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“Go away, Luc-” another growl erupts from inside, swallowing her name.
There’s more crashing, and she can hear the creaks and splinters of ancient furniture being destroyed.
Lucy should go back to her room, lock the door and sit up with her gun until sunrise, leaving with Dogmeat at first light. She puts her ear up to the door to listen.
“My name is Coo… Cooper Howard”
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Cooper almost goes feral and Lucy saves him. Then he runs.
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“You knew who I was, and you still did all that. The Cooper Howard I knew wouldn’t have done that to me.” Lucy said.
“That was 200 years ago, darlin’.” He sneered.
“For you. For me, that was four years ago. I was asleep while you turned into… this. I should leave you here. I’ll find my dad without you. Thank you so much for your time, Cooper. It was great to get reacquainted.”
“Lucy!” He called from the couch. “Fuckin’ hell, girl, just wait.”
Lucy spun violently on her heel. She wanted to shout at him. To ask how on earth he was Cooper Howard. She had known him. She had been friends with him. She’d been well on her way to falling in love with him. How was this scarred, vile thing him?
“You’re not the man I met 200 years ago.” She said.
“Oh yeah?” He spat. “You’re exactly how I remember you.”
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Or, Lucy and Cooper met before the bombs fell, and are reunited 219 years later.
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Read the first fic in this series, “Lost for a Long Time” first!
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- Part 2 of Living Life in Your Footsteps
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30 Jun 2026
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No one goes to Hell for free, but Lucy MacLean is willing to pay the price. When her father is stolen away from their village, she’ll do anything to get him back, even if that means traveling with The Ferryman, a ghoulish figure who brings desperate souls to the burning gates to make an unthinkable trade.
At the gates of Hell, it’s a soul for a soul, but as The Ferryman knows all too well, it’s not always about the destination. It’s the journey that changes a person, and on her way to rescue a father who doesn’t deserve it, Lucy will learn just how much she can change. And just how much one person can change you.
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23 Jun 2026
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Intrusive Thoughts of The Ghoul by Laurellielee
Fandoms: Fallout (TV 2024), Fallout: New Vegas
09 Jun 2026
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Please enjoy this treatment of Season 2 through the eyes of The Ghoul. Told from his perspective, this story follows Cooper's reluctant partnership with Ms. MacLean as they make their way to New Vegas. Most importantly, we will be taking a stroll through the intrusive thoughts of the Ghoul himself: the things he never says out loud, the ghosts he can’t shake, and the alarming realisation that somewhere along the way, he may have started to care.
Primarily, this is Ghoulcy, with all the tension, bickering, and inconvenient feelings that entail, with a dash of RobCoop, because some chemistry is too good to ignore.
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19 May 2026
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The wasteland changes people, turns you into something you never thought you'd be. Sometimes it seems unavoidable, unfixable, but maybe the right person just needs to come and take your hand.
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I don't trust Bethesda or Prime to handle Lucy and Cooper the way I want their story to go, so this is what I'd do with them if I was showrunner, aka my season 3.
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19 May 2026
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As they continue to travel toward New Vegas, The Ghoul is haunted by the man he once was, the monster he’s become, and his feelings for a particular vaultie who doesn’t know when to shut the hell up. Lucy struggles to understand her traveling companion and the complicated feelings she has for him, despite his inability to behave the way she believes a decent person should.
Currently in progress at ~10K words. Chapters posted as I edit them.
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18 May 2026