his eyes flash colour depending on mood

“I feel like I should apologize for, uh... all men.”

“  Nora?  ” She was as beautiful as when he’d last seen her-- his heart thundered in his chest. She couldn’t be here-- he had watched her die. He had been helpless to save her and it haunted him every day. 

He’d woken up in the vault-- taken the ring off her dead body and promised revenge on the one who had stolen her from him. He’d made friends-- allies-- was a General now and had found his son. A son who had become a monster. A man creating machines to replace those in power so he might assume control over all.

Nate stared-- eyes wide in shock. Dogmeat let out a confused whine. His human was afraid-- but this stranger wasn’t dangerous. She carried a scent similar to the boy his human had looked for. The boy who was old. Old boy.

💘― @solesearched​​ said,   “ I sometimes forget you aren’t actually flesh and blood. ”         starters for robots //  eagerly accepting !

           ❝ Hah...   I know what you mean,  kid, ❞    he answers,  giving her a ghost of a smile & a humorless chuckle,    ❝ There’s times I could almost forget it myself.  Almost. ❞    repeated softly for emphasis,  not unkindly ;    it could never really slip his mind when he’s got a hum in his chest & that hand of his just in the corner of his vision,  long since stripped of grey flesh to bare the things he’s really made of.  

           Metal & diodes are what’s inside of Nick Valentine,  of course,  coolant running through lines in his body rather than blood through veins.  At least he can take solace in the fact that,  unlike a robot,  if he’s cut,  something might come out. 

          ‘  oh  good  ,  so  it’s  not  just  me  ‘  reply  comes  through  muttered  ,  volume  kept  low  as  to  ensure  this  conversation  was  kept  as  private  as  it  could  be  given  the  public  setting  .  she  might  be  a  troublemaker  ,  but  she’s  no  idiot  &  picking  a  fight  with  two  against  however  many  are  in  this  . . .  very  strange  ,  very  pre-war  looking  (  based  on  what  she’s  read  &  heard  )  settlement  .  ‘  i’ve  heard  things  about  this  place  ,  but  damn  ,  it’s  stranger  than  even  i  thought  . . .  we  gonna  get  outta  here  quick  or  . . .  ‘  voice  trails  off  ,  a  hint  of  mischief  coming  through  her  words  accompanied  by  a  slight  grin  tugging  on  red  lips  .  ‘  are  we  gonna  do  some  investigatin’  ?  ‘

fallout: new vegas sentence meme.

      ‘ lucky me. ’ kaj lets the flare gun slip out of her fingers and hit the dirt, too relieved to care. with her luck, she was expecting more raiders or gunners or...hell, maybe a behemoth. that’s been her life so far. a few feet away, ed-e makes a static-y noise, and she tries to get up to help him—instead, she fumbles on her feet for a second before landing on her ass again, wincing. shoot.

     ‘ leg’s busted. raiders. ’ if the corpses aren’t enough indication. she’ll need to buy more bullets when she hits up goodneighbor again. thinking about what she’ll need to restock is easier to think about than her knee, which feels like it’s being hammered into the dirt, over and over. even talking hurts. ‘ no one else. just us. went that way. ’ she points with a lazy hand, then searches her rescuer’s face, trying to remember if they’ve met before—it’s all familiar enough, but her head is fuzzy and the alleyway is spinning. she raises a hand to her head, like that might stop everything. what she wouldn’t do for a hit of jet right now. 

 ↳  𝟝𝟝 𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕠𝕞 𝕤𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕤.

               “ I wouldn’t miss it for the world ” he felt a smile creeping it’s way to his lips. If there wasn’t anyone else he appreciated more besides the man that kept him alive for this long, it was Nora. “ If anything I should be thanking you. I’m sure you have a lot of patience especially since you kept this old bag of bolts around with ya for so long ”