#ad4ad

I know what it's meant to do, and its a challenging chapter to write. The last complete chapter can be read as a happy ending, but on closer examination, there are some unresolved issues.

spoilers under the cut for the last written chapter, and for the chapter yet to come.

"Love you, Red," he said, wrapping his hand around my cock, stroking me with my own slickness. It felt like his confidence was growing, his body fitting into a rhythm it knew and remembered and which fit him perfectly. "And you're mine, by the way."

"Yours," I breathed in agreement. As it was always meant to be.

Everything in me, not just my submission, but my strength; every way I had had to be be tough and smart to survive here, every time I had fought to save mine or another's life, every fuck I had had because I was lonely or drunk or just wanted to feel something, every nail I'd hit home to build the settlements I loved: It was all in service to this. I wrapped it up in my mind like a lover wraps a locket in velvet cloth, and I offered it to him as my skin, my ass, my cock, my lips.

And it was also, I thought, for the holy Mother God of the Wasteland, for her stars and her radiation storms and her holy ghouls and her looping language of war and memory.

For this place where I had been reborn to myself, and then laid myself down so that Nick could be reborn. I gave it all to them. In this place at the edge of the sea, with the waves crashing at my head and the fireflies blinking in the dark, I laid myself upon the altar of everything, and I submitted myself in my entirety.

I can hardly believe it myself, but I got my pussy and my money up and I wrote Chapter 27: Electric Love.