Science and Junk Chapter 1: Psychology and Junk

A little girl sat on a cliff alone. She was wearing all black and a hood covered her head. She was looking down at a funeral taking place below her. One leg dangling over the edge of the 50 foot high drop. The other a resting post for her arm.

"Hey little Lady." A tall slim man approached her. He had long dreads and was wearing a black tux with goggles. His collar sloppy his tie was loose.

"Mordecai." She glanced at him. "How did you-?"

"A lot of things are failing me." He cut her off." My eyes aren't one of them."

"Sniper." She mumbled under her breath.

"Shouldn't you be down there?"

"Shouldn't you?"

He smiled. "You really are a smart one aren't ya?" He walked a little closer to the girl. "I can't do much down there. I thought I could help a friend up here."

The girl was silent as she continued to look down at the events below her. The people looked like Spiderants scurrying around. Paying close attention to one redheaded "Spiderant."

"Gaige." The girl stiffened at the sound of her name. "I don't need a scope to know who you're looking at." Mordecai said taking a cigarette out of his tuxes blazer, lighting it, and pulling a drag from it. "I heard what happened."

Gaige sniffed the air a few times. "One bad habit for another." She stated flatly.

Mordecai blew smoke from his nose. "She doesn't blame you." He continued ignoring comment.

The hand on her robotic arm crunched a little of the land she was sitting on.

The man saw but made no actions on it. He paused again. "So you need to stop blaming yourself."

The robotic girl jumped up faster then the man could see. "How can I?!" She wailed. Her right hand on her chest and her arm in the direction the cliff. The Sniper stood there looking at her unfazed. "He was right there in front of me! I should've save him!" She yelled. "He was alive! And-and he saved us. All of us! He-he saved me like, 3-7 times during the battle?" She spoke animatedly with hand gesture. "There was this Badass Loader behind me. I thought that was it but he came and saved me right there! He said, 'keep it up kid. I got your back.' " Her hands dropped to her sides while her eyes started to water. "If only I had his." Her head made a thud on Mordecai chest. Her whole body weight leaning on the slim figured man.

He stood there. Taking one hand out if his pocket, he placed it on the short girls head and she started to cry.

Mordecai came back down to the funeral holding a sleeping Mecromancer.

I Brick, Lilith, Maya, and Krieg met the normally drunken man half way. Axton, Moxxi, Zero and Tiny Tina were by the statue of their fallen soldier and some of the others left. The ones that were still here were all dressed up nice in black. Even Krieg looked good with his black tux Maya helped him with. With ripped off sleeveless blazer and all.

Lilith and Brick approached they're old friend. "How is she?" The red haired siren asked.

"She took it hard, but a least she didn't jump." The brown skinned dread haired man replied.

"You don't think she would've..." Maya started.

"Strip the flesh?" Krieg inquired.

"Yeah." The blue haired woman nodded.

"I just had a feel she might've did something self destructive. No real confirmation on what her motives were up there." He replied coolly.

"I had that feeling too. And one thing we know..." Lilith began looking towards her two oldest friends.

"Always trust your gut." Brick finished crossing his arms.

"Yeah." Mordecai agreed. He looked down at the girl in his arms. "I don't think this little one should be alone."

"Where does the little slab live?" Brick asked.

"Not sure. She's been saying with us ever since we met up with her and Krieg. But when we defeated Jack she kinda went her own way. Living in abandoned Bandit huts in The Highlands." Maya said.

"Well what about before?" Lilith asked.

"Not sure. Before we met it was just them two." She pointed to the physically fit insane man.

Everyone looked to the 'reformed' psycho. He cleared his throat. While everyone waited in anticipation. "Little Badass girl and Psycho are meat from the same loaf!"

"Translation?" The red head raised her eyebrow to her blue haired counterpart. Everyone looked at her as well.

"Um, they're family?" Maya asked him.

"Pretty blue haired lady knows." He nodded.

"Okay, so she should stay with you guys." Mordecai said bringing her to the psycho.

Krieg backed away waving his hands. "Love is hurt but would salt the wounds!"

"He trying to say he's afraid being with us might be a bad reminder. Since we were all there." Maya informed them.

"Besides this Stallion need to graze without no colts!" He grinned mischievously at the blue siren.

Everyone looked at Maya. A deep blush crossed her face. "I-I didn't understand that one." She stuttered looking away from them.

"Okay then they're out of the question." Lilith said.

"I'll take on the Mini Meca Badass Slab." Brick stated strongly pointing to his broadened chest with his thumb.

"The Mini Meca what?" Maya and Mordicai asked in unison. Even Krieg's sane inner voice asked confused.

"I've been told by Tina I would make a great father." He continued oblivious to their confusion.

"No offense Brick but you might explode your house with her in it by mistake." Lilith placed her hand on his shoulder looking at him apologetically.

"Hey, that was just that one time. I miss Scruffy." The giant looked down defeated.

"It's weird to have pet skags man." Mordecai added.

"Your obsession with explosives only got worst." Litith continued.

"What?" Bric said shocked. He really didn't think his obsession had gotten worst. He felt that there was no way it could. He had grenade mods for days in his stash.

"Not that it wasn't expected... since your roommate is Mr. Torgue." Lilith tried to sugarcoat it but failed.

"Mr. Torgue is awesome!" Brick smiled. "Best roommate ever! Way better then those slabs I used to go vault hunting with."

"Dude. We're right here." The sniper stated flatly.

"Oh sorry."

"Anyways," Lilith injected exasperatedly. "Maya, Krieg and Brick are all out of the question." she turned to the man holding the girl. "That leaves you and me." She used her thumb to point back forth between them.

"Me?" Mordecai asked more shocked them he actually looked. His demeanor was cool as normal. Only giving Lilith an eyebrow raise. "I don't think I'm capable of raising one of these. She's cool and all but..." He shook his head.

"Well being around Lilith will be a direct reminder of Roland." Maya pointed out.

Lilith looked away and folded her arms tight around her chest. Rocking a little on her heals.

Maya covered her mouth and gasped. "I'm so sorry, Lil. I just—"

"No, you're right Maya." She held her hand up in a gesture to stop her fellow Siren. "I am a reminder of him." Closing her eyes she sighed a little then looked up at her friend. "Then it's settled. Mordecai will keep her."

"Wait a minute—" The former Vault Hunter mentioned, trying to interject.

"Alright Mordy!" Brick exclaimed as he patted the shorter man on the back. Making him jump a little and accidentally stirring the sleeping girl still in his arms. "Way to take one for the team." Brick smiled at him.

"But I didn't—"

"You know this would be good for both of them." Maya added. Thinking about how they both were grieving. She knew Mordecai was still not over Bloodwing, she wasn't either being that her, Salvador and Axon were the ones who killed the bird. Zero, Krieg and Gaige were doing a mission for Tannis at the time. 'I'm glad she wasn't there for that.' The Siren thought.

"Good how? And aren't there 3 other members of the team that could—"

"I'm so glad we came to this unanimous decision." The Fire Hawk added smugly.

"Unanimous?!" Mordecai raised his voice slightly higher. "Okay that does it Lil! I—"

"Love is MURDER and I'M good at it!" Krieg yelled narrowing his eye at Mordecai.

Everyone looked at the sniper wide eye.

~Sigh. "Ah fuck it."

A/N: First posted fanfic. Thanks for reading. Please comment. (You know you wanna.) Also if anyone wants to beta this lame story PM me. Thanks again.