Challenge #142- Sloth (The Velvet Goldmine Brian/Curt)

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Author: Bitterfig           

Title: Afterlife

Fandom: The Velvet Goldmine

Pairing: Brian/Curt

Word Count: 200

Rating: R

Warnings: Drug use, language, sexual innuendo.

Challenge #142: Sloth

Afterlife

           

 

 

How many months has it been since they left the mansion?  Or even moved from the filthy mattress in the corner of the grand ballroom?

 

            All the furniture is covered with sheets, towering ghosts.  Some of those ghosts are amplifiers, keyboards, soundboards, guitars, long untouched.  How many months has it been since they played or even listened to music?

 

            No need for music any more.  No need for songs or stories, masks or costumes.  They’ve moved beyond that all, into the void of endless space.  They float, in the womb, in the vacuum, in the place before birth and after death. 

 

            Usually it’s just the two of them, lying on the dirty mattress.  They don’t fuck anymore or even kiss.  They just are.  Brian’s bones press against Curt’s.  They might as well be the same person.  Isn’t that what love is? 

 

Usually it’s just the two of them but sometimes someone else comes by (Mandy?  No, she’s long gone.)  Someone brings food.  They eat enough to stay alive and leave the rest to rot.  Greasy take-out contains litter the floor.   Someone brings heroin, paid for courtesy of Maxwell Demon. 

 

Maxwell Demon is dead, haven’t you heard? 

 

This is his afterlife.