Drabble Series: I'm VERY Sure 18 Is Legal...
Drabble 18 of 20: Numbers
Pairing: John/Paul, John/Yoko
Disclaimer: I do not own the The Beatles. Some events here are fictionalized and should not be taken seriously.
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The five numbers that was significant to John and Paul’s relationship.
10
Embarrassingly, it was the number of seconds Paul and John’s first time was. In a cramp room, he could barely call it a closet; they had their first fuck in it. It wasn’t the romantic thing movies or books portrayed it.
It didn’t have slow motion kissing or deep stares. It involved buttons being ripped off, some ‘shitshitshitshit’ and jabbing elbows.
But Paul wouldn’t trade his first time with John for anything in the world. Even for the other times he and John fucked and it didn’t end up with him getting a knot on the back of his head.
9
Paul couldn’t help but think and fret over John’s birthday on October 9, wondering what to get for the man for his birthday party. He didn’t have lot of money to get anything fancy, and John just told him to ‘give the best you can’.
So on John’s birthday, after everybody had left, he gave John the best present he could give: His heart. If John didn’t want it, fine. He wouldn’t force John to love him.
“I love you, John Lennon,” he said to the man quietly, looking in man’s eyes.
“I’ve been waiting for you to say that.”
8
At the height of Beatlemania, John and Paul realized that they had to (rather unfortunately) ration their time with one another. They couldn’t afford letting a nosy paparazzo or something like that sort find them necking each other when they suddenly had the urge to be bunnies.
So, it was decreed that 8:00 was ‘their’ alone time. No matter what they were doing, whether it was practicing for a concert or with friends, they would drop whatever they were doing and simply enjoy the other’s presence.
It didn’t seem much, but it was enough for the two lovers for now.
7
It was the seventh time that John babbled, like a little, awestruck schoolgirl, about the oh-so great Yoko Ono. Ever since he met her at that art show, John acted like she was some sort of God-sent Messiah here to save their poor, unworthy, pathetic selves.
Oh fuck, he was talking about the blasted ladder again. Paul must have looked like he was sulking because John stopped his praising and looked at him in queer manner.
“Something wrong Macca?”
“Nothing,” he replied, “can we just change the subject?”
John promised he would. John wasn’t very good in keeping his promise.
6
It took just six words to break Paul’s heart. They were said in a soft, kind, ‘I’m-so-sorry’ manner but he would have rather take a stab to the heart than this at the moment. Even at his attempts to be kind, John managed to hurt him.
He knew John was happy now but damn it, he wanted to be the reason John was smiling and finding more reasons to his life. Not Yoko.
“I’m sorry Paul, I love her.”
John no longer loved him, not the way he loved Yoko now, and Paul just had to accept that now.
But…
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The five numbers that was significant to John and Yoko’s relationship.
5
Fab Five.
A term used by the The Beatles fan concerning someone who had strong connections to the band.
When Yoko was with John and she inserted herself into his life, she remembered the term being used towards her in not-so-flattering terms.
“Oh look,” the fans (usually the young female fans or the older ones) would sneer when they saw her with them, “it’s the Fab Five.”
She would feel her face heat up but John would hug her in his arms, glare at the people and say:
“Damn straight. And don’t you dare forget it. We’re the Fab Five.”
4
It’s been four months since Yoko had miscarry (murdered, in her mind) her and John’s baby, John Ono Lennon II. She felt like the world’s worst human and simply wanted to die as punishment for the death of their beautiful baby boy.
John, as always, was there to help her up and get her out of the darkness. He held her in the nights when she couldn’t sleep, comforted her when she talked about her emotions and egged her on to focus her energy on something ‘positive’.
And she did focus on something. In a month, their wedding was prepared.
3
Three people who John cared for disapproved of their love, and it always hurt him badly. He wouldn’t admit it but Yoko knew that he was sad that the others didn’t like her.
She admits that she wasn’t the easiest person to be with or interact but even when she knew she had to try to reach out to others in order to make peace.
George fully allowed it, smiling and telling to always make John happy.
Ringo was weary but gave her a chance and wished her luck.
Paul…he was another story she still doesn’t want to talk about.
2
It takes two to tango, as the old saying went. Love and peace was give and take to the other person and you. Yoko learned this lesson well with John and their relationship at it bloomed from simple companionship to today.
And like love, it took two to make a vow for better and for worse, for richer and for poorer and in sickness and in health.
“Do you, Yoko Ono, take John Winston Lennon to be your lawfully wedded husband?”
“I do.”
“And do you, John Winston Lennon, take Yoko One to be your lawfully wedded wife?”
“I do.”
1
It just took one man to end their relationship. And it was so quick and swift that Yoko still wonders in her bed how it happened. Their love that was so strong and sweet, no matter who they were or what they did before, it seemed almost impossible to tear the two apart.
But that man found a way. He found the one solution that no one dared to think towards John but always to her: Death. If they couldn’t have John or preserve his innocence, no one would.
Mark David Chapman ended John and Yoko’s relationship with five bullets.
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…I have no clue what I was doing in this story, I swear to God.