A/N: Ugghhh I just powered through this chapter and honestly, I had a lot of fun writing it. Thank everyone again for the follows and favs and reviews. It means a lot.

I think its night-night time now.

Enjoy please!

Chapter 10

Deacon ran off like instructed and Kait turned her attention back to the three Brotherhood members by the abandoned subway. They had spread out and began scouting to see who caused the explosion. Kait, keeping low to the ground, switched the bullets in her sniper to a weaker caliber that she knew wouldn't pierce the armor to their suits.

"Oh please don't kill me," she whispered and took aim, closing an eye again. She aimed for one of the suited member's shoulder plate and fired her first shot. Like she thought, the bullet bounced off but got their immediate attention.

Kait raised her head up as the barrels of their guns got pointed in her direction and she quickly scurried to her feet before sprinting off in the opposite direction.

"There!" she heard them yell from behind.

Kait met Deacon mid run and they continued on together, ducking their heads as lasers shot in their direction. Kait slid to her knees as she and Deacon turned the corner of a building. They lost the Brotherhood so she barely poked out from the edge and took her second shot, dinging the bullet off of one of their helmets.

She slammed her back to the brick building as the whole side of the building next to her lit up a bright red.

"Was this the best idea?" Deacon quickly asked.

Kait smiled wryly, "Probably not." They heard the stomping of the hoard charging at them before they got to their feet to run again. Kait was in front and leapt over a fallen barrel just as a laser hit it but pushed it forward. Her foot landed on the round surface and the object rolled but Deacon was there and grabbed her arm, making her recover quickly and the two ran down an alley. As they came to an opening again, they both agreed on a building to enter and busted the door open. Deacon was the one to look at the Brotherhood members turn the corner and he knew they saw him before he slammed the door shut due to their shots hitting immediately afterwards.

Deacon and Kait pushed a dresser in front of the door just to stall them a bit and they caught their breath.

"We're trapped now," Deacon panted.

Kait laughed as she took in air and shook her head, "No. They're huge, loud tanks. We're more nimble and as soon as they enter, it won't be hard to lose them in here and to sneak past them."

Deacon nodded to agree. "Okay Boss. What's next?"

"This is obviously a trap," the Paladin stated to the other two Knights as they stood outside the building.

One Knight nodded. "Yeah but did it seem like they were trying to get us away from the subway station?"

"They have to be more synths," the second Knight said. "Should we go after them?"

The first Knight answered, "We should stick to the mission at hand."

The Paladin seemed to have thought for a moment before inputting, "If these are just synths, or even mere raiders, we can take them without a problem. Their bullets just bounced off of us but who knows what kind of harm they could cause to the citizens of the Commonwealth. We should dispose of them and be done with it. Whoever they are, they are an enemy to the Brotherhood and therefore should be eliminated."

The second Knight began, "I agree. We can take them."

The first Knight nodded too, "Yeah, this won't take long."

Kait and Deacon weren't at the entrance anymore but they were close enough to hear the banging on the door. It was just two hits and the sound of the wood being splintered and destroyed was made clear. The building they were in was very dimly lit and the two hid from the Brotherhood's sight but could still spy on them from where they were at. The lights on their helmets clicked on to light their path.

Kait picked up a tin can from the ground and tossed it across the way into a room that was to the left of the soldiers. When it clanked to the wall, the Brotherhood members turned in the direction. Well, all besides one of them did. The one leading didn't seem fooled by the trick. When Kait and Deacon started to sneak away, the door they were about to open suddenly got shot up by lasers and they both fell back from the startlement.

"Boss, they didn't fall for it!" Deacon almost yelled.

"I see that!" Kait retorted. They heard the pursuit again. "We need to move!"

The two were standing and running again. They were able to turn corners and slide around things far easier and faster than the Brotherhood could but the three did well to stay on their trail. They really were trained well. Deacon and Kait busted through yet another door but slid to a sudden halt as they both almost fell to their deaths. They were in a huge open area of post-war made platforms that spiraled from the top where they were all the way to the very bottom. It consisted of many bridges connecting to each platform and half made rooms that consisted of couches and chairs in some and beds in others. The only thing odd was that there wasn't anyone else there besides the two and their Brotherhood pursuers.

"I guess we go down?" Deacon quickly asked.

Kait hastily nodded, "We go down."

They sprinted down the spiraled platform and made it nearly to the bottom with Deacon in the lead but he stopped cold in his tracks, making Kait run into him but neither one of them fell. Just two levels to the bottom was death staring them straight in the face. Okay… maybe it didn't see them.

The Deathclaw let out the most horrid, bone chilling roar they had ever heard in their lives.

Yeah, it definitely fucking saw them.

It wasn't until then did they notice that there was blood everywhere. Whoever lived here was long gone by now.

"Never listen to me again," Kait shakily said.

"I won't." Deacon said; both of their eyes locked to the Deathclaw's. Up top was the Brotherhood that hunted them down, and down below was the hunter ready for its next meal.

They finally moved when the Deathclaw did and they tried to run back up but it leapt high in the air and it's claw caught the edge of the platform they were on, making it shake loose and break, forcing the two to fall to the first floor but not the ground level.

Kait and Deacon were already sprinting again by the time the Deathclaw had rounded up to their level and gained on them. The gap leading from the first floor to the second was broken and Deacon leapt first, catching the edge and pulling himself up back to the second level.

Kait was about to follow but the Deathclaw was too close and she panicked, jumping out of the way just in time as the devil swung its bloody claws at her. She had jumped off of the first floor and was at the base now. All around her was disembodied limbs and mangled bodies that had been fed off of. Kait saw the wonderful blink from an elevator light and she took off towards it as the beast jumped down after her. She made it in the metal box and slammed her hand countless times to the up button and exhaled heavily when the door closed finally. She felt the elevator start rising but it was only a matter of seconds before the floor beneath her had thick, nightmarish claws pierce clean through it and the elevator jerked to a halt.

"Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!" Kait yelled in despair. She looked up to the latch above her and quickly busted it open. She jumped to it and pulled herself up through the opening and saw the next floor in reach of her. The elevator beneath her shook violently and as she got the door open in time to climb through it.

From above, the Brotherhood members saw the Deathclaw savagely rip open the elevator shaft trying to get to the poor victim. Even if they were the enemy, the three soldiers knew that the beast needed to be stopped first and immediately took to the descent.

Kait was on the third floor and saw Deacon on the fourth. She motioned for him to keep going up and he did. Kait took to some backrooms and found some side stairs leading up to the next levels and ran up them. She didn't think the Deathclaw was after her anymore but she knew that it was still out there and it was going after them.

From out into the opening, the sound of lasers firing was heard, followed by another roar from the monster.

Kait was out in the opening again and saw as the Deathclaw just tanked through every hit and climbed levels with mere hops. It reached one of the Brotherhood Knights and knocked him clean across the room before looking up to Kait on the two floors above it. Here it comes. She assumed that the beast saw everyone in the room as either metal or meat and of course it'd choose the more savory option.

The soldiers were scattered around now and Deacon was nowhere in sight. Kait ran the spiral loop up to the next floors and found another side room. When she turned the corner, she tried to stop but slid and fell hard on her back as she was greeted by the ready barrel of a gun. The Brotherhood Paladin stood over her in silence before finally exclaiming.

"Kaitlyn?!"

Kait recognized the voice immediately. "Danse?!"

Danse lowered his gun, "What in the hell are you doing here?!"

Kait got to her feet and opened her mouth to speak but heard a yell as some more floorboards broke. When Kait snapped her head back, she saw Deacon suspending from a wire from the floor under hers that caught him by the ankle before he fell after the platform he was on collapsed. Deacon tried to shake loose but the wire was knotted tight and he instead pulled his pistol from his waist when he saw the Deathclaw bound after him now.

Kait's eyes widened. "No!" she screamed. She took her sniper in her hands and jumped down before Danse could stop her

"Kait, wait!" Danse yelled.

Kait ignored the Paladin and ran at the Deathclaw. "Over here you ugly fucker!" she yelled and shot her first shot at the Deathclaw. It didn't move its attention away from Deacon at first so she pulled back the bolt and took another shot.

Deacon fired rounds endlessly at the monster but it didn't even falter in movements. He instead now aimed up to the wire and shot it, breaking it and falling to his back on the ground. The Deathclaw sped up at him and he couldn't move fast enough. The Knight that wasn't knocked across the room appeared out of nowhere and rammed the beast to the side, derailing it from gutting the Railroad agent.

Kait was beyond grateful for the rescue and took the chance to load her stronger, previous bullets back into her sniper and opened fire on the Deathclaw with the three Brotherhood members. She only stopped when Deacon was under her and she dropped her gun to lean over the edge, her hand extended far out.

"Come on Deacon!"

Deacon looked up and snatched her hand before being helped up to the floor with her. When they were reunited, they both retrieved their weapons and took a knee next to each other as the five now rained hell down upon the horrible creature. With bullets from every angle, it was only a matter of seconds now before the beast dropped dead.

The room was silent now; peaceful. Kait didn't realize how much she was shaking until she put her weapon up. She looked at Deacon and he looked back. The two busted out in laughter and she hugged him as hard as she could. He was still alive and so was she.

"The shit you make me do!" Deacon squeezed her tightly.

"I'm so sorry," Kait started as she pulled away. "It'll never happen again."

"No!" He yelled in almost a pant; still taking in everything that just happened. "I love it!"

"Lower your weapons!" Danse yelled from above. Kait and Deacon looked up but the Paladin wasn't addressing them. Instead, he spoke to his squad. Oh yeah, they were being hunted.

Taking this as their chance, Kait and Deacon took to the upper levels away from the two Knights under them. When they almost got back to the top was when they stumbled across the Paladin.

Danse put up his weapon and took off his helmet to be more personal with the two.

"Oh no..," Deacon breathed when he recognized the Paladin. "It was him all along?!"

"What," Danse started with thick anger in his voice but Kait also sensed a slight bit of relief, concern and worry. Or she thought she did. "Do you think you're doing?! Are you crazy? Firing upon your own and leading yourself to near death?! What has gotten into you Knight?!"

"It was a backfired plan," Kait explained but she knew there was no way she'd be forgiven for this. "I didn't mean for this to happen."

"This has got to be the most idiotic, selfish, and craziest thing you've ever done! Nothing you say can justify this!"

"Listen Danse," Deacon stepped in to her defense. "This is my fault. I dragged her into this unwillingly and she was just trying to help a friend out. You should ease up on her. After all, she did save you guys from blowing yourselves up."

"You-," Danse then realized what he was talking about with the explosions that occurred at the abandoned subway. "You disarmed them? I thought you maybe…. No! This is still unacceptable." He turned his attention fully back to her again, "What will Maxson think about this?!"

"Maxson," Kait started with an odd calm to her voice, "will probably promote you for saving me. This was just one big accident from the beginning. He might understand." She fell silent for a moment, "I'm sorry I was just a liability to you again."

The sad look Kait gave Danse made all his anger flush away and he was left without words. "N-no…, Kait, you…."

The other Knights were now approaching behind Kait and Deacon. The one that was tossed across the room was walking with a slight limp but was overall alright.

"Knight Kait? It was you this whole time?" one of the Knights questioned.

Danse looked at his squad and thought quickly. There was no way Kait would ever be safe from the Brotherhood if they found out she had fired at her own. "No, she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. She and her friend caught sight of some synths running into this building and chased after them. When we saw them in here, we didn't realize that it was just some of our own. The synths had already made it farther in here and the Deathclaw got to them before any of us."

Kait was shocked that he suddenly defended her. Her eyes met Deacon's and even though she couldn't actually see them, the rest of his face said all the same as hers did.

"Oh…," the other Knight said. It seemed like they were reluctant to believe Danse but that was erased quickly as they followed their words with genuine ones, "We're sorry to have shot at you. It's a blessing that we didn't actually hit you."

Kait looked at them and gave them a smile, "It's no problem. I vote that we all move on from this. I mean… we just took on a Deathclaw and all made it out in one piece. I say we cheer to that!"

"Yeah!" Deacon first yelled. Kait awkwardly chuckled before she followed in his cheer then the Knights did as well. Danse just stood there silently. He wanted to say so much to her but it just wasn't the right time and not the right place.

Kait and Deacon departed before Danse had the chance to stop them. The Brotherhood inevitably was going to clear out the subway station and the two retrieved F6-13 and took him away to a shelter for the rest of the day while the Brotherhood cleaned out the spot they were going to. The two were exhausted and if someone else was going to do their jobs for them, then why not, right?

They moved again at nightfall when the three Brotherhood members were long gone and they got the synth to safety and passed him on to other Railroad supporters that would take it from there. Instead of heading back to Sanctuary, they retired to the old church where the Railroad base was located due to it being much closer. There, Deacon exploded with juicy details of the battle they had underwent and Kait, sitting off in the back, grinned happily to every part that he stretched the truth on and felt content for the first time in a while.

They had one hell of a day.