Chapter 4 – Kellogg
Johnny had talked to Nick Valentine, about everything that had happened in the vault. He was the first person he had actually opened up to. He felt awkward and for some reason Nora's name fell heavy on his heart once he uttered it.
He felt like he had broken a promise to her. What seemed to kick him even worst in the gut was the fact that this man named Kellogg was seen in Diamond City with a young boy that looked to be ten years old that could possibly be his son Shaun.
Johnny couldn't grasp the fact that perhaps ten years had passed since his wife's death. It felt like only yesterday that he watched his wife bravely defend off her attackers before being shot and his infant son being taken away.
Yet ten years had passed and he worried about if Shaun would even remember him. Nick offered to come with him to Kellogg's house. Johnny accepted knowing he needed help and there was something about Valentine that Johnny liked.
Nick kind of reminded him of his father. He was a wise, kind and strange man. But Johnny didn't mind that fact that the man was a synth. Johnny would never be that bigoted to judge someone off of that fact alone.
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It had taken them a bit of snooping around and tracking on Dogmeat's part. But they finally came to the place Johnny believed Kellogg to be hiding out. They entered through the roof of Fort Hagen and fought the synths as they made their way through the building.
During this he could hear Kellogg over the speaker telling him to leave. But there was no way in hell he was leaving. He promised his wife that he would get the revenge she deserved. He also needed to know his sons whereabouts.
Once they had come across Kellogg, Johnny knew immediately that that was the man that had ripped his family apart. He found hard to control his anger; his finger itched to pull that trigger.
The time finally came when he battled the man Kellogg, after finding out his son had been in fact delivered to the Institute. Even after Johnny had laid waste to Kellogg, he couldn't help but seem to lay clip, after clip of ammo into his dead body.
Johnny screamed at the dead body wasting his ammo on it. It wasn't enough for him, he just wanted his son back, and he wanted Nora. He knew that killing Kellogg wouldn't bring back his family but he had hope for some closure, but there was nothing but anger still seeping through him. He wanted to be able to feel Nora's warmth beside him one last time and his son's little hand wrap around his finger just one more time.
Nick had finally pulled him away from Kellogg's dead body, patting him on the back telling him that everything will be ok. Nick reassured Johnny that they would find a way into the Institute to save his son. They slowly made their way back to Diamond City.
Johnny felt defeated and if he drank this would be the time he'd be drowning his sorrows. Instead he smoked the whole pack of cigarettes that Piper gave to him before he even got back to Diamond City.