I did upload this story before, but it wasn't right so I removed it and re-did all the mistakes. Sorry is there was any confusion. My first fanfiction and I'm already messing up. Lol
You're My Secret
Chapter one
Delores made it out of Vault 34 barely alive; she was on her hands and knees crawling on the floor. Bits of stone kept getting stuck into her palms, but that didn't bother her, she was more bothered about actually getting out of the cave that led to the Ghoul infested place. Her Merc outfit was ripped even more and her tights were ruined you could say they looked more like socks that had gathered up down to her boots.
She could feel the radiation seeping into her skin, making her feel sick, feverish and her nose was bleeding heavily dripping into the stone of the cave floor leaving a small trail. The radiation in Vault 34 was severe and Delores was not prepared by how bad it really was.
Delores made it to the wooden door that opened to the outside world, she slowly stood up, placing her hand on the wall of the cave for support and pulled the door open, she noticed the puddle in front of the door, she took her time to go around it, but soon threw up the blood from her nose now entering her mouth the metallic taste made her feel even more ill. Once safe and away from the puddle she made her way over to the U.S Army truck that was parked outside
She sat down, resting her back on the side of the front tire and was panting as she wiped off the sweat that was dripping down her face with her sleeve along with some blood and sat there letting the cool breeze wash over her face, her body felt so sore she thought that she was going to die at how much pain she was in, she looked around to see the dead bodies of the golden gecko's she killed before resting the back of her head against the truck.
Meanwhile Vulpes was watching her from afar behind the rocks; he could see she was in bad condition. He was wearing his usual attire along with goggles to protect his eyes and vexillarius helm on his head. He had been following her since he met her in Nipton and it wasn't an order from Ceaser either, it was an act of curiosity, he wanted to know her more and see what she gets up too lately though she had just been doing odd jobs and solving peoples problems nothing too exciting, yet he just liked watching her.
Even when back at the encampment, he'd often think about the courier and wondering what she was doing, but most of the time he was there watching her like a fox watching a field mouse.
Delores breathing slowed and she became relaxed, happy to be alive her eyes grew heavy as she slowly drifted off into sleep. Vulpes had waited before making his move; he took out his machete just in case, as he stood next to her sleeping form, he kicked her leg with his boot and got no reaction. He put his weapon away and crouched down, he moved a piece of her crimson coloured hair from her face and stared at her through his goggles. Delores' nose was still dripping down her mouth and chin, but didn't bother him, he'd seen worse.
Vulpes put his arm underneath her legs and the other behind her back and picked her up bridle style, her head resting against his shoulder and began to disappear into the desert with her.
When morning came Delores' eyes fluttered open she was greeted by an old chipped ceiling, she sat up, her head hurt it forced her to squint her eyes as she places her hand upon her forehead, rubbing it, she looked round the room to see barrels and storage cabinets at the far end of the room and two other beds either side of her "How did I get here?" She said, looking down at her hand to find a drip needle in the back of her hand, her eyes followed the plastic tubing to an empty Radaway bag.
She moved to the edge of the bed, her mouth was dry she needed water. She pulled out the needle from the back of her hand, blood dripped out slowly, she needed to add pressure onto it to stop it. Her eye searched and found an old looking, lightweight scarf that was in one of the storage boxes and wrapped it round her hand and tied it into a knot the best she could. Delores went over to the water fountains and pressed the button to release water, which she put on her hand to wash the dried up blood from her nose and chin.
Once washed Delores walked upstairs, to find two bottles of purified water on the coffee table and Fancy Lads Snack Cake on there too. She took the bottle of water and twisted the lid off; she greedily drank the cool, refreshing water that felt great running down her throat and she swirled around her mouth.
Delores grabbed wrapped up Fancy Lads Snack Cake and tore the wrapper, pushing the cake upwards so half of it was out of the wrapper and began to eat it. It tasted nice a bit dry, but hell it was food who cares.
As she stood around and ate, the door of the house suddenly opened and Delores dropped the cake, and hid behind the arm of the sofa and swiftly pulling out her pistol from her holster and held it close to her. Vulpes entered into the house and noticed the cake was eaten and a water bottle was open. He went straight down into the storage room to only find that she wasn't there.
Delores came out from her hiding place and walked slowly to the top of the stairs and pointed her gun towards the man she recognized, especially with a stupid coyote helm on his head. "What the hell are you doing here?" she said, her finger was on the trigger. Vulpes looked over his shoulder at her; he had his dark goggles on his face that made him look more mysterious despite her knowing who he is.
"Is this how you repay your saviour by pointing a gun at me?" Vulpes turned around to see her fully.
"Your no saviour, you're an asshole; those people in Nipton didn't deserve to die." Delores said the thoughts of those poor people being tortured by these messed up fuck heads, yet she couldn't find herself pulling the trigger and just ending is reign of terror here and now, but that wouldn't stop the rest of Caesars Legion from making people's lives a misery in the Mojave. Especially Delores when Caesar finds out that she killed one of his best and skilled frumentarii's and the leader at that, but that would have been easy and she would only be as bad as him.
"Like I told you at our last encounter, they were a town of whores and greedy ones at that so I simply taught them a lesson." Vulpes said, he walked up the stairs he could tell she wasn't going to pull the trigger, he took this chance to twist the gun from her hands letting it go crashing down the stairs to the floor and pinning her arms above her head and crushing her body against his and the wall the hand rail digging into to lower part of her back.
Delores grunted as she turned her head away so that she didn't have to look at him. "Even whores don't deserve to die." She said. She could feel his body, it actually felt quite nice. Vulpes just stared at her face, her skin was lightly tanned, her hair was messy and her face wasn't horrible to look at either despite having large doe eyes that people made fun of.
He could say she was pretty in an odd sort of way "I have been following you since I left Nipton you've somewhat become my entertainment, Delores. I've seen everything" He said in his velvet tone running one hand down the side of her body a blush flared up on her cheeks, that means he would of seen her and Boone having casual sex when they were camping, It was odd that he knew her name, yet she never told him it.
"You're stalking me? Am I meant to be flattered by that" Delores said as her blush subsided, she had that feeling when she was out in the Mojave she always had that feel that eyes were always watching her no matter where she went that's probably how Vulpes came to know her name she would often introduce herself to people when doing odd jobs and solving problems for them.
"I wasn't stalking, I was observing. You should join the legion; you would be a great asset." Vulpes placed one hand under the jaw, forcing her to look at him, he smirked.
"Why in hell would I join you? Your all a bunch of fuck ups" Delores' eyes look at his goggled covered ones, she wished he'd take them off, so she could see his eyes, she wanted to see what he really looked like, "I'm not into enslaving people or making them do my dirty work." She said.
Vulpes let her go with a disgust on his features, walked down the stairs and picked up the pistol that was lying helplessly on the ground and placed the pistol on his belt. "That's too bad, then, I thought you would be a good tool for the destruction of the NCR I would have liked to have seen the degenerates you made so happy hate your guts at the sight of you. Even that Sniper fellow from Novac" he said, Delores stayed standing on the stairs, her eyes watching him.
Delores sighed "I'm not staying here with you and have boring conversations like this." she said as she turned to make her way up the stairs towards the door, but Vulpes was fast running up passed her and blocked the only exit with his body. "You're not going anywhere," he stared at her which only caused Delores to grin "Oh yes I am, you fucking prick!" Delores was trying to push Vulpes out of the way, but he didn't take to kindly to being called names.
Vulpes smirked as he backhanded her across the face which sent her flying across the room, breaking the coffee table in the middle of the room. Delores was shocked; she sat up and could feel a sensation of warm blood running out of her nose again, she could feel a sting on her cheek, she put her hand on her cheek and pulled away and found crimson on it. Delores pulled out her switchblade that she kept in her boot and flipped it open revealing a small knife.
She stood up and charged to towards Vuples who simply moved out of the way, he turned and grabbed a fist full of her hair and threw her onto the floor, he then kicked her across the face as she tried to get up she bit her tongue in the process that made her yelp. Delores was dazed by the kick and the bold taste of blood taking over her mouth. He took the switchblade from her hand and tosses it away from her reach.
Vulpes got on top of her, his hands found her throat. Delores now was gasping for air, but no air filled her lungs, she was starting to struggle.
Delores' hands gripped hold of Vulpes' hands that were around her neck trying to pry them from her. He did eventually let go and stood up, he bent down and snatched the blade up from the carpet just in case she makes a break to grab it. Delores rolled on the her side coughing so much it made tears form in her eyes. "You bastard," she choked out, panting for the air.
"Calling me names isn't going to keep you in my good books." Vulpes said as he wandered and stood at the far end of the room near the door with his arms folded across his chest, his eyes watching this pitiful woman coughing, trying to catch her breath the blood from her tongue was seeping out from her mouth, it looked so beautiful.
Delores managed to stop herself from coughing and wiped her mouth. She really wanted to leave this place now, but she knew that wasn't going to happen. Vulpes removed his coyote helm and goggles and threw them onto the sofa. "Please just let me go now." She said as she got up on her hands and knees and looked at the door, then at him she could finally see the evil in his cold dark blue eyes.
He was thinking maybe he should go a different approach to the courier since there were no legionaries around so he didn't have to keep proving himself that he was an evil bastard even though he still was no matter what he did. Vulpes grabbed Delores' arm, picking up the last bottle of water that was lying on the floor and took her downstairs "Here, get rid of that blood." He said passing the bottle over to her.
Delores was confused, but she took it and put some liquid into her mouth, swirling it around and leaned down spat it out into the water fountain, watching the crimson disappear down the plughole. She straightens herself and wiped her mouth. Six looked at herself in the broken mirror, seeing a bruise starting to take form on her cheek where he kicked her and a deep cut on her cheek; she used water to clean the dried blood off it.
Vulpes looked at her in the mirror and she looked back at him as she wiped her cheek slowly. "Now will you let me go?" she said to him and he just shook his head "No, you're my secret now and I want to keep it like that, I want you to stay here." He said leaving the storage room.
Delores followed him out behind him "I can't stay here I have things to do, I need to kill Benny and get the platinum chip." She said, but Vulpes just put on his Coyote helm and goggles on, he wasn't listening at all typical man thing. "Vulpes are you listening? I need to go now." As she spoke, Vulpes shut her up with a long kiss, his hand on her cheek; it was shocking to feel his lips upon hers as she was about the put her hands on his shoulders, but moved back
"If the legion finds out I'm keeping something from them, they'll take it away." He said as he removed his hand from her cheek and left the house, Delores ran just as the door closed in her face and he locked it. She sighs as she turned to rest her back on the door as slid down it and sat on the floor, she was so confused, one minute he was beating the shit out of her then he was showing an act of kindness then kissing her.
Delores wasn't about to let her guard down just because he was being nice to her, he could still turn nasty at any time.