Girls, grrr!! [open]

[Axel Oskar Lasion]

Axel's choice to spend his first Saturday night single at the movies wasn't based on any logic. The movie theater was just near his home and he didn't see the point in passing it up. It seemed a bad decision now, it only reminded him of his and Rory's first date. He'd taken her to see a romantic comedy, like he knew all women liked. The one they saw wasn't half bad though one thing he said about all romantic movies was that it was predictably happy at the end. And sometimes love didn't work that way. Sometimes love was hard, painful, stressful and downright irritating. He remembered walking with her up to the food counter and buying her candy, laughing about how childish it was that she didn't eat 'grown up food'. And after the movie they'd taken a walk together and just talked.

Axel didn't remember reserving a slot of his brain for nostalgia, so he angrily shook it from his thoughts. He ordered a hot dog and went into the movie theater wondering whether this 'Contagion' would be as impressive as he'd heard. The screen played in front of him but all he could think about as he sat there with his cold 'hot dog' was that Rory probably expected him to come crawling back. He didn't even see how it was his fault. Gritting his teeth slightly, he resolved to watch the movie to the best of his ability.

A long shadow walked down the aisle of the movie just as the trailers were ending. He didn't see who it was, not until they joined the row that he was sitting on.

[Aurora Francesca Marie Soren]

Rory hadn't really wanted to go to the movies, but she was supposed to meet up with her cousin who was visiting for the weekend. Of course, her cousin didn't call to cancel until Rory was already at the theater and had already paid for her ticket. Not really wanting to waste the money, Rory didn't even know what the movie was about, as her cousin had told her what movie they were going to watch, so she walked into the theater not really knowing what she was going to see.

Of course, going to the movies just reminded Rory of her first date with Axel, which was something she really didn't want to think about at the moment. Of course, now that she had time to think things through, she knew she wasn't right but she wasn't completely wrong. She knew she still had a ways to go before ever trusting Axel fully, but she also knew that he had to learn to trust her too and she never really let him trust her. It didn't help matters that she was jealous and always felt that when he was alone in his apartment or if he shut his door in her face with company, she would accuse him, not really knowing if she believed it or not but her mind just made her think he was, of cheating on her.

As luck would have it, the man of her current thoughts was sitting in the aisle she had just sat down in. She hadn't even really noticed him until she looked to the side to set her drink in the cup holder and to set her extra buttery popcorn down so she could open her container of butterfingers. Mentally, Rory cursed in her mind and turned back towards the movie screen, hoping that he hadn't noticed her. 'This is just my luck, I make a fool of myself in front of him, threaten him with lawyers, and then promptly ignore him though he is also ignoring me so it's not like he's helping either. Oh, who am I kidding, he probably thinks it's all my fault... and it's not all mine... sure I will admit most of it is but I don't care. I tried to open up and he shut me down, the night I told him. He didn't want to talk about anything like that. So it's not all my fault, he has fault too.' She thought stubbornly to herself while placing a arm over her small baby bump. Now wishing that her cousin had shown or that she had thought to call Remy or Max to come with her, Rory just hoped that she and Axel could sit through the movie without getting into an argument though she highly doubted it.

[Axel Oskar Lasion]

Just great. Axel thought, knowing exactly who had sat down on his aisle. Was she trying to do this? Did she now want to try to get his attention? He couldn't imagine why she'd want to do that. He'd paid for the movie though. Now she was near him, he didn't know how on earth he was meant to focus on the movie. There wasn't a lot he could do about it, unfortunately. His head looked back, wondering if there were any empty seats he could move to. If he could pretend she wasn't there, maybe he could concentrate. He looked at Rory once, glaring only slightly. He wasn't sure who he blamed for what happened. In measurement he imagined it was 90%... maybe 92% her fault. The 8% that he was willing to take the blame for, was the fact that he had been scared himself about dealing with the baby. But how could she expect him to be ok about it?

It took all his strength to stay sat in his seat but he did through the whole film. He marginalized maybe ten minutes to going to the bathroom or getting snacks but other than that he was able to sit in the same room as the mother of his twins and not say one word to her. Now the lights were coming on and it was time to leave the movie. He was a specialist in getting people to engage, that was why he was a teacher. So once he was outside the movie theater, he waited for Rory to come out. He knew they needed to talk.

Once he saw her through the clear door coming out of the theatre, X took a step toward her. "Hello Rory." his gruff voice beckoned.

[Aurora Francesca Marie Soren]

Rory managed to get through the movie without staring at Axel too much and she successfully talked herself out of getting into his head knowing it would only cause her more trouble. She had no idea what he was thinking and she didn't know if she wanted to. She knew that he blamed her, probably entirely for the entire ordeal between them, but she didn't know what she felt. She knew she deserved most of the blame, but he had some too. He hadn't helped her, especially not when he was bouncing back and forth between acting like he was okay with everything and then just not wanting to deal with it at all. She knew she wasn't doing good at all with what was going on but she had no idea how he was, but she knew that she wasn't getting any help from him when she was just getting confused, frustrated, and sad by his mood swings.

Once Axel had left the theater, Rory took a deep breath and let it out. "Well, I got through that will minimal damage." She thought to herself while rubbing her stomach that suddenly felt uneasy. Rory practically ran to the bathroom and just made it in time to throw the contents of her stomach up into the toilet. "Shit." Was all she could say. Deciding to sit there for a moment and see if it was going to come up again or not, Rory thought about how her life had done a complete 360 within a few days. She didn't blame the little babies in her stomach though, she didn't think she ever could. Pulling out a piece of gum and popping it in her mouth, Rory made sure her breath wasn't completely horrid before walking out of the bathroom and out the door, only to see Axel waiting for her.

'Wonder what he wants.' She thought to herself. "Hello." She said quietly and wrapped her arms around her small bump, not so he couldn't see or as if protecting them from him, she was just cold. "Is there something you needed?" She asked, getting a bit more courage, though of course she hadn't asked him to be smart and nor was her tone sarcastic, she was gunuinely curious. She wasn't going to apologize though if that's what he wanted. Not yet, she hadn't figured out what she had done yet and she still needed time to think everything over.

[Axel Oskar Lasion]

The mere visualization of Rory's reaction was enough to embarrass him beyond belief for actually talking this out with her. He didn't do emotional talks often, actually he avoided them. At least he could go home, face another interrogative phone call from his mother and say that he'd not avoided her this time. His mother had been concerned that the only time he'd be willing to see her was when he was tipsy. He was about as frusrated as he could be and he needed to suggest alternative ways to lawyers. Hopefully she wouldn't force him to answer anymore questions about the relationship. He was tired of Rory thinking that because their relationship couldn't work that meant that they couldn't work as parents.

Despite the fact that his mother would absolutely have his head for this, he just had to say it. "Yes. I need you to stop being immature about this and talk to me about the children. Not us, not the relationship, not about how much of a jerk you might think I am for ending things. I don't want to hear about anything except our children." his voice was strained and beat. He couldn't believe he'd said it but god, he didn't regret it. He needed an adult to raise his children with him, not a teenager.

"So no more lawyers. Deal?" he raised his eyebrows, offering his hand to shake.

[Aurora Francesca Marie Soren]

When Axel called her immature, Aurora instantly went on edge. She had about had it with him calling her immature, she knew she was, she was sixteen for goodness sake and before had the privalige of being immature. Sure, she had to grow up quickly and soon for the sake of her twins, but she was tired of him telling her what was wrong with her. Eyes flashing green and gold with cat like pupils, Rory attempted to calm herself. "Listen, Axel, I'm sixteen. I'm sixteen, I'm scared, and I'm a kid myself. Add on the fact that I have no idea what the hell I'm doing and I'm even more emotional and driven by my animal than usual that I'm untintentionally making things a thousand times worse than I normally do, I'm going to be immature. I haven't had the chance to grow up yet. Maybe if you'd get that through your thick skull things would be going better. But no, you expect me to act like you but you have to understand this Axel like you should have when we started this. I am almost eight years younger than you. It is not my fault that I'm immature because I haven't grown up yet! I'm not twenty-four, I'm sixteen going on seventeen." Trying to explain it nicely, though she knew she probably just muffed up more, Rory sighed and took another deep breath, making sure to keep her eyes down so none of the passing humans would see her eyes. "Not only that, if you don't remember correctly, when I told you about the pregnancy you were the one worried about us and I was the one worried about the baby and what was going to happen. You made promises and you didn't keep them. So I have every right to be as upset as I am and as childish as I am. I know I have to grow up, and I know I have to do it soon, but you don't help any situation at all." Finally her eyes were their normal brown and she could look straight at him.

"Either way, I have to keep the lawyers. We'll need to work out a schedule for who has the kids when. I'm sure you'll want them on holidays. Who will get them on their birthday, Christmas, Easter, whatever other holiday there is out there? I'm keeping them, because God knows I'll screw that up too." Her hands were kept on her stomach and she had to fight off the nausa that was suddenly coming to her again at the smell of the popcorn from the movie theater. "I won't completely hide behind them though, we can work things out together but I'm keeping the lawyers." Taking a deep breath, hoping it would calm the need to throw up whatever was left in her stomach in the trash can a few feet from her.

As it subsided slightly, Rory let out a breath and looked back at him. "Artemis is going to the baby classes with me and most of my appointments with me, but I can always call you after the appointments or meet you after and fill you in. I suggest getting a licsense so I don't have to drive them to and from every time and I'm sure you'd hate having to take two screaming carriers on the bus." She thought she might as well fill him in, especially if anything happened that he needed to know about.

[Axel Oskar Lasion]

In his frustration Axel was beginning to miss the days when he was just a History Professor. "And even though your sixteen, it was like a blessing to get back with you. I never thought of you as a childish teenager until the way you handled our break-up." how could she expect his mind to be at peace with the pregnancy when he only got full access to the twins when he was her boyfriend. As soon as they weren't, he had to deal with lawyers and being shoved out of appointments. That wasn't right. Axel was adamant that she was playing god with his twin's lives by keeping him at a distance. Hearing the music of the next movie playing, Axel started to walk so that people who paid for their movies didn't have to listen to exes arguing. Rory was mostly annoying to him when she invited her best friend to the appointments but didn't think that he might want to be present. His eyes were furious.

"Oh, oh, alright then. You can't stand being around the baby's father therefore he isn't invited to see his children or hear how well they're doing. I get it. Now your best friend made it to the top of the list. I have a right to be a part of my children's lives just as any father does, whether we're together or not. You might not like me much right now, but that doesn't give you allowance to stop me going to appointments to hear about how they're doing. I have serious protest against you taking Artemis in there with you and telling the baby's father straight after. That's wrong, it should be the other way around." he did regret his appeal to be reasonable and offer his hand in exchange for lawyers. Clearly she wasn't interested in getting anything but her own way. If she wanted to stay childish she should've thought about protection. Yes, he was in the wrong there too, but he wasn't the one pitching to still have his life how it was in all it's immaturity.

"Well good luck then, because I'm not saying one word to any lawyer. So you'll have trouble getting responses. After some of the things I've done to you, causing you stress, breaking up with you whilst pregnant, I am genuinely sorry." Axel suspected that the love and passion they had in their relationship had disappeared. He was probably already out of her number 1 list out of the guys in her life. Axel suspected though that he wasn't going to see her after this for a while, so she deserved to hear all of it. "I know deep down I love you. You need to know it was a hard choice for me to end things. I still find you beautiful and I wouldn't change a single hair on your head. You are the perfect girl to me." shrugging awkwardly, he knew that his feelings didn't mean a thing even though he'd just poured them out. They still couldn't get along together.

"I just felt you should know. My opinion on other things still stands. And I think it's time we took a break from seeing each other, physically I mean. Stay out of each other's way for a while." he told her, tucking his hands in his pockets.

[Aurora Francesca Marie Soren]

Following behind him and glaring at anyone who looked at her wrong, Rory finally stopped once he did and completely ignored the furious look in his eye. "You broke up with me the first time because we were getting too serious for your taste. I shouldn't have thought you'd stay after I told you I was pregnant, and I shouldn't have thought everything would be okay when you said it would be. I handled it badly because you made promises to me and you didn't keep them, I also handled it badly because I have no clue what I'm doing and how I'm going to do it. Axel my entire life I've always known what I'm doing and when you came into it, I lost all sense of that. Usually I can't stand it when I don't know what I'm doing it, but when we started dating I didn't care. I just wanted to be with you, and then all this happened, and you left me. I... I literally thought you were leaving everything. You broke one promise, who's to say you wouldn't break that one too?"

Giving an annoyed growl, that slightly sounded like a hiss, Rory threw her hands up in the air. "You always twist my words around. I never once said I couldn't stand being around you and I never said that I wouldn't invite you to see the kids or let you know how they're doing, god damnitt I had to! You were the one acting like you didn't want me around. Every god damn time I'm around you I want to kiss you, no matter how many times you've hurt me. Every time, I want to talk about us, but you made it quite clear there was no us! Artemis has been there for me for every tear, ever sob, and ever damn time I replayed what happened when we fought so yes, I felt the need to have her with me when I went to the class and the appointment because I thought you didn't want to be around me. Not to mention, I didn't want to start some fight while at the doctors or at the class because I have uninentionally shifted so many times I can't even count now and I didn't want to do something stupid. I barely lose my control and since you broke up with me I've lost control every night."

Glaring furiously at him with her cat eyes that had once again reappeared in her over emotional state. A low growling came from her chest, though she tried swallowing it. Once she heard him speak again, Rory chuckled dryly. "Obviously you would change me because we wouldn't be fighting then. I've loved you for over a year now, and it's all true feelings. I could have made you think that everything was perfect in the world and that nothing was wrong and that I'm not an insecure spoiled little brat, but I never did because I knew that would just make you hate me, and even more so because I knew it wouldn't be real. I mean, did you know that I loved you? That I didn't leave my room almost the entire month we had broken up that first time. I even got into Artemis' head and made her leave me alone, Addy had to come and quiet my dreams on more than one occasion. Hell, I think I spent most of that month in my panther form to be honest I can't really remember. All I remeber was the fact that I thought you didn't love me like I loved you, and that I wanted too serious of a relationship for you. Do you know the teasing I've gone threw since people have found out? I've been called slut and whore. I've had people tell me that now that you were done with me they might have a chance now, and the best one of all is guys asking me if they could get in pants after the baby is born because you would probably take it anyway. I blocked all of it out, though it still hurt to hear it all, I didn't believe it. If Addy hadn't been there I probably would have lost it right then and there." Taking a deep breath and unclenching her hands where she saw little red marks from where her claws penitrated her skin.

"You always make breaking up sound like you want to get back together, but I never know if you do or not. I can't tell with you. I don't know you and that screws me up the most because I never know what to say with you and I always end up saying the wrong thing anyway so it doesn't really matter Axel. I don't care what your opinion is on it, I won't lose my kids in court if you ever take me there because you or someone in your family thinks I'm too immature to handle a set of twins at sixteen."

[Axel Oskar Lasion]

"But I didn't leave anything but the relationship. I wasn't leaving you, I told you I'd still be there by your side for you and the twins. I'm not putting any words into your mouth I'm recalling exactly how your acting. Like you expect me to fail, so your not giving me a chance to try. Let me try before you accuse me of not caring!" Axel cried exasperatedly. "Let me try at being there, for you and the twins. I don't feel like I've had chance so far." he sighed, taking a step toward her. "Please.." he begged softly, he wanted this so much. It tore his heart into pieces thinking that this was what his twins had to face. Two parents arguing horribly at each other. Before he even knew what he was doing, like his feelings were guiding him, his face moved forward and his lips found hers. There wasn't a single logical thought that journeyed through his emotions and urged him to kiss her, it was just something natural inside him that he'd been suppressing. However, fearing that he was facing a slap in the face or worse, a kick to the testicles (which was kinda ironic considering how this started) he stepped back again at safe distance.

"Stop torturing me Rory. You've made your point. No more dramatic speeches please. I love you, and I think I'm finally ready for a serious relationship. But hey, if you want to continue to stand here and hurl accusations back and forth, then we'll do that. At least I could still say that I tried for this relationship." the thing was, he couldn't look at Rory with inferiority or like she was a bad person. She wasn't, a million babies wouldn't make him think that. She was just scared and worried. Once Axel calmed down he could see that, though he didn't fully agree with some of her reasoning he wanted them to talk together. It was murderous to the soul to hear some of the things she told him about, the crying, the changing. Axel couldn't say anything to that, it was the past. Nothing would fix it but he could make amends for the future.

But if she said no and genuinely did want to continue to jump down his throat, Axel was going home. It was late, he was tired and he didn't want to do this anymore. Then his eyes widened slightly, wait a second... "you think there's a possibility I'd take you to court and take the children away from you? Seriously? Do you have any faith in me at all or am I just sleaze to you?" he scoffed with disappointment and hurt hidden somewhere in the cruel expression he shot her.

[Aurora Francesca Marie Soren]

"It felt like you were though! I had no idea if you were leaving me or if you weren't, it just felt like I was losing you! I never expected you to fail! It hard to think that you care though when you never let me in! I didn't let you in because you didn't let me in! I still ended up falling for you anway." Rory cried out. She wanted to understand him and she wanted to understand herself, she couldn't do either of those things until he let her in and she let him in fully. Though as he took a step towards her and kissed her, Rory's thoughts went out the window until he pulled back. Looking at him very confused, Rory almost thought of slapping him, but knew it wasn't going to solve anything. She almost told him to stop playing with her feelings, but she knew she had wanted that kiss, so instead remained speechless.

Her jaw literally dropped though at his next words. "You're the one who continuously dumps me and you're also the one who always asks me back out again... how do I know you're not just going to dump me again the next time we argue or fight?" There was nothing more that Rory wanted than for her and Axel to make up and provide a happy enviroment for their twins, but she also knew she wanted to make sure he wasn't just going to leave her again first. She knew she couldn't take the stress again.

"God damnitt Axel, look at it from my point of view first befor putting words in my mouth. I don't think you're sleeze! The thing is, I don't know you Axel, I don't think you would, but how do I know for certain. I've never gotten in your head and I've never seen your memories to decipher how you would react to anything. I know you're name, that you're a teacher, you're age, you turn into a dice snake, I know who you're parents and twin sister are but I've yet to meet them, you have a tattoo on your hip that says 'Carpe Diem' and five other tattoos, I know that you love it when I wear silk, hate it when a guy looks at me in the wrong way, you hate thunderstorms, and you're one of the most stubborn people in Garvonia next to me. That's all I know about you, I don't know you're past, or anything. Granted, I haven't let you in either, but I didn't let you in because you didn't let me in." She felt horrible for the dissapointment and pain she found in his eyes, and it didn't help that he was staring her with a cruel expression. Finally the tears came, though she quickly wiped them away. "Think what you want though, I always screw things up anyway. I talk alot but that doesn't mean I always know what I'm saying, I just know what I'm trying to say and it doesn't always come out correctly." It was the truth, she talked a lot but a lot of the time she ended up placing her foot in her mouth.

[Axel Oskar Lasion]

"You also know I'm a secretive person. I could spout my feelings, my past, my family, i could tell you all of it. But that's not me Rory. I thought you knew that about me, I thought that was what you fell for. Were you hoping I'd stop being who I am? Just because I'm not an open person doesn't at all mean that I didn't or don't care about you. It just means I'm not one of those hopeless romantics you see on TV. Is that what you want me to be?" he demanded to know, though he was equally tired of this argument. Telling her how he felt, kissing her even, it meant nothing apparently unless he underwent an entire transformation into some corny prince charming. He wasn't going to change who he was, he didn't believe any woman had a right to change their boyfriend. It seemed that once again Rory was focusing on the relationship instead of the twins.

"I care about you and I care about our twins. Why isn't that enough for you?" he shook his head, he really didn't get it. He was willing to be with her, not for the sake of the twins but because he wanted to be with her. That never happened to him. He never saw himself changing diapers before, soon he'd be changing two sets. Sighing, it seemed that he was never going to be enough for her. She clearly had an idea of what she wanted him to be and he just didn't suit it. It was starting to dawn on him that maybe he wasn't the right guy for her after all. "I've already told you, I just wanted to focus on the babies rather than the relationship. And if you hadn't of rushed off as soon as I told you, I might've had chance to clear up that I wasn't leaving you, that I was still going to be there. I mean c'mon, it wasn't as if I was going to go jump into another woman's arms or even had plans of the sort. Please don't tell me you thought that, you already seemed to think there was a possibility of my taking you to court. You brought that up yourself, not me."

Her tears were no sooner drawn from her eyes than they were gone again. Damn, this wasn't what he wanted. He'd offered to shake hands on the no lawyers thing then they could both go home. Instead they were making a giant scene outside the movie theatre. It was ridiculous. Had it have been anyone else trying to scream at him outside the movies he'd have walked away by now. "Listen, I'm sorry you felt that I was avoiding you for good and leaving you to raise the twins... even though I stated specifically that I was only ending it to focus on being a father so I can only imagine you came up with that yourself. Not that I expect you'll accept my apology, you probably have more spiels to throw at me. Well I've heard enough." clearing his throat, he continued. "I'll be going home now. Have a good doctor's appointment with Artemis, she apparently deserves to go more than the twin's willing and trying-insanely-hard biological father." he hoisted his hand in the air to attract a taxi cab. "Goodnight." he bid her as the taxi drove up and Axel slid into the car seat and shut the door. He looked hesitantly out the window as the cab drove off, deliberately concealing the still-beating excitement that he was having twins, miniture versions of him, whether he got along or was with their mother or not.