Roxas's sword cleanly slices through the dry fiber rope choking Axel's mouth and the red head quickly inhales the snowy white air into his frigid lungs. He glowers at the tattoo on Axel's skinny inner wrist with the name: "Roxy" in delicate cursive letters inside an inky papou. Also on his left hand, is the sapphire wedding ring… the wedding ring he still dares to wear.

The bare-chested assassin leader opens his cold mouth, "Roxas? Is that you? Baby, I missed you so – " "Shut the fuck up, you bastard!!" The blonde screams and he smacks the sharp blade against Axel's face.

"Ahhh!" Axel screams and a line of red blood splatters to the white ground. He shivers in his leather pants and Roxas viciously grips his samurai sword. "Baby I – " "I said shut it, fucker!!" Roxas whips his sword around again and smacks Axel's other cheek. The valentine male cowers in his onyx blindfold and the thin cuts leak blood down his porcelain white face.

"You think I am supposed to fucking sympathize over a few tablespoons of your blood!? You fucking shot me in the shoulder on our wedding day while Zexion had his whore hands all over your bastard body! And you cry and plead and say you missed me?! You are going to need to cry more than that, fucker." Roxas stiffly says as his husband trembles in the chilly air.

"Roxas… you know I love you and I – " "Love!? Oh you were sacrificing a bullet in my body so you could fuck Zexion to get his money? That's real romantic. A real fucking Cinderella story." The blonde cries and he smacks Axel's face again with his sword. Axel hisses in pain at the fine cuts and the blood splatters on his bare chest then trickles over his dragon tattoo.

"I could have shot you in the head, Roxas! I could have killed you! But I didn't because I love you! Zexion threatened me if I didn't – " "Cut the shit, Axel. You were never a good liar. What did Zexion threaten to not give you sex if you didn't kill me? Huh, did he – "

"He threatened to snipe you, okay?! Right through the heart! He said if he ever saw me with you that he would do it!!! And he walked into the wedding, so what choice did I have? After you said your I do, you would have ten bullets through your body. So I fucking shot you myself… I didn't want you dead…" Axel's voice trails off and his blindfolded eyes stare off into the peaceful garden.

Roxas growls and he raises his sword above Axel's head then slices it down through the icy air. Axel's blindfold flits to the ground in a pile and his beautiful green eyes gleam wet with dewdrop tears. "I'm sorry, Roxas… Believe me…" He whispers and Roxas bends down to grab Axel's bleeding face.

The blonde presses his lips longingly to Axel's bloody ones and he straddles his yellow and black legs on Axel's hot lap. They part for the frosty air then their cold, blue lips lock together again. Roxas runs his hands down Axel's smooth waist and his tongue plays inside the chamber of his mouth.

He reaches in Axel's pants and the red head moans lightly at Roxas's chilly touch. Axel opens his eyes and Roxas is holding a knife that he pulled out of his husband's leather pants. "You didn't think it would be that easy, did you?" Roxas frowns and Axel smirks to himself. "Well… yeah. I did." He replies and Roxas throws the knife into the thin wood of the pagoda.

"Calm on, honey. Let's get you somewhere warm." Roxas whispers and he kisses up Axel's neck before he stands up. "If you can just get me out of these handcuffs…" Axel requests as he struggles meekly in the barbed wire demons. "Of course." Roxas says and he picks up his sword off the ground. The shivering husband leans forward and his hands stay relaxed as Roxas lifts the sword into position then cuts them off.

Axel smiles up at Roxas and rubs his thin wrists as he stands up to his blonde husband. "Smile for Hell, fire boy." Roxas says and he swings his murderous sword as the pyromaniac gasps. "You'll be plenty warm there." The blonde grins and he flicks the blood off of his sword.

Roxas crosses out Zexion Ishii and he stares deeply for many moments at Axel Aichi from his Death List. He crosses the name out too and closes his notebook sharply. He glowers into the trunk of his hijacked Toyota where Marluxia is struggling in his bondage. The blonde looks at the captive through his motorcycle helmet and slams the light trunk door closed. Roxas drives up the icy road past the neon orange caution signs and skits to the side then stops the car.

He opens the trunk and picks Marluxia out then tosses him down the snowy hill where he rolls painfully in front of a hospital. Paramedic men panic to the limp body and scream, "Tasukete! Tasukete! Help! Help!" The pink haired male gets lifted onto a cot and rushed into the emergency room.

Roxas looks over Axel's morbid body and he stares back at him with dying eyes as his slit throat pours blood into the dove white snow. The blonde smirks and begins to walk away down the path then he stops to dig his nails into his palm. He shakes his head and curses himself then dares to look over his shoulder to see his dying lover. Roxas wanders back and stabs his samurai sword in the ground in front of Axel's eyes.

He yanks out Axel's slim cell phone from his pocket and dials 911 then perches the open phone on top of his balanced samurai sword handle. Roxas bends down to glare at his emerald eyed lover and whispers, "I love you, sweetheart. But if you ever fuck with me again… Your head can join Zexion's scalp." He kisses Axel's warm cheek and disappears away into the snow storm. The red head smiles lightly as he watches his darling vanish.

Marluxia whimpers as the tubes of IV shake above his head and a pair of warm hands massages his shoulders. "Marluxia… Marluxia… My Marluxia… I'm so sorry." Axel's soft voice whispers as the pink male's lips tremble through the tears. "Please… Please forgive my betrayal." Marluxia begs during his silent tears.

His heart rate beeps on the machine and the green line sways up and down like a winding snake. The cold blue fluorescent lights of the hospital make the victim shiver. "No more of that." Axel stands behind Marluxia and rubs his tears away. "But still I – I …" "But still nothing…except my aching heart…over what he's done to my beautiful and brilliant Marluxia." Axel hushes the victim of the Bride.

"I've kept you alive for two reasons: first reason is information." Roxas says beneath his Suzuki helmet as he speaks to Marluxia in the trunk of the stolen car. "Burn in Hell you stupid, stupid blonde. I'll tell you nothing." Marluxia retorts in coldhearted French. "But I am going to ask you questions. And every time you don't give me answers...I'm going to cut something off. And I promise you...they will be things you will miss." Roxas harshly whispers at the one armed victim.

Marluxia's lip quivers as Roxas's screams fill his mind.

"Give me your other arm!!!" Roxas screams and Marluxia gasps in hysteria.

Marluxia cries in his hospital room as Axel touches his face. "I want all the information on the Lethal Cobras." "If you had to guess…" Axel whispers. "What they've been doing…" Roxas's voice continues. "Why she left you alive…" Axel coaxes. "And where I can find them…." Roxas hisses. "What would be your guess?" Axel finishes and Marluxia's eyes swell with tears.

"Guessing won't be necessary… she informed me… she said I could keep my wicked life for two reasons…" Marluxia says between his cries as Axel's hands rest on his shoulders.

"As I said before... I've allowed you to keep your wicked life for two reasons. And the second reason is... so you can tell him, in person, everything that happened here tonight. I want him to witness the extent of my mercy... by witnessing your deformed body. I want you to tell him all the information you just told me. I want him to know what I know. I want him to know I want him to know. And I want them all to know they'll all soon be as dead as Zexion." Roxas declares over Marluxia's massacred body.

Roxas sits on top of a Ferris wheel over looking the happy couples swooning over each other with cotton candy smiles at the various milk bottle games and dart games. He looks down at his indigo notebook:

Death List Five
Zexion Ishii
Xemnas Green
Rufus Sakamoto
Luxord Yamaguchi
Axel Aichi

"Axel… I… hope you fuck with me again…" Roxas whispers and his sapphire eyes fill with tears. He rips off Axel's name and tosses it into the wind then watches it flit down into the harbor of marines and fishing boats coming in for rest. His chin rests in his hand as he gazes out into the moon shining on the calm sea. Roxas looks down at his left hand and pulls off his leather glove. His wedding ring shines back at him and Roxas smiles at the sparkling red ruby.

"One more thing, Marluxia…. Is he aware… his husband is still alive?" Axel asks in his fiery deep voice and he touches the stitches on his own neck.