call me a liar twice over because it isn’t Sunday and this tid bit isn’t six sentences LMAO
so I was tagged by the ever lovely @hellektr0 (also known as er0sennin) to participate in this and thought it’d be fun!! Sorry for the late reply (two days late) I was working and didn’t know what to post :c I finally made up my mind and thought I’d share the intro of the latest chapter I’ve worked on for my Fallout 3 fic Inventor’s Absolution--this would be chapter 47, a Butch centered chapter.
The name echoed off the walls of the vault hallway when Butch DeLoria called out, unnatural and deep when it bounced back to him in thinning volume as if it had to travel some ways to return. He couldn’t recall how he got there, or when, or why, only recognizing that when he looked down at either end, the corridor stretched on so far in both directions that any possible end disappeared into a distant haze.
He wasn’t somewhere familiar.
“Amata?” Butch cupped his hands around his mouth, calling in either direction. His own voice was the only thing that returned to him.
He wasn’t somewhere that was Vault 101… only meant to look like it.
“How’s your mother doing, by the way?”
The question seemed to come from the walls themselves, the acidic whisper so close—too close—it tightened his throat, startling him in the looming silence.
“Is she down there with the roaches like the rest of you,” The voice moved around him, shifting, slithering, twisting shape like a forbidden shadow trying to find somewhere to hide as it taunted him. “Or did you turn your back on her like you did everyone else?”
Butch grimaced back at Wally’s tone, thought of covering his ears if it actually would’ve done anything but make him look like a sorry sap, and so marched away instead to escape it and find somewhere familiar. His ex-best friend’s voice didn’t follow him, lingering only on the fringes of his hearing until it dissipated into nothing—
A phantom boot pressed down on the back of his head. His hand lingered there, feeling nothing.
Nothing but a memory, anyway.
thank you for the fun tag, it was fun! I’ll also tag @corvegaassemblyplant and @imperialistbullshit, as well as @ any of my mutuals/friends/followers on here who’d like to participate! If you do, please tag me so I can read it :3c
