes the ice cream from his mouth to speak, sort of wagging it at him.]

You really shouldn't sass your elders, you know. Fine, know any good rooftops?

[action] tense fail, what tense fail?

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Hey, me either, but I'm not gonna be some one trick pony.

[With some amount of reluctance, he lets go, watching Axel carefully like he's expecting some big trick. Just because he's been nice sometimes doesn't negate the fact that he's been a sneaky jerk before. The 'elders' thing has him rolling his eyes.]

Please. How much older are you than me anyway? Besides, you're just me, so it doesn't matter.

[Still devouring his own ice cream, he leads the way. While his confrontation with Vriska may have ended with him getting his ass kicked, he did manage to get a good look on the rooftops on the area. So with that, he leads his Nobody out of the apartments and, fifteen minutes later or so, leads him up onto a rooftop near the plaza.]

This suit the royal highness' tastes?