Dawn breaks and we get to the road that leads down to the raider camp. I turn to Hannah, "here's the plan. You are going to stay up at that perch above the camp and watch my approach with your laser rifle. Here's a scope that should work with it." I hand her the scope out of my bag. "I'm going to try and sneak in there same as last time. But be prepared for a fight just in case." She nods as we continue down the road. We work our way above the raider camp to the spot where I looked over the camp the first time. I turn to her. "On second thought. Here, use my rifle. It'll be much more accurate than your laser rifle." She raises her eyebrow at me. I say, "hey, I stand by my words. When it comes to accuracy, live rounds do the best." She reluctantly agrees.

I give her my gun and I turn to start my approach. She taps on my shoulder. "Hey, be careful down there. Just, dont die."

I smirk and nod. "Dont worry about me. Not dying is sort of my specialty."

With that, I slide down the hill to the edge of the camp. There dont seem to be many raiders guarding this part of the camp. I successfully sneak through to the next part.

I come up to a couple of raiders they haven't seemed to notice me yet. I throw a rock over to the side to try and distract one of them. The rock hits the ground among some other rocks and doesnt make much sound. The raiders continue their conversation.

I throw my knife, aiming it at one of the raiders. It misses and lands on the ground making a clanging sound. The raiders notice where the knife comes from. One of them pulls their own knife and the other goes to sound the alarm. The one going for the alarm is stopped short by Hannah's bullet. I fight with the raider. I am able to get the knife from him and I stab the knife into his neck, killing him.

I go and pick up my knife. I sigh to myself. "I need to be more careful." I continue towards the middle of the camp. I see the building that they are using as a stronghold. I see a few guards on the roof and one beside the door. I choose to sneak around to the side of the building so the guards dont see me coming. I sneak up behind the door guard and I cover his mouth as I use my knife to slit his throat.

I drag him away from the door and I make my way into the one room shack. I see the leader with his back to the door leaning over a table. I come up to him and put my pistol to the back of his head. "Shout and I'll paint the wall with what little brains you have scum."

He slowly turns around and I keep my gun on him. He looks surprised, "well, I'll be fucked. Its that nobody who I told to get lost. You know, you've caused quite the tizzy over at HQ."

I roll my eyes. "Shut up asshole. Look, I know you're not the brains of this operation. So, you're going to tell me who is. Unless you feel like dying a very slow and painful death."

Hannah comes through the door behind me and nods at me. I nod back. I motion to a chair. "Have a seat." He sits down and I tie him down while Hannah's gun is trained on him.

I sit down in front of him and I turn on the holotape recorder on my pip-boy. "So...you're going to tell me who's behind this whole operation. You guys have cars, modern guns, pretty nice digs. Who set you up like this?"

He smirks, "a little guy. You might know him, first name, fuck. Last name, you."

I pull out my knife and twirl it around for a second. "You see..." I stab it into his leg. "That's just not what I wanted to hear." I pull it out. "The way I see it, you've got a couple of hours before that wound bleeds out and you die a useless death. Now, I want to help you, I really do. But you gotta cooperate with me. Who is really in charge? Who's the brain behind the operation?"

He spits at me. "Fuck. You. Asshole."

I stab his other leg. "Wrong answer." I pull the knife out and I ask the question again. "Last chance. Who's the brain behind this operation?"

He sighs, "I dont know them personally." I get up and start to walk out. He panics, "wait wait wait! I dont know them personally. But I can point you to someone who does. Just dont leave me here like this man."

I put the knife to the raider's neck. "Name."

He looks at me. "His name is Freddie Lang." He and his gang are holed up in Blackwater Mine."

I cut him loose and turn to walk away. He calls from the chair. "Hey, that girl you're with. She looks nice. I'm sure it'd be fun to play with her like we did that last one who was here. What was her name? Ah yes, her name was Abigail." He licks his lips. "So soft...so..."

His talking is cut short by my knife flying into his skull. I pull it out and I walk by Hannah and out of the shack. She follows as I walk out of the camp.

After a little while on the road, she finally speaks up. "Um...do you wanna talk about what happened back there?"

"What's to talk about? We got what we need. And we know where to go next"

She keeps talking. "I mean what happened at the end there. There was really no reason to kill that guy. Even if he was a dick."

I turned to her. "You heard him. He was threatening you and possibly alot of others as well. I had to do something to keep him from hurting anyone else."

Hannah sighs, "I get death threats all the time. I think, the truth is, you just lost your cool because you arent used to this kind of stuff because you've only been out of that vault for a bloody week."

I turn away from her. "You dont know me. You have no idea!"

She comes closer to me. "Then what is it?! What really happened back there?!"

I shout out, "I cant loose anyone else!"

She stops dead in her tracks when I say that. "I have lost my parents to the war. I lost my wife and son to the bombings."

She cautiously comes closer to me as I continue to speak. "I cant...I cant loose anyone else. And I will do anything to protect the people I'm with. Even if it means I loose myself along the way."

At this point, I'm on my knees on the ground. Hannah kneels down in front of my and turns my face to look at her before she hugs me. "You dont have to worry about loosing me. I am not going anywhere. That's a promise. Come on. We can walk a little while longer before having to stop for the night"

I nod and we walk I little ways more before stopping for the night.