Copy-write goes to Bethesda for the game Fallout 3 and all characters except my version of Lone Wanderer. Please review, I accept criticism of all kinds. This is my first story so please bare with me.
CHAPTER 1
Plopping down on some rubble she reached down and sighed as she united and pulled her boots off her sore feet. Reaching back up to her face a whipped some strand hairs out of her face, looking up she could see that Charon was still keeping watch. "Do you ever take a break from that?" Pip asked him while raising an eyebrow. Looking at her he had a very serious look on his face. "No." "Okay then."she said looking away from him. Out of all the people she could have for company she choose Charon, I mean he's not bad it's just, he never really talks. Sometimes that's all she ever wanted thought was to have peace and quiet.
Being out in the wastes had really changed pip, she was no longer the goodie-two shoes every one portrayed her as. She didn't have the best karma, well actually she had really bad karma.
Pip could feel a bead of sweat growing on her upper lip. Using her hand she whipped it away and leaned over and grabbed one of her boots. Pulling her boots over her feet she laced them up one at a time. Placing her hands on her hips she pushed herself up off the ground, even thought all she wanted to do was sit and rest she knew they had to push on. Since her dad had died she hadn't been to Rivet City, she was afraid seeing Doctor Li would bring back the memories of that day. Pip knew deep down she had to face her fears, so to Rivet City they went.
Walking some distance behind her Charon watched as she kicked at the ground with her feet, he could tell something was up but he wasn't in the mood to ask. Actually he was never in the mood to ask. Putting his hand to the strap on his backpack he pulled it back up and closer to his shoulder. When all of a sudden he heard a gun go off sending a bullet that whizzed past his face. In one swift movement he reached over his shoulder grabbing his shotgun sending three bullets into the chest of a raider.
Pip twisted around from the sounds of guns going off, but before she could do anything Charon had already dealt with it. Lying on the ground not to far away was the body of a raider, walking up to them she leaned down and checked the pockets for anything good. Finding nothing good in their pockets she noticed a pair of goggles around one of their necks. Pulling on the clasp they loosened from their neck, whipping the blood from them onto her jumpsuit she looked at them for a moment. They looked neat she thought to herself, standing up she placed them over her eyes doing them up behind her head, pushing them up on top her head she smiled. Now all she needed was something other than her Vault jumpsuit and Butch's Tunnel Snake jacket that he gave her. Looking back at Charon she nodded her head at him in thanks and turned back towards towards Rivet City.
As the sky started to turn dark as they crossed the bridge into Rivet City, looking forward she could hear Charon's footsteps not to far behind her. It comforted her to know that he had her back, that she would never have to be alone as long as he was there. Going off into her own thoughts she was pulled away when she heard someone say her name. Taking a second she looked around to see it was Charon she had stopped walking while she was in her thought. "Penelope?" He said again. "Please, I told you to call me Pip. Penelope is to fancy." She said. She didn't like her name, it sounded to formal. When she was little Amata called her Pip because she loved to use and reprogram her Pip-boy and it sounded somewhat close to Penelope and it just stuck, from then on she started to tell everyone to call her Pip.
Opening the door it creaked loudly as it moved forward, as it opened the smell of food and smelly bodies flooded towards her. Normally she would reject this smell but in truth she missed it a little. Reaching her hand down to her belt she turned the radio off on her Pip-boy, having the Pip-boy on her wrist bothered her to she took it apart making it smaller and clasping it to her belt instead. Walking down the stairs she reached the door to the Muddy Rudder, she wasn't one for drinking but she needed something to calm her down before going to see Doctor Li. Or at least that's what she thought.