Evelyn woke up feeling tired,she felt as if she had not slept long enough. She looked over to the other side of the bed and found that James had already gotten up. "Probably didn't sleep at all last night" she thought as she got up to get ready for the day. She went across the hall peeking into shauns room and finding that he was still sound asleep she silently shut the door again not wanting to wake him up just yet. Heading down the hall she could hear Codsworth in the kitchen humming to himself as he whirred away "He must be getting breakfest ready for us" she thought "Good thing too James is going to need it, it might even calm him down a bit", James was attending an event in the veterans hall down in concord and he could not be more nervous, she chuckled to her self "You'd think he was being sent off to fight chinese soldiers with a butter knife with the way he's acting!"

Hearing the faucet in the bathroom running she went over and opened the door. James was standing in front of the mirror cleaning himself off after shaving his beard down to a stubble. She went over to him and put her hand on his shoulder "Honey its going to be alright! everyones going to love your speech down in the veterans hall,you're going to do great" she said seeing as he seemed to relaxed a little upon hearing her words "Now move over you aren't the only one who has to get ready today" she added playfully. James allowed her to use the mirror and watched as she got ready "Thanks for giving me that little pep talk honey I really needed it, i've been really worried lately what with the all the talk about another war and the whole world fighting over what resources we have left" he sayed, sighing he added "I just don't want to be sent off on another pointless war again, I dont think I can stand being seperated from you and we just got Shaun, I dont want to leave you both here and risk not being able to see you or my son ever again."

Evelyn turned off the faucet and turned to look at her husband "honey, i know you must be scared but there is nothing to worry about, because even if there is another war i know you'll come back to me and shaun, I know you'll never truly leave us" she sighed and walked over to james putting her arms around his neck "I know it must be horrible fighting for your life on the battlefield, not knowing if you'll ever get to see your loved ones again, but you have to be strong and know that you just have to fight harder to be able to see us again and when you get back we live a normal happy life as a family" they kissed for what seemed to last forever until james broke away smiling "Thanks honey I needed that...well why don't you go see what Codsworth made for breakfest and i'll finish getting ready for the day?"

Evelyn smiled at him glad he was at least a little happier and less nervous than before, she still felt bad though as she walked into to the kitchen it wasn't really like James to feel weak and helpless, he was always a very confident man who always knew what to do, if she was being honest it was what had attracted her to him, his confidence. She tried not to think about it too much, she did understand how hard it had to be to leave loved ones behind not knowing if one would ever see them again since she had done just that when she had been forced to flee her home country ,the U.K, when the war over the Middle East's oil had broken out and left her country in ruins she had been seventeen when she left the U.K, unfortunately she had been forced to leave her parents behind as they had only enough money for one person to leave the country luckily she was able to find a place in America where she had met James, a soldier at the time, stationed in New York. She had never heard from her parents after the war and later had decided to move on and stop trying to reach them.

By the time she had arrived to the Kitchen she felt a little depressed, having dragged up such bad memories, and barely even heard Codsworth as he called out to her, "Mam is everything all right? my sensors seem to be detecting low levels of depression coming off of you, if you're not careful that could lead to a multitude of health issues, Ah! but no need to worry i have the cure right here, coffee! brewed to perfection!", Evelyn smiled at Codsworth's words, it was nice to know that at least someone in this house could be so cheerful,even if that one person wasn't exactly a person seeing as how codsworth was a Mr.Handy robot.

Kelly took the cup of coffee that Codsworth gave to her and took a sip, as promised it was brewed to perfection, "thanks Codsworth, this is just what I needed, but could you make one for James too? he's having a really stressful morning and coffee seems to be exactley what he needs to relax" Evelyn said thinking back to the things that James had been saying, she couldn't help but feel a little scared at what he had said.. and she couldn't help but feel like he was right about there being another war, the U.S might have beat China, but civil unrest had been growing from the way the government had been behaving as of late.

With the annexation of Canada and the mistreatment of it's people's rights and the invasion of Mexico, it seemed as if America didn't even care about the sovereignty of it's neighboring allies and acted just as bad as the people it claimed to be fighting. She knew that even James felt uneasy about the decisions the goverment had made, but as a soldier he was trained to follow orders not question them, and so never voiced his thoughts aloud.

"Why of course madam, I'll get started right away on that I'll add a bit of sugar and cream to it, see if that cheers him up a bit, as you know a little sweetness goes a long way!" Codsworth said, cheerful as ever, Evelyn smiled again, what would they do without Codsworth. As she turned around she was greeted with a hug and a kiss as James walked into the kitchen and took a seat at the counter, unrolling the days newspaper that Codsworth had picked up from outside early that morning, and took the coffee that Codsworth had prepared for him with a smile and a thanks to the robotic butler.

As Evelyn went to go sit down on the sofa and watch the news on tv, a knock came from the door. She went to go open the door, signaling to James that she'd get it. She was surprised to see a well dressed man with a clipboard and a smile, she was about to tell him that they were not interested in what he was selling when she saw the little Vault-Tec symbol on his coat. The man smiled at her widely though it did not reach his eyes,which seemed to be flitting around a lot like he had something to hide and was nervous. He stepped forward and took off his hat in greeting, "evening mam, it's such a pleasure to finally meet you! I've been trying for days to get you at the right time such busy people you are!" he said cheerfully, she just smiled at him unsure of what to say.

The man seemed to take this as an invitation to keep going, either unaware or uncaring of her akwardness, continued "well as not to waste anymore of your family's precious time I'll get right to it, you and your family, for your husbands service to the country, have been accepted into the local vault, vault one-eleven! fitted to accomedate the needs of the average American family, with some of the best and state of the art technology to make you and your family's lives one very luxurious one!" she was a little surprised at his words and took a momment to think before asking "is the vault big enough for my whole family?" she hoped it was seeing as how there were various other families in sanctuary hills who were a bit more numerous then them. Again the man seemed to smile wider before awnsering her question "why no need to worry mam there is enough room for your whole family, minus your robot of course" he said looking at Codsworth as he spoke, it wasn't something she liked hearing seeing as how she considered the robot as a part of her family, maybe they could ask for a slight bend to that rule, but that would come later.

She looked at the man, who seemed to be staring at her very intently as if dying to hear her awnser, "that sounds great, is there anything we need to sign or has that been taken care of?" she asked not wanting to have to sign hundreds of papers at the moment, the man smiled as if expecpecting to hear just that and extended the clipboard to her "it's all been taken care of, however we will need you to sign this here mam, we already have your husbands information and your child's isn't necessary but if you will just sign your name and awnser the questions I'll be out of your hair" she took the clipboard in her hands and did as he said awnsering the questions needed, and returned the clipboard to him. He seemed to be relieved when he grabbed it and, if possible, smiled even wider at her, "thank you for your time mam! have a wonderful day! and thank you for choosing Vault-Tec!" as he turned to walk back into his van she closed the door, happy to be able to relax, that is until she heard Shaun start to cry as he woke up from his sleep, as she started to walk to his room Codsworth floated over "I'll take care of him mam you go and relax and while, I'll give a holler if I require assistence" she smiled and thanked him grateful for the chance to sit down and just relax after such an eventful morning, "hey, don't worry honey I'm sure that after today we'll be able to lean back and relax, we just have to bear through today" James told her in an attempt to cheer her up, Evelyn tried her best to look cheerful as she sat down to watch tv and try to calm down and enjoy the day.

It barely seemed like a second before she heard Shauns crying again and Codsworth coming down the hall "Mrs.Baxter Shaun simply refuses to calm down, it seems to me that he needs some maternal love that you seem great at" Evelyn sighed before getting up and walking into Shaun's room, Shaun was lying in his crib, his little fists in the air trying to grab the little rocketships hanging over his crib, he immediately turned to look at her gurgelling slightly and smiling at her as she leaned down to tickle him, she smiled at his little laughs and continued to tickle him, "how are my two favorite people in the world doing?" she turned and smiled at James who was leaning against the door "spin the nebula a little, he likes that" she smiled at him and did as he said, shaun was immediately transfixed with the rockets.