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Who: Axel, Sora, Roxas
What: Axel and Sora visit Roxas to get this 'Lae' and 'Axel' business straightened out.
When: Sometime after this
Where: In the halls, then Roxas' room.
Rating: PG13, just in case Axel gets crude with the language. x3

He really didn't know why he was wasting his time.

Thoroughly convinced that his conversation with Roxas had been nothing more than a unintentional mix-up, Axel wanted to forget the entire thing and move on. He'd been prepared to do so until he opened his fat mouth, which was the reason he was even on this floor.

Still, to be fair, he wanted this little 'mystery' solved. Not that he believed either Sora or Roxas; nor did he think he owed them anything so that he had to prove his sincerity. His main motive turned out to be purely selfish; he could just tell his focus would fly out the window unless this was resolved quickly, and Axel wanted to concentrate his efforts on finding an exit and getting out of the castle... Not that it mattered quite as much. If Sora was correct and they were in another world, well, getting home just got that more complicated.

"If this is a dream, it's one of my more screwed-up ones," he commented to himself, walking down the stairs to Sora's floor. The keyblade bearer had been gracious enough to give Axel quick directions to both his room and Roxas' just in case Axel decided to get himself lost again. It didn't take long, now that he knew where he was going, and the redhead quickly found himself outside Sora's door, room 219. Rapping his hand gently against the door with the back of his hand, Axel waited for him to come out.

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He had sprawled across his bed and was reading his journal. He enjoyed watching the interactions that went on in the journal when he was bored. Hearing from all these different people was a lot more interesting than anything else he could do in his room.

A soft knocking was at his door, and he looked up from the arguement about snowmen a bunch of people were having. That was probably Lae...or Axel if Roxas was right. Either way, it was that guy. "One moment!" Sora shouted and rolled off his bed, catching himself as he hit the ground. Quickly he got up and slipped on his sneakers that had been carelessly left on the floor the last time he had taken them off.

Moving quickly to the door, he opened it up and immediately had to look up at the guy on the other side. Lae, Axel, whoever he was, he was tall. Sora had to crane his neck to see the guy's face. He was also surprised to see how bright and red the guy's hair was. Sora didn't remember any of the nobodies having such a vibrant hair color, or anyone for that matter. It was also sort of weird how the guy seemed to have two tear drops as tattoos, one for each eye. Maybe it was a thing with his world, Sora thought shrugging.

"Hey Lae! Glad to see you came!" Sora grinned up at the red head. He was glad he had come, this was important to Roxas. And he always enjoyed meeting new people.

Axel rose an eyebrow at Sora in curiosity, having to crane his neck downward to get a good look at the other. Man, the boy could pass for puny. He didn't seem to have the appearance of a keyblade wielder, not that Axel even knew what one should look like. "Jeez, don't you eat your vegetables?" he joked cheerfully, rubbing the back of his neck. "I'm going to get a neck cramp at this rate." Shaking his head, he moved to the side so he wouldn't be blocking the doorway.

"Anyway, let's get going. I want this straightened out so I can start looking for a way out." While the castle seemed to be very accommodating and all, Axel knew his village needed him. Or he hoped there was enough left of it after the heartless attack to be helped. "Which room is Roxas in again?"

Sora narrow his eyes at slightly at the vegetables crack. "Hey watch it!" he said in an annoyed tone. He couldn't help being so short, that just how he was. Though he never really noticed until now how short he was until he had came here (everyone was so tall here), at least from what he could remember. Though he remembered a lot of the enemies he had fought being bigger than him. But they didn't count, they were suppose to be big.

But as usual his anger quickly faded. "Okay! Roxas is in 319, so just one floor up exactly." he stated as he started walking towards the stairs. This guy sure was determined to get out of here and back home. Sora couldn't say he blamed him, he was all too familiar with that feeling even now. The mere idea of home gave him a knot in his stomach.

But if Roxas was right about this guy being Axel...then this guy's home would of already been taken by heartless. It would still be around now since he was the one to bring back all the worlds...but it wouldn't be the home that this guy was expecting. He would be...

Quickly he brushed those thoughts aside. No need to think about that until later, right? Afterall, maybe Roxas was wrong. There was always a chance of that.

At Sora's small flash of anger, Axel only grinned broadly, his opinion of the other going up a few points. Heh, at least the boy had a backbone. "Hm, was kidding," he said shortly and dropped the subject all together, trailing behind Sora as he led them to Roxas' room.

"... Hey, what's your home like, Sora?" he asked vaguely, more to fill the silence than to start a conversation. The silence irked him, and Axel didn't want to be left alone with his thoughts.

Well, that wasn't quite true. Ever since Sora had mentioned other worlds, Axel's interest had peaked. The idea intrigued part of him for reasons he couldn't explain, but it excited the random adventurer he sometimes found himself to be on his home world. Did it resemble his world, or did Sora live in a completely different environment? He folded his arms across his chest as he thought to himself, mind going in many directions at once.

Sora paused when he asked him about his home. It was weird that it surprised him, but he had the feeling that not many people had asked him that question during his travels. They were too busy with their own worlds to wonder about the keyblade bearer's home, which was to be expected.

"Its pretty quiet," Sora started saying after a moment. "Bunch of islands where not much happens. But its very pretty, the ocean is so blue and it sparkles in the sun. And there's a small island there that I used to loved to hang out on, spent most of my time there." He would play with other kids there, he knew that much. But he couldn't remember any of the other kids, no matter how hard he tried. Sighing, he shoved his hands in his pockets. Talking about home made him even more homesick. "I miss it a lot."

"What about your world?" He knew nothing about Axel's world except that they had a heartless problem. "Whats it like?"

"Hmmmm." Axel hummed lightly while Sora explained away, trying to envision the picture in his mind. If he'd had a picture, he'd find that his imaginary world resembled Sora's home pretty well. "It sounds peaceful," he commented, casting a glance at his companion when he expressed his homesickness and feeling rather guilty, though the feeling was... well... It felt dimmed and washed out, but Axel ignored it in favor of returning an answer.

"It's a block of ice," he replied cheerfully. "Barely any sun, nothing ever happens, and it's cold most of the time. Egh, I guess you could call it pretty." He shrugged nonchalantly. "There's always a sheet of white snow covering the place and the mountains, but I don't really care that much for it." He sighed to himself, one of soft longing, returning his gaze to the front. "I'd rather there was lots of sunshine and heat." It felt strange admitting this to anyone, especially a stranger, but Axel felt relatively at ease. "I was always more of a fire person. Drives the locals nuts."

He nodded at Axel's comment about it being peaceful. "Yeah it is, and nothing really changes about it either." Sora always liked that about his island. Sure he liked the occasional adventure, but he liked knowing that his home woudln't dramatically change any time soon.

They started walking up the stairs as Axel explained his home. Sora tried to imagine it in his head. It sounded a bit like that one village in China in the mountains. Which he had liked just fine, but it wasn't his kind of place. But he still would like to see Axel's home sometime...if it was still there. "Sounds cold," Sora said offhand. "I'd think you'd like Destiny Islands. Its always warm and sunny there."

"Fire person? What do you mean?"

"When I was younger, I'd take a stick of fire and start lighting things." He snickered to himself as he remembered his antics, scratching the red spikes in amusement. "Almost burned the village down; I don't think I'd ever gotten in so much trouble. After that people started calling me 'fire starter' and refused to let me be in a room alone for long... Heh, they never could get it through their heads that I thought I could keep the town warm by lighting things, so..." he shrugged again, trailing off.

They had by then reached the top of the stairs, now on the next level of rooms, and Axel began searching for room 319. He'd forgotten he already had a companion who knew exactly where it was, mind more focused on getting this over with; their talk about homes had affected Axel as much as it had Sora, and the call of his village tugged more painfully at him.

Sora stared at him with wide eyes. Nearly burnt down his village? "Whoa. really?" Nothing like that had ever happened in his world, he knew that much. "Haha, well that is one way to keep a place warm!" As well as burning it to the ground, Sora thought to himself, and made a mental note to be careful with flames around this guy.

As they reached the third floor he looked up to see Axel looking around for the room. Sora couldn't help but smile. "Its right where my room is on this floor, Lae" He knew for sure where his Nobody lived. It was the first place he had visited when he came to this world after all. And the first memory he had of someone who didn't want to kill him.

"Oh." Axel had the grace to look embarrassed, ashamed he'd already forgotten. His mind really was in the clouds. "Heh, my bad." It took him a moment to recall where Sora's room had been, but it finally clicked and Axel strode over to the door, waiting long enough for Sora to catch up before he knocked firmly with his knuckles. "Alright, let's get this straightened out."

"Heh, don't worry about it," Sora said as he walked up to the door. It wasn't like he's never done anything like that before. In fact it was downright standard for him to do something foolish. "Right, lets do it" he replied and leaned against the wall next to the door. In a moment they would finally find out if this guy was Axel like Roxas said or Lae. Then Sora would finally know what to call this guy.

[OOC: I guess its time for Roxas eh?]

(Yes yes, I'd say so. :o *keeps Axel in a cage until then*)

A few moments later, the door slowly opened. Roxas appeared, and it seemed to take him a moment to register what was happening. People didn't knock at his door often, and he never really expected to see Axel--or the one he thought to be Axel--and Sora in his hallway.

Roxas simply stared. "... Sora? ... Axel?" Maybe... they remembered?

"Lae," Axel automatically corrected. He tried his best to disregard the irritating name he'd been mistaken for... though the fact that Roxas immediately assumed him to be 'Axel' unnerved him slightly.

Looking the blond over, the redhead seemed to search for a specific something that he couldn't name. The thought that maybe he did know Roxas crossed his mind for a split second, only to be dismissed as idiocy, and Axel met the other's eyes briefly before turning to Sora. "Yeah, never seen him before," he stated with no lack of triumph. Well that was the end of that.

Smiling a little, he gave a small wave to Roxas. He probably should of warned Roxas that they were coming by, he thought suddenly. "Hey Roxas. I wanted to get this whole Axel-Lae thing all cleared up and I guess I forgot to warn you. Sorry." he scratched the back of his head, embarrased. He was never good at explaining himself.

To Lae's reply, Sora narrowed his eyes slightly. That was a bit rude, not even a greeting? But on the other hand, Roxas recongized the guy! It was one thing to mistake someone's handwriting, but a whole other thing to mistake their appearance! There had to be a connection! "You sure?" he asked both of them.

Lae. Roxas tried to see it--maybe this wasn't Axel. Maybe it was just someone with the same voice, posture, appearance, and personality. But no matter how Roxas tried to look at it, the man before him was Axel.

Looking past him to Sora, he nodded. "I'm sure. This is Axel."

At this present time, Axel firmly decided Roxas some brand of mentally retarded and Sora wasn't far behind. He sighed and leaned against the wall by the door, rolling his eyes to the ceiling. He felt sorely tempted to just leave.

"Okay," Sora nodded at Roxas. If Roxas was sure, Sora had no doubt in his mind that Roxas wasn't mistaken. He trusted Roxas to know what he was talking about. But at the same time, Lae seemed to have no idea who Roxas was.

This was so confusing and frustrating, Sora gripped his head and tugged at his hair slightly. Pacing slightly, Sora thought of the possiblities "Maybe he has memories problems," it seemed to be going around. "Or maybe this is his other self?" That could be it, though weren't nobodies suppose to look different? Him and Roxas certainly didn't look a lot alike.

Roxas was thinking of Twilight Town. For once it wasn't about Hayner, Pence, Olette, or missed moments. It was when he couldn't remember one of his other friends. His first friend. This must have been how he felt. To be forgotten...

Let's meet again--in the next life.

Axel had been kidding, but... maybe he was more right than he knew. Roxas frowned, looking from Axel--Lae, whatever--and then to Sora. "I... don't know."

Axel continued to boredly examine the ceiling while Roxas and Sora talked, though the mention of an... other, caught his attention. His other self?

"Excuse me for being out of the loop but... what's an Other?" He directed the question at both of them, letting his gaze linger on each for a second. "Does it have something to do with all these Nobodies and Heartless?" Axel felt like he was back in school with all these new terms he was learning.

He looked over helplessly at Roxas. The guy was upset, Sora could tell that. He hated seeing people upset, especially his own Nobody. If only there was something he could do.

His eyes stayed on Roxas even as he answered Axel's question. "An other self for a nobody are people who, well, I guess you can say they're complete. They have a heart." He wasn't really sure how to explain it. He wasn't exactly an expert.

"Sora... he's my Other," Roxas tried to explain, though it was a subject he tried to avoid. Funny how it came up so often now. "When people lose their hearts, sometimes they don't just fade away."

It was so hard to explain. Roxas rubbed the side of his face. He hated explaining things he didn't really understand himself. Axel would have known.

Axel watched Roxas curiously, noting that the boy looked about as fed-up with this subject as he felt. "Your Other, huh." Vaguely he remembered Sora mentioning something about those that lost their hearts becoming heartless and the shells turning into Nobodies. That would mean...

"So... basically you're a Nobody and he's the 'Other'?" Axel looked skeptical, mostly because if this was true, Roxas didn't have a heart. And from his standpoint, he couldn't fathom something like that to be true.

Sora grinned a little, slightly embarrased. He never really knew how to explain this part. "Yeah, thats right." He had a feeling that the guy wasn't going to believe them.

of course, who could blame him? Sora when he thought about it, certainly couldn't.

Roxas nodded as Sora confirmed the facts. He didn't know how much Sora had told him about Nobodies, but he didn't really feel like bringing it up.

He really wished he would have known they were coming to visit. Maybe then Roxas could have fled. Or something.

Well now that absolutely nothing had been settled... Axel felt himself slip into boredom. Therefore, he promptly said the first thing that came to his mind.

"You don't seem to be like Sora, though you kinda look alike," he said, contemplating while staring hard at the blond. Since they'd arrived at his door, Roxas had said next to nothing. It... bothered Axel.

He stared harder, almost accusingly.

Sora shrugged. He really wasn't sure to make of that. It was true, Roxas wasn't a lot like him. The guy didn't even seem to smile very much, and he took so much seriously. Not to mention the guy was so mysterious. To say he didn't understand much about his nobody wouldn't be far from the truth.

Actually the more he thought about it, the more this whole idea of nobodies and their others hurt his head. "Well, its complicated I guess. And me and Roxas aren't really experts." He wondered briefly if Namine would know more. She seemed to be a lot less confused than him and Roxas most of the time.

He raised an eyebrow at how Axel was staring at his nobody. What was the deal with that?

There wasn't much to say about that, and Roxas sighed. He knew if he tried to explain it they'd be standing there for years--probably ending up more confused than they were. But he tried to put it simply: "I'm... kind of like a part of Sora."

Or he had been. Now he just felt like some extra burden. He was the one telling them they had forgotten something. Maybe it would have been best if he had kept his mouth shut.

Axel's gaze wety unnoticed by Roxas. He was too caught up in his own thoughts.

"Sora, so far you and Roxas fail to be experts at anything besides confusing the hell out of me, which gets you a standing ovation." Axel closed his eyes and just sighed, letting his snark take over. "Well, while I'll be sure to cherish all this information..." Opening them, he looked at Roxas once more. This guy seemed dead-set on labeling him as someone he'd known, and Axel felt there would be no point in trying to convince him otherwise.

"I'm guessing you'll still think I'm Axel, won't you?" It was annoying, yes, but no point in getting vicious over it. Besides, it wasn't as if Roxas had proof. All he had were his so-called memories, and those could hardly be trusted by Axel. "Fine, if it helps you sleep at night, Rox." That sounded a bit harsh to his ears, so he tried again. "I mean, no hard feelings or anything." He kinda felt sorry for the other, for both of them, actually.

He gave a frustrated sigh at the two of them. He was starting to get feud up with these two. "Well, yeah this is all confusing. What isn't confusing?!" the past two years of his life had been confusing, but some how he learned to deal. "But if Roxas says that he knows you, then I'm willing to trust that. Especially since your story about your village seems a bit out of date. Heartless stopped invading worlds like that a while ago." He had stopped it, he remembered that much.

And speaking of his nobody, he found himself whirling around to face him. Sora couldn't be the one to explain all this. Roxas was the one to know Axel, not him. For all he know, this was Lae, a man he just met. "And you." he said with his business tone. "Say something. Yeah this is a surprise, but you're the one with the memories Roxas." his voice soften "Tell us who Axel is and why you think this guy is him. Maybe we can figure something out then,"

Were he not feeling so utterly hopeless, Roxas would have laughed at Sora's tone. It didn't fit him. He gave Axel a hesitant look that clearly said you're not fooling me. Even if memories were taken, something had to remain. Perhaps it was hidden, but there had to be something.

"You--Axel," He corrected himself quickly,"was a member of the Organization. He and I were friends." Best friends, his mind added, but he kept that to himself. "But I left because I wanted answers. He was the only one that..."

Would have missed me.

Roxas cleared his throat. "I ended up getting put into a computer generated reality, but Axel tried to get me out of it... before I became a part of Sora." He didn't look at his Other, not wanting to be reminded of their failed attempt. "I didn't remember him until it was too late."

The boy looked down at the floor. The memories were a bit foggy, but he knew he had to at least try to say it. Best to be blunt than to stand there like an idiot, right?

"Later... he killed himself in order to help Sora." To help him.

Axel raised one eyebrow and blinked innocently at Roxas' look, but was good and listened carefully, all the while feeling tempted to prompt the blond for the things he wasn't telling them. It wasn't until the end when Roxas declared this 'Axel' suicidal that he showed any reaction, opting to just stare in quiet disbelief. That was not the ending he'd been expecting.

While he still didn't believe he was the same guy as Roxas' friend, an uncomfortable pit was forming in his gut, as if he knew this wouldn't end in his favor. If it hadn't been for the fact that he wanted to get this straightened out, Axel would've listened to his brain and retreated.

"Let's say, for the sake of argument, that I am this... 'Axel'," he started slowly, as if to make sure he didn't end up losing Roxas and Sora. "That would mean I'm dead." He stopped, looking at both of them, eyebrows raised. "Right?"

Sora listen to the explanation quietly. Part of him felt slightly sick at the things that were done to help him. Axel lost his friend, and then later his life. All these sacrifices, just to help him complete his journey.

Nobodies have no hearts, therefore they cannot feel. Someone had told him that once, when he first learned about nobodies. That thought came floating into his head, like it always did when he was up against a nobody. Though since coming to this place, and watching these two now, the words seem to be more flimsy than before. These emotions looked so real to him.

When Axel asked about him being dead, Sora looked up trying to rack his brain for any memory of Axel. Nothing came, much to his frustration. Someone dies for him and he can't even remember them, that just seemed insulting to Sora. "I guess so," he managed to choke out. He had nothing else, what exactly do you say to that one?

"This place can bring back the dead," Roxas said, as if it were nothing that should shock someone. Like, I know how to count to ten. The other members of the Organization that ended up in the castle were enough to make Roxas believe it. They were dead. They were supposed to be dead.

Sighing, Roxas looked like he sorely wanted to just slam the door on these two. Instead, he just rubbed the back of his head. "If it helps... I'm not supposed to be around, either."

"No, it doesn't," Axel flatly said, looking more and more disgruntled. "Not only am I being accused of being someone else, I apparently dropped dead as well." He tossed his head back and let out a harsh laugh. "Oh I love this!" Never had he wanted to go home so badly, where things made sense.

He calmed down a moment later, leaning heavily against the wall behind him and slapping a hand over his eyes. "Look, like I said, this is all nice, but I still have no proof." The hand dropped and Axel openly glared at both of them. "Don't you have a photo or something? Notebook? Anything that doesn't include memories I can't see?"

He nodded at what Roxas said. Yeah, you could say that. Plenty of people who Sora were certain to be dead seemed to be running around here.

At Axel's request to see some proof, Sora held up his hands innocently. "Don't look at me," he said. He couldn't even remember anyone, why would he have any sort of proof proving who he had met? "Though what reason would we have to lie?"

Roxas seemed to shrink down several inches as his shoulders drooped. Proof... he couldn't think of anything. There was nothing solid. Nobodies didn't have photographs--the thought of photos brought a bitter taste to Roxas's mouth. He just sighed and shook his head.

A good question; Sora was too nice to lie, and while he didn't know Roxas that well, from the looks of it Axel doubted he'd lie either. So either they were telling the truth or they all had some weird form of amnesia. Axel was willing to side with the latter idea.

"Unless you can give me something convincing, I'm not buying it." He shrugged nonchalantly. "Sorry kids."

As Roxas's shoulders drooped down and shook his head, Sora's head dropped in defeat. He guess it was a long shot that Roxas would have anything like that. Why would he?

He went back to racking his head for possibilities to prove this guy was Axel. but that was a problem, since the members of the Organization looked like normal people. In fact the only way to tell them apart was because of..."a black cloak." Sora thought out loud. Maybe that would mean something to those two.

Everything in this place was a failure, Roxas concluded.

All he did was raise an eyebrow at Sora. He was lacking the energy to do much else. Yeah, they wore black coats...

"Look," Roxas suddenly said, speaking to Axel, "If you don't want to believe us... then don't. But I know you're him."

Axel stared at Sora briefly, not getting it. "Yeah, I got one. Your point?" He'd had one on when he'd arrived to Paradisa but... well, not like his clothes were a big deal. He'd owned a black coat before.

To Roxas, Axel tilted his head slightly to the side, and his eyes narrowed a bit. "I'm not, so don't worry about that detail. I just want to make sure you're not insisting I'm some friend of yours."

He shrugged and gave an embarrassed look. "Just remember that Organization members always wore the same long black coat so maybe..." he tried to explain, but it was hard so finally he said to explain "I was just thinking out loud." With both of him looking at him funny, he sighed and gave up. "I got nothing."

Roxas perked up a little. But... that wasn't really proof, was it?

"Yeah... me either." He had tried to return to wherever he belonged, and he had failed. He tried to find more information on this place, and he had failed.

He had tried to remind Axel of who he was, and he had failed. Three for three.

Such sad-looking faces. What should've been annoyance turned into thin pity. "Stop looking like someone shot your pet dog," he groaned, and leaned off the wall. He was about ready to end this.

"This has been fun, but it's time I left." Nothing had been solved; all this visit had proved was this Axel character needed to hurry up and appear so 'Lae' could wash his hands of the entire incident.

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