A Leppard's Kiss of Fate: A Def Leppard/Kiss Romance

Chapter 14- Months have Passed, Welcome surprises (Tommy Thayer POV)

Months have passed and it's a new year.... the dawn of 1995, a new dawn indeed! For one, I am in love...true love with Joe Elliot, my boyfriend...my ANGEL, the man who's done so much for me and taught me what love is and should be. Christmas was WONDERFUL, Eric & Sav, the boys from Def Leppard and Kiss, we all had a Christmas gathering...something I'd not done in so long...it was amazing! My favorite moments? Besides spending time with family, was when Joe and I were alone on Christmas morning, just the two of us covered in my favorite blanket and nursing cups of hot cocoa and trading kisses before our tree...in our own little world. Joe and I exchanged gifts with the family, and they stayed until almost new Years.

Ah, new Year's.... for the first time EVER, my partner wasn't drunk...didn't beat me and we CELEBRATED, kissing at midnight, me never wanting it to end. Now, it is April...so much has happened...I started working with Kiss, like doing management stuff and organizing a Kiss Convention and a possible Unplugged session on MTV. Joe was so happy he told me, to see me happy, doing what I loved, and we never spent more than a week away from each other, whenever I had to travel for work and Joe, and I even got a house in Beverly Hills too. Joe and Def Leppard have done tv appearances, concerts, a new album...but no matter what Joe and I made time for each other and our relationship, our love as gotten stronger.

Currently, back home in our England House...just 20 minutes outside London and I am in the kitchen, pulling some scones out of the oven to cool. I've gotten quite good at baking, suddenly I feel those arms I know so well slide around me, to hug me from behind.

"Smells good love, you didn't have to do this."

"I wanted to surprise you, oh! I made jam too. I've gotten good at baking, still not as good a cook as you though." I smile, though he can't currently see it...and...he turns me in his arms to where I am staring into in stunning blue eyes, angel eyes.

"It's a wonderful surprise Tom, speaking of surprises.... i have a romantic one planned later." Joe grins, mischief dancing in his orbs.

"You tease." I mock a pout.

"How's THIS for a tease?" His breath ghosts across my lips and suddenly with out warning he practically devours my mouth, but then the kiss turns languid...

"Damn...hell of a tease their angel." I pant slightly. Joe merely grins. A romantic surprise, knowing him...it will be as always amazing...to me everything he does, every gesture tells me just how very much he loves me.

The scones cool, the jam is broken out and I'd made tea...my beloved and I chat.

"Sure, I can't have a hint as to what you're planning later? Like how I should dress?" I try to be sly, but I AM very curious.

"Nice try love...." Joe smirks, and I huff, and he relents at least a little. "Dress formal, yet casual."

I smile, "Ok...I can do that. I just hope that I look amazing as you will."

"Oh, my love, you ALWAYS look amazing." Joe states softly, and it warms my heart and only makes me love him more. I take another bite of scone spread with the jam I made and take a sip of tea.

"You don't know how much that means to me...for the first time in my life...you and only you can make me feel this way.... when do you think we'll have kids?" I get a little misty, because I want them SO bad, but Joe knows just what to do as he takes my hands in his.

"I know why you cry love because you feel it hasn't happened yet...that it won't.... i know that it will happen as it is meant to, your dream...that dream you've had of us, I will try with all my might to make it come true.... but I truly feel that it will happen my love, sooner than we think." I feel the truth and the love in his words and now both of us are in tears, we dry one another's tears and soon eat our fill of scones. Joe lets out a burp and I laugh....

"Good grief angel...."

"Sure, you didn't say 'good briefs' my love?" Joe is very much teasing me....and well one thing leads to another, and we make love...for quite awhile and fall asleep. After a couple of hours, I notice by the slant of the light, soon it will be sunset, and my boyfriend is nowhere to be found.... but on his side of the pillow, I find a rose and a note:

Dearest Tommy, my beloved Lady Bug...

Making love with you is like Heaven, the truest of paradises...being with you, LOVING you period...is heaven. Fate has brought you to me, and God, I love you so much it hurts.... ah, anyway my love, I have a romantic dinner planned...I'm out in our rose garden and I left out your favorite formal/ casual outfit. See you soon ladybug...

All my Love,

Joe

The note and rose makes me smile and I am eager to see my beloved...and quickly I find said outfit, a pair of black slacks, my favorite dress shirt that complaints my eyes and a leather jacket. I dress and fix my hair and fairly sprint to our garden....to find, lights.... strung around the trees and carefully placed lanterns and most importantly Joe, I gawk at how good he looks, and it looks like its very much mutual.

"Wow...Tommy...tonight, you look radiant...I...I mean...so damned beautiful." Joe walks towards me and takes me in his arms and takes my breath away with a passionate kiss. And he takes me by the hand and then I see, the picnic spread on the ground, and he helps me sit before sitting down himself.

"Joe...this all, looks amazing! Thank you love...thank you my angel." I state softly.

"Glad you think so ladybug, I wanted to do something special tonight"

"EVERYTHING you do is special to me; it always has been, and it always will be." I declare earnestly and once more we kiss before we eat, the food is delicious! We eat until we are full and too there is desert, chocolate covered strawberries and my boyfriend feeds me, as I do him...a very heady experience. But then afterwards, Joe takes my hands in his and says:

"Tommy, when I'd first saw you about 10 years ago...there was something about you, I didn't know what at the time, but now I know...I felt love at first sight, like I KNEW you inside where it counted. It never sat well with me then how Jamie, treated you...and then fate brought you to me once more.... i was meant to find you that night. I HATE how it happened, but I realized I'd always loved you; I was determined to be there for you, in any way.... take care of you, spoil you, love you...at first, I'd questioned fate, but I was wrong to have done so. I love you Tommy, I love you....I got to know you, and I fell even harder for you....I love every part of you, it's how I see you, how I feel about you....then I'd found you again that one night, I was meant to....you told me you loved me that night, I'll never forget that as long as I live...though it wasn't how you wanted, you told me...you were finally ready and we made love for the first time on the night of out first date, every moment I have spent and spend with you....to me is perfect. You are my other half, Tom...my other half....and I want to say too, that I am so damn proud of you of how far you've come, and these past months doing what you love...and Thomas Cunningham Thayer, I will keep loving and cherishing you as you should be, which is why I am asking you if you would do me the absolute honor of marrying me?" Joe is in tears and so am I, my mouth falling open as he opens a velvet box to reveal a stunning ring, that touches me to my core. It's in the shape of a ladybug, surrounded my tiny little roses. Joe is nervous waiting for my response.

"J-Joseph Elliot, nothing and I mean NOTHING would make me happier than to marry you...yes, my love, YES." I cry, as he slides the ring on my finger and we kiss, a tearful loving kiss...we kiss until we are forced to part for breath, the both of us panting slightly.

"Oh, my dearest love, I cannot wait to marry you...I know the perfect place. What would you think of marrying here in our..."? I cut my now fiancée off and tackle him in happiness.

"I think.... that, that is perfect!" This time I capture his lips, he quickly takes over and I don't complain, needless to say...we have a VERY passionate night together.

A/N: Some changes, surprises, and goings on! Now they are engaged! Next chapter is their wedding and then a two-part honeymoon, where it just may come to pass...Tommy becoming pregnant with their first child.