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Marcus Tilman followed the red line because someone wanted him to. Nick Valentine followed it because someone else was watching them do it. The Railroad doesn’t recruit with riddles. It recruits by deciding whether you should be alive by the end of the day. But in the end, everything is about the choices you make…including who you keep choosing over and over again.
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When a covert agent of the Railroad unexpectedly crosses paths with an intrepid reporter, they discover a shared passion for justice and a mutual adversary: the Institute. United by their ideals, they join forces to dismantle the Institute’s grip on the Commonwealth, liberating synths and putting an end to the kidnappings. Along the way, their alliance deepens into something more.
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Deacon finally meets his match, and then some.
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"...I’m also a fan of ‘That’s a nice outfit. It would look better on my floor.’”
He snorted, “Has that ever actually worked for anyone in the history of time and space?”
She smiled at him with a cheeky sort of charm, “I dunno, honey. Why don’t you try it and we’ll see?”
Deacon about choked on his beer and she giggled at him while sipping her drink. He shook his head and was surprised to find he didn’t have to fake the disappointment in his voice, “Can’t. Don’t have my own floor.”
Nora shrugged at that. “Well, in that case…”, her eyes moved over him slowly. It made him feel like a nervous kid. “That’s an awfully sexy outfit you’re wearing, Andy. I bet it would look better on my floor.”
Bad idea. Bad idea. Bad idea. “Oh yeah? Where’s this floor at?” Like he didn’t already know.
She smiled, took his hand and stood. “I’ll show you.”
(Note: This is my magnum opus revenge story for Bethesda not allowing anyone to romance this sad egg. Buckle up, kids, stuff's about to get dark and dirty.)
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- Part 1 of Walking Contradiction
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“Sorry to rush out so soon, Dez.” Deacon’s body seemed to move on its own, resting back against her table as he inexplicably kept speaking. “It’s just, I’ve been staying at this new place right? And they have power. I mean it, working lights and appliances, only a flat rate, 100 caps a month. The problem is we’re wasters used to dark, damp catacombs and I just can’t for the life of me remember if I left the oven on. That would be fine on its own, I mean, I’m a responsible American citizen, I have insurance.” Deacon couldn’t tell if she was paying any attention. He’d lean towards ‘no’. “But… I left my new tabby kitten home alone. I know, I know, not the most responsible move. But parenthood is hard, you know? I just need a break sometimes… Either way I’ve worried myself sick. Filled that nice ceramic vase we keep in the corner to the brim with vom—”
“Hurry it up,” Dez said. So she was listening.
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Red entered the Commonwealth with one goal in mind: keep heading north. He's not there to take in the sights, make friends, or fall in love. He's certainly not there to get embroiled in a resistance movement run by a group of misfits against an evil organisation he's never even heard of.
Unfortunately fate doesn't seem to care much about what Red wants.
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At The Precipice Of Something New by CallMeWisteria
Fandoms: Fallout 4, Fallout (Video Games)
14 Jan 2026
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When Nora wakes up in Vault 111, all she knows is that her son and her husband were both kidnapped, and that she is the only person left inside the Vault. What awaits outside for her is something she could never have imagined, neither in a vivid dream or a scarring nightmare... (120 Chapters/Crossposted on ff.net and Wattpad)
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- Part 5 of It Began On October 23rd, 2077
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When Deacon finds a woman frozen inside the vault he was strictly prohibited from entering, she becomes something of a pet project of his. As is his job, he gathers intel on this mysterious vault-dweller… and quickly finds that he is completely wrong about her. She is kind, generous, sharp, and haunted by ghosts she prays will never find her.
Maybe the two of them aren’t so different.
Their new partnership brings growing pains for both of them, but Charmer soon settles comfortably into her new position in the Railroad. Deacon, on the other hand, can’t seem to shake the feeling that she’s dangerous. To the Commonwealth? To the Railroad? To the comfortable loneliness Deacon has carefully curated for himself by building walls and keeping strict boundaries under the guise of snarky one-liners and constant lies, just so he can ensure the safety of the people he loves?
Who’s to say.
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War Never Changes (But Your Enemies Do) by diamond_city_blues (liminally_challenged)
Fandoms: Fallout 4
20 Oct 2025
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Deep underground, underneath a church, Deacon is told the tale of a Vault near Sanctuary Hills, and of potential value hidden there. Deeper Underground, X6-88 is given a mission: Find the Vault. Report back often. Kill anyone who interrupts this directive.
When a woman crawls out, 210 years after the bombs dropped, both observers are shocked. They're even more shocked when the "Vault Dweller" begins to survive in the irradiated remains of Boston. But they have their assignments, and they each have the growing knowledge that they aren't the only ones tailing the Sole Survivor of Vault 111, because the other is as well.
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She rounded the final corner into the courtyard, and there he was: a blue jacket folded over the edge of the statue, a familiar newsboy cap atop it, its seam busted at the bill. Below, propped against the marble pedestal, lay Drummer Boy. One hand pressed to Dogmeat’s back, the other clamped against his shoulder where the collarbone met the joint. Red seeped, vivid against pale skin, between his fingers.
“Shit,” Norah breathed, closing the distance. Her knees hit the flagstones with a crack as she knelt, pressing her hands over his own as if she could force the blood back inside him. “Drummer… it’s alright.”
“Ha-ah that’s… not the term I’d use,” he rasped, attempting a quivering smile, eyes darting toward the rooftops and broken windows behind her. His skin was three shades paler than normal, the shadows under his eyes deepened into hollows.
“I handled it,” she said, brushing the fringe from his forehead. “He’s gone, Drummer. I handled it.” She repeated it when his gaze finally met hers, a tether to reality.
Confusion clouded the gray of his eyes for a heartbeat before he nodded shakily. “I thought I heard two shots.”Series
- Part 4 of The Noble Lie
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Poison and Wine by B1710
Fandoms: Fallout 4, Fallout (Video Games), Fallout Nuka World, Fallout universe - Fandom, Fallout 3, Fallout (TV 2024)
02 Feb 2025
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*Completed*
Charmer, Aka Nora, decides to venture out on her own after the downfall of the institute. Meeting an unlikely ally as she finds herself trapped in Nukaworld. Deacon searches for his partner, and finds himself in new enemy territory.
No one has ever made Gage question what is right or wrong until she came along. He is a raider, there is no denying that, but he had no intention of letting his new prize go anytime soon.
*Feedback is always appreciated :)
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Deacon and MacCready go out for a few days before Deacon abruptly abandoned him, leaving MacCready heart broken and infuriated.
They’re later forced to reunite due to Duncan Grant (SS), chaos ensues. Can they communicate how they feel properly, or is it just going to be arguments galore? -
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Nate has done a lot for MacCready. Neither like an unpaid debt. Enter Deacon, stage left!
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Joseline has spent months bringing three of the biggest factions in the Commonwealth together but tensions are increasing with enemy factions and all she wants is to get some sleep. John Hancock is trying and failing to keep Goodneighbor safe but maybe the Minutemen could lend a hand. Nick Valentine is trying to come to terms with who he is but the past keeps pulling him back. In the Commonwealth, nothing is a coincidence and sometimes when people take different paths they end up reuniting.
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- Part 2 of Unwanted
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Won't You Help Me Make It Through? by A_fluffer_nutter
Fandoms: Fallout 4, Fallout (Video Games)
24 Jun 2024
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You, the Sole Survivor, are finally able to travel to the Institute. John Hancock, your lover, struggles with the fact that he may never see you again if something were to happen.
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- English
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- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 23
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Aly (Female Vault Dweller) is making friends in this god-awful, new world. She’s trying to make the world a better place. But when she’s running away from a past that isn’t even her own, how long will she be able to go on?
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What if the Sole Survivor wasn’t the Sole Survivor? What if Minutemen General Nate Rogers’s wife survived the bullet to her head in Vault 111? How did she survive? How does it impact the fight against the Institute? What’s hidden in her buried memories and how could the secrets within alter the Commonwealth’s future?
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- Part 2 of The Skye-Verse
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Deacon was not a man who handled rejection well. He anticipated resistance but did not expect a philosophical treatise on the continuation of the human species while watching the Sole Survivor of Vault 111 make out with the Mayor of Goodneighbor. He hasn’t had to work this hard on a mark in a long time, and he’s certainly never walked away from one questioning the things that have kept him going for two decades.
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MacCready meets the Sole Survivor after the Railroad stormed and destroyed the Institute.
He has to come to terms with the fact that he, too, is a struggling single father with a dark past. And his baby Duncan is dying and there's nothing he can do. If only he would ask for a little help.
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Dove is not as "human" as many other synths. Thankfully, Drummer Boy has never seemed to mind.
Just kinda wrote this as dialogue practice. Silly fluff with some headcanons for Drummer sprinkled in. :P
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With the Institute gone, Jules reflects on the last few months in a slideshow style monologue.
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- Part 43 of Jules (Courier Six), Dana (Sole Survivor) + Cyrus (Lone Wanderer) - Their lives in the Wasteland
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- English
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- 713
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- 1/1
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- 74