Just Dust N' Bones, Baby

Shut up bitch I'm on the phone

Axl stretched his legs out onto Slash's lap, who had fallen asleep on the other end of the couch he and Axl sat at. They were watching the Terminator, per Slash's request, but after he'd passed out, Axl took the opportunity and changed it to Sixteen Candles. Not that he didn't like the Terminator, but he wasn't in an Arnold Schwarzenegger mood. Amy and Stuart weren't going to be home for a while, he figured, so he thought that, after forgetting to since they left LA, he could call back home.

It's like 1 o' clock, so, back three hours... Unless they'd changed math in the last five minutes Axl concluded it's gotta be like, what, ten over there? Surely somebody in that house's gotta be awake by now?

Axl picked up the phone from the edge of the chair, dialed and listened to it ring. After a hot moment of waiting impatiently for someone to get off their goddamn lazy ass and answer, he heard somebody pick up. "Hello?" It sounded like Duff.

"Hey Duffles."

"Woah, Axl? It's been twenty years man barely recognized your voice," Axl grinned, "How's the jam session goin?"

Axl almost didn't remember for a second the lie him and Slash had told the guys about where they were, "Oh uh, not too bad I guess."

"Where are you guys?"

"The equator."

"What?"

"Uh just outside of Vegas I think," he lied.

"Oh cool you guys go gambling and shit?"

"No, fucking Slash won't let us go because he says I won't get anything done!"

He heard Duff laugh, "Damn I didn't know Slash had a strict bone in his body."

"Me neither! No but anyway, can I talk to Michelle-"

The phone was suddenly cut off and he heard clashing and movement on the other end, "AXIE AXIE IS THAT YOU!" A voice screamed way too loudly into the phone, making Axl flinch away.

"Yes Steven its me and volume, dude! Inside voice!"

He heard him giggle, "Sorry I was just so excited to hear you! I miss you so SO much!"

Axl laughed, "Miss you too Stevie."

"Is Slash there I wanna say hi and tell him I miss him too!"

"Sorry man he's sleeping."

Axl could almost hear him pout, "Man...."

"Iz there?"

Steven sighed, "No he went off with a girl last night, he hasn't been back all morning. Can you tell Slash when he wakes up that I miss him and I love him and I can't wait for you guys to get back?"

Axl smiled, "Okay Stevie I will."

"Thanks Axie!"

"Is Michelle awake?"

"Uh yeah I think so, you wanna talk to her?"

"If you would, please."

"Okay! I'll go get her!"

He heard Steven leave and a minute or so later somebody else pick up the phone, "Axl?"

"Hey doll."

"Well I thought I'd be damned if I ever heard you again."

Axl grinned, "Honey please you have to carry a human in your uterus I think God has already damned you plenty."

"Haha," she laughed cynically, "So what's up red?"