Summary: What does Lucas do when he turns 20? Does he celebrate his birthday?
20 years after Lucas' birth
Lucas pov
It is Lucas birthday today, but the thing is that he forgot the whole thing until the nightfall that evening. He has scavenged for some supplies in a vault called a "train station" the whole day, and there found some food. He also found some ammo, but with no gun it is useless. He has wandered for days from the strange town called Megaton, and have found himself nearer some ruins that is called "DC" for some reason. It is the name of it according to the people he has spoken with, but he has no clue to what it means.
He is to enter the ruins, anyway, as the next goal on his journey to find his father is to find the radio station where the radio channel of "GNR" is transmitted from. Based of the information that Moriarty have given him, the radio hockey knows more to where Lucas' father have gone to. And that radio station is placed in the ruins of DC.
On his way Lucas has collected a few things, but it isn't much to look at. He haven't found much in the way for food, either, so he have starved a bit. The water he have found have been from a big river, which runs thru the big wasteland that is the world above, but he haven't drunk as much as he wanted to. He has gotten this strange tingling feeling in his mouth as the water has massed, and it tasted foul.
He have gotten some fright when he found out that the ghouls in the tunnels of the train station, with big difference from the friendly one at Moriarty's saloon, is very savage and mindless. He have been able to kill them with his baton that he have been taking with him from his vault, but the heart attack that he got from the whole ordeal took some time to walk away from.
Now, when he have some roof over his head, which he haven't got since he ran away from his home, he have decided to rest in the train station for the night. It is then that he has found out, from the date on his pipboy, that it is his birthday today. He has no idea to what he is to do with the information, as he gets the feeling that birthdays out here have no bigger meaning. It have been the hard way that he have found out that the basic ideology of the wastes is to survive the hardships that life brings with them.
He have found out that not everyone is as good and friendly as the people of Megaton, as there is raiders and criminals out there that will shoot at the very sight of you. He have ran from the first danger to the next, and more than half have been folks that have been hostile for only the sake of it.
He has not pictured that his birthday would be celebrated by himself, with no cake, no friends and barely any food in his stomach. But a small glimmer of hope is lit in his heart as he comes to the realization what day it is, and he quietly begins to sing the "happy birthday"-song for himself. The words, however low Lucas sings them, echoes back at him from the darkness of the train station, and creates a small choir of voices that is identical to his own.
