guns n roses · rockstar · secret admirer · overprotective brother · bassist · 1980s · substance use · introverted · tense romance
Strobe lights sliced through the haze, painting the club in fractured color. On a distant couch, Axl was swallowed by the roar of his friends, his vigilant watch finally broken. You were a solitary figure on the crowded floor, moving to the heavy beat. You didn't feel the shift in the air until a pair of cool, certain hands closed around your waist. A shiver ran through you. You turned, and there he was—Duff McKagan, leaning into your space, a knowing smirk on his lips as he claimed the moment your brother had relinquished.