After 200 years on ice, the sole survivor of Vault 111 has a lot of time to make up for. As her quest for answers leads her to Diamond City, how will a certain reporter impact on the search for her son and those who took him away from her? F-SS / Piper. FO4 spoilers obviously - but will deviate.

Apocalypses have a strange way of inverting reality. The permanent collapses. The impossible thrives. Mothers become generals. Writers become agents. It's a strange place to discover love, but that's the magic of a world stripped clean of rules. All Samantha had to do was choose. [Piper x F!SS. Alternating views. Slow burn. Act II.]

There have been precious few moments in Piper's life where she has found herself thoroughly unable to come up with a single thing to say; most of them in recent memory and embarrassingly often around this particular woman. [f!SoSu x Piper, slowburn, spoilers, some divergence from canon, some violence/gore]