Axel on mah miiindddd
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Title: To No Return
Word Count: 501
Spoilers: For KHII - Sora's first return to Twilight Town and beyond, sort of. Takes place just after a certain red-haired nobody pulls a certain red-haired somebody into the portal of darkness.
"Let me go! Let me GO!"
The girl was putting up more of a fight than Axel had anticipated. Her feet were planted stubbornly into the ground, and she beat tantrum-like on his back as he dragged her by the wrist through the portal. Should have expected this from a girl who’d dived into the darkness alone, he thought. Axel might have laughed aloud at his own hindsight, but there was something dark in his expression, and the humor was uncharacteristically lost. "Come on, Kairi, I thought we were friends," he said with a tight-lipped half-smirk as he jerked his captive bodily forward. She stumbled with a cry and lost her footing, and for a few strides Axel dragged her mercilessly along the ground.
"You said that, not me," Kairi shot back angrily as she stumbled under Axel’s force.
"True enough," Axel replied vaguely as he swept his arm back again, forcing the girl awkwardly to her feet. "You have a good memory."
"Where are you taking me?" she countered vehemently through struggled grunts.
Axel sighed heavily, his expression melting slowly into tense numbness. "Apparently not that good, or else you’d remember what I said before," he commented, giving the girl another jerk that sent her off her feet. "We’re going to see Sora."
"No...!" Kairi protested with breath strangled by exertion. "I'm going to find him myself. And when I do, you won’t be there."
Axel chuckled darkly. "I’m feeling the love here, Kairi, I really am."
"Just let me go."
He was silent.
"Let me go!"
"Sorry, can’t do that."
"Let me GO!"
"DAMNIT, don’t you know how to say anything else?!" Axel suddenly bellowed. In a flash, his free hand whipped around fast like a bullet and came down hard across Kairi’s cheek.
A slap, a gasp, then silence. Axel stared down at her from his considerable height, bottomless eyes crackling dangerously with fire that had been too long repressed. Cupping her cheek, Kairi met his gaze with defiant yet admittedly stunned eyes that swam with the power of oceans. "So confident that you’ll be reunited with the one you care about," he mused disdainfully. "What if you’re wrong, and you never see him again?"
"Sora is always with me," Kairi replied swiftly, surely. "In my heart."
Axel’s expression was suddenly unfathomable. "In your heart, huh?" he managed, his voice hollow. Slowly, a crooked smile slipped across his lips, and at length, he laughed. It was a dark, mirthless sound that shivered Kairi into silence. "You’re a real sap, you know that, Kairi?" he said dismissively. "That’s the difference between you and me." With a swift jerk, Axel pulled his hostage carelessly forward, and the two began to move through the darkness again. Kairi, with a strange sort of stunned expression, did not struggle much this time.
It was not until some time later, when the fires had simmered some, that Axel finally allowed himself to feel the gentle thrum of life in Kairi’s pulse beneath his fingers.
Title: To No Return
Word Count: 501
Spoilers: For KHII - Sora's first return to Twilight Town and beyond, sort of. Takes place just after a certain red-haired nobody pulls a certain red-haired somebody into the portal of darkness.
"Let me go! Let me GO!"
The girl was putting up more of a fight than Axel had anticipated. Her feet were planted stubbornly into the ground, and she beat tantrum-like on his back as he dragged her by the wrist through the portal. Should have expected this from a girl who’d dived into the darkness alone, he thought. Axel might have laughed aloud at his own hindsight, but there was something dark in his expression, and the humor was uncharacteristically lost. "Come on, Kairi, I thought we were friends," he said with a tight-lipped half-smirk as he jerked his captive bodily forward. She stumbled with a cry and lost her footing, and for a few strides Axel dragged her mercilessly along the ground.
"You said that, not me," Kairi shot back angrily as she stumbled under Axel’s force.
"True enough," Axel replied vaguely as he swept his arm back again, forcing the girl awkwardly to her feet. "You have a good memory."
"Where are you taking me?" she countered vehemently through struggled grunts.
Axel sighed heavily, his expression melting slowly into tense numbness. "Apparently not that good, or else you’d remember what I said before," he commented, giving the girl another jerk that sent her off her feet. "We’re going to see Sora."
"No...!" Kairi protested with breath strangled by exertion. "I'm going to find him myself. And when I do, you won’t be there."
Axel chuckled darkly. "I’m feeling the love here, Kairi, I really am."
"Just let me go."
He was silent.
"Let me go!"
"Sorry, can’t do that."
"Let me GO!"
"DAMNIT, don’t you know how to say anything else?!" Axel suddenly bellowed. In a flash, his free hand whipped around fast like a bullet and came down hard across Kairi’s cheek.
A slap, a gasp, then silence. Axel stared down at her from his considerable height, bottomless eyes crackling dangerously with fire that had been too long repressed. Cupping her cheek, Kairi met his gaze with defiant yet admittedly stunned eyes that swam with the power of oceans. "So confident that you’ll be reunited with the one you care about," he mused disdainfully. "What if you’re wrong, and you never see him again?"
"Sora is always with me," Kairi replied swiftly, surely. "In my heart."
Axel’s expression was suddenly unfathomable. "In your heart, huh?" he managed, his voice hollow. Slowly, a crooked smile slipped across his lips, and at length, he laughed. It was a dark, mirthless sound that shivered Kairi into silence. "You’re a real sap, you know that, Kairi?" he said dismissively. "That’s the difference between you and me." With a swift jerk, Axel pulled his hostage carelessly forward, and the two began to move through the darkness again. Kairi, with a strange sort of stunned expression, did not struggle much this time.
It was not until some time later, when the fires had simmered some, that Axel finally allowed himself to feel the gentle thrum of life in Kairi’s pulse beneath his fingers.
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