MacCready woke up to the bed moving. He looked up to see Anne sitting on the edge of the bed, pulling her boots on, her coat already on.

"What time is it?" MacCready asked rubbing his eyes, the faint blurriness of the alcohol still sitting in the back of his head.

"A little after 5," she said tying her boot up.

"Are you crazy?" he said sitting up and looking at her.

"We slept for 14 hours, we wasted a full day yesterday." She said standing up, both her boots on. She walked over to her pack and pulled out a box of sugar bombs. MacCready sat up with a sigh.

"Okay, I'm up," he said swinging his feet over the side of the bed. He eyed the sugar bombs and she came over and sat beside him, her hand in the box pulling out a handful, she was looking at him and he looked at confused.

"What?"

"You're hairs nice," she said, placing the box between her legs, reached over and touching it, "It's thick. Don't know why you wear that hat." He looked at her, feeling more confused. She pulled her hand away quickly and grabbed the sugar bombs shoving them in his direction.

He reached in, taking a handful and shoving it in his mouth.

"Nice to be on the open road, Goodneighbor was starting to wear out its welcome," he said, between bites.

"I never lived there, so I wouldn't know," she said, taking the box pack and taking another handful. Instead of shoving it in her mouth though she started placing them one at a time in her mouth.

"And you're better of for it. Trust me," he said licking his fingers, "Let's put it this way. Can't get much rest when you're sleeping with one eye open." he ran his hands over his pants trying to get the sugar off, "Still, it was the best place for me to set up shop."

She was looking up at him, slowly eating her cereal and he realized how intensely she was looking at him, "Diamond city goons would've run me out town and wandering the commonwealth alone isn't the brightest idea when you're hard up for caps." he grabbed his hat, pulling it on quickly, hoping it covered his ears, he could feel them heating up with her looking at him.

She shook her head, grabbing his coat off the floor and handing it to him, "Setting up shop? What do you mean?"

He looked at her confused, "I needed somewhere to hang out so that people could find me when the required my services...the folks in Goodneighbor tended not to ask too many questions which suited my needs, so I made a deal with Hancock and started waiting for the caps to roll in." he stood up taking a few steps forward stretching his arms above his head.

"Caps aren't worth everything." She said behind him, he turned and he saw her head move quickly to the side, a red sneaking up her neck. What?

He took his coat from her hands, "Easy for you to say, But right now I need every cap I can get," He quickly pulled it on and let out a sigh.

"Are caps really that important to you?" her voice was quiet.

"I don't have much of a choice," he paused for a second let out a long breath, "I don't usually go around sharing stuff like this, but you've been pretty straight up with me, so I'm going to be straight with you." She turned her face to him, looking up at him, almost finished her cereal.

"It's those two assh….those two idiots you saw me talking to at the Third Rail, Winlock and Barnes," He walked over grabbing his shoes back and walking back and sitting beside her, putting his shoes on, "They've been hounding me for months and its been driving off clients. No one wants to touch me once they learn I used to run with the gunners, and I figured if I could get enough caps together, maybe I could buy them out." he started tying his shoe.

"I wouldn't trust those guys, even if you paid them off," she said, leaning back. He looked over, She was laying back on the bed, looking at the ceiling like he had last night. Last night.

He looked away quickly, grabbing his other shoe on, "Yeah...I'm right there with you," he started tying it, "Winlock and Barnes have a small army of gunners with them at all times. They might decide to just keep the caps, and put a bullet in my head for good measure." he laid down beside her, looking at the ceiling.

"If I set up a place to meet them, I'm sure they'd roll in with everyone they got. She might be what you need.

"Unless…" she rolled over, looking at him and propping herself up on her elbow, "Maybe you and I could pay them a little visit and put an end to them before they realize what's going on," her eyebrows went up "And before you get that look on your face, let me just say that I wouldn't even be asking if I didn't trust you." his ears turned red. She just looked down at him, and he felt his stomach start to get tight, afraid she would say no. A large smile spread across her face.

"If you need my help, I'm there," she said sitting up. The knot in MacCreadys stomach disappeared, and he let out a sigh of relief

"Wow...I really don't know what to say...truth is I haven't really been able to rely on anyone since I was a kid," he moved his eyes from her face to the ceiling, "Everyone I've met has either tried to rip me off or plant a knife in my back," his eyes drifted back to her and he felt a smile tug at his face, "But you...you're different. We see eye to eye on almost everything," he could feel the red on his ears descending down his cheeks, "And I have a funny feeling you actually care about what happens to me." She looked at him grinning.

"That's why I asked for your help. I'll tell you what, I'm going to make this easy on you," he pushed himself up on his elbows and he was still looking into her green eyes, "If you feel like helping me with this, head over to the Mass Pike interchange and we'll take them down. If you don't, I'm not going to hold it against you." He sat up all the way now looking over his shoulder at her.

"Either way, thanks for hearing me out. It's...nice, to know that you care," he said looking at her. Before he could really do anything she hugged him and his face started burning.

"You helped me out a lot already Mac, of course, I care." she pulled back looking at him and then standing up stretching her arms above her head.

"I was just going to head back home, but I think we can make a stop." she said glancing at him. He looked up at her. Right now?

"You ready?" she asked, and he nodded standing up across from her.

"I was born ready." She might be what you need.