You're so dark (an Alex Turner fanfic)

Red wine and cigaretts

He stopped the motorbike in the small alleyway along the building with her flat in. She climbed off the back and opened the helmet he had given her. He did the same and looked actually really funny how his usually styled hair got messy.

 He was not quite sure what to do, weather to wish her a good night and leave, or ask her to get up into her appartment, he concidered that as no good idea because she should come up with an offer like that, weather she wanted him in or not. He smiled at her only wished that this night would never end. It was allready late, they had spent hours in that conservatory, only laying there, watching the butterflies pass and the stars coming out.

 It was the most beautiful date he ever had. It was the same for her.

 "Alex..." she whispered and looked deep into his eyes "Thank you! This evening was...beautiful!"

 He smiled "Yes it was. I'm glad you liked my little surprise"

 "Indeed I did"

 "Ok then...I better not stop you from getting sleep...and-"

 "-wait! I actually need to show you something, remember?" she said smiling and made his heart jump of happiness, this date was not over yet.

 "Yes I remember! The Footloose record right? Because I did not believe you" he said laughing uietly.

 She noded and got in the direction of the door "Exactly! I can't let that just stay in the room like that!"

 Alex chuckled and followed her.

 She was actually someone who never allowed anyone to 'break' into her safe heaven, but he was different. He did so much to make her have a nice evening, he did not use her for anything and he was just this little dreamer that she actually coulnd't get enough from.

 She also wanted him to see how she lived, who she was on the inside.

 She never had an upcoming romance like that. Those evenings they had shared so she thought maybe it was the time to also change smething about being the untouchable could hearted rock she sometimes was.

 Alex made her feel like she had nothing to hide from him, that however dark her thoughts sometimes were, he wanted to see them, feel them that he wanted her like the woman she was. He had allready shown her so much of himself, of his mind and his thoughts that it seemed the only right thing to do the same for him now by letting him into her apparment.

He followed her up and he was really curious about how she lived. "You're not allergic to cats, are you?" she asked as she searched for her key. He smiled and shoke his head. He was right he thought, a cat person. "Good, becuase in that case I would have been forced to ask you to leave!" she joked and finally got the key.

As soon as the door opened they heared how a small weight jumped down on the ground and rushed to the dor "Quick close the door or he'll escape again" The beautifully striped and fluffy cat got to them as soon as Ruby turned on the light. Alex had no time to look around because the fur ball immediately got to him, being curious and sniffed at his shoes then looked up to him and meowed as if to ask what on earth this stranger wanted in his holy home in the midle of the night, interrupting his sleep. Ruby got him up in her arms and held in in front of Alex "Aleyander, Heisenberg. Heisenberg, Alexander" she aid smiling and let Alex stroke him between his ears. "You're watching Breaking Bad then I assume" he asked while Heisenberg started purring quietly by his stroking.

 "No, actually I'm a big fan of nazi-physicists!" she said dead serious but laughed "Of course it's because of the show! I'm actually kind of addicted"

 "God me too! I love it so much! Wanna cook?" he said laughing.

 She let down the cat "Better not I was totally lost in chemistry in school. I hated it! Once I nearly set fire to the classroom"

 "Well I nearly set fire to my kitchen so we both better just order food...or meth" he joked back.

 "Nah..I can live without I guess" she answered while walking further inside the room.

 "just...sit down on the couch and...just...don't touch anything" she said a little nervous.

 He did as she wished, respecting her rules of course and smiled as Heisenberg jumped on his lap to get cuddle

 Alex was more of a dog person, he allways dreamt of having one, a big one, maybe a german sheppard, but of course he could not care for a dog like he would need it becaue of his band, of which he did not loose one word about and he hoped it could stay like that for another while.

 She sat down in front of her record collection and only needed a few seconds till she found it with a triuphing 'ha told ya' and showed it to him.

 "Ok now I owe you a cigarett!" he answered while looking around, trying not to be too curious. He loved what he saw. Many books, many pictures and paintings filling the small room, a small kitchen and kind of bedroom, isolated by some white curtains around the bedframe.

 "Yes you do and I actually could claim that right now"

 "Deal!"

 She got up and to the kitchen to get what they needed.

 In the maintime he got up and put a record into the player that soon filled the room with music.

 She came back smiling "Queen...good choice!!" she said and sat down next to him on the ground.

 She had brought an ashtray and to his surprise a bottle of red wine with two glasses.

 "So you want to prevent me from getting home, should I call that 'deprivation of liberty' ?"

 "You should call that 'extermination of the best wine I own"

 "I'll fo with that"

They sat there on the ground, drinking nearly the whole bottle while listening to half her record collection. They did not care abut how late it ws, they allways found something to talk about. The bottle was empty when they both lay on the ground, not next to each other. Only their heads where on one level, their feet facing respectively at the different direction.

 The light was turned off, expect for the fairylights around the bed.

 The door to the balcony was opened so fresh and cold air got inside while the cigarettsmoke raised in the air.

 Ruby was actually about to fall asleep there on the ground when Alex extinguished his hundreds cigarett and loked at her

 "Ruby?" he whispered, his voice sounding soft.

 "mhm.."

 "You are wonderful" he whispered.

 She smiled, her eyes closed, slightly drunk, just like he was after their second bottle and after playing 'spin the bottle'with the first which lead to some pretty personal questions and answers, while David Bowie was singing for them.

 "And you are a dreamer Alex Turner from Sheffield" she whispered back "I like dreamers" was the last thing she said before falling asleep there on the carpet.

 He had to smile like some happy unicorn from what she just said. He was sleepy as well and knew he would sleep here tonight. She looked like she was freezing so he got up slowely to close the door. He got back and knew lifting her up would not be a good idea, not because he could not hold her but because maybe she would not want him to. He got a pillow for her and a blanket from the couch. He carefully lifted her head not to wake her of course and stroke back some hair that fell into her beautiful face. He then put the huge blanket over her pretty cold body. He wanted to step back to make himself some sort of nightcamp when suddenly he felt her hand grabbing his wrist in her sleep as he thought at first but she was awake again for some seconds and pulled him slowely closer with the last energy she got before falling asleep again, deep this time.  Her message was clear and so he cuddled himself under the blanket as well, hugging her back and nuzzeling his face into her good smelling hair. He couldn't believe all that happened during those few days, how could it be possible to fall for a human soul so quickly? But it was. And he could feel that this feeling was floating both ways. He felt like it was all a dream and maybe it was, but if so this whole evening and night was the most beautiful dream he ever dreamt in his whole life. And with this thought he also fell asleep untill both got woken up by some footsteps in the next morning.