Disclaimer: I don’t know AFI it is impossible to own people, I do however own the characters that are NOT Davey Havok, Jade Puget, Adam Carson or Hunter Burgan.
A/N: This song is my little version behind “Silver and Cold”, the story line is pure fiction anything in the following story that so much resembles the truth is pure coincidence.
ONE
It’s raining, Davey thought holding his hand out to the rain of the phone booth. It’s always raining. It was raining the day everything started; I hope it’s not raining the day everything ends. He turned and faced the phone, rummaging a coin from his coat pocket and picked up the phone and slid in the coin, his fingers danced across the number buttons to the familiar digits of the café they loved so much. The day it all ends, he mused. But how did it all begin? Looking up into his reflection of the glass booth, his mind screamed as it traveled back, reviewing everything that had happened, in a mere flash…
~*~
“Take a flashlight.”
“Walsh, shut up!”
“Stay in the light.”
Davey shivered into Jade’s arms as the officer spotted a shadow in the floor. Davey jumped, falling out of his seat as a man screamed and shots rung off.
“AAHH!!” Davey buried his face into Jade’s arms.
“Run!” Adam shouted.
“NO! AH!” Jade and Davey curled in as Hunter cussed.
“Stupid! Stay in the light!”
The characters in the movie screamed as the monster shrieked and attacked again.
“Who’s idea was it to watch Darkness Falls?” Davey whined. “Turn on the lights.”
Adam leaned over to turn on the lights but Hunter grabbed him. “No, not yet.”
“AH!” Davey jumped out of his seat and walked into the kitchen.
“Chicken!” Hunter shouted just as the phone rang.
“I was just going to answer the phone,” Davey said picking up the receiver.
“Sure,” Hunter laughed.
“Oh my god,” Davey turned his back to the television and pressed the receiver harder into his ear. “Hello?”
“May I please speak to Mr. Havok?”
“Speaking.”
“Hello Mr. Havok-“
“Davey.”
“Davey,” the voice corrected. “I’m Johnny Arviso from the state child placement.”
Davey blinked. “Don’t you all deal with peoples kids and all, placing them with their fathers or mothers?”
“Yes that is our job-"
“Then you have the wrong Davey Havok, I don’t have any children-“
“No Mr. Havok you must understand, this situation is an odd one.”
Davey cocked an eyebrow. “Oh?”
“We’re not sure if you knew this or not, but your mother had two other children.”
“What?”
“She had an affair and when they were born, at different times of course, under the fathers name, your mother, placed you as the father.”
Davey blinked, he didn’t know what to say, what to think, what to feel. This was absurd news to his ear, his mother? His Mother had an affair??
“After your mother’s death your father threw the children out and since your name was on the birth certificates, social services said that they belong to you and handed the children over to us. However, we know that they are not your children, DNA testing proves that much, but the children have no where to go.”
Davey nodded, but after a moment to realize that this man couldn’t see him he cleared his throat. “Yes I understand.”
“Can the children stay with you? At lest until Angleejak is of age to get her own apartment in which the services here will help her acquire that.”
“Um, yeah, of course they can live here.”
“Thank you very much,” Johnny Arviso seemed relived to have a home for them. “When would be a good time to have them dropped off and we will need an address.”
Davey gave the man an address and a time that would be suitable to have the kids brought over. He hung up the phone and turned toward his fellow band members and sighed.
Jade looked over at Davey and inclined his head. “Is something wrong?”
“My mom had an affair.”
“I thought she died,” Adam said.
“It was some time ago, and then after she died, my dad threw them out of the house.”
“And?” Hunter asked still watching the movie and drinking his water.
“The kids are going to live here,”
Hunter choked and lurched forward.
Adam patted his back. “Are you okay?”
Hunter jumped to his feet. “Here? They are going to live here? Where Davey?”
Davey shrugged. “They are my half siblings, Hunter, I can’t just leave them like that.”
“I’m with Hunter on this one, Davey, where are they going to stay?” Adam asked turning off the movie. “All the rooms are taken.”
“We could put them in the attic,” Jade offered. “I mean, it’s a fucking mess, but if we work on it right now, we might be able to make it presentable.” He shrugged.
“Well, they are coming in tomorrow at noon,” Davey sighed. “I was thinking the attic, there are a couple of old beds up there anyways and it’s insulated so its really nice in there. There are curtains and all, the floors are reinforced, it was created to be a bedroom, we just had no need for it.” Davey said meekly. “Please? It’s not forever, its just until Angleejak becomes of age.”
“How long is that?” Hunter asked. “I am just curious, I’m fine with them being here, but they have to do chores just like us.”
“Agreed,” Adam nodded.
“Yeah,” Jade smiled.
“Thank you guys, so much. I don’t know how old they are, but I guess we’ll find out soon enough won’t we?”
Hunter shrugged. “Well, let’s get to that cleaning.”
“I’ll grab the buckets and brooms,” Davey said taking off his black shirt and twisting his long black hair into a bun.
They moved all the items for the attic to the basement and swept and mopped the floor. They wiped the walls clean of cobwebs and batted the mattress of dust. A little before midnight they assembled the beds, bunk beds, and made them up with blankets. They dressed the curtains and set up a couple of computers up under the bunks on desks they assembled out of an old desk bound for the junkyard. Accenting the room with black lights and red lamps they stood back and smiled.
“I think we should paint the walls red,” Jade said.
“Wait a minute,” Adam smiled and ran down to his room. He returned a moment later with a large throw rug still taped up. “I never use it and I have been dying to find a place for it,” he smiled and opened it.
“Wow, this is cute,” Davey said as they unwound it and cast it on the ground. “I love how the black seems to chase the white in the designs.”
“Got it as a present from my uncle about four years ago,” Adam chuckled. “It’s been in my closet this whole time.”
“Do we get to play grumpy father?” Hunter asked. “I’d like to chase off some boyfriends.”
“If they are old enough to have boyfriends!” Davey said between astonished and angry.
“Sounds like the grumpy father already,” Adam teased.
“I want this room now,” Jade said with a laugh.
“Come on,” Davey said pulling his friend’s arm. “Let’s go to sleep you guys, we have a long day tomorrow.”
“Who's we?” Jade asked. “Their your siblings.”
“But we all have to get use to them, I mean, what if they eat meat…” he trailed off staring into space.
Hunter shuttered. “Oh, carnivores.”
“We’ll defiantly have to set down rules,” Adam smiled.
They walked downstairs, bid good night to each other before retreating to their separate rooms for the night.