Snowflake on the Sand

Chapter 2

Winter frowned as she saw her companion whistle as they traveled down the road, she needed to get to the city of New Vegas as fast as possible and he (from what she had gathered with the short conversation she had with Doc Mitchel back in Good Springs) needed to find a package that was stolen from him and then deliver it to Vegas.

The doctor said that he was dead set on doing it, maybe because it was the only thing that he remembered about his past. Winter felt pity for Courier Six, his name and everything he knew was gone all that remained was the one mission he remembered.

But that did not give him the excuse to act like a dumbass

"I got spurs that jingle jangle jingle…"-"Would you be quiet, we don't know if there are enemies in the area" she told him with a glare.

Six smirked "I can see that you are not a fan of the classics, but don't worry if there's an enemy this will tell us" he raised his arm showing his PipBoy, Winter let out a sigh and continued walking quietly. Six stopped and walked as if mesmerized to a fridge on the side of the road, he started digging through it making Winter wonder what he was doing, but her curiosity soon was met with disappointment when he found a small hat and put it on "What do you think?" an earie music sounded in the background.

Winter felt her eye twitch and kept walking, the heat most be driving her mad "It's too early to deal with nonsense" she said making Six chuckle, but as they walked winter noticed how he became serious when he saw people in the horizon. "Powder Gangers" he said and pulled out a Varmint riffle, Winter looked at her opponent and made a plan "There are six in total, three by the ruined plane and the others on the side of the road I will take the ones closest"

"Sure thing" he said with a shrug and prepared himself, Winter nodded and let forward "Go"

Not wanting to kill anyone Winter elbowed the first one with enough strength to knock him out and with a speed that no human had kicked another one in the groin, two incapacitated she moved on to the last one. A bullet bounced of her thanks to her aura and alerted her of the last one.

"How do you like that" the Powder Ganger Said as he prepared another shot but Winter grabbed his weapon and made him drop it, a quick takedown followed and Winter stood victorious. A large explotion made her turn around and steeled herself but from the smoke came Six with a smile "You got moves Winter, you have to teach me that sometime" a decapitated head fell next to him as gore descended from heaven. Winter's eyes opened wide "You killed them"

"Sure did, they wanted me dead, so I didn't let them"

"You cannot simply…" Winter saw from her peripheral vision someone trying to tackled her to the ground with a jump she put some distance but the Powder Ganger didn't care he pulled out a dynamite and yelled "Eat this!"

Six acted faster and with a precise shot he shot directly at the dynamite making him explode, Winter turned away from the sigh but some blood did stain her outfit. Enraged she pushed Six against the run down shack "There was no need to kill them!"

"I disagree, let them go and what happens they regroup and come for us, or worse the go back to Good Springs and kill everyone there in an act of vengeance"

"I refuse to believe that there is not a government or something to take care of the people"-"Well maybe from where you come from there is order, there is law, but here, not so much I know it and he knows it"

Winter tilted her head as if questioning him but her answer was met when a metal pipe smacked her on the side of the head, she tried to retaliate but was shot at twice with a shotgun "Murderer!" he yelled and shot again and to her immense surprise her aura shattered. Winter took out her sword and swung at the man, he jumped back but he landed right next to courier six "Howdy" a machete decapitated the man making a fountain of blood erupt.

"Hmm it feels better to use this, much more practical" he mused to himself and then moved towards Winter "You really are serious about not killing huh? You aimed to hurt with that's why he wasn't hit, I'm sure that with a swing from your fancy sword you could have punctured his heart not just cut off his hand"

"For an amnesiac you sure know a lot about hand to hand weapons, maybe I just messed up" Winter replied as she stood up and forced her eyes away from the corpse.

"Maybe, but to me you don't look like the type to fuck up" Six said as he looted the corpses, grabbing caps and every weapon that he didn't have. Smirking he grabbed all the dynamite he could get his hands and started to walk towards Primm, Winter following behind conflicting ideas on her head.

They walked for a good while in silence until Winter had to stop at a nearby shade, the courier wordlessly handed some water from his canteen, nodding in thanks she finally spoke to him "Did you feel something, when they died?"

"Can't say that I did, like I said they wanted me dead so I paid them back, it's what felt right, sorry if you have a no killing thing going on but that just doesn't seem like something I would do"

"I… have taken some lives before, but its only as a last result I was a soldier back home sometimes actions needed to be made but I think it would be best if they could be avoided"

"Huh, that explains why you can fight so good" Six said as he chugged down a bottle of Sunset Sarsaparilla, he smiled happily and pocked it "Lucky me, this one has a star on it"

"Courier Six…"-"Just Six is fine, Courier Six makes me sound too important"

"Six, I know this is not my world but… could you consider peaceful solutions, it would be best to not solve all of our problems with murder"

"If they don't shoot me on sight sure" Winter smiled at him "I appreciate it"

"You should find a change of clothes by the way, that thing does not look like it belongs on a desert" Six said as they continued their walk towards Primm, Winter rolled her eyes "Is an specialist's outfit fit for all missions, I am just not used to the heat of this place that's all"

To her surprise no one else attacked them on the road and by midday they had arrived at Primm or its outskirts "Is that a roller-coaster?" she asked surprised, but Six paid her no mind as he sheeted his machete when he saw an approaching figure.

"Hey where the hell do you think you are going Primm is off limits?" Winter recognized a soldier when she saw one and was relieved to see that Six was wrong, there was a force of good in the desert.

"What's going in Primm?" Winter asked curiously, the soldier turned to look at her with a raised eyebrow but shrugged, not the oddest outfit he had ever come across.

"Some convicts have taken over the entire town, if you want to hear more talk with Lieutenant Hayes he is in a tent down the road" Six frowned and waited for the soldier to be out of earshot to speak "NCR the biggest nation in the wasteland its taxes and dubious deals with Brahmin Barons is what keeps them afloat, they grasp too much and hold so little, their lands filled with corruption and bandits…"

Winter frowned as he saw Six stop his speech and start to shake his head as if something was hurting him "You all right?"

"Just fine, my brain is a bit scrambled so you are going to have to forgive me about that, lets just go to Primm"

"Didn't you hear what he said, Primm is being overrun by…"

"I heard him just fine, I just don't want the NCR near me they bring bad luck… I think" Six said his eyes looked unfocused and distant but he carried on walking towards Primm topping by another officer "Something that we should know"

The man eyed him before shrugging "The place is littered with mines so unless you feel like losing a leg watch out for them"-"Thanks"

Winter frowned at the officer "You reveal information very easily private" she said trying to sound curious, the guard simply let out a sigh "Lady nothing changes here, we need more men in order to help Primm, but we just can't spare any more troops we are already spread thin as it is. If we stay here we will die to a legion attack, so maybe your friend can help he comes from a vault after all; back home there are legends of people like that"

A loud explosion resonated on Primm followed by and even louder "SON OF BITCH!" Winter turned to soldier with a look "I did say maybe mam"

Winter walked towards the noise and tried not to gag at the sight; Six was a mess of blood and dirt frantically reaching for something "Hold on I am going to get you to Doctor Mitchel he…" Winter words died on her throat as she saw him stab himself over and over again with stimpacks on different parts of his body, when he stood up he looked at her exasperated "I was so close too, fuck's sake that last one was almost done and then I tripped"

"Six"

"Yeah?"

"You almost died"

"Well I guess so, I am more sad that my vault suit got ruined I have nothing else to wear" Winter nodded dumbly at him, watching him pull a bit of rock out of his arm "Shit the raiders heard that for sure get ready"

"There they are, blast them!" Winter wasted no time and stuck the closest one to the wall with the ice dust that she had jumping over the other and smashing the handle of her sword against his head, Six simply threw a dynamite and moved out of the explosion's range, enjoying his handiwork he turned to the other raider "You should surrender"

"Like fucking hell" the raider said as he pulled out a giant knife not having any weapons Six raised his fists "Give me hell then"

Swipe after swipe the courier dodge and when the criminal finally lounged at him he let himself be stabbed on the side to grab the arm, thinking fast he shattered the arm and stabbed the criminal in the throat.

"Six" a threatening voice said "I did ask him to surrender" he replied with a smile, Winter let out a long sigh but kept walking towards Primm now that the enemies where taken care of she looked at both buildings "Where do we go first?"

"Viki and Vance, call it a hunch but it feels more familiar than the Bison one" Six said as he opened the door, Six was quickly shot in the leg

"Sweet fuck" he managed to rasp out, Winter quickly moved inside and prepared herself for battle but what she saw where a bunch of scared people with nothing, dressed in rags and armed with subpar equipment.

"I am blowing through stimpaks like crazy I need to stop getting hurt" Six grumbled as he stared inside "I am fine by the way assholes, thanks for the bullet"

"I don't know what it was that brought you to Primm youngster but you should go, towns gone to hell"-"I am courier with the Mojave express was hoping you could tell me something about work"

"I don't got any if that's what you are asking"

Six shook his head "Nothing like that Mr. Ermm"- "Johnson Nash nice to meet you"

"Call me Courier Six, a package of mine was stolen I was hoping that you could tell me more about it"

Nash eyes widened "Ah I remember now, so you were supposed to delivered that package, doesn't surprise me that it got stolen it had strange written all over it so much so that the first deadbeat that we hired"

"He canceled?" Six asked genuinely confused, who would reject free caps "Yeah had this weird look on his face when he saw your name on the list he said and I quote: let courier six take care of this"

Winter finally snapped "Six, they just shot you! Don't you care?!"

He shrugged "Welcome to Nevada" Winter let out a sigh and let their conversation continue, this place was so frustrating; her companion was so frustrating. Throwing himself with no regards to anything as if trying to get himself killed. This was not a mission that any training could have prepared her for.

"But I will not die on this forsaken desert, I promise Weiss"

A/N: always found it funny how stimpaks heal so much in lore and in game, as long as you don't get hit in the head almost everything is curable, guess that's the power of the old world. Laying the bases for how these two will interact I am going for the full "experience" of New Vegas, so Winter is still not going home… if she lives that is. Her not wanting to kill people is mostly a way so she doesn't just waltz her way to the early game and in RWBY kiling another human is kinda a big deal.

EDIT: God I'm such a dumbass, I didn't see that I uploaded chapter 1 twice as an apology I will see if I can crank out another chapter today.

See you around!