From bad to worse

Piper woke up sometime later, only to see Curie eyeing her. Quickly covering herself, Piper asked if she'd made any progress, all the while not too happy about the groping she went under.

"Oui", answered Curie. "Ze fluids I gathered from you were enough for me to gazer enough data to pinpoint your predicament." "Which is...?" Piper asked, rather impatiently.

"Ze machine zhat zapped your body used a VERY specific radiation wavelength, causing your DNA to reprogram your body to produce bacteria that eat away any non-living material." "Wait, is that even possible?" "It clearly iz."

Piper sighed. So she was a mutation. A mutation designed for nudity. "Can't you cure it?" "Its not zhat easy, dear. Its not like taking Radaway to cure radiation. Your very genetic makeup needs to be realigned ze way it used to be. Ze only way I could do zhat would be to have a zample zhat's OLDER than your transmutation."

Piper sighed again. She would have to streak across the Commonwealth back to Diamond city, find a hair strand from her brush, and run all the way back again.

She waited until it was nightfall. Piper creeped out of Curie's office and out of Goodneighbor. Several of the watchmen leered, whistled and made lewd comments and proposals as her face turned red with shame.

It was a hard enough time to travel through the Commonwealth any regular time, albeit with the Raiders, Ferals, Supermutants, Synths and wasteland creatures, but now she had to avoid any ordinary person. It was sickening almost. Blue had gotten her into this mess, almost knowingly. And it felt like everybody, save Nat, was either out to grope, peep, **** or humiliate her. Now she began to understand why clothes were invented in the first place. With no armor, she was pretty ****, and she was even too scared of clutching her 10mm pistol too closely in fear that would disintegrate too.

With one arm wrapped around her breasts and the other over her slit, Piper sprinted as fast as she could, avoiding the cities and highways. When she made it back to Diamond City, dawn was approaching, meaning she'd have to wait an entire day before going out again. She was then again treated to another game of "grabby hands" from the perverted guards. She then rushed back into the safety of her home. Piper began to panic as she searched her belongings for any trace of hair, to no avail. Her brush, her pillow and even her cap, all fruitless. "No, no, no. This can't be happening!" "Um, Piper?" She heard Nat call out. As she turned around, she saw that the front wall of their house was missing, and the ENTIRE town was outside, watching her.

Piper shrieked and tried to run upstairs... If there were any. To her horror, the walls of her entire house had disappeared, and she had eyes watching her from all sides. Townsmen, the mayor, outsiders, men, women and children were all cheering, whistling and laughing at her. Piper tried to cover herself with her hands, but now it seems that some outside **** was preventing her from doing so. She would reach up for her breasts, only to cover the top or bottom, leaving her nipples exposed. First, her clothing, then the privacy of her walls, now she couldn't even use her own body as cover anymore. She was doomed to be nude, humiliated violated for the rest of her life. "No, no, No, NO, NOOOOOOOO!..."

Piper woke up in a cold sweat. She looked around, but everything was dark. She looked up and saw the moon shining through her window, as a breeze gently blew in...

Breeze...

Piper felt her body, but her clothing was gone. As she started to panic, she heard a soft mumble next to her. It was Blue, naked as well and using his unzipped Vault Suit as a blanket. She looked to the floor and saw her red leather trenchcoat lying on the floor.

She smiled. It had all been a dream. Her calander showed that they had never left to go explore Vault 609. 609... She rolled over onto Blue's back and activated his Pip-boy. She skimmed through all of the data reports made by Vault-tech scientists over the years. The U.S. government had only chartered the construction of only 122 Vaults, and none of them housed any of the technology in her dream. She sighed with relief, Vault 609 and its nudist machine never existed. She rolled over to the other side of her bed and picked up her salvaged issue of "Tales of Astonishment". In it was a story she had been reading about radiation mutating earth's bacteria, eating away all plant life. "I think I'm done with sci-fi horror for a while."

She rolled onto her back and stared at the ceiling. Then she remembered something Blue had said to her that evening during their lovemaking: "You're so gorgeous Piper", he said as he tenderly touched her in intimate places. "I wish you could be naked all the time." She looked over at her man and glared at him. As she drifted off to sleep again, she told herself "For putting that nightmare in my head, he won't be getting any for a month."