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Tidal Waves

I’m trash and spent like half an hour writing this. Tidal Waves by All Time Low is just the song that sparked me wanting to write about these two so enjoy I guess. I’ll probably write something else to do with these two at some point.

Fandom; Borderlands Pairing; Zed Blanco/Patricia Tannis Setting; Sanctuary sometime after Roland’s return.

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Tidal Waves

He never really did like leaving his office unattended during the day. Especially not since the new batch of vault hunters showed up. They were always showing up with odd injuries or even that one bad case of slag poisoning. That hadn’t been a fun afternoon for him, or the young Mecromancer. Thankfully though she was tougher than she looked and she had her friends for support. As much as they were idiots, they made an excellent team, just like the original group that he’d nursed back to health on more than one occasion. But today Zed had a different purpose for visiting Raiders HQ. True he had to check up on Roland after his ordeal with the bloodshots, but there was someone else he needed to talk to more. As much as he despised her actual medical degree, with the vault hunters off God knows where, he had to deliver this to her himself. So he made his way across Sanctuary, having closed down shop for ten, and into HQ. She was sitting behind her desk right next to the door, talking into her ECHO recorder. “…bacon is for sycophants and products of incest.” She shuddered as she pushed the off button and then swivelled around in her chair to see him standing there on the other side of her desk. She raised an eyebrow at him. “Is it me you require?” She asked, shuffling around in her papers on the desk, seeming to avoid eye contact. Zed sighed. This was why he’d wanted the vault hunters to do this. He dug something out of his pocket and dropped it onto the table in front of her. “Decent condition eridium chunk, pulled it out of some bandits stomach. Thought you might want it.” Tannis looked to the chunk for a moment, then up at Zed, then back at the chunk. Taking that as his cue to leave, Zed turned and marched out of HQ. Well that hadn’t been awkward at all.

Later, once he’d reopened his office and had to patch up the gunzerker, he found himself behind his own desk, shifting through papers and jotting down some notes. Hearing the door open, he didn’t even look up. “I’ll be right with ya.” He assumed it was Roland, probably coming to tell him something he didn’t wish to hear like usual. “That won’t be necessary doctor, this won’t take long.” His head shot up and turned to the other occupant in the room. What the HELL was Tannis doing in his surgery? He stood slowly. “What were you after?” He asked, crossing his arms and leaning back against the desk. “I came to find answers.” She said bluntly before digging out the eridium chunk he’d given her earlier and holding it out in her palm. “Why did you give me this?” He was admittedly taken off guard. He brushed a hand back over his hair, smoothing back the slowly silvering hairs. “I thought you were into all that eridium crap?” “Of course I am, finding the vault is an important and scientific discovery that fascinates me yet I find myself baffled by this.” She gestured to the chunk. “This chunk.” “What are you getting at woman?” “It’s clean doctor, clean.” “What’s so wrong with that?” “You are the one who gave it to me. By the state of your work place and your general attire, cleanliness is clearly not a forte of yours.” Now that made him mad. “Now see here you stuffy…” He’d barely taken three steps towards her, not even halfway through his angry rant, before blood started spurting from her nose, dripping down her face and onto her shirt. “Aw hell.” Now he felt guilty and hurried over to snatch up a cloth. She was cradling her face, seeming to try and stop the rest of the blood from dripping onto her shirt. He came back over to her, but apparently his help was unwanted as she simply snatched the cloth and pressed it to her face, retreating from him. “I can handle this myself doctor.” She hurriedly tried to wipe all the blood away, only really succeeding in spearing it across her face. Zed sighed. “You got..uh..” He said, trying to point out what she’d done wrong. She didn’t seem to quite get it, only making it worse. “Here.” He tried to get close again, but she only dodged out of range again. “God damn it I’m tryin to help you.” “I told you I have it!” She insisted. This time when he moved, he managed to catch her arm. “Stay still for two gol-darn seconds.” She seemed to have frozen when he touched her and he took the opportunity to step close and bring the towel up to her face, wiping away the smeared blood off her face completely. With that done, he took the cloth with him as he stepped away. “There, that wasn’t so hard was it?” He threw the cloth into the hamper in the corner and turned back to her. She was still standing where he’d left her, seeming bemused by something. “You alright?” He asked and it took a few moments before she nodded. “As strange as it may sound, you may approach me.” He raised an eyebrow, but stepped back over towards her. Was he becoming part of some weird experiment? He stopped less than a metre away from her, crossing his arms. Tannis copied his pose, looking up at him. He’d never really focused on how green her eyes really were, at least not till now when they were staring at him. “Hm. Fascinating.” “What’s that?” “No violent bursting of blood vessels though you are very close to me.” “Then what was before?” “Perhaps the realisation of making you upset. I apologise.” “It’s fine.” He could shrug it off like everything else. “But you have yet to answer my original question; why did you clean the chunk before offering it to me?” He wasn’t sure if it was his imagination, or if the tips of his ears were really turning as red as they felt. “Figured you’d appreciate it not being covered in guts.” He said, reaching up to scratch the back of his head. “I did.” There was a moments pause where they simply looked at each other. “I believe this is where I say thank you Doctor Blanco.” “Call me Zed.” He said automatically. His last name felt to formal. “Very well, thank you Zed.” Tannis corrected. “You’re welcome Tannis.” “You may refer to me by my first name as well Zed.” She said, a small smile lining her lips. “What like, Patricia?” The name rolled off his tongue more nicely than he cared to admit. “Yes.” “You’re welcome then, Patricia.”