You're so dark (an Alex Turner fanfic)

lavender

Alex opened the door and immediately smelled the scent of lavender. The whole appartment was dark and he also did not want to turn on light.

 He took off his shoes and put his leatherjaket over a chair before he walked over to the bathroom where some dim light shone through the gap of the door.

 He knocked softly so she would not give her a shock.

 He then entered slowely, finding his bathroom in a warm light of an Ikea lamp that made the room glow in some sort of dark orange light.

 He smiled and got to the large bathtub where she was all covered in the bubblebath.

 She must have put a huge amount of soap into the water to make her nearly dissapear in that bubbely lavender stuff.

 He sometimes even called her 'lavender' because her hair allways smelled like it and it was like one of the first things coming to his mind when thinking of her.

 Alex smiled down at her, she had her hair up to a pretty messy bun so he could also see the tattoo on her neck that was usually hidden by her hair.

 She reached out a hand from which some water was dropping, wanting him to come closer. He did so and kissed her forehead

 "stressful day?" he asked.

 She closed her eyes "Don't even ask.." she sighed saw his worried look.

 He thought for a moment and then leaned down to stroke a strand of hair out of her face that was also orange from the light of the lamp. He looked at the bit of wet skin that was not covered by bubbley soap and smiled

 "May I join you?"

 She did not expect him to but squeezed his hand "Only if you make a stripshow for me!"

 "That and more" Alex answered before giving her a kiss on her lips.

 Both were way to done and exhausted from the day to have something more going on than cuddeling in the bathtub, but they loved to tease each other and to just forget about everything in nights like that.

 He laughed quietly and stepped back a little to get rid of his shirt and trousers.

 "A shame that you allready have a job...but hey if the people won't like your music in the future you could get professional stripper or call boy as well...A shame I don't have any money here with me to give you for that view..."

 she said as he put the clothes on the closed toilet seat so they wouldn't get wet on the ground.

 "Yeah you would like that hm? Alex the stripper...but I am allready your callboy, aren't I?"

 He got back to her, naked and ready to step into the bathtub, to face her, but she decided different. She moved foreward and he knew what she wanted.

 He climbed behind her, carefully so he wouldn't slip, being the clumsy person he was.

 He let himself slide slowely into the warm water and relaxed immediately.

 She then moved back as much as possible, touching his chest with her back and closed her eyes as she felt his arms around her, hugging her softly but still it felt like she was his lifebelt to hold on to in the stormy sea. And she simply was. He needed her so badly, especially now that everything was hectic and pure stress. They had gigs, interviews and recording going on.

 He had his eyes closed and enjoyed feeling her skin against his, the water surrounding them, only hearing her breath and the sound of the water was like a cure for his troubled mind that could never come to rest.

"When do we have to leave tomorrow?" "To get the plane in time...hm..probably around eleven.."

 She hummed and laid back her head on his shoulder, he hair tickeling his skin a little.

 She stroke over his arm around her with her hand and sighed exhausted "This day was so shit"

 "Why so?" he asked soft.

 "Everything...just everything..."

 He hugged her tighter "You can tell me.."

 "I know.."

 Sometimes he wished she would tell him what's on her mind, or what makes her sad or where her thoughts are at that moment.

 He simply kept on hugging her.

 "Got a dress?" he asked after a while

  "No actually not...I hoped you could borrow me one of yours, princess" she answered and earned a soft bite into her shoulder.

 "Of course I have! I have everything ready to leave tomorrow..but do you even earn a suite or just incredibly tight jeans?" she earned another bite and giggled. "I got my stuff as well...god I havn't been to Scotland in years.."  "It's the daughter of your mum's sister who will marry the scottish guy, right?"  Alex noded "Yep. She's actually like..I dunno like my sister...If I had siblings...I mean I don't know how it is..but I imagine it's like between her and me when you have a sibling.."  he said and had to smile when thinking of all the shit he had done with Cate when they were younger. "I'm actually looking foreward to her wedding...her fiancé is a great guy, they're together for years now.." he simply told her. Ruby smiled "Sounds lovely. How about the rest of your family that will be there? Do I have to prepar for something?" "Oh..besides that all have been in jail for murder and so on...nothing special.." he joked and made her laugh "Ok great! Just like you then!" 

"Still...I could imagine better things than meetin some of them...they...don't really...I don't know...take me serious actually. They still think that arctic monkeys is a dream of four school boys...they don't understand that it's like...my life.." he said quietly. She could feel that he was really not looking foreward to meet those kind of people and could totally understand him. She stroke over is knee that was by her side. "I understand..." A moment of silence.

 "Ruby..?"

 "Yes Alex"

 "May I ask you something?"

 "Sure"

 "Do you remember the night you took me to the pool?"

 She smiled "Sure I remember that night"

 "There's something about it...that I'm still curious about.."

 "Get on.."

 "You took me there and had no problem with swiming naked with a kind of stranger...but you refused in getting a Taxi back to yours...why?"

 And he suddenly regreted to have asked it. She felt how she suddenly tensed up a little and he was afraid he said something wrong.

 "I...I'm sorry..if I.."

 "It's ok Alexander...I...I actually thought you will ask about that...and I should have tould you earlier..."

 A small silence, she took a deep breath and the next words she said made  a huge part of the puzzle make sense for him.

 "I never take Taxis....because my parents died in one"