Warning: Torn has a potty mouth! You're warned! But I really dun think ya'll care…
"Holy shit." Torn said staring wide eyed at the person in front of him.
"Haha, that's righ' baby! I'm back in town!" The person yelled stepping out of the crowd and into full view. Vee was back. Her long blond hair remained up in the high pony tail with small strands falling down in front of her face and the same dark green eyes. Her outfit was different but still the same basic look. She still wore knee high combat boots and a tank top revealing her stomach, with blue pants and holsters around her ankle and thigh, and a bullet belt around her waist.
"V – Vee?" Torn asked still not believing this, it had been almost three years he thought she was dead. Wait, she was dead. She disappearedthree years ago, they never heard from her again. This was impossible and yet there she was standing in front of him with a big grin on.
"You bet'cha! What? Not happy to see an old friend?" She asked and walked up to him.
Torn remained confused as anything, he shock his head in attempt to clear his thoughts and opened his mouth to speak several times after looking back up at her. "Veronica?"
"I think we 'ave established that is in fact my name." Vee nodded smiling at Torn's loss for words.
He cleared his throat and tried to speak one more time. "W – what…" he didn't know what to say, he ran his tongue over his front teeth thinking. Vee eventually gave in and took his arm dragging him in another room so they could talk.
"I can see yer a tad confused, eh?" Vee asked with a smirk on and Torn rolled his eyes and gave her a 'duh' look. "Well let me start from the beginnin'."
"That would be helpful." Torn said in a monotone and Vee began her story.
"Well…." She drew out messing with Torn. "When I left I was very drunk, I was so drunk I was almost sober again. But I went out hotwired me a zoomer and flew out to the wasteland."
"Just like that?" Torn asked confused. "Ya didn't take anything with ya?"
Vee shook her head and looked at him as if she had already explained this. "I told you I was dead drunk." Torn nodded understanding and signaled for her to go on. "Well anyway I was dead drunk I flew out there and once I hit that hell hole I crashed the zoomer into a rock five seconds after I got there."
Torn burst out laughing in a very un-Torn like way. "I thought ya wanted to be a driver?"
"Shut up." She said glaring at him. "As I was sayin', I crashed the zoomer I passed out about ten seconds later and 'bout a day after that is nothin' but a big blur." She moved her hands around her head to try and show the blur. "I woke up with a lizard layin' on my back, and trust me, he won't be layin' on nobodies back fer a while. I wandered around for some time I ran into a few metal heads, not huge wasteland ones but they were pretty big. Handled them, I had a brush with a few marauders, my rack got me outta that one."
"How?" Torn asked.
Vee looked horribly offended. "Are ya sayin' I'm not attractive!"
"No! No, no, no, I'm just sayin' ya ain't the most flirtatious girl I've met. I thought you'd rather punch someone's lights out then flirt."
"Yer righ'." Vee said smirking and Torn cocked his head slightly. "But ya honestly think I could handle five marauders, in armor, heavily armed?"
"You have a point."
"Are ya sayin' I'm weak?"
"No! Dammit! Stop it!" Torn yelled suddenly remembering one of the perks of Vee's disappearance.
"I'm just messin' with ya, when did ya get so damn tense?"
"Since this fuckin' war started." Torn said resting his head on his hand.
"I 'eard 'bout it, one of the main reasons I came back." Vee said sympathetically, which was odd for her.
"But continue." Torn said not wanting to talk about it.
She nodded and shifted her position on the bed she was sitting on. "Anyway, I made my way by an' after a while I ran into some old friends, remember Sig, Shockra and Cain?" Torn nodded. "Well turns out Jen became a Wastelander, they found her and, well, she became a Wastelander."
"Damn, really?"
"Really." Vee nodded again. "I found her, she said she missed the city and all of us. It was a truly touchin' moment." She rolled her eyed real quick. "Well I stayed out there a bit, never became a Wastelander meself."
"I thought they didn't allow anyone in there who weren't wastelanders." Torn asked confused.
"I snuck in." Vee said smiling, "The only ones who knew I wasn't a Wastelander was Jen, Shocka, Cain and Sig. But I gotta tell ya I really did miss the city. Oh and guess who's the top dog in Spargus, it's Damas." She said without waiting for an answer.
He looked shocked. "Wow, I thought he was dead…"
"Yeah, he's alive and kickin', literally."
"Okay um… if you liked Haven better why the hell did you stay in Spargus?"
"I dunno, to lazy to move."
Torn rolled his eyes and she continued. "But I got wind of the war and decided you guys needed some help." She got up and walked over to him. "Mar knows ya can't do anythin' without me." She smiled at him.
"I've done everything without you for almost three years." He responded.
"And how far have ya gotten? Yer wanted by the guard, thank Mar they hardly care anymore, yer losin' the war, ya 'ave about fifteen people on yer side verses the hundreds of KG and metalhead yer fightin'."
"Oh and one woman would make all the difference." He said sarcastically.
"Exactly," she said and poked his nose with her pointer finger, he flinched back slightly and pulled a face.
"So what's your plan."
"Dun got one." She said and walked across the room and to the mirror and began fixing her tank top absently.
"I thought you said you would help and 'make all the difference'."
"Oh dude, I though' ya knew me better then that. I plan nothin' I take everything as it's handed out and just work off what I get. Why plan ahead when you can just kick ass when it gets 'ere?" She asked with her back to him looking at him in the mirror.
"Because planning makes you prepared."
"Plannin' is for men who 'ave nothin' to do." She said looking over her shoulder making a point.
"Are you sayin' I have nothing to do?"
"Touchy." She turned around and walked out of the room.
"Wait, wait, we're not done here." He said and began walking up to her and took her arm as she began to open the door.
"Oh Torn I didn't know ya felt that way." She said smirking and Torn let go sighing.
"You haven't changed a bit, you still act like a teenager." He folded his arms across his chest and looked at her with disapproval.
"Neither have you, ya may not think, but ya still act like the same ol' Torn." She started to back out of the room. "Ya act serious and 'ard core, but around the right people and 'ave a few drinks, you'll be open as anythin'."
She left leaving Torn staring at the now closed the door. He took a deep breath and let it out slowly and walked out of the room to find Vee sitting on the table looking over a few maps next to her. "Ya may be an over workin' man with nothin' to do, but these are some damn good battle strategies."
"Thanks." He said gruffly. "So, anyone else popping by I should know about?"
"Well actually…" She trailed off looking up to the door. "They just arrived."
Torn looked up to the elves standing in the entrance. "Oh man…"
Vee gave a lopsided grin and shifted her position on the table awaiting the show that was about to play out in front of her.
AN: Woo more people! Yeah everybody's comin' now, ya can't stop 'um. Thanks to Shadow Systems, East Coastie1500 (heh heh, you were right), Scarlet Fall and cOme as yOu are. I love all the reviews and I am sad to say that I may not update for amonth or so.I'll be going on vacation soon and I might not finish a chapter before I go, ya know things will be kinda hectic. And plus I have an audition coming up soon as well that I have to prepare for. But I'll try I really will.