Sweet Child O' Mine - a Guns N' Roses Fanfic

Nothing Really Matters

Narrator

The doctors and a nurse were in there checking on Steven. After a little while a very pretty nurse came out. She said that she was one of the doctor's interns. She also said that Steven would be fine, and he will probably be back home in a week at the least. All the guys, Leah, and Annora huddled around. A sigh of relief shot through all of them when the heard the good news. Leah was happy that he would be ok, but there was still a knot in her stomach. Seeing her best friend almost die was traumatic.

She looked over and saw Axl. She remembered how her comforted her in her darkest day. She gave him a long hug and sunk into his chest. She started to tear up. He leaned his chin on her head protectively and wrapped his strong, tattooed arms around her. Izzy and Slash were talking about how relieved they were. Annora and Duff were hugging too, but there hug was just a friendly, 'I'm so happy' hug. Axl and Leah were sharing a moment. Duff had his arm in a cast and his head was still bandaged up.

The gang decided to head home and hang out for a little while as Steve recovered.

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Leah went straight to her room. She flopped down on her bed, and looked up at posters on the ceiling. She had a KISS one, a Van Halen one, and a Beatles one. She got up and took off her leather skin tight pants and traded her shirt for a baggy hoodie with neon colors. It had yellow and pink, one color for each shoulder, while the front was blue and the back was green. The hoodie fit like a dress and covered her hands. She let her hair fall on either of her shoulders. She turned on her radio to heard "Take it Easy" by the Eagles on the radio. She hummed along and laid back down.

After about 15 minutes of listening deeply to the music, she heard a knock on her door.

"Hey, Lee you in there?" The male voice asked. She figured it was either Izzy or Duff.

"I don't want to talk." She said all pouty and she turned away from the door.

"Please let me in?" He continued to push.

"Fine. But don't talk to me." She said, continuing her pouty tone.

He walked in to see her cuddled up on her bed. "Aww, come here baby." He said as he sat down and cradled her in his arms. Now it was obvious that it was Izzy.

"I said I don't want to talk!" She cried. She twisted her body over, trying to get out of Izzy's grip.

He gave into her squirming and released her. He laid on her bed next to where he laid her. "Nice posters." He said, looking at the ceiling.

"Thanks." She mumbled.

"What's wrong?" He asked gently.

"A few things." She said.

"Care to specify?" He nudged.

"Well there's Steve..." she trailed off.

"And what else?" He said, trying to grab her again but she swatted his hand away.

"You wouldn't get it." She insisted.

"I don't care if it's embarrassing, or personal, or any of that. I just want to know that you're ok." he said kindly. She curled up in a ball and continued to try and avoid him.

"I want to help," He said after a few moments of silence. "I'll leave you alone." He mumbled sadly as he started to get up. Then she grabbed the back of his shirt and pulled him back down. She flopped over to look at him.

"I thought you wanted me to leave!" He giggled. She shook her head no and crawled into his lap like some sort of pet. He laid back on the bed and cradled her yet again. After a few minutes of patiently waiting, he asked again.

"Honey, tell me what's wrong." He said.

"I have a headache and my tummy hurts." She whined like a little 5 year old who was home sick. He automatically knew what was up. That's why she has this attitude! She's on her period! Poor thing. He told himself in his head.

"I'll be back in two minutes. Stay there." He raced down stairs and started demanding people to do things. The band mates saw the urgency in his face and complied.
"Duff, go grab a heating pad."
"Axl, go grab a piece of the leftover cake."
"Slash, go get some fuzzy socks."
"Annora, go get some pain pills."

  When all of them had collected the items and gave them to Izzy, he ran upstairs and got to work. He entered her room and automatically plugged in the heating pad and handed it to her, gave her the cake, gave her the pill and some water, put the socks on her cold feet for her, and then got on the bed and snuggled her, making sure that she was comfortable.

  "Iz, you didn't have t—"

  "Shhhh... just be quiet." He said softly. He got up and turned out the light, and then got back to snuggling. She finished the cake and took the pill.

  "Thank you," she said, right before drifting off to sleep.

  Izzy heard the door creak open and turned to see who it was. The four huddled around the door and gave warm smiles. He looked at them and gave a thumbs up.