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a collection of flash fiction for ghoulcyweek
✦ last chance / pre-war au
✦ guard / arranged marriage / historical au
✦ chem
✦ hollywood / fake relationship
✦ crossover au
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A Very American Engagement by poisonparadise
Fandoms: Fallout (Video Games), Fallout (TV 2024)
12 Feb 2026
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When Hank MacLean remarries a manipulative Vault-Tec climber just two years after Lucy's mother's suspicious death, Lucy strikes back the only way she knows will hurt.
She gets "engaged" to her father's idol and Hollywood golden boy, Cooper Howard.
Fresh off a bitter divorce, Cooper sees the fake engagement as perfect payback and a chance to rebuild his wholesome image.
The press crowns them America's dream couple. The "act" becomes dangerously real, because Cooper has no intention of ever letting her go.
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If you asked Cooper Howard how he envisioned his fifties, he would not have said "slowly bleeding dry due to alimony and a burgeoning struggle with alcohol, circling the drain as a washed-up has-been".
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Cooper Howard is an actor at the end of his era when he's given another chance by the new head of Vault-Tec Pictures
Lucy MacLean is a secretary for her father when he offers a chance to a struggling actor.
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The World We Knew, Over and Over by Fighting4Fandoms
Fandoms: Fallout (Video Games), Fallout (TV 2024)
28 Jan 2026
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With Lucy taken by her father, Cooper is unsure of what the next port of call should be... Until a familiar face makes his way to Freeside.
Can an unlikely friendship save the day and one Lucy MacLean from the evil clutches of Vault-Tec?Series
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Before the bombs dropped Cooper Howard meets a woman working in a lab of one his film sets.
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The Long Way Back To You by Dweller_From_Hell
Fandoms: Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout (TV 2024), Fallout (Video Games)
24 Jan 2026
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Before the world burned, Anastasia Lipton belonged to everyone. Hollywood's golden girl. Vault-Tec's smiling propaganda doll. America's favorite lie. She was young, beautiful, and too famous to be allowed to die. Cooper Howard was never meant to survive either-but he did. Not as a man.
As a ghoul.They met while playing lovers on a movie set, pretending to sell a perfect future to a country already rotting from the inside. Somewhere between the cameras and the lies, they fell in love for real. Anastasia became Cooper's last soft place in a hard world, the only thing that made the future feel worth believing in.
Then the sirens screamed. Vault-Tec saved her. And left him to burn.
Two hundred years later, Anastasia wakes from cryo to a wasteland of ash, blood, and monsters. The man who finds her is scarred, violent, and feared across the ruins... until he speaks her name in a voice she remembers.
Her cowboy didn't die. He just became something worse.
Some love stories end with the world. Theirs begins after it.
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Adventure is out there?
After finally making it to New Vegas, Cooper and Lucy's journey has barely just begun. New friends, new enemies, and new Nuka-Cola - another astoundingly awesome tale with our Ghoul and Vault Dweller.Series
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Ophelia sterling is good friends with Cooper Howard. Or at least was until the bombs dropped. A lot has changed in 200 years and she has been solo on her own. Having believed her only friend is dead after searching for him for the longest time. Until she reunites with him as he tries to collect a bounty, and dealing with a vaultie.
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- English
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- 120
- Chapters:
- 1/?
- Kudos:
- 3
- Hits:
- 25
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Once Upon A Time in Hollywood by Dweller_From_Hell
Fandoms: Fallout (TV 2024), Fallout 4, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 76, Fallout Shelter (Video Game)
23 Aug 2025
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Scarlett, was once Americas sweetheart. A Hollywood actress. The face of Nuka Cola aka Nuka Girl and Vault Tec's Vault Girl. Now over two hundred years old, a ghoulish bounty hunter. A famous name within the wasteland, searching for the cure to being a ghoul, travelling with a big bounty on her head. Cooper Howard, a name and face she knew all too well before and after the war captures her, to bring her in. But life and love has a funny way of playing out.
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The bombs never fall. Instead, Cooper Howard plays a key role in taking down Vault-Tec for good, becoming a more exalted American hero and household name than ever. With his ex-wife serving a life sentence in prison, he just wants a slow life for him, his daughter, Roosevelt, and Sugarfoot. Naturally, he buys a quaint ranch near Bakersfield to escape the press and pressures of returning to Hollywood.
The young, charming, and bright-eyed schoolteacher named Lucy MacLean immediately catches Cooper’s eye. A divorcee herself, she’s responsible for opening Janey back up after losing her mother in such a public way. But the more he gently pursues her, the more she pulls away. It’s got something to do with her past. Determined to help her heal, he goes the distance to show her he’s safe. She’s half his age, but she’s who quiets his world.
Until Hollywood (and so much worse) comes calling.
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The Sweetheart From Space by WriterPug
Fandoms: Fallout (TV 2024), Invincible (Cartoon 2021)
05 May 2025
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Cooper Howard, Director of the Global Defense Agency has a lot of problems to deal with. Human, Alien, super-powered and magical. The worst are the Viltrumites and the threat they pose to earth. But with Invincible and the other heroes, he thinks they can beat them.
But what happens when a Viltrumite takes an interest in him?
How is Cooper going to deal with Lu-Ci of the Viltrum Empire?
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Out Of Time by Dweller_From_Hell
Fandoms: Fallout (TV 2024), Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 3
18 Apr 2025
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Ada a vault dweller from Vault 101 faces her own struggles in the depths of New Vegas as the ghoul process has began.
Life takes a turn when she stumbled upon fellow vault dweller Lucy and her ghoul friend Cooper.A spicy relationship that's bursts onto the scene. Showing Ada and Cooper they had a lot to face.
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You learn a lot about someone when you're stuck with them on a very long walk to a place you've never heard of. Alas, Lucy makes the best of a tense situation. Trying to be the optimist she knows she still is, she tries to see the Ghoul in a new light.
She never expected to see him in THAT kind of light... but she's not complaining.
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Freshly divorced and facing his first Christmas alone, Cooper’s holiday takes an unexpected turn when he runs into Lucy at the grocery store.
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- Part 1 of Good Times with Lucy and Cooper.
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Mirror Reflections - Beautiful Things by Thoughts_at_Twilight
Fandoms: Fallout (TV 2024)
26 Aug 2024
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For Ghoulcy Week prompt, Mirror Reflections. AU.
Healing from an abusive relationship, Lucy seeks to find beauty in everything around her - except, she's unable to see the beauty in herself.
Once she meets a gentle soul in the form of Cooper Howard, she sees many beautiful things and with his support, she can finally start to love herself again.
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stars of the midnight range by Saradika
Fandoms: Fallout (TV 2024), Fallout (Video Games)
27 Jul 2024
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In the aftermath of a breakup and the ending of another school year, Lucy is desperate for anything to fill her time… even if that means accepting a two week stay at Sugarfoot Ranch from her estranged father, themed after the actor she once admired.
Cooper Howard’s life is finally turning around, after the whirlwind of a messy divorce and the fallout of the following publicity. The only thing darkening his skies is the thought of entertaining Hank MacLean, his self-proclaimed biggest fan, for the next two weeks.
But when Hank’s daughter ends up taking his place, he can’t help but wonder - is this the break he thinks it is? Or is he about to head into an even bigger storm?
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awhile after the divorce is settled for cooper, he's forced to sell everything for alimony and move to his least favorite kind of area- now living in an apartment he learns he's got just the oddest neighbor.
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- 1,188
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- 1/?
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With the divorce out of the way and his life finally settled, Cooper Howard wishes to take a more hands-on approach to engaging with Janey’s education. Unbeknownst to him, Janey’s teacher has thought about him often (and not always in a good way).
AKA: Do you think The Ghoul has ever caught himself thinking ‘how different would our relationship be if we met over 200 years ago and I was still half the man you deserve?’ Well. I have. And it’s Absolutely Possessed me.
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100 years after the bombs, he starts gettin’ questioned. Everyone and their Granny would look him up and down, asking “hey Ghoul, what keeps you going?”
He just smirks back, pointedly ignoring the still-ticking numbers that not even the end of the world managed to burn off his skin.
Or:
Cooper Howard was born with a Broken Timer.
Lucy MacLean was born with a Useless Timer.(Neither of these things are true...)
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Divorce wasn't kind to Cooper Howard. It's quite the lonely night when he decides to call the "Sweet Nights" number and meet with a lovely lady to take his mind off things.
Little did he know that he would never get enough of her taste.