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It was about 2 in the morning, any sane person would probably be asleep by now right? Well benatar wasnt sane, and he tought itd be the perfect time to go out for a walk with his boyfriend.
"Its pissing down, goddamnit!"
Benatar huffed as he hurried into the bus, with axel following closley behind him.
When their finally in, benatar takes off his blazer and carlessly tosses it onto the floor, axel takes off his shirt and wraps it around vincent in a quick attempt to dry off his feathers.
"Ughhhh i told you it was gonna rain! Axel whines as he starts to shiver, his long brown hair was soaking wet- he kind of looked like a sad dog! This made benatar chuckle abit.
"Whats so funny?"
"No- no nothin' yew just look funny-"
Axel playfully smacks his face, and pushes past him to go to the bathroom and take a shower, but suddenly stops in his tracks as he hears a loud crack of thunder.
"What time is it er... 4? We should probably-" Benatar looks at axel, whos shivering in place. He looks like hes about to cry.
"Axel?"
Vincent struggles his way out of the shirt axel wrapped him in, and hops on over to him. Vincent preffered flying, but his wings were currently sopping wet at the moment, and he couldve walked like a normal bird, but he didnt really feel like it.
He squawks at his owner then angrilly glares at benatar, as if this was his fault.
Benatar goes over to axel and carefully guides him over to the dining booth in the bus's kitchen, helping him sit down.
"Whats wrong, luv?"
Axel opens his mouth to speak, but then yelps in fear as another crack of thunder can be heard, way too close to the bus for comfort.
Benatar frowns, and kisses the top of axels head softly.
"You scared of the thunder, eh?"
Axel nods franticlly, jumping up from his seat as he hears the thunder again, it was REALLY close this time, he felt his heart nearly fly out his throat.
Benatar sits down next to axel on the booth, and lays his head on his shoulder.
Vincent squawks angrilly and pulls on the pants of his trousers, this gets benatars attention and he picks him up and places him next to his owner.
"Awh sorry vincent! How could i forget yew?"
Axel chuckles softly, and pats the top of vincents head.
"You want me to get yew sum tea?"
"Thatd be nice yeah- but.. can we just-"
He grabs benatar and pulls him close as he sees him getting up, holding him near his chest."
"Can you just stay near me for now..? Please, dude."
Benatar sighs, and smiles softly at his lover. Poor thing was really scared..
Axel was always really energetic and went out of his way to be loud, sometimes even start fights- usually fights that he won.
But moments like this reminded benatar that he was still human, despite axels energetic personality and how tough he tried to present himself as, axel still had things he disliked, still had things he was afraid of.
Benatar nuzzles his head underneath axels chin, and begins to gently rub at his top scars.
"Mmf-"
Axel's face flushes a soft, rosy pink, and he tightens his hold on benatar.
Growing up axel was never scared of things that other kids were scared of, like the dark, or spiders, or blood, or silly things like the dentist, or getting shots at the doctors.
But he couldnt stand the sound of gunshots, and thunder sounded eerily similar to him.
Benatar was never sure why axel hated the sound so much, whenever he'd go over to his place to play shooter games axel would always ask him to turn the sound effects off.
He always assumed it was because it hurt his ears? Well axel was autistic, it was an autistic trait to hate loud noises.. but that didnt make sense! If he hated loud noises so much, why would he like drumming, and blasting his ears with death metal in the early hours of the morning?
"Axel..?"
"Hm?"
"Why are you scared..? Its fine if you dont want to tell me, i just- i tought maybe if i knew, id be able to help better."
Axel goes silent for abit, his eyes darting from one place to another. It was something he did when he was deep in tought, benatar always tought it was kind of disturbing.
Vincent also seems to find it quite disturbing, as hes gone fully silent too.
Axel finally speaks up.
"So uh..."
"Yes?"
"Yknow how I told you about that one time my dad took me out hunting to prove i was a "real man?" "
"Yeah, wot about that?"
"So uh... i had no clue how to aim- and then my uncle stepped in, got mad at me, tried helping me aim, and i was so panicked from him yelling that i uh mistook some lady for a deer and i uhh-"
Benatar gasps-
"YEW SHOT SOMEONE?"
"Hey hey- SHHHH"
Axel shushes him, wincing hard when another crack of thunder is heard, comfortably far from the bus this time.
"She didnt die but- i still felt really guilty."
"Yew, guilty? Thats new."
"Hey, i am PERFECTLY capable of feeling basic human empathy, dude."
"Sure, sure, so why arent yew guilty for when yew body slammed that kid at the grocery store?"
"He kept trying to pet vincent with his greasy cheeto fingers man-! Vincent, back me up here! I was tryna keep him safe-"
Vincent squawks in agreement.
"Pfft... was no reason to bodyslam him into the bloody freezer tho-!"
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Puff tosses and turns in his bunk, unable to sleep due to the loud ass thunder.
He checks his phone, the time is 5:43 AM.
"Fuckkkk" he mutters, then peers down to the bunk underneath him.
"Hey deejay, you up man?"
Deejay responds with a loud snore.
"Okaayy i guess not.. fuck this, i need a poptart."
He hops down from his bunk instead of climbing like a normal person, and looks at the other two bunks in the room, wich were empty.
Then he makes his way to the kitchen in search of a poptart (i hate puff i hope he DIES)
He flicks on the kitchen light and stops in his tracks completley, blinking multiple times, taking his glasses off, rubbing his eyes, even punching himself to make sure what he was seeing was infact real, and not a side effect of the lsd he took while at the bald beaver.
His drummer and keytarist were asleep on the booth, soaking wet, both embracing other.
"What the fu-"
Vincent spots puff and glares at him, angrilly squawking and flapping his damp wings in his direction.
"Okay, chill out you uncooked nugget i just want my fuckin poptart!"
Puff gets a poptart and makes his way back to his bunk, mentally regretting every life decision hes ever made.