In the taft tunnels Juliet was standing next to Alex Dargon, who was paranoid beyond belief. Charon was loading up his shotgun while a distraught Sylvia handed Daniel Agincourt a pistol.

"They didn't see us go down here," Charon encouraged. "I need everyone to stay quiet as we get the hell out of here."

Juliet heard Mr. Garza breathing heavily, so she willed herself to look at him. "Are you okay?"

"I'll be fine." He promised with a slight nod.

The group didn't encounter any trouble until the boiler room, which was swamped with Enclave soldiers. Sylvia and Charon were on both sides of the door, going to war. "Juliet!" Sylvia screeched. "Can you help us?!"

"H-how?" Juliet rasped, looking down at the laser rifle she forgot she was holding.

Sylvia grimaced. "What you did to the Super Mutant - can you do it again?"

Juliet blinked. Code Downy Hair. She had to learn. She had to do it.

Without another word she took a few steps forward, bravely going into the boiler room, startling the soldiers from her bold presence. She held out the laser rifle, closed one eye to aim, focused as hard as she could... and time stood still.

The Enclave soldier closest to her was her target. The arm was glowing, so Juliet let out a laser round. Time resumed, and the soldier dropped the weapon. Juliet did this to every soldier; what felt like minutes to shoot away all their weapons happened in mere seconds. When the battle was over, Juliet waited to collapse, but nothing happened.

"That was awesome!" Sylvia cheered. "At this rate, we'll get out of here in no time!"

Juliet was dead silent as everyone continued through the tunnels. Garza was then moments away from having a heart attack, so Sylvia stuck him with a few stimpaks until he was able to move again. After that, the only problem they came across were some feral ghouls. Juliet panicked when the others shot at them - so Dr. Li had to explain "feral" to her. Ghouls who had lost their minds and were now dangerous.

Juliet then looked at Charon. "You're not feral?"

He thought this was absolutely hilarious. "Not yet."

After the ghouls they came across more soldiers, only their armor was grey. "Brotherhood of Steel," Dr. Li realized. "We're almost to the Citadel."

The Citadel-?

Charon looked down at Juliet. "Wait until you see what it is."

"The Citadel was here before The Great War?" Sylvia realized.

"Yes, but it wasn't called the Citadel," Charon continued. "It was called..."

Juliet about fell over when she saw the Citadel. "The Pentagon?!" She screeched in half hysteria, becoming more aware of where they now were.

"What was the Pentagon?" Sylvia wondered, as Brotherhood soldiers were escorting them into the Citadel's interior.

"Headquarters for the United States military." Charon answered.

Dr. Li scoffed. "Makes sense that the Brotherhood would assume control of it."

As soon as they entered the courtyard- "Sarah Lyons?" Sylvia said in recognition to the woman in Brotherhood armor, bearing blonde hair in a ponytail, standing behind an old man Dr. Li referred to as Elder Lyons. They were related, right?

"You?" Sarah Lyons said back.

Juliet frowned when Sarah Lyons glanced at her. She gave her a small smile, and Juliet widened her eyes. "Julia-?"

"That's not Juli-" Charon was interrupted by a thud.

"Oh!" Alex Dargon gasped. "She fainted!"

Julia?

Julia.

Julia, where are you?

I'm dead you moron. And I didn't have blonde hair, either. You're losing your mind, Juliet. Get it together.

I can't. I'm all alone.

No you're not. You still have Charon.

No I don't.

Just give him time. It's probably still a shock that you're walking and talking again.

Julia-

Shut up.

Juliet's blue eyes pierced open as she heard a Mister Handy or a Mister Gutsy speaking. "She is awake."

"Charlie-?" She whispered.

"No, the robot is named Sawbones." A young boy corrected. Juliet turned her head to see the boy standing next to her stretcher. He was maybe around ten, with short dark hair and faint blue eyes.

"Who are you?" Juliet questioned.

"I am Squire Maxson. Honored to meet you." He introduced.

"You don't have to be so formal, Squire," Juliet insisted. "Where are we?"

"In the infirmary, ma'am," Squire Maxson answered. "I've brought you some food to eat." He added, handing a tray over onto her lap as she sat up on the raised stretcher. There was a bottle of Nuka-Cola and a bowl of noodles. The noodles didn't quite look right, but Juliet scarfed them down anyway as Squire Maxson asked, "Ma'am, are you really a Pre-War Human?"

"I guess so," Juliet sighed.

"That's incredible," the Squire gleamed.

Juliet feigned a smile. "I slept through most of it. I wish I never woke up."

"Why?"

"My mom died. My boyfriend turned into a ghoul and can't look me in the eye."

"The ghoul that was with you guys?" The Squire realized.

"Yeah, yeah... is he still here?"

"Yes, they're in A-Wing. I can show you." The Squire offered.

Juliet inhaled the rest of her noodles and chugged down the Nuka-Cola that not only was two hundred years old, her Vault-Tec brain told her it was very but slightly irradiated. She hopped off the stretcher and followed Squire Maxson, avoiding Sawbones. She didn't want to think of Charlie.

Either Charlie for the that matter.

Maxson led her down the hall and into the last room on the left. A person in a red robe was looming over Sylvia, sat at a computer. "How are you going to find that vault?" The lady in the robe asked.

"Maybe Scribe Rothchild can help," Sylvia suggested, standing up and then looking alarmed. "Juliet!"

"Hi." She greeted quietly.

Sylvia suddenly grinned. "Can I ask you something?"

Juliet shrugged as Sylvia asked next, "Do you know what a G.E.C.K. is?"

She stood still as things ran through her mind at the word G.E.C.K. which wasn't even a word to begin with. "It's a terraforming device. It stands for The Garden of Eden Creation Kit. It was made by... Dr. Braun."

Also known as her birth father.

"How did you know that?" The lady in the robe said in amazement. Juliet quickly looked away.

"I have an idea!" Sylvia interrupted. "We have to get to the lab."

Juliet didn't care what her idea was; as soon as she saw the giant ass robot in the lab, her love of science kicked in and her eyes were glued.

Finally Sylvia dragged her away and stood her in front of a large orange map. "D.C. is here," Sylvia tapped her index finger towards the bottom right. "Do you know where Vault 87 is?"

Juliet winced as yet more computer logs breezed her mind. "Only a concentrated form of Forced Evolutionary Virus." She chanted.

"What?" Scribe Rothchild asked.

"Vault 87 is here. Northwest." Juliet placed her palm over the location.

"That is correct," Rothchild said in awe. "I need to warn you if you're going there. The entrance is heavily radiated. There is another way in, however-"

"Lamplight Caverns," Juliet finished. "Charon's sister went there for a field trip and my sister helped chaperone." She blurted.

Rothchild looked at Sylvia as she said, "She lived before the war."

"How is that possible?" Rothchild spat. "She doesn't look like a ghoul."

"Can I tell him?" Sylvia looked at Juliet for permission.

"Yeah, yeah," she waved off. "I'm going to look at that robot again."

After a little while, it was evening. Juliet had dinner with just about everyone else in the mess hall. She ate rather quickly and escaped out to the courtyard. Sylvia eventually found her and sat down next to her near the training grounds.

"Hey," she said.

"Hey," Juliet replied.

"How are you handling everything?"

"I'm okay. How are you handling?"

"I'm okay too. I miss my dad."

"I miss my mom."

Sylvia shuddered. "Was Julia your sister?"

"Yeah, yeah." Juliet answered.

Sylvia chuckled. "I think it's so funny how you say 'yeah' twice like that."

Juliet shrugged. "I've been doing that for as long as I can remember."

"Charon had a sister too?" Sylvia wondered.

"Yeah, yeah... Charlie. She was beautiful. Outgoing. Happy."

"I wish I could have met her."

"You would have loved her. I loved her."

"I'm sorry."

Juliet whimpered. "I miss everything."

Sylvia put an arm over her. "You can come with us to find the vault if you want. I sure could use someone like you in my travels. And... I'm sure Charon would want you around too."

"I don't know about that."

"You'll see, Juliet. Everything is going to work out." Sylvia promised. For half a second, Juliet was sure it was Julia who spoke.

She really was losing her mind.

Juliet slept like crap that night, and felt groggy for hours while she, Dogmeat, Charon and Sylvia walked to a place called Megaton. "Welcome. To. Mega. Ton. Have. A nice. Day." The Protectron Deputy Weld assumed his usual greeting to them.

"Are you into robots?" Sylvia finally decided to ask.

"Science is my strongest subject," Juliet admitted. "I never knew why but... I guess it's because I was made from science."

Sylvia frowned briefly before changing the subject. "Then wait until you see what's in the middle of town. It's not dangerous anymore, though."

Recently being in the Pentagon was just as shocking as expecting a gigantic nuclear bomb in the middle of town. On her walk towards it, Juliet discovered a... two headed flesh cow the locals corrected as a Brahmin. "Ain't never heard of no cow before." Jenny Stahl nearly laughed at her.

Juliet shook her head and stared up at the nuke. "New in town, huh?" Jenny pestered her.

"Yeah, yeah," Juliet shrugged. "Miss Wozniak, if you could see me now..." She longed to hear her chemistry teacher's voice again.

"We are going on a field trip to the Museum of Technology on Friday. I'll pass out the permission slips in a minute. I don't want any excuses for not returning it to me signed. Apart from that, take out your notebooks. We're taking notes today."

Juliet wanted to hear any familiar voice. Anyone from her old life. Except for...

"Juliet."

She remained still as Charon appeared next to her. "Charon." She replied blankly.

The ghoul hesitated. "I haven't had a chance to-" His words were replaced by a loud, sharp pitch erupting in Juliet's ears, and something rattled her mind.

Frequency waves. The vault technology in her brain was trying to broadcast a radio message to her. "Automated message from Vault 101." She spoke.

"What-?" Charon said in confusion.

Juliet held her temples as the message read in her mind:

It feels like you left home a long time ago. I hope you're still alive. Things have gotten worse since you left. My father has gone mad with power. Please stop looking for your dad and help me stop mine. I changed the door password to my name... if you hear this and you still care enough to help me, you'll remember it.

Juliet lowered her hands and thought quickly, ignoring Charon's questioning stare. Vault 101. Stop looking for your dad...

Sylvia wore a Vault 101 jumpsuit. Juliet needed to get back to her... now.