Janice and Silent Sara Chapter 1: Caravan
Janice moves with caution down the road ahead of a caravan column. She decided to be at point because of the god-awful smell of the 3 brahmin makes in the heat of the day. The dirty blonde's keen blue eyes squint, due to the bright sun, along with the edge of the road as she walks. She carries her assault rifle, with a reflex scope, in a ready position. She has a 10mm pistol holstered to her hip, and a ripper blade hidden inside a ballistic fiber vest, a gift from someone in the Railroad.
But she does not walk alone.
Silent Sara walks with almost no sound. She stays within the shadow that comes from behind Janice. The blonde wears a field scribes hat low to cover her eyes from the sun. She has two feathers protruding straight up from the back of her hat as a personal touch. The ballistic fiber vest she has on is like her comrade, also a Railroad gift. Another personal touch she has done is that, on the elbow and knee pads, she put two feathers on each one. An ax-like weapon that she calls "Tomahawk" hangs by her side and a silenced 10mm hangs on the other. A box like item called a stealth boy is strapped to her waist behind her. She carries a blade in her boot for "just in case."
Janice stops walking and raises her hand telling the caravan to stop. She is uneasy about a situation, something about a group of hedges and bushes seems out of place. Janice readies her hefty assault rifle, wiping the sweat from her eyes, and begins to look through the scope. She points at the bushes and let out a low whistle. Sara seemed to perks up with widening eyes, begins running as she turns on the stealth boy. When she reaches the big clump of bushes she launches herself in. Janice briskly move to support Sara's assault ready to support her if need be.
Suddenly, screams come from the bushes. Cursing and cries of pain also come from the cover. A raider emerges from cover as if he was being chased by an angry animal. Janice pulls the trigger of her rifle, feeling the kick of each bullet as it leaves the barrel. The raider drops after two steps because of two shots to the chest. Janice wipes her eyes again and prepares for another target to emerge. The raiders didn't disappoint. Two more emerge, Janice drops the closest one first, then quickly acquires the second to drop him as well.
The scene goes one for about a minute more.
Janice keeps firing until she hears a click indicating she is out of ammo. Cursing, Janice begins to change magazines. A raider, watching, took it as her chance to run for it. She emerged from the cover in a dead sprint down the road. Sara suddenly emerges from the bushes and quickly throws "Tomahawk" at the fleeing raider. The ax finds a home between the shoulder blades of the screaming raider. The raider takes a couple of steps, then falls face first on the road. A confident Sara slowly approaches, places her foot on the struggling raider, and roughly pulls her weapon out. A scream from the raider earns her a shot in the back of the head from Sara's pistol.
"Why did she do that?" asked the caravan master.
"So they don't tell others where we are." answered Janice, "Let's get moving before more decide to show up."
The caravan master goes to give a congratulatory slap on Silent Sara's back. Sara sneers and pulls back her weapon to strike him before he could.
"Whoa! Whoa! Sara don't kill the nice client, he pays us caps. We like caps Ok?" Janice interceded.
The caravan master quickly raised his hands and backpedaled back to the caravan column.
They soon head east to what is now called Starlight Town. Janice remembers when a big mushroom cloud appeared ten years ago. It wasn't long after that, She and Sara found each other scrounging for food around one of the old farms in the area. They never parted company ever since.
That evening, Starlight's lights came into view. It was there that the caravan stops for the night before continuing on to Sanctuary City.
Janice relaxes on a bench near a fire with the caravan master standing nearby. The fire's warmth seemed to conflict with the cold air that Janice feels on the back of her head. Sara then sits next to Janice, shuffles in real close on to Janice's arm and places her head on Janice's shoulder. It was her custom to do so for a long time. It always seem to be a comfort to both of them, her doing it every night. The caravan master looks sideways at the pair.
"What kind of relationship do you have here?" he asks, while pointing at them.
Sara's eyes narrowed at the man as she slowly, and silently reaches for the blade in her boot. She hated when people ask questions about things that wasn't their business.
Janice bluntly answers, "The kind of relationship that's none of your business."
Seeing Sara's hand on the blade handle, and the look on Janice's face tells the man he should let it go and move on.
"You're right, my apologies ma'am, see you in the morning.' He says as he leaves the pair alone.
Janice looks to the north, seeing the dim lit lights of Sanctuary City in the distance."Jobs almost done Sara, then we will see what happens next."