The scavengers

Chapter 1

Millie sat on a creaky, wooden chair in the doctor's waiting room reading a copy of 'guns and bullets' she wasn't concentrating on the magazine. But of more on the occasional groans of pain coming from behind the curtain of the doctor's office she put down the magazine to fiddle with the loose, frizzy bits of her dark blonde hair which had fell out of her loose ponytail. Scott had been in there for an hour, they had left Megaton to scavenge around the outskirts of D.C. when Scott had been shot in the arm by a couple of raiders. Another 30 minutes passed until the curtain was pulled opened, Scott walked out his arm wrapped in a bandage his rotten, ghoulish face looking pale and Doctor Church followed him with a usual pissed off expression. Millie stood up filled with glee; she hurried over and hugged Scott trying to avoid his bandaged arm.

"Oh, thank god you're safe!" she sighed, "I was getting worried,"

"It's only a scratch it doesn't really OW! Jesus Christ that hurts!" Scott yelled.

"Oh don't be such a baby!" Church moaned, slapping Scott on the back, "I've seen worse, anyhow here's some stimpak's take one a day till the swelling goes down" he handed over three stimpak's "these do work on ghouls don't they?".

Millie span her head looking at Scott she could see the fury in his eyes, "yea... they do" she said glancing at Church taking the Stimpak's

"Come on I'll buy you a drink" she said to Scott as they both walked towards the Door in silence. Once they got a safe distance from the clinic Scott fired up,

"That sonofabitch!" Scott roared kicking the ground in anger so a little dust cloud moved across the floor. "Do they work on ghouls of course it fucking works on ghouls!"

"Calm down!" Millie said raising her voice a little, "he's like that with everyone just ignore him!"

"Racist Bastard" Scott mumbled

"Come on we can go to Brass lantern its open for another hour" Millie said changing the subject, trying to make him feel better.

"No you go, I'm going home" Scott mumbled walking up the metal ramp towards the shanty style houses made of scrap. Millie stood still watching him for a while.

"I'LL GET YOU SOMETHING!" she yelled at the top of her voice making it echo across the entire town before she turned to walk away.