Linkin Park Oneshots!!

One Step Closer

Written for chesterbenningtonfan!

"Hey babe!" Lillian, Dayton's new girlfriend ran up to him. She was going to meet his band members.

"Hey, you ready?" Dayton asked, leaning on the wall next to the studio door.

"Yup!" Lillian pulled Dayton in for a quick kiss as she opened the door.

"Hey! Nice to meet you, I'm Mike!" One of the band members greeted them.

"Guys! Come out here, Dayton's girlfriend is here!" Mike shouted into the studio which seemed empty with the exception of him. "Come on in, they won't bite." Mike smiled.

Four other guys emerged from another room where they had been making music. Mike was out in the main room, sitting by the soundboard. "Lillian, meet Brad, Dave, Rob, Joe, and Chester. CHESTER! GET OUT HERE!" Mike shouted. "Sorry, he's in the vocal booth, it's harder for him to hear us with all that padding on the walls."

"That and he's insane." Dave commented, all for comedic fun.

"Good one, Dave." Brad playfully hit his friend's shoulder.

"What'chu sayin' 'bout me?" Chester emerged from the vocal booth, making eye contact with Lillian. "Whoa, love the gothic look." Chester smirked. He was also dressed in slightly gothic clothes, which Lillian found pretty neat.

"Thanks, like your piercing." She replied, noticing Chester's lip ring. "So, I'm Dayton's girlfriend..."

"Nice to meet you." Each of the members said simultaneously.

Lillian was enjoying being around the band, she learned a lot about their ways of making music, and that the band originally started with one singer, Mike. Chester and Dayton came in later, after the band decided they needed a new singer, and the label decided the band needed three. That and Dayton also played the guitar alongside Brad.

"I bet you five bucks you can't sing." Lillian challenged Chester, whom she already became best friends with.

"I don't wanna." Chester whined.

"If you're such a singer, show me your skills." She taunted.

"Okay, fine." Chester disappeared into the singing booth and belched out One Step Closer.

Lillian, a bit sad that she lost her bet, pulled out a five and handed it to a grinning Chester.

"Oh, that's nothing. Wait till you hear this!" Dayton moved past Mike to get to the computer where the vocals were being recorded. He hit play, and the room filled with intense, yet beautiful melodies that the three singers had each participated in.

"Damn." Lillian mumbled.

The band had become successful. Linkin Park sold millions of copies of Hybrid Theory, and they were now on tour. Dayton had brought Lillian with, and everyone else brought their girlfriends, which happened to only be Chester's wife, Sam, and Mike's girlfriend, Anna.

The band had just finished performing a concert, and Dayton and Lillian had left a few minutes early, as they were no longer needed onstage. Dayton had finished his part on the song.

"Oh you sexy thing you." Lillian whisked Dayton away from the stage and onto the tour bus, they had some free time on their hands, and they planned to spend it together.

"Oh my god, ew!" Chester headed to the tour bus alone, while the band was packing up, Rob asked him to grab the bag for his drumsticks, which he left on the table on the bus. He walked in on the two. "Warn me next time!" He grabbed the bag and began to head out.

"Chester! Get out!" Lillian screamed at him, embarrassed but not as much as Dayton, who looked horrified.

"I'm so sorry you had to see that." Mike stood outside of the bus. "God, they can't keep their hands off of each other!"

He and Chester walked back into the arena to finish cleaning up.