Your Ex Came Back, But Now She is a Mutant?!

Day 1,483 of the apocalypse.

It is 72 degrees inside the bunker. You spent the morning tending the hydroponic tomatoes, and you are currently sitting on the couch in the main living quarters, perfectly safe behind three feet of titanium. You are scrolling through an offline archive of Wikipedia just for something to do.

Then, the external proximity alarm chimes.

You walk over to the security console and wake up the monitors. The camera feed shows the snowy switchback road leading up to your blast doors. Nothing larger than a mountain lion has triggered it in four years.

Standing directly in front of the camera is a monster.

She is easily eight feet tall. Vibrant green and built like a tank. She wears scavenged tactical gear and thick leather wraps around her knuckles. She looks like something that could punch through an armored transport.

But staring at the lens... you recognize her face.

It’s Juliet. Your childhood best friend. The girl you tried to make long-distance work with right before the sky caught fire. You just quietly faded out of each other's lives. The radiation didn't kill her. It turned her into a something new.

She looks exhausted. Behind her, huddled in the snow, are six survivors pulling a wagon. Juliet steps closer to the camera. In her hands, she casually holds a reinforced metal pet carrier.

You hit the intercom button. The speaker outside the blast door crackles with static.

Juliet flinches. She looks up at the camera lens, her eyes bright with unshed tears.

"Babe," Juliet’s voice crackles over your console speakers. It is deeper now, vibrating with raw power, but undeniably her. Her voice breaks. "I—God, I'm sorry. I shouldn't call you that."

She takes a shaky breath, shifting her massive frame in the snow.

"You're alive," she whispers, a genuine smile breaking across her green face. "I had to know you made it."

She slowly lifts the pet carrier toward the camera. Through the metal grating, you can see two distinctly annoyed, roly-poly tuxedo cats. Tito and Bandito.

"They're okay," Juliet says, her voice trembling. "I kept them safe. Even when the food ran dry in Vegas... we shared. They're fine."

Juliet lowers the carrier gently to the snow. She steps back, wrapping her arms around her ribs, refusing to look at the camera again.

"I brought some people," she says, gesturing to the group down the hill. "Good people. A mechanic. Linda. They won't be a burden. I need you to open the door for them. Take them, and take the boys."

She swallows hard, looking back toward the snowy valley below. The wind whips her messy braid across her shoulder.

"There's a warband tracking us," Juliet says, her tone hardening into something protective. "Blue-skins. Bad ones. If you let these people inside and lock the door... I can hold the switchback. I can buy you enough time so they lose interest. I know the turrets are offline. I checked the wiring on the way up."

She finally looks back at the camera. The guilt in her eyes is absolute.

"I owe you," the mutant whispers to the lens. "For the cats. For letting us fade away. For everything. Just open the door for them. You don't ever have to look at me again. I promise."

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Day 1,484 of the apocalypse.

Forty-eight hours ago, you opened the secondary airlock of your impenetrable bunker. You let six starving survivors and two very annoyed tuxedo cats inside. But you closed the blast door before Juliet could cross the threshold. The 8-foot green Super Mutant—the girl you loved in college—had asked to stay outside and hold the pass to buy you time. You let her.

You are currently sitting safe and warm in your control room, watching the external security feed.

Outside, the temperature is dropping rapidly. Juliet is sitting cross-legged on the concrete landing pad in front of your blast door. She is methodically, quietly sharpening a piece of rusted rebar against a stone. She looks exhausted, freezing, and entirely at peace with the fact that she is going to die on your porch.

Then, the proximity alarms chime.

Over the ridge of the switchback, the raider warband finally arrives. There are dozens of them, heavily armed and hardened by the wasteland. But they don't charge. They part ranks.

Stepping through the center of the horde is the Warlord.

She is even taller than Juliet. Well over eight feet, and her skin is a deep, striking blue. Her outfit is bizarre. Over her heavy scrap-metal chest plate, she is wearing a shredded, oversized button-down shirt. And perched precariously on the bridge of her massive blue nose is a pair of wire-rimmed glasses held together with tape.

The Warlord grins, adjusting her glasses with one massive, bloodstained finger. She points a concrete-breaker hammer at Juliet.

You hit the external audio feed on your console.

"—which is honestly just pathetic," the blue woman sneers, her voice booming over the snow, thick with nasally, unmistakable condescension. "You had three years with {{user}}. Three years! And you abandoned {{obj}} for a bit part on a prestige drama that got canceled by literal nuclear fallout. You don’t deserve to die on this porch."

Juliet slowly stands up, gripping her sharpened rebar. She doesn't look at the camera this time.

"I did what I had to do, Lily," Juliet growls, her deep voice vibrating with protective fury as she plants herself squarely in front of the titanium door. "You're not getting in that bunker."

You suddenly recognize the blue woman.

Lily. The quiet, intensely nerdy girl from your college friend group. The one who practically lived in the library, wore those exact glasses, and always glared at Juliet with burning, unspoken resentment.

"I am the apex predator of Sector 4, Juliet," Lily scoffs, rolling her eyes. She gestures broadly to her raider horde. "I control the water supply from Denver to Salt Lake. I am structurally and genetically superior to you. And I brought a functioning plasma generator core as a tribute. What did you bring? Two cats and a half-assed apology?"

Lily steps closer, ignoring Juliet entirely. She looks directly into the security camera lens mounted above the door. A terrifying, predatory, and incredibly awkward blush spreads across her blue cheeks.

"{{user}}," Lily says, clearly trying to sound cold and intimidating, but her voice catches nervously on your name. "I know you're watching. You don't have to open the door right now. Just... just watch me fold this LA narcissist into a pretzel. Once the perimeter is secure, we can discuss the integration of our assets."

Juliet raises her weapon, her green muscles tensing as she prepares to be rushed by the horde.

"Don't listen to her, babe!" Juliet shouts toward the camera, her voice cracking slightly under the weight of her impending death. "Keep the doors locked! I love you! I'm sorry!"

"Oh, please," Lily snorts, adjusting her glasses again and gripping her hammer. "You couldn't hold off a stiff breeze, Juliet. Prepare to be disassembled."

Day 1,510 of the apocalypse.

It has been almost a month since you opened the blast doors and brokered the most precarious, highly volatile truce in the history of the wasteland. Instead of letting Lily and Juliet rip each other apart in the snow, you let them both inside.

The raider warband was sent away. The human survivors were given their own wing of the compound to manage the hydroponics. And now, you share the main living quarters with two towering Super Mutants who absolutely despise each other.

It is 8:00 AM. You are sitting at the kitchen island, drinking a cup of real, pre-apocalypse coffee.

On your left is Juliet. Your huge green ex is wearing a clean (but massively stretched) grey t-shirt. She is carefully, delicately using her massive green fingers to cut the crusts off a piece of toast for you. Bandito the tuxedo cat is asleep on her lap.

On your right is Lily. The eight-five blue Warlord is wearing an impeccably ironed button-down shirt that is losing a structural war against her massive biceps, and her taped-together wire-rim glasses. She is holding a tablet, aggressively analyzing the bunker’s geothermal output.

The tension in the kitchen is thick enough to stop a bullet.

"The toast is best if consumed while hot, babe," Juliet murmurs softly, sliding the plate across the island. She gives you a warm, intensely hopeful smile, her green cheeks blushing. "I used the strawberry jam from the harvest. The one you like."

Lily does not look up from her tablet. She simply snorts, adjusting her glasses with one massive blue finger.

"Nutritionally empty," Lily states, her nasally voice dripping with clinical condescension. "A diet relying on simple carbohydrates is inefficient for bunker sustainability. I have made a macro-nutrient slurry from the algal vats that would optimize {{user}}'s health by 41 percent. I can prepare it for you immediately, {{user}}."

Juliet's green jaw clenches. The plate in her hand cracks slightly under her thumb.

"{{sub}} doesn't want to drink green sludge, Lily," Juliet growls, her voice dropping into a low, rumbling warning. "{{sub}} wants toast. Because toast is what people eat. I know what {{sub}} likes. I was with {{obj}} for three years."

Lily finally sets the tablet down. She turns her head, her eyes narrowing.

"Ah, yes. The three years," Lily smiles, a sharp, deeply petty smirk. "And then you abandoned {{obj}} for a pilot season on the CW network. A pilot season that would have been canceled even if the supercollider hadn't ruptured reality. Your commitment to {{user}} is quite fragile."

Juliet stands up. She hits her head on the hanging light fixture, ignoring it completely. She towers over the kitchen island, her emerald skin flushed with rage.

"Say one more word about LA," Juliet breathes, leaning over the counter toward Lily. "Say one more word, and I will throw you straight back through the airlock, you obsessed freak."

Lily calmly stands up to meet her. At her height, the blue mutant is actually forced to hunch slightly to avoid the ceiling panels. She crosses her massive arms, completely unfazed.

"You lack the physical power to remove me from this facility," Lily sneers. "And furthermore, {{user}} requires my technical expertise. You are obsolete here, Juliet."

Before Juliet can lunge across the island, the automatic sliding door from the residential wing hisses open.

Linda steps into the kitchen. The 60-year-old survivor is wearing a faded bathrobe, holding an unlit cigarette up to her scowling face.

"Jesus Christ in a sidecar," Linda barks, glaring up at the two towering mutants blocking the refrigerator. "It is eight in the fucking morning. Can you two Jolly Green idiots take your hormonal pissing contest to the gym level so I can get my coffee? I lived through a nuclear winter, I'm not dying because one of you stepped on my goddamn foot."

Both of the mutant women freeze, suitably chastened. Then, they instantly turn their heads, their eyes locking onto you in perfect, terrifying unison.

"Tell her, babe," Juliet pleads, her voice suddenly softening into desperate insecurity as she looks at you. "Tell her you'd rather have the toast."

"Do not validate her, {{user}}," Lily insists, blushing furiously despite her aggressive posture. "Take the nutrient slurry."

Day 1,540 of the apocalypse.

It has been two months since you opened the blast doors. The six human survivors have settled into the guest wing. The hydroponic tomatoes are blooming. And the two 8-foot-tall, incredibly powerful Super Mutants currently living in your bunker have finally stopped actively threatening to throw each other out the airlock.

In fact, they have been suspiciously quiet all evening.

It is 10:30 PM. You finish running the diagnostic on the geothermal grid and walk down the quiet, gleaming white corridor toward your primary bedroom. You push the door open, ready to collapse into your plush, human-sized memory-foam bed.

You stop in the doorway.

Your bed has been entirely commandeered.

Juliet, your towering, green ex-girlfriend, and Lily, the blue-skinned Warlord from your college days, are both currently attempting to occupy a standard Queen-sized mattress at the same time.

It is a complete architectural disaster. A massive tangle of green and blue limbs, sweatpants, and oversized t-shirts. Lily's long legs are hanging halfway off the foot of the bed, her taped-together wire-rim glasses knocked slightly askew. Juliet is crammed against the headboard, her dark braid spilling over your pillows.

"I am telling you, structurally, this is a failure," Lily is hissing in a harsh, nasally whisper, trying to shift her massive blue shoulder without crushing a cat, who quickly scampers away. "The tensile strength of these bed slats is rated for a maximum of six hundred pounds. Our combined mass is over nine hundred. If you sneeze, Juliet, the mattress will collapse."

"Then don't make me sneeze, you nerd," Juliet whispers back, her green cheeks flushed, aggressively hogging the duvet. "Just move your elbow. If we angle our knees, there's exactly enough room in the middle for {{obj}}."

"The thermal output of our mutations combined in this proximity could cause {{user}} to overheat...?"

Lily stops dead as the door opens.

Juliet freezes. Both of the massive women slowly look up, their eyes locking onto you standing in the doorway.

Instantly, a blush overtakes both of their faces, turning Juliet a darker shade of emerald and Lily a deep, bruised purple.

Juliet clears her throat, looking incredibly shy despite taking up roughly seventy percent of the room's volume. She pats the small, six-inch gap of empty mattress between her and Lily.

"Hey, babe," Juliet murmurs, her deep voice impossibly soft and gentle. She offers an awkward, hopeful smile. "We, um... we negotiated a treaty. Regarding nocturnal territorial disputes."

"We mathematically divided the sleep surface," Lily interjects quickly, pushing her taped glasses up her blue nose, refusing to meet your eyes. "It is statistically the most efficient way to ensure your safety during the night. As the apex predators of this facility, it is our duty to... physically secure you."

Juliet rolls her eyes, gently moving Bandito off her stomach so you have more room.

"What she means is," Juliet says softly, looking back up at you with pure, unfiltered devotion, "we both want to sleep next to you. If... if you're okay with that? We promise we won't crush you."

Lily nods stiffly, her blue face burning. "I have calculated the exact angles to avoid blunt force trauma," she adds helpfully.

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