Ventrem Stradlin
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Love Is Splitting the Last Clean Diaper on U.S. Route 66 by MidnightVerse
Fandoms: Guns N' Roses
01 Feb 2026
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Izzy keeps a mental list of everything that went wrong on the trip to save the marriage: the lost pacifier, the leaked sunscreen, the yelling. But under the cold light of a 24-hour gas station, with Asher asleep in his lap, he discovers that the only thing that didn't break was the way Axl's hand found his on the counter.
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- Part 1 of Ventrem Stradlin
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Izzy can't sleep. The baby kicks, his brain itching with the precision of a recipe he's never seen but knows exists somewhere between the memory of his grandmother's kitchen and the physical, almost painful craving for buttery dough. The only solution is twelve egg yolks separated with trembling hands, a pound of sugar glittering like sand under the hood light, and Axl's hoarse promise that yes, for God's sake, they will find baking powder on the counter of a convenience store at four in the morning.
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- Part 2 of Ventrem Stradlin
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Axl becomes a shadow. A loving, caring, and absolutely suffocating shadow. Izzy loves him for it, and hates him for it. Everything comes to a head the day the only thing Izzy wants is the right to spill water on the floor by himself.
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- Part 3 of Ventrem Stradlin
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,457
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 7
- Hits:
- 105
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The room smells of antiseptic and fresh milk. In the crib, lies the reason for everything. In Izzy's heart, a silent mourning for the old life. And in Axl's eyes, upon hearing the question, the confession of an identical fear.
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- Part 4 of Ventrem Stradlin
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,307
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 4
- Hits:
- 78
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Slash's gift sings, flashes, and plays drums. Izzy wants to throw it out the window. Asher loves it. Axl stands in the middle of the room, looking from the chaos around him to the panicked face of the man he loves, and realizes that this, in some twisted way, is his new family.
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- Part 5 of Ventrem Stradlin
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Izzy hates himself for crying over nothing. Hates himself for needing. Axl doesn't say it's nothing. He just takes Izzy's wrist, places it over his own scent gland and whispers: "It still smells like home. I just need to remind your skin where it belongs.
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- Part 6 of Ventrem Stradlin
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Izzy is pregnant and Axl is trying to quit smoking; it's an intimate war. Axl throws away his packs and then fishes them back out of the trash. Until one night, he puts his hand on Izzy's belly and feels the kick. He never lights another cigarette. Instead, he chews on sticks and buys lollipops. "Swapping one addiction for another," he jokes. "Except this one has a future."
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- Part 7 of Ventrem Stradlin
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Los Angeles, 1990. The city burns in neon and excess, but in Izzy Stradlin's messy apartment, time slows down. He's pregnant, an impossibility that only makes sense when Axl, his green-eyed vampire, places his cold hands on his belly and whispers that it's his. The cravings come like strange waves: warm Coca-Cola, the smell of wet dirt, gasoline that smells of the road and the future. Izzy, nauseous and stubborn, still tries to smoke in secret. Axl always finds out. "You and this baby are going to be the death of me," Axl complains, while licking the leftover soda from Izzy's lips. "Good," Izzy answers, his eyes tired but alive. "That way you'll stay."
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- Part 8 of Ventrem Stradlin