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the world's music is silence 2/3
Date: 2012-03-15 11:06 pm (UTC)That night she teaches him a new sign. It is a tap of the head, the index finger to thumb and one hand held steady and high.
Hope.
When she gets in the simulation pod for vault 112 he grabs her hands and note how they seem to be getting rougher. She gives a little sad smile and motions over to her father's figure inside of a pod. She signs to wait and he sits there for almost 20 minutes before he starts glancing up at the pod, 40 before he starts pacing, and a whole hour before he starts pounding on the glass, trying to get a response.
He will wait for 3 hours.
She feels more isolated in Tranquility Lane than she has in a while. When she tries to sign a hello people glance away and she remembers the vault, remembers the sideway glances and shoves and reading whispers. These people pity her, look at her as if they're guilty to have their own healthy children.
Betty's voice pierces her brain and she punches a boy and breaks up a marriage, but by the request of murder and massacre she begs for an escape. God bless the woman who had the patience to write what to do for her. She fusses with the tones for 2 hours, trying to figure out how it works, until finally the machine appears. She huddles in a corner and feels the vibration of bullets. She thinks she feels someone banging on the door but she just shuts her eyes tight and practically kicks down the portal back to the real world.
Her father is scared half to death that she's managed to make it this far, that she survived, that she escaped. Why couldn't she stay in the Vault? She would be safe.
But she tells him the overseer tried to kill her and suddenly he looks guilty, holds her tight and long. His eyes finally glance back at her partner. "Who is that?"
He takes the opportunity to answer and says C-H-A-R-O-N. He looks rather blankly for a second and she giggles and says "I taught him myself." James walks to him, looks up at his intense cloudy eyes, his charred skin, his strong jaw. "you're pretty stiff at it" he says, and his voice is deep and tinged with something like defensiveness, taking care of his daughter. "i know" he replies, and she smiles and laughs again. Talking feels stiff now. Whenever James verbally asks him a question, Charon signs. When they get to Rivet City and get a drink, he signals for a water a scotch and a vodka, and the bartender stares until he grumbles out the order.
Charon sticks closer to her than James would like and James glares at him when she hold instinctively holds Charon's hand, but she seems oblivious and blissful, staring at her two favorite men.
Re: the world's music is silence 3/3
Date: 2012-03-15 11:07 pm (UTC)When they get to the Citadel she does not ask any more questions. She merely takes Charon away and they walk. “Why did we leave?” He finally gets the courage to ask when they’re halfway out of D.C. She looks at him for a moment.
“I give up.”
They are camping outside of Springvale when he hears pills rustling in the bag and slowly spilt out. His eyes open for just a second and suddenly he lunges to her wrists and shakes a handful of Med-X out of the rough hands and lets her thrash under him until she’s finished with her loud, out-of-tune screeching and lays there, looking beyond him, at the stars.
He kicks the pills into the dirt before he lets her up.
“Why did you stop me? You’re supposed to let me do what I want. I want death.” Her gaze pierces him and he struggles to find the signals.
“i love you” he says the word out loud, lets her read his lips. The eight letters feel weighted and awkward on his tongue and she just stares.
Pinkie raised, middle and side finger down, index and thumb up.
She stares at him and is silent. Her fingers are clenched tightly into fists and he eventually glances down and away. “sorry” he murmurs.
She gets closer to him and leans against his chest. Every muscle in his body goes stiff but she is just feeling the gentle vibration of his heart against her ear. Thump. Thump. Her arms slowly wrap around his and she holds him close and tight, and he feels tears on his skin, body-wracking sobs, and heavy breathing.
She cries as her lips press against his mouth, and the tears keep going even as her eyes plead “please please please I need someone now please don’t go please I’m sorry please please” He holds her tight and listens to her breathing slow and watches her eyes shut until she is asleep. But he is awake, he is her protector, and he always will be.
And he will run right beside her when she races him to Vault 87.
And he will join with Fawkes to rescue her from Raven Rock.
And he will take bullets from Enclave soldiers as they walk behind Liberty Prime.
And he will scream when she activates the purifier and collapses.
And he will pace and glance at her while she sleeps until she wakes up.
Re: the world's music is silence 3/3
Date: 2012-03-15 11:19 pm (UTC)OP here...
Date: 2012-03-16 12:53 am (UTC)Oh my stripes and stars, this is AMAZING! I... I don't know what to say. Just that it was exactly what I was hoping for.
I loved how you described certain signs (hope, love) and how she listens to the vibrations of the radio to hear the music and Charon andandand... *takes deep breath* Damn, you just made my day! Thank you, A!A. Freakin' thank you!
Re: the world's music is silence 3/3
Date: 2012-03-16 01:25 am (UTC)Re: the world's music is silence 3/3
Date: 2012-03-21 09:49 pm (UTC)Re: the world's music is silence 3/3
Date: 2012-03-28 02:29 am (UTC)yes.
yes.
this is wonderful. so wonderful!