DwellerFromHell
Before the world burned, Anastasia Lipton belonged to everyone. Hollywood's golden girl. Vault-Tec's smiling propaganda doll. America's favorite lie. She was young, beautiful, and too famous to be allowed to die. Cooper Howard was never meant to survive either-but he did. Not as a man.
As a ghoul.
They met while playing lovers on a movie set, pretending to sell a perfect future to a country already rotting from the inside. Somewhere between the cameras and the lies, they fell in love for real. Anastasia became Cooper's last soft place in a hard world, the only thing that made the future feel worth believing in.
Then the sirens screamed. Vault-Tec saved her. And left him to burn.
Two hundred years later, Anastasia wakes from cryo to a wasteland of ash, blood, and monsters. The man who finds her is scarred, violent, and feared across the ruins... until he speaks her name in a voice she remembers.
Her cowboy didn't die. He just became something worse.
Some love stories end with the world. Theirs begins after it.