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1. You Can’t Win the Game, but You Can Eat the Pieces by operationthiswillendbadly

   Fandoms: Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout (TV 2024), Fallout (Video Games)  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   14 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Courier (Fallout: New Vegas)/Cooper Howard | The Ghoul
   • Courier (Fallout)/Cooper Howard | The Ghoul
   • Courier (Fallout: New Vegas) & Cooper Howard | The Ghoul
   • Courier (Fallout: New Vegas)
   • Cooper Howard | The Ghoul
   • Mr. House (Fallout)
   • Raul Tejada
   • Arcade Gannon
   • Lucy MacLean
   • Maximus (Fallout TV)
   • Thaddeus (Fallout TV)
   • Yes Man (Fallout)
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Eventual Smut
   • Eventual Romance
   • Slow Burn
   • Female Courier (Fallout)
   • NCR-Aligned Courier (Fallout)
   • Amnesiac Courier (Fallout)
   • The Courier pays for various missed side quests
   • Cooper Howard | The Ghoul Has Feelings
   • But they’re buried under multiple layers of exasperation
   • Taking out the Legion is almost like therapy
   • Is it really Courier Six if she doesn’t have the frenetic vibe of a Muppet?
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Angst and Romance
   • Forehead Touching
   • First Kiss
   • Medically Necessary Unbuttoning
   • Porn With Plot
   • Oral Sex
   • Vaginal Sex
   • Vaginal Fingering
   • Loss of Virginity
   • Sort of a Schrodinger’s virginity situation
   • Ghoul Sex
   • I’m not responsible for how touch-starved they both are
   • Soft Cooper Howard | The Ghoul
   • Protective Cooper Howard | The Ghoul
   • The Enclave (Fallout)
   • Complete
   • I meant for this to be a slower burn but they didn’t cooperate

   Summary

   When Cooper Howard finally opened up his family’s cryo pods, he didn’t expect to find someone else entirely:

   Courier Six, frozen for fifteen years and waking up in a world her (known) life’s work has been wiped away, forced to rebuild her life from nothing for the second time.

   His search for his family and her path to revenge lead to the same destination.

   Complete, but may receive edits at a later date.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   37,053

   Chapters:

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