Revelations – in which Skwisgaar makes a discovery, and Toki might just be an evil genius.

Disclaimer, etc. Don't own 'em. Can't wait for the new album or the new season. Hoping they don't mess up the 30-minute format. Woke up hungover and with the idea, wrote it in about twenty minutes. First slash I've ever written, now that I think about it.

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Waking up in a lumpy twin bed in a room strung with model airplanes and macaroni pictures, usually squashed against another man and his demonic teddy bear, instead of in his own pristine white Swedish-modern room next to a woman old enough to be his grandmother was still new enough to Skwisgaar to be jarring.

What had started out as a one-time blowjob—and strictly not in the nosebleed sense—repayment, as Toki had said, for erasing Skwisgaar's guitar tracks, had since evolved into something more than meaningless groupie sex and less than a relationship. If their other three bandmates knew they didn't say anything; it fell well under the jurisdiction of "not caring about each other personally".

Noticing he had rather more room than usual, Skwisgaar rolled over slowly and glanced around the room. Toki sprawled in the chair he usually sat in to make models, playing his unplugged guitar. This was odd enough in and of itself; Toki wasn't usually given to practice outside of the band. Once Skwisgaar had processed this, however, something even stranger gave him pause.

The movement of the younger man's fingers was unmistakable, though Skwisgaar had never seen it anywhere except videos of himself and in the mirror.

"Toki can'ts plays my part," he blurted. He hadn't meant to speak aloud, give away the fact that he was awake and watching, but the sheer off-ness of the situation threw him.

Toki glanced up at him and then back at his guitar. He played another section of Skwisgaar's shredding, a solo from "Bloodlines", a distinctly pleased smile on his face.

"Cans too."

"Then why didn'ts you reck-place the guitars tracks?" Toki's smile grew, if anything, smugger.

"Hads to get foots in the door somehow, ja?"

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Yeah, it is a little out of character, but I figure after all, there had to be a reason the kid's the second fastest guitarist in the world, right? But it's funnier in the show if he's kind of useless (I'm pretty sure the creators are well aware of Toki's fan-favorite status and are just fucking around with that). Also, trying to spell-check a Metalocalpyse story is exhausting. So… review, please.