Chasing light~James Hetfield x Y/N

To live is to die

Tw: Trauma

After Y/n had left, the pair made their way back to the booth and asked for Sofia and Becky to come talk to them for a little bit outside. "I really don't know what happened, but she's gone, there's a half-conscious man on the floor and she seemed very shaken.", James told them. After a couple minutes of debating the whole incident, they decided that it would be best to go see if she's in the camper before panicking. With that in mind, they excused themselves from the group,saying that they were feeling tired and were going back to rest, and Kirk called a cab over to come pick them up.

Arriving at the lot, they all walked to the third bus, hoping to find berry there and not missing any pieces. As they slowly creaked the metal door open, relief washed over all of them as they saw Y/n there, but that initial joy was quickly changed into horror as they saw all the blood surrounding her. The fight had its impact and it showed. Her band mates were about to rush to her side as James put hit arm out stopping them from doing so. "What are you doing?!", Becky aggressively whispered. "You two need to call the others and tell them to come back, alright?", he stated, "We know how to take care of the wounds and we'll put her into bed. It's been a long night for everyone, so afterwards go sleep, you can check up on her in the morning. In the meantime, we'll keep an eye on her."

Even tho the girls wanted to protest, they did in fact not really know how to handle the situation, so they instead just followed James indications while making him swear to not fuck up anything. On her way out, Sofia accidentally slammed the door causing a loud thud and Y/n to groggily awaken from her slumber. Kirk noticed it and immediately started to try to talk to her, but it was like she was somewhere else entirely. Her eyes were barely open, but they displayed the confusion and sadness that was filling her brain. Y/n tried to straighten herself in her seat, but her body felt heavier than usual and she fell on her side, hitting her head quite harshly. James quickly got to his knees and yelled at Kirk to speed up his little search game before she'd completely fade into the black that surrounded her thoughts.

"It's ok Y/n, you'll be alright just hold on to me.", James kept repeating to her while the curly haired man was bandaging her knuckles and he was disinfecting the cuts on her face. She wouldn't talk at all tho, normally you almost couldn't stop her from doing so, but she always lost her words once things turned sour. James sat beside her, laying his precious girl's head onto his lap, petting her hair while whispering reassuring words in her ear, but that wasn't enough to confort berry, so she painfully lifted herself up and sat on his lap wrapping her arms around him, nuzzling her face inside of his chest. "Are you ok Y/n?", he asked, but before she could even say anything he had his answer as he heard small cries coming out from her. Both men gave each other very concerned looks, what were they supposed to do?

A few more minutes passed by and the door swung open once again revealing Lars and Robert's return to the camper. "Uhhhh..what's going on?", Lars asked while glancing at the sight of the drummer hugging his best friend like a teddy bear. "We don't exactly know, but we walked in on her all bloodied up after coming back early. We think someone did something bad and it started a fight, but we can't really get any answers at the moment.", Kirk stated while gently rubbing her back. "Alright, is there anything we can do?", Robert responded, but was denied with a shake of the head by the men at the table. After a short conversation , James shushed the group once he noticed that her breathing had slowed down and that she was now falling in and out of consciousness , in his comforting embrace. He slowly got up, excusing himself from the group, and carried her all the way to the bunks, delicately placing her exhausted frame over her bed.

Turning around to grab his blanket to put it on his sweet drummer, he flinched feeling a cold set of his hand tighten themselves around his wrist. "James", she whispered, "Don't leave, please, I need you.", her voice starting to crack as sobs found their way back to her eyes. The man grabbed the blanket and snuggled himself next to his precious girl, his heart breaking at her misery. "My head hurts", she said while climbing back on top of him to be even closer to him. "I know darling, just shut your eyes, I'll be here. I'm not going to leave.", he mumbled while placing gentle kisses onto her temples. After having James hands rubbing her back and massaging her hair, she fully caved into his comforting and warm arms, peacefully laying her head on his chest while her arms surrounded his neck.

On any normal night, the guys would have bickered and questioned the singer for having her laid on his body sleeping, but they knew to let it go. "Goodnight Y/n", Kirk whispered after crouching down to see how she was holding on and went to his own bunk. After a little while, James felt a little uncomfortable falling asleep, cause he thought he might turn and make his sleeping beauty fall and so, he laid her on her side and wrapped himself around her. Waking up at around 1am, she grunted at the stinging pain in her face and knuckles, but her heart melted seeing him wrapped around her. She shifted a little which woke him up. "Are you ok?", he asked, but before he could finish his sentence, her lips crashed onto his. It shocked him, but he pulled her back, making the exchange more passionate with each second passing by. "Thank you", she said to him, laying back down while hugging his chest. "Of course sweetheart, but don't think you'll get away with just a sly kiss, I've been waiting for this moment this whole tour, you're teasing has been driving me wild." "I know, but I'm too tired for this, how about the next time they go out? I really don't want to go to a club after getting groped by that asshole." He lifted her chin up and looked at her concerned," That's what he did to you? If I would've known, I would've killed him.", he said, "You were so brave tonight, I'm so proud of you for beating his ass." With that, the two of them fell back into their slumber, love coursing through their veins and ready to confront any bad that came their way.

Note: ANOTHER CHAPTER GUYS WOOHOO🥳. Bro my life has went to shit the past few weeks, but your comments have really been helping me be happier and so I want to thank all of you.  Plus other than smut, I need to figure out more ideas, so I gotta work on that💀 Hope you enjoyed💜