(Note: I do not own Charon or any of the other characters from Fallout 3, they belong to Bethesda. I only own Emily, she is my OC.)

I took a deep breath, it felt good to be home finally. Here there are no Deathclaws, Super Mutants, Enclave, and minimal Raiders. Here it was safe, you could walk around and not HAVE to carry a gun around, most of us did anyway, and you could still feel safe. The first steps I took after entering the town was towards my house. It wasn't fancy or anything, really simple but it was home and it was mine.

"Were are you going?" Charon asked curiously.

"To my house." I said simply.

"I thought we were going to see Gob as soon as we got here?"

"We are, I just need more caps, I plan on getting sloshed tonight."

He half smiled as he followed me up the ramp to the door.

I swung the door open and grabbed my bag back from Charon and dropped it on the large heart shaped bed on the floor, while digging through it for the caps I already had in it, the letter and caps for Gob, I dropped a few more teddy bears on the bed and threw another bundle of pre-war money towards the shelf against the stairs, then turned my attention to the locker behind me were I kept my extra caps and stuff I didn't always use but liked to keep just in case. "There you are." I mumbled to myself pulling the small sack of caps out of the locker. "Okay lets go." I said as I pushed Charon out the door and towards the saloon, humming to myself the whole time and ignoring the pain radiating through my back to my ribcage.

"Don't forget to talk to Nova about looking at your back before you get to messed up." Charon said looking at me before opening the door.

"I cant believe you remembered that, I totally forgot after that Yao Guai fell from the sky."

"It didn't fall from the sky."

"You know what I mean." I said rolling my eyes and sitting on a stool and looking at the ghoul across the counter as Charon leaned against the wall.

"Hey your back, what can I get you?" Gob said smiling.

"Hey Gob, I'll get Vodka, lots of Vodka. OH and lots of Whiskey."

"You got it friend." Gob said walking to back room were the alcohol was kept.

"Sit down Charon, standing and drinking Whiskey cant end well."

"Probably not." he said sitting on the stool to my right, leaning his shotgun against the wall were he had been standing. Did he ever not take that thing with him?

"Vodka and Whiskey, just like you asked." Gob said, putting the bottles on the counter and then getting some shot glasses from underneath it.

With a smile I payed for both bottles before cracking mine open and taking a shot. "Oh before I forget, Gob I got something for you." I said reaching into my jacket pocket and sliding the letter and caps across the counter.

"For me?" he asked opening the letter and looking over it while pocketing the caps.

I was well into my second bottle of Vodka and Charon on his second or third bottle of Whiskey when he reminded me once again about talking to Nova.

"Oh fuck right." I said standing with a bit of a stumble and walking over the the red haired girl standing by the stairs. "Hey Nova."

"Hey Hun, herd about your accident, how ya' doing'?"

"Sore as hell, but actually that's what I wanted to talk to you about, can you look at my back? I just want to make sure that its not tearing open or anything, and I would feel more comfortable if you looked at it." I said starting to ramble.

"Sure Hun, lets go upstairs." She said leading the way up the stairs.

I unzipped and took off my jacket and Nova rolled up the back of my shirt to get a better look at the wounds that were mostly healed... I hoped.

"Well your going to have a few nice scars, but it doesn't look to bad just one little spot that needs to finish healing that's why its sore." She said rolling my shirt down again.

"Awesome, thanks Nova."

"Anytime." she said with a smile as I put my jacket back on and left the room going back to the bar down stairs.

"Well?" Charon asked as I sat down.

"Still healing a bit but fine other than that."

"Hmmm."

"About time you got your sorry ass back here." a voice came from the door behind me.

"Nice to see you to Colin." I said, not having to see who it was.

"Another letter came for you." He said slapping the paper on the table as he walked by to the back room were his terminal was.

"Holy shit." I said looking over it. "The he still lives."

"Who?" Gob asked as he drying the row of glasses in front of him.

"Mister Burke. This is the first letter Ive gotten since he broke off the relationship he thought he had with me" I said reading over the letter, before nearly coughing to death. "Oh my... guh..."

"What?" Charon asked peering over at the letter.

I crumpled up the paper and put it on the counter and pushed it away with my index finger. "Guh...I suddenly just became very sober." I mumbled as my face turned pale.

"Okay, now I'm curious." Charon said reaching over and grabbing the paper, he quietly flattened out the letter and began reading... before bursting out in a fit of raspy laughter.

"Not funny." I said pounding back the last of the Vodka in the bottle in front of me.

"Gob read this." Charon said handing him the letter.

As Gob read the letter he smirked before crumpling it back up and throwing it in a waste basket.

"More Vodka please Gob... I want to forget that letter ever happened."

"Coming right up." he said walking away.

"Don't you think its nice he wants you back? And is 'finally able to send for you'?" Charon teased as he quoted the letter, chuckling to himself.

"Nope."

Gob quickly returned with a bottle of Vodka, and before he had put it on the bar I quickly grabbed it, pulled the cork out and took a swig. Still intending on getting sloshed I continued to drink while Charon teased me about the letter from Burke in between every shot he took. Gob smirked at every remark Charon made as he worked. Damn it was going to be a long night.