Setting: From Dec 2009 on

Pairing : BellDom (yay!)

Rating: pg15 so far

Genre: comedy, romantic, supernatural… and dark (but just a little bit, lol!)

Disclaimer: I don't know/own Muse and the people around them (but the original characters are just mine and I'm pretty jealous of them, lol!) , this has never happened and I don't get money for writing this, it's just so much fun!

Feedback: it's my resistance!

Summary: I adore vampires and I adore Muse. Put two and two together, add a lot of BellDom and you'll get this story. Vampires can even be fun, you bet!

Prologue: I'll comfort you, my friend, helping you to blow it all away.

"This place reminds me of Gaia." Matt states, with a melodramatic attitude, as he sits with his friends at the table they reserved in the restaurant.

"But you've never been in this restaurant!" Chris reminds him, as he grabs the menu, to read it.

"And mostly you have never been here, in Las Vegas, with her. Maybe last week, some places could remind you of Gaia, since we were in Italy, but it can't happen here." Dom protests, as he takes a quick, curious look around.

"It's not the place itself. Truth is that I've been in tons of restaurants with her, so only the fact of being in a restaurant, no matter which one and wherever it is, reminds me of her." Matthew explains.

"So, if that is the way you think, you'll end up pining for her, wherever you are, whatever you do." Dominic comments.

"I can't help it." his best friend sighs, unhappily.

"C'mon, Bells, I can't watch you like this. You've got to get over her!" Chris exclaims, kind of worried for his friend.

"Don't worry about me, I'll sort it out. After all, it's still too soon for me to have gotten over her. It's only been a month since Gaia and I split up." Matt exclaims.

"That's right, it's already a month, which is a good reason to cheer up. Look at me: when Jess left me, I recovered in a week!" Dominic points out.

"You've never really loved Jess." Matt states, so solemnly that Dom can only nod.

"Just like I never really loved Gaia, at the very end." Matt thinks, as he focuses on his best friend.

"Besides, you shouldn't be so upset about it. After all, it was a mutual decision, between Gaia and you." Chris points out, wisely.

Matthew jumps and puts his head in his hands, sighing heavily as he stares at the floor.

"I said it was a mutual decision, but I lied. It was Gaia who decided to leave me." he confesses.

" And I can't blame her, after all." he says to himself.

"Really?" Chris looks at him, astonished.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Dominic wonders.

"I have now." Matthew replies.

"Well, it doesn't matter who decided what, the most important thing is that now it's the beginning of a new life for you and it will be a new life that's plenty of wonderful stuff, such as the show at the Holiday Havoc we had tonight." Chris says, cheering him up.

"Yep, it was great, the crowd was amazing." Matt recalls, satisfied.

"Chris is right. And I'm sure that soon you'll find someone to share your new life with. Someone special who will love you the way you deserve to be loved." Dominic adds.

"You shouldn't even go too far to find this person…" he thinks, a little melancholic.

"C'mon, tonight you must only think about having fun. By the way, let's start making orders. I'm starving." Chris comments.

"Sure; after all, for you to eat means to have fun!" Dominic teases him.

"Pretty much!" Chris nods, proudly.

Matt can't help chuckling, watching the scene.

Chris and Dom notice that and they both turn to him, astonished.

"What?" Matt asks them, puzzled.

"You're chuckling." Chris replies.

"You haven't chuckled for ages. You haven't even smiled. I don't mean the plastic smiles you wear during the interviews and in the photo shoots; I mean a real smile, an authentic, genuine one." Dominic adds, happy to see his best friend in a better mood.

"And now I'm smiling a true smile. I'm lucky for having such amazing friends like you, guys!" Matt states.

" Yeah, friends…" Dominic repeats in his mind, grieving.

The waiter comes to take their orders and their chatting goes on, among dishes and glasses of vintage red wine.

Chris and Dom observe Matthew gladly, as he eats his food eagerly. It's another of the things he has rarely done in the past few weeks.

When they're done with their dinner, Chris gets up from the table.

"Guys, I'm leaving you. I've already called a cab, it should be here by now." he informs them.

"So, big guy, are you abandoning us already?" Matt accuses him.

"You know that I need to rest much longer than you do, especially between two concerts." he justifies, as he glances at his watch. "Besides, I'm going to call Kelly. She said she would get up early, waiting for my call." he adds.

"Awww, your wife is so lovely." Dom comments, softened.

"So, Chris, treat her well and never let her go." Matt advises him, thoughtful.

"You're so lucky, you can be happy with who you really want"

"Be sure of that." Chris nods, before leaving.

Dom bits his tongue.

"Damn my bloody mouth. Talking about lovely girls probably made Matt think about Gaia again." he figures out, as he observes the brunet, intensely. "Although I don't know what he found so lovely about her" he wonders, as a pang of jealousy hits him.

"So, Matt, here we are. You and me; all alone, mucking around, just like the dear, old, golden times." Dom exclaims, grinning at him.

"I've missed that." Matt smiles sincerely at him.

"Me, too." the blond replies, sweetly.

Dominic is really happy that Matthew remained with him, not only because he can spend some precious time with him alone, but mostly for the fact that he didn't go away on his own, acting in the reckless way he has been acting in the last few weeks.

Because, even more than usually, Matt has been getting scarily drunk, seducing the first girl that meets his eyes, no matter if it's a model, an actress, a waitress, whatever, and disappearing with her all night long, without caring about anything.

And Dominic is getting sadly accustomed to seeing Matt coming back the morning after, with a terrible hangover, pale, starving, with shadows under his eyes. In a word, empty.

What Dom doesn't know is that Matt acts like that because he desperately needs to get lost, in order to free his mind from some thoughts that scare the hell out of him.

Dominic thanks God that, so far Matt has appealed only to alcohol and one-night-stands, but he could decide any moment to resort to something more dangerous and self-destructive.

Plus, the one-night-stands are very unsafe, since Matthew could easily come upon someone ill-intentioned.

Anyway, Dominic doesn't want to think about these worrisome things; at least, not tonight.

"I'm happy you decided to stay tonight, instead of spoiling yourself once again." Dom admits, sipping from his glass.

"You're the medicine to all my troubles." Matt confesses, as he pours the wine into his glass.

"But at the same time you're the cause of all this!" he thinks.

They're drinking a lot and alcohol is letting their inhibitions go.

They increase their closeness as they chat and laugh about their past adventures and memories; soon, Dom finds himself playing with Matt's spiky hair, and the brunet doesn't complain at all.

"Matthew, I can't see you suffering like you have been in the past weeks. You're such a special creature who shouldn't even know what pain is. You should always be happy, carefree and… loved." Dom murmurs as he caresses his nape.

Matt stares at his best friend, his sky-blue eyes getting lost in the green-grey of Dom's.

"Do you really think so?" he asks him, as he leans a bit closer.

"Of course, Matt. I want you to get out of this; I want to help you; I want to be close to you; I want you to be able to rely on me for anything, Matthew." the blond whispers, biting his lips as he stares at Matt's slightly parted lips.

Dom can't resist anymore.

"Anything." he repeats, before covering Matt's mouth with his own.

It's a kiss that doesn't even need to disguise itself as a shy and clumsy attempt, because Matt immediately answers to it, kissing Dom back with greediness, intensity, passion and… joy.

They both close their eyes and don't seem to care about the fact that they're still in a public place. After all, the restaurant is about to close, all the waiters are busy doing their chores and there's almost no one else left.

Plus, Matt and Dom are in a kind of private area, isolated from the rest of the customers.

They've drunk enough to behave so impulsively, but not enough to not be perfectly aware of what they're doing.

Their kiss goes on, as it turns more and more demanding and starts to involve exploring tongues and hands, until the realization hits one of them.

Matt starts to work something out, no matter if it's something terribly wrong.

"Dom is kissing me. I'm kissing him back. And he's letting me do that. Wait. He's drunk; he must be completely pissed. The sober Dom would never ever do such a thing. I just can't take advantage of the situation." he establishes, stopping the kiss abruptly and parting from him.

He stares at Dominic with pure terror in his eyes and a huge guilty sense.

"This 's not good. This 's not fair." he babbles, before running away, leaving Dom alone and confused.

Too bad that the blond analyzes what happened and jumps to the most mistaken conclusion ever.

"I tried to kiss him and he kissed me back, but it's only because he's bloody drunk. But he rejected me, out of the blue. And if he rejected me even in his drunk state, it means that I don't have even a single chance with his sober version." he realizes, saddening.

He gets up from the table, pays the bill and leaves the restaurant, as he has only one main concern in his mind.

"How the hell am I supposed to act with Matt tomorrow… which is already today?"

Hidden in the shadows, someone has observed the whole scene, hearing everything, even their inner thoughts and desires.

TBC

OK, maybe the beginning is pretty angst , but you trust me, don't you? ;P

Disclaimer: the title is taken from the lyrics of 'In your world ', by Muse.

Hope you'll like, but feel free to tell me whatever you think. Pwetty please ;)

Probably this is the oddest story I've ever tried to write about Muse... *bites her nails *