I had to erase most of this chapter and retype it, I forgot that the courier does not know about his past and I figured I should wait to go into detail until Lonesome Road comes out cause I couldn't find crap on the wikia about the courier. Thank you SwankDoll and RatedRSuperStar87 for the reviews!
Aida sat on the hot dirt outside the bunker with Dedric holding the now bloody rag to his face, her vault suit in a puddle around her waist.
"So what is your tattoo about?"
Aida looked over at her forearm turning it so Dedric could view it better. "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely." She smiled looking up at him. "It was my mother's favorite verse, my father always read it to me when I was younger." She watched as Dedric ran his fingers over it. "This is why they sought to finish Project Purity, for my mother."
"What is Project Purity exactly?"
"Clean water for all of the capitol wasteland. My father died protecting it, I almost died activating it."
"So you are somewhat of a hero."
Aida shook her head. "My father was the hero; I was just finishing what he started like I promised I would."
"And who is Burke?"
"I don't want to talk about that."
Dedric looked down at the vault suite. "Were you raised in vault 101 or your father? Or just found it scavenging?"
"I was raised in the vault."
"Really?"
Aida nodded.
"What was that like?"
"Relaxing." Aida laughed. "Not worrying about radiation or where I would sleep, what I was going to eat or where I could find clean water. I had an education, a safe home and my father." She looked up at Dedric pushing the worn hat up so she could see his eyes. "What about you, did you grow up here?"
He shrugged. "I don't know to tell you the truth."
She raised her eyebrow. "How do you not know?"
"Maybe we could talk about this some other time." Dedric stood up holding his hand out to Aida. "I think it may be best if we head back to the 38."
"We?" She took his hand letting him pull her to her feet. "I think it may be best for me to stay here."
"At least come to the strip for a bit, you haven't even got to enjoy it. Your letter won't arrive for at least a month."
Aida stared at him putting her hands on her hip.
"You seem like you could use some fun and I could defiantly go for a weekend off." Dedric smiled. "What's the worst that could happen?"
Aida pulled the scarf over her face as she followed behind Boone and Dedric, Dogmeat close by her side and Fawkes following closely behind the pack. Aida wrapped her arms around herself as she scanned the darkness in front of them, she cursed herself she should have known that her upgrades were nothing but a fraud. She hated the night, never knowing what was coming or where they would be coming from.
Dedric slowed down till he was next to Aida pulling the scarf away from her face so he could see her expression. "You alright?"
Aida nodded pulling the side of the scarf from his hand.
"Don't worry" he wrapped his arm around her waist pulling her closer to him. "You have more than enough body guards."
She sighed pushing his arm away.
Boone stopped in front of them putting his hand up and signaling them to stop. Dedric hurried up next to him pulling the binoculars from around his neck to his eyes.
"Legionaries?"
"Assassin's" Dedric clarified to Boone as he counted the men. "I thought killing Caesar would stop them from pursuit, there are six of them." He glanced back at Aida who held the plasma rifle in her hands. "Why don't you three go into the gas station, we can draw them away from you and pick them off with snipers before they even realize what is going on."
Aida nodded to Fawkes to follow her; she hurried across the wasteland pushing the old door open. "Fawkes get this board off and lay some traps, we can hold them off I highly doubt those two will be protecting us." She stepped back as Fawkes pulled at the board trying to give enough room for Aida's rifle. She hurried through the small area cutting the lights so they would not give away their positions. She hurried next to Fawkes as the mutant began to drop the bear traps for Aida to set, she quickly latched them open be careful of her hands. She took a deep breath as she settle rifle on the ridge of the window closing one eyes as she scanned the area with the sights praying that the plasmas low glow wouldn't draw to much attention. Her finger sat steady on the trigger as one of the men dressed in a dark red armor slowly walked towards them. She jumped when a shot rang through the air, breaking through the front of the man's skull. She stared in disbelief as the man dropped to his knees, blood pouring down his face as he fell forward.
Dedric held his pipboy in the air swaying it back and forth trying to bring the Legion's attention to himself and Boone, he pulled a stick of dynamite from the bag next to Boone using Benny's lighter to light it. He tossed it towards the Legionaries using his finger to broadcast his whistle as the Legionaries whipped their heads around. "Yeah over here you dumb fuckers." He smiled as he waved his arms frantically in the air.
Boone's sniper rifle fired again taking down another Legion assassin. "It seems your girl isn't as defenseless as you may think."
"What?" Dedric quickly looked through the binoculars catching sight of Aida as she jammed the butt of her plasma rifle into one of the men's until he fell to the ground only to bring her combat boot down hard on the man's skull. He watched as Aida and her mutant quickly picked off the Legion as if they were nothing more than mere raiders.
Aida smiled as the last man fell to the ground putting her rifle back into its place on her back. She pulled her shirt up using the front of it to wipe the splatter to wipe the blood off her face.
"That was quite impressive!" Boone remarked as he followed after Dedric towards Aida.
"I have fought worst. The Enclave put up a much harder fight then they did." She chuckled as she pushed her hair behind her ears trying to hide the flush on her cheeks.
"Where does a vault dweller learn to fight like that?" Dedric smirked picking up Aida's bag and slinging it over his shoulder.
"I am more than just a girl who grew up in a vault; I think I have proved that more than once today."
"Yes I saw the damage you did to Dedric's face." Bonne smirked.
"Boone!" Dedric smiled as he covered his heart with his hand. "Is that a smile I see? So out of character for you! Now that is an accomplishment to be proud of Aida the whole seven months we have traveled together I have never seen Boone crack a joke."
Aida smiled stepping over a corpse and past the men. "Perhaps we should continue? I could use a shower."
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