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Roxas dropped the last box onto the floor in his new dorm room and wiped his brow. He looked around, still surprised he landed a single as a freshman. He turned to the door, and saw Axel coming in carrying a floor lamp.

"Where do you want this?" he asked.

"Eh, somewhere in the middle there," Roxas answered, motioning vaguely to the entire room.

Axel shrugged and put it down. "All moved in?"

"Sure am," our boy answered. Axel put an arm around Roxas's shoulders and squeezed gently.

"I still can't believe you chose to go to my college just for me," Axel pretended to swoon, forcing Roxas to struggle to support his weight. "You must love me so much."

"You know damn well that it has the perfect program for me and if I went too far away Sora would just flunk out of school," Roxas said. He propped Axel back up and stole a quick kiss. "It just so happens that I do love you, though."

Cloud was finishing up making Roxas's bed and made a gagging sound at them.

"Oh, get over it, Operator Overcast," Roxas teased.

"If I were a wiser man, I would have name you both weather-related names so you would have no ammunition to use against me," Cloud shook his head solemnly. "My life is full of regret."

"Enough out of you, you a sad sack," Sora said, waltzing in with Riku, who was carrying a few pizza boxes.

"It's as if you know me," Cloud said flatly. He turned to Roxas and put a hand on his shoulder. "Please come home regularly. I can't promise your brother will be in one piece if you don't."

"Right," Roxas nodded and smiled at his father. "I'll come home."

Cloud's lips curved up into a small smile, but then his lower lip split from the extreme tension and his mouth dropped again into his usual flatness. "Bye, all. Riku," he shook Riku's hand. "Always a pleasure. Please move into the house as soon as possible."

Riku nodded casually. "Got it."

Cloud grabbed a piece of pizza before walking out the door, though he briefly backtracked and poked his head back in. "Oh, and Axel. I suppose I don't hate you."

"Thank you, Mr. Clavella," Axel said, grinning like a bandit.

Cloud nodded and left, leaving a very impressed Roxas.

"Wow, that was more than I ever could have hoped," Roxas said, smiling up at Axel.

"Psh," Axel laughed. "I told you dads love me."

"Ugh," Sora bemoaned. "I can't wait to live with you again next year. I'm going to miss you so much," Sora said as he rolled around on Roxas's freshly made bed, a pizza slice flopping around in his hand. "With only the Earl of Fogtown, my life is gonna get so boring."

"Don't worry, I'll come home all the time," Roxas said. "What with my new ride and all."

"It was really nice of Cid to sell you that car he'd been working on," Sora said, cramming the pizza slice in his mouth and arming himself with two more.

"Yes, and you'll never take this from me," Roxas said, a hint of mania in his eyes.

Sora nodded but said, "I could if I wanted to."

Roxas glared at him. "Is that any way to talk to someone who put in a good word for you at your new job?"

Sora's face lit up. "I just can't believe you talked Rainy Day Man into letting me work at the Canteen! I'm so excited."

Roxas flapped a hand, but looked proud of himself. "I just told him some nonsense about you not being challenged enough."

"Imagine next year though!" Sora sat up, a dreamy gleam in his eyes. "Two brothers sharing one job, one college, one dorm room… one dream."

"'Scuse me, Sora, but it's pretty presumptuous of you to assume that Roxas won't be living with me next year," Axel waggled his eyebrows.

"You'll all be very surprised when Demyx and I move into a love nest together," Roxas smirked.

Axel and Sora both looked at him, disgust and betrayal flowing from their eyeballs in a river of goop.

"Don't even say that," Axel warned. "Dem would love that."

"Hey, if we don't get a move on, we're going to miss the movie," Riku said, stuffing some pizza into his face.

"If we miss this movie, I will strangle you all with your own intestines," Roxas grabbed the keys on the table and a slice of pizza for himself.

"To think that soon we'll be watching The Shark That Ate the World's Son: Sharks on Mars!" Axel exclaimed.

"Ooh! I think Axel should drive. Then we get to see him in his glasses," Sora said expectantly.

"What is it with you brothers and my glasses?!" the redhead demanded, laughing.

"Please, he's not driving!" Roxas snorted and twirled the keys of his just-fixed-up 1969 Triumph TR6 around his finger. "It's not even up for debate. We're taking my Mickey."