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She'd never had so many names that weren't her name in her life. Her parents had stuck to calling her honey, her grandfather had called her sunflower, and Nate had preferred baby.
Piper called her Blue, because Piper gave almost everyone a nickname. Hancock called her Sunshine and (by his own admission) wasn't mocking her when he said it.
Blue or Sunshine or Boss or General or Bullseye, she'd never had so many names until she'd stumbled out of the Vault. And then…and then Nick had started casually calling her doll.
She'd been taken aback at first and unsure of what to do about it, but then realized: He never called Ellie, or any other woman they encountered, that. He wasn't mocking her gender or her intelligence with the name. He was nothing like the asshole she'd clerked for or the cop at the city jail. In fact, he'd always called her by her name until she'd worked up the nerve to talk about feelings. So Doll was just yet another name.