Dallas playfully scoffs at dustyn, "we're living in the ruins of society. Are you kidding? This place is crawling with crowns." He tells dustyn in all seriousness. Dallas watches dustyn again tie the vault suit sounds his waist. It reminded him of a porn parody of whatever reality they lived in now." Good thinking. Grab some sterile supplies while you're in there. We got a long road back to diamond city and we'll need to change that dressing." Dallas calls to dustyn in a worried voice. He wanted real bandages for dustyn,not scavenged upholstery from a corvega. " oh,And honey? Cover the nipples. The neighbors have been complaining ." Dallas grins at dustyn as he departs .

Dallas jumps when riley asks his sudden question. He feels a slight smirk begin at the corner of his lips. It was such an old world question to ask. Outside of closed societies, most people didn't operate in such definitions anymore. Those that did mainly were concerned for procreation purposes. Dallas couldn't pass up messing with Riley a little bit. He lets out a contemplative sigh and looks out the window at the awakening vault. " well,i don't know Riley." He starts carefully . " if i whip it out,would you be helpless to resist sucking me? Do you feel personally victimized that Madonna didn't survive the war?" Dallas chuckles before continuing," who am I kidding,she had non of her original parts before the war! I know she's out there somewhere." At this point,Dallas walks to stand close to Riley. " i think you're reading too much into things. I don't think it makes you gay,per se. Even if you were very sexually attracted to men. I'd call that more of a kink. To me at least, gay is the whole kit and caboodle. The parts outside the fucking." Dallas tries to explain. It was a rather hard thing for him to put into words. But that was the best he could do. " ok, to put it another way: clear damage from PTSD aside, nina and erica. Do they do anything for you? Though i will take straight points away from you if you only want to fuck them in the butt." Dallas jokes.

Nina looks at billy getting out of bed. She makes no attempt to hide her gaze at his nudity. That would certainly be a nice way to start the day..except it would be a long time before she could look at billy and not see sayyid. And smell the hounds. And hear sayyid actually being eaten. Nina had little issue with murder and mayhem, but animals killing people disgusted her. "Technically,i just had you,love. I was sleepy at the time and wasn't up to taking you both. But being well rested now? Pssssh. I could easily take 5. 6 if i limber up so i don't get cramps in my toes." Nina boasts to Billy.

The mental image finally comes to erich and he softly speaks in amazement, "that would take insane amounts of coordination."

" it does,love." She replies to Erich.

Erich considers billys question and looks around the room where he previously saw Joshua. It a way,it was a relief to know Joshua still existed on some plane and he wanted to tell Billy...but didn't. If Joshua was attatched to the factory,thay mean billy's brothers could be too. "Harrowing? Nah. He didn't come with some dire warning or anything. It probably was just my subconscious worrying about should I stay or should i go." Erich said before humming the clash song of the same name. " and well...i think i have to go. Joshua said something about piper needing pipe? Fuck if i know what he meant. But im going to see what that's about." Erich jokes,mentally apologizing to Joshua. Erich was surprisingly possessive about his previous moments with Joshua. They were his and he wasn't ready to share.

Dallas starts laughing as Riley speaks about the Madonna topic. " I dunno,bro. Sounds kinda gay to me,bro. We need to get you some monster energy drink and some boobs to stare at." He says in his best and most over the top hetero voice. So basically just his normal voice but deeper and louder. When Riley seems just moderately interested in the resident women of the group,Dallas sort of just shrugs. That may not have been the best example to use. They bith had certain....flaws that probably diminished their sexual appeal. "Cassie or Karoliena?" He asks again before warmly bumping Riley with his elbow and standing beside him. " maybe it was the people involved and not so much their particular parts? I mean,would you be so quick to jump in bed with Billy?" Dallas asks before slowly smiling. " oh don't worry,Riley. We'll never tell....well,i won't. Dustyn is probably out there right now. Giving graphic details and using breakfast sausages as props.". He chuckles. He could vividly picture dustyn doing this. And given the lack of entertainment in the vault? The dwellers would be enraptured.

"Well,we could draw the curtains,loves." Nina suggests playfully. She seriously doubted anyone would be up for it,so it was safe to goof around about. " but I totally agree. If i have an audience, i should at least be paid." She says firmly. Frankly the broke bastards they had been travelling with couldn't afford admission anyway. " i guess i could give up my business,you could give up yours. We then could Get those satellites back up,and bam! People could send nudes again. " she says half seriously. It may entirely possible to do. She knew some military satellites were still operational. With the still partially operable power grid things like communications should be easier than they currently were.

Erich looks down and back out the window. It seemed kinda like he had been keeping a secret as billy was the only one in the room who didn't know. " I'm heading to good neighbor. Seems like my kinda town. I have the offer for as much sex and drugs as i can handle... I can be a lounge singer. Maybe get a little group together and call ourselves the rad pack."

"Not clever,love. Some guys in Vegas are already using that name." Nina replies.

" so yeah. Diamond city,good neighbor. Death via boozing and whoring. What's your plan?" Erich asks Billy.

dallas shakes his head a slightly smiles at riley's words. "well then i guess dustyn and i should count ourselves lucky. its not every day you have a wild fling. " he says with a beaming smile. he sort of understood where riely was coming from. he seemed to have always had dustyn by his side. even during the before times,grubby punk rock shows really didnt seem to have many male groupies. and if they did.....no. just no. dallas is quick to agree about billy. old feelings were hard to put to bed. he still didnt care for the man. billy could have easily been another blake. he wasnt sure what the separating factor ended up being. maybe it was blake being a synth,or maybe the collapse of the world gave billy a place to really belong in. "yeah. i'd sooner a smooch a ghoul synth before i'd touch billy." dallas chuckles,poking fun at the brothehood's famous fanaticism. fanaticism which he only recently had given up. "now now. you never know what you like until you try it."
dallas winks to riely. " i dont know if you ever knew or not,but dust and i ordered pretty regularly from karoliena's company." he says a finger to his lips. he was farily certain speaking of such things was ok now. he,riley and dustyn all knew each other far more than they did before this adventure. dallas scooches in close to riley and smiles warmly before laughing softly and looking around before looking back to riley. "dahling,if that made a man gay,then the club would be soooo much larger." he says in his best harvey feinstein. "you'd be surprised the amount of people that play back there. if you could get an honest answer." he says reassuringly to riley. in a world where you were just as likely to open fucking as were fighting,it was almost cute to see someone have some measure of shyness.


"fucking mutants. " nina spats. she loathed the things like any one else out there. but the idea the stupid creatures were sitting on something that could change the world particularly irritated her. "out west we found a couple operable ones,love. but they were all weapons platforms. calling down an unaimed nuclear strike didnt sound like a good idea." she muses. to be on the safe side,she and erica had taken what probably were vital pieces to the terminals needed to operate them. if anything,they could get a pretty penny selling them...if they didnt lose them when crossing a river. " you left something other than your dignity in covenant,love? well,i guess we better get back there." she grins at billy. she and erica would not be joining in that trip. to her knowledge mariko was still there. the woman was a handful as is without seeing the decaying body of her sister...or worse,partially eaten.

at the mention of joshua's covenant exploits,erich pipes up."i'd like to have seen joshua plug blake." he says wistfully. he didnt like change and dustyn killing was a change he really wasnt sure if he liked. ghost joshua was right,billy did want more out of erich than he could give. erich wanted adventure,but he wanted a home base. a home base like goodneighbor sounded just what the doctor ordered. erich doesnt attempt to talk to billy as he turns away. to do so would just make matters worse in erich's opinion. maybe it was better nothing was said.

"well,that got super awkard,love." nina chimes in.





ooc:hmm,making sure harvey's name was correct,i learned there is a reason for that voice he has.

" I'd take it as an offense if billy didn't propose a threesome. He was always one to toss the bait out to see if he could get some nibbles." Dallas laughs at the old world Billy. If there was anyone that Dallas knew of that could be phoned up for impromptu fun,it would have been pre war billy. "Same with not seeing his wang. Im sure even now many more people have seen it than not. Im not sure if the tales about the pantless mercenary are about him or not." Dallas says with a small shrug. If the wasteland had anything other than death and ruin.it was tale tales about strange things people had seen. Dallas dramatically crosses his arms and sighs in response to learning dustyn couldn't keep a secret and all of weekend probably knew of their carnal exploits. " well,i guess you know about the time I missed dustyn and got the cat. We weren't sure if we should wash the cat ourselves or let it clean itself off." Dallas says with a playful snort. He still wasn't sure the.... Outcome. He ended up running out of the house in shame. For all he knew the cat was still sticky. As Riley speaks about taking things further,Dallas blushes . "well..." Dallas starts,clearing his throat softly before awkwardly going on." We'd really have to clear things through dustyn. I can't say yes without his input.." Dallas says before looking around and sweating. " God damn,did they turn off the air conditioning in hopes of getting us to leave? It's sweltering in here!"

While Billy was showering,Nina and erich had stuffed every consumable good in the room in their bags. Someone out in the waste probably liked smoking 250 year old cigarettes. The cram wasn't being sold though. That shit was still tasty. The pair watched billy silently and shared a package of gumdrops. There really was nothing that could be said that wasn't awkward. So it was kind of a relief when billy asked Nina to leave. She obviously was slightly insulted by billy's request. She sighed slightly and slung her bag across her chest. "Secrets are no fun unless they involve everyone,love." She says with a hint of her disapproval,but leaves without incident.

With Nina gone,erich leans against the wall and asks Billy," so let's get down to brass tacks here. What's shaking?" He asks Billy. While he understood probably why Billy was upset,he wasn't sure what was to he said.

Nina sauntered down the halls of the vault. As a rule,the dwellers gave her wide berth. Some of the security have her extended looks,but she made her way uninterrupted to the cafeteria. Where it was clear what dustyn was talking about. " been there,love. It takes far more coordination than one would think."

"God dammit,dustyn!" Dallas says,stamping his foot. It figures something insane like spurting on a feline dustyn would keep to himself. Well,that story was out now. Dallas could only hope they run across super mutant dance troupes or something crazy when they left the vault. Anything crazy enough to take Riley's mind off of...that. Knowing their luck,everyone in the vault probably has a pet cat . "ew!" Dallas says in response to Riley's story. Was it like a long conversation? Like long enough that things started getting cold?" He has to ask. The eroticism of such thjngs decreases In proportion to the temperature of the fluid. He had to admit,THIS topic never came up in the Brotherhood. "Sure,let's find ol dust. Breakfast topic if I've ever heard one." Dallas grins and taps the mechanism for the door to swoosh open. It was later in the morning now,so there was more activity going on. Dallas missed the relative calm of nighttime in the vault.

Mentally erich tried willing Joshua to appear and help him through this. Erich,in spite of some appearances, was not good at comforting people or dealing with real problems,issues,or feelings. That wasn't how he operated. "Billy, you've seen all there is to see how there. You have your own life and everything. I need to find my place out there...and..." Erich says, moving his hands in slow,almost karate parody motions," i think good neighbor is it. Erica and Nina are there,plus a bar. Bars need singers,right? " erich explains,keeping this as logic based as he can. He thinks that is the best way to go about this.

Nina smiles when seeing dustyn. Finally a face that didn't seem to house some weird sexual tension or something. She didn't know what to make of what was going on in her previous bedroom. But it seemed like a whole lot of not her problem. Nina starts to speak when she puts 2 and 1 together. " wait...rile-" she starts before shrugging. "Any port in a storm,right ,love?" She giggles. At least someone was having fun last night. "Nothing to report." She says pouting and grabbing a small biscuit off a neighbor's tray. " things were just awkward in there. There was just no mood for love. I hope erica had better luck." She laughs loudly before scowling at old woman. " im older than you,love. Don't be so prudish. Take a willy in each hand." She calls after the rapidly departing person. Yeah,vault life wasn't for her.

"instant sperm,just add water." dallas chuckles at the truly grotesque scenario Riley was describing. "other than the feline mishap,i've had very few incidences." he says rather proudly. " though i hope if i ever walk in on my offspring, i hope i have enough spermy sense to make a tree and get out of there." he shudders at the thought. the previous event did change things in regards to how dallas regarded riley. it was a little odd having someone in the private time of he and dustyn,but the new world was one of sharing. if one didnt share,well then they were kind of assholes. walking down the hall,dallas is glad he never wore one of the vault suits. they looked rather corny. one may as well paint a target on themselves if they wore one outside. at the mention of it,dallas was instantly aware of the tooty air. the filtration system couldnt possibly instant suck the farts from the air. so he grimaces slightly. "yeah...thanks for that image...hmm,someone's had corn lately." he says sourly. he shrugs to riley in answering his question. "i could probably do weeks or months at a time. i've been stationed at a few underground bunkers for the brotherhood. much the same thing,only much more old world military. so think even more dank,more dim,and far more leaking hydrogen bombs." dallas looks over the railing at dustyn and nina speaking. they were certainly animated about something. " who knows. maybe he is buttering nina up to join us in a proper orgy." he suggests with a playful smirk. "that is all you." he says,nodding towards nina. he held grudges far longer than dusty did apparently.


sitting with dustyn at a long table,eating out of trays and talking about boys...it reminded nina of being in school.she even gets the loud,schoolgirl scream when dustyn confirms it was riley. "gaaah! all my weekend fan fic has came true,love!" she squeals,delighted. if she wasnt having fun,she was glad someone else did. the world today could use more love. " so the brotherhood,minutemen and diamond city are all on the same page now? wonder will never cease." she dramatically muses with her hands on her elbows. "fantastic. so hes quite the catch,eh?" she makes a show of pretending to lock her lips and throw away the key. most people wouldnt care,but riley may still have that wall up between straight and everything else. a few days ago the idea of dustyn sorting anyone out would be laughable. but nina saw he was more than capable of adapting to how things were. while she wouldnt expect him to seriously fight billy,it almost would be interesting to see what he would do. nina imagined billy and dustyn were much like herself and erica. there was no line the other could cross where serious fighting would occur. "oh no! nothing like that. its just...eh, billy looks too much like his brothers for me to even THINK about going there now. it would have been right rude to try anything with erich,given the circumstances.." she takes a bite of what looks like a pancake and gestures with her fork. "so yeah, all this went to waste last night. but i got well rested." she says with a little smirk.

erich listens to billy,nodding along and pursing his lips. well, if billy wanted the unadulterated truth,erich could be as blunt as billy wanted. it did feel a little odd actually. erich hadnt ever had to break up with someone in....well,never. people usually left him. so it was slightly awkward in that regard: breaking up with someone he hadnt really dated. "you are...right." erich says,letting his head fall back on the vault wall with a slight clunk sound. "you got us here and all,but. no. i will never feel that way about you." he answers simply. billy was a big boy and could handle the truth. he asked for it after all.

"its a stupid decision." dallas says in regards to having children these days. granted,its not as easy as it once was to rid oneself unwanted children. but he still thought people were insane for even trying to have families now. he was a pessimist and thought maybe it was better the human race just wither away than carry on in this way. "it smelled of farts no more than the fort smells of failure and a lost cause." dallas fires back with a smirk. privately he thought the brotherhood had pissed off too many people to really be a major player without some great atrocity to persuade the populace to the brotherhood. "the airship actually smelled of grease and body odor. you would think the air up there would carry away the funk...no dice." he chuckles to riley. the smells of the post apocalyptic world were best left unsaid. dallas laughs a little at the riley's concerns. "oh come now. dustyn is discreet...kinda. though if he relayed some of the stuff her heard last night,maybe he COULD make a porn star blush...you dirty boy." he teases riley,completely with poking him with his finger. "i think dirty talk would be the least of the vault's worries. you have any idea how much hot love has been made on those cafeteria tables? probably dont even need salt shakers down here. just rub your eggs on the table." dallas says with a smirk.

"oh i understand...on both counts." nina replies to dustyn. it was a real yin and yang sort of answer. both something pleasant and something extremely unpleasant. nina and erica were somewhat of an item and during their first few weeks in the commonwealth,they quickly realized just what being a woman in this world could mean. she didnt let the gravity of her own experiences flavor her tone. it was too long in the past and that sort of thing was not going to happen to her again. "witnessed...yeah." nina says looking around. she wasnt sure if dustyn knew that nina more than played her part in deneil's death. "this morning? awkward as hell,love." nina says with a little shrug. " wouldnt be surprised if one of them came back with damage...or maybe one doesnt come back at all. there is some weird thing going on there. trust me. asking riley for intimate details of last night would be more comfortable than what is going on back in the room." nina says before they are joined by dallas and riley. " yeah. totally tennis. love love...love?" she says with a giggle.

erich keeps his eyes on billy and can mentally feel the weight of the knife in his back pocket. he really didnt know what to expect. but these days were ayn rand days. self preservation is the highest law. so he mentally prepared himself for whatever he may have to do. it wasnt like billy had the rep for being the most sensible person. even during the days of law and order.when billy speaks,erich smirks and chuckles softly. " im no sadist,billy. of course i'd indulge you such a thing. but...yeah. our paths arent on top of each other. they split." erich says ,holding up his crossed fingers to billy. " that is me on top." he say's pointing to the middle finger wrapped around the pointer. " like i said,im not sadist."

Dallas returns dustyn's kiss,very aware of Riley's presence. This makes his lips far tighter than usual as he was trying not to smile too much. " i think you're taking advantage of our hosts. If you get caught, I'm not putting cannibalism past these people. Lab grown Beef,my ass." He warns,half joking. He still was slightly distrustful of Nina and took a place between her and dustyn. Sticky table be damned. "We may need a cart to lug all those supplies." He smiles ,very pleased. It was a long way back to diamond city. He wanted assurance dustyn would be ok and this amount of supplies would do it.

"Things got real awkward" Nina explains,stuffing some bacon in her mouth. She politely chews before swallowing and speaking again. The world was dead,but some manners shouldn't be. " it seems someone read a little more into our covenant fling than was there. So,billy asked me to leave and here we are. Pass the syrup,love." She says hungrily. She was eating her fill before they left. " hey...at least one of my holes is getting stuffed,right?" She chuckles,winking at the guys. "Yeah. Tell me about tennis. I know nothing of it.always a bit too bourgeois for me."


"You fucking goof. Erich laughs at the mattress comment. He runs his hands through his hair and shakes his head at the situation. This certainly had only two outcomes. Unsurprisingly,Joshua was right. Ghosts might have access to knowledge the rest of us do not. Erich gives a little help when Billy brings him in for a kiss. Joshua could have said something about THAT. Still,it wasn't exactly unpleasant. At first erich doesn't reciprocate, but eventually does. He takes hold of billy's cheeks and kisses him full force. It was Easy to see why Billy assumed people fell In love with him so easily. This time Billy was asking erich for something he could do. " well...hop up on the old work bench." Erich grins to Billy,while patting the bed. " you're right. Who knows when we'll see each other again."


Erica sat at the entrance getting more and more agitated in her perception that people were dawdling. " these fucking people." She hisses before storming back into the vault. She'd have left on her own,but Nina was still there. She would never leave Nina behind.

Dallas raises a knowing eyebrow at dustyn's score. That particular substance wasn't his thing of choice,but if dustyn wanted it? More power to him. He gives a little scoff at the idea of having to fight the dwellers. Even outnumbered as they where, he still had faith that would come out on top. Riley,dustyn,Nina,and himself were more than enough to take on every vault dweller in his immediate view. Dallas lets out a grunt when the bag is passed to him and dropped in his lap. " work smarter. Not harder,dustyn. Shouldn't you know that as a teacher?" He teases dustyn,pinching his bottom.

Nina was certain they could shut the point of entry for billy's words. Worse case scenario,they search for Erica. That would at least get them moving and lessen the chance for Billy to bring up what was on his mind. "We'll tell him he missed the orgy. We had the whole atrium filled with naked bodies...and a robot." Nina grins. Dallas looks up and makes a face at dustyn that says he can't promise yo not take join in billy's being turned down. Nina takes her syrup and pours a small pool on her plate. " im fucking well sick of stale snack cakes or flat soda as my sources of sweet. Id inject this stuff right into my veins." She swoons. She really misses sweet things. She hadn't had maple syrup since before the war. " ...you think the UK is still a thing,love?"

"Well, you got your charms. What can i say." Erich says with a half smile towards Billy. While there were times where erich had far stronger words to call Billy, in this place in time,goof worked. Denying a want these days could be lethal and all. The dirtiness of this all appealed to Erich. For once,he wasn't talking about the sanitation of the room they were in. Billy was still half clothed. The door wasn't locked. He wasn't even sure if the curtain was drawn. For all he knew the entire vault was watching. Ready to hold up score cards like the olympics. " Yeah...." Erich starts as his trousers hit the floor. " I'm not really the dom type. So....nice is kinda all i have." He says ,playing with the hem of billy's shirt. " but I'll totally lie to you." Erich says brightly before stepping close to billy. " itll be just the tip. Trust me."

" you're the best For the job,by FAR." Dallas agrees enthusiastically. While yeah,there were some brilliant people around today, Dallas still assumed most were on the dense side. They needed pre war knowledge in order to get society back on track. "Maybe you can inspire more dustyns to come into being. Certainly make the world a better place" he says,looking at the dwellers. They were basically hiding in a hole in the ground,but there was a peace here that couldn't be ignored.

"Welders goggles do wonders for eye protection,love. Looks rather nice too. In my opinion at least." Nina says,inspecting her nails. The time in the vault has done wonders for their appearance. They were actually not chipped. A small miracle indeed. " too many balls in sports. You're right. I guess we could have an in-depth discussion on aliens existing or not. People swear they saw a flying saucer crash,but c'mon. Wouldn't we have seen one by now? Not like there is loads of stuff flying around." Nina says flatly. She had kind of hoped that with the collapse of world governments all the conspiracies could be ferreted out. But they were still no closer to knowing if Lee Harvey Oswald really did act alone to kill kennedy or not. People struggling to survive simply didn't care. Nina was slightly sad that her homeland probably didn't exist anymore. " well, i guess i have Whitechapel Charlie as a reminder,huh?" She says ,now wanting a stiff drink. Something about that machine made her want to drink. Just mentioning his name was enough.

" but you're not doing that in my mouth!" Erich protests loudly. " listen, I'm no commie. So ill give you the old reach around. But I gotta draw the line,old bean." Erich says with a laugh before doing as billy asked. "One for the road." Erich says before...um,getting started.