not betaed and not-re-read sowwy for awful mistakes...
Disclaimer: the title of the chapter is taken from the lyrics of 'Soaked by Muse , because it was oh so damn fitting, esp. for the second part… *shuts up*
Summary: It's time for our beloved vampires to face their friends and their curiosity.
Chapter XXIII: It's not our worst crime, our souls will be okay
"Sweet dreams, Chris!" Matthew exclaims, placing him in the bed, after he and Dom have dragged the bassist in his room.
"But… are we really going to leave him in this passed out state?" Dominic wonders.
"Why not? After all, he just seems to be sleeping. He did not hit his head and he's not injured in any way ... we would perceive that otherwise. "Explains his Sire.
"You're right. Let 's let him rest,then. "Dom approves, leaving the room with Matt.
"What did you mean when you said to Chris that he could stay with us forever, but without becoming a vampire?" his Childe grows curious. "Does it mean that I could have done that, too?"
"I knew you'd asked this question." Matt smiles.
"But you're not going to give me an answer, am I right?" the blond figures out, as acute as a detective.
"Not now. You'll know when Chris does. But, trust me, you would never have accepted and mostly I wouldn't have! " the brunet winks, while they return to their room.
"Dominic, you're probably saying that you repent of your choice, aren't you?" the pianist figures out, frowning, while he half-closes the door behind them.
He just has the time to say that and finds himself with the drummer who presses his back against the door, smashing his lips to Matt's.
"Not even for a moment." the blond whispers in his ear, then licks his neck.
"After all, if it wasn't so, I could not do this." the blond says, sinking his fangs in the right side the guitarist's neck, without notice, making his Sire moan in ecstasy, while he gives his Childe as much access as possible.
"This." the inexperienced vampire separates from Matthew, soothing the two small red holes with his tongue. "But mostly this!" he adds, and within a few seconds Matt finds himself thrown on the bed, wearing only his boxers, with an equally stripped Dom upon him, involved in a kiss that makes the singer taste his own blood.
"I must say, love, you were damn convincing!" Matt giggles, before reversing their roles.
"Did you see, honey? We took in. Now at least our closest friends know that, some know everything, someone just something. "Dominic smiles beneath Matthew.
"Yeah, well, at least no one will ask more questions if you and I share the same room during the tour." Matt nods, stroking his hair.
"It was not even that difficult, right?" Dom recalls, pinching his sides.
"Well, if we do not take account of our, poor ,terrified friend and of the one who passed out, no, it was not difficult at all!" the other chuckles, and then get more serious. "What matters the most is that ... have you seen? No one has slammed the door in our face, no one has repudiated us. There are still our friends. There is still the music. There are still the two of us. There is everything. "he points out, intertwining the fingers of his eternal mate's hand with his.
"It 's true. Why did I have to have all those horrible nightmares? " the blond snorts.
"You had to, at least I can show you how reality is wonderfully different." Matt whispers, kissing Dom as gently as possible and kiss after kiss they fall asleep in each other's arms.
- -
-They are just beautiful together! The only thing missing is that they start to spoon-feed each other.- Morgan thinks, watching them with a softened smile.
- If I order a garlic soup for breakfast, maybe they will stay away from me for the whole day, but also the rest of the world will ... and it makes me sick to my stomach the only thought of eating something like that at this time of the day! - Tom reflects, watching them with anxiety which he tries to disguise.
- Maybe I dreamed the whole thing. After all, it was so absurd. And then they stand there, quiet and blessed in the full light of the sun filtering through the window. They are not vampires. So maybe it is not even true that they are together. But ... no, they're too close. What am I saying? Since I met them for the first time those two have always been too close! – Chris broods, a bit confused, watching them with suspicion.
"Oh no, guys, if you keep staring at me like that I can't eat!" Dominic complains, holding his croissant in the air, undecided about what to do.
"I doesn't change anything to me, since by now I'm used to being watched!" Matthew shrugs, sitting beside him, buttering his rusk as if nothing happened.
"I guess you will have a thousand questions for us, am I right?" the drummer figures out, after deciding to bite his croissant.
"I'm ashamed of you guys!" Morgan mutters, finishing his coffee, while casting glances of reproach to Tom and Chris.
"Why cannot you just accept it and rejoice for our friends? Why do you need to submerge them with questions? " the keyboardist goes on, indignantly putting the cup on the saucer and getting up from the table, since he has finished his breakfast.
"You are a great couple, my friends, whatever they others dare to think!" he replies, smiling at Matt and Dom who reciprocate, before leaving.
"In case you're wondering, Morgan is aware of only one of our two secrets and I guess you can figure out which one." Dominic reveals to the two humans.
"Oh. Well, this makes everything more clear." Tom asserts.
"Okay, let's come to the point. Have you thought about what we have confessed to you yesterday?" Matthew interrogates them.
"Yes, I've overcome the first thing and I will tell you more, if you ever get married, I'll be more than happy to film your wedding. It's the other thing that still bothers me a little.' " the photographer mutters.
"Oh, thanks, you're so nice!" Dom smiles tenderly "But in a certain way, Matt and I are already married." he adds, turning a quick glance at his mate, who nods.
"Oh, damn it! It was not a dream then! "Chris mutters.
"Okay, I think it is appropriate to have a long talk." Matthew concludes.
"Yeah, but I think that we can talk more freely in our room." Dom suggests.
"Ri-right in your room?" Tom babbles nervously while he tortures a cuticle with his teeth.
"Would it make you feel more comfortable if we went to in your room?" the blond asks him.
"Nope, because I still have to decorated it with cloves of garlic and there is not even a crucifix." Tom strikes back, more and more nervous, so much that he painfully rips the skin from his finger and it bleeds.
"Ouch! Back off, you two! You will not have anything from me! " he intimates the vampires, sucking greedily his finger.
"I'm fine with my croissant, thank you!" Dominic shrugs, taking another bite.
Even Matt nods, giggling as he sips his juice.
"It's red oranges juice!" he feels the urge to point out to the two human friends, aware of how they are staring at the thick red juice with suspicion.
"Bloody hell! Confess, Bells ... you did it on purpose!" Chris grumbles.
"Yep, i did!" their interlocutor admits wittingly, sticking out his tongue at them.
"By the way, why do you eat and drink .. something that's not blood? " the bassist wonders.
"More importantly, why do you stand exposed to sunlight without becoming dust? I mean, it's not that I want you to become dust, of course, it's just that I don't understand ... wait, sure! It's because there are the glasses, right? " the photographer hazards, very curious.
"We can go outside, if you prefer, and you can see that nothing will happen to us." the singer smiles.
"Yeah, about why we still eat ... food is a habit that we do not want to quit." the percussionist explains.
"Why?" their friends ask in unison.
"Now let's finish breakfast, then we will talk about everything for a long time, in Chris's room." the more expert vampire decides and no one objects. "By the way, Tom, even those decorations would have been useless!" he grins., astonishing his interlocutor.
"That's why you always wear that strange pendant!" Tom says, at the end of the explanation.
"And that's why now Dom wears half of it" Chris adds, staring at the white half on the chain around the percussionist's neck.
"This is such a fantastic invention, isn't it?" the blond giggles, fiddling with his half of the pendant.
"Well, at least, you haven't fucked your career up ... it would not be easy to work only at night!" the manager states.
"Hey, wait a minute. I remember what you said before. " the bass player recalls. "Did you get married and have not told us anything? No, wait, it's worse, you have not even invited us! When and where it happened? "he interrogates them, a bit offended.
"You sneaked in Las Vegas during the break, didn't you?" Tom dares to guess.
"Not really ..." Matt mumbles, stroking his neck.
"It happened just over a week ago, in London, in one of the houses of the vampire who created Matthew." Dom says "While we were in bed." he adds, with a grin.
"Uh! No, no, then I am delighted that we have not been invited! "Chris mutters, embarrassed.
"No, that's not a kind of video that I'm ready to film!" Tom mumbles.
"Well, it was not a marriage as you humans consider it." the blond vampire point out.
"Yeah. It was a blood marriage, which we continue to renew. " the brunet vampire adds, exchanging an understanding gaze with his mate, while they're holding hands, and this before they notice the expressions of dismay on their friends' features.
"Too many details, right?" Matt figures out, leaving Dom's hand.
"Yes, damn you!" Chris hisses, annoyed.
"Co- could you pl-please avoid saying 'you humans'? It scares the hell out of me!" Tom nervously stutters, since he's still has some difficulty to accept their new nature. "It makes you so different." he justifies, with a calmer tone.
"But we're different now!" Dominic chuckles.
"But at the same time we are always the same." Matthew adds.
"The most important thing is that you do not kill anyone, right?" the video-maker searches for another confirmation.
"Absolutely no one!" Matt assures.
"Although I was very close to do that." Dom confesses.
Chris and Tom bounce on their chairs, eyes wide, terrified.
"Was that really necessary?" Matt snorts, looking at his boyfriend with an air of reproach.
"Yep, I want them to know the truth to the very end, even the most uncomfortable one. " the blond replies, ready to make his friends aware of the other neglected details.
- -
"But, Dom ... now you are no longer like that ... aren't you?" Tom asks him hesitant, at the end of the story.
"Nope. It's been a few days since my demon and my soul have established a sort of mutual forbearance. If they hadn't, forget the bloody tour! I'd be still chained to a wall, under Matthew's extreme supervision, ask him! " the drummer replies.
"Yeah, they weren't good days at all ..." the frontman mumbles.
"However, it is not advisable to stay close to me around midnight, if I still have to feed!" Dom warns them, making his Sire laugh.
"I guarantee. It would not be a wise choice. It seems that my demon is a regular visitor to his yoga classes, while Dom's is a sort of drug-addicted in its worst stage of abstinence. " Matt explains. "But, be assured, when there are the concerts we are spoiled with all the choice we have among the fans." the brunet smirks.
"Ok I'll keep that in mind. Tonight there are no concerts. Chris and I will leave you on your own. " the manager decides.
"Guys, I think Kelly should know it." Chris states and the two concerned guys approve with a nod.
"However, no one will believe you so easily. Do I need to remind you how you've been skeptical when we told you? " the brunet vampire makes him notice.
"I know, but I still have to do that." the bassist insists, by dialing the number and putting viva-voce to make everyone participate in the conversation.
"Hey, Chris!" a happy Kelly trills.
"Are you alone?" The bassist asks her.
"Yes, but .. why? Do you already have spicy ideas early in the morning?" the woman murmurs with a seductive tone.
Chris blushes visibly, staring at the floor for a long time not to cross the expressions that he knows that his friends are showing off.
"Ummmm ... no, love, because, to begin with, we are not alone and I put you on speaker!" he informs her at the apex of embarrassment.
"Uh ! Oh well, then in this case 'Hello!' To those who are listening! " Kelly greets quietly, as if nothing has happened, and the others greet her in response.
"Anyway, Chris has tons of spicy ideas!" she informs them, chuckling.
"Oh, we hadn't any doubt about it." Matt giggles.
"Can we change topic?" the poor Chris begs everyone.
"As you wish, Mr. Spicy-Ideas !" Tom replies, ruthless.
"Something tells me that you have just earned a new nickname for the whole tour!" Dom grins.
"You looked for trouble, my dear!" Kelly sentences. "So why did you ask me if I was alone?"
"Because I'm about to tell something important and children must not be there." the husband replies.
"Here we go. No kids. Now spit it out." his wife urges him.
"It is not easy. Sometimes things happen, things that we consider impossible and go even beyond the wildest imagination ... " Chris starts.
"Bloody hell! How long does it take him to say that we are together? "Dominic whispers to Matt Dominic, looking annoyed.
"No, baby, I think he's trying to say that other thing." the other whispers back, amused.
"Huh, yes. So it makes sense! "the blond nods in a whisper.
"Chris, you start to make me worry this way. What do you want to tell me? "Kelly is alarmed.
"Matt & DomHaveBeenTurnedIntoTwoVampires!" Chris decides to reveal all in one breath, , and then he hear the ringing tone on the other side.
"It must be cut off." he mutters.
"No, I think she deliberately hung up, dude." Tom says. "Is this the way to give such a news?"
"Why? Do you know a better way to give such a news? "Chris strikes back, calling his wife again.
"Kelly, I ..."
"Christopher! I have a lot of committees and I have better things to do than sit here and listen to your stupid jokes and ... "
"It's not a joke." her husband cuts her off.
"Oh yes, of course it's not!" she snorts.
"Kelly, come on, you know me for a life-time, you know I would never lie about a matter so delicate. Why should I? "
"Because you have such idiot friends! No offense, Matt, Dom and Tom. "she says.
"No offense!" the two vampires replicate in unison.
"Hey, why do I get involved?" Tom protests indignantly.
"You always get involved in trouble!" the woman answers back, pungent.
"Kelly, look, it's not a joke conceived by the three of them. It 's all true. It 's normal that you do not believe me at first, I would have the same reaction if you told me such a thing and I was not there in person, to see. But I am, I checked everything out and it is only a matter of time before you see that with your eyes. And then you'll be forced to believe. " Chris asserts.
"I believed, even without seeing too much." Tom confesses.
"I do not know it this may help, but I assure you that it is the truth and that we are peaceful vampires, then you don't have to fear anything." Dominic explains.
"Most of the vampires is with peaceful nature, there is a lot of misinformation about it!" Matthew adds, peremptory.
"Spare to me the conference about the undead at another time, Matt!" Kelly strikes back, all having fun.
"Kelly, no matter how absurd it may seem, it's real, I swear to Buster and Teddi" her husband retorts.
"Who are they?" she frowns.
"Our baby who you have inside you, Buster if it is a boy, Teddi if it is a girl. " the bassist smiles, since he's been thinking about those names for a long time.
"Oh, I like them. And why not both? "she murmurs.
"This is the woman I love!" her husband moans languid.
"I think you should remove the speaker phone." Tom advices him.
"There's no need. Anyway, Chris, Matt and Dom are free to do what they want, but there's no way that you become a living dead like them! " Kelly orders him, with a tone of authority.
"Technically, the living dead are zombies, while we are .. "
"Shut up, Matt!" she interrupts him. "And you got me, Chris, woe to you if you come home fanged" she hangs up.
"I do not think that she has taken the news seriously yet ..." Chris mutters, staring at the phone.
"There will be time for that. However, even without becoming a vampire, in case you want to stay with us forever and be forever young, there would be a way ... "Matthew announces, before explaining to his three interlocutors what a human slave is and what it brings to.
"So you would not be forced to drink my blood, right?" Chris asks for confirmation at the end of the explanation.
"Nope, beyond the bite needed to make you a human slave, I'm not forced to feed on you at all." the brunet vampire confrims.
"You did well not to tell me about it. It would not be the same thing." Dom disapproves , with the great satisfaction of his boyfriend.
"Oh, I almost forgot, Chris. In the case you become my human slave, I could never have sex with you. " the singer informs him.
"I'll try to live with it!" the bass player plays his game.
"Matt, you've done very well not to tell me about it! I would never accept it! " the blond vampire reiterates.
"I don't know, I don't really like this option .. probably it's the word 'slave'" Tom grumbles.
"It 's fictitious. I already told you that your freedom would not be constrained in any way. " Matthew repeats.
"I am not convinced, anyway." the photographer shakes his head.
"I don't think it's such a bad prospect, but I cannot think about eternity without my Kelly by my side ..." the handsome bass player muses.
"Well, if I understood correctly, every vampire has the right to choose a human slave, right? And I'm a vampire, so ... " Dom hazards.
"We need to know if Kelly would agree." Chris mumbles.
"You will have plenty of time to discuss about it. You know, sooner than one year of un-life, aka mid-December, I cannot do anything like that and even after that date it's something that you can decide to do with calm, whenever you like. " the more expert vampire states.
"You see? You do have really have time to think about something. Matt gave me only fourteen, stupid days! "Dom informs his friend, glaring at the guitarist.
"It was so at the beginning, then you escaped at the last moment and when you came back I gave you a lot more time, until it was inevitable!" Matthew defenses.
"Sure .. and you know, Chris, he wanted it so much that he has not even bothered to get info about how to make a correct transformation! " the percussionist strikes back, witty.
"But then I did it and I think everything went for the better, don't you think so?" the pianist retorts.
"Oh yes, save my time as PsycoKiller-wanna-be I had after the transformation!" the blond points out, impassive.
Chris and Tom burst out laughing.
"Guys, vampires or not, you've not changed one bit!" the first sentences.
"Always bickering about anything!" the second adds.
(end I)
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