AN: I am reviewing each of my chapters, and you may see typos fixed, and or chapters may become shorter or longer. I may also fix punctuation errors if I'm not too lazy. Anyways enough bantering from me, onward to the story!
Hi there! So this is the story of Nathan, AKA Sole Survivor and his travels with the prying newspaper reporter, Piper Wright. Enjoy! Chapter 1 Revised and Edited: December 30th
Publick Occurences, Diamond City:
"So, heading my way?" Piper says to Nathan, relaxing comfortably on her sofa while enjoying a cup of Nuka-Cola.
Nathan stares at her in awkward silence with one eyebrow raised up and a smirk visibly readable across his entire face. "Um, no I'm not heading your way...You're heading my way. Let's go." Nathan says his smirk turning into a friendly grin.
"Alrighty then." Piper puts her drink on the table and arises from the sofa with an unamused stare on her face. Smart-ass... She thought to herself as she reaches for her one strap bag and goes towards the stairs going up to her quarters. "Hold on Blue just gotta get my stuff... Listen you can wait outside if you want, I'll catch up with you in just a moment" she says before sounds of clunk and wood are heard from where she is.
"Need any help with whatever you're doing there Piper?" Nathan asks curiously.
"No! It's fine, just uh, just looking for some stuff. Listen Blue, can you wait outside actually? This might take a while and I don't want you to get bored so... Yeah." Piper says before a sound of cloth hit the floor.
"Well if you insist Ms. Wright. If you need help though, don't say I never asked you." Nathan says before opening the door and heading on outside, getting another glimpse of the fresh Commonwealth air. He goes to where Piper's little sister Nat is and greets her. "Hey there." Nat instantly looks at him and stops flailing a newspaper article around.
"Oh hey mister. What were you doing inside my sister's office? I thought you already had an interview... Unless you're back here because of her." Nat says with a smug grin on her face.
"What are you saying exactly?" Nathan says with arms crossed, smiling at her. Okay, is this kid, really gonna say what I am thinking she's gonna say right now? Nathan thinks to himself before looking at the relatively small child. Probably not.
Nat stares at him a if she were staring directly into his 200-year-old soul right now. "Oh you know exactly what I'm talking about, mister." Nat says before giggling uncontrollably. Suddenly, his smile faded away, and thoughts of him and Piper flew into Nathan's mind, making his face flush deeply while looking at the ground.
"H-how did you know?" Nathan says quietly, fiddling with the 10mm Pistol on his holster with one hand, and scratching the back of his head slowly with the other. Nat stares at him before punching his shoulder with her stubby fingers softly.
"What? Aren't you back here for her so you two could travel together?" Nat says towards him. Nathan looks up to her and sighs with extreme relief.
"U-um... Yes? I-I mean... Yeah! Exactly! I came here to ask her to travel with me!." Nathan says throwing his arms up to stretch before taking out a purified water to drink.
"Well okay then mister." Nat says to him, seeing that Nathan is more relaxed. "You sure you're taking her to travel? Or are you taking her out on a date?" Nat says snickering crazily after she sees Nathan spit out his water and Piper exit the building. Nathan looks at Nat, then Piper, then Nat again and then throws off a huge coughing fit as an excuse to look down and cover his flushed face. Piper closes the door and looks at Nat with a confused face.
"Hey kiddo, why are you talking about dating? You're not gonna date that one boy from your school now, are you?" Piper says, placing one of her hands on her hips.
"Ew! No! Piper I hate him he keeps using these dumb pickup-lines on me! We were just talking about him!"
"Oh? W-what about Blue?" She asks, intrigued on what her little sister has to say about the man she calls 'Blue.'
"...He likes you!" Nat exclaimed after some awkward silence.
"I never said that!" Nathan screams aloud that some residents walking by looked at them with confused faces and or awkward stares.
"Yes you do mister! Your face never lies... Unless... Actually never mind about that. But you do like her!" Nat says poking a finger into Nathan's chest.
Thanks Nat, my relationship with your sister might be awkward silence from here on forth! Nathan says in his mind, before being caught in an array of awkward silence. Suddenly breaking the silence, Nathan says "Well, I do like you... but I like you as a friend! Now what friends don't like each other huh?" Nathan said to try and keep it from being awkward. He knew deep inside though that what he said, was a lie, and he might like her a little bit. Piper looks at him and raises an eyebrow.
"Blue, I know you like me..." Piper pauses for a moment and looks down, then back at him. "As friends. I like you too... as friends. I'm pretty sure that's what Nat meant by that anyway. R-right?" Nat didn't answer but instead made a chopping gesture at her, then points at Nathan, and then snickers again before heading inside the office. "Okay, then. Well enough wasting time, I probably wasted half of your day already Blue. Let's get moving, shall we?" Piper says to Nathan who is pretty much relieved but conscious to the fact she only likes him as a friend.
"Sure, let's get moving." Nathan and Piper eventually walk out of Diamond City Market and eventually reach the entrance of the city. Though walking there Nathan couldn't help but think. Just friends huh? Nathan and Piper venture out across the outskirts of the green jewel city and come across a super mutant attack on some of the Diamond City guards.
"Great, these big freaks. Well here's the plan Piper, you'll take cover behind that barrier in front of me and provide covering fire like the rest of the guards over there. While you're doing that I'll be flanking them from behind. They'll never see it coming, right Piper?" Nathan says but getting no answer. "Piper?" Nathan takes a quick look around before seeing Piper already taking out the mutants at deadly accuracy from afar with her 10mm as if there was a better challenge for her to face. "I guess my plans out of the box?" He says to himself before pulling his pistol out of its holster and began precisely shooting. Unfortunately, by the time Nathan finally took his gun out, every mutant was already dead. Nathan holsters his pistol again and comes out of cover to go to piper who is sitting on the hood of a car, having another drink. "Well... That was quite an intense battle." Nathan says with sarcasm audibly heard in his tone.
"Blue, super muties are a normal thing out here, they're pretty much the pests of the wasteland if you know what I'm saying. They're everywhere, and lucky for these guards the pest control came in time to save their asses. We're the pest control if you didn't catch my meaning." She says grinning at him and then putting her cup away.
"Well no shit. I didn't understand that analogy at all. Anyways how did you have that kind of accuracy against those-" Just as Nathan was going to finish his sentence a guard interrupts the two.
"Good job at killing those green scumbags Piper. I'll have you know though that your still on notice, so don't think helping us will do anything. Anyways who's that over there, your new boyfriend?" He says eyeing Nathan carefully.
"Whatever... And yeah, he is actually, so you can stop acting all tough now, I'm taken." Piper says with confidence and seriousness, making Nathan confused and hot around his face.
"Well if you ever break up hit me up cutie. We would look so good together. Hope you'd ditch him sooner..." The guard looks at Nathan and cracks his knuckles. "You better treat her right jackass... even though the mayor hates her she's still a fine piece of ass you're working with here, and one fuck up and I'll be coming for that booty faster than the Institue could replace some wasteland asshole." He says shoving him away. The guard then looks at Piper then blows a kiss at her as she walks away.
Jesus Christ... desperate much? Nathan thinks as rubs the area the guard placed his hands on. Nathan looks at a disgusted Piper as the guard disappears from the distance. "Boyfriend? Are you fu king serious?" He says whispering quietly.
"Sorry about that, I just wanted that guy to go away. Trust me, you don't know how many times I've been flirted with from all these guards. Sure they know I did bad with Mayor McDonough, but I guess it's just the way I look or something. Don't worry though, we're just friends." She whispers back, trying to make him understand what it was all about.
"For now... at least until we be come... you know..." Nathan says aloud, expecting any kind of reaction.
"I, oh... Well yeah I-I guess so, unless you know something changes...? Wow w-when did it get so hot in here?" Piper says with a slight blush on her cheeks. Jesus Blue she thought in her head before seeing Nathan walk away.
"...Until we become best friends was the answer you were looking for, yes?" He turns his head around with a grin on his face. Piper just stares at him with a pout on her face, emberrassed that she misunderstood what he meant earlier.
"O-of course... that's exactly what I was thinking! Now enough about thay, we should get going."
The duo eventually leave the outskirts of Diamond City, and venture even further on the endless quest of survival in the Commonwealth.
Well, that's a wrap. Sorry it's so short. Anyways tell me how I did and I promise the chapters will be longer in the future! I should also make the SS a little more serious and confident next time... but thats up for you, the audience to decide on what I should do. Anyway, bye. Go outside, or play Fallout 4, or read another story or something.