So I make the mistake of publish this as two drabbles but now I got inspired and make a complete fanfic about it
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It passed more than a month before there was news around in the Citadel.
The barracks for the brotherhood soldiers were properly settled up in the bowling center. And the cinema was now…a cinema, a proper fucking operative cinema.
Both buildings belong to the brotherhood of steel at 100%, and there was a need for more soldiers and provisions of course.
There was even showers and a proper circuit of aqua pura to supply Paradise Falls.
The merchants and traders were coming by, making the place grow and shine as a shopping center of the wastelands, like Nora wanted.
Old barriers and walls were demolished to make more space for tents and posts, the barricades of bags of material and sand had disappeared to make more space, since now the brotherhood provides the security the space could be given to more guests and travelers.
One week after that he noticed a booking in his schedule, one made by Paladin Danse and for the first time since he had this schedule system…he declined the request.
And so he declined it again, the next week when it was booked again.
So the next one.
At the third decline it wasn't so funny because the paladin confront him in the dining room at breakfast time.
-You and me need to talk –said the paladin leaving a cold Nuka Cola in the same table were he was eating his bacon and miereluks eggs.
-Sugar at this hour? You are in your fifties, be careful because your glucose can turn dangerous
-I tried to do it by the official ways…
-You know what? –say Arthur with a shady smile throwing his fork in the plate- not in front of my eggs, I like my eggs very warm and juicy, you want to talk? Fine, lets meet in 20 in the sniper post shall we? But you are not ruining my eggs
-Cool, please take my Nuka Cola and gave it to me there –Danse looked serious, really pissed off, tense.
Well they were talking about her after all.
Arthur take his time to finish his breakfast without any hurry and then he went up to the sniper post, finding a very annyoyed paladin who already dismissed the people working and patrolling that area. Funny, the last time they talk here was also about her but with a total different perspective.
-Lets end this quickly shall we? –said the elder giving him the warm room tempered Nuka Cola.
-Fine, its not what you are think for –ohohohohoh so simple and stupid, he imagined this phrase so much, at seeing the elder rolling his eyes Danse gasped- its really not what you are thinking.
-I don't think much about it anymore
-That day when I say I sleep here too…
-Oh my god you sound scripted dude, who is squeezing your balls?
-Nora clearly, but listen to me
-I don't know what you are trying to do
-We are not sleeping together –stated the paladin- we don't have sex together
Silence, then Arthur smirked.
-Just sleep right?
-Just sleep
-You could be a fucking synth only by the way you talk do you expect me
-To believe it!? Yes I do! We were just sharing the bed those days
-Oh yeah the heart shaped bed, how silly of me –was this a bad joke? He had a good endurance against bad jokes but this was really getting on his nerves.
-Its true, we just sleep together at night and that's all, we have shared bed multiple times over this last 10 years –sleeping and fucking of course, said by him.
-Of course lets just pretend that was the case –said the elder ironically smiling- both of you made a complete silence during a MONTH, heck yeah more than a month, that's a bit suspicious
-She says that I should apologize for making a misunderstanding first and then…
-Oh no I totally believe that you didn't know anything, out of discussion, both of us were mocked at the same time
-Nora and I aren't together! –scream the paladin- not as a couple, non lovers, no sex partners! Nothing! –said Danse very nervous- I cut her at beginnings of this year and our relationship is fragile as ice right now, and it was all over the year! Im sick of it!
Arthur stood there in silence, sighting.
-She ran towards you -mumble Arthur
-And I reject her again –the paladin cross his arms in front of his chest- I was just surprised that she was well banging the fucking elder
-Doesn't matter, she keeps feelings for you surely, you talk me about it before, those feelings didn't disappear then, it was pretty visible
-Well I wont accept them
-I am no consolation price, I have no obligation to…
-Im here just because she asked me to clarify things, because of my poor choice of words and I will repeat it –he had all the time poor choices of words- Me and Nora are not together and never were because I turned down every of her declarations, in fact we aren't as friends as we were since I reject her at beginnings of this year and now its even worse, because I told her again that I didn't care about what she did or with who and she psychopath me about why I wasn't jealous or why I wasn't mad at all and its because she cant fucking stop! She never stops! –the paladin took a moment to breath some air- doesn't stop on a no, doesn't stop in killing an objective, doesn't stop In getting anything she wants and I fear her! Im not someone strong enough to be at the side of such a destructive person and always ambitious of more! And more! More more! Im not strong enough to love someone like that!
Silence from Arthu. He doesn't get it, he may respect it but he doesn't get it.
It was pretty different from his side.
She didn't exactly force him, just insist.
He liked her being ambitious and hard working
He loved the idea of a dangerous woman protecting him.
-Why were you…sleeping…together? –just sleeping really?
-Sharing the bed is not something uncommon for us, its work field, using the other brother heat and comfort -bullshit- we have sleep together since the commonwealth
-You also have sex with her
-In another times with other type of feelings in between.
-Lets just suppose that it wasn't on your side, so she purposely clean a heart shapped mattress during days to sleep with you
-To try to have sex with me, that's plausible
Silence again.
-What are you trying to sell me buddy?
-Summary, alright –the paladin took a breath and close his eyes- first of all: we don't have sex together since almost 2 years, second: again, we were just sleeping in the same bed, third thing: I didn't know you were together
-Who say something about being together?
-She told me to come here and apologize to you, I suppose you two are together
-Not that I recall, and less if she rans after you and not me
Danse sighted.
-Well I can't control that
-So you have to be jealous? That I was fucking her by her own insistence instead of you? –the elder laugh bitterly- why would I care then?
-I just came to clarify my side of the story because she asked me
-And why is that? Since you don't like her anymore
Danse pressed his lips and looked at the horizon, not wanting to face him.
-Because she is still for me the sister I never had, and I don't want her to suffer, she is my best friend, and her obsession for me its killing our friendship
-There you are right, she seems more into you than me, to not even message me in more than a month
-I will be happy if she finds someone else to obsess over, I just didn't know it was you, shocking
-It bothers you that its me?
-At this point I will accept anything –Arthur sighted.
-Lets just suppose that you…apologized to me…what's next?
-I don't know im not her buttler –said the paladin indignated- this situation just distress me okay? In in the middle of you both just because I thought someone was killing her inside the cinema!
Well that was funny
-What did she tell you…about me?
-That I ruined everything
-Im looking for some other type of answer
-That everything was going smooth, that there was something growing, that you both had a good chemistry…-there was, indeed, not much.
-Sounds like little for not having even a message in more and a month
-To be fair the last 3 weeks I was trying to contact you and the others well she wanted to have something to give you as an apology, and I suppose its something from Paradise Falls, finished and working.
-I don't care –said Arthur not very moved- I cant trust anymore
-Like I said –Danse lean his head to be at his height- we didn't have sex, and that's all I came for, she was very ashamed and ask me to tell you this in person, I don't have anything more and neither the obligation to defend her
-You are dismissed paladin –say Arthur closing his eyes, feeling a breeze hit his face- I don't have more energy to keep on this conversation
-I just wanna say to you…be careful elder, she is not someone who gives up easy –the paladin pick up the room temperature Nuka Cola ready to leave
-Well clearly didn't persue me, so she did gave up on me more than you
The next day he received a box of 6 Classic sweetrolls, it wasn't hard to imagine who sended it.
Wait, how did she get the name of his baker?
A shiver ran thought his back, and the first thing he did was cutting the donuts in two slices to check the insides. No trap apparently.
At the end of that week he received a box of 6 Sizzlin' strawberry donuts with a pink letter written in italics inside the box.
"The elder Maxson is invited to see P.S. I Hate You at the new Paradise Falls cinema in Tuesday 9pm for a late show, try to arrive on time to not to miss part of the movie"
What an interesting movie choice.
Better to ask some scribe for spoilers, just to be sure if he needed to bring condoms or a knife in his pockets.