I stood and looked at Burke who now stood happily in front of me.

"My dear, you have no idea how happy I am to see you." He said, smiling growing.

"Wh… what are you doing here? I thought you said you weren't coming back to the tower, that's what you said when you wrote." I said, unbelieving what I saw before me.

"I wasn't going to come back, but I realized I had left some things in my suit that I may need."

"Ah… I see ." I said unsure of what else to say.

"I see you have been doing well my love." Burke continued.

Charon laughed to himself, Burke shot him a dirty look that Charon happily gave back.

I turned my attention to Bessie Lynn who was still sitting on the loveseat, now accompanied by Roy. "Roy, Bessie Lynn, if you excuse me I think I will retire to my suite for the night." I said putting my ghoul mask on and picking up my pack. They nodded and I left.

I walked out of the suite and down the hall, pulling my keys from my jacket pocket and unlocking the door to my suite. Pushing the door open I threw my pack on the chair and turned to close the door just as Charon entered the suite.

"Well that was… entertaining." Charon said placing his shotgun on the table.

"For you maybe." I said flopping on my bed. "UGH! I can't believe he is here!"

"Well he is, so what are you going to do about it?"

"I don't know.. " I groaned, pulling off my mask. "Jump off the building?"

"…Or you could just avoid him.." Charon said sitting in a chair.

"Yeah I guess." I said pushing off the bed. "I'm going for a purified water shower. You know where everything is, help yourself.

" 'Kay."

I didn't realize how cold I had been until I was in my warm shower. It felt good to be clean again, my hair didn't feel greasy anymore, but damn did I need a haircut. When I was done and dressed in some comfortable pajama's I left the bathroom and sat on my bed.

"Better?"

"Better."

"Burke was here while you were in the shower.." Charon said.

"Course he was." I said rolling my eyes.

"Told him you were in the shower then going right to bed."

"Good thinking." I said smiling.

"You should though." He said leaning forward on his chair.

"I know, I think I will. Night Charon." I said laying down, pulling the blanket over my head and rolling over.

"Night Emily."

I woke a few hours later to the sound of knocking. Looking around I saw Charon was completely asleep on his bed. I sat up and walked to the door of the balcony and slowly opened it.

"I'm sorry to wake you beloved. " Burke said standing on the balcony. God I hated that fact that they were all connected.

I looked at him then to my pipboy. "Burke, do you have any idea what time it is?" I asked rubbing my eyes.

"I know its late. But I just had to see you my song bird." He said grabbing one of my hands.

I frowned and pulled my hand back. "Goodnight Burke." I said closing the door and locking it.

There was a grumble as Charon sat up in his bed and looked at me. "Who was that?"

"Burke. Go back to sleep Charon." I said crawling back into my bed and going back to sleep.

I woke again several hour later to the sun coming through the window… and more knocking on the balcony door then the window.

Burke stepped into the frame of the window and looked into the now bright room.

I rolled over and faced away from the window, pulling the blanket over my head. "God he's like a stalker." I mumbled.

Charon smirked as he lay his bed, as the knocking continued.

Groaning I pushed the blanket off me and sat up, letting the warm light from the window warm my bare back, before getting up and walking to the door, swigging it open.

Burke stood wide eyed between the window and the door, before stepping fully into the doorframe. "Your back…" he started.

"Deathclaw." I muttered. "Burke this is very inappropriate." I said harshly.

"But my love… it's been so long since I have seen you that I can't help but to want to be with you all the time when I do get to see you." He said, eyes still wide with shock.

By this time Charon was standing in the doorway and I had turned to leave.

"It would be wise of you to just go back to your suite." Charon said as he tried to close the door.

Burke stuck his foot in and stopped the door from closing completely before gripping the door with one hand and pushing it open. " And you, you disgusting ghoul should learn were your place is." He said frowning. " You disgust me."

Charon frowned as he reached for his shotgun, but I had already beaten him to it.

I stood between Burke and Charon, with my 10mm pistol raised at Burke. "No one talks to Charon like that." I hissed. "He is my friend, and I will not stand talking down to him."

Burke took a step back. "I… I didn't…."

I cut him off before he could finish. "You have two choices. One, you leave here now, go back to your suite and gather your stuff and leave, never to come back."

"Or?"

"Or I can pull this trigger, and feed your body to the ferals down stairs. "Your choice."

"But… Songbird… I.."

"Choose Burke." I said pulling back the safety on my pistol.

Burke gulped as he stared to walk away. "Goodbye Emily." Was the last thing he said before disappearing.

I stepped back into the suite, slammed the door and locked it and replaced the safety on my pistol before looking at Charon. "What?" I asked looking at his puzzled face.

"Holy crap."

"Holy crap?"

"Emily… holy crap!" he said finally blinking. "That was… that was awesome. I've never seen a guy get away from you that fast." He said.

"Thanks? It wasn't that awesome, we can probably expect more talon Company to come after us now." I said throwing the on the bed. "Get your stuff packed. We should go before Burke."

Charon nodded as he started packing and I left to change.