#daviddies!au

[evren-eris]

everyone loves a DavidLives!AU (me included) but what about the other boys?

David dies from the antlers piercing his heart and Max explodes. The Emersons think it’s over, leaving to a hotel for the night…

and then Marko arrives at the house, the stake having only punctured his lung and sent him having to hunt rather than seek revenge

and then Paul climbs out of the tub, burned to high hell with chunks of flesh missing but alive (as much as a vampire can be)

and then Dwayne sits up, electricity still coursing through his veins, burns covering his skin and a hole in his chest from the crossbow bolt but heart undamaged

all so incredibly angry, near consumed by grief for the only family they have ever truly had

and these three vampires, sireless without Max and leaderless without David, have to figure out what to do on their own for the first time in decades

they have to take David’s body back to the hotel, to choose between burial and his body rotting away or letting him burn to ashes in the sun while they watch from the shade

do they stay at home in Santa Carla, known territory leaving them at constant risk from the Frogs? or do they leave and find a new home, losing their last remaining link to David in the process?

who will lead them now?

[evren-eris]

expanding on my DavidDies!AU cos this is a thing now apparently

my opinions on how each of the boys would react to losing David is different between movie and musical canon, so for now here’s Movie!LostBoys

Movie!Dwayne would probably force stoicism to try and lead the boys, barely speaking until he accidentally lashes out at them, before flying off to their old spot on the boardwalk, consumed with grief, anger and shame. he talks to David there, asks how he did this, how he’s meant to measure up to him. how he’s meant to live having lost one of the only people he ever truly loved and who loved him in turn. the moon and the stars do not answer

Movie!Paul would get so high he’s barely aware of anything around him, mostly rambling nonsense with brief periods of lucidity to feed before immediately pulling out another joint, so he doesn’t have to think about David being gone. sometimes he thinks he sees David staring him from his old chair, a ghost watching with sorrow in his eyes as he drowns himself in liquor and drugs. Paul always looks away first, and David is always gone when he looks back

Movie!Marko would try and keep spirits up, stretching himself thin to keep Paul from sending himself into oblivion and Dwayne from pulling away entirely, only letting himself grieve when alone with his pigeons. sometimes he tells them about his life before the boys, sometimes about how he would get revenge on the Emersons. he doesn’t, get revenge that is, solely because he knows that despite everything, David would not want Michael or Star to die

every morning, no matter how upset or angry they are (at the Emersons, at the world, at David, at each other and themselves) the boys end up clinging to each other in a cavern far from the cave entrance, David’s body buried beneath them. it is a cold comfort, to still have him with them knowing he will not wake up

and they hold each other, for as long as they can