Ducky practically kicked open the door to my room.

"Mooooorning girls!" Mag had a protective arm around me and refused to let go as Ducky tried to lift me from the bed.

"Where are you taking Shi?" he stared at her confused.

Her messy hair was still as beautiful as ever, sure her eyes seemed harsh, and cold, and could be kinda scary at times but it was easy to tell she didn't mean much harm.

"To eat breakfast! We got sugar cereal!" Ducky patted her hand in a sort of comforting motion.

Mag let go with a huff.

He carried me down the steps and into the dining room "here we are little miss, hope you don't mind 2% milk" he carefully placed me onto the chair nearest to him.

The cereal box had a weird rabbit on it with the words: 'Silly Rabbit!' written on the box as if he had told the funniest joke ever. I didn't understand as to why the rabbit was silly, or why the cereal was in weird colorful round balls that claimed to be different flavours for each color.

Deciding it wasn't necessary to think about it any longer I took a spoonful of the artificial food, it wasn't the best thing I've ever had but it also wasn't the worst. It tasted like a mixture of plastic and cardboard with milk to add 'jazz'.

It wasn't long before Mag came down the stairs with her makeup done, her dress was a beautiful dark blue and her heels clicked away as she entered the kitchen.

"So what do you guys have planned today?" Mag questioned from within the kitchen with a sort of sour tone. Ducky, already done with his cereal, stared at the wall in thought "was figuring Shilo and I-" Mag entered the room with a sort of emptiness to her eyes.

The two stared at each other, for what it felt like minutes, in silence, and to tell the truth it was quite frightening until Mag spoke.

"Shilo is staying here today" Ducky could only nod but it was obvious to tell he wanted to argue with her. Their obvious disagreement as to how I should spend my time quickly became awkward as Graverobber entered the dining room.

"Would seem that my old friend and Ms. Mag here aren't getting along, how about we let Shilo decide...she is almost an adult anyway, it should be up to her" he took the milk carton from the fridge and began to drink from it.

I didn't know what to say as Ducky stared at me, Mag moved towards the couch, and Graverobber continued to down milk.

"I still haven't healed from the bullet wounds...or broken leg...I think it's best if I rest for a bit Ducky, no offense" but his smile simply widened.

He rose from the table, took our empty bowls, and placed them within the sink "nah little lady it's fine, your mother is right, grown man like me shouldn't be forcin' such a young kid on dangerous adventures when she wounded. Maybe when you get better-"

Mag turned on the tv "you aren't bringing Shilo on anymore dangerous adventures, she's seventeen...that's true, but that doesn't give you or Graverobber any right to be bringing my 'daughter' to near death."

Ducky stared at the back of her head with pursed lips but didn't say a word as he exited the house, finally done drinking all of the damn milk Graverobber threw the carton into the trash. "Well that was awkward..." a small smile formed on his lips.

"Think Ducky will be ok?" with the zydrate kicking in I forced myself up from the chair and towards Mag "he had a little sister, lost her to raiders, you must remind him of her...but he'll be fine. He's Ducky, the damn kid can hardly remember his name at times" with that Graverobber exited through the back door.

Finally reaching the couch, with as little limping as possible, I sat down next to Mag "mornings are crazy..." she hummed a soft tune as her fingers ran through my hair.

"You're hurt, the two of them can't be dragging you around like some doll..." still worn out from pushing the carts the day before I laid my head on Mag's shoulder to rest.

As I slowly closed my eyes Mag turned down the tv to let me sleep and everything for once felt peaceful, no shooting, no blood, no screaming. It was quiet for once.

"Whenever I'd watch you on tv my dad used to tell me you were bad, that if I ever saw you to run...yet I did the opposite."

"Nathan never did approve of me, hated me after your mother died, I always felt that it was because I'm bisexual and he never did seem to approve of gay relationships. But then again after your mother died he hated everything that existed."

I didn't understand the word bisexual, I didn't understand as to why my father could hate the best friend of my mother, I didn't understand how someone could hate the famous Blind Mag. But was I just blinded by adoration?

"So...what's bisexual mean?" I could feel her breathing change, it seemed to quicken, and I felt sorry what I did. "It means...that I feel sexual attraction to women and men. So to put it in perspective...if your mother was bisexual as well, which she was not, we could have been in a relationship."

The idea of Blind Mag being my mother seemed awesome, it felt so weird to even question the idea of having two mothers. I mean with all that goes on, to see a neighbor be caucasian one day then half black the next, to see that even animals were being tested on, it just seemed like a normal thing.

My eyes fluttered open at the thought "So...let's say if my mom had a divorce with dad...and mom loved you, you could have been my mother?" Mag chuckled "yes Shilo" now I was so excited I sat up straight and stared Mag in the eyes.

"That would be so awesome! We could have sung songs together, I could've shown you my bug collection-" Mag placed a hand over my mouth "normally a child isn't this happy to hear about divorce, and normally a person would be disgusted with a same sex relationship Shi."

I couldn't help but to stare at her with a confused face as her hand fell from my face "well I'm not saying I'm not happy the two got together...just saying it would be awesome to have you as a mom...and why would someone be disgusted?"

She stared at the coffee table in thought, I could tell this was a topic she wasn't used to talking about "because people think it's wrong..."

Finally finished Chapter 22, I know feel free to talk about how many pieces off of your heart I broke as I took forever to update this story. This only matters to me really but I'll be going through this story and fixing anything in the first 21 chapters, so if you end up re-reading the entire thing you may, or may not, notice a few differences. And yes I do plan on explaining as to why ' no one is helping Shilo walk, shouldn't they be helping her get to places instead of just being assholes?', I'll explain that sooner or later (yes there is a reason). Anyway until then

EDIT: Although this is being edited a min after I uploaded this chap, editing it. Fearlessshadowhunter there won't be any grilo (Graverobber and Shilo) in this story, if you want me to write a story about them please make another comment stating so, I will then upload that story in my own time (Also I agree Shilo is a badass). Emilylovescher17 I continued writing, what ya gonna do about it? Jk. Repoman17 are you and emily related? Loving 17 I see, no offense, and Nathan flips shit. Shegoismyfav I love you too, completely in a platonic way of course, unless you wish to write fanfic about us. I'm fine with that.

-Ciaossu