This one will be a long fic, with a lot of chapters I already write the concepts, I don't play as Nora in Fallout 4 since Nate for me is the real protagonist but I liked the ideas of this two I see on some other fics on the fandom, so I wanted to do my own too
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The first thing Maxson thought when Danse presented Nora to him…
Well isn't this one a beauty?
Really impressive beauty, rare actually, caught his attention like it never did with a woman before.
But besides that, they didn't talk much, in fact, they didn't know much about each other.
She was always with Danse as he was her commander office, do task and missions with him, walk around, talk to him on Danse presence mostly…is not like they have events to know each other, the paladin was always around them, guiding her to be a perfect Brotherhood soldier
And she fulfilled everyone expectations, Danse, Ingram, Kells, Maxson…
The teleport machine to the institute? Heck yeah he supervised the whole construction and was around like it was his own masterpiece, but he had seen the woman work and fight for that idea to sucesfully work and bring results.
The infiltration to the institute? Her own brilliant work.
The data leack? Didn't have any obligation, could just say she coulnt or that the device they gave her didn't work to do big amounsts of copy, but she did it anyway.
Bringing back to the wastelands an amazing cientific old partner of the Brotherhood? Perfect charisma
Nora was a loyal Brotherhood soldier, Danse instructed her well to be what everyone needed and wanted, and she delivered it with amazing skills, outstanding the Paladin would say, and he would agree too
They knew each other from far, he was his boss, his supervisor, someone she received order and bring results but not much more so despite being Arthur pretty amazed by her habilities and had the curiosity to know her more that opportunity never came to be just because of how big the brotherhood and their organization was.
Well there was that one time…
He knew that on the lowest levels of the Prydwen the soldiers often made…little parties, and some some some times he would join, everybody received him well and didn't threat him any different, at least at the party, at the other day it was a different story but in the party he was another more, and he was glad for that because he was almost one of the youngest people on that little reunions.
They chat, and drink, and play little silly games and he would enjoy that, no one would try to sneak a secret or try to buy a promotion or recognition, it was really a brotherhood he appreciated with all his heart.
But one time she was in one of this reunions and both were caught in the other gaze, multiple time, despite being sitted in opposite directions
Why she was looking at him? He was indeed looking at her but only because he caught her looking at him…and so several times.
Apparently that night he joined was particulary special because Nora and Danse together bring two sets of drinks called Vim they pick up from a place called Far Harbor so far away from the Commonwealth…slightly different from the Nuka Colas he was used to, different taste but same scent and some some some of that drinks have alcohol so everybody was woozy about it.
Danse and Nora were a good team, they make results and he can appreciate that a lot since they needed help constantly to advance, as far they were together he would not fear for their safety because together they do amazing.
If they have a baby it would turn on one of the strongest soldiers, perfect good clean with no radiation genes from her and also good genes from Danse, strong, tall and bulk.
For a moment he thought what if in some future they…join…together…such an amazing couple would be a great asset to the brotherhood units but that thought was interrupted again because he was feeling a gaze again. Nora was looking at him while drinking an alcohol Vim, sitting in a crate box, Danse was in a totally different place chatting with some friends of him so…he wasn't around this time
The red light illuminating the place was hiding his blush as he as getting a bit aroused by the hungry gaze of the woman.
Altought he did nothing more than just looking back at her, locking their eyes together.
He didn't know her much, never talked more than formalities and very planned responses, but can appreciate her beauty and value.
Skinny curved body, rumors says around she didn't eat much because the fact that the food was kinda radiated didn't make her exactly sick but it was just disgusting to the taste. He heard once at the dinning room that the woman preffered to drink Radaway that some Rad Sugar Bombs, for a moment he thinked that was weird but didn't put much effort in a gossip, that would be rude.
It was difficult to see more on the dark and under the red lights, specially if she had a black suit but the way her legs crossed to be sitting intrigue him. Nora had a strong prescence, a luminous aura that cause things in people and he was getting aware of that
Arthur broke eye contact, took a bottle, open it, and made the same as her, stare into her eyes as he drinked, the woman finished his drink in one spit and stare at him, breathing in and out.
One shot of a alcohol bottle? Pretty impressive, even him wasn't able to do that
As he went down, Nora approached him with a can of purified water, passing it, Arthur look up to her in the red lights amazed by how…attracted…he feeled to her strong presence.
-Drink water Elder or the headache is going to be a pain tomorrow –as she talked Arthur stare at her red painted lips and brown eyes with curled black hair.
She looked like a beautifull housewife from the old books, a true old American dream.
Trying to be subtle, he picked up the can, his fingers touch hers for a moment but instead of getting nerveous they both…stay…with confidence he look from her toes to head, scanning.
When he reach her face he saw she didn't move, she noticed. Their fingers separate and the woman went back to sit at the crate box and look another place
That was all the interaction they had on the night, not so much later the woman join Danse on the chat with his friend and he left the party, but it was intriguing at least.
Knewing that the team of knight and paladin were so close broke his heart when he made the realization that…she had to execute him.
This was another test to her brilliant and loyalty.
He didn't want to execute the paladin he knew from so long ago, nearly a good friend more than just a soldier to his cause but…he was a synth, everything the Brotherhood hated and despised, he had the obligation to set the example and do the right thing…not let an spy ran freely in the corridors of the Prydwen, not let a synth carry the sing of the Brotherhood on their chest, not let an abomination have the ranks and sacrifices of the cause…
He trusted in her to execute the mission, a great devotion to the cause was an inspiration to all.
It wasn't easy tho, when he arrived on the vertibird with his team of guards to the listening post, even she would never admit it, they were trying to scape together or at least place a lie but…she come to her senses, put the Brotherhood first, and serve herself loyal.
Maxson approached both at the exit of the station, she was nerveous, he was defeated.
First time he see a vulnerable face on her.
They tried to negociate with him, try to make Danse look good for all his time on service but it was useless, all the dawns playing chess in their reunions together wont make him soft, he was firm on that choice.
Farewell, friend.
-Danse please –she begged to him, grabbing his hand and giving a hard shake, the woman voice break as she started to cry, it was a really sad scene all made by his own choices and actions but he woulnt turn down the chance to exterminate a synth from the institute, it was his mission, the mission of the entire Brotherhood, if he failed, the Brotherhood would do it to.
-Its alright, we did our best, you convinced me that I was wrong to be ashamed of my true identity, whatever you decide know that im going to my grave with no anger and no regrets –his old friend smiled at Nora, who was sniffing trying to control her breathing and not burst in a desesperate cry.
Her eyes open, then turn down her head, still grabing Danse hand, it was useless, the man prefferd to die than fail the Brotherhood, he wouldn't allow her to kill Maxson and run away together like they would peacefully do a few minutes ago. She bite her lip and looked at him, trying to say something.
-Danse i…
-Knight! –Arthur called raising his voice, then something snap at her and turn down the head again, letting the synth hand go.
That was the goodbye
-For the good of the Brotherhood…he needs to die…-said in a deep whisper with the voice broken, the synth completely surrender at his side, accepting his fate, Maxson would never admit this to anyone but he wanted to cry, such devotion and sacrifice for the army that took him as a son so many years ago to turn his back on him almost make him cry
Arthur didn't want to look at that, the execution of one of his best friends, but he needed to swallow the sorrow and watch.
To not let her fail her mission.
To not let her threason the brotherhood.
To not let her fall in the charms of that abominations, infiltrating in peoples lives messing up with their heads, not let her fall at being alert and smart.
-In this moment im proud of you like im ever going to be –Danse salute her and went a few steps back, Árthur watching every moment, the synth put the knees on the floor and his hand on the back, head down looking at the ground.
Watching an execution was always hard, no matter who it was, a civilian, a criminal, a supermutant, a raider even…but the fact that he was carrying one of the brotherhood uniforms was heartbreaking for Arthur.
Even if he really wasn't one of his brother he has been for many time.
It was a tense moment, she took a seconds to grab her arm and approatch him.
-Danse…-she whisper, trying to make him get in reason but…
-Ad Victoriam soldier –in the exact moment he said that, Nora blow his head with the laser pistol, she gasped loud and move a hand to close her mouth at seeing the horror, but after realizing what she done she jumped to the ground and went desesperatly to pick up his rolling head.
-Danse! –she screamed as she put a hand inside from the neck and started twisting it, confused the elder approached very carefully that she didn't enter in a homicidal anger caused by the trauma of killing by her own hand and desition such a close partner…but he wanted to see, he didn't understand.
What was with this animalistic behavior? Almost cannibal? She was crying and sobbing as wet flesh sounds appeared from the…cripped head…Arthur looked at the body for a second, headless.
Goodbye Paladin, synth or not, ill make someone burn your rest and give you a proper memorial recognition, you were right, you thought you were human and you choose to fight for the brotherhood like that.
It didn't took long for Nora to find something inside, something sharp and hard, not…organic, it was a hard position to move the hand, she was blind and it was also stuck but after trying and trying hurting his own hands in the attempt…she took it, the synth component, it was there.
She didn't doubt Danse or Maxson about it, but at least if he needed to die…better not be a mistake.
Arthur watched her blend, curl and cry on the ground, hugging the cripped head and…the synth component, he swallow saliva and turned back, this was…anguish…her feelings were staring to penetrate his hard temper and he cant loose it, he wasn't allowed to loose his temper no matter what kind of situation…if he didn't leave he would start crying over the loose of his old friend.
-Ill see you in the Prydwen to claim a new mission, knight –Arthur took a deep mouth of air and…started walking to the ventibird, not even offering her a ride, he couldn't be seen crying by no one.
He walked in the dry and dead forest to the transport taking big breaths to suppress the need to cry.
At the Prydwen, he sent a squad to recover the body and…did give him a proper memorial after burning it, even if it woul be a great asset to the scribes and cientifics…no…not this one, even if his brothers despised him for being a synth his service would not be forgotten.
Nora in fact, came back to the Prydwen, after that display of sadness and desesperation he expected her to abandon and dismiss leaving the Commonwealth forever but…she was there, to ask for her next mission, with the holotags of Paladin Danse like she was supposed in the beginning to accomplish the task.
She was loyal to the Brotherhood, she would be there.
Not so long later she almost alone with barely her own forces and resources, destroyed the institute, and went recognized and promoted to sentinel, the hightest rank you can archieve in the brotherhood of steel.
Purely based on her results, preservation, and achivemts, the vault woman from 200 years ago turned on the first sentinel in this chapter of the brotherhood, one of the fews in the entire country all by her own sweat and tears.
And she was over there, around, working for the brotherhood
A year later that event she came to his office after scheduling a meeting, with a bucket 20lts of white paint, that impressed Arthur who didn't understand what the hell was happening but still motherfucking impressive.
-Good morning Elder, me and the Minutemens clean one of the biggest Commonwealth hardware stores from a group of raiders that took it as a post for ambushing caravans and travelers for the tactic position and bussy roads on the wasteland everyday, a very needed route to move between settlements like Diamond City, Cambridge, Boston… we have resources for the next ten years in tools, paint, glues, scews, nails, gas, all kind of chemicals for different uses…
Arthur was indeed, impressed, but the experience talk for him before he can achieve the sentinel victory
-Biut theres more right?
Nora took a moment to calibrate her voice and speak, full confidence.
-As a minuteman general, as well as a Brotherhood sentinel, ask your collaboration with the new adquisition, the brotherhood now have a tremendous operational and good state base in a very important place between very important destinations with a lot of useful resources, I will ask in the name of both groups to…take control over the hardware store, use it as a new permanent base, put troops day and night there and give the control of the zone to the brotherhood, it will help near settlements to feel more secure and get out raiders by making them know that a new big order is there and they aren't welcome.
Arthur took a big breath by the noise, she sounded so…clear…secure, firm and perfect…This was the kind of news he wanted to hear all the time, this was marvelous, excellent, a very big advance…
Something in his chest hit him hard.
The way she stand still, quiet and being all secure in this very moment…
-Near to Diamond City there are 3 raiders settlement and 2 supermutants if I recover right
-As long as goodneitborght, but I have plans for that place, they are no use and no harm to anyone right now, not us, not minutemen, not civilians, not anyone –Arthur raised an eyebrow, but trust her ideas.
-If we settledown in that new base we can take that groups out with no problem, secure the area and not let them return by placing adecuate protection, like patrols, turrets… -Nora nooded, but then Arthur got an idea that confused him – I know about your…non brotherhood past and activities but why did you make this operation on your own?
-When you name me sentinel you and coronel Kells told me that I will now make my own projects and missions…and you all will follow my wisdom and choices with thrust –this time Arthur nooded, full of pride and exciment, when he named her sentinel that day he thought…that it was something she didn't care or understand enough, that I was just anothyter thing that happened since her answer in that moment was so…dry and formal, almost practice, just formalism.
But it was meaningfull, and it give results.
This almost never happends, not with many soldiers, but he wanted to cry at feeling so overwhelmed, this…is what every general wants from their armys and she was giving him that moment.
Right now he was happy of fulfilling sucesfully his mission.
-That's right, we will follow our sentinels to the end of the wolrd
-That's why I want to make this statement –now, her voice wanted to keep his attention, and he will, looking at her eyes directly – I did not make this operation to put the brotherhood in a compromise of taking with no option this new base, this is optional, you can take the base as a gift and exploit it…but I also want collaboration
-State your point sentinel.
-I will not place a number or a bid, but the minutemen, and I, for my mens, want collaboration, we want to work out the resources of the hardware store and use them.
Deal, collaboration, with an army ruled by a brotherhood sentinel.
-Very well, sentinel, you own this victory, the brotherhood is going to capture that point, secure it, defend it, equip it and manage it, that point and the locations around, no problem, we can share and trade with the minutemens as most you can
-Also have to use the facilities, theres a lot of industrial machine…like carpenter tools and hydraulic presses and ovens…
-No problem –Arthur could swear he was drooling over the possibilities that just one woman, one soldier, gave the brotherhood with this movement.
-We also want to secure and liberate the roads and paths to the settlements around so the trade and traffic will go smooth to help that people
-It's a good idea, sometimes I send my own ventibirds to fly up brahamns for free so traders can move from one point to another safely without raiders to menace them, but its expensive and the gas is hard to get to use in on that
-I knew it Elder, that's way I wanted to capture this post too
Arthur wouldn't reprimand her at all, since after all she was sentinel and almost didn't have the authority to defy her but the question wouldn't harm, he raised an eyebrow and move his hands over his back, stepping in and walking in her direction, this time she moved a bit surprised for the sludden change and for some reason the reaction in her beauty looks…adorable.
-May I ask where did you get the funds and resources for this operations?
Nora was confused –funds? Like caps?
-Yeah, that equipment and…
-My minutemens are not mercenarys they are just regular people –now Arthur is confused now –organized group of just civilians
-But the guns and the armor…
-It was all about the ambush and the plan we take them out there, althought I must admit i…used laser bullets from the brotherhood deposits but it was necessary for the operation, I didn't want to blow the place down with fatmans to kill all the raiders, and the use of regular bullets could cause explosions since theres so much chemical products around….-Nora had the confidence to not get in problem because she was well…a freacking sentinel and she was giving the big offer to the brotherhood anyway, everyone was winning.
-I must say, just for protocol that I will be asking for a investigation about…the founds for you operation, but I also must say thank you very much sentinel Nora, it's a honor to be brothers together
Nora breath out, not nerveous, they weren't going to find much more than just departures of laser weapons and laser bullets, same with gammas, even the armors she and the minutemens managed to get it, must admit it was very suspicious and small ethic to steal from the brotherhood to plan a raid with the minutements but that just the way thing developed.
And she was a war hero for destroying the Institute, she deserved it.
-So be it
-Why you didn't ask the brotherhood for this operation? You are a sentinel, we have the obligation to follow you, as a sentinel you have the freedom to move on your own as long it is for the good of the brotherhood but I never heard…this is a surprise –Arthur laughted- a very amazing surprise
-Since the beginning the minutemens and i…do things –the woman didn't understand the question, but he did understand her answer- do things for the people, for everyone
Arthur didn't expect that answer, and for some reason it moved something inside his chest.
He didn't know her full story, is true, but right now it sounded…magical
Who was this non radiated goddess of destruction that help people around with a army of apparently angels that doesn't need caps?
-There wasn't any brotherhood brothers involved?
-Oh, there are four, they were the only ones with me included with a power armor the rest…
The elder breathed, and then feel brave, he had a lot of emotions in his chest right now, it didn't have any sense, his logical part asked him for a investigation and how the hell everything sounded so perfect almost like a trap the other one was delighted with the news with her with the results…
He raised a finger and put it over his lips with a chill smile looking directly at her eyes.
-Sentinel, this are all wonderfull news, why don't we discuss them at a dinner tonight? I believe everything can wait a few ours more
He will investigate, and search, and ask, and validate her words and success.
Arthur was no fool.
-Ehhh sure…-she whisper, nooding without understanding much.
He waited for things so be that way of course, he wanted to be positive too.
Something inside him wanted to believe in her.
-Great, my mans will look after you around 8pm, we can talk about this victory while enjoing a meal.