John and Liz had entered Red Rock Canyon at sunset, and it looked like Liz was greeted with open arms of the Kahns. Apperently she and the Kahns share some history. They allowed her to use their home as shelter from the NCR since Red Rock Canyon was no place for a NCR soldier.
As the sun was going down, they were eating dinner in the main house. Once dinner was done, they were allowed to move out freely. Papa Kahn and Regis called John over for a talk, and Liz was in the other end of the room with some other Kahn girls.
The talk that John had with Papa Kahn and Regis, reminded alot of a dad talking to a boy, his daughter is going out with. Since Liz was like family to them, they treated her to make sure she is safe when around them.
Over to the girls, they were kinda checking out John, which came to Liz's attention
"Hey! what are ya looking at" Liz asked rudely
A pretty slim average height blond answered "At your buddy there, he is something" she admired which kinda enraged Liz
"Should i remind you, if you as long as flirts with him, i rip your tounge off, then you can not taste anything ever again" Liz threathen the blond, who then backed away slowly.
Outside of the Canyon, Reilly's team was about to go in one way or another.
"Ben, Jaden and i will walk in, trying to get their attention and maybe come to a peacefull agreement. If that fails, Boone you have to take sniper position and take their leader. Got it?" Reilly asked to confirmed their plan
They all noddded and put their helmets on
in the main house, John walked over to Liz after his little 'talk' with Papa
"so, hows Papa for you?" she asked smiling like the devil
"i feel like i just met your dad. And not in the good way" he answered
Suddenly a Kahn scout came in and said "NCR veterans are in the courtyard, they say they wanna talk to you Papa"
"NCR? They got a lot of nerve comming here. Kahns! get all children and wifes in the tents." he orded
As he moved out Liz turned to John "Listsen, the Kahns, been like a family to me, so WE are gonna go out there and help them just incase" she said with her imtimidating voice
"Ok then" was all he answered since he did not know any other way to answer.
They then walked outside and down the ridge and head over to the mass of Kahns, where Papa was infront.
"what are you doing here, your kind are not welcome here" Papa told them
"listsen, the NCR want your tribe to stop the alliance with the legion" Said Reilly under her helmet
that made John and Liz stop right in the mass of people, and turned to each other
"What?" they both asked at the same time.
Liz liked the cruelty of the legion but hated their ways of treating women on
"Why should we, they promise us to restore our glory and revenge of what happen at bitter springs" Papa argued back
"The Kahns will just be another number of tribes the legion has conquered. When the legion gets a tribe, they sell the women to officer's and the elder killed and the sick too." Ben said
"if we break up the alliance, they come after us after they take the dam, but the NCR will do to. And we will be a part of taking down the NCR" Papa said
John and Liz moved forward and stood beside Papa.
Ben, Jaden and Reilly could not see that it was John and Liz there cause of the distance mixed with the helmets visor.
Boone was up on his sniper position and saw the crowd with his scope until he saw one in particular. Liz
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"colonel Moore has requested the 1st recon sniper team, to capture a dangerous individual" Said a Captain to the hull squard
"The targets name is Liz Colt, AKA Deathclaw Liz. Her trademarks are bright yellow eyes, nails as sharp and tough as a deathclaw's claws. And Fangs" The captain finished the description
"Your orders are to capture her if possible. You are only to kill her if capturing is impossible"
"what is she wanted for?" asked bitter-root
"she is wanted for escaping from a NCR prison. She killed multible guards that night, and have might killed more NCR soldiers in her travels" the captain answered
They then dismissed and looked at the picture closely
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"seems like capturing is impossible" Boone said to himself
meanwhile John was still looking around for any surprises this group has. He then saw something in the small distance.
Using his perfect perception he could see what it was and saw what it aimed for.
He then out of sudden yells "SNIPER!" and jump infront of Liz as the shot was made.
The shot came with a surprise to everyone, even Reilly's group. Reilly stood still not out of shock, but the voice that she just heard
"John?" she asked and moved forward to the body that wa shot "Ben, make sure Boone does not shot anyone" she said over the comm
When she was 10 feet away, all the Kahns that was gather infront of John's body raised their small arms weapons at her, even Liz took her attention of him and stood ready to throw one of her knifes.
She raised her hands and saw a familiar face
"Wait Liz?" she asked
"touch him and i will caught of your arm and beat you to death with it" she threaten
Reilly took her helmet off slowly so they did not have a reason to fire
Liz quickly saw her face and said "Reddy?"
As the other Kahns members lowered their weapons since Liz recogniced the person infront of them, Reilly took a few more steps forward but Liz had not drawn her knifes.
"My threat still stands" she growl at her
"Is that John there?" Reilly asked with some concern in her voice
"Yeah its him, just stay back and let me patch him up" she said "someone give me a doctors bag or eles im gonna make cut someones balls of" she yelled
15 secounds later she got her doctors bag and some stims and med-x
John was growling a little of pain as Liz dug the bullet out from his left shoulder. She used some fire to sterilize the wound and to close it, wrap some bandage around it, stabed him with some med-x and used the stim to make him get up.
Reilly was slight surprised that Liz could do basic surgery. Reilly did just though Liz for a savage that does not even looking for an excuse to kill someone
As John began to feel better, Liz turned her attention to her former boss
"Why are you here?" she asked demanded an answer
"We were orded to break of the Kahns alliance with the legion, one way or another" she said, looking slightly at John, who havnt notice her there yet
"Ok i dont know anything about this alliance, but dont ever mess with thess guys or you be real fucking sorry" Liz said trying to imtimidate Reilly
Just then Ben and Boone got up to Reilly, and then Boone notice Liz
"Liz Colt. You will be coming with me" Boone said coldly
"Only if i get to play with your head after i cut it off your body" Liz said back at him, which Jaden heard and also came up
"touch him and you will be in a world of hurt" Jaden threaten with her rifle in her hands pointing at Liz
Then John sat up, and saw what was happening. He stumple up and walked over to the group he once called team
"Would people mind telling me what is going on?" he asked
"John? Where have you been?" Reilly asked and manage to hug him without Liz scratching Reillys eyes out
"Reilly? what are you doing here?"
"i can answer that. Her 'new' group was orded to stop the alliance of the great Kahns and the legion. Plus Jadens boyfriend here tried to assasinate me, which luckily you prevented" Liz inform him
John did not really focused on why they were here, but more about Boone.
"why were you gonna shoot her?" he asked as calmed he could.
"She's a high value target, years have we been hunting her and i would see to it to capture her" Boone said determinated
"Well if thats the case we are gonna have a problem then" John said standing face to face with the sniper
After some argueing and threats (mostly from Liz) the NCR group retreated but only if John and Liz promised to break of the alliance.
Boone still wanted to get Liz but faced that now was not the right time and place.
So after they left, John and Liz had a serious talk with Papa.
"Papa joining the legion is gonna mean the end of this tribe. I know how they treat women and heard what they do to the other tribes" Liz said
"the legion would proberly only let the men how are able to fight to get into their ranks, the women sold as slaves, the male kids tranied as future legionary, girls to be future slaves and comming officer wife. The sick and elder killed, since they are seen as weak" John said which earned him some stares "what? i done my researched" he defended himself
After hearing this, Papa looked back to his people and saw they now had secound thoughts of this idea. "I think im gonna regreat this but fine, we are not gonna join the legion" he said
"What?" said a kind of mad voice from behind
It was no other then the legion spokesman
"Be carefull what you say, cause your next choice of words might lead to your own destruction" he warned Papa who looked slight offended of this
"we are a respectfull tribe, who want its indetity remembered for years to come. And the fact with seeling the women to officer's does not sound so good to their ears" Papa said
"Women need to know their place by their men's side. Giving them the free will of choice and action will only cause trouple" the legion spokesman said, which really pissed off Liz
Papa took notice of this and said "is that so? Liz at him"
the spokesman did not even blink before Liz was having at him
She used her claw sharp nails to penetrate them through his chest and out, then she began to try and chew his neck off, which lead to alot of screaming and twitching.
After the body stopped twicthing, she got up and dried the blood of her hands on the corpse clothes
"oh you got some more there" John pointed at her fangs again
And she simply lick it off as always.
"i just hope i did not doomed my people" Papa said "now when the legion wins at hoover dam, they will be coming after us. If the NCR wins then if wont go long before they 'force' us out off our home" he said
Liz who did not know what to say to make him feel better, looked at John in hoped he could find out of something. And lucky for her, he did.
John put a hand on Papa's shoulder and said "well you know Mr House? see, Liz and i are on good terms with him. We can give in a good word for you to him. You see, he got this plan to make the Mojave his, and that means no NCR or legion. Stay on his good side will solve your problems" John informed Papa
Papa looked at John and said "kid, you okay enough. If you do this, the Kahns will forever be in your debt"
"Least i can do since you took care of Liz" John said
2 hours later, on a ridge with only 1 tent on it, Liz and John got to sleep there for the night as a thanks for what they did
As they laid on the makeshift beds next to each other they talked
"I know you hated him, but did you really have to skin him alive with just the use of your barehands and fangs?" he asked
"eighter that or cut off his balls and feed them to him while i burn his legs" she said grinning madly with the thought of it
John got used to her saying about stuff she could have did to her victims that could top of what she acturlly did.
"have you ever done that to a guy or anything like it?" he asked
"maybe, why are you asking?" she asked
"so i know what to fear if i accidently pisses you off" he said smiling
She just laughed with him and did something she never did with a man before. She layed her head on his shoulder, so her head was next to the bite mark she had given him some days ago
"Hey your mark is gone?" she said confused
"Really? i thought it would take years or something to make it look ok again" he said
"what have you been taking?" she demanded now sitting up
"well i had a nuka cola drink contest with one of the Kahns here" he said
"wait, does they not make you a little radiated?" she asked
He then checks his Pip boy's geiger counter and saw that he had minor radiation sickness
"oh i think i know now" he said
she then thump him on the nose and said "tell me already idiot"
"i once partake a experiment for a survival guide when i got out of the Vault for the first time. One of the experiments was get as radiated as much without dieing or turning to a ghoul. After that, i got a mutation that heal's me when im exposed to radiation" he explained
So she ten took some rad-away from her bag and used it on him so all his radiation was gone. Then she quickly crawl over him so she was above him now
"lets get down to then boss" she said seducingly
As he let her do what she wanted he should have seen this coming
As she trail some kisses from his cheek to down his neck. She bite him again, harder and deeper to be sure it stays
He did not screamed but was in much pain and was to shocked to do anything.
When she emerged her fangs from his neck, she saw that his hands was twitching and he hold on his newly made mark which seem to bleed out little
"just to be sure, so it wont get off" she said and licked his blood of her fangs and tasted it
For John, he did not do much since his vision suddenly faded to black