I closed my diary and rested my head against the metal head-board on my bed. I shut my eyes and let the deep sound of the Vault's reactor below sooth my mind. Images of my father flashed in and out of my mind as I felt all the emotions that I felt when he died come back to me in a flood of tears. He gave every thing so that I could make a difference in the world. I got up from my bed and wiped the tears off of my face. I grabbed what I thought would be necessary for me to survive in the Wasteland, and shoved them into my pack. Some stimpacks, rad-x, radaway, along with my fathers old 10mm pistol with about twenty rounds. I then made my way over to my door, hitting the lock release.
As it slid open the lights in the corridor lit up due to motion. It was the dead of night and no one was going to see me leave if I left now. That's the way I wanted it. I snuck around the living quarters to the door that led to the Atrium. Everyone seemed as if they were in a deep sleep and nothing would wake them up. I made my way up the stairs and looked out over the balcony in the Atrium. It was peaceful. For once, the Vault actually seemed like a peaceful place.
I quickly brushed off the thoughts of forgiveness to the people who choose to live their lives full of lies and tricks told to them by the Overseer. My father told me that she was once a good friend of his. That they grew up together and that for most of his life, he saw her as a sister not just as a friend. He said that she thought the same to till her father went corrupt with power and he had not choice but to kill him. Ever since then, they've been at a war of sorts. He was allowed to stay there as long as I was with him, but we would be treated like trash and only give enough rations to get by. No more no less. But I was sick of it. I was sick of her, and everyone else in this hell hole. I was getting out.
I ran through the hallways and to the stairs leading down to the ground level. Just past there would be the Vault entrance and past that, freedom. There was no one in sight. not a single person. There was no background noise nothing. I was entirely alone. I made a break for the door to the Vault entrance and stopped to look back at what I was leaving behind. a childhood of memories that I will never be able to see again, not that I would want to. I opened the door to the entrance and closed it behind me. down the corridor I could see the massive Vault door. I was almost there. I ran down the hallway stopped to look at the switch in front. This was it. All i needed to do was hit this and I was home free.
"You going to hit the switch or are you just going to stand there and look at it all night?" I swung around to find the Overseer standing in the doorway. I was in shock.
"Overseer Amata? I wasn't expecting to see you here." She let out a small laugh.
"No, I bet you weren't. But I sure as hell was expecting you."
"How did you know I was going to leave? I told no one and I kept all of my thoughts and plans in my Diary!" She looked me dead in the eye and told me the most heart wrenching answer I had never expected to hear.
"Your father told me." My heart dropped. I drew my father's old pistol and pointed it at her head.
"My fathers dead! Shit, I knew that you were twisted but I never thought that you were this messed up." She took a step forward and I felt my grip tighten around the trigger. She stopped and put her hands to her sides, palms open and facing me.
"You can leave all you want. I'm not here to stop you. I'm here to tell you the truth."
"Then you can do it from there just fine." She sighed and crossed her arms.
"Fair enough. First of all, your father is not dead. He is very much alive. All I did was simply help him fake his death. He wanted you to be safe and as long as he was still alive his dark side of his past would find you and see you as a threat. Now, there is no connection between you and your father. Secondly, I am here to get you out. He told me that you would be leaving soon after he died so I put you under succulence. You can't get out without my help anyways. The controls to the door are locked and only I know the code to open it."
"Well then you can tell me now can't you?" She sighed and nodded her head.
"Fair enough. You've made it this far and I know you know what you are dealing with out there. The code is 5746." I turned around and punched in the numbers into the terminal. There was a loud alarm, then the vault door slid open. I looked back at Amata who nodded her head a gestured toward the door. I turned and began to make my way to the giant door way. "Oh and Johna!" I turned around to face her. "Once you leave, if you ever come back again, you will be shot and killed on sight." I nodded my head and turned around.
"Didn't plan on it!" I ran out and down the dark, stone cave to a wooden door. This was it. A whole new life waited for me on the other side of this door. I held my breath and pushed the door open, stepping out into my new life. Stepping out into the Wasteland.