Tactics: Confrontations
Fallout Tactics fanfiction
immo - immo@hamena.org
rating:PG-13
Usual warning, people: Femmeslash/yuri/goodness. That means girl on girl action. I can hear all you guys out there
going "HOOOO-YEAAAAH!" And the girls going: "...(quietly)weloveyouwritemore!"
Reviews keep me going, as you can see by this new chapter of Tactics.
So review on! And I'll try to keep writing. Who can find the easter egg I've hidden in here?
~~~
"So when do we get the big guns?"
Some of the initiates were more... eager than others.
"When I see you've got sufficient skills in the melee weapons, you'll move onto something bigger," Lex
frowned at the initiate. "And not one second before I say so."
"I've got sufficient skill!" The boy protested. And he was a boy. But he was getting annoying.
"You're a city rat, aren't you?" Lex's eyes narrowed, when she saw his cheeks puff up at the insult. "Think
you know a few tricks with your knife, you think you know everything? Nono," Lex raised a hand to stop the boy.
"Don't even open your mouth. Prove it to me."
There was always one in every group who thought they should've been a knight as soon as they joined. She
didn't just become a general to have some snarky kid question her. Usually, she would just ignore the young ones--
the ones who didn't get along and kept on resisting the position they were put in were soon not with them anymore.
Your team was life. Your squad watched your back. You go off alone, try to play hero, well... you just don't last
too long.
And anyways, she was worried about Stevie. There had been one report from her, saying she was heading back
to camp, and she should've been in by now...
"Ready, initiate?"
The boy was showing off, tossing the knife up and down with practised ease, a smirk on his face. She bared
her teeth in a savage grin, then charged forward as soon as the knife left his hand, bowling him over completely.
His knife clattered to the ground, and her knife was at his throat.
"You want to try this again? Two outta three?" Lex back off again, and waited for him to pick up his knife.
The rest of the initiates she had been training watched quietly, as other groups practised nearby.
This time, that cock-sure smile was gone, and he regarded her warily. To his credit, she didn't let her
guard down, either. She would not let even the slim chance of the boy beating her appear.
He suddenly lunged forward, and Lex rolled out of the way, and scrambled to her feet again as he barrelled
forward. Her right arm swept down and blocked his second attack, and followed that up with a left hook that dropped
him like a sack of meal.
"You need melee skills, because one day, you will find yourself with just a knife, or a spear, or even just
a stick. This makes you a well-rounded person. Because, hell, anyone can learn to fire a weapon!" Lex looked round
at all the faces watching her. Good. She had their attention.
"So you dropped a newbie. You must be very proud of yourself, General Lexandria."
Lex turned around, and couldn't help but freeze at the sight of Stevie. The only coherent thought in her
head right now, was how Stevie's hair had grown longer...
"Well?" Stevie had stepped through the ring of initiates. And behind them, Lex was dimly aware of knights,
squires, medics, scribes, an assortment of personnel watching the exchange.
"Y-your pardon?"
Stevie smirked, and placed a hand on her hip. "You and me, General. One on one. Unarmed fight. What do you
say?"
"I don't think so..." Lex noted the new crest on Stevie's fatigue jacket. "...Knight Commander."
"Are you afraid to fight someone who can beat you, General?"
A hush fell through the group. Lex had to consciously stop her teeth from grinding against one another.
"I don't want to fight you."
"Are you afraid, General. If you say you are, hey, no problem." Stevie's eyes reflected the same fury that
was in Lex's eyes at the moment. "All you need to answer, is yes... or no."
Lex walked forward slowly, until she was bare centimetres from Stevie, could smell the stink of the
wastelands on the Knight Commander.
"No."
"Good."
Her punch was unexpected, and it made Lex stagger to the side. She had no time to gather herself, as Stevie
launched in with a barrage of attacks. After the third successful punch, Lex hit the ground hard, and lay there,
waiting for Stevie to be within reach.
She could feel the tremors of her footsteps...
She tensed up, and judged that Stevie was close enough, swept Stevie's feet out from under her. The cheer
from the crowds was a dull roar in her ear, and Lex barely noticed. All she saw was Stevie.
"Nice, General."
"You do good, too."
"I had a really good squad leader, just recently. Taught me a lot." Stevie did a roundhouse kick to Lex's
head, and Lex caught it, shoved it away. Backed off some more.
"Really, taught you a lot, didn't they?" Lex played Stevie's game. She launched a series of sharp kicks,
each blocked by one of Stevie's. Lex switched to a couple of punches, which Stevie blocked again. Lulling Stevie
into a false sense of security, getting her to react to the punches, going defensive... and getting caught
completely by surprise as Lex kicked her in the side, another punch to stun the other woman, than tackled her to the
ground.
They struggled for a while, in the dirt and dust. Stevie got the upperhand, after a while, and twisted so
she was sitting on Lex. Using both fists, she unleashed her rage, and just pummelled Lex's face.
Lex was hurting, to say the least. But through the punches, she could see dirty tears smeared across
Stevie's face.
Lex managed to catch one flailing hand, then another. Wrapping her leg around one of Stevie's, she used her
hold to roll them over, and held Stevie down. She screamed in frustration, trying to buck Lex off of her, but the
general had a lot of experience over the Knight Commander.
They were both breathing heavily, Stevie's arms pinned above her head, faces inches apart again. Stevie
strained against Lex, but all her energy had left her. She lay there, Lex's sweat dripping down onto her. And just
to provoke the other woman, Stevie darted her tongue out and licked away the salty liquid that had dropped to her
lips.
"Is this what you want, Stevie?" Lex hissed, enraged at her display. "This is what you want?!"
Lex let go of Stevie's hand, and drew back to punch her. But the hit never landed, it missed its mark and
landed right beside Stevie's head instead.
"You're dead." Lex said loudly, for the benefit of the crowd. "I win."
The mob erupted into cheers.
Lex looked down at Stevie, feeling completely helpless, not know what to feel...
"So are you going to stay on top of me all day?" Stevie moved, just a bit, to grind her pelvis up against
Lex's. "Because I don't mind."
The indecisiveness that Lex had been feeling faded.
"Fucking bitch!" Lex snarled. She got up, spat out bloody saliva, and stalked away, through the crowd.
~~~
"Hey."
"Go away."
Lex had taken the buggy to escape. She had taken off pretty far from camp. But Stevie had followed her.
"No."
Stevie sat down right in front of Lex, facing her.
"Here, have a stimpack."
Lex didn't reply, instead, sullenly looked at a spot right over Stevie's shoulder. Stevie sighed, and leaned
forward, administering the medical drug.
"So... what's up."
"..."
"So how was your last mission?"
"..."
"Okay, fine. I'll tell you about mine." Stevie started on her story. How she had been nervous, didn't know
what she should do. How much stress it was to keep everyone alive. She'd done it before, Stevie rambled on, when
she was in a squad. But she had never been the one everyone looked to when the going gets tough.
"...then we had to blow up all six damned power nodes at once."
Lex still didn't answer. Finally, frustrated, Stevie reached out and took hold of Lex's chin.
"Look at me, damn you."
Lex locked eyes with Stevie, and damn it all if Lex still didn't take her breath away.
"I'm not going to say I'm sorry. I can't believe you kissed me with that lying mouth of yours that time."
Stevie felt a twinge of familiar anger. "Dekker asked me if I had said my goodbyes to you yet, and you know how
much of a fool I looked, just staring at that bastard blankly? You know how much I fucking missed you when I went on
that mission?!"
Tears were streaming down Stevie's face now, and she wiped at them angrily. Lex caught Stevie's hand in her
own, her stony expression had softened.
"I'm sorry."
"Let go of me." Stevie tried to tug her hand away, but Lex's grip was like iron. She pulled the Knight
Commander into her arms, and held her tightly. Stevie tried to push away, angry at her weakness, her tears.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." Lex just tightened her grip, cradled the younger girl, and continued whispering
her mantra until Stevie lay still in her arms.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."
The sun was hotter than hell.
Lex loosened her grip now, allowing Stevie get a more comfortable position in the other woman's arms.
"I don't know how you do it." Lex broke the silence.
"Do what?"
"Do this to me. Make me act like an idiot. Make me lose my temper." Lex smiled down at Stevie. "Wrap me
around your little finger."
"Its the tears." Stevie said jokingly. "I can turn them on and off."
"Maybe." Lex took a deep breath, felt so nervous. "Maybe I like you a bit too much."
The silence was almost deafening.
"Lex?"
Stevie looked up at her curiously, hopefully. Then, as if she had just made a decision, she propped herself
up with one arm, and used the other to drag Lex's head down to meet hers, crushing their lips together.
Tender, softly... now harder... possessive.
"Lexxx..." Stevie drew out that name in a groan. She was in heaven. Her ex-squad leader was nibbling on her
neck.
The general replied with a low sound, almost a purr, and that drove Stevie wild.
Out on the sand, under the blazing sun, they kissed each other hungrily, as if they could never get enough
of just a taste. The heat was unbearable, and they looked around for shade.
There. A jutting of rocks with green crystals embedded in them. A stunted tree grew there, offering little
shade. But the two made their own shade, as clothes were torn off in a hurry, hung up on the tree.
And they made love among the rocks, with the cracked earth under their bodies, and the sun beating down on
the shelter from above.
~~~
"It was the fight, wasn't it?" Stevie loved the feeling of nothing between the two of them, and looked at
Lex, looking at her.
"Hm?" She received a kiss that urged the corners of her mouth up in a smile.
"The sexual tension, you could just FEEL it in the air."
Lex rolled her eyes, but blushed. She had been feeling something. That was why she got scared and bolted
after the fight. "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Isn't it crazy how fighting just makes you hungry and horny?"
Lex raised an eyebrow. "I don't know where that came from, and you're a frickin' sex fiend, you know that?"
"Damn right." Stevie looked at Lex seriously. "Only for you, though."
"So... we got the horny thing taken care of." They snuggled closer together. "You hungry?"
"Yup."
"Hmmm... I didn't bring anything in the buggy. You wanna head back to camp?"
"Nope. I got what I want right here."
"You brought food?"
"Nope."
"Oh? ...oh... OH! Oh... uh...o-oh god..."
"That's what I like to hear."
"I totally... walked into.. that one, didn't... I?"
"Yup."
They had come out to that deserted piece of wasteland, say early afternoon. The sun had almost set before
the two got into their respective vehicles and headed back to camp.
Fallout Tactics fanfiction
immo - immo@hamena.org
rating:PG-13
Usual warning, people: Femmeslash/yuri/goodness. That means girl on girl action. I can hear all you guys out there
going "HOOOO-YEAAAAH!" And the girls going: "...(quietly)weloveyouwritemore!"
Reviews keep me going, as you can see by this new chapter of Tactics.
So review on! And I'll try to keep writing. Who can find the easter egg I've hidden in here?
~~~
"So when do we get the big guns?"
Some of the initiates were more... eager than others.
"When I see you've got sufficient skills in the melee weapons, you'll move onto something bigger," Lex
frowned at the initiate. "And not one second before I say so."
"I've got sufficient skill!" The boy protested. And he was a boy. But he was getting annoying.
"You're a city rat, aren't you?" Lex's eyes narrowed, when she saw his cheeks puff up at the insult. "Think
you know a few tricks with your knife, you think you know everything? Nono," Lex raised a hand to stop the boy.
"Don't even open your mouth. Prove it to me."
There was always one in every group who thought they should've been a knight as soon as they joined. She
didn't just become a general to have some snarky kid question her. Usually, she would just ignore the young ones--
the ones who didn't get along and kept on resisting the position they were put in were soon not with them anymore.
Your team was life. Your squad watched your back. You go off alone, try to play hero, well... you just don't last
too long.
And anyways, she was worried about Stevie. There had been one report from her, saying she was heading back
to camp, and she should've been in by now...
"Ready, initiate?"
The boy was showing off, tossing the knife up and down with practised ease, a smirk on his face. She bared
her teeth in a savage grin, then charged forward as soon as the knife left his hand, bowling him over completely.
His knife clattered to the ground, and her knife was at his throat.
"You want to try this again? Two outta three?" Lex back off again, and waited for him to pick up his knife.
The rest of the initiates she had been training watched quietly, as other groups practised nearby.
This time, that cock-sure smile was gone, and he regarded her warily. To his credit, she didn't let her
guard down, either. She would not let even the slim chance of the boy beating her appear.
He suddenly lunged forward, and Lex rolled out of the way, and scrambled to her feet again as he barrelled
forward. Her right arm swept down and blocked his second attack, and followed that up with a left hook that dropped
him like a sack of meal.
"You need melee skills, because one day, you will find yourself with just a knife, or a spear, or even just
a stick. This makes you a well-rounded person. Because, hell, anyone can learn to fire a weapon!" Lex looked round
at all the faces watching her. Good. She had their attention.
"So you dropped a newbie. You must be very proud of yourself, General Lexandria."
Lex turned around, and couldn't help but freeze at the sight of Stevie. The only coherent thought in her
head right now, was how Stevie's hair had grown longer...
"Well?" Stevie had stepped through the ring of initiates. And behind them, Lex was dimly aware of knights,
squires, medics, scribes, an assortment of personnel watching the exchange.
"Y-your pardon?"
Stevie smirked, and placed a hand on her hip. "You and me, General. One on one. Unarmed fight. What do you
say?"
"I don't think so..." Lex noted the new crest on Stevie's fatigue jacket. "...Knight Commander."
"Are you afraid to fight someone who can beat you, General?"
A hush fell through the group. Lex had to consciously stop her teeth from grinding against one another.
"I don't want to fight you."
"Are you afraid, General. If you say you are, hey, no problem." Stevie's eyes reflected the same fury that
was in Lex's eyes at the moment. "All you need to answer, is yes... or no."
Lex walked forward slowly, until she was bare centimetres from Stevie, could smell the stink of the
wastelands on the Knight Commander.
"No."
"Good."
Her punch was unexpected, and it made Lex stagger to the side. She had no time to gather herself, as Stevie
launched in with a barrage of attacks. After the third successful punch, Lex hit the ground hard, and lay there,
waiting for Stevie to be within reach.
She could feel the tremors of her footsteps...
She tensed up, and judged that Stevie was close enough, swept Stevie's feet out from under her. The cheer
from the crowds was a dull roar in her ear, and Lex barely noticed. All she saw was Stevie.
"Nice, General."
"You do good, too."
"I had a really good squad leader, just recently. Taught me a lot." Stevie did a roundhouse kick to Lex's
head, and Lex caught it, shoved it away. Backed off some more.
"Really, taught you a lot, didn't they?" Lex played Stevie's game. She launched a series of sharp kicks,
each blocked by one of Stevie's. Lex switched to a couple of punches, which Stevie blocked again. Lulling Stevie
into a false sense of security, getting her to react to the punches, going defensive... and getting caught
completely by surprise as Lex kicked her in the side, another punch to stun the other woman, than tackled her to the
ground.
They struggled for a while, in the dirt and dust. Stevie got the upperhand, after a while, and twisted so
she was sitting on Lex. Using both fists, she unleashed her rage, and just pummelled Lex's face.
Lex was hurting, to say the least. But through the punches, she could see dirty tears smeared across
Stevie's face.
Lex managed to catch one flailing hand, then another. Wrapping her leg around one of Stevie's, she used her
hold to roll them over, and held Stevie down. She screamed in frustration, trying to buck Lex off of her, but the
general had a lot of experience over the Knight Commander.
They were both breathing heavily, Stevie's arms pinned above her head, faces inches apart again. Stevie
strained against Lex, but all her energy had left her. She lay there, Lex's sweat dripping down onto her. And just
to provoke the other woman, Stevie darted her tongue out and licked away the salty liquid that had dropped to her
lips.
"Is this what you want, Stevie?" Lex hissed, enraged at her display. "This is what you want?!"
Lex let go of Stevie's hand, and drew back to punch her. But the hit never landed, it missed its mark and
landed right beside Stevie's head instead.
"You're dead." Lex said loudly, for the benefit of the crowd. "I win."
The mob erupted into cheers.
Lex looked down at Stevie, feeling completely helpless, not know what to feel...
"So are you going to stay on top of me all day?" Stevie moved, just a bit, to grind her pelvis up against
Lex's. "Because I don't mind."
The indecisiveness that Lex had been feeling faded.
"Fucking bitch!" Lex snarled. She got up, spat out bloody saliva, and stalked away, through the crowd.
~~~
"Hey."
"Go away."
Lex had taken the buggy to escape. She had taken off pretty far from camp. But Stevie had followed her.
"No."
Stevie sat down right in front of Lex, facing her.
"Here, have a stimpack."
Lex didn't reply, instead, sullenly looked at a spot right over Stevie's shoulder. Stevie sighed, and leaned
forward, administering the medical drug.
"So... what's up."
"..."
"So how was your last mission?"
"..."
"Okay, fine. I'll tell you about mine." Stevie started on her story. How she had been nervous, didn't know
what she should do. How much stress it was to keep everyone alive. She'd done it before, Stevie rambled on, when
she was in a squad. But she had never been the one everyone looked to when the going gets tough.
"...then we had to blow up all six damned power nodes at once."
Lex still didn't answer. Finally, frustrated, Stevie reached out and took hold of Lex's chin.
"Look at me, damn you."
Lex locked eyes with Stevie, and damn it all if Lex still didn't take her breath away.
"I'm not going to say I'm sorry. I can't believe you kissed me with that lying mouth of yours that time."
Stevie felt a twinge of familiar anger. "Dekker asked me if I had said my goodbyes to you yet, and you know how
much of a fool I looked, just staring at that bastard blankly? You know how much I fucking missed you when I went on
that mission?!"
Tears were streaming down Stevie's face now, and she wiped at them angrily. Lex caught Stevie's hand in her
own, her stony expression had softened.
"I'm sorry."
"Let go of me." Stevie tried to tug her hand away, but Lex's grip was like iron. She pulled the Knight
Commander into her arms, and held her tightly. Stevie tried to push away, angry at her weakness, her tears.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." Lex just tightened her grip, cradled the younger girl, and continued whispering
her mantra until Stevie lay still in her arms.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."
The sun was hotter than hell.
Lex loosened her grip now, allowing Stevie get a more comfortable position in the other woman's arms.
"I don't know how you do it." Lex broke the silence.
"Do what?"
"Do this to me. Make me act like an idiot. Make me lose my temper." Lex smiled down at Stevie. "Wrap me
around your little finger."
"Its the tears." Stevie said jokingly. "I can turn them on and off."
"Maybe." Lex took a deep breath, felt so nervous. "Maybe I like you a bit too much."
The silence was almost deafening.
"Lex?"
Stevie looked up at her curiously, hopefully. Then, as if she had just made a decision, she propped herself
up with one arm, and used the other to drag Lex's head down to meet hers, crushing their lips together.
Tender, softly... now harder... possessive.
"Lexxx..." Stevie drew out that name in a groan. She was in heaven. Her ex-squad leader was nibbling on her
neck.
The general replied with a low sound, almost a purr, and that drove Stevie wild.
Out on the sand, under the blazing sun, they kissed each other hungrily, as if they could never get enough
of just a taste. The heat was unbearable, and they looked around for shade.
There. A jutting of rocks with green crystals embedded in them. A stunted tree grew there, offering little
shade. But the two made their own shade, as clothes were torn off in a hurry, hung up on the tree.
And they made love among the rocks, with the cracked earth under their bodies, and the sun beating down on
the shelter from above.
~~~
"It was the fight, wasn't it?" Stevie loved the feeling of nothing between the two of them, and looked at
Lex, looking at her.
"Hm?" She received a kiss that urged the corners of her mouth up in a smile.
"The sexual tension, you could just FEEL it in the air."
Lex rolled her eyes, but blushed. She had been feeling something. That was why she got scared and bolted
after the fight. "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Isn't it crazy how fighting just makes you hungry and horny?"
Lex raised an eyebrow. "I don't know where that came from, and you're a frickin' sex fiend, you know that?"
"Damn right." Stevie looked at Lex seriously. "Only for you, though."
"So... we got the horny thing taken care of." They snuggled closer together. "You hungry?"
"Yup."
"Hmmm... I didn't bring anything in the buggy. You wanna head back to camp?"
"Nope. I got what I want right here."
"You brought food?"
"Nope."
"Oh? ...oh... OH! Oh... uh...o-oh god..."
"That's what I like to hear."
"I totally... walked into.. that one, didn't... I?"
"Yup."
They had come out to that deserted piece of wasteland, say early afternoon. The sun had almost set before
the two got into their respective vehicles and headed back to camp.