Chapter 2.3: The Outside Part 3
William woke up from his deep sleep in his new home. He checked his pip-boy for the time. It was noon, and he noticed that the pip-boy had picked up a new radio signal.
The name of it was, "Outcast Distress Signal."
It played the message.
"This is Defender Morrill, any Outcasts listening on this frequency report to sector 7-B, Bailey's Crossroads. This is a high-priority message, backup is needed at our location. Any personnel listening on this frequency please report at once." The message then simply repeated over and over again, so William turned it off.
"Well...it's on the way to Galaxy News Radio anyways..." William said. He grabbed his bag of stuff, walked down the stairs, quickly ate one of the containers of food that was in the fridge of his house...he didn't even want to know how old it was. Drank a bottle of water that Wadsworth provided him, and then he walked out of his house.
He walked past Moriarty's bar, and Moriarty suddenly stopped him.
"Who the fuck do you think you are kid?" Moriarty asked.
"...What is this about?" William asked.
"You know what the fuck this is about. You kill two people in my bar, and then Nova tells me that you hacked into my computer?" Moriarty yelled, enraged.
"I needed to know where my father went." William said.
"I told you I would tell you..." Moriarty was interrupted by William.
"If I paid you. You can't make people pay for information about missing family..." William said.
"Are you fucking serious? You can indeed. Now, you are either going to pay me double what I told you, now that I know you hacked into my terminal, or I'll put a bullet between your eyes." Moriarty said.
William noticed that Jericho was now standing behind Moriarty.
"Hey, jackass." Jericho simply said. Moriarty wheeled around to face Jericho, but Jericho instantly punched Moriarty, knocking him over in the first blow. "Come on kid." Jericho said, after kicking Moriarty once in the stomach. Jericho and William walked off, before Moriarty could recuperate.
"YOU'RE BOTH BANNED FROM MY BAR, FOREVER." Moriarty screamed from above, enraged.
"So...why'd you help me?" William asked.
"Again...I didn't help you. I hurt Moriarty. Though this time, I literally hurt him." Jericho said.
"You still don't want to come with?" William asked.
"Actually, now I will. Mainly because I need to go out of this town to get booze now. You're going to GNR, right?" Jericho asked.
"Well, I'm making a side stop at Bailey's Crossroads to go help out some...Outcasts, I think it was. Picked up their radio signal on my pip-boy." William said.
"On second thought...I changed my mind. When you ARE going to GNR, I'll go with you if you want. But I'm not going on your little detour to help the Outcasts...I hate all of them." Jericho said.
"Is there someone you don't hate?" William asked.
"Honestly...? No." Jericho said, truthfully.
"Have you even ever cried?" William asked. Jericho couldn't restrain his laughter.
"No..." Jericho said, stopping his laughing.
"So you're actually saying, that you've never cried?" William asked, still not believing him.
"Nope...not once. I've seen very fucked up things in the wasteland, seen my own "friends" die, but I never cried. Just got used to it. Plus, if you become a raider, you either get desensitized really fucking fast, or you end up dying because of it. Emotions will just weigh you down." Jericho said, with honesty.
"I don't believe that. It's okay to show some emotion, morality, humanity every once in a while." William said.
"Humanity? Humanity kills each other, rapes each others' sisters, and bitch slaps their own mothers." Jericho responded.
"You know what I meant...plus, I bet, one day, you'll eventually break down, and cry." William said, mockingly.
"Bullshit. Not one tear is ever going to be shed by me." Jericho said, denying the possibility of him crying.
"I'll bet you a beer that it happens." William said, putting his hand out.
"...You know what? Fuck it. Deal." Jericho said, shaking his hand, accepting the bet.
"Now...I gotta go." William said, letting go of Jericho's hand, and walking towards the gate of Megaton.
Eventually, he did cry.
End of Chapter 2.3: The Outside Part 3
Well...I believe this was the story that has gone the longest without a update. My apologies for that...
From now on, I'm going to be updating all of my stories in one burst. So all updates are going to be posted the same day. This is to make sure all stories begin to get the same amount of attention. As most of my side stories got pushed aside for the goliath that was ANDoH, but that is over now...at least part one.
Adios, and review if you want.
~TGG333
