The Diner

Something Great

Axl was staring at the older male in a sort of trance. The older male had been tuning his guitar and Axl wasn't one to complain, he liked listening to the man strum the guitar whenever he had the chance.

A lot had happened over the past few months, they had started to plan out the wedding, Axl told Slash there was no way in hell he was going to be wearing a dress.

And so they had been looking at different outfits, because as much as Slash would complain on and on about Axl wanting to get married to him in his leather jacket and outfits that sounded like a thousand keys jingling at once, he would never deny the fact that he was completly and fully head over heels in love with the man.

They were currently in a field of nothing but grass, but it was comforting to Axl to just watch Slash strum and not have a care in the world about it.

If you were to ask Slash, he would say that he didn't know why the man liked to watch him so much when he was playing.

But Axl knew, and would keep it a secret until he was buried in the grave for the reason of dying of embarrassment. But he knew why he liked seeing the older male play so much.

It was his hands.

His hands were like works of art, veins littering the hands, big calloused fingers that would hold Axls hand in his own and nearly swallow it whole in his.

And when the man sung softly under his breath, it made him fall in love with him over and over again every time, unable to stop.

He sang like no one was watching, even though Axl couldn't help but stare. He sang like everything he needed was right in front of him, and the rest of the world could wait.

Axl thinks that's why he fell in love with the man.

It wasn't easy to let people know how he felt, or why he was angry half the time at nothing.

But Slash just knew.

He didn't ask questions, he just sat down and looked at Axl with a look of pure love and awe that had the man instantly spilling his heart out.

He had never had someone like that before, and he didn't think- no. He knew he didn't want to pour his heart out to anyone else.

His eyes drifted from the man down to the engagement ring around his finger and traced over the slightly raised scales of it, smiling softly.

Izzy would literally smack him if he saw him being this cheesy right about now, but the truth was, Axl didn't care.

He had someone in front of him who completely and utterly came into his life and fucked it up entirely.

Had his friends make fun of him, made his sexual life a living hell..something that big should not have been able to fit inside him. He was limping for days.

But. His life had been fucked up in a good way, he never thought he would even have someone who would handle his outbursts, and make him open up by just tilting their damn head up.

Much less actually make him fall in love with them, and then the biggest shock of them all.

Slash loved Axl back. He actually wanted to spend his life with the crazy man, mind you if Axl actually called himself crazy in front of anyone he was close to he would probably get a snort thrown his way with a "you just now figured that out?" Thrown at him.

This man had came into the diner he worked at, crawling into his chest, cracking open his frozen heart and ribs in his chest, and labeled it as a permanent address.

It all comes crashing down on him as he looks at the man with the same amount of awe in his eyes the man always seemed to have for him.

"You alright pet?" He asked with a tilt of his head and a bit of fondness in his voice.

Axl smiled softly, and shook his head.

"Your quite something." He says before glancing down at his ring and smiles even brighter, it competing with the stars hung above their head.

Slash bit his lip and watched him, before saying quietly "something good?"

Axl looked up at the man with so much softness that Slash thought he himself would stop breathing, before Axl pulled out a picture.

But not just a picture.

A sonogram.

Axl looked up at the older man with his eyes and the stars above their head sparkling, as if hearing their conversation and having one of their own, before he finally answered him.

"Something Great."

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Hello, almost seven months huh? I must apologize. But Phersephon and VenusApparatus Inspired me I guess as much as I inspire them. And this chapter wouldn't be here without their encouragement of liking my stories.

So, Axl is pregnant. And I'm back into writing, two things I didn't think could happen.

But, with a little bit of imagination and belief in yourself, anything can happen.

See you soon-🐍🌹