"This is bolder city?" she stared at the broken down piles of rubble and the absence of life. "Why would NCR even think of being here?" she kicked a stone. "You know what never mind let's just kill these bastards." Boone nodded and followed her through the rubble to try and find someone. Hell anyone would be a welcome sight. She learned very quickly that Boone was not as talkative as she was, a few times she actually had to make sure he wasn't a reanimated corpse or something by pointing her pistol at him and waiting for a reaction. Needless to say he didn't find it as funny as she did.
"Civilians aren't allowed here. You need to leave." Winter turned to see a man standing cross armed in front of a make shift door. "What seems to be the problem?" she asked gesturing to the gun shots behind the door. "Fiends, Too many for my men to overcome. Two were taken captive by them already" The man turned to Boone and gestured to the beret. "Good work soldier." Boone mumbled a half sincere thanks. "I think I can help." The man turned back to face Winter. "I doubt that." She smirked. "Now I'm going to take a guess and say you think I wouldn't be able to help because I'm so small correct?" she didn't wait for an answer. "That may be true but I'm fast, strong, and stealthy. I think I could get past those fiends, take out the leaders, and rescue the captives so your men are free to fire at will." He thought about it for a moment. "Alright, bring them back and we fire." She nodded and disappeared through the door.
She moved around the back of the NCR troopers and headed along the wall to the first opening in a building she could see. She twisted her back around the stone to slip into the gap as quietly as she could. She pulled out a straight razor and quickly brought it across the man guarding the two captives neck. She moved silently across the room and put a finger to her lips, signaling for them to stay quiet. They nodded and quietly they were to go back to the rest of the troopers and to tell them not to enter the building next to them until she was gone. They nodded and took off. She snuck past the fiends outside off the buildings and rushed to the only intact building around. She turned to Boone. "go back and wait with the troopers." He shock his head. "not happening." She scowled. "why not?"
"they might shoot you if you leave with out someone they know is NCR." She rolled her eyes and motioned for him to follow. She slipped inside the shop quietly enough and recognized the three in there as the fiends who had helped the man in the checkered coat. She stood and cleared her throat. Two off them looked at her stunned, the third lay dying on a mattress in the corner. "Miss me?" she asked, smiling sweetly. The two fiends stood rooted to the spot, Winter walked slowly up to them, they watched her as she pulled the first mans head back and quickly and cleanly slit his throat. The second man swallowed hard and jumped over the counter running to the door in an attempt to escape. Boone stepped in front of the door, rifle pressing against his stomach. "You murderer!" called the man just before Winter cut his throat. Boone stood in front of the door unmoving, face hardened as he watched her finish the last man before turning back to him. She walked up to him, waving her gloved hand in front of his face. "Bitter…." He whispered softly and unknowingly. Winter waved her hands around franticly in front of his face to no effect. She stepped back and thought to herself. What did mom say she did to dad when he saw a radroach…? She snapped as she remembered. She pulled her arm back and smacked him hard across the face, sending his sunglasses flying and his eyes flying open.
"Hey it actually works!" she cried happily. Boone, on the other hand, glared at her menacingly before bending down to retrieve the glasses. "What was that for?" he growled, readjusting his glasses and beret. "my mom told me that when ever she would travel with my dad and he got freaked out over the radroaches she'd slap him and he'd forget about it and be mad at her instead of being scared." He grunted. "I wasn't scared I was thinking." She frowned. "You were pale white." He shook his head and walked over to one of the bodies. "Why did you hate these people so much?"
"I don't hate their people I hate them. They were with the man that attacked me." She sighed bending down to search their pockets and even take one of their bandanas. "What happened anyways?"
"I don't want to talk about it." She said simply stuffing the goods into her messenger bag. "What happened at Bittersprings?" he narrowed his eyes behind his lens. "What?" she stepped closer to him, wiping her hands off on the pants of her Merc Adventurer outfit. "When you were kinda out of it you said Bittersprings. What happened?" he shook his head and turned around. "Wouldn't know I wasn't there."