The girl was the first to wake up from her slumber, and she was the first to freak out over how they had moved around overnight, and just how perverted it all seemed.

She woke up to find her head resting on the soldier's shoulder, being comforted by Axton's brown military-issued jacket, which glowed with the pride of a man still yearning for adventure, her hands were both wrapped around his arm as if it were a teddy bear that she did not want to let go of. Her left leg wrapped around Axton's right leg, her right seemed to be following along as it was across BOTH of the soldiers' legs, her knee was sensually raised up, going from his legs to his waist, dangerously close to a certain male-only body part that was currently pitching a tent. Not to mention, her body was on it's side, flat up against the soldier's right arm, her small assets looking as if they were attempting to smother his arm. This was an extremely pleasant surprise for the young girl.

Upon further investigation, she also saw that Axton's right arm was gently wrapped around her neck, pulling her in, and that he had a faint smile on his unconscious face.

"Omgomgomgomg!" She frantically whispered as she wondered how the hell did they end up like this, but in reality, she didn't really care how it happened, she's just happy it did. She has never felt more comfortable in her entire life than she did right then and now.

She was contemplating what would happen if they stayed in this position any longer before she heard the door to Hammerlock's house swing open.

"Hey, fancy-dude, where's Axton?"

Gaige froze, but her mind was running at a million miles per hour.

"What, hmm?" He said as he was stirred out of a nap. He was laying down in his barely passable lawn chair that was placed on his buried porch, staring off towards nothing. He had a sniper laying comfortable across his lab, fully loaded and ready to shoot any enemies that happen to show up again.

He rubbed the laziness out of his eyes, when it wouldn't work, he gave up and looked to the person who woke him up.

"Oh, your fair lady, I assure you, I haven't seen that handsome fellow since last night."

"Well, if you see him, tell him we're going on a mission soon and to meet us by the graveyard, we're gonna be field testing over there."

"Right, will do." He said as he laid back into his chair, pulling his hat over his eyes, the red glint from his missing eyeball still shown from under the rim of the hat.

"I mean it, tell him where we are." She straightened her face and tried to sound serious.

"And I said, 'Will, do'." He repeated, "You can trust me, chap, I'm a man of my word."

"Don't call me chap."

"Noted." He laid his head back into the pillow accompanying the chair, resting his eyes as he listened to the strangely calming whips of the wind.

The siren sighed, "Whatever."

She stormed off to join the rest of the crew at the graveyard, watching as the psycho and the dwarf were wrestling in the snow, making tidal waves of it fly around.

"Phew," the mechromancer let out a breath of air she didn't know she was holding, she also didn't know that her hold on the man go tighter, "that was close."

Unfortunately, she uttered her sentence a little too loud and, much to her disappointment, woke up a sleeping soldier.

"Hmm, Gaige?" He said groggily, "Why does my arm feel like it's paralyzed?" He looked to his right and noticed Gaige.

What's he going to say? He's going to probably think I'm a perv! Will he like me after this? Will we still be friends?! Will he be ok with it? Of course not, I am LITTERALLY CUDDLING HIM WITH MY BREA-

"Gaige?" The soldier said softly.

Gaige's heart shattered. She knew it, he would never have liked her after this. It's over. She prepared herself mentally for him to say it, but the she could still feel the tears swelling up in her eyes.

"I'm pretty sure my arm is dead right now, can you let it get some air?" He smiled coyly.

"OH. Yeah. A-Alright." She could feel the anger rising in her. He hit him in the chest before burying her face in his chest. She then realized she was acting like a school girl, so she got up and brushed off her skirt. "Can you move it now?"

The soldier sat up and tried to move it, only to realize that yup, it was pretty much paralyzed. And it felt like a crap-ton of needles were going at his arm.

"Nope. Whatever you did, it took out my arm better than any tranquilizer ever could." The way he laughed, the way he used his other arm to helplessly swing his "broken" arm, the way his eyes lit up whenever he smiled. Everything about his joyful, carefree nature relaxed the previously heart-broken girl.

The girl chuckled and smiled warmly towards the soldier before she began looked around her. She was trying to look for the blanket they had been using, but no luck. All she found were some bones and ammo to some guns she'd probably never get, "Nothin'." Accepting defeat, she sat down on a nearby snow pile, only to have the whole snow structure collapse due to her weight. The scream she let out nearly reached the rest of the gang, who, luckily, were too busy firing weapons at screeching beasts to notice.

"Oh, comon! I'm not that fat!" She yelled at the pile.

"Mm, I don't know. You did successfully cut the circulation to my arm by just laying on it." The soldier gave a teasing grin and he walked over to the collapsed girl to help her up.

"Rude pile of bones and crap..." She muttered as she took a hold of the soldier's good hand.

Once they were both up, the girl walked over to examine the rubble a little closer, "Hey, Axton, is this worth something?" She said as she held up a black box that had a blank screen with only one option: "Play."

"Oh, an ECHOrecorder? Nah. Apparently, there are so many to be found on this planet, that buying it would just make buyers and merchants lose money rather than make some. All we can do with them is listen to them once, and only once."

The girl looked at him as if questioning if he was serious.

"Yeah, it's kind of a major design flaw; so make sure you listen well the first time."

After digesting the knowledge she had just been given, she walked over to Axton, and pressed "Play".

"We've hijacked the train that runs through the Dust." A mysterious female voice came through the radio, and upon hearing the voice, Axton visibility tensed up,

"If it all goes well, we should get to Sanctuary in a day's time. Hyperion hasn't diverted any troops from New Haven to pursue us, and a sandstorm has devoured their nearest frontier town. We just need-" The sound of a window breaking could be heard from the echo recorder," oh, damnit- everyone! Get away from the windows!"

End of recording.

"Hey, do you know her?" Gaige asked suspiciously, throwing the now useless recorder over her shoulder.

"H-Huh? Oh, yeah. I do." The soldier said, staring off into the distance.

The girl waved her hand in front of his face, "Helloo, you gonna tell me?"

"Y-Yeah. Talking about it might make me feel better."

"So you know how I went on that mission to Pandora?" Once the girl nodded, he continued, "Well, she was on of my comrades on that mission, and, being mission protocol and everything, we had to try to be friends with everyone in the group, so you know, we learn to trust each other, and believe it or not, but Helena was the only person in the group the I actually really enjoyed being around. On all the days I had to be with someone else, I lied just so I could hang out with her. Sure, I got into some trouble because of her, but she was probably the coolest person I met."

Axton became silent for a moment, as he was remembering some fond, almost-forgotten memories, leaving Gaige in suspense as to why he seemed so tense to hear her voice.

He sighed, "The last time I saw her was on that mission, we both promised to meet up in my hometown, I think it's now called Lynchwood or something. But she never came... I waited for days and days, hoping that she nothing bad went her way..."

He stopped talking completely for a few seconds, "Do you think there are any more recordin-"

"OH, IT SEEMS YOU HAVE FOUND ONE OF HELENA'S RECORDINGS, I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THEM; CAN I PAY YOU TO FIND THEM ALL?"

Axton is pretty sure he's deaf, or at least he now has some sort of hearing damage. Why the hell was his ECHO on the highest audio setting!?

After the ringing in his ears subsided, and he lowered the volume from 100 to 20, he took his hands off his head and talked to the worried Gaige.

"Ow. So-ow- it turns that there are more of these recordings, and we gotta find them for Hammerlocks weird, most likely kinky, collection of audio logs." Gaige snickered. "So, hey, wanna go on a quest with me?" He gave her a smirk.

Gaige gave him a big, toothy smile, which replicated her current feelings, "I thought you'd never ask."

~~End~~


Christ, that first part's probably gonna get me banned or something. Hey, question: what are the boundaries on how sexual you could get in a a T-Rated fic? Just wanna know for potential future chapters and whatnot. Thanks for reading though!