Amber watched as MacCready sniped the last gunner from next to the elevator, as she snuck around the platform. Mac joined her a moment later.
"Are you sure about this, Boss?" He half whispered, and Amber could feel his breath on her ear. She shook off the feeling crawling down her spine and nodded quickly. She loaded a mini nuke into the barrel of her Big Boy and clenched her jaw. MacCready nodded at her and punched the elevator button.
Mac looked at his boss, her candy apple eyes, usually smiling were now hard and cold. Her usually round face seemed sharp and angry. He looked up, the concrete of the interchange slowing crawling toward them. He readied the assault rifle Boss had given him and ducked around her like they planned, while she readied the nuke.
"Gunners, meet my Nuker." Amber cried, her southern accent thick. MacCready stifled a chuckle and ducked, the nuke exploding on the pavement a little closer to his boss's face than he would have liked. Winlock flew across the turnpike, dead as a doornail, but Barnes was far enough away. Amber threw the nuke launcher aside, pulling out a mini gun and winding it up in Barnes's face.
Barnes ducked behind a concrete barrier, taking pot shots above his head without really aiming. So distracted by Amber's mini gun, he didn't see MacCready sneaking up behind him, picking off three of his goons along the way. He stepped directly behind Barnes, pressing Amber's shotgun to the back of his neck. Amber turned her attention to what looked like the final gunner leaping into a suit of power armour.
"You should have walked away, Barnes." MacCready said softly.
"You're dead, kid. You and your crazy girlfriend over there." Barnes growled. MacCready pulled the trigger quickly, watching his large body sink to the floor.
When they were sure everyone on the turnpike had finally fallen, Amber and MacCready headed for the elevator.
Without thinking, MacCready pulled Amber into his arms for a hug, the adrenaline and excitement suddenly overtaking him. He laughed and spun her around once before pulling away. He looked at her face and stifled a gasp.
The side of her face was bleeding profusely, a large gash travelling from her chin up the side of her face to her eyebrow. She touched it gingerly, then looked at her fingers. There was a second large cut just below her lip, bleeding down her chin.
"I hate to ask, but could you spare a Stimpack?" was all she said before she fell forward.
"There's some radiation burns along the edges. I'm guessing shrapnel from the mini nuke." Doctor Sun stated flatly. "It'll heal fine, but it's definitely going to scar." Amber opened her eyes slowly, the dim light of morning just breaking over Diamond City.
MacCready was looking down at her, his blue eyes huge and wet. A small smile broke onto his lips and he let out a sigh.
"How ya feeling, boss?" He asked, barely above a whisper.
"We took out an entire gunner waystation. Feeling pretty good." She ran a hand over the side of her face, feeling the tender stitches under her fingers. "Oh I'll bet I look like hammered shit." MacCready laughed lightly and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"You look perfect." His smirk made her whole body warm.