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dxrlinggxd · 2 years
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okay im going to check the melvin tag now and i will add my (serious) thoughts on some posts here as i go thru it
[just quickly want to say that even though i am a HUGE byler i found quite a few byler posts in their tag and that feels disrespectful tbh, we should be able to enjoy media in peace]
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el definitely has an incredibly deep attachment to mike and they share a connection, not denying this. BUT i don't view this as a romantic one. it happens irl all the time too, realising that you rlly would be better off broken up (and the opp- realising your feelings are romantic and not platonic) but since we're specifically talking about mileven, they can be just as close without the pressure of having to be romantic. they had puppy love and that's the most i can say in their favour. even the cast themselves (caleb <3) said basically said their relationship wasn't as intense and real as lumax's
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i remember someone on twitter brought in the whole "if i loved you less maybe i would have been able to talk about it more" but like maybe that'd make sense if it's some super angsty tortured they-dont-know-i-love-them dynamic and not mileven like they're together? they've liked each other for around 4 years? he would say he loved her if he did. call back to when nancy couldn't tell steve she loved him but had no problem doing it with jonathan
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(got this one via @kiledra thx bff youre a real one)
okay lmfao thats genuinely funny
i love the hc of hopper losing his shit when he finds out that mike broke up with his daughter only to come back and date his son
but also :/ i cant think about byler not being endgame :/ it just hurts too much :///
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xxisxxisxxis · 3 years
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Gateway Drug | Part Eighty-Seven
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NIKKI
"Nikki, what the hell are you doing?" Vivian asks me as we walk down the stairs of the law firm. 
"I've broken every fuckin' vow except 'till death do us part' and I'll be fucked to hell if we stuck it out and stayed with each other after the worst bullshit just to fucking divorce." I state and she stays quiet for a moment before I'm stumbling back when she halts and snatches away from me, glaring up at me. 
"What if I want a divorce?" She asks. 
"I'd tell you you're full of shit." I snap and she raises a brow and crosses her arms. 
"Then what the hell was the point of hounding me for a divorce just to do this?!" She barks at me. 
"To prove a point I guess, I don't fucking know." I admit. 
"To prove a point?! What point were you trying to prove?! That even when we're not together you still have the control in the relationship?!" She yells.
"I don't have any fucking control in this relationship, are you fucking me?! I haven't had any control since day fucking one, Vivian!" 
"Are you fucking serious?!" She screams at me, frustration all over her face. "You have always had control, Nikki, trust me, I know, I'm the one that had to lay down and take your bullshit and give up what I wanted to do just so you'd feel in control!"
"I told you to go to fucking New York to go to school, did I not? What the hell did you do? You stayed! You can't get pissed at me for not giving you what you supposedly think I promised you!" 
"No, Nikki, I'm not pissed at you for not giving me what you promised--I'm pissed because you've given me years of fucked up shit that was never supposed to even be a part of the plan!" She has tears in her eyes, her voice shaking…
She's right. I'm not going to tell her she's wrong…
I sigh and rub the back of my neck, exhaling, as she wipes her eyes. 
"...Look, me and the guys are going to a different rehab, and I'll actually stick with it, and I want to work this out." I tell her, honestly. "I just don't know how to come back from the shit we've done to each other, Viv, but if we can figure out how, then I wanna do it." 
She doesn't say anything, looking at me with her pretty green eyes, nodding slightly. 
I didn't realize that once we agreed to work on our marriage, that all hell would break loose in the midst of repairing the damage. 
Me and the guys, except Mick, were sent to another rehab because the first one was too obnoxious, and by the second one, we were actually getting somewhere with each other as a band and individually, including the people closest to us in our lives. For me, that was Vivian.
My leg can't stop shaking as I repeatedly tap my foot, waiting for my counselor to get in and meet Vivian for the first time.
I exhale and glance at her, her red hair curled, reaching just over her boobs, long legs taken up by black stockings that have lace trim mid-thigh, just peeking out from under her black dress, black heels tapping quietly on the floor, her dark red nails standing out against the cover of the shitty crossword she's flipping through. Her perfume has the whole little area she's in smelling good and her red lips rub together for a moment as she doesn't even notice me staring at her. 
It's a Saturday and I'm assuming she's going out with Sharise or something when she leaves here, or she dressed like this to torture me, knowing I haven't had sex in nearly two months, starting in Japan back in December, and my right hand is my best friend currently. 
My fucking balls hurt as she shifts her legs, uncrossing them to cross them the opposite, now. 
If it were up to me they'd be wide open and either around my hips or my head. 
I keep my hand pressed to my lips, resting my elbow on the arm of the chair, focused on her.
I slide down in my chair a little to try to see what kind of panties she's wearing--if she's wearing any at all. 
It wouldn't surprise me if she's not wearing any at all. Just to fuck with my head like she loves to do. 
"Take a picture and it'll last longer." She tells me flatly, not taking her eyes off the book. 
"I would if I had a camera." I don't even deny staring at her and she flicks her gaze to me. "Or a video camera. That'd be better." I add. 
"Ha. Ha." She sarcastically lets out and I smirk, watching her get up to grab her purse from the empty chair adjacent to me, leaning down to dig through it. 
It takes everything in my power not to get behind her, bend her over it, slide her panties to the side and start poun--
"We're here to start the process of fixing things between us and you're here only focused on sex." She states and I snap out of it. 
"No, I'm not." I argue, furrowing my brows. 
"Nikki, I know when you're picturing having sex with me." 
"I'm always picturing having sex with you." I state. "And you know exactly what you're doing." 
The faintest, smallest little grin comes to her lips as she goes to sit down again. 
"I don't know what you're talking about." She mumbles and I look at her. 
"You're cruel." I mumble and she rolls her eyes. 
"Oh, whatever." She replies. 
"You look hot." 
"Shut up." 
"We can be done in ten seconds." I say next and she goes red. 
"Stop, Nikki!" She scolds me.
"C'mon, Viv, we've never fucked on a desk before." I point out. 
"We've broken into Doc's office just to mess around on his desk, Nikki." She reminds me. 
"Well, we've never fucked on a therapist's desk, so c'mon, it'll be quick."
"I--" she starts laughing, not believing me, "--am not having sex in a rehab facility. I'm not that horny." 
"So you admit you are horny to some degree, though." I say and she rolls her eyes. 
"Shut up."
"Just flash me or something." 
"Nikki."
"Please?"
"You're so weird." She ignores my request while I'm pinching the bridge of my nose. 
"I'm in pain, Vivian." I say next, groaning, exaggerating. 
"Sounds like a personal problem." 
"Fuck." I lean my head back, rubbing my face. 
The door opens and my counselor comes in, smiling at us. 
"Sorry, I'm late." She says, stepping to Vivian, extending her hand. "I have heard lots about you, I'm Amber." 
"Vivian. It's nice to meet you." Vivian replies, smiling her shiny smile that should win her an Oscar because she wears it so well even when she's fucking miserable--I obviously know from experience. 
Amber sits behind her desk as Vivian sits back down in the chair, and she looks up from her paperwork at us, raising her brows. 
"If we're going to start this grueling process, I highly suggest you two get comfortable being within three feet of each other, again." She adds.
Me and Vivian exchange looks, before she sighs and stands up, walking to the little couch I'm sitting on, plopping down beside me. 
I smirk to myself, looking at her from the side of my eye. 
"Okay, let's just get to it, Vivian, I've gotten a brief history of your husband, and I feel as though I can sort of, kind of, pin point a thing or two that has lead to the point that you two are at currently, but I'd really like to learn a little bit about you because all that's portrayed publicly to all of us is he's this nitty gritty, abrasive rock God, and you're the angel that tamed him to settle down." She explains and Vivian scoffs, raising her brows. "I know it sounds ridiculous but that's what's given in magazines and pictures taken of you two." 
"Yeah." Vivian nods. 
"And I don't think that's true, I don't think everything is happy and sunshine and, 'oh, we're opposites but that's what we love about each other,' and blah, blah, or else neither of you would be here admitting your marriage is in shambles...so, becoming familiar with Nikki--sober--the way that I have the past week gives me a sense of who he really is without the drugs and the cameras and the fans and the girls, because in here he's only got himself. He doesn't have to upkeep the persona he puts on to make it seem like everything's perfect. And, although you aren't a patient here, I really want you to allow yourself to just be and differentiate between who you are to the public, and who you are privately, because--from what I've heard--they're two completely different people." She says next and Vivian nods. "So, who is Vivian Kinston and how did she get together with Nikki Sixx?" She offers a warm smile and Vivian exhales, already looking overwhelmed…"In three descriptions, who were you when you met Nikki?" 
"A very religious, ballet dancing, perfectionist." Vivian says and Amber nods. 
"Let's dissect that and break it down for a moment." She says next. "Okay, religious--was that on your own or passed through your family or…?"
"Both of my parents, but mainly my mom." She replies and Amber nods. 
"Okay, and what is mom like?" 
"Very strict Christian, we couldn't have anything secular in the house...I'm not sure what she's like now but when I last saw her she had the pastor I grew up with trying to exorcise a demon from me because she found out I was engaged to Nikki." She tells her and Amber's brows shoot up. 
"When was that?" 
"'82, '83, around that time." Vivian explains. 
"So you haven't seen mom in close to six years." 
"Yeah." 
"Okay...you were a ballet dancer when you met," she starts the next point. 
"Yes."
"For how long?"
"Since I can remember." Vivian informs her. 
"So, a strict Christian upbringing, and a very, very, intricate form of dance that requires a lot of discipline, since you were probably a toddler." 
"Yeah." 
"And is that where the perfectionism comes in, through your background with dance?"
"No." 
"No, okay."
"My mom and my upbringing." Vivian explains. "Anytime I did something my mom didn't like or approve of or thought other people would lose their minds over if they knew I was doing it, she'd get onto me and would constantly drill into my head, 'this is not what we do, Vivian'." 
"Wow." Amber nods, her brows slightly furrowed. "So, it doesn't come from a place of that physical drive to be perfect at most things you do, it comes from a mental and emotional drive of not wanting people to know what skeletons are in the closet that would make them think less of you." 
Vivian nods, taking a deep breath. 
"Okay, and do you think that sense of perfectionism from your mother has helped you or harmed you in the long run?" 
"Harmed." She's saying it nearly before Amber can get her words out of her mouth. 
"And why is that?" 
"Because I grew up with her holding me to a nearly unreachable standard, and hounding unrealistic expectations onto me." 
"And in turn…"
"...It's made me do the same to him." Vivian says and I stare at the floor. 
"What unrealistic expectations, or unreachable standard have you held him to?" 
"Not doing the things that he's done." She says next. 
"What things?" 
"Infidelity and drug and alcohol addiction." 
"Why is expecting your husband not to cheat on you or put drugs and alcohol before you an unrealistic expectation that is unattainable for him?" Amber asks next and I rub my lips together. 
"Because of who he is and what he does." Vivian says next and Amber raises her brows. 
"So you think because he's Nikki Sixx--big time rockstar--that it's not realistic to expect him to do what he is supposed to do as your husband which is stay faithful and not put substances before you?" 
"Yes." 
"Oh, I see." Amber looks at me and I sigh. "Was your relationship ever open or polygamous, during or prior to marriage?" 
"No." She shakes her head. 
"Was he addicted to anything when you got married?"
"He did drugs and drank but at that point in time he didn't have a heavy reliance on it, no."
"An unrealistic expectation would be you telling him he can sleep with other women but then you getting angry every time he did. That's setting an unrealistic expectation of, 'I'm giving you permission to indulge in sex with other women but I expect you not to,' or him being addicted to heroin when you got married and you expecting him to drop any addiction he has solely based on the fact that you two got married. That's an unrealistic expectation. Him being a famous rock musician has nothing to do with his ability, or lack thereof, to be monogamous and sober." She explains to Vivian. "So you wanting your husband to not have an affair and not get strung out was not an unrealistic expectation that you had in a moment of naivety." She assures her.
"Okay." Vivian sounds like she's been waiting to hear that for a while…
"And I believe the issues you two are facing the most from both Nikki, and yourself, have grown from the root of how you two think. I know we hear the saying, 'opposites attract,' but we don't think about how sometimes when people are too opposite it acts like hot and cold air when it mixes and if it's in a big enough whirl, or big enough of a spectrum, it creates a tornado or a hurricane." She says next. "Religion equals a sense of morality, your history with ballet equipped you with a fair amount of discipline, and that perfectionism that you spoke on is your way of caring so much about what others think of you, you sacrifice yourself and just smile to keep things looking amazing on the outside."
Vivian nods. 
"I asked him to describe you in three words, and he said, 'beautiful, depressed, belligerent'." She tells her and I slowly see tears coming to Vivian's eyes. "Nikki admitted to me that when he met you, he had no sense of morality, he was doing whatever he wanted, when he wanted, he had no discipline in terms of controlling himself around drugs and women, and he couldn't give less of a care about what people thought of him." She explains. "And that might even been fun and exciting when you were just starting out but once you're married and he's gotten all these eyes on him suddenly, there are expectations put on the both of you to be this couple who has everything, and you're both attractive, and he's the bad boy and you're the good girl and you just fell in love is the only explanation you have for making the relationship work to the point of wanting to get married and you have a great house and matching cars and all this and all that and you're in the press smiling and laughing and holding hands and hugging up on each other and oh, it's a wonderful life, but as soon as you get alone…" she trails off, looking at the both of us knowingly. "He's high, you're suffering, and both of you are living a hell. But nobody can know that because you're Nikki and Vivian Sixx. You two are perfect because he doesn't cheat on you like other rockstars do to their wives and girlfriends. He doesn't put drugs and alcohol before you like so many others do to their girlfriends and their wives. He doesn't turn into this monster you don't recognize and lash out like a dog at you after a night of sitting in his closet and shooting up, because he 'loves' you, and you don't have to keep quiet for years while it just keeps adding up and adding up until finally you beat on your husband and those around you over minuet instances because the big things you were probably justified to get that angry over were swept under the rug and were never dealt with for years--because that's not what you do." She ties it right back to Vivian's mother. 
A tear rolls down Vivian's cheek, neither of us expecting it to be this heavy just during her introduction to Viv. 
"If we don't stop that mentality, it's going to poison every relationship around you that it hasn't already and when you have children it's going to be a curse on them just like it's a curse on you." She tells her, as Viv sniffles, trying to keep up with wiping her tears away. "I've already been on him about his upbringing burdening him, so please don't think this is a personal attack on you."
Viv nods, mouthing, "okay."
"You two want to make this relationship better and be better for one another, we are going to have to tear down six years worth of walls and blockades and gut this entire thing completely and start again. It's not going to be easy, you're probably going to learn things about each other you've been hiding and maybe even amicably decide to divorce before it's all over with, but you are both going to heal and start the process of forgiveness. With yourselves, with your parents, with your friends, and with each other."
She gives the both of us some homework...
"I want you two to prepare to tell each other everything you've not told one another for next time we meet." Amber tells us and the color drains from Viv's face, I know for a fucking fact that I don't look much different from her.
"What?" Vivian asks her.
"If we're healing this relationship we need everything in the dark in the light so we aren't building on an old foundation of secrets." She states. Vivian just nods hesitantly before we're dismissed.
"Vivian." I stop her out in the hall before she can leave, grabbing gently at her wrist.
"Yeah?" She asks me. 
"I love you." I tell her and she looks at me, smiling a little. 
"I'll see you Wednesday." She replies, squeezing my hand before she walks away. 
What the hell? I tell her and I love her and she just fucking says, "I'll see you Wednesday'?" 
I watch as she goes down the hall, heels clicking, hair down her back…
Goddamn. 
This is definitely my payback for taking my time with her for granted, because now that I'm in my right mind and not ruining our marriage, she barely even looks at me. 
At least she was actually wanting to work things out, because after the Vanity bullshit, I thought we'd never make it out after the first time I saw her since it had happened.
July 1987
I brace myself against the bathroom wall as my whole body goes numb for a moment, my eyes rolling momentarily. 
"Sixx, c'mon, we gotta get goin', Viv's here!" Fred yells from behind the door, his fist beating at it. 
Fuck him. Fuck this tour. Fuck this band. Fuck everything right now. 
Viv's just got here from the airport, she flew back in earlier this morning and I've been hiding, completely avoiding her, but I can't anymore. 
The media's in a frenzy since Vanity aired all of our dirty laundry, only making Viv and I both on edge even more. 
We've been denying the shit out of Vanity's engagement claims, but I don't think people are buying it as much as we'd like to think they are. 
I take in a breath and stumble to the mirror, looking at myself. 
Not too bad for a low down, dirty, bastard. 
Opening the bathroom door to see where Fred's waiting for me, I glance past his shoulder to see Vivian.
She looks like she feels like hell, but has managed to pull herself together. 
Makes two of us--well, kind of, at least. 
"C'mon, the guys are already at the venue." 
Fred tells me. 
"Great." I smirk, patting his shoulder, stepping to Vivian. 
I don't think either of us are taking into consideration the amount of utter bullshitting we're about to have to do. 
I also don't expect the amount of paparazzi waiting for us right outside the hotel's doors.
As soon as the door opens, screaming, flashes, invasive questions come hurtling our way. It feels closterphobic enough to make Vivian grab my hand, tight, curling closer into me as if trying to hide away from prying cameras and questions about my alleged affair.
I feel her being tugged at once, and just as she says, "Nikki," I'm snatching my hand from hers to beat repeatedly, as hard as I can, at the forearm of the perpetrator, a media creep trying to get her attention. 
"Don't fucking touch her!" I bark out over the noise and he stumbles back, holding at his arm as I put my arm around her waist, tightly, getting to the car. 
When we get inside, Vivian's obviously distraught over what just happened, shoving herself away from me. 
I turn my anger to Fred. 
"What the fuck is the point of  having fucking security if you're not going to keep people from touching her?" I sneer. 
"Because I'm a bodyguard, but you're a fucking Rottweiler." He states back without hesitation and I just roll my jaw, glancing at Vivian and she doesn't even look at me. 
I sigh and dig in my pocket for the little baggie I got earlier, grabbing my hotel room key to take a bump to help me wake up for this show, and when we get to the venue, I'm getting out of the car and waiting for Fred to get out. 
He does, and I stop Vivian, nudging her back inside before saying, "we'll be there in a second."
Fred just looks at me and exhales, rolling his eyes before stepping inside. 
Vivian sighs out as I look at her, avoiding looking at me…
"Vivian, are we gonna talk about it or…?"
"I don't want to talk about it."
"I think we should."
"You proposed to her, Nikki."
"Allegedly." I add.
"You. Proposed. To. Her." She says it sharply and I lean back. "You had an affair with her. I trusted you. I trusted the both of you. And you lied to me." She hisses. "So, no, there is nothing to talk about...just let me out of the damn car." She slides over and opens the door but I reach over her and slam it shut.
She takes heavy breaths from where she's sitting, my body hovering over hers, the tips of our noses brushing together…
I lean down, my lips pressing to her's for just a second before she lets go of the fact I completely screwed her over. 
I'm about to pull away when she pushes her tongue past my lips, her nails running over my back through my shirt as her legs wrap around my hips, one of her hands in my knotted hair.
As always, I end up eating her like a starved pervert, relishing in the sounds of her moans and gasps. 
The truth is, she may hate me, but I'm good at getting her off and she knows it.
Once she comes and we start getting ourselves together to go inside, I look over at her. 
"So, are we good?" I ask her, oh, so fucking stupidly, and she blinks at me. 
"What?" 
"Are we good?" 
She catches on to what I mean, and rubs her lips together. 
"Nikki, you could fuck me into oblivion, which you can't because I'm never letting you fucking touch me again, and we still wouldn't be good. Not even close to 'good'. You can't have an affair with my friend and then expect everything to be good just because we fooled around while you were stoned out of your mind." She snaps and I roll my jaw as she gets out and slams the door, stomping to the back entrance of the venue. 
For the first time I feel the sting of rejection. 
Is this how groupies feel? 
I never thought once about getting head, leaving them in the limo and going on about my business. 
Anger boils in me, Sikki chomping at the bit. 
That selfish bitch! 
I get out and go after her. 
I don't know what the fuck I'm gonna say to her, but I'm mad. 
"How dare you use me to get your rocks off and then toss me aside?", no, because I've done that to her a couple times...but that's because she's into it. 
I swear she comes harder when I randomly come up behind her and just start going at it because she knows I'm just using her to get off and then leave her wherever I stopped her, and go out right after and wouldn't think twice about it. 
But me? I'm so used to her looking at me like I'm God while I have my full attention on making her feel good, and she has the audacity to get off on my face and then kick me to the curb and tell me I'm never touching her again?! 
I decided it wasn't worth the fist fight it would inevitably turn into by the time I got inside, but and looking back, she had every reason to get me horny and then swear off ever letting me get near her again. It was petty, but smart. And despite having sex one last time not long after that instance, the point was still made clear. For the first time in our relationship, the acceptance of sexual advances didn't take the place of forgiveness.
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