Author: Because you can't have a ghoul-love fic without a little bit of Gob! ...Yeah. But this is a Charon-fic, so... just a little Gob or we'd get that awkward Gob-LW-Charon love triangle going on... And this is a story about insanity and companionship, not the complications of lurve. x3

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(Gob's POV)

"Hi, Gobbie, I missed you, bud!" she said as she came inside and sat in the same stool she always sat in. It was a relief to see that she was still alive. I didn't know much about what happened when Minion left Megaton, but I did know that it was always dangerous. I was afraid that someday she'd just disappear altogether. So many people did these days.

"It's good to see you, pal." She didn't appear as well as she sounded. She looked tired. Messed up, somehow. Stressed out, too. "You don't look so good. What happened out there? You were gone longer than usual. Oh, did you hear the news about your dad?"

"Yeah, I did. Simms told me, soon as I got here. But, yeah... While I was gone, a lot happened. I found my dad before he came here to disarm the bomb, and... I feel so rotten." She sighed and put her hand on her forehead, staring at nothing. "I dunno if I have it in me to make things right again."

"Calm down, Min, what happened?" I didn't think she was a rotten person. Heck, I knew she wasn't. Nobody rotten would be so nice and friendly to a corpse like me. "I'm sure it's not as bad as you think."

"But it is. I was really mean to my dad, and I think I might have destroyed our relationship..." I took her out a bottle of Nuka-Cola and she started to tell me about everything that had happened to her after she last left town. About going to Underworld, meeting this one crazy ghoul and something about a contract, then getting hurt in some raider camp, and finding her dad in a strange vault, and arguing with him...

Poor thing. So, she was a little on the wild side. But deep down, she must have had a heart of gold, or else she wouldn't have felt so bad. "Look, cheer up. We all make mistakes. All you have to do is tell him you're sorry. Let him know how you feel. And listen to him, next time. You were really upset before, and you probably still are, but to make things right, I think you're going to have to both tell him your side, and let him explain his. He must have a very good reason for leaving you. And I think him leaving you his reward was his way of letting you know he still cares."

She looked at me and smiled in a sad sort of way. "You're right. Everything you said is right. I'm going to go find him and apologize, first thing tomorrow!" She jumped up, reached over the counter and threw her arms around me. I don't know how long it had been since someone hugged me like that. Probably the first time in fifteen years, since I'd said goodbye to mom. I had just started to savour the feeling when she kissed me on the cheek and pulled away, all too soon.

She must have been an angel.