A/N: This chapter is a Butch heavy chapter... Oh and thank you for the reviews! They make me wanna run through the streets naked! lol maybe...
Burke tossed the bandage aside and dug into his bag finding a Stimpack, he took a deep breath as he pushed the long needle into his calf and emptied the medicine between the stitches.
"Need some help?"
He rolled his eyes when he saw Clover standing in the door way, her chest falling out of the t-shirt she had cut to show off her cleavage. "Not from you I don't." He tossed the empty Stimpack to the floor and pulled his pant leg back down. "Where's Aida?"
"With Butch in the gym."
"And that would be?"
Clover shrugged. "I didn't even know this place had a gym."
"Why does Aida even have you following her?"
"To stand around and look pretty." Clover smiled as she turned around and walked out of the room.
Burke sighed grabbing a bottle of water and pouring a little onto his hand before he ran it through his hair.
"Run faster or I'm going to step on the back of your heels!"
Aida laughed as she tried to run faster, her and Butch barley fit on the treadmill together and they looked ridiculous trying to run on it at the same time. "Ow!"
"I told you to run faster!"
Aida pushed the button as she spread her legs till her feet were safely on the sides of the treadmill. Butch grabbed her hips giving himself leverage as he tried to copy her actions, or so Aida told herself.
Burke clenched his fists as he stared through the window, jealousy quickly building up in his chest. He usually did not become this worked up over a woman but Aida was different, she was his and only his and the boy who had his hands anchored on her hips needed to learn that and quick. He clenched his jaw when Butch grabbed Aida's sides causing her to scream with laughter as she tried to wiggle free from his grip and find a way off of the treadmill.
The door hissed open as Burke stepped near it, Aida jerked her head towards him. "You're awake! You shouldn't be walking around." She frowned as she pushed Butch back and jumped off the treadmill.
Burke smirked as Butch glared at him, picking his jacket up and walking past Burke purposely bumping into his shoulder.
"Watch it kid!" Burke growled under his breath.
"Fuck you!"
"Butch!" Aida yelled as she glared at his back. "I don't know what is wrong with him."
"Who cares?" Burke groaned walking towards Aida and backing her up against a table.
"You're going to tear your stitches!" Aida tried to push his hands away as he grabbed at her waist trying to pick her up.
"You can fix them." He smiled picking her up off the ground and sliding her up onto the table, ignoring the pain that was screaming in his calf muscle. He closed his eyes trying to ignore it.
"See now you're hurt, you big idiot!" Aida pushed him back and slid off the table. She crouched down next to his leg and pulled his pant leg up. "You're bleeding." She glared up at him. "Sit down before the stitching breaks."
Burke pulled himself onto the table with Aida's help. "It's fine Aida."
"Yeah I'm sure you will be saying that when it's infected."
"I used a Stimpack earlier, its fine."
Aida sighed standing up and brushing the dirt from her knees. "Try to be more careful."
He smiled pushing her hair out of her blue eyes.
Butch let the air out of his lungs as he fell back onto the rusty bed and draped his arm over his eyes. He ran this tongue over his lips as the memory of how soft Aida's had felt against his when she had found him in the bar in Rivet City.
"Butch?"
He looked up from the bottle of whiskey he had been nursing to see Aida. He had always thought she was beautiful minus the fact that she was so much smarter than him.
"What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be in the vault?" she smiled as she sat down next him.
"Why would I wanna stay there?"
"Umm… Hello it's dangerous out here!"
Butch rolled his eyes as he took another drink of the whiskey.
"And why are you drinking?" Aida reached over the table yanking the bottle from his hand and tossing it into the garbage. "You're a big enough idiot sober, I don't think you need to be drunk!"
"Gee thanks mom."
Aida reached across the table and smacked Butch upside the head.
"What the fuck was that for?" Butch shrieked fixing his hair.
"For being an idiot!" Aida grabbed his face in her hands looking him over. "You have radiation poisoning."
Butch grabbed her hands and pulled them away. "No I don't!"
Aida rolled her eyes as she stood up and grabbed his arm. "Come on, I have a room upstairs. I can treat it before it gets worse."
Butch glared up at her holding his ground as she tugged at his arm trying to get him to his feet.
Aida groaned and put her hands on her hips. "You see that big mutant over there?" she pointed to Fawkes who was poking at the dog next to him. "I will have it get carry you upstairs! Fawkes leave Dogmeat alone!"
Fawkes looked up quickly straightening out and putting his hands behind his back.
"Dogmeat?"
"He was already named when I found him." Aida tugged at his arm again. "Now come on!"
Aida pulled Butch by his jackets sleeve up to her room forcing him into a chair before she turned to her bag.
"What are you doing? You are not poking a needle into my arm!" Butch yelled as she pulled the Rad-away and IV line from her bag.
"Don't be such a baby! I do it to myself all the time." Aida set her supplies on the table next to the chair. "Now hold still!" Aida groaned as she pushed him back down into the chair.
"Aida no!" Butch pushed her hands away as she tugged at the jackets zipper.
"You big puss!" Aida laughed climbing onto his lap and pinning his arms down with her legs giving her enough time to pull the zipper down. "Stop!" she giggled as she pulled the jacket off and Butch tried to push her from his lap.
"No don't you poke me with that thing!" he screamed as Aida dug her knee into his left arm keeping it pinned down as she tried to straighten out the other one.
"If you keep moving I am going to miss your vein and have to poke you again!" Aida growled. "Now stop being a baby and hold still!" she glared at him as she grabbed the needle from the table.
Butch turned his head and closed his eyes as Aida smacked his arm trying to help the blood surface. "Ahh!"
"Got it!" she smiled as she wrapped tape around the IV and plugged the line into it, lifting up her knee and freeing his left hand.
Butch turned to look his arm as Aida leaned forward to hang the bag of Rad-away from the shelf. He looked forward into her vault 101 suit noticing she wasn't wearing an under shirt underneath and getting a clear shot of cleavage.
"You perv!" Aida smacked him on the head as she hung the bag.
Butch reached forward with his left hand pulling her zip down more.
"Stop!" Aida shrieked smacking his hand away.
He grabbed her waist as she attempted to slid off his lap pulling her back to him and quickly catching her lips as she was about to protest. Aida sighed as his tongue quickly invaded her mouth seeking hers, she ran her hands through his hair as she returned his kiss. She tasted like Sugar Bombs, Butch smiled as the taste filled his mouth the sweet taste of sugar making him want more of her.
"You taste like whiskey." Aida whispered as she ran her thumb across his bottom lip.
"And you taste like you have been eating Sugar Bombs for weeks!" Butch chuckled as he bit down on her thumb.
"I took a bunch from the vault before I left last week." Aida smiled as she climbed off his lap.
"Where are you going?" Butch looked up at her as he reached for her arm. "Things were just starting to get good."
"I should go check on Fawkes and Dogmeat. I think Fawkes may be trying to eat my dog." Aida laughed as she pulled her hair into a ponytail. "Just stay there and let that Rad-away get into your system. I'll be back later to check on you."
Butch watched as she walked out of the room and shut the door. He tilted his head back and closed his eyes, running his tongue over his lips as he smiled to himself. Never had he thought that he would ever kiss Aida or have her straddling his lap. It didn't matter out here, no one thought of her as the smart girl, the nerdy girl who was the Overseers daughter's pet. She was just Aida, the girl from Vault 101 who was intent on saving the wasteland.
Aida walked back into the room just as the Rad-away bag was about to empty itself. "Are you feeling better now?"
Butch jerked awake and looked up to see Aida grabbing the now empty bag. "Umm sure."
"What kind of answer is that?" Aida raised her eyebrow as she pulled the tape from his arm, grabbing the cotton ball on the table and pushing down on his arm as she pulled the IV out.
"That's a "I was sleeping and your loud mouth woke me up" answer." Butch smirked as he bent and stretched out his arm. "So…" he grabbed her arm trying to pull her back onto his lap.
"What are you doing?" Aida looked down at him.
"Continuing where we left off before you walked out." He smiled tugging at her.
"I think that Rad-away went to your head, or you're drunk."
Butch rolled his eyes as he stood up and grabbed her waist pulling her back to him. "Oh come on I remember Freddy telling me that he heard you had a crush on me."
"Really? And why would I have a crush on someone who stuck my head in a toilet and stole my lab paper." Aida pushed him away.
"That's the past." Butch groaned following after her as she walked to her bag. "Besides you kissed me back."
"Because I didn't want to hurt your feelings!" Aida smirked as she pulled her pajamas out and tossed them onto the bed before digging back into her bag.
"Oh whatever you enjoyed it!"
"And now you are ruining your chances of ever getting another kiss from me!" Aida pushed him away as he grabbed at her zipper.
"Aida!" Butch called as she walked into the bathroom.
Aida sighed opening the door again and walking over to him. She grabbed his face with both hands roughly pushing her mouth to his. "There that's it no more!" Aida quickly turned away and walked back into the bathroom.
"What the fuck was that? That was nothing!" Butch twisted the door knob only to find it was locked. "Aida!"