'knocking on the wrong door' AU; Mick/Axel
Mick wakes up to the sound of keys jingling in the door. Which is strange, because he’s lived alone since he was old enough to get his own place. He throws off the covers and stalks through his small apartment, scowling as he unlocks the door and yanks it open.
A wiry heap of giggles falls through the doorway and collides with his chest. Mick automatically brings his hands up to steady the person: it’s a man, or well, a boy, wearing a wrinkled jacket and a cloud of tequila fumes, still giggling when Mick grips his shoulders to pull him away into a viewing distance.
“Oooh,” the boy whispers, and his eyes go wide. “Do I have a roommate? I don’t remember a roommate… but you’re hot, so you can stay.”
Mick raises an eyebrow. The kid hiccups and giggles again… and then turns a little green.
Mick sighs and drags him to the bathroom, just in time so that the kid’s puke doesn’t end up all over Mick’s carpet.
Mick ponders for a moment whether he can leave the guy alone without him drowning in the toilet or splitting his head open on the tiled wall, but the kid’s basically hanging over the toilet seat, barfing his guts out, so Mick risks it and slips to the kitchen to retrieve a glass of water.
The kid uses it to rinse out his mouth before he flushes the toilet and then drapes himself over it, closing his eyes.
“You’re the best roomie ever,” he mumbles, his lips almost brushing the toilet seat. Mick scowls in disgust.
“You can’t sleep here,” he grumbles, and the kid mutters something unintelligible, but doesn’t even stir.
Mick ends up carrying him out of the bathroom, bridal style. For about ten seconds he looks at the front door with the desire to just set the guy down outside… but eventually deposits the drunkard onto the sofa and drags a blanket over his sleeping, stinking body.
In the morning, he learns that the kid’s name is Axel, and he just moved to the apartment down the hall.
When Axel’s one-year lease runs out, he doesn’t renew it. And his keys finally fit into Mick’s door.