I'm drunk ^-^
New Year's Eve, year 2292. And another year is dawning, Edward tried shaking his head to clear his mind of all the fuzzy thoughts. But there was no use. Too much alcohol. He groaned softly and took another swig of the wine bottle. The booze was empty.
"Damned, Eddie, it's not even 2 o'clock and you're completely wasted. I hope you can pay for all this!" Magnolia pointed to the dozens of empty bottles on the bar top, next to Edward. He twisted on the stool and faced the aging formerly singer.
"Magnolia, Darling, if you want payment I can give you my skills or my body, but nothing else, I'm afraid." She let out a loud tsk and started to put away the empty bottles.
Edward smirked at her and turned to the room again, one elbow on the bar, the other arm on his thigh so that the bottle dangled casually between his legs. He knew, that he didn't need to pay. He did enough to earn his keep in Goodneighbor.
Damn these mutants, damn these mutants, she chanted in her head as she tried not to fall out of blood loss and exhaustion. She knew, if she fell now, she would never get up again. "Keep walking and damn these fucking mutants.
It's not too far, common, you lazy bitch, move your skinny ass and try to not die." She grunted at herself, bared her teeth and limped towards the lights.
They lit a few old and home-made fireworks at 12 o'clock, but like usually in the third rail, things got heated later that night. They were all pretty buzzed and some of the girls started dancing on the empty stage. All the men, including Edward turned to watch, some cheered them on.
Macready stumbled to the bar. "Whiskey, my beautiful magnolia." He ordered. She crossed her arms and glared at Edward. "We don't have any. Thanks to him." She nodded towards Edward. "you must be kidding. Then give some else hard liquor." He peered over to the dancing girls who started to touch each other. The young man smiled at the sight. Magnolia, tired of him, put both hands on the bar top and spoke a little louder.
"You don't get it. He did not drink all the whiskey. He drank all the booze. I can only offer you beer or wine." With this, she got the attention of the man. "You're joking." He stated and looked at Edward. He bends forward and brought his face close to Edwards. "How can you still be alive." He whispered with pure admiration.
Edward fished a cigarette pack out of the back of his jeans, and lit himself one. "The perks of ghoulification." He mumbled bitter. Macready pulled a stool next to him and sat down swaying. Edward lifted one former eyebrow to this and shook his head. The younger man watched mesmerised the show of the two girls. The blond one now undressed the brunette and the crowd cheered. Macready hollered.
"Come out, come out, wherever you are!" a super mutant shouted nearby. She almost jumped in fear but pulled herself together and shuffled towards some debris that probably lay there for decades. She could hear a mutant hound howling and sniffing as she pushed herself between some broken concrete slabs just in time to stay unnoticed.
A group of super mutants walked by, weapons ready. "I saw little human. I'm not stupid." Shouted a taller one but walked by her hide-out without noticing her. She tried to keep her breathing slow and silent, but it was difficult for her with all the pain in her side. She pressed the old cloth harder against the bloody wound as a mutant hound sneaked up to the pile of debris. It sniffed and pried around.
The hound took a step closer, watching the concrete with interest. For a moment it stood still but then it crooked its neck and got into stalking position, body low to the ground. Desperate she tried not to breath, not to make any kind of noises. She closed her eyes and concentrated on her heart hammering against her ribcage.
Slowly, she was counting in hope, that that beast would just go away. A howl rang through the air. Her eyes snapped open just to see the hound climbing up the pile of debris. It went right to her hide-out and started digging. She was trapped. "Found you!" a mutant yelled as it climbed up with the other three. She pressed herself closer between the slabs in complete panic.
Edward chugged the wine, put the empty bottle with a loud clang on the bar and went for a piss. He didn't like wine, but it was better than the stale, old, warm beer. He opened the door and heard stifled noises from one of the stalls. The regular rhythm of wet meat smacking together was all too familiar and he turned in the doorway. He would go outside to piss.
The pile of concrete shook and then small pieces of concrete started to crumble before the whole mountain of garbage broke together. A huge cloud of dust emerged from it, covering everything and everyone. She was trapped under a piece of concrete but with a little effort she pushed it away and wiggled herself free.
she was lucky that she survived that, but the mutants survived that too for sure! She looked for the lights she was heading too and started to half run, half limping in that direction. There was no time to lose!
The night was cold and Edward wished he would have taken his coat with him, but who could know that the toilet was kinda occupied. Now he was cold in his undershirt and jeans. His armour was in his room in the old state house. Ham, the doorman looked at him and nodded as a greeting. Edward nodded back and stumbled around the corner heading towards the exit of goodneighbor.
Just a few more steps and she would come round the corner and see her destination, her save haven. Pointy teeth digged into her ankle and she groaned in pain as she hit the ground. Desperate she kicked the hound with her free leg but it just shook her fiercely until she thought it hat bit her foot of. The pain was unbearable and she screamed again.
Out of the corner of her eye she saw a tall figure heading towards her. Only one super mutant survived, it seemed. It got closer and got his weapon ready. The super mutant hesitated. "No. no killing. You be my pet."
She froze in fear as he laughed and laughed while he pulled his hound off of her. Crying and in panic she crawled towards a car to hide under it. She knew, there was no use to it, but she couldn't just give up. He smirked as he watched her trying to get away, slowly he followed her, enjoying this little play of his power.
He closed the makeshift door as he stepped outside of goodneighbor hurrying over to the next brick wall. The sound of a zipper was heard than sound of water hitting stone. He needed to steady himself with his forearm against the wall, otherwise he would piss over his boots, and he liked his boots.
Someone screamed and he smirked. The people in goodneighbor are really overdoing it this year. He closed his pants and searched his body for the pack of cigarettes as someone screamed again. He looked in the direction it came from and just saw the arm of a super mutant disappearing behind the corner. He stood there for a moment, shook his head in disbelieve.
How much did he had? No matter if he hallucinated it or not. He needed to check this out. Super mutants didn't come this close to goodneighbor usually. They knew it was protected. He reached for his assault rifle but his finger grasped at nothing. He cursed and pulled some reinforcement bars with some concrete left on it out of some heap of garbage.
Edward rounded the corner and saw a super mutant next to a car with a mutant hound next to him. It bleed from the leg. Without hesitation, Edward sneaked forward and smashed its skull with a strong swing. It felt dead to the ground. The hound turned around and attacked the big ghoul. He blocked the attack and thrust it backwards, hauled off and hit the hound on the side of the head. It lurched a bit and collapsed dead next to its owner.
Edward looked around for other super mutants but couldn't find any. Tired and still drunk he headed back to goodneighbor.
Edward was half on the way to the wall as he heard a whisper, he turned and saw someone barely walking, limping towards him. Both hands on the bloody left side, the right foot trailed behind. She tried to say something but her leg gives away and she fell to the ground. Edward lost the grip on his club as he launched forward. He kneeled beside her in the blink of an eye. Green eyes starred at him.
Good, she was still conscious, he thought. He picked her up with ease and ran to the door that lead to goodneighbor.
