This fic sets in a universe where Blind Betrayal never took place and Nora destroyed the institute with the Brotherhood of Steel. I don't know if im going to make a new story of this couples, like Arthur x Nora, Danse x Arthur, Danse x Nora since I already finished playing Fallout 4 and I am playing the 3 one and at some time I gotta go the obsession but I feel like writing things differents from Follow me inside the wastelands
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-Ah Paladin Danse, what do I own the pleasure of this call?
For Danse it was difficult to talk to the elder of the commonwealth chapter since "that" happened…but at least his old friend was slowly taking it better and better, the young man was mature and reasonable, the resentment weren't directed towards him at least…well…a bit…more than a bit…it was understandable since well…
-Nothing new to report about our job in Washington but…Arthur we need to talk –the elder open up his eyes stopping the hand that he had on the needle where he was mending one of his little daughter's shirts
-You mean Elder Arthur or Arthur Arthur? –it was so strange hearing him talking like that. When they meet even when he was only a teenager he wouldn't talk like that at all, groomed into being a leader to carry the lastname Maxson really build his character like a really serious young man but after officially started dating Nora he change…a lot…and became a totally different person, love change him a lot, now at his 29 he was a totally different person that the 21 when he arrived the Commonwealth for the first time. And after "that" happened he loose himself even more, thinking that for what? What does everything matter? Why bother at all? All that work for nothing! Being the most powerful man didn't save him at all.
-Arthur Arthur…sir… -heard Danse at the other side of the call and chuckled.
-What is it? –ask the elder, still mending the tshirt, oh he didn't want anyone else doing this little jobs over his daughter clothes, everybody does it wrong except him! Nora taught him how and…didn't see anyone else doing it so perfectly like she did.
-There's a subject I want you to discuss with the sentinel –ohnononononono
-Didn't expect you to surrender so soon –what? Oh nonono.
-Nothing about that, look since we arrived here on Washington for our mission she is…
-I just don't see why you cant solve it by your own, after all you are the new boy –offensive cluck
-You live here for a long time and she needs…
-You live there even more than me, beyond me even! –why they were talking about her? After all the pain and discussions for him to still have to stay after her ass
-Yeah but…
-Then that's it! You don't need me at all, deal yourself with the sentinel and whatever bullshit cross her mind this time –Arthur didn't want to have anything to do with the mother of his two children.
-Look I know you are still resentful –the elder bite his tongue.
-With her for dumping me for my best friend when I send both on a mission to Washington? Nah, who do you think I am? –lets send my best paladin to protect my wife in a land she doesn't know in the present wastelands, it would be fun they said, she wouldn't cheat on me, they said…
Silence again, until he heard a breath and the paladin keep talking- but maybe you are more wise in this subject than me
-What subject? –oh talking or even giving some kind of entity to this subject make his mouth sour
-She is severely depressed, at first I thought it was just nostalgia but months keep passing and she is very frustrated and disappointed about the state of Washington
-I don't get it
-She came with her ex husband Nate for vacations here once and now everything…makes her sad –oh now he understand- the state of the buildings, the new streets and ways to move, the demolished places, the trash, smell, the odor
-You mean nostalgic and depressed like the thing she has with the food doesn't? –traumas, that was all traumas, psychological scars
-Yeah but here is with all the environment.
-Its understandable, after all there isn't a fucking nice place in Washington, it's a shithole, is far much worse than Boston, the commonwealth is such a luxury in comparison
-That aint helping man
-Well im not going to terraform the damn city –a sight at the other side of the call- what do you want me to do?
-Talk to her
-The state of Washington also depresses me –this was stupid
-This is serious Arthur, she is severely depressed and this place isn't helping her either
-Well im happy I was not the problem in the end, and I see you aren't the solution either –silence on the other side of the line.
Their second son together left her with a serious post partum depression. So in order to help his wife he send her to the Capital wasteland, have some adventures, fun, enjoy travelling to new places, kick some buts, don't let the routine of being parents of a 3 year old and a newborn stop you from being the kickass woman I fall in love. Too bad he didn't tell her nothing about don't smashing his best friend, the friend he sent to protect her, his bad, he should warn her about that right?
-You have a good life in this city, talk to her
What the fuck? –whaaaaat? Since when do I had a good life in the citadel? –jaja what? Oh gosh people had the most stupid ideas.
-Better than mine for sure, she just needs a boost of confidence and I cant give the example in this area
-I had two complete meals a day, that's far from a good life –not to mention they were feeding him like a pig so he wouldn't famish and die with the Maxson line with him. If he gain a thing from being Noras husband for 5 years together was standards, and he understand that the life on the Wastelands was shit.
-Again, im not playing, she needs more positivity and…
-Well im not moving you both out the city because she cant face the reality and stop daydreaming –yeah being cheated on was shitty but damn it's good that he missed the obligation of having Nora by his side, over time he understood that by getting married he had bought himself a bag of unresolved problems that were very difficult to handle even for him.
-Of course not, our mission is going just fine –yeah the mission of banging his wife maybe- we are progressing with the task the elder here is giving us, she neither wants to leave this city but…its harming her –it was true, he was receiving request of that elder to even promote Danse but god damn he wouldn't be promoting a wife thief
-The landscapes harm her –Arthur clarified. Sitting better on his chair, leaving the needle on the table.
-Yeah, about the daydreaming…-oh not again.
-Let me guess, she is on chems again –he sighted, the only way to keeping her away from chems was to put a baby on her uterus, it worked with Arya and the nursing time, and then with Shaun and the nursing until he fucking send her to capital wasteland like it was a good idea. Stupid idea.
-Mentats, and im not her commanding officer anymore to even correct –he was interrupted.
-Oh nono now you are her daddy –he laughed, bitterly, biting on his lower lip, gosh talking about this fills him with anger!- I get it, I was her daddy too
-Arthur…-he heard at the other line a tired voice.
-Im not going to make you elder so you can be on top and place a corrective, she is a sentinel –he had so much anger accumulated on his chest, like when you are really really upset and your whole body feels infuriated!
-That's why Im asking you to talk to her…elder…-Maxson sighted.
-Its it serious like she would…-he whistle twice- at the roof of a building?
Silence, again, he raise up his head to look at the terminal, now worried.
-Maybe, if it gets worse -maybe letting his ex-still-wife kill herself was not a good idea, she was a good sentinel and a soldier who achieved very good results-Im sorry about everything Arthur-and you fuck my wife anyway, what a good friend he thought in the insides, taking his time to process everything- but do this at least because she is the mom of your two children
-She should think on that two years ago, almost abandoning them –funny, she left to Washington when Shaun was like 8 months or something, he surely doesn't remember her, didn't see her since then.
-Im sure Arya is not going to be happy if something occurs to her mother –yeah, even if at her 5 years she ask about Nora a lot, misses her.
-You know? I already got what is more valuable from her, our Maxson not radiated offspring, the only reason I didn't sent an assassin after your butt is because your shrimps are dead –they were still married together, no one is going to dare to make gossip about the elder Maxson being a cuckhold or the sentinel having an affair, plus it gives him high status being married with a sentinel…and a prewar woman- and you can't knock her.
He said that words with hate. It really hurt him to the core the fact that his best friend Danse did that to him.
-Try to give her a call, tell her that life here is not-interupted him again, bullshit, all bullshit.
-There's no life there Danse, there's no green even, how can I lie myself to lie to her? –it was true, capital wasteland was a shithole, an horrible place, arriving to the commonwealth was like escaping from there and its horrors, the green and the land were such a change for elder Maxson.
-Well I don't know what else to do! –the man raised his voice in the call, he heard a bit of desperation on it- I don't wanna loose her! –he stay in silence- maybe you don't care anymore and I get it! But I love her! And I don't know what to do!
He cares, deep down below all the feelings of betrayal and abandonment he cares, for the woman he fall deeply in love once.
-What do you expect me to tell her? –said the defeated elder, maybe, if he keeps caring by then, she can come back to him, but if she is dead…there will be no way to be together again…less as a family…
-I don't know…-from the tone of his voice he really was…desperate, lost, he really used his last plan talking to him- maybe tell her that life is beautiful? –Arthur laugh, it was audible in the call- You know her better
-But you know her the longest –from initiate to Sentinel at the paladin side, until both sentinel and elder got into a relationship, fraternizing with a soldier.
-Its not working on me –now, the man was crying even if he cant see his tears, Arthur hold his chin on his hands, shutting his lids- love is not saving her on this.
The elder stood in silence, and breathe out –You know this about her…since the beginning
-I know –voice cracked at the other side of the line.
-I learned over time how to deal with that and move forward in our relationship, get through each day, try to make a future for ourselves, it didn't work for me, as you know –in any fucking chance he would have to spit in the face his betrayal to him he will do it- but It was never easy, or less painful, no matter the day
-Yeah
-And its only going to get worse, maybe you aren't prepared to it, like I wasn't
-You didn't send her away because you can't deal with it –then whyyyyy? If Danse gets it why did he fuck his wife? Arthur cover his face with his palms and breathe.
-Even after everything that happened I know I avoided an obstacle, a hard one, for the rest of my life –the image of Nora jumping off a building cross his mind, he open his eyes to avoid having images- but you are right. Arya will be sad, ill talk to Nora, put a call on her agenda, make sure she see it and…answer the call.
Both stay in silence, until Danse speak with the voice still broken.
-Thank you elder, that will be all
Arthur stood in silence too, eyes getting lost on the terminal.
-Crush some addictol and mix it with her food, look at her eating so she will finish the plate, Mentats doesn't have secondary effects with other chems so don't worry-he had the experience with this- you are discharged Paladin.
Both hang up on the call.