Chapter 1 – Meeting Her

Johnny could remember when he first met Piper Wright. He had arrived outside the huge gates of the once great Fenway Park. At first he thought she was crazy, she was standing with her back turned to him arguing with herself, or so he thought.

However after she had said something, there was a reply from a speaker box she seemed to be standing in front of. Johnny smiled slightly realised he felt like an ass for assuming she was crazy. He could hear the voice from the speaker telling her how angry the mayor was about the article she had written; he figured she must've been a journalist.

"You can't just kick me out, I live here." Johnny heard her say. After minutes of silence there was still no reply from the voice.

"Danny Sullivan you better open up these gates, or I swear to god…" She said turning around and cutting herself off as she noticed Johnny. Johnny felt awkward at first feeling like he had intruded on something rather personal.

"Hey you! You want to get into the city right?" She said in a whisper indicated that she was addressing him.

"Yeah I guess." Johnny replied back scratching the back of his head.

"Well play along." Piper said smirking before turning back around and addressing the speaker again more loudly this time. She informed the man through the speaker that there was a trader from Quincy here. Johnny knew she was talking about him, he smiled to himself realising that he could probably get along with this woman real well.

The man speaking through the speaker quickly gave in and opened the huge gates to Fenway. Johnny thought back to his life back to the war. How his first date with Nora had been to this very first stadium.

He remembered meeting his wife for the very first time. She was at a diner all alone; he could tell that she had obviously been stood up. He couldn't understand why anyone would stand such a beautiful woman up.

So Johnny approached her and introduced himself. He took a seat in the same booth but across from her. She was the most amazing person he had ever met, so beautiful, so smart, funny and full of sass.

"Hey uhm, excuse me? You still there?" He heard another voice that brought him back to reality. In front of him the woman in a red trench coat, with a press hat on stood in front of him waving her hand in front of his face.

"Are yeah, sorry just day dreaming."

"Well I was saying, you better head inside. Mayor McDonough is going to be really pissed once he realised Danny let me back in. I'm Piper, Piper Wright by the way." She said extending her hand to shake. Johnny grabbed it shook it firmly.

"I'm Johnny and I follow you in first." He replied back. She just nodded before releasing his hand and making her way in first. They hadn't gotten very far when a man wearing a brown patchy suit and a brown fedora stood in front of them.

The man wore a scowl on his face and was death staring Piper. Johnny drew his own conclusions figuring the angry looking man to be the major. He found himself right when Piper and the Major addressed one another.

They had seemed to forget that he was standing there as they had their argument. It wasn't until Piper brought him in to the conversations did he notice the sudden change in the majors personality and attitude.

Johnny did not like the man at all. He seemed fake and so full of shit. So when the major asked him what he was doing in diamond city his only response was,

"Mind your own fucking business." Before storming off towards the stairs.