Sanctuary wasn't exactly Janey's favorite place, it had it's parts that she could appreciate, but she was mostly just defensive whenever Athena and her had to visit.

Well, visit was a strong word, more like forced obligation.

The place wouldn't be so bad, if she could get the whole "it's a flying hunk of rock in the god damn sky" out of her mind, so far she just stuck to avoiding the edges and pretending. She never appreciated solid ground more than ever, even thinking about Elpis's low gravity and moon-jumping started making her stomach drop.

Janey leaned back on the office chair, probably the only chair in Scooter's old garage, and wishing she had brought something to do. Apparently there had been some things going on that the other Vault Hunters had found, some weird symbols and propaganda on other planets of some cult. Cults weren't a new thing, Pandora had its fair share but the fact that it's been on multiple planets was troubling and so far, made the meetings with the Crimson Raiders a lot longer and Janey has never been more bored.

She would waste away the time in Moxxi's bar and while they have come to some form of a friendship after everything, that didn't' mean Janey didn't stop acting stupid around extremely attractive women. She loved Athena, she was her wife and she couldn't be happier, but Moxxi was still smoking hot; and Janey knew on some level Athena agreed even though her comments mostly boiled down to "she is… pretty", she'll get her to admit it one day.

Moxxi aside, Hammerlock and Maya were nice.

They weren't weird like that Salvador guy or Zed, Axton was nice but he was also… too much of a dude bro if that made any sense; and as much as she liked Claptrap, Janey could only take so much before she needed to take a nap.

She liked him she really did, but boy was he exhausting.

Out of anyone though, Janey thinks she liked Gaige the most; she was energetic, funny and brilliant. Honestly, she reminded a lot of herself when she was younger, except for the whole cutting off her own arm part. That's more extreme than Janey could ever think to do, I mean, she did build a rocket, but she didn't cut off any of her limbs for it.

Another day, another long ass amount of time that Janey wish Athena was here and not cooped up in that building. She knew it was important, but all Janey wanted was her wife, except she was sitting alone by herself in the Catch-A-Ride garage, trying not to fall asleep and failing.

She must have dozed off because when door up on the walkway slammed open, Janey nearly fell out of her chair. Luckily, whoever must of come in was blocked from her flailing as she righted herself since the office walls gave her some cover. By the time, whoever made it down the stairs, Janey was past her almost embarrassment and was pretending to be busy by twirling the lucky spanner Athena bought for her in her hand.

"Hey Janey!" Oh it was Gaige.

"Hey girlie! How are you, meeting all done?"

"No, just bored so I left." Gaige hopped up on the desk, avoiding any of the junk still left over from before. "I'll get filled in by Maya, Athena is still stuck in there by the way."

Janey sighed, figures.

Nothing was said after that, which was surprising, usually Gaige had plenty to say even when there wasn't anything going on. She always had something on her mind, something about how her mind moves 100 miles an second and voicing them helped calm her brain down.

"Hey Janey, can I ask you something?" Gaige's voice was so soft and solemn, Janey almost missed what she said.

"Yeah, sure. What is it?"

What followed was a moment of silence as Gaige twisted and squirm, open her mouth and stopping herself from speaking. It was all very bizarre, well bizarre for Gaige at least.

Until finally, "Um I just wanted to know when if you ever like figured out, like how...", the rest of what Gaige was tried to say was whispered so softly that Janey couldn't make it out at all.

"Uh sorry, what was that?"

Gaige winced, running her hands down her face before softly repeating herself. "When did you know you liked girls?"

Oh.

OH!

This was not what she was expecting, but not something Janey would shy away from, holy hell. Athena owes her money now and dinner.

Sitting up in her seat, Janey removed her headband and ruffled her hair a bit. "Well, I guess pretty early on when I was a kid. Though it was harder to get the picture then but, whenever I would hear girls my age talk about the boys they like, it never really fit with me, y'know?" She stared out of the open garage doors, the open skyline not making her nervous and giving her a sense of ease instead.

"I thought it was something that would eventually just happen to me, like growing up into it. But it never did. All those gooey words and feelings they would talk about, I never had those for any boys, but I did have them, just they were for other girls." Janey glanced down at her hand, eyeing the wedding band on her finger, rubbing the moonstone gem embedded into it.

"The only reason why it took so long for me to realize it was because I was always feeling that way towards other girls. I thought it was normal, and it was." Janey sighed. "Getting back to that normal feeling took awhile, but I got there. And I never been happier. But I wish dudes would stop hitting on me." Janey scoffed, putting her headband back on, stretching and leaning back on her chair.

Gaige laughed. "Yeah, just let Athena hit on them. Literally."

"Oh believe me, she has."

They both shared a laugh and Janey couldn't help but think about the weird circumstances of how she ended up with her now wife. It was so strange how basically getting stranded on Elpis at a young age led to meeting the love of her life when she crash landed, next to all the other weird stuff, now they were here. Married to each other.

Funny how things worked out.

But first.

"So, who's the lucky girl?"

Gaige's pained face made Janey realize maybe she said the wrong thing, tugging at the hair and sighing "She's… well, that's the thing. She's kind of dead…"

Oh shit.

"Do you know how Handsome Jack had a daughter? Well, when we were like doing our thing, she was helping us while also working with him, before she asked us to kill her." "Like at the time, too many things were going on for me to really dig into it, but I did think Angel was really pretty."

Gaige slide off the desk and crouched down, curling up into a ball. "I mean, I didn't tell anyone else about this. But during the downtimes, Angel and me would echo each other, just like these small little talks and that's all I can remember." She sighed. "That and her screams when we were killing her."

Gaige picked at the loose threads of her skirt. "I don't know, it just bums me out." She looked up at Janey. "I mean, to figure this all out after she died. Is it wrong that I feel like this, not because Angel was a girl, the whole we basically killed her and being sad that I can't do anything about these feelings because she's dead part, I mean?"

Janey would be lying if she said that she didn't understand.

For awhile after Steph's death, while plenty of time had passed and she had gotten to the point where she could find herself interested in other women, it didn't stop the nagging feeling in the back of her head that she was betraying her memory. That every time she would flirt or basically do anything for another woman's attention, that somehow this was wrong and she was basically cheating on Steph despite knowing she was long gone. It wasn't something she brought up, especially to herself, even when she found herself falling more and more in love with Athena, she still struggled with those thoughts. Maybe it's not the same thing, but feeling like your violating a memory with your own personal feelings, it wasn't hard to relate a bit.

"No, you're good. You're not violating Angel's memory or the memories you had of her, you just realized something else now that you do and you're allowed to be sad that something so horrible happened regret something that you wish had happened, could've if she lived." Janey ruffled Gaige's already messy hair. "I'm sure Angel wouldn't want you sulking over something like this, if anything I bet she would be flattered cause you're a brilliant and amazing kid."

The young girl, well woman now, smiled and sprang up to her feet and gave the junker a big hug. "Thank Janey."

She squeezed back. "No problem, sweetheart."

Janey watched as Gaige ran off, listening to the door slam behind her, Sanctuary may not be her favorite place but kids like Gaige and folks like that Hammerlock guy sure make it feel less hostile. It was about another hour when Athena found her lounging in the office, busy taking apart an old radio for fun. "Oh you're all finished?"

Athena leaned over and kissed her. "Yeah, sorry it took so long. How are you?"

She pushed the remaining parts of the radio to the side, grabbing Athena's hand and leading her out of the garage. "I'm all good. Y'know, Gaige is a good kid."

Janey could feel Athena entwine their fingers together as they walked back to the fast travel station. "Oh, are you the reason she hugged me when I ran into her and called me one of her favorite lesbians?"

"I better be the other favorite.

A/N: Dialogue is the bane of my existence. I apologize for the lack of quality on this, I really struggled on this chapter so if you see mistakes, please let me know. My brain is gone lol