A/N this is also on Archive of our own and posted with the authors permission (aka my permission). I hope you enjoy reading this!

Spanish

Translations:

¿Compredes mí amígo?=understand my friend?

Gilipollas=Dumbass

Precisco=precious

Mucho Gracías=Thank you very much

"Hey! You can't come walking into Goodneighbor without insurance!"

Snapped a rough looking man in his mid 30's with a buzz cut and dressed to intimidate with spiked leather armor and blood stained flannels.

"And just why the fuck not?"

Nora said sizing him up, even though he was already deemed an asshole, Nora would've been would've lying to herself if she said that she didn't find him attractive.

"Look you're one of the few good looking pussy cats in the town I'll give you that but even pretty ladies like you may have accidents if you don't have insurance."

Nora scoffed and flipped her ponytail.

"Listen here you wanna be Raider, I've taken down sumsofbitches a hell of a lot meaner than your good looking but sorry fucking ass. Try that attitude with me again and you're the one that's going to be needing insurance punk ass."

Nora said shoving the punk backwards,

"¿compredes a mí amígo?"*

She snapped making The wanna be bruiser vigorously nodded and put his hands up signaling he wasn't going to push any further.

"Okay okay! Don't start talking in tongues or using big words okay?! You're cute but a crazy little shit!"

"You ain't seen crazy yet, good looking."

Nora said smirking as she turned and walked away but before she could get very far she was stopped by certain Tritip cornered hat wearing ghoul.

"Damn you sure know how to hold your own don't you? I'm John Hancock mayor of this little slice of paradise!"

Hancock said chuckling as he looked in the wanna be bruiser's direction.

"I'm Nora Cordova, and you have to be able to your own shit and others if you want to survive out here...By the lord where are my manners?! I apologize but It's a pleasure to meet you Mr. Mayor! "

Nora said smiling as she held out her hand, which Hancock politely shook.

"No need formalities sweetheart you can just call me mayor or Hancock and it's I that should be apologizing for that asshole Finn. I told him to lay off the extortion shit but apparently the message didn't quite get through..."

Hancock said shaking his head in disappointment at Finn as he lit a cigarette and paced back and forth wearily eyeing Nora out of the corner of his eyes.

"You need me to send a message boss?"

Said a female voice that stood in the shadows behind the mayor, only the lit part of her cigarette was visible.

"No need for more violence Fahrenheit...I'm sure our new friend here, Nora was it? Sent a memo he won't soon forget."

Hancock said gesturing to Nora who smirked and rolled her eyes.

"It was nothing honest! It's a shame he's a gilipollas* he's cute to boot."

Nora said shrugging before she noticed everyone was looking at her strangely.

"Why are you looking at me like that? he's a bad boy! I can't help it!"

Nora pouted, blowing her hair out her eyes.

"Hey I'm not going to judge what gets your rocks off but I gotta ask, what the hell is up with the random usage of something that is definitely not English?"

Hancock said cocking what should've been an eyebrow.

Nora tilted her head and looked confused for a moment then realized what he was talking about and started snickering.

"Oh you mean my usage of Spanish!"

Nora said smiling warmly at the mayor, who chuckled and gave her a small nod.

"Is that what you call it? I had no idea. So now that we've got mystery figured out, what can I do for you my dear?"

"Well I was wondering señor* if you could help me find a place to rent here...and point me in the right direction of a group that calls themselves the Institute?"

Hancock's face went flat as he tilted his hat a little.

"I can help you find a place to crash but listen Nora...no one knows where the Institute is and believe me if I knew where it was, there would be no Institute. May I ask why you're look for it?"

Nora's heart fell,

"My precioso* baby boy was snatched away from me by them! And they killed my husband...all at once when I was was still stuck in the cryo chamber in that damn Vault!"

Nora hissed has her heart began to ache. Hancock looked to Fahrenheit who shrugged and stubbed out her cigarette.

"Oh shit...I'm sorry to hear that Nora. That's-Thats bad. Do you have any leads?"

Hancock said trying to comfort her by putting an arm around Nora's shoulder.

Nora nodded soberly as she looked up to see Finn staring at her as if he was intrigued.

"There's a man named Detective Nick Valentine in Diamond city that maybe able to help me but his cute little secretary said he has been kidnapped and I have to go get him! I don't know where anything is and quite frankly I'm exhausted and need some Tequila and a nap...maybe some Tamales too."

Hancock raised his eyebrows and looked again to Fahrenheit who arched her brow as well.

"Well good news is that Detective is an old friend of mine and I know he can help you but I can't help you myself to go get him, if I could I would...maybe you can hire someone."

Hancock said a little too loudly catching Finn's attention.

"I do have some caps set aside that I was going to use to fix up my power armor that my Elder gave me butttt if it will help me get this Detective so I can find my son then I'll do it!"

Nora said with renewed vigor, causing Hancock to smile and clap her on the back.

"That a girl! Now if you want the tequila head to the bar right around the corner called the Third Rail. It's not the best but it's better than none! And if you want you can stay with me or in one of the rooms in the state house!"

Nora beamed and threw her arms around the Mayor and kissed him on the cheek.

"Mucho gracias!"*

Nora squealed as she hugged the ghoul tighter and then let go, her face was red with joy.

"I'm going to guess that means something good."

Hancock said chuckling as he let go of Nora and lead her away to the third rail unaware that Finn was right behind them.