I stared wide eyed at the recruit who sat in front of me, hands wrapped tightly around the shotgun in my lap. "So... Charon gave you his weapon just before entering a chamber that's going to reverse his ghoulification?"

"That's right." he said nodding.

I relaxed my hands on the shotgun and sunk back into my chair, eyes transfixed on the floor. I didn't care if Charon was a ghoul or not or if his skin was flaking away, it was who he was, but if he wanted to be human again that was his choice and I couldn't stop him, but it would have been nice of him to say 'hey I'm going to reverse my ghoulification..' or something, but then again I guess this was his way of telling me. "You can go if you like." I said looking at the young recruit. "Thank you for bringing this to me."

He nodded as he walked out the door, closing it behind him.

I stood from my chair and packed my bag, changed my cloths, tied my hair up and grabbed Charons shotgun. Usually I would take my Lincolins Repeater, but today I left it laying on my bed.

It wasn't long before I was out my door and walking down to the science wing were I knew Elder Lyons was.

"Elder Lyons.." I said with a smile as I approached the old man.

"Hello Emily, how can I help you?" He asked with a crooked smile.

"I'm guessing its not possible to see Charon is it?"

"No, its not."

"Didn't think so. How long do you figure he will be in there?"

"It depends on how long he has been a ghoul, it could take months." he said frowning.

I scratched my head for a minute as I thought out my next move. "Can I see were he is?" I asked.

"Of course." he said, leading towards a large sealed off room that kind of reminded me of a prison cell on the alien spacecraft I was on only the door was thick glass and metal and you couldn't see well into the room.

I could vaguely see Charons silhouette across from the window were I stood. I reached into my pack and grabbed a piece of paper and a pen and began writing a note into it before sticking the pen back into my pack. I tapped on the glass a few times. The silhouette look up, then I smacked the note against the glass hard enough so it would stay there on its own but not hard enough to cause damage to the glass, before walking away. "I'm leaving for a while.. if you need me you can get through to my pipboy." I said looking back at Elder Lyons as I walked.

"Be careful." Was all he said before turning back to a scientist that had approached him.

Soon days had turned into weeks and weeks into a month and there was still nothing from the Brotherhood or Charon.

I sat in at the table in my house in Megaton, looking at my Brahmin steak dinner with Gobb, Butch and Dogmeat, who was starring at my dinner after almost swallowing his whole.

"Dogmeat, no." I said looking down at him then back up at the people around the table. "So how was work today Gobb?"

Gobb shrugged. "Colin is being as hotheaded as ever, keeps bitching how he has to pay me now cause I don't owe him anything."

"Do you want me to talk to him?" I asked.

"Don't worry about it, you have done enough already." He said with a smile.

"Besides you don't want to mess with him, he handles alcohol." Butch said with a mouthful of food.

"So does Gob, but you have no problem being a ass to him." I said crossing my arms.

"...Well..."

"See, you got nothing." I said smirking as I looked back down at my dinner, just in time to see Dogmeat run away with it. "What the... DOGMEAT!" I yelled standing and chasing after my dog as Butch started to laugh and Gobb blinked in confusion.

I chased Dogmeat around the house and to the door were he pushed on it hard enough and it popped open. Standing in the doorway I yelled at him as he ran down the walkway. "Shut up Butch." I said as I continued to stand in the doorway.

"Ummm... hi?" A male voice said from on my left.

"Uhhh...hi..." I said looking at the guy standing on to my side. "Sorry about the yelling my dog..."

"...Ran away with your dinner?" he man finished.

"Yeah..." I said nodding. There was something about this guy, I had never seen him in Megaton before, he looked like he just came from the Wasteland, and he was so familiar.