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Paul and John, heads bent over a notebook in a hotel bathroom somewhere on tour. Outside: girls losing their minds, flashbulbs going off. The world's gone crackers. Somewhere in the middle of all that, something between them shifts.
Turns out Beatlemania is the straightforward part.
The Space Between Us: 1963-68.
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Something ticked in Paul’s mind as the familiar words washed through him. When he looked at John, his friend was already looking at him. And suddenly, it all became clear: He remembered having that conversation more than 50 years ago. He remembered it too well.
He had been thinking about it for years, wondering what he should have understood, how he should have reacted. If it was as meaningful as it had felt or if his memory had just romanticized it.
“I don’t think a love like that obeys to any rules,” John went on, unaware of Paul’s agitation. “It’s not something that humans have created, not like a societal thing. It’s deeper than that, and that’s what some people are afraid of I guess, because they can’t control it. Whatever laws they create, they can never control it. A white lad will fall in love with a black girl.” He paused. “A lad with another lad. You know.”
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Summer 2019, 77-year-old Paul wakes up feeling surprisingly good. One tiny problem: he is back in December 1965.
PLEASE DO NOT SHARE THIS FIC ON ANY PLATFORM. DO NOT PUT IT ON GOODREADS, OR ON ANOTHER FANFICTION PLATFORM, PLEASE.
NO TRANSLATIONS EITHER, SORRY.Series
- Part 1 of On our way back home
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“She can be determined at times, but as you can see, she is manageable.”
After a brutal escape from New Vegas leaves her injured and shaken, Lucy chooses proximity to The Ghoul rather than walking away - despite every reason she should.
Lucy believed Vault-Tec existed to keep people safe. The Mainframe shattered that certainty; and with it, her faith that anyone can be trusted.
Caught between violence, barbed words, and the unbearable weight of what they’ve both lost. Survival becomes a negotiation of boundaries, leverage, and split-second choices that rarely come without cost.
As old secrets surface and new horrors emerge, Lucy must reckon with what it means to stay and what she might lose by doing so.
Trust is a liability. Obedience may be worse.
Post–S2E7 continuation. Canon divergence ahead.
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“Companionship is essential for long-term stability,” Lucy said. “Especially in high-stress environments.”
“See now Miss Maclean, that’s where you’re wrong,” The Ghoul replied. “If it weren’t for your daddy I’d have left you behind a long time ago.”
The Ghoul isn’t her husband; he's not even her friend. But they’re travelling together. That has to count for something.
Set between Season 1 and continuing into Season 2 of Fallout, Lucy and The Ghoul make their way across the wasteland toward New Vegas, low on supplies, lower on trust. It's a slow burn since two hundred years doesn't exactly make it easy for him to open up to new people (or anyone...)
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Cooper knows he and Lucy are going to need help to take on Hank MacLean and everything Vault-Tec’s done. And he knows just where to find it. Trouble is, the journey will be long and the ‘help’ may not be interested. But he has to try. He owes her. And what better way to pay her back than to give her a chance at changing the world...again?
Or, the Ghoul once took on a bounty for the General of the Minutemen’s head. It didn’t go how he planned. But, then again, nothing in his life ever has.
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