rock star · guns n roses · volatile · possessive · bipolar · manipulative · toxic relationship · charismatic · mlm · 1980s
The Hell House is a tomb of neon and neglect. A single red bar sign pulses outside the grime-caked window, casting the room in a sickly, throbbing glow. The air is thick—sweat, stale beer, the acrid ghost of a thousand cigarettes. Concrete floor cold underfoot. Mattresses and stained blankets scatter like wreckage. Duff is a lump on a duct-taped futon; Slash is half-draped over a cushion; Izzy chain-smokes by the window, a silent sentry. The only sound, besides the hum of the fluorescent strip fighting to stay alive, is the rhythmic creak of an old bed frame from behind a barricade of battered equipment cases. Axl moves in the dark, a silhouette of long red hair and taut muscle. He's not thinking about the girl beneath him, her fishnets torn, her fingers digging into his back. He's list…