Fallout New Vegas AU
Jul. 8th, 2012 01:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
3 years, 2 months and 10 days.
That's how long it's been since Annabelle came home to find the ruins of her family's caravan and her mother's body.
Long years, hard years, but she's managed to survive. She's running low on ammunition and lower still on food, which is why she's hunting geckos in the fading light of the evening.
Her trusty cowboy repeater is aimed at a very nice specimen. If it just comes a little closer......
That's how long it's been since Annabelle came home to find the ruins of her family's caravan and her mother's body.
Long years, hard years, but she's managed to survive. She's running low on ammunition and lower still on food, which is why she's hunting geckos in the fading light of the evening.
Her trusty cowboy repeater is aimed at a very nice specimen. If it just comes a little closer......
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Date: 2012-07-08 07:45 pm (UTC)Annabelle's mouth works for a second, but nothing comes out. "....I am going to kick Harold's ass up around his ears for spiking those supplies with something hallucinogenic."
She's got to be hallucinating, right? (I doesn't feel like that one time she experimented with a psychotropic, but nothing else makes any sense.)
"Unless I'm dying and these are just the last miss-firings of my brain before it all goes dark for good, suppose I'll find out sooner or later."
Those words weren't addressed to anyone in particular, more thinking aloud. The next, however, are definitely directed at the Deathclaw. "Convincing people you can't talk doesn't work so well when you answer," she replies with a slightly nervous laugh.
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Date: 2012-07-08 08:05 pm (UTC)"...no, killing me would be too easy, dad's gonna put me on clutch watch for a year."
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Date: 2012-07-08 08:10 pm (UTC)"I won't tell if you won't," she offers. "I mean it's not like there are any other witnesses."
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Date: 2012-07-08 08:23 pm (UTC)The deathclaw looks up and speaks to nobody. "Guess what, dad? I don't!"
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Date: 2012-07-08 08:32 pm (UTC)Then she winces. "Sorry, that was....uncalled for." The moisture gathering in her eyes is totally your imagination. Really. Okay, maybe not.
It's not like she didn't sometimes complain about her parents back before they were murdered.
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Date: 2012-07-08 08:37 pm (UTC)The deathclaw is quiet for a while, regarding the human. "You want the rest of the gecko?" About half of it is untouched.
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Date: 2012-07-08 08:42 pm (UTC)"Yes, please," she replies. "I was hunting it, for dinner."
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Date: 2012-07-08 11:27 pm (UTC)Sharing is the neighborly thing to do, right?
It won't take long to remove a human meal sized portion of meat from the gecko.
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Date: 2012-07-09 02:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-09 02:39 pm (UTC)"Have you ever had cooked gecko?"
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Date: 2012-07-09 05:04 pm (UTC)She ponders the fact that she's eaten 200 year old irradiated fancy lad cakes before. "Yeah, we do, don't we? Never really thought about it that way."
"Do you want to come back to my camp with me?" she asks. It's getting dark and there are all sorts of nocturnal things that would like to snack on tasty human flesh, so she'd better be out of the open soon.
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Date: 2012-07-09 06:27 pm (UTC)"Or soil yourself." The deathclaw snickers a bit.
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Date: 2012-07-09 06:34 pm (UTC)Annabelle snickers too. "Might have soiled myself if I'd eaten anything lately. You're damn scary!"
The campfire is still going, thank goodness! Annabelle adds some dried grass to feed the fire and starts butchering the gecko. "How long has your family been in this area, if you don't mind my asking."
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Date: 2012-07-09 06:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-09 06:41 pm (UTC)One deathclaw is serious bad news, a whole pack of them.....
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Date: 2012-07-09 06:54 pm (UTC)She frowns at him rubbing his snout. "Do you want me to have a look at that, see what I can do?"
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Date: 2012-07-09 07:09 pm (UTC)The gecko is...well, no longer raw, nor is it incinerated. By Annabelle's standards, that's really good. (A chef, she is not.)
Annabelle takes the gecko off the fire and lets it cool a bit.
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