Just Dust N' Bones, Baby

I Used To Love Her (But I had to kill her)

Slash woke up at god knows what time in the morning. All he knew was that it was too fucking early for shit. But unfortunately, he didn't get to decide when he woke up, because rather his sleep was interrupted by a wriggly human leaping onto his bed and tackling him, "Slashy Slashy you're back! You're back! I missed you so so so so SOOO much!" Steven squealed, hugging him aggressively. 

Slash scrambled slightly, waking himself up, "Jesus fuck Stevie give a guy a warning.." 

"I'm sorry I just woke up this morning and Duff said you guys came back in the night I got so excited I couldn't wait for you to wake up to hug you! I love you Slash I didn't want to go another hour, or minute, or-or-or even second without talking to you!!" 

Slash sighed, "I missed you too, Steve." 

"I needa go give Axl a hug now!!" 

Slash stopped him before he could run off, "Is he still sleeping?" 

"Yeah?" 

"Steven, don't you remember what we've learned..??" 

Steven pouted, looking down, "...Don't bother Axl when he's sleeping....." 

"Very good." 

Steven moved on to another subject. The guy had the memory of a goldfish. "How was your trip tell me everything!!" 

Slash froze for a second, what if when Axl wakes up he says a different story than him?? "Uh, y'know, pretty straightforward, I was wasted outta my mind most of the time, Axl would probably tell a much better story." 

"Aww okay... Did you guys work out a song at least..?" 

"Um.. Yes," he lied, praying to God Axl at least had come up with something that Slash could improvise off of. 

"Can I hear it!?" Steven wriggled excitedly. 

"Sorry Steve, again, you'd want Axl to sing it for you." 

"I can't at least just hear the guitar part?" Slash shook his head. "Man...." he sighed, before suddenly perking up again, "Oh oh! Guess what!?" 

"What?" 

"This guy, um, Allan something I think was his name I dunno, anyway, he came by the other day and wanted to talk to us about being our manager!!" 

"Really!? That's great! Do we know anything about him like what other bands he's managed or what he can do for us?" 

"No not yet, we said we'll call him when we're ready to make an agreement when our frontman's back, 'cause there wasn't no way we were gonna try to make a deal without Axl." 

"Right." 

"Yeah but he said that he could help us book some more gigs and get us some attention with record companies!!" 

"Fuck that's awesome! Steven we're gonna make it!" Slash thought about Axl's future, and he realized this little step was a big step closer to it. 

We can do it. 

 Axl and Michelle left later that day for some doctor appointment. Before she left though, she caught Slash by the door, and was talking to him and not making much sense. "Slash, I know you're not always the brightest so listen to me." 

Slash had blinked, "Uh, okay." 

"If Erin comes over here, she's gonna want to talk to you. You'll probably be okay, but if she's too much, just play to her ego. Okay?" Slash was so incredibly confused. But Axl was outside honking the car horn in the driveway for Michelle to hurry up and get her ass out there. And she was gone before Slash could ask what the fuck.