Chapter Four
GNR
Jinx's POV
Kaden heard about GNR on his pip boy, how Three Dog talked to his father. Kaden of course wanted to check it out and see if his dad was still there. I just nodded and followed him into the D.C. ruins. As we walked, I couldn't help but think about Jay. I don't know why I was thinking about him, guess I'm just worried. I mean how long would raiders let a half ghoul lead them. I just shake my head and follow Kaden.
"You okay?" I hear Kaden ask me.
"Yeah," I reply and look around for raiders or any other dangers of the waste.
Soon we head into the metro tunnels. I really don't bother knowing the names, that's why I just let Kaden lead with his pip boy. I shoot a couple of feral ghouls and let Kaden kill the radroaches, okay I did let him kill one or two ghouls.
Kaden's POV
As Jinx and I head out the metro, we run into some brother hood of the steel paladins, fighting some super mutants. Jinx sneaks up behind one of the super mutants, that a paladin is fighting, and reverse picks pockets a live frag onto him. With in seconds the mutant explodes, his buddy turns around to see what is going on, but is greeted by Jinx's combat shotgun to his ugly face.
As Jinx shoots the mutant, another pops out behind a wall and tries to shoot her with a hunting rifle. I quickly pull out my laser pistol and shoot the super mutant in the head. Jinx looks at me in disbelief, but smiles at me.
One of the brother hood asks Jinx and I why we are here, and I tell them that I want to speak to Three Dog. The paladin nods and tells Jinx and I that we can tag along. Before she leaves, the paladin thanks Jinx for saving her life. Jinx just nods at her and follows behind me.
"Thanks," I hear Jinx whispers behind me.
"You're welcome," I tell her back.
Jinx's POV
I wonder what Jay would say right now, that I just helped a brother hood, he would ask if I was sick, I shake my head and kept my combat shotgun close to me. I have a bad felling that there are more super mutants up ahead. I look at Kaden and can't help but smile at him. Guess he is not so bad, he was right about being good with a gun.
We follow the brother hood down an ally way, to a ruin elementary school. Two super mutants run at us. A brother hood throws a frag at them, blowing the mutants into tiny chunks. I flash a grin at the bother hood, and keep walking. Once inside we are greeted, by two more super mutants on the second floor. I pull out my sniper rifle and get head shoots on both of them, dropping them both at once . I grin and we head out of the school.
When we turn the corner of the ruin building, we see more mutants and brother hood. I run ahead of Kaden and start to shoot at the super mutants. As I fight my mutant, I look over at Kaden and see that his weapon broke. I quickly run over to him and push him out of the way from a nail board. I feel the rusty nails dig into my shoulder; I hold in a scream and shoot the mutant. A brother hood runs up behind the mutant and finishes it off. Kaden looks up at me. His hazel green eyes are wide with worry; I just shake it off and get up. I pull out the nail board, felling a couple of them breaking off the board and staying lounged in my arm.
"Come on, there are more to fight," I tell him and shakily help him up.
Before Kaden can ask if I am all right, I run off and help another bother hood with the last mutant. When the mutant hits the ground dead, I grin and slowly walk over to Kaden. He looks at me with worry, but I just shake my head. There is something wrong, and I can feel it. Or maybe it's just the pain in my shoulder…
I feel Kaden next to me, as he looks over at my shoulder. As he does so, I watch as a brother hood walks over to two overturned buses. When she does, I hear a loud bang and push Kaden off me. I run to the girl, but it is too late and a super mutant behemoth pushes the buses out of the way and causes the girl to fly backwards. I run back toward Kaden, knowing that the girl is already done for.
"Run!" I shout at Kaden, and toss him my combat shotgun.
He nods, and starts to run back. I quickly pull out my assault rifle, and start to shoot at the behemoth. The behemoth starts to run at a brother hood and I shoot the damn thing in the head and yell at it. He quickly changes his mind and runs after me. I grin and run back still shooting at the ugly fucker. He swings his made shift hydrant weapon at me and I quickly dodge the blow. Kaden runs up behind him and shoots him with a fat boy; I wonder how I missed that gun... Within seconds, the mutant falls dead, and Kaden is knocked over from the kick of the fat man.
Kaden's POV (Inside GNR)
I look over at Jinx's arm. I quickly pull out the long rusty nails and wash out the wound with some disinfected. Jinx sits there quietly, drinking a bottle of vodka that Three Dog gave her. I can tell that she is in pain Jinx is too quiet and her eyes are tightly closed. I grab a stimpak from a medical kit that I found. Jinx quickly stands up, rips part of her tee shirt, and ties it clumsy around her shoulder.
"No stimpaks," she tells me.
"Why?" I ask, knowing that I will regret it.
Jinx rolls her eyes. "I hate needles…" She confesses.
I grin.
"Badass Jinx hates little needles," I mock her.
She glares at me and tries to punch me, forgetting that her arm is hurt, but ends up missing and staggering down. I quickly catch her, and help her back down in her chair. I remove her make shift band-aid and pull out some gauze from the medical kit. Jinx glares at me and I shake my head.
"Sorry about that…You just seem like that type that wouldn't be afraid of anything," I softly tell her, hoping she really wouldn't hear me.
Jinx grins at me and shakes her head.
"Just because I use to be a raider, doesn't mean I'm some badass. I just know how to survive better." Jinx tells me looking out in space.
"Yeah, but look at what you did at those mutants," I tell her.
"You saved that brother hood, my life…I could never be like you Jinx…I…" I start to tell her, but she shushes me.
"You saved my life first Kaden, and hell you pretty much took down that behemoth and help that kid in Grayditch. I would had left that kid, and just took care of myself, you didn't. You know medicine better then anyone I have seen, plus you lived in a vault all your life, within a year or hell a couple of weeks you could kick my ass," she tells me and stands up.
Jinx gives me a quick pat on the shoulder, and grabs her armor and weapons. She walks down stairs to a room that Three Dog let us sleep in. I hear the door open then close. I sigh and go to the restroom to wash off my hands. I hear Three Dog finishing his talk show. Saying something about, "don't feed the Yao Guai", I need to ask Jinx what that is.
I quickly wash off my face and walk out back to where Jinx was sitting. Three Dog sits in the opposite chair. I sit down in the empty seat, wishing that Jinx was still in here with me.
"How's your friend doing?" Three Dog asks me.
"She's better, just being hardheaded," I tell him with a small smile.
He grins.
"Yeah all ex raiders are always hard headed, glad to actually see a smart one for once, instead of just killing every thing she sees," he tells me.
I nod, not really caring. I am to tried and sore too.
"Hell you both did a great job helping the brother hood…Fighting the good fight," he says almost laughing.
"I don't really care about the good fight, I just need to find my father," I cut off Three Dog almost yelling.
He nods understanding. I hate to be rude but I cannot take his crap now. I don't know what it is about him, but he just creeps me out.
"Tell you what, I will tell you where your father is, but I need some help in return," he tells me.
"Go talk to Dr. Li in Rivet City," He starts and stands up.
"I also need you to fix my signal," he adds.
I smile and nod.
"Thank you," I say and quickly walk to the room where Jinx is.
I see Jinx sitting on the ground cleaning and fixing her armor and weapons. She glances at me then back at her assault rifle. I sit down next to her.
"We have to talk to Dr. Li in Rivet City," I tell her.
Jinx looks at me in shock.
"You're shitting me? We've been there already…What the fuck!" She yells, grabbing my laser rifle that is at my hip. She starts to take it apart and fix it back up.
"For once I agree with you," I tell her and lean back against the bombed out wall.
"But first I agreed to fix Three Dog's signal," I say and stand up walking over to my bed and lay down.
Jinx sighs angrily and continues to fix my laser rifle.