He stopped outside of Megaton and waited for Lucky Harith, selling off all of his landmines but one. The one Moira wanted.
He went in, sending dogmeat home before going to craterside supply and setting the landmine on the counter. He took off his helmet, "There was a sniper there, damn near killed me. I could have gone through minefield, no problem, if it weren't for him. Disarming the landmines was simple, just a matter of not setting off their sensor as a first step, the second step was to get into the inner workings and just deactivate them. It was hard to do it while being shot at, so I had to duck behind cover and wait. I managed to outplan the sniper and I beat him. I won..." He pulled a nearby chair up behind him and sat down.
"Oh, well then, I know you may not want to see any more explosives for a while, but here you go." She handed him 9 grenades, "Oh, and a bit extra for the landmine." she set down the schematics for a bottlecap mine, "Oh, and since that concludes our first chapter, here's a bonus." She placed some stimpacks on the schematics. He rolled up the schematics and took them with the stimpacks.
"Yeah, about that, I'm severely injured, and I need to take a few weeks off... Anything" He groaned, the adrenalin having worn off a while ago, he was in severe pain everywhere except his left arm, which was very bad.
"Oh, about that, part of the next chapter is research on injury, so I could do that, and pay you for it and then you can have your break while recovering fully." She smiled, looking at him hopefully.
"Ok, shoot."
"Ok, how would you describe the pain you're in?"
"Excrutiating, just about everywhere except my left arm, I've lost feeling in it. Please just fix me." Xavier begged.
Moira nodded, grabbing a set of forceps and tugging at the biggest piece of shrapnel in his left arm. It came out and he lost consciousness with the new flood of pain.
He woke up in Moira's bed again, staring into her brown eyes, "There, all better, I even stitched a smiley face into you, to cheer you up. You can't see it from your view though..." Moria giggled.
"I don't think Lucy will be too happy." Xavier groaned as he stood, "Any of my clothes here with me or am I expected to walk through Megaton naked?"
"Well, your payment is an environment suit and some med-x" she motioned to both, the med-x sitting on the environment suit, folded up on the floor.
He picked up the environment suit, "You expect me to walk around town in this?"
"Well... Uh... No..." she picked up his underwear and a vault 101 jumpsuit, "Lucy got it from your house for you. She also says that the mole rat is very aggressive."
"Shit, I need to feed Jimmy and my bitch too..." He chuckled as he had made her name just then. He put on his underwear and his jumpsuit over it. He picked up his payment and sold the grenades back to her for more stimpacks and med-x.
He picked up his pack, grunting under the weight, and walked back to his place. Setting all of his stuff down he discovered that Jimmy knew how to open the fridge, and that they had eaten all of the radroach meat, "I'm sorry guys..." He looked at Jimmy, "Jimmy, you're getting fat."
His bottlecap bag was considerably heftier than the one he left with Lucy. He set the bag on the floor and laid next to it, "Wadsworth, get Lucy."
"Of course sir!" Wadsworth rushed out the door.
Lucy ran in only moments later, "These experiments with Moira are gonna kill you." She said softly, tears in her eyes.
"She stitched a smiley face in my ass for you." Xavier said with a chuckle.
Lucy opened her mouth but was interrupted by Jimmy squealing, "What's that?"
"It seems... That I have named Jimmy poorly..." Xavier stood, "She... Is going into labor." he walked up the stairs to assist her with the labor.
Seven mole rats were born.
"Well, if I work with them, I should be able to get them friendly with people, not just people they associate with me." Xavier said mildly, holding one of the pups gingerly.
Lucy petted the six that were each suckling on one of Jimmy's teats.
"Well then, today has been eventful, at least I think it was today, how long was I at Moira's?" Xavier asked.
"A few hours." Lucy said softly, scratching Jimmy on the back of her head.
"Yes, today then... I think it's time I sleep. We can spend time together as I recuperate before I go out to look for my dad." He said with a nod.
"Are you sure?" she asked.
"About what?"
"That we'll get to spend time together?"
"Yes."
