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Summer's coming around and the days are lasting longer, which leaves Bill outside later.

It's early evening, nearing dusk when he finds himself out at the lake with Ellen's dog, Dogmeat.

Bill's sitting on a stone skipping rocks while Dogmeat lays in the grass beside him.

The two of them both look kind of depressed; each missing home and someone else.

Bill's taken good care of the dog, and Dogmeat has been a good companion, but sometimes you just feel homesick.

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"Whurf," says Dogmeat, or something like that; anyway, he picks his head up and looks towards the Bar suddenly.

Bill messes up a throw and his stone hits the water with a plonk.

Looking at Dogmeat, Bill turns his head towards the Bar.

"What is it, boy?"

Dogmeat hops to his feet, tail wagging, and whurfs again. Perhaps this time Bill will notice the oncoming figure- then again Ellen's wearing her dark green uniform and isn't exactly an imposing sight without a lot of armor,, so.

Bill looks again, shading his eyes from the setting sun and standing up on the rock.

"Is it Ellen?"

Bill brightens when sees that it is her, then looks at Dogmeat and nods his head in Ellen's direction.

"Well go on an' say hi t'her."

The dog doesn't need much encouragement beyond that; he's off like a shot. Good thing Ellen learned to fall gracefully when she was working with John-117, because that's a lot of dog to leap up at her at that kind of speed.

She'll be up and over to say thanks in a minute, but Dogmeat's being enthusiastic about his hello.

Bill's smile widens when he sees Dogmeat's enthusiasm.

He waits on the rock, letting them have their hellos.

When it's over, Ellen does her best to straighten out her hair and uniform before making her way over to the rock with Dogmeat in tow. "Hey, Bill," she calls out. "Thank you for taking care of my dog for me. He looks like you did a really good job."

"Hiya, Ellen."

He raises his hand in greeting, and smiles.

"You're welcome. Dogmeat was real good, I think he missed you, though."

"I think so too," says Ellen, and looks down. Dogmeat is, for once, not rolling around on his back looking for something stinky; he's just wagging his tail like mad. "Hopefully I won't have to leave him anywhere again for a good long while. How have you been?"

"I been alright."

Bill shoves his hands into the front pockets of his jeans.

"How 'bout you? Everything turn out okay?"

"Pretty much," Ellen says. "We got past all the killer lizards and a whole lot of guard robots, and now it's time to head on back. Nobody who came with me got hurt. My armor needs fixing, but that's not the same thing."

"I brought one of the lizard claws with me, if you wanted to see."

Bill listens, wide-eyed at what Ellen describes.

He's glad to hear no one was hurt, especially Ellen, and nods eagerly to the offer.

"C'n I?"

Ellen nods and digs into her backpack; she hardly ever leaves it unguarded these days. After a minute she comes up with a bundle wrapped in light brown leather, which she very, very carefully unrolls.

"Be careful. Deathclaws can cut right into armor with these," she warns as she rolls out the black talon.

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After Happy Hour, William notices that he still hasn't seen Bill so he starts looking around.

Bar saved the food he couldn't finish for him and Bill later, the rats are going to take it upstairs.

It takes some looking before he spots Bill and Dogmeat, "Bill, what are you doin' out here?"

Bill turns his head towards William, then looks back out at the lake.

"Nothin'."

He throws a stone out at the water and silently counts the skips.

"Oh, there space on that rock for me?"

He doesn't like seeing Bill sad like this.

Bill scoots over, moving closer to Dogmeat and giving the dog's head a scratch.

"You been workin'?"

"Yeah and went inside. My Pa and another fellow from my time were tendin'. I've got some dinner for us when you're hungry,"

The rock has some space so William sits down and gives Dogmeat a scritch and Bill a sort of hug. Hopefully he won't have to explain Ben Wade to Bill, he's not sure he wants to do that.

Bill looks up, blinking in surprise.

"Your pa? But I thought your daddy was... "

"He is but he's also here,"

It makes William's head hurt just thinking about it and he picks up a stone and tries skipping it.

Bill's eyes widen.

"He is? Is he-- how is he?"

"This place is an afterlife for some folks, don't know why,"

Though just because his Pa's here doesn't mean they talk that much. Its all just strange and still hurts more than William wants to say or even think.

"Oh."

That's strange, and for some reason it's also kind of scary.

Bill strokes Dogmeat awhile before looking over at William again.

"Well leastways y'get to see him."

That at least seems like a good thing to Bill.

It is and it isn't, honestly William finds it all messy, "Yeah, I do."

Bill can tell it's troubling for William, and so stops asking questions and talking about it.

He goes back to skipping stones and silently counting each time they hit the water.