pairing: luke hemmings x reader

synopsis:

You'd interviewed enough rockstars to know the difference between a real smile and a stage one. That was supposed to be the whole point of you, you know? The journalist who saw past the bit, who got the real answer when everyone else got the very well-rehearsed performance.

Luke Hemmings didn't give you a real answer. At least, not at first. He gave you something better, something worse — a version of himself so smooth and so practiced that it took you three whole questions to realize he'd told you absolutely nothing true at all.

"You do that thing," you said, "where you make the other person feel so listened to that they don't even notice that you didn't answer anything they asked."

Something dangerous flickered behind his eyes. Half a second. Gone before anyone else would have caught it.

You caught it. That was the problem.

warnings. alcohol consumption, smoking (cigarettes), profanity, angst, enemies to lovers?, a bunch of unnecessary hatred, somewhat of a toxic relationship, sexual content: hair pulling, degradation, spitting, dirty talk, overstimulation, breath play, slight choking, emotional manipulation, self-destructive behavior, slight power imbalance in relationship, smut just a lot of smut idk

omg yay yippee i too am also very excited

(and nervous)