Chapter 4: Citizen life

Julie hoped that the Master Chief would be able to adapt to moving around in a space without his armor and be able to move through the city without causing any trouble in the city. "Hey chief I'm gonna go talk to the detective here in the city about how to find the missing person I'm looking for, so just walk around the city or stay here in Piper's place it's up to you," she said as she waved while walking out of Piper's home. She walked to the Valentine Detective agency and knocked on the door waiting until she heard a voice call to her, "Come in!" as Julie entered she saw that the person that had called her into the office was a younger looking woman who seemed to be looking through a filing cabinet seemingly going over different cases. "Umm… hi," Julie asked nervously the woman turned her head while still facing the cabinet, "Another stray coming in from the wind huh, 'fraid you're too late, office is closed," said the woman. Julie looked confused for a second, "But it's only a little past noon, I mean if that's when you close that's ok but," "No no no it's not that were closed for today, were closed until we get Nick, our detective, back from his last case that he took, but he hasn't been back in a few days and I'm getting worried." Julie thought on this for a second and then got an idea, "Ok how about this if I help you find Nick then you guys will help me find my son," she asked putting her hand out for a hand shake, "Alright you've got yourself a deal miss…," the woman finished "Julie, its Julie and you are…?" She asked after finishing the handshake, "I'm Ellie, Ellie Perkins," "Well Ellie where do you think I can find Nick at?" Julie asked hoping to be able go get the Master Chief and get geared up and ready to go before he does anything in the city. "He should be at the Park Street Station there should be a vault in the station somewhere, he should be in there," Ellie said as she seemed to slow down and become sad as she was talking about Nick, which gave Julie a reason to make this one of her top priorities to get done. "Don't worry Ellie I'll make sure to bring him back alive and well," she said giving her a smile, but it didn't last long as she heard yelling coming from outside the agency sounding like it came from the town's center, she quickly turned and ran out the door hoping that it wasn't the Chief making all this noise.

When Julie turned the corner she saw the chief standing next to the weapons workbench, with the guards standing around him. He was holding his rifle in his hands seemingly adjusting something on the rifle, the guards all standing around him seemingly worried about something while the Chief stands there with no expression on his face. Julie ran up to the guards and tapped their shoulder and began questioning him before he could finish turning around, "What's going on?" she asked as he finished turning around. "Ma'am you need to back up we are handling the situation, I think," he said the last part quietly probably hoping that she didn't hear it, "I know him though," she said hoping to defuse the situation and let no one get hurt. The guard looked back at the very large man in the middle of the crowd and then turned back to her, "If you can do anything to help us that would be very helpful but if anything happens you need to get behind us," he said, "Yes sir, no problem." Julie then walked through the small crowd ,with the guard's help, and walked up to the Chief, "Hey…uh what are you doing?" She asked while looking at his rifle trying to figure out what caused this situation. He pointed to his rifle, "Modifying," he said simply stated while still seemingly calm, Julie then turned around and faced the guard, "He was just modifying his gun what's wrong with that?" she asked putting her hands on her hips. "Well nothing really we just hadn't seen him before and got worried when he was messing with his gun and loading it," she nodded at his response and didn't want to agree with him but understood where he was coming from, "That's understandable but you don't really have to worry about him, he's just a military type of man," she said looking over her shoulder back to the Chief, "He likes to keep his weapons ready, but he won't hurt anyone here," she said hoping that the guard couldn't tell she didn't know the full truth about the last part.

When everyone cleared from the small group and the guards had went back to their work Julie turned to the Chief, "Alright now that that's over I have a mission for us," she said with a grin on her face. The chief turned to here and gave her his full attention, "But first we should go back to Piper's house so you can get your armor back on," she led the chief back to Piper's home and once they were inside the chief began taking off the outfit that they bought for him. While the Chief was getting armored up she began to explain the assignment, "Ok so apparently the investigator here in the city has gone missing-," "Wait Nick's missing? Oh no what you gotten yourself into now nick," Piper said as she interrupted Julie. Julie was very quick to respond, "Yes he has been captured but we know where he is and were gonna go rescue him," she said while pointing to herself and the Master Chief, "I wanna come with you guys," Piper stated, "What are you sure, I mean I know he's your friend but this is gonna be very dangerous," Julie replied wondering if she had ever used a gun before. "Don't worry Blue, I live in the wasteland I can take care of myself," Piper said standing straighter, "Well if you're sure then that's fine with me if it's okay with the Chief," Julie said as she turned to face the Master Chief catching him as he was finishing putting on his helmet. He finished sealing his helmet and turned to her and nodded, "Alright if everyone's ready we can go ahead and head out," Julie said as she turned and opened the door and stepped outside, but as she stepped outside she noticed that the sun was just about to finish setting. "Oh well I guess were not gonna go there today, huh, it must have taken longer than I expected to do everything today," she said as she turned back to the other two in her little group, "Well I guess we just need to rest up tonight and we'll head out in the morning," Julie said hoping that Piper would be able to wait until the morning. "You can both stay here again so we can just leave immediately," Piper said breaking the silence, "Are you sure because I have enough caps to rent a room-," "No, no I'm sure I can't just let my new friends pay for something they can get for free," Piper said with a smile as she looked between Julie and the Chief. "Thank you so much Piper," Julie said as she walked up to Piper and pulled her into a hug, "I promise you we will save Nick," she then let go of Piper and followed her inside with the Master Chief in tow.

(Author's Note: Hey guys it's me, I just wanted to say thank you for all of the favorites and the comments and everything that you guys have done. I understand that some of you may have read the other story on my profile and while some of you may want to see it continue I don't really have any interest in going any further with it but I will keep this story going until I either finish it or make a second book to it. But I do have a question for you guys, would you like to see the Lone survivor have a relationship, like boyfriend, girlfriend, or even get married to any of the characters in Fallout 4 or in this story? If so please comment and let me know, and I know it may not be the best question to ask but I was just wondering, again thank you guys for everything and I hope you are all enjoying the story.)