Love Me Tender (W. Axl Rose) (Izzy Stradlin)

Chapter Thirty-Four

His fingers trailed along my cheek and slowly he lent in closer, his lips already brushing against my own. "You wanna know how long I've been waiting for this?" Izzy whispers, his other arm wrapping securely around my waist. I couldn't help but let out a sigh against his lips. He was surely teasing me, making me want him more and more.

"How long?" I smirk, now reaching up and wrapping my arms around the back of his neck. Izzy didn't answer, instead he closed the gap between us. His warm smooth lips tenderly kissing me, the longer we kissed the more turned on I felt.

"What the fuck is going on in here?" Axl's voice roared, startling the pair of us.

Waking up with a fright, I jumped from where I was and gasped for a breath. It felt like I had been holding my breath for way too long, as if I had been under water long enough that my lungs were close to exploding on me.

"You alright?" A voice spoke, which managed to catch me off guard as well. Realising that I was in fact on the lounge covered with a blanket, and snuggled up against a peacefully asleep Izzy beside me. Furrowing my eyebrows, I turned my head to see Axl was lent up against the bench with his arms across his chest. He was just standing there, obviously he had been staring at the pair of us at the lounge was I was sound asleep. Strange.

"I'm fine. How did you get in?" I ask, keeping my eyes on Axl. He just stood there, he didn't have the most pleased expression in the world but he sure as hell didn't look pissed; that was a start. Axl let out a sigh before reaching into his blue jeans and pulling out a key, allowing it to dangle around his finger for a moment before putting it back into his pocket. I tiredly nodded before leaning back against the lounge, turning my head to gaze at Izzy. He was dead to the world, his face of course blank without any emotion except peace.

"So, I gather Izz was the one you rang yesterday." Axl cleared his throat. Hearing footsteps, my eyes glanced up to see Axl now stood in front of us. He looked down at me, his eyes flickered to Izzy and of course back to meet my blue eyes.

"Yes, he was. He's the only other person I trust." I state, my tone wasn't harsh but it was firm. Axl simply nodded his head, keeping his eyes locked on me. Taking my eyes from Axl, I heard a slight noise from the bedroom. Nathaniel. Slowly pulling the blanket off of myself, I got to my feet and securely placed the blanket over Izzy. Axl seemed to have the same idea as me, considering he had wandered in front of me, heading in the same direction.

"So what are you doing here?" I ask finally. Axl looked over his shoulder at me as we both entered the bedroom.

"I came to see you and our son." He breathes, his fingers trailing the railing of the cot as we both glanced down at our son. "And came to apologise, for being a dick."

I looked up at Axl, my eyebrows furrowed as he took a moment to look back at me. "I shouldn't of acted the way I did, nor should I have left the both of you on the side of the freeway like I did. Regardless of you telling me to. None of that should of happened like it did. So I'm sorry." He apologised, to which I nodded my head.

"So, anything happen when you left us for her?" I ask, reaching down and picking Nathaniel out of his cot. Axl kept his eyes low and shook his head.

"Of course not, I just took her home."

"Okay." I turn away from Axl and walk out of the bedroom. Izzy's eyes were now open and he was groggily sitting there watching me. For a moment, it looked like he was still waking up and gathering his thoughts before he reacted.

"Morning sw-" Izzy started but drew short as his eyes seemed to stop on Axl who was behind me.

"Good morning Izzy." I beam at him, flashing him an innocent smile.