Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters in the Fallout series, they are the property of Bethesda. This fanfic is rated M for language, violence, and adult content. And finally I have taken some liberties with dialogue, interactions, and events so that everything flows more smoothly(in my opinion, give me a break ok).

I'm currently forced to write on my phone but I'm getting a new laptop for my birthday so expect lots of new stories soon and maybe I'll get back around to working on one of my novels.

This will be completely my own stuff from here on since after the Second Battle of Hoover Dam the game ends and you can't continue playing unless you revert to a save prior to the battle.

Anyways I hope everyone enjoys Chapter 4 and remember leaving reviews helps so if you want leave a review telling me if you liked it or what I can do to improve. I love writing and if people enjoy what I write then that's a pleasant bonus and it makes me feel good and I'm even thinking of doing fanfics on other games I like other than Fallout: New Vegas and maybe even some anime that I really like, if you'd like to see that let me know.

Without further adieu here is Chapter 4 and I hope everyone enjoys it.

Bleeding Hearts

Cass was laying on the main suite bed that belonged to Steven in the Lucky 38 like she'd been doing for the past four days, she basically barricaded herself in this room all day only leaving to go use the restroom or get something to eat or drink but she mostly just stayed in the room sleeping or thinking. When she wasn't sleeping she was thinking and asking questions to herself about her and Steven. At that moment she was wondering what Steven was doing, he'd been gone for at least three days and she was getting kinda worried, she was scared that he'd maybe gotten captured, or wounded, or killed. Cass grabbed one of the pillows, covered her face and screamed into it trying to calm down, after quite a bit of screaming into the pillow Cass finally calmed down enough to think straight and she put the pillow down and took a deep breath in then exhaled. She continued to relax through breathing techniques until she started to get tired, she yawned and her eyelids started getting heavy as she tried to pointlessly fight off sleep but to no avail as she drifted into sleep. As she slept she started dreaming first about she was a little girl then about the night she and Steven had first made love after the Second Battle of Hoover Dam which made her smile as she slept peacefully. Stevens's making his way through Freeside with ED-E following close behind, a Kong's gang member came running up to Steven and ED-E and started talking about how Steven had done great things for Freeside and what not as then have Steven some items and left, Steven winced a little in pain from his wound in his side but shrugged it off and and he and ED-E continued on their way to the Lucky 38. After going through the Securitron checkpoint at the Strip North entrance Steven and ED-E made their way through the Strip towards the Lucky 38, Steven started feeling some sharp pain in his side just as he came up to the doors of the Lucky 38. Steven opens up the doors letting ED-E in before he enters and closes the door behind him, once inside Steven moves over to one of the tables and leans on it for support as the pain in his side grows more intense but Steven grunted and got up pushing through the pain and getting up heading towards the elevator. Steven and ED-E take the elevator up to the Presidential Suite, it stops after a short ride and the elevator doors open up. Steven and ED-E both exit the elevator Steven wincing in pain as he exits making ED-E beep worriedly, Steven takes off his helmet and looks at ED-E holding up a hand in the eyebot's direction.

"I'm fine ED-E, I just need some rest is all." Steven says as he gives a weak smirk. Steven then starts walking over to the suite master bedroom and quietly he opens the door, as he opens it he sees someone laying on the bed quickly seeing it's Cass and that she is sound asleep, questions start racing around in Steven's head like 'why is she on the bed?' or 'should he wake her up?' as he stands quietly in the doorway when suddenly Cass shifts her sleeping position and quietly says Steven's name but just loud enough that he can hear her. After hearing her say his name he smiles and decides to let her sleep not wanting to surprise her or anything, Steven starts to feel lightheaded as he turns to leave the room and then blacks out falling hard and loudly on the floor just outside the room. Alarmed and worried ED-E starts beeping very loudly and making a lot of noise to get someone's attention as he tries to wake up Steven, Cass groans and slowly sits up on the bed yawning as she rubs her eyes.

"ED-E is that you?" Cass asks slightly slurred due to her half asleep state, "What's with all the noise?" She asks blinking her eyes into focus when she sees ED-E floating next to Steven as he lays on the floor looking like a dead body, Cass covers her mouth and immediately gets off the bed when she sees him as her heart starts racing out of fear and panic. She quickly rushes over to Steven and kneels down beside him lifting his head up feeling something wet on the floor. She touches the wet spot and looks at her hand and shudders when she realizes that it's covered in blood, more specifically Steven's blood, and she starts breathing rapidly panicking while trying to figure out where the bleeding is coming from. She quickly finds the bandage spot where Steven has quickly patched himself up and she starts undoing the bandages to see just how bad the wound is, she gasps at the sight of the wound seeing a large gash with blood dripping slowly from it. Cass starts panicking and worrying more and more as she continues looking at the wound and if Steven will be alright, quickly she reapplies the bandages to the wound to try to minimize the bleed if possible then looks up at ED-E scared when she remembers Arcade is still at the Old Mormon Fort and that ED-E has a direct line of contact with him. Awhile back Steven had given everyone, except Rex, a radio that ED-E knew all the frequency channels to so that Steven could keep in contact with everyone whenever he needed to.

"ED-E quickly get in touch with Arcade!" Cass says panicking as she tries her hardest to keep herself together in this situation, ED-E beeps as he tunes into Arcades frequency and beeps when he's tuned in letting Cass know, "Arcade are you there?" Cass asks panic in her voice as she hears a man grunt before speaking.

"Yeah is that you Cass?" Arcade asks as he holds the handheld radio near his mouth to talk, on the other end Arcade can hear Cass let out a sigh of relief before she speaks again.

"Arcade you need to come here quick!" Cass says loudly with panic in her voice as she looks down at Steven gently holding his head in her lap.

"Cass what's wrong? Is everything alright? Where's Steven?" Arcade asks worried something bad has happened, Cass starts talking really fast and Arcade is unable to understand any of what she is saying, "Wait wait wait Cass slow down ok, now take a deep breath in then breathe out slowly." Arcade says helping Cass try to calm down a little bit, after a little bit Cass has calm down enough to be understood clearly, "Ok now Cass what's wrong?" Arcade asks calmly yet worried.

"Steven's bleeding out Arcade!" Cass shouts panic still in her voice, "You need to come to the Lucky 38 quickly!" Cass says as she looks down at Steven and tears start to form in her eyes at the sight of him in this state. Arcade's face becomes sunken in and he seems to have aged a few years at what Cass said, he stands up knocking over his chair and grabs his coat.

"Hang tight I'm on my way… try to apply as much pressure as possible to the wound without causing it to bleed heavier until I get there." Arcade says before putting on his coat and grabbing some medical supplies, ED-E turns off the radio and Cass gently touches Steven's face as she starts to apply pressure to the wound with her other hand, ED-E beeps worriedly as Cass tries not to have another panic attack while fighting back the tears in her eyes.

"You better not die on me Steven or else I'll kill you." Cass says jokingly but only making her more worried as tears start to fall down her face while she waits for Arcade to arrive, holding onto the hope that Steven will pull through this like he has always done before.

Wow two chapters in like what the span of a week? That's crazy but yeah it happened. Hopefully y'all enjoyed it, wonder what's gonna happen next.

Anyways I hope y'all enjoyed this one and Chapter 5 will be coming out soon so look out for that.

Not important but I'm really excited for Borderlands 3 coming out in September and I'm definitely pre-ordering it and playing it when it comes out.

Sincerely,

EmoTherapy