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(Paladin) Danse ([personal profile] androidvictoriam) wrote in [community profile] route666rp 2025-05-29 11:17 pm (UTC)

[ If Danse keeps moving, his dreaming mind generating what he remembers of the Commonwealth landscape and filling in the rest with gray Capital rubble and Maxson's fire-and-brimstone imagery, maybe he doesn't have to process this. Maybe his hands will stop shaking, as the rest of the numbness begins to wear off and pins and needles rush in to take its place. This is where the hard part begins, because dying, at least, would have been easy. He wouldn't have had to do anything but kneel and wait for the end.

He doesn't know the stranger who's saved him--doesn't even recognize him as Brotherhood now that he really has time to look, when he's until now assumed Zack to be a knight. It's a good thing, because there's nothing left for him among those ranks, but it leaves him at even more of a loss and with even less of a frame of reference. What he understands least of all is why this man so badly wants him to live, but there's no question that Zack very much does.

The touch to his shoulder wears quickly away at the stoicism he's trying so hard to maintain, cuts off the I'm fine that any actual subordinate would have gotten, and makes his breath hitch in his throat as he inhales. He might have been able to hold it together without that, but as it is-- ]


I don't know.

[ It's a start. He takes in Zack's uniform, still recognizing absolutely nothing about it now that he can see it isn't a Brotherhood flightsuit, and finally looks up to meet those uncannily blue eyes. ]

Why did you do that for me?

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