3. Andrea's Past

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Trigger Warning Viewers Discretion is advised as this part talks about Addictions,sexual/mental abuse,suicide,PTSD and depression if your sensitive to this sort of thing please tap/click off this part.

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"Hey Danse you got a minute?" Andrea asked as she stopped crafting at the armour workbench after hearing Danse walk into the room

"Of course what's on your  mind,Andrea?"

"I want to open up to you about my past, if your okay with me getting personal?"she asked slight discomfort in her deep blue eyes

"I'm okay with you opening up, do want talk outside?" he gestures her out of the Cambridge Police Station

She nods as he follows him outside, before taking  a seat on the stairs leading up to the main doors

she sat there for a few minutes"before the war,my childhood was pretty rough. i never felt or experienced true positivity or love, i was convinced i was a mistake, to my parents they saw me as a way to make some money, they sold me off as a sex worker, For 13 years of my life i was used for my dads pleasure and even when his colleagues came over i was at their disposal, i was an only child and should've escaped them earlier. But when the bombs dropped i finally had my escape when i was 18, Vault 22 they took me in a doctor assessed me diagnosed me with all these conditions and then showed me to my own cryo chamber where i was welcomed with cryotasis for the next 208 years, just to wake to everyone else in the vault to be deceased."she had tears falling from her eyes and didn't realise he had held onto her hands gently rubbing his thumb over then in a reassuring manner
"i'm sorry you had it bad in your upbringing"He gave her a reassuring smile
"that wasn't even half of it,after i woke up from cryotasis and emerged from the now abandoned vault with the Pip-Boy i was greeted with the torn world that i was live in, dead grass instead of the green grass, deathclaws,giant bugs and a gunners, which i ran with at first before meeting the Brotherhood, they introduced me to chems they gave me my escapism from my past and that was when i started using Buffout, but now my past comes back to haunt me in the form of nightmares, but Buffout helps me deal with them. but my arms tell a different story a story of depression"

Andrea hesitated,waiting to get lectured by Danse about the damages that addictive chems such as Buffout can destroy a person but he didn't speak a word but instead pulled her into his arms and held her allowing her to unbottle her tears into his jumpsuit.

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Danse was taken back by her past, how could someone do such mental and sexual abuse to such a young girl to then haunt her for the rest of her life?

"I didn't want to live anymore i wanted the pain to story,i wanted a way out. i even tried to"Andrea muttered into his shoulder

His grip on her tightened slightly as he played with her dampened ,long ,brown locks"i want to help you get better and become a strong individual, if you'll allow me to."

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Andrea sniffed as he pulls away from his embrace and got up
"Thank you for letting me trust you enough to let you in behind the closed doors of my life"

"Anytime"Danse responded giving her a soft smile

Andrea smiles in response before goes onto her tippytoes and kisses his cheek before she walks back into the station leaving him red in the face,Andrea walks into the jail part of the Station as she injects the Buffout into her arm again before she goes to sleep for the night.

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Danse sighed as he went back into the station only a few moments after her still taken back from the kiss on his cheek,he took a shower just briefly after entering the Station softly  humming  The Wanderer as the hot water hit his chest.

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Andrea woke up in cold sweats nightmares flashed her dreams her eyes were bloodshot as she stood up and had a shower letting the hot water purify her dirty skin, the feel of the hot purified water against her scarred skin was a soothing experience for her it was relaxing

Andrea hums got herself before she grabs a bourbon bottle and heads to the main area of the Cambridge Police Station and takes a sip of her bottle as Danse comes out with his jumpsuit tied around his waist with his dampened black hair as he sat down beside her on a chair

"Haylen I found that Flux Sensor for you awhile ago and completely forgot to give it to you"Andrea confirms as she takes another sip of her bourbon

"oh that's great thank you so much i think now we'll be able to reach Captain Kells on the Prydwen, where Elder Maxson can officially give you the rank of Knight"

Andrea had no idea what any of that meant but it wasn't the first time she'd been on the Prydwen as she got therapy by Knight-Captain Cade there, Andrea have Haylen the Sensor before continuing to drink her bourbon

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It wasn't very long until a Vertibird landed on the roof of the station as Andrea and Danse hurried up to the roof to then board it

The Commonwealth looked like a war zone shooting being heard in the distance occasionally being shot at by Raiders and Gunners. Andrea had never been so high before,not once, as they flew over the ruined buildings of Mass Fusion and Charles View Amphitheatre and many others.

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Danse had been in a Vertibird many times but yet couldn't get use to the sudden jolts it would have when docking on the Prydwen

"We're here"the lancer had called out to them. before Danse and Andrea had left the Vertibird

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