Second chapter! Hope you like it. Enjoy!

Unbeknownst to Nora, towards the north was a small shack that overlooked the valley that was her neighborhood. From this cliff faced lookout sat Deacon, watching her through homemade binoculars.

From his vantage point, Deacon could see the Vault and all of Sanctuary Hills. He was there when Nora had first emerged from the vault as PAM had predicted. And he was there when she brought back what was left of the shattered minute men. Hell, it wasn't so long ago that he might have called Sanctuary Hills a second home but now it was little more than the grave of shattered promises.

He had been up there for some time, waiting for Nora to return. It wasn't a mission exactly, more like recon on a possible enemy. Nora was no longer Whisper of the Railroad. She was now a risk that had to be monitored and terminated if necessary. Her in depth knowledge of the Railroad, its headquarters, its agents, its entire organization made her the most dangerous person to their group and Deacon had made it his personal mission to keep her from wrecking it all.

He had been the one to vouch for her, to convince Des to let her in. But looking at her now and knowing what she had become made him feel sick to his stomach.

"I can't believe that at one point i wanted to travel with you." he muttered.

When she began to get greedy is when he really started to notice a change in her. She didnt help people out of the goodness of her heart anymore, she always wanted caps in return. And then she got addicted to those fucking chems and suddenly everything fell sideways. She started to murder people indiscriminately just to take the stuff from their corpses and began to steal and talk down to people. The deal breaker for Deacon was when she started to side with the obvious bad guys and continued to help them in their malicious plans.

He thought to the time a few weeks ago when he finally confronted her about her choices. He thought maybe if he talked to her and made her remember who she was before she became jaded by the Commonwealth, she might return to who he knew she could be. But instead she walked right past him. Nora didn't want to hear what he had to say, didn't care for his opinion. That's when Deacon knew he couldn't stay with this malignant person anymore.

She was down there right now, holding onto the dog that always followed her around. Deacon could have taken him if he had wanted but he wasn't so cruel. Not like her.

He sat down and rubbed his eyes beneath his shades. This wasn't how it was supposed to be. Everyone thought that she would be the savior of the Commonwealth and in the beginig she was becoming just that.

"And look where we are now."

Deacon looked at the rifle he had leaning against his lookout. If it came to it, he knew he could do it. It might be harder to pull the trigger but she was just like any other enemy to the cause, except she used to be his greatest friend. She knew everything about him, he had trusted her with his blood soaked past and then she just had to go and turn against everything he stood for.

Nora was latched onto Dogmeat and had not moved in sometime. It was then that Deacon noticed that she no longer had Codsworth with her. 'He must have gotten tired of her shit too' he thought as he looked down at the pair. Codsworth was the last companion that could even remotely stand her and even then it was a precarious state of acceptance.

Deacon thought that he might feel bad for her yet he couldn't help feeling that she was getting what she deserved. This was the price she had to pay.

An hour or two had gone by before Nora stood up. She said something to Dogmeat before heading toward the old oak tree at the end of Sanctuary. He thought she might stop there but she just wadded into the water. She held Dogmeat in one arm and swam across the lake. Once on the other side she gave Dogmeat a Stimpack and then vanished into the foothills beyond.

"Well i guess i need to go report this to the others." Some of the companions did not want to ever see her again and so where in more or less in hiding. Nick Valentine however had begun to stay at Railroad HQ, acting as an agent and using it as a getaway. Nora was considered a traitor by all the agents and so if she even tried to get in she would be mowed down by Glory and her minigun. Glory felt especially betrayed and murderous so that's why she wasn't selected to be the one who shadowed Nora.

When Deacon had made it made it back to HQ the place was in a tizzy packing everything away. They were moving to a new location, one that they hoped Nora didn't know about. She had several of their hideouts already memorized so they couldn't head there. Everyone, from all outpost, were being uprooted and told to move anywhere else. The Railroad would be scattered and unknown to everyone else. They couldn't risk having any location be compromised. With a single action Nora could bring down the entire Railroad.

"Des!" Deacon called out, "I have some info." Des turned to him and he had never seen her look so bad, so stressed. She always put on the air of a hardass but something like this would bring anyone to their knees. "Valentine you come here too. I think you might want to hear this."

He told them about what he had seen in the last few days of trailing Nora, about Codsworth and the other companions, and where she was last seen.

"Thats interesting Deacon. So she has no one to help her right?" questioned Desdemona.

"Yeah she's alone, save for Dogmeat."

"Then we can relax a little bit, without someone to help her across the Commonwealth i dont think she will last too long."

"I wouldn't count on that Des." interjected Valentine. "I've seen that woman do some incredible and terrible things. I wouldn't write her off so easily." Valentine had traveled with Nora even longer than Deacon so his gauge of her strength couldn't be that far off.

"I'll keep that in mind."

The two both went back to their tasks and Deacon went to take a long needed rest. But he wouldn't get any sleep. The painful last few weeks drugged up old memories and the dying screams of his synth wife wouldn't let him drift off.

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