Of The Past We Use To Advance Chapter 2 – Blessings In A Bad Time.
The evening sun was shining brightly through the window over Falcon's face as he slowly woke up from his bed. No, this wasn't his bed. This was Sarah's!
After opening his eyes to see a few open and empty bottles of whiskey and vodka he turned his body to find Sarah lying with him, realising that they were both naked.
'Oh fuck' Falcon thought to himself as he slowly got up and out of the bed, looking for his clothes.
He found his white undershirt and underwear and the lower half of the casual clothes he wore the previous night. It wasn't until Sarah woke up and started to get out of her bed when he found his long brown overcoat Moira had acquired for him to wear over his armour when he was exploring the Wasteland.
Falcon could only stare at the beauty of Sarah's body, the long smooth shape of her torso and legs and the way her blonde hair came down around her shoulders and partially over her breasts. He had rarely seen her with her thin hair down.
She sat back down on the bed realising she was about to be sick because she got up to fast.
"Wow. Last night must have either been really bad so I blocked out the memories, or it's just the affects from the alcohol," Sarah stated, doing her best to hide a laugh while she picked up her underwear off the floor and start pulling them up her legs.
"Yeah. Ah, look. Considering we were both naked and umm... Very, very, very, very, drunk! Umm, I guess what I'm trying to say is, ahh..." Sarah moved across the room to Falcon and put her finger over his lips to stop him from talking.
"I think we both enjoyed last night. Sure people do things they wouldn't normally do when drunk but I think we both wanted what happened, to happen. At least I know I do. If you were someone under my command I wouldn't have let myself do anything with you but, you're different. You're part of the Brotherhood now but you just work with my sqaud."
Falcon sighed and gave her a small smile as he drew Sarah into a hug. She relaxed between his arms before he kissed her softly on the lips. "Are you sure about that Sarah?"
She just smiled as she drew Falcon back to her bed, taking off her underwear and then his shirt. The two of them found each other as they covered themselves with the sheets of Sarah's bed and started to kiss.
As Falcon and Sarah walked downstairs in the science lab a sudden silence fell between all of Lyons Pride, Elder Lyons and Scribe Rothchild who were standing together in discussion.
All of the Pride had their Power Armour Helmets on though everyone could tell they were all silently snickering beneath them. Walking towards the science lab Falcon and Sarah noticed people looking at them and silently chuckling to themselves. It was apparent that everyone knew what had happened the night before.
"Good afternoon Sarah, Falcon. I take it the amount of alcohol you consumed last night is the reason why the two of you have made such a late appearance," Elder Lyons greeted them in his always calm tone of voice as the two of them stopped in front of the small crowd.
"Hello father. Yes well, had we known how we were going to feel in the morning, I don't think we would have had that much," Sarah replied, placing her hand over the cold metal of her armour in front of her stomach, stopping herself from vomiting everywhere. "Anyway, we're here now. What's the problem?"
Rothchild directed everyone forward to the orange coloured map of the D.C. area in the corner of the lab and began his speech.
"In the past fortnight our scouts positioned near the remains of Raven Rock have reported that there has been an influx of Enclave Vertibirds and troopers scouring through the remains of the military base. Now as you all know, after the destruction of Raven Rock, due to the help of Con here," Rothchild nodded towards Falcon who pulled a chair over from the table and sat down on it, "We attempted to scour through the wreckage to find any sort of technology we could scavenge but had little success in finding anything of considerable value, although, bearing in mind the place truly was destroyed."
Con decided to speak up while Rothchild took a moment to stop.
"So you're telling us that right now on that goddamn mountain, there are, how many? Enclave soldiers and Vertibirds?"
Rothchild pulled a document from his coat and said, "Well the Enclave have set up a base and an excavation site at Raven's remains and at the last count there are twenty-six standard Enclave soldiers, two Commanders, two of those Hellfire troopers and the remaining ten personal are divided into the soldiers with that Tesla Armour and pilots for the four Vertibirds that stay on site."
Con decided to speak up again but to Elder Lyons, "Well. Elder, if you don't mind my input I would suggest ambushing the squads that are no doubt patrolling the area. I still have my stealth armour so I can sneak in the base and set explosive charges and when we detonate them, in the wonderful ensuing chaos we can snipe everyone. However for those that remain, the Pride and I can move in and start shooting. And hell, if all goes to plan for once we may even get a lot more Enclave tech out of it."
Lyons stood there for a moment and turned to Sarah and the Pride, "If you all agree then by all means, formulate a plan starting from what Con has just said and present it to me. We have no idea if this is all that remains of the Enclave, but if they have more forces on their way here, then they cannot be far behind. We should take out this Enclave threat now in case there will be another wave of Enclave soldiers some time in the future."
All of them nodded their head in agreement and started to walk to the Great Hall in Ring-B to start their plan when Elder Lyons asked Sarah and Falcon to wait.
With one look from Owyn, Rothchild moved away, as did any scribes near the three of them giving Owyn the room to talk freely, if not quietly.
"Now I may be old but I am not yet blind. Or deaf. As the whole Citadel knows and heard, last night the two of you ended up going to bed together," Both Falcon and Sarah's posture slouched while they focused their eyes anywhere away from Owyn.
While laughing slightly he continued, "Now I have to say. I couldn't be happier that the two of you are together," Falcon and Sarah stopped looking away and focused their attention on Owyn who just smiled.
"Con you have come so far since you left the Vault and joined the Brotherhood, and Sarah, with his arrival you have allowed yourself to live life like he does and learn to let go and have some fun. You have never been so happy, nor has everyone else around here. Morale is at an all time high like it never has been before because the two of you have become such great friends over the past year," the two of them were now looking at each other, looking into each other's eyes as the truth of what Owyn was saying hit them.
"And we all know what happened between you two last night, considering how, vocal... you were."
The eyes of the both of them lit up in surprise as they hadn't remembered being so loud.
"Nonetheless, I give you both my approval to be together and hopefully, it will lead on further. Seeing the two of you together brings joy to my old heart."
Owyn took hold of Falcon and Sarah's hands and placed them together and walked away.
The two of them looked at each other once more and gripped each other's hand tight.
Just with their facial expressions they could see each other saying 'Let's try and see how this goes'.