Heaven's On Fire - Slash's POV

Denial. pt.1

Slash puts his axe to one side, rushing out the studio to see if the blonde haired bassist was okay. "Hey hey, whats wrong? Are you okay?" He looks up at him due to the very noticeable height difference but Duff's breath was shaken up and heavy when he responded. "Y-yeah man I'm great" he chocked out avoiding eye contact.

Duff's entire mannerisms weren't the norm and Slash couldn't understand why so he let out a confused chuckle. "You're acting strange" he says trying to avoid the uncomfortable situation he was pulled into.
"Oh-it's-it's-it's nothing... It's the weather?" Duff chuckled nervously in reply and then decided to ruffle his own hair as he looks down "you've been alright?" He slowly looks back up at Slash trying to avoid the situation by putting it on him.
"The weather?" He laughs "great answer goofball" he fluffs Duffs hair as he giggles and then snaps out of it, even though he wants to be close to Duff he can't, he knows he can't so he takes a step back and turns into his chilled out cool self again. "Seriously man, whats up?" He looks at Duff as he lights up a cigarette

After a little bit of silence Duff finally opens his mouth to speak. "Oh you know it's nothing... I just didn't sleep well" he tries to play it off like everything is okay and he laughs a bit "Let's go back in and rock their asses!"

"Alright" Slash nods in agreement before the two go inside.

All of Guns just stare at them, curious to know what just happened but Duff finally speaks after a moment of silence that felt like an eternity. "Okay maybe I should uh... do it alone after Slash finishes the part?" Duff clears his throat after he suggests.

Izzy rolls his eyes at Duff, annoyed that they can't just get on with it "Fine then play rhythm with Stevie." He puts out his Marlboro cigarette.

"Yayyyy!!" Steven grins and cheers from his drum set but looks down when Duff ignores him.
"I'm just saying man I should do my bass lines separately I don't wanna fuck up Erin's song" he tried to make it seem like he didn't want to make any mistakes.

Axl smokes before entering into the conversation "Fine then Duff but just fuckin get on with it and stop acting to strange today okay?" Even though Slash does agree that Duff was acting strange, he didn't want him to be treated that way so he decided to speak up. "Don't talk to him like that Ax." Axl sighs and looks at Slash as he pushes his ginger locks back, out of his eyes. "Dude, i just wanna finish the damn album" Izzy just wanting the tension to be over he speaks up. "Man we all do , but if we want it to be perfect we gotta do what we gotta do" Izzy rolled up a joint.
"Okay I'll do it" Duff said as he picked up his bass again and went into the recording booth.

When duff finishes his part he walks out "Is there anything else I have to do?" He says as he stretches.

Axl thinks and then let's out a laugh "Yeah, take Slash shopping." Slash looks at Axl with a bit of embarrassment but more scared to be alone with the man he loves. "What?? Why?? I'm fine." He argues. "Your clothes are wrecked and since you only listen to Duff, he can take you to get some new clothes for tour" Axl says

Duff sighs "come on floof ball let's go shopping" he lights his cigarette but Slash lets out a sigh "but why?" Axl speaks up again "Because your pants are held together by duck tape" he laughs again "Go take the money that we got given extra by elektra and go get clothes" Axl says and gives him a wad of cash but Slash immediately grabs it, ignoring what he previously said. "I can buy so many dinos with this" he says almost with heart eyes as he walks out the studio.

"Keep an eye on him" Axl tells Duff before they leave