Hello, if anybody shows interest I would like this to be the first in a series of one-shots featuring our beloved vault hunters.
Characters: Gaige and Zer0
"Satisfy me!" One of the humongous mutant men said to Gaige from her right.
"How about NO! You gigantic maniac." She yelled back and opened fire on him with her smg. This only served to aggravate the man who himself drew a rather large shotgun and aimed it at her head.
'Oh, crap!' Gaige thought and immediately dropped flat to the ground.
It saved her life for a moment but the behemoth raised his leg in an attempt to squash her head. She yelped and rolled out of the way just in time, the thud of his leg impacting the earth beside her head and the rain of sand and pebbles disoriented her and by the time she looked up the goliath had his leg above her head again.
She gasped in fright, dust and sand made her eyes water but she couldn't blink as she saw in slow motion the foot getting closer and closer to her head.
She was dead, this was it for her - eighteen years old, a genius and vault hunter, just at the beginning of what should have been an amazing life. Killed by a horny mutant in a little settlement in Three Horns Valley. No glory at all. Damn.
These things flashed through her mind in a flurry while she watched the sole of the boot that would kill her.
It occurred to her that it took a damn long time for the guy to stomp her when she realized that it had stopped ridiculously close to the tip of her nose. She twisted around to try to see what was going on.
The goliath was leaning back a bit, looking at the sizzling blue blade going through the middle of his stomach.
"Why are you so mean?" He asked and lost his balance.
He fell away from her and she now had a full view of her savior - Zer0. He stood above her with his feet to each side of her head, looking down at her. She could see her upside down reflection in his glossy visor.
"I love you." She blurted.
To which he only turned his head to the side a bit.
She wanted to dig into the earth and hide not unlike the rats that creep her out so much.
After a couple moments he reached his hand to her and without hesitation she took it. He had her on her feet in a heartbeat; Gaige didn't even know how she ended up facing him so quickly but she swayed on her feet from the dizziness the motion induced. Zer0 stayed her with a hand on her shoulder while she breathed deeply trying to make the world stop spinning.
"As the dust settles down/ and the adrenaline rush dies/ peace is returned" he said looking around.
Gaige too looked around, all the bandits were indeed dead, Salvador was whistling at some pistol he found while Maya and Axton spoke into Axton's Echo and Krieg was throwing his axe at a flock of rakk some distance away.
"Thanks by the way." She said while her cheeks flushed a pretty pink.
He didn't respond but his visor displayed a smiley face for her and he walked away to join Axton and Maya.
She was relieved he didn't say anything about her earlier declaration, she was already mortified enough about the slip.
She jumped visibly at the beep that told her Deathtrap was ready to be deployed again.
"Great." She huffed.
Unbeknown to her Zer0 was pleased to know she liked him that way and was already looking forward to the next time she would say those words to him.
I feel I should say that these characters do not belong to me, I just love them too much.