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iwanttosettheworldonfire ([personal profile] iwanttosettheworldonfire) wrote2015-04-30 10:45 pm

Megaton Dreaming

The sun cut through the damaged atmosphere over the subtropical desert with all its usual relentlessness, pouring through windows that had last seen glass two hundred years ago (if that) and shabby curtains to fall precisely into everyone's eyes as they slept. The room was full of battered, dried out mementos of another age, mostly toys and books, all cracked and crumbling. A slight humming came from somewhere underneath them, almost drowned out by a staticky radio playing Cole Porter. The air was still and heavy, touched with a scorched, chemical smell that hung over everything, a strangely inorganic smell that seemed to overpower any hint of living things. No hint of anything green, of sweat, even of decay, just that smoky, biting trace in the air. Someone with an unnaturally heavy step was moving in the house, and the sheet metal that made up most of the place softly squealed its protests. The very air hummed with a strange energy, like it was about to storm, though it was so dry it didn't seem like rain was the remotest possibility.

In other words, home. Indrani shifted in bed, head pillowed on her copy of The Wasteland Survival Guide, two ancient stuffed bears and Dogmeat curled beside her, and was perfectly content for a moment. Then she realized it was months, maybe a year, since she'd woken in her own bed, and she hauled herself upright, looking around hurriedly.
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[personal profile] catchingflies 2015-05-01 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
Dogmeat wasn't the only warm body in the bed with her, and when Indrani sat up, the skinny but familiar arm that'd been tossed over her stomach slid down to her waist. The movement made the owner of that arm mutter something unintelligible, and then flop over onto his back with a wide yawn. Eyes not open yet, he apparently hadn't woken up enough to realize they weren't in Poseidon anymore.
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[personal profile] catchingflies 2015-05-03 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Being climbed over helped with the whole "waking up" thing, too. Todd threw an arm over his eyes with a groan. "Aw, c'mon, it's early. Isn't it?"

That's when he realized they were in the same bed, and it was an unfamiliar bed. He moved the arm a hair to peer past it in her direction, confused.
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[personal profile] catchingflies 2015-05-05 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"What, seriously?" Todd sat up at last, squinting at the window at the ruin outside-- mostly only seeing the glare of the sunlight, really, but he could make out some building type things-- and rubbed at his forehead in confusion. "Don't you think they'd've said somethin' if Salvation was gonna put us back? Geez! And this ain't even back, for me."

He pauses, glances over at Indrani, and adds, "Not that I'm complainin' about that, or anything. Home wasn't all that special."
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[personal profile] catchingflies 2015-05-07 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
For the first time, Todd looks concerned, or maybe just nervous. He hasn't heard either of those names before, and the sound of that one voice kind of doesn't sound all that warm and fuzzy. Plus, he's kind of got that problem with adults being stupid and mean, back home... Verdana was a weird case, but now he's in the real world again. Sort of. Will that revert to type?

"Uh, who's Wadsworth? And Fawkes? And d'you think the Things came with us?" Because there's no mention of giant rat-hyena-monsters "downstairs", either.
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[personal profile] catchingflies 2015-05-08 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
"Whoah." Wadsworth at least looked cool. "He's, uh, not gonna be weird about me suddenly showing up, is he?" Though Todd did at least swing his feet over the side of the bed, because he did remember a few things about what Indrani had told him about her home, and he didn't want his Things to get into trouble, either.
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[personal profile] catchingflies 2015-05-13 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
Todd, looking dubious, followed behind Indrani, rather in her wake-- a little confused by the fact that he hadn't had to put his shoes on. Apparently whoever dumped them here had done so with him fully clothed. Maybe if he was lucky, some of his other things would be here, too.

Or the Things. He'd be happy with just those, really.
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[personal profile] catchingflies 2015-05-15 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
For a moment, Todd stared at the big ogre-looking mutant, but after a beat of realizing that apparently he wasn't the only mutant here-- no wonder Indrani never did have problem with how he looked or anything, he wasn't anywhere near that obvious-- he then also realizes that the Things are there. "Heeeeey, look who showed up!" he grinned, and bounded over, right onto One's back, half-burying himself in rough fur. The three pups honked up at him, but at least didn't try to climb up after him. Thing One gave a coughing bark of slightly nervous-sounding welcome, brush of a tail wagging.
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[personal profile] catchingflies 2015-05-23 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
Todd spent a few minutes just scratching Thing One all up and down his neck, grinning with more affection than he was really aware he was showing. At Indrani's question, he glanced over at her, looked a little embarrassed to find he'd been being watched this whole time-- and not just by Indrani, but by the big green stranger, too-- and said, "Uh, sure. What you got to eat around here? You used to go on about radioactive bugs and stuff."

He slid off One's back to land amidst Three, Four, and Five, and then they all piled up on him. He wound up buried under three andrewsarchus cubs almost immediately.
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[personal profile] catchingflies 2015-05-30 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
Emerging at last from under the furballs and looking quite rumpled, Todd hopped over, looking over his shoulder at Fawkes en route. Said furballs trailed after him, though Thing One stayed where he was, next to the bigger mutant. "Might as well stick with what I know. Gimme the bug. What's a mirelurk, anyway?"
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[personal profile] catchingflies 2015-06-03 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
He ducked instinctively, but then gave a snort and peered at what she'd handed him, instead. "Is that even food?" Whether he meant the package in his own hands he had half-unwrapped already, or the claw she was waving at him, was entirely up in the air. "And what's with the big guy over there? And the robot? You never told me you had roomies."
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[personal profile] catchingflies 2015-06-09 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
Kind of like lobster. Not that Todd had ever actually eaten lobster, but he'd seen people do it through windows before. He finished unwrapping his own, whatever it actually was. "Too human? What, is it like mutant-ville in that Underworld place?" Which pretty much meant he wanted to see it. Would it be like Magneto's dreamworld, or more like living with the Brotherhood? Would they figure out he was one, too?
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[personal profile] catchingflies 2015-06-12 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
Manners weren't something Todd tended to worry a whole lot about, so it didn't bother him any, her talking with her mouth full. He prodded at the "bug" meat, then shrugged and shot out his tongue to scoop a whole slab of it up and swallow it down. At least he rarely actually tasted anything he ate. "You're gonna hafta show me around, I guess. If we're gonna be here a while, or anything. Wonder how we even got back... think Salvation just mixed up where I belonged?"
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[personal profile] catchingflies 2015-06-15 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't need to be babysat," Todd pouted at her, a little bit. "'Sides, I've got Thing, if it's all that bad out there. ... how bad is it out there?" Sure, he'd heard her stories, but he'd figured they were embellished, and even so, she hadn't ever really told him about anything much worse than what you could run into on accident outside Poseidon.

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