Metallica smut/fluff || x reader

42. James Hetfield // Papa Het

This is James in his St.Anger era, you and him had been together for years and have kids together and while he's been so pressured and stressed and mad lately, you wanna call him down which helps
James's Pov

I was sitting in the studio in San Francisco with Lars, Kirk, the filmmakers, my manager and etc. while I was arguing with Lars. I just couldn't take being upset with him so I left and went to the phone. I had to get back in the studio sometimes soon and I just wasn't wanting to go back in and be frustrated so I decided to call Y/n. The phone rang a few times before I heard it pick up and her sweet voice come in on the other end.

"Hello?"

I smile, "Hey, baby."

I heard her chuckle, "Hey, James...everything okay at work?"

I shake my head, "Uhhh...I'm just not in a good mood at all. I miss you. I'm sorry I've been gone for so long...work has been nipping me in the ass all week long."

"Do you want me to come see you? I can bring Liam (both of your guys' baby)?" She offers.

I hesitate and nod, "Yeah. I just need to see you and Liam."

"Okay, I'll come down. See you in a bit, babe." She says softly.

I nod, "Okay, bye babe."

I then hung up and sigh while furrowing my brows and rubbing my temples.

•••

I was in the studio again as I saw the door open and Liam come running in.

"Daddy!" He calls out and comes to me.

I smile and pick him up while hugging him. I laugh and rub his back as Y/n came in and to me while kissing me and then my forehead.

"Hey, Lars! Hey, Kirk! How's it going?" She says and waves at them.

They wave at her, "Going decent. What about you?" Kirk returns and asks Y/n.

She shrugs, "Good so far."

Lars nods, "yeah, just jamming."

Y/n shrugs, "Can I hear it so far?"

I pull out a chair for her next to me while Liam climbed onto my lap so I held him and bounced my leg for him a little.

"You wanna run Sweet Amber real quick?" I say to my boss inside.

He nods and began to run it while Y/n listened but Liam was just holding onto me, saying 'Daddy, this and that' or 'Daddy, this or that' and kept talking to me about random things which I loved to listen to him tell me things because I love to realize sometimes when I don't think on it too much that I'm his dad and it takes a lot to be a father.

"This sounds really good so far," Y/n tells me with a smile.

I held her hand and smile, "thank you."

Liam ended up getting off my lap and went to Kirk because he loved Kirk and got on Kirk's lap. He's 4 by the way.

"Well hey, little dude," Kirk says and talked with him for a little.

Liam went around to say hi to everyone before coming back to me and Y/n.

•••

Me, Y/n, and Liam left the studio while we went back home as I felt so upset with everything but when Y/n was around, she calmed me down. When Liam was playing in his room, I was in the kitchen with Y/n, talking about stuff.

"Well, babe, we've been married since '91. We've been able to talk about things since we met each other which was in '81. Babe, I've been with you every step of the way and I don't want you to go down this hole of confusion and loneliness because you can't talk about it with me...if you're not comfortable with it then that's fine but when you start to keep things from me, that makes me upset and like you don't trust me," Y/n told me and held my face.