Tactics: Cheyenne
Fallout Tactics fanfiction
immo
rating:I just keep getting more explicit. I should stop.
You guys rocked me with your reviews, so here's one for you. Its short, but I hope you enjoy it!
"So how did it happen?" Stevie held Lex's hand, as Dekker stood at the foot of the bed, looking through the results of Lex's pregnancy test. Lex was indeed pregnant. And Stevie, no doubt about it, was the father. Every test that they could think of doing had been done. Lex had started threatening the medical ward staff when Stevie came back, pale and drained of more blood than was healthy. The whole... situation with the pregnancy and everything had gotten the whole camp into an uproar, and was very quickly becoming a riot.
"I..." Dekker took a deep breath and closed the portfolio. "...I really think that this is the second coming."
Lex and Stevie looked at Dekker. And looked. And then, for good measure, they REAAALLY looked.
"You've been standing out in the sun waaaay too long, general." Stevie drawled.
Lex nodded. "For once, I agree with Stevie."
"Soldier." Dekker gave Stevie a warning glare, before directing his attention back at Lex. "But really, think about it. There's no way you could be pregnant by Stevie--"
"Hey!"
"--its true!" Dekker continued on. "So what if... the Holy Spirit is MASQUERADING as Stevie's DNA in your womb?"
"You." Lex enunciated slowly. "Are. On. Jet."
"Apparently, not just him." Cookie joined the party that was going on around Lex's bed. "Hey. It seems a whole buncha wannabe wise men from the cities have come 'bearing gifts'."
"Oh Lord." Lex groaned. "How did it leak out to the civilians?"
"No idea." Cookie shrugged her shoulders and looked at Lex slyly. "But right now, I'm accepting everything that's coming our way. We got enough myrrh, frankincense and gold to last us until Doomsday. Which shouldn't be pretty far since this is the Second Coming."
"Cookie!" Lex glared at the supermutant, who was laughing her ass off. "Its not the Second Coming!"
"That's the only reasonable explanation." Dekker shrugged. "Because Stevie doesn't have a penis."
"How do you know!" Stevie shot back furiously.
"Stevie!" Lex stared at her lover.
Stevie crossed her arms stubbornly. "Well, I don't have a penis, but I don't need him to tell me this baby isn't mine!"
"Just because you have insecurity issues--"
"Fuck you, Dekker--"
"BOTH OF YOU!" Lex shouted, completely exhasperated with the general and her mate. "STOP! Jeezus H... Okay, Dekker, you have no right to presume that Stevie isn't the... father... mother... whatever, of my child. Stevie, you CANNOT talk to your superior like that. I will suspend you for insubordination if you push the limits to my patience."
"WHAT!" Stevie was outraged while Dekker looked smug.
Lex regarded the Knight Commander seriously. "I'm still your superior and so is Dekker. Calm down. This whole thing IS really peculiar, but you need to remember your place."
Stevie clamped her lips shut, but she withdrew her hand from Lex's grip and started sulking.
"John and the rest of the medical and research staff are running tests on Stevie and I, I'm pretty sure we'll find out a more substantial reason on my pregnancy." Lex tried to grab Stevie's hand back, but the woman pulled away, fixing her gaze on the heart monitor and sullenly ignoring the two generals.
It had been a day after the reconciliation of Lex and Stevie. Now, the whole camp was in a buzz. How do two women have a baby without a man in the equation? Usually, if someone was brave enough to ask Stevie, depending on her mood, she would answer with a "None of your fucking business" or lash out physically. Since Stevie hadn't been in the best of moods for a while, usually it was the latter.
"Probably something to do with all the radioativity still around," Stevie muttered.
"Immaculate conception!" Dekker said with a sing-song voice.
"Stop. Both of you." Lex sighed. At this rate, she was going to miscarry from all the stress these two heaped on her when they were together.
"Egg now?" Mother poked her head through the folding partitions.
"NO." Lex gritted through her teeth. The deathclaws weren't helping at all. Every few hours or so, a representative (usually Mother, but others have shown up) would come in to see if Lex had laid an egg. And Lex was getting tired of them not understanding that humans don't lay eggs. The deathclaws couldn't get past the whole 'ovaries and eggs' part of the human reproductive system discussion.
"Soon?" Mother rumbled hopefully.
"NO!"
"Your heartrate's going up." Cookie pointed out.
"Okay, that's it. All of you, OUT!" Lex pointed. "All of you! GO!"
"Chill!" Mother chirped. A word she had learned from Cookie. "Chill!"
"OUT!"
"Baby, you shouldn't shout in your condition--"
"OUT!"
Everyone scrambled over themselves to escape Lex's rage.
"GOD!" Lex covered herself with the blanket until she heard her heartrate monitor slow down to normal. This whole thing was incredibly strange. How in the hell did Stevie get her pregnant? And why did Lex end up pregnant and not Stevie?
'Stevie pregnant...' Lex tried to imagine the young woman with a big belly. And shuddered at the thought. Not to say Stevie wouldn't make a good mother... well, Stevie really wouldn't make a good carrying mother. Lex was one of the most laid-back people in the camp. The only thing that got her all agitated was Stevie. So really, considering Lex's attributes, she would make the better mother--
"What the hell am I thinking?" Lex muttered to herself. "Stupid Stevie--"
"Lex?"
"WHAT!" Her heartrate monitor did a jump. Stevie poked her head through the screen, grinning. Speak of the devil...
"You really need to calm down, baby." Stevie walked over and sat down next to Lex on the bed. "The people are all gone now."
"When I said EVERYBODY out, I meant, EVERYONE." Lex grumbled, but pulled Stevie into her arms.
"Wait, wait..." Stevie got up and took off her leather armour before lying back down next to the general. "There. Now.. how are you feeling today?"
"Feeling better with the anti-nausea medicine." Lex reported.
Stevie nuzzled her face into the crook of Lex's neck. "That's good."
They spent several minutes in silence, before Lex cleared her throat. "How are you holding up? I heard that you've been going around beating up people."
"Bitches deserve it," Stevie said drowsily. "They don't get to talk about you like that."
"Like what?"
Stevie kissed Lex on the neck softly. "Disrespectfully. Only I get to do that."
"Knight Commander, you have to watch that temper of yours."
"Oh," Stevie propped herself up on one elbow, smirking down at Lex, her hand slipped deftly underneath the general's smock to caress the redhead's belly. "You don't get to tell me what to do. I remember now that you're on leave because of your pregnancy."
"You're so insubordinate." Lex rolled her eyes, as Stevie's hand slipped further up.
"You looooove me like this." Stevie growled, leaning down to kiss Lex tenderly.
Lex closed her eyes, relishing the kiss, smiled against its onslaught. She loved Stevie. It was something that was incredibly new to her. They've been together, part of a team, it seemed like forever. But together like this, this was all new and it felt great. Maybe it would fade later on... but right now, Stevie was her everything.
"Hey," Stevie suddenly parted from Lex, an evil glint in her eye. Which Lex definitely did not like. "So, now that you're suspended, I'm technically a higher rank than you, right?"
Lex's eyes narrowed significantly. "Technically... but not really--"
"Soldier, you've been a bad bad girl." Stevie growled, pinning Lex's wrists above her head. "You need punishment."
Lex grinned, stifled her laughter. Stevie was too adorable.
"Yes, Knight Commander. I've been a bad bad girl."
"Hmm..." Stevie's free hand, the one that wasn't restraining Lex, drew lazy circles in the spot between Lex's collarbone. Then, slowly, Stevie's hand began to travel down. The Knight Commander's eyes never left Lex's face, as a superior smile pulled one side of her mouth up. "How should I--" Stevie quickly jerked her head away as Lex tried to arch up and capture Stevie's mouth with her own, "Uh-uh, Lex. You need to behave..."
Lex's eyes widened as Stevie's travelling hand moved down one thigh. Then... slooooowly... excrutiatingly slowly up again.
"Stevie, you... no..." Lex thrashed uselessly, breath catching in her throat.
"Shhh..." Stevie grinned evilly. "You don't want people to hear you... right?"
"Stevie... please..." Lex's protests were half-hearted. "You.. someone would hear..."
"You didn't complain last night after light's out." Stevie raised an eyebrow. Then, without another word, Stevie lifted Lex's leg onto her shoulder, eyes gleaming with lust. Not listening at all to Lex's protests, she moved against her, a long heated movement that brooked no argument for a reply to this dance. Lex, being a patient in the medical ward was wearing nothing but one of those flimsy blue gowns that tied up in the back.
And nothing else.
She could not resist Stevie's slow pace against her and responded, another step in this passionate dance. Everytime they touched, it was as if a deep-throbbing fire inside their chest and in their loins flared up, built up.
Lex looked up at her lover pleadingly. A wordless request.
Stevie complied, leaned down, one hand cupping the side of Lex's face and kissed her as hard as she could, tried to pour the depths of the love she felt for this woman into the kiss. Felt Lex's arms wrap around her neck. Felt that love returned.
And, oh. What ecstasy this was.
Stevie had left some time at night when Dekker had come looking for her for latrine duty. Lex was too highstrung to sleep, so she lay on her bed, looking up at the ceiling. So she was surprised when a small scratching sound at the partitioning screen caught her unaware. She should have heard the footsteps.
Annoyed, she called out to the blurred shadow. "Go away!"
"Okay," Ice's voice was muffled through the screen. "I'll go."
"No," Lex threw away the blanket. "Ice. Glad to see you. Come in, come in. Sit down, everyone else is driving me crazy."
"Hey, I'm just here for a short while." Ice pushed away the screen and entered, pulling the screen shut after her. She gave Lex a small smile.
"What's up?" Lex grinned.
Ice replied by capturing Lex's face in her hands and kissing the general. Caught her by surprise again. Felt her resistance breaking... a brief image of Stevie flashed through her mind...
"No," Lex pushed Ice away. "Ice, no. I can't. That time was the first and last time. We can't do this. I can't do this."
An uncomfortable silence fell on the two.
"Your heartrate monitor--"
Lex cleared her throat and blushed. "--shows I'm excited. You're incredibly attractive, Ice. But I can't."
"Not even a goodbye kiss?"
"Goodbye?" Lex looked up in alarm.
"I'm going to Cheyenne."
"Ice--"
"Will you keep me back?" Lex felt captured by that intense look. Crystal blue eyes piercing into her. "Ask me to stay, Lex."
"Ice..." Lex looked back at Ice, cursing her heartrate monitor which was beeping at a mile a minute. "Ice... what are you asking me?"
"You know what I'm asking you," Ice hesitantly held out her hand, looking at Lex pleadingly. Ice never begged. But at this moment, this moment pride had no place. "I've never wanted ANYTHING, Lex. Never. Please. I'm... I'm begging you."
"Ice." Lex looked at her friend, heartbroken. Saw the look of realization, dejection, depression and finally, the stoic expression Ice always kept up flash by in quick succession.
"I'm sorry, General. I was out of line." Ice backed away. Lex made to catch her arm, but stopped when Ice raised an eyebrow. "Don't. Unless you mean it, Lexandria."
"Ice..." Helplessly, the general floundered. Without another word, Ice leaned down and hugged Lex as hard as she could. Squeezed her eyes shut and tried to imprint her general's scent, feel and image permanently in her mind.
"I love you, Lex."
Those simple heartfelt words. And Ice was gone.
author's note: I spoil you guys so much :P Here's another chapter. Thank you so much for the kind reviews.