They got Traveling the next day. Everyone was refreshed from there brake on the Strip, they were ready for the few days of travel to Jacobstown. There was not very many reasons to stop, except for the normal nightly camping, so they got there in a few days.
"I didn't realize that this town was full of super mutants." Six said to Arcade after she was welcomed into the city by Marcus.
"We are looking for Doctor Henry, follow me." They followed Arcade into the ski resort.
"Doctor Henry." Arcade walked up to him.
"Arcade my boy, you better have a good reason to bother my studies." He said, Arcade moved him to the side of the room and they talked quietly in the corner.
Six looked out the window, it was the first time she saw snow, she wanted to slide down the snow and make little snowman, she felt like a kid again. She talked with Veronica about what fun things they could do in the snow.
"Snow fight!" Veronica laughed
"You are good with your hands, you would most likely beat me." Six joked
"oh yeah, I am good with my hands, more then you know." She elbowed Six and winked at her jokingly.
"It's so beautiful out here." Six pressed a hand on the cold window. "Okay, so before we leave we are soooo having a snow fight!" She stopped and looked to Arcade, as he came back to talk to her.
"I think he is ready for you." Arcade said to Six, "Now I know this sounds crazy, but I really need you to trust me on this."
"Sure, why would I doubt you." Six stopped when she saw a chair with many wires and straps. "hmm... What is going on?"
Arcade took a deep breath. "Okay, you have the normal strength of any super mutant, who could take any one of us down, without any weapon and you are showing signs of multiple personalities."
"So you think it would be a good idea to tied me down and butt rape me with wires?"
"Butt rape is such a harsh word, but.. yes." Arcade looked worried as she tensed up. "You will be okay, your friends will be near you, you will have two doctors to help and in the end we get to learn so much more about you."
"Is it going to hurt?" Six made a sad face.
"Only... a lot. Sorry, I am not good as candy coating things, but you have been through a lot of shit. This can lead you in the right direction." She looked up to Arcade.
"I trust you, but Boone better be next to me, so he can kick your ass if you hurt me."
"Of Course." Arcade helped Six on to the chair and strapped her up.
"This is the girl?" Dr. Henry asked looking her up and down.
"Correct."
"She doesn't look like much."
"Looks lie, remember, never judge a book by it's cover." Arcade said and taped on the wires.
"Whatever you say, boy." Dr. Henry attached straps to her and monitored her heart beat. "You are right about her heart, it's heavy as any nightkin I have seen."
Boone and Veronica found themselves a chair.
"I hope you guys bought tickets for this freak show." Six stuck out her tongue trying to lighten the mood.
"Wait I had to buy tickets, oh crap." Veronica joked.
"I am right here next to you okay." Boone comforted her.
Dr. Henry put a metal helmet on her and he gave her a stick attached to a wire, for her to put inside her mouth.
"Okay we are going to start by shocking you. This will hurt." He toyed with some numbs, the machine beeped 3 times and a current of electricity entered her body. Six shock and bit down on the stick almost braking it. Then it stopped, Six's head was leaning back and her eyes where close.
"Nothing is happening, I should try it again." Dr. Henry, pressed a button again. Another shock hit Six, she bet hard down on the stick, broken it and the electricity stopped again.
"We have to give her a new stick so she won't bite her tongue." Dr. Henry got close to to grab the broken stick. He stopped when Six grabbed a hold of his arm, she had ripped though the stripes. Six opened her eyes and they glowed blue. She squeezed his wrist and with a crack she broke his wrist. His screaming filled the room as he held his limp wrist. Six lifted up her head emotionless. She looked around and everyone was silent.
"You better have a fucking good reason why I am tied to a chair." Six's voice was deep and dark, it was different. "Is anyone going to tell me or should I start broken some more bones." She looked to Boone. "Ahhh the Boyfriend." She growled at him.
"If you are not Six then who are you?" Arcade said scared.
"Rachael." Her moves were steady, quick and her eyes were intense. "You should go help your doctor friend." She spat at Arcade.
"Aww... the protege." She looked to Veronica "Daddy loved you better then his own daughter." Veronica put her hand over her mouth, in disbelieve.
"Your mentor was an interesting one." Rachael tugged on the straps. "When he got Mother pregnant, he was glad, he had someone to test his new experiments on. He gave mother pills to make the perfect daughter." Rachael cracked her neck as she moved it. "You know it's taking me more energy to not brake out of here then it would for me to get out. You really think I am just as strong as a tiny nightkin? What an insult." The room was silent, "What, you bring me out and don't even have any god damn questions to ask me. Next time write a fucking script." She blinked and looked up to Boone, "Did she ever tell you how she killed Benny? Don't worry he got the happy ending he always wanted." she laughed evilly and Boone looked down on the floor. "You god damn fucking fucks, you disgust me. A terrible group of friends, not worth the shit on Six's shoe."
"You know nothing about us." Veronica stood up.
"You think I just come out when she is in a fight or is getting hurt. Fuck no. she is in my god damn body, she is doing all the fucking I want to do, but I do get to watch." She smiled at Boone
"What is going on in your body?" Arcade finally asked.
"You already know the implants, so I'll make it simple for you simpletons, I was sent to pick up some shitty holotape, when a lovely group of Khans came to fuck me in the ass. They beat me with sledge hammers, they distorted me from the waist down. Turning my bones into dust, they didn't want a fucking Khan to mate with some Brotherhood scum." Rachael tugged against the ropes making sure she left rope burns. "Daddy, just won't have it. He found something that would replace bone with metal. He trained me to not feel any pain, it was daily that he beat me. He said it built character. Then came the other implants, liquid metal, daddy shot it into my blood, it became the joints and it coated the remaining bones. I have sliver shoulder plate, sliver chest plats, and he replaced my spine with a mixture of the strongest metals. All of this was done with no meds. I felt everything. Then there was my favorite part. The brain implants, the chips where easy, it was the liquid metal that hurt. It felled every mother fucking crack in my brain, it strengthen me to handle more then a few bullets in my head and my brain learned more. I could watch people do something and I would learn after watching them once. How do you think I learned to shoot so well, in such a short time." She moved her free hand around using her index and her middle fingers, as legs moving around her head.
"I can feel Six inside of me now, but she is too weak to fight me."
"If you are so strong as you say you are, then why is Six mostly in control and you only come out to fight?" Arcade watched as Rachael's head rolled towards him.
"Simple, the last 26 years of my life was all me baby. Six lived inside of me, she always had, another gift from daddy, but she had no power over me." Rachael's muscles became tense "Then after getting shot by that little fucker, She was the one who came to. She took over, I didn't fight her, I didn't want to. I was tried of living my life, I was tried of hating so much. Then their was Six, so fucking naive. She didn't remember anything. She almost died when she got into a fight with some Powder Gangers down at Goodsprings, When I realized she still needed me. After that, any fight she got into I took over." Rachael scanned the room with her eyes. "See I am really not that fucking horrible, I only do this for my body. I don't want her fucking with the paint job." Rachael leaned her head back. "She is a noisy little fucker. Always joking, always so fucking happy." She tapped her head with her fist. "She doesn't know what is going on, she can't. She... She deserves better then that. Help her... Help her became what she wants, let her kill daddy and then you won't see me again." Rachael's voice sounded weak. "She deserves to live..." Rachael breathed deep, she relaxed and closed her eyes.
"What is going on?" Boone looked to Arcade
"I think she went back inside of her minds, I guess." The doctor was not interested into getting close to her after what happened to Dr. Henry. They watch her chest move up and down with each breath, she shivered and breathed out. She started to lift her head and opened her eyes to it's normal hazel color. Six looked around to see her friends with scared and surprised faces.
"Did I fall a sleep?" she was surprised to feel her free arm as she whipped her face. "Don't tell me I fell a sleep when you guys shock me."
Though no one really knew what to do, Boone came over and untied her. Six watched him do this. "Is anyone going to tell me what happened?"
...
Arcade waited for the next day to talk to Six about what had happened.
"We met Rachael." Arcade sat on the table across from Six who was eating her breakfast.
"What?" Six had her mind lost in her magazine of Lad's Life.
"The other day when you asked if you fell asleep, after we shocked you, we got to talk to Rachael." He put a holotape on the table between them. "Dr. Henry didn't tell anyone he had recorded the whole thing, until it was all done."
"So I can hear her voice?" Six looked at the holotape, she had a look on her face like it was going to come and bite her. "She talks about her past in here?"
"It's the whole recording of the conversation we had with her." He moved it closer to her with his index finger. "It's not going to kill ya to listen to it."
"I know that, it's just a big step." She put down her fork and she moved her plate to the side. "If and when I play it, it's going to tell me about who I am... or was... it's scary."
"Oh yeah it was also scary to see, but you can't see anything from a holotape." He moved it close to her, until her couldn't stench anymore. "You looked like you were possessed or something. Creepy stuff."
Six finally got up the nerve to pick it up. "So that whole I was sleeping thing was a lie?"
"Will not tactically, Six was asleep, Rachael... not so much." Arcade fiddled with his thumbs.
"okay then, round up everyone, I want to have them around to hear it with me." she looked at the holotape wondering what she would find out, but she needed to get dress, and start the day.
When she got to her room, Boone was still asleep on the bed, They had held each other all night. He wanted to hear her tell him stories of the things she did before she met him in Novac, He was intent with listen to her voice and her laugh. In return he told her about Bittersprings and she promised him, that she would take him there. Even through he was not very interested in going, Six felt that it might be better for him to understand what was going there now. He didn't understand how she knew what was good for him, but she did. He did understand how she knew what he wanted before he did and how she had learned to read him so will. Boone was a whole another person with Six, he told her things that others didn't know about him, he was softer and sweeter with her, she brought it out of him.
Six had looted a Merc Charmer outfit, that was a grayish blue mini skirt outfit, with holey tights, he knee high boots added a nice touch to it. She patted the dust off of it and she went over to wake up Boone.
The Team had met up in Dr. Henry's office, The doctor had his hand in a cast that his assist, Calamity make him. He stayed a few steps away from Six, for reasons no one had told her. Six waited for everyone to enter the room before she played the holotape. She looked around to make sure she could see everyone and she put the holotape into her pipboy, she looked to see everyone before she pressed play:
"Okay we are going to start by shocking you. This will hurt." *click, click* *sshhhhhzz...*
"Nothing is happening, I should try it again." *click, click*
*Sshhhhzz...*
"We have to give her a new stick so she won't bite her tongue." *ripe crack*
"ahhhh..."
"You better have a fucking good reason why I am tied to a chair."
"Is anyone going to tell me or should I start broken some more bones."
The record stop and she took the holotape out of her pipboy. Six held the tape in her hands and crushed it.
"What the fuck are you doing." Dr. Henry almost jump on to her, when he noticed her eyes glowing. A piece of the tape had dug into her skin and she didn't notice the blood that dropped from it.
"What fucking part of, I don't want Six to know about her past don't you idiots not understand?" Rachael throw the pieces of the holotape to the floor along with her blood. "Why can't you just fucking understand that I am only doing this for her?"
"She has the right to know." Boone looked down on her.
"She does, But not from me, I want you, her friends to be the ones who tell her, she would hate herself if I told her." Rachael had calmed down. "She has been through so much already, all she really needs to know is that her past is not her fault. Life is to short to fucking worry about the past. I am here from the past, she can know about me, I just don't want her to relate to me."
"She is nothing like you." Boone cliched his jaw
"I know, that's why." She walked around them, they all knew how powerful she could be so messing with her was not a good idea. "I thought I told you this before, I lived my life for the past 26 years of my live as some mistake, I never enjoyed shit. But Six, oh Six, she enjoys everything and everyone. My daddy fucked up my life, I don't wan to fuck up Six's life."
"But your life is Six's life." Arcade had to jump in.
"Not for long, if you do me one thing, you will never see or in this case met me again." She looked around, waiting for a reaction. "But why trust me? either you do or you don't. Just let her get the revenge that she needs, let her kill her daddy or let ME kill him. Then Six is your's. I will not come out, I will spend my energy healing her and keeping her alive."
"We can't make her kill anyone."
"Just tell her what I told you, she doesn't need to hear it, just tell her. Find where daddy hides and I will seek him. Then she can go off and have many bouncing babies, with that bald fucker and she can live a normal life. You dig?" Rachael strutted up and down around the group, enjoying making them flinch. "I think it's an easy request, she wanted to do this any way." She stopped and took a closer look to Boone and then to the others, "you guys are not a talkative bunch are you?"
"What if she won't do it?" Acrade asked
"There is no doubt in our minds that she won't want to pull the trigger. Now if we can skip all this small talk, I can only heal her when I am not out here talking to you idiots." Rachael sat down on the bed and waved to them good bye with her bloodily hand and closed her eyes, when she opened her eyes, they were once again hazel.
"That was weird, anyone know why my hand is bleeding." Six asked puzzled.
"It was Rachael," Arcade came over by Six to clean out her wound. "She didn't want use to let you play the holotape, so she just told us what to do." He was pulling a piece of clear plastic out of the wound with a pair of tweezers.
"What did she want us to do?"
"Go back to the Bunker and find out where Father Elijah is." Veronica finally stepped up to talk. "I guess, that he was the one who did this to you." Six knew how much Father Elijah meant to the scribe, so she was wondering how she was handling this information. "I really don't know what to think, he did go a little crazy at Helios One, so maybe, just maybe, he could be cold hearted enough to do it. I just really want to hear his side."
"I understand." Six was not sure what she would find out about Father Elijah nor did she understand why he had did this to her. "Before we travel on, I hope you guys understand that we have to make a detour."
...
Six planned for today to be a day, where she would play in the snow and even though the plans changed in the morning she wanted to take a ride in the snow, before the day was out.
Six's team had almost fell apart on this trip here, she found out she broke Dr. Henry's wrist, she hated this woman living in her, in fact she feared her.
When the snow started to fall, she sat out in the snow alone, on a blanket. She was catching the snow flakes into her tongue when Boone made his way over to join her.
"I thought that I scared everyone away from me." She looked up to the sky as the snowflakes landed so softly on her hair and eye lashes.
"Don't think you can scare me away." Boone watched her stick her tongue out.
"Tell me about your wife." It sensed out of the blue.
"I though you didn't like me talking about her."
"It's not that, I just think that you still think I am her." Six didn't look at him as he sat down next to her.
"She live in New Vegas until she married me... Manny and I had planned to move to Novac. It was a place, where he grew up, I made it own home... Carla hated it. She wanted to go back to the strip... but I didn't want to." Boone moved his sunglasses and rubbed his eyes, "I wanted to name own kid after her, She was not interested in that." He put his sunglasses on. "She complained, a lot, but her voice, it made me... forget.." He looked to Six who was still looking at the sky. "I never told her about what happened at Bittersprings, you were the first person I told about it."
He rubbed a snowflake off her shoulder, "I don't know why I told you.. I guess, I feel like I don't have to worry about being... judged by you." He laid out on the blanket, "I feel like... I don't have to worry.. about anything with you." Six laid down next to him with her arm behind her head for support. "We were married for a little more then a year and she never... got used to living in Novac." His sunglasses was getting covered in snow, which made Six smirk a little. "I will never stop caring for Carla and I will never stop caring for you." He removed his sunglasses and turned his head to Six. She was still staring at the sky, she felt horrible for wanting him to move on, he had already confessed his love for her, but she felt a bit of doubt in his voice. She loved him, but she needed to wait when he was completely ready to give his heart entirely away.
"I am sorry." That is the first thing that came to her mind.
"Why?"
"For every thing you have been though."
"I... I'm a murder... I deserve it." He put his sunglasses back on after pushing away the snow.
"Rachael did some horrible things and she had horrible things done to her. There is only this." She finally looked to him "You stick with me and I'll keep miss fortune on her toes." she smiled softy at him, he felt comfortable just laying next to her, she had an aura of comfort. Their nose touched each other's and they laid like this, until Six's legs got to cold for the snow.
Boone passed his trench coat to Six to put on while he folded up the blanket and started to walk back to camp. Six's fingers shaked when she dug in for a hand full of snow, she balled it and throw it on the back of Boone's shirt. He had stopped and turned to her, just to get another snow ball on the front of his shirt. He looked emotionless as the snow fell off his shirt, he looked at Six who had a grin from ear to ear and he uncharacteristically grabbed a hand full of snow, with his free hand and returned fire. The snow landed on her face, the aim of a sniper, and with her mouth agape she let out a laugh so loud that some people would have mistaken it for a scream.
Six got down on her frozen knees and began throwing hand fulls of snow, They lost their form, become just snow chunks and not snow balls. Six had to stop since her fingers were become numb, when the air between them had cleaned, it look that nothing really hit him. She stood up and walked her way towards him, when she got up close enough to hug him, he dropped the hidden snow ball that he had behind his back on to her head. Six stuck out her tongue at him and smile.
"Okay, okay truths." She got on her tip toes to kiss him and with that she shook her head, dog like, making sure she got him with falling snow. Boone smiled almost as much as she was, he felt different. He felt like he did before he joined the NCR, before he was a sniper, before bitter springs, before Carla, Six brag out the child in him. He rested his cold hand on her shoulder and they made there way back to the ski resort.
