Days of agonizing pain turned into weeks of agonizing pain. After around the second week Butch had gotten board of Underworld and went back to Rivet City with Dogmeat and Fawkes.
"You could have gone to Charon." I said to the ghoul sitting beside me.
"Someones gotta stay with you so you don't do something stupid." Charon said taking another shot of whiskey.
We sat in used to be the Ninth Circle, but was now just a extension of Carols place, with the extra space they got a few more rooms in and Greta had plenty of room to work at the bar with extra storage space to keep food, not to mention the bar was doubling the amount of caps coming in for them.
I smiled as Greta placed plates of cooked mole rat in front of Charon and I. Gratefully I payed for both and left her a nice tip before stabbing fork into mine and digging in while Charon just picked at his and took more whiskey shots. Even for being mole rat it was very tasty and filling.
"Hey smoothiskin." a raspy voice said from behind me.
"Hey Tulip." I said pushing my empty plate away as I turned to look at the ghoul. "Whats up?"
"Willow asked me to bring this in for you. It came with the caravan that just left." She said, putting some folded papers in my hand.
Charon grumbled as he abandoned his shot glass and polished off the last of the bottle and turned to his mole rat dinner.
As I opened the papers I laughed to myself, somehow Charon could make just about anything funny with one of his grumbles, maybe it was just the tone of the grumbles but they always livened up my mood. "Hey Tulip hows my baby doing? Just about fixed up?"
"Just about, got the last little part in with that caravan. Another day or two for a last little bit of tweaking at is should be good as, well almost new."
"Cool I'll come down in a few days and pick it up, I'll pay you for all the parts too."
"Alright see you in a few days, gotta get back to the shop." she said waving as she walked away.
"So what is it?" Charon asked, pointing at the paper with his fork.
"Look like a letter back from Gob." Quietly humming I leafed through the papers and pulled out the two from the back. "One here for Carol to. I told you it was a good idea for her to send him a letter. I'm going to take her this letter and then come back. Greta I'll be back in a bit and pay off Charon's tab, is there anything you want me to take to Carol? Seines as I'm going over there anyway." I asked standing, my back burned but it wouldn't be to long before I could go rest again.
Greta hummed to herself as she made Carol and large meal and handed me a plate without a word.
I smiled and took the plate before leaving. And it didn't take long before I reached Carols desk were she was sitting as always, I swear the woman never sleeps. "Hey Carol, I brought over your dinner from Greta."
"Thanks dear. How are you feeling today?" she asked in her sweet voice.
Why is it at all the women sound the same but all the guys are different? Maybe it was just me. "My back burns when I sit up to long but its getting better."
"Oh good, soon up will be up and about like normal again huh?"
"Hopefully. OH I got a surprise for you." I said as my smile grew wider.
"Whats that?" she asked, cutting into her mole rat.
"These just came in today and I thought I would bring it over to you." I said giving her the letter.
She looked at the folded paper for a moment before opening it and quickly a wide smile crossed her face. "Oh its from Gob. Thank you for bringing this over, I cant wait to read it."
"I'll let you read it in peace. I'm going to go lay down and read mine. Enjoy your dinner."
"Thanks Hun." was the last I herd from Carol as I left and went back to the bar. There, a piece of paper waiting for me beside Charon with his recently added up tab, quietly I payed it before turning to the ghoul. "I'm going to go lay down, you can do whatever you want, but you know that so I really don't need to tell you, just don't cause any trouble and don't rack your tab up to high."
"Awe fuck Emily, and here I was gonna order a Brahmin steak." Charon said with his half smile.
"Order a steak if you want, just not a dozen of them." I said before I turned and left.
I had chosen a room just off the bar so Charon could drink or do whatever while still keeping a eye on me if he wanted and I could rest and not have to go to far to eat. I lay on the bed and opened the letter fro Gob and began reading, but the warmth of the bed was to much to fight and I was kind of tired, so before long I folded the letter back up and decided to have a nap for a few hours, or at least until Charon decided he was tired and wake me up, then I would again try and read the letter. It didn't take long before sleep got me and I was out like a light in a matter of minutes... god I fucking love sleep.