Sarah Lyons sat in the den; the citadel was quiet this time of the morning, except for Scribe Rothschild's snoring that is. She had been thinking about the wanderer since Roosevelt academy, why did he disappear, where did he go and why didn't he want to be found. Who could hurt a near god so much that he could leave the world?
Things had begun to get to her. The pride was worn out from the search and the super mutants were becoming more ferocious in the D.C ruins. The search for the wanderer came to nothing and now her pride was too tired to reinforce the groups in the city centre, someone could die, the wanderer wasn't around to help and Sarah believed it was her fault.
At this point Vargas entered the den and sat across the table from Sarah, the look upon his face told her that he had something to tell her. "Come on then, spill, you know something" Vargas stayed silent but simply grinned like a Cheshire cat. "Come on already, or do I have to cripple your hydraulics again?" Sarah bashed her fist hard enough to make Gallows stir slightly.
"Well, scribe Vallencourt managed to hack an uplink to a pre-war satellite in orbit over western D.C"
"So, how does that make you grin Vargas?"
"Well Sarah, I managed to spy a certain wanderer walking along an overpass towards that new settlement over vault 106"
"WHAT!"
"Yep, he's back and he wasn't alone either, and Vallencourt says by his behaviour he's looking for something"
Sarah stood up from the booth knocking the table slightly, this time she really did wake gallows. Before he could bring her up on the rude awakening she had grabbed her gear and was out the door, Gallows walked up to Vargas and asked him what was going on. Sarah was almost at the exit as Gallows reacted to news of the wanderers return.
"What the fuck, she isn't seriously going to see him is she!?"
Sarah was almost out of the main gate when gallows caught up to her in full combat gear, but Sarah needed to do this alone. What she needed to talk about with the wanderer wasn't for the ears of her brethren; they would banish her if they knew the truth.
"No Gallows, this is something I have to do alone, go back to the den"
Gallows stopped in his tracks. He knew better than to defy Sarah, but he also cared for her and didn't want her to get hurt. There was nothing he could do. She was determined and nobody stops Sarah Lyons when she gets determined. All he could do was wish her good luck.
Amata was up again, she felt funny, the bed was wet. It was time, how did it pass so quickly? The day she feared for nine months was here. Her father wouldn't allow her to keep the baby once he was born. Who knew what would happen to her child now that she had stupidly decided to return to the vault. Who knew what her father was capable of these days. Amata pressed the call medic button. In no time at all Jonas was entering her room with a gurney, with Beatrice helping with the other end. But this wasn't the happy occasion it should be. There were no smiles; it was sombre and deafeningly quiet. Amata was loaded onto the gurney and wheeled out into a corridor with guards stood at orderly checkpoints.
A nearby speaker announced that all residents were confined to quarters and would be shot if found elsewhere. The gurney slowly moved past Perry's old office on the admin floor. It reminded her of happier times; it also made her sad to see it locked tight and covered in dust in the same condition as Perry had left it.
Eventually they made it to sickbay, the door was immediately closed and sealed, the windows emergency shutters descended. Amata noticed that Beatrice had injected her with something, it didn't feel right. As Amata fell into sleep she heard the "all clear siren".
The wanderer was hard at work when his intercom buzzed, the decryption would take time to complete. He flipped the intercom screen and saw that the security tower was trying to call. He immediately hit the answer button.
"Hello Lucas, what's wrong?"
"Some power armoured bitch just blew through my security gate, broke Lucy west's arm and now she's headed to your lab"
"I see, I've been expecting this visitor, let her continue"
"But she ..."
"No arguments Lucas, I will deal with her myself, and please tell the doctor to take payment for Lucy's medical care from my account and for the gate repairs"
"Ok ok, but I don't like this"
The wanderer pushed the end comm's button and moved to a console on a nearby desk next to a distillery setup. He pushed a camera icon at the top of the menu and was immediately shown a live camera feed of the laboratory section atrium, which was empty. The wanderer looked at his pip boy clock and tapped the screen. "She's late". Then he saw Sarah Lyons enter the atrium with a duffle bag of dynamite. She was about to start planting around the door when the wanderer pushed a button on the console to unlock the door.
Sarah stood back from the door as a buzzer sounded and the door pushed itself ajar. She kicked the door open and marched on heading down one empty corridor after another until she eventually came to a lab with a very large window wall. Behind the glass she could see the wanderer in a white lab coat and a pair of tortoise shell glasses. At first she was amused as she hadn't seen him as a scientist before. Then she remembered why she came and just wanted to punch his stupid face.
She moved to the open door of the lab and entered moving over to the side of the desk opposite the wanderer. Before he could say anything Sarah's arm was in the air. This was a mistake on her part as the wanderer caught her arm so fast she didn't realise until he had flipped her onto the floor and sat on her stomach. She immediately began wriggling and writhing beneath the wanderer.
"I get it I get it, you're pretty damn tenacious, now calm down or I will rip your arm off" Sarah immediately froze, prompting the wanderer to get off and sit on a chair.
Sarah immediately launched into an unintelligible tirade of abuse at the wanderer, he caught small snippets such as "how could you abandon the people of the wastes" and "you abandoned me" and of course the classic "do you know how worried I've been!" The wanderer put his hand up to silence Sarah.
"First of all I didn't abandon the people of the wastes; I simply had more important work elsewhere. Secondly there was no need to worry I am a grown man and finally are you angry about my absence or the aftermath of what happened when I rescued you from the Jefferson rotunda"
Sarah stood like a dear in headlights before regaining composure. "How dare you, you did not rescue me, you simply turned up and killed all those super mutants before I could untie myself. And what happened in that rotunda was as much you're fault as it was mine"
"Sarah, I was vulnerable and alone, Amata and Jonas had upped and left. I was a broken man and you took advantage" Sarah gave an irate growl and started smashing random lab equipment. She didn't notice the wanderer as he came up behind with a stun gun. When she awoke she was back at the citadel and the wanderer was nowhere in sight.
Amata awoke in the Brig. The baby wasn't there. She was alone. Where was her baby? Amata stared through the windows into the security room. It was empty, then she noticed a camera in the corner of her cell watching her every move. She spent twenty minutes screaming at the camera, but no answers to her questions were supplied. Eventually Amata smashed the camera and curled into a ball crying and pulling at her hair. Knockout gas filled the cell and Amata blacked out once more.
Amata's final thoughts before losing conscious were that her cries would never be heard, that she would never escape. How wrong she was, just the slightest twinge of her pain had been caught by the wanderer's telepathic power. He rose from his chair and immediately walked out of his laboratory with a look Sarah Lyons had never seen on the wanderer before. The look of intense anger. Sarah stood dumb founded as doors slammed and the wanderer's footsteps echoed ever further away.
The Overseer might not be able to see it yet. But the wanderer was heading back to the vault to meet his first born child, and he was very very angry!
