Nightmares

[firebranded]

Characters: Axel (Template) and Axel (Original), currently Ale
Setting: Building E-3, Apartment 2-1
Time: Late night, around 12:30/1:00 AM.
Summary: Auxel is taking care of chibified Ouxel. Everything seems to be going fine, but they get some unexpected company.
Warnings: Kidnappings? Probably some potty mouth.

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[reborn_fire]

Tears. A good sign. At least the kid was alert enough to do that. Axel willed the fire an his chakrams away, leaving the hallway as empty and bleak as before, though the suffocating presence from before was long gone.

.. But what to do about this? He’d drown himself before admitting it, but something ached inside at seeing the kid break down like that, a sharp pain that reminded him he wasn’t always as cold as he wanted to be. After seeing the kid act so tough, Axel had almost fooled himself into believing this was still his haughty twin.

Ale wasn’t, though. He’d grow up into an Axel, or the Somebody of one, but right now he was still a child who wanted nothing more than his mother and the comforts that came from a family.

For the first time, something akin to guilt and sympathy filled him.

“… Come on,” he coaxed rather gently, and pulled the boy up into a light cradle in his arms. “You’re a big boy, remember?” Ignoring the tears starting to wet his shirt, the small shivers as the boy’s body struggled for heat, Axel walked calmly back, going on with a lighthearted air and the usual snarky grin. All the while he ran a hand up and down Ale’s back, something rubbing in slow circles. It was… something he remembered. Being little with a gentle hand helping to quell off any tears, and since they were essentially the same person… It was worth a shot.

“And Runt," he started when they broke back into the bedroom - no point in sticking the kid alone in a room now, "next time do me a favor and not go around sneaking in the halls.” It was hard enough playing babysitter to the brat without the extra problems.