The Path Of The Wanderer
So this is my first attempt at a fan fiction, as I am a big fan of Fallout. I'm mostly used to writing my own stuff but I thought considering when playing fallout I usually think stuff up that could happen Id give this fan fiction a go, hope you like it! Rated M for Mature, Or 12 if your in the UK. There maybe a few -love- scenes in a few of the chapters so beware. Just to point out I do not own Fallout, only character I own is my O/C and maybe some others I may add in, if I do you will be informed. The speech in this is changed because I dislike some of the speech in the real game, so I have changed it so it's better. Sorry!
Peace :D
July 13th 2258. I was born to James and Catherine Bourn. After 3 hours in labour I finally came out. Not that I remember that day of course. Dad told me the story enough times I have memorised it. An extremely happy day that was, he would say, but of course, also a sad one. My mother died in childbirth you see. Cardiac arrest. I was born in Vault – Tec Vault 101. Well so I thought. My name's James by the way, James Bourn Jr. They call me the Lone Wanderer.
"And that class is how people used to travel before the Great War" Our teacher Mr. Brotch concluded. He stood at the front of the class, a dark skinned man with tight features and a small build. He looked over the class with the authority that told you, I don't mess around.
"You may pack away" He finished. The class, in unison picked up their bags and began to walk out. "Oh and before you all go!" He called after us. "Don't forget you all have your G.O.A.T exams tomorrow! Don't be late!" Followed by groans from most people. As I was walking out I was pulled around by the shoulder. I span around only to be embraced quickly by Amata. My childhood love, if you like. We had been besfriends since before we could remember and had started dating almost a year ago. She pulled away and smiled. "Surprise!" She said with a laugh. She had a small, cute face with tanned skin and long, brown hair tied up in a bun. I smiled at her and put my arm around her as we walked.
"I expected you to be Butch" I said. "Your lucky I didn't go for the head butt"
"Well the day you head butt me is the day the kissing stops" She replied. Trying to look at me seriously, but I had known her for so long I knew she was joking.
"I'll keep that in mind" I said, quickly pulling her into another embrace. There was noone in any of the corridors at the moment as we were kissing. Amata slipped her tongue through her teeth and into my mouth, me following suit as we moved up against the wall. I reached and began pulling down the zip on her Vault 101 jumpsuit. She grabbed my wrist gently to stop me, pulling away from the embrace. "No, not here" She said quietly. "Well get caught, plus..." She stopped and looked to the ground. "I-I'm not ready, not yet." I pulled away and nodded.
"It's fine-hey" I said, tipping my index finger under her chin and making her look at me. "I'm not gonna force you into anything you don't wanna do OK?" She nodded and smiled.
"Thank you" She said, as we pulled into a hug. It lasted a while until we both pulled away. "Come on" Amata said. "Lets go get some lunch!" She took my hand as we walked.
It was soon night time before I knew it. I walked into my room to see Dad sitting at my desk, scanning through my comics and books. "I never took you for a comic type person" I said walking in with a smirk. Dad looked round and stood up. He was a tall man with black hair that was greying. He had a goatee that was the same colour as his hair and he had a strong build.
"Believe me i'm not" He replied. "How was your day today pal?" He asked.
"Average, we learnt about cars and planes in class today" I replied. "Apparently, they used to be able to FLY to other countries!" I laughed, as did dad.
"Good, I need to talk to you" He said, sitting back down on my desk chair. "Please, sit down"
I snorted. "Your inviting me into my own room Dad" I said. "How ironic" Nevertheless, with the look he gave me I knew he wasn't joking to I flopped down on my bed and turned to him. He began to speak.
"So how are things with you and Amata lately?"
The question took me by surprise. I half expected him to say something about the dead rat I put in Butch's backpack. (Classic his reaction by the way, screamed like a girl!)
"It's good, great actually" I replied. "You haven't told the overseer have you?"
"I didn't need to, he already knows"
What?! The whole thing me and Amata agreed on when we first started dating two years ago, was that her dad could not find out. See, he protects Amata with all the power in his heart, and him and Dad don't really see eye-to-eye on anything. So because of that he would flip if he ever found out I was dating his daughter.
"How does he know? Who told him? Why?" I blurted out at once. I was panicking now, I loved Amata a lot. I really did, If the overseer got involved everything would mess up.
"Now, now calm down" Dad said. "I don't know who told him, but we have spoken. He will not get in the way of your relationship. However, he has asked for me to talk to you."
"About what?" I replied. "I don't need the sex talk again Dad, you told me that when I was 12 and that was bad enough."
"I'm not here to give you the sex talk" He said. "You and Amata have been dating for a good 2 years now, so i'm guessing you must be getting serious."
"Nothing has happened Dad" I said, calmly. "She's not ready and i'm not gonna push her"
"I know pal, I know" He said. "But look, what i'm trying to say is, be careful, I don't want to be the one to tell Amata she's pregnant with your child OK?" I nodded.
"Thanks Dad." I said. "I assume the overseer is talking to Amata as well." Dad nodded. I stood up and walked towards the door.
"Thanks Dad" I said. "I'll see you later" I walked out. The first place I had to go was to see Amata, she was the first person I wanted to talk about this to. After all-
"Where you off to at this time of night? Huh?" It was Butch. The vault bully and the person I hate the most in Vault 101. He stood in my path flanked by his two friends. Wally Mack and Paul Hannon. Butch wasn't all that big, he stood at about 5ft 10in and had a medium build. He had slick black hair and a hard face. Wally had a sarge style haircut, stood at about 5ft 8in and had a big build. Paul Hannon was the smaller of the two. He had dark skin and small features, he stood at 5ft 5in and had a small build.
"Well there's noone here to save your little ass now is there?" Butch continued, shoving me. For height, I was the same as Butch. However fighting hand to hand was not my thing, I was used to shooting my BB gun I got from my 10th birthday, not boxing with a bully.
"Lay of Tunnel-Ass" I replied, shoving him back, sending him a bit farther than he shoved me.
"Oh, getting a bit brave are we?" Wally said, speaking up. Shoving me as well.
"Braver than you asswipes" I said, shoving him back, he was shorter than me so he went farther than before. "You must be very brave, three on one, must make you seem huge"
"We're the Tunnel Snakes!" Butch said with proudness. I snorted. "And your gonna pay for what you did to my backpack" I knew he was talking about the rat. Like I said, classic.
Butch threw a punch. However, I saw it coming. I ducked and sent a fist into his stomach. It connected quickly, sending him back, winded.
Wally came next, sending a punch that connected with my jaw. Sending me back as I tasted blood. But his cockiness overthrew him as he laughed. I rushed forward and connected a punch to his nose. The connection was followed with a loud pop. Followed by Wally screaming. I reached up to grab Butch, raising my fist to finish him when-
"Stop!" It was Amata. She obviously needed to speak to me after the events earlier. I turned to her, taking my eyes off Butch, who quickly whipped out his switch-blade and slashed me across the chest, I fell back, bleeding.
"Stop it please!" Amata shouted. "There's no need for any more!" She ran to get in the way of me and Butch. Me on the floor bleeding of course. Butch got up and laughed.
"Yeah come on Tunnel Snakes!" He said. "We can deal with this loser later!" They walked of laughing. And bleeding might I say, a good thing.
"Oh my god are you OK?!" Amata said, running to my side. Seeing the bleeding.
"I-I'm fine" I said. Which was a lie, by the way, I hurt like hell.
"You don't look it." She said. "Come on, lets get you back to my room to get you cleaned up" With that she helped me up as we walked down the metal corridors. Amata supporting me as we walked, or, hobbled more like. We reached the room and I sat down on the bed. Amata went over to her wash basin and ran a cloth under the tap.
"You can't stay out of trouble can you?" She said, unzipping my jumpsuit and revealing my bare chest. She began cleaning the blood off of the wound.
"I would have knocked them both out if you hadn't turned up" I said, joking around. I lifted my head in a sarcastic-cocky way that made Amata laugh.
"Aww" She said. "Has big bad James' ego gone to shit?" With that she leant forward and embraced me. Again things began to heat up as our tongues slipped into each others mouths again, her hands ran down my chest as I went on my back, she moved with me as we lay on the bed embracing. Soon enough our jumpsuits were on the other side of the room and we led there, naked.
"James, I think I love you" Amata whispered.
"You know what?" I replied. "I think I love you too!" I smiled as we kissed again.
"I'm happy dad knows about us now" Amata said. "It means we don't have to hide all of the time, did your dad talk to you about...well, this?"
"Aha, yeah" I said. "I think Dad just said as long as your not pregnant he's not gonna worry"
"Oh goody!" She said. We embraced again.
I woke the next morning to the alarm on my Pip-Boy 3000. Exam day. Luckily, we still had time, I rolled over to my side. Laying there, asleep was the girl of my dreams, and I had just made love to her.
"Morning beautiful" I whispered in her ear. Her eyes opened slowly and she smiled when she acknowledged my face.
"Morning you" She said. Pecking me on the lips. "Did you sleep OK?"
"With you next to me, better than any other time" I replied. She smiled and looked away, blushing. I leant over and kissed her on the cheek. I then got up and pulled on my Vault 101 jumpsuit.
"Exam day" Amata said, standing up and changing to her jumpsuit. "Can't wait to find out what i'm gonna be!" She said sarcastically. Really, everyone knew what Amata would turn out as. She would obviously be going down supervisory route to follow her dad, no surprises there.
"Well I hope its close to what I end up as" I said. "I'm thinking, maybe a priest?"
Amata laughed. "A priest?" She said. "Please, your not even religious"
"Exactly" I replied. "I could make a brilliant pastor you know" We laughed. Making jokes hid the fact that I was officially bricking it. I hoped I would get something I was good at, like clean-up or security. Either way, I really didn't want to end up as something terrible.
"Amata hurry up your going to b-" The overseer had walked in. "Oh, he's here" HE put too much emphases on the "he's" for my liking, but I gave him a smile.
"I will talk to you later Amata but for now, BOTH of you will be late, so hurry up, your G.O.A.T is a very important exam!" He walked out, clearly irritated about my presence in Amata's bedroom.
"Will you tell him?" I asked her. "About last night?"
"Hell no!" She said. "Ill just say you came in early to make sure I was OK" I smiled and we embraced.
"I need to go talk to Dad, ill meet you in class" I said.
"Ok" She replied. "Don't be late!" She winked as I walked out. I rushed down the metal hallways and reached Dad's office.
"Dad" I said. Walking in he turned around with a concerned look on his face.
"Where were you last night?" He asked. Before I was about to answer he spoke again. "Look, tell me later, you have a G.O.A.T to take, good luck"
"But Dad" I said. "Do I really have to take the stupid G.O.A.T?"
"Yes, you do, now go" He replied.
"Bye Dad" I said. Walking out.
I turned the corner to see in front of me Butch, Wally Mack and Paul Hannon all standing around Amata, clearly mocking her.
"Just leave me alone you stupid Tunnel Snakes!" She said.
"I can show you a real tunnel snake if you want" Butch said. Followed by a laugh from his entourage.
"Having fun are we?" I said, approaching them. Butch had a black eye and Wally had a bandage around his nose. They looked a wreck.
"Yeah we are" Butch spoke up. "And you'll do best to stay out of it."
"You know" I said. "The overseer is going to come down on your gang sooner or later"
"Yeah right" Butch said. "Come on Tunnel Snakes, these losers 'ain't worth our time" They walked off and into the classroom.
"Thanks for getting rid of them, ass holes." Amata said. Hugging me in thanks. "I don't know why they pick on me, maybe because i'm the overseer's daughter or something? I don't know, but thanks"
"Don't mention it" I said. "Come on, we have a G.O.A.T to take" I took hold of her hand and walked into the classroom. Mr Brotch was waiting for us.
"Well I hope you two are ready to take this exam!" He said. "Take a seat and we can get started."
The exam went on. The question's were multiple choice and more of a 'your opinion' answers. Easy peasy. After around 5 questions the exam ended. I stood up and handed my test to Mr. Brotch.
"Well, well, well" He said. "Mr Jones you will be becoming our newest member of the security team!"
"Cool!" I said. "Thanks sir!" I took the paper and walked out of the room. Security, I thought. Not bad. It meant that I could practise my shooting on radroaches and if Butch pissed me off I would have the authority to tell him to stuff it. Brilliant
"Good result pal?" Dad asked as I re entered the medical bay.
"Yeah surprisingly" I said. "I'm gonna be put on security!" Dad sighed at that.
"Well hopefully your not corrupt like some of the other security here" He said. "It's a shame you couldn't have been chosen to work with me here"
"Yeah" I said. "But still, security isn't bad"
Dad smiled. "As long as your happy, what did Amata get?"
"What do you think?" I said. He tipped his head to the side, telling me he knew. We both laughed, today had been a good day.
Three Years Later
"Wake up!" I heard inside my head whilst sleeping. "Come on, wake up!" It was Amata, she and I shared a room now since we had been dating for a good 4 years now and with a little help from Dad and some smooth talking we persuaded the overseer to let Amata and I share a room.
"Amata? What's going on?" I said, sitting up.
"We have to go now!" She said. "Your dad's gone and my fathers men are looking for you!" She had fear stricken all over her face and she had tears rolling from her eyes.
"What do you mean my Dad's 'gone'?" I asked.
"He's left the vault!" At that the world seemed to slow down. Dad was...out of the vault? How was this possible?
"Oh my god, Amata are you OK?" I asked. She was crying heavily now.
"It's Jonas!" She said. "My fathers men...they...they-" she cut off and looked down to the ground.
I knew what this meant. Jonas was dead.
"What's the plan?" I asked.
"We have to go" She said. "In my fathers office there is a terminal which opens a secret tunnel to the vault entrance, here take these to get into my fathers office." She handed me some bobby pins and a screwdriver. Which meant she wanted me to pick the door's lock. "And also, take this, I stole it from my dad" She held out a 10mm pistol in front of me. I was taken back. The closest thing I had gotten to a gun was my own BB. Never the real thing.
"Thanks Amata" I said. "I promise to only use it as a last resort" I took the gun. I hoped deep in my heart I wouldn't have to use it.
"I'll try to meet you at the entrance, but don't wait for me" She said. At that she ran off. Turning left at my door.
I walked forward and picked up my backpack. I took everything that was on my table. My BB gun, 50 pellets, A baseball, a glove and some stimpacks. I looked and saw a photo. It was of me and Dad when I was 10 years old. The day I got my BB gun. Anger rose from within me.
"Why did you have to leave!" I shouted, punching the photo, smashing the frame.
I looked at it for a moment and picked the photo up and slipped it into my pocket. I ran out the door and turned right. No sooner had I exited my room I heard a voice, it was security.
"Hey, Freeze!" He shouted. But before he could advance he was swarmed with radroaches. I saw my chance and took it, I ran past him and the roaches and down the hall, passing the scared citizens of vault 101 as I went.
"Now is our chance!" A voice said as I turned a corner. "We can escape, just like the doctor!" The man, who I did not know ran down a corridor, however he was quickly gunned down. Security was waiting for me. They saw me staring and raised their guns, pointing them at me. I however, was quicker. I pulled out my 10mm and gunned them both down, one bullet each. I stared at their lifeless bodied, guilt stricken.
"You shot first!" I shouted at them. "You made me do it!" I ran past them and up the stairs. I was only a short walk away from the overseers office now. I walked slowly down the corridor and heard voices coming from the room next to me.
"He's my boyfriend!" It was Amata. "I'm only trying to protect him!"
"I know that" Said the overseer. "Which is why we want to...talk...to him"
"I don't know where he is!" She replied. "Please stop"
"Officer Mack, one more time!" Said the overseer. The security chief with him raised his baton and readied it to hit Amata.
"Boo" I said, entering the room. The overseer and Officer Mack both turned to me. "Drop the baton" I raised the gun to Mack.
"You ain't got the guts to pull that trigger!" He said. Advancing on me. Amata quickly ran out.
"Oh really?" I said. I pointed the gun at his leg and fired, sending him down, screaming.
"Well I hope your here to turn yourself in young man." Said the overseer.
"Nope" I said, raising the gun on him. "Just give me the key to your office and the password to your terminal and we can all walk away"
"Is that it?" He said. "Very well, don't bother trying to come back after you leave" He threw me the key and told me the password. 'Amata'.
"Oh I wont" I said, turning to leave. "Oh, and one more thing" I said. "You ever hurt Amata like that again and I will rip out your jugular and feed it to the roaches" At that I left, turning to the overseers office door. There, by the side of it was the dead body of my once family friend Jonas. I looked down in sorrow. On him was a holotape. It said: 'To James Jr.' I quickly grabbed it and opened the overseers door. I walked over to the terminal and entered in the password. I did not bother to look at the other files and soon enough found the button that opened the secret tunnel.
Sure enough the pistons began to move and the desk rose from the ground. Revealing a door.
"Here goes nothing" I said. I walked through the door.
On the other side was the vault entrance. An extremely large door in the shape of a cog. I walked over to the control switch and flipped it. The door began to open. Amata appeared.
"Y-You actually opened it" She said. "I didn't think it was possible"
"Me either" I said. Voices came from the door behind me, security was here.
"James i'm coming with you" Amata said.
"What?" I said. "No! You can't the wasteland is dangerous you know that from what we have learnt in class! I wont let you!"
"I can't stay here" She said. "Not after what my father has done to me-to you, James, I love you more than anything in the world, I can't imagine life without you."
I sighed. There was no persuading her to stay.
"I love you too." I said. "I'm not going to make you stay here with that monster, come on"
I held out my hand. She took it and we walked out of the cog door just as security broke through.
"Quick, close the door!" One of them said. The sirens sounded again as the great door closed. Amata and I walked out and over to a wooden door. The door opened and we stepped out.
Into the unknown.
So that's my first attempt at a chapter of a Fallout 3 Fanfic! I hope you enjoyed! Please leave a rating with criticism or comments! I will aim to add a new chapter every week. So please stay in touch!
Peace :D