Blimey that was difficult. how long has it been like a month? whatever heres the next chapter. read review ect
Twenty minutes and three syringes of medex later, Jericho was on his way to the saloon. covering his body was his old leather armor covered with various pouches containing ammo and grenades., on his back replacing the combat shotgun was a Chinese assault rifle.
He had never liked the combat shotgun, he had only taken it on his last job because it was an overall intimidating weapon. But within megaton, any gun will be just as intimidating as the next, the folks were so alienated from the rest of the wasteland and its horrors that even the pussy ass .10 pistols Jericho saw on the belts of the occasional travelers inflicted nervous looks on the town.
Needless to say Jericho was a man that enjoyed being feared.
After another five minutes Jericho was at the saloon. Pushing open the door he pondered what liqour he would use to wash away his pain.
"Um, excuse me." Eva said to the bartender, barley holding back a gag as she looked at his torn and rotted flesh.
The bartender didn't respond, instead mumbling and continuing to bang on the radio at the corner of the bar as it produced static.
"Excuse me?"
Still nothing. The bartender was then approached by an orange haired woman who patted him on the shoulder. "Hey, Gob honey?"
Gob almost instantly shot up and turned around at the soft feminine voice of the woman. "Yea Nova?"
Nova only responded by pointing towards Eva.
Gob looked over at Eva his disfigured face reveled all to clearly. "Eh? oh sorry, what can I get ya smoothskin?"
"Err, I'm looking for Moriarty, have you seen him?" Eva looked away from the man. the rotted skin was just to much.
"Moriarty? Sorry he doesn't want people bothering him on his break."
"Oh." Eva responded as she tried again to make eye contact with the bartender. "How long till he's done?"
"Not sure, to be perfectly honest he doesn't do much work around here, he could be on break another half hour or more."
"oh, well-"
Suddenly Eva was broken from her conversation by the sound of tin dropping onto the counter. She looked to her side where a large armored man was sitting on the next barstool. ten bottle caps rested on the counter infront of him.
"The usual Jericho?" asked Gob as if his conversation with Eva had never been.
"Yea, and be quick about it I got a god awful headache."
Gob nodded before grabbing the caps on the table and retrieving a bottle of whiskey from under the counter.
As the bottle was placed in front of Jericho, he noticed the young girl seated beside him. "You got a name, love?" He took a swig from the whiskey and awaited a response.
"Eva." She responded politely. Most woman would have been uncomfortable seated next to such a a man, but Eva was just glad to talk to someone who at least came off as friendly.
"Well, I'm Jericho, its great to meet ya, you new in town?" He asked as his gaze wandered across the young woman's body.
"yes, just passing through." She said through a light smile.
Jericho nodded as he examined Eva. He wanted her, everything from her clean black hair to her almost perfect body. He was nothing short of amazed with the amount of cleanliness of this woman. "Where you headed?" Jericho asked as he pulled his eyes away from to girls body back to her face as he didn't want to scare her off.
"Im not sure," Eva responded. She hadn't intact noticed that the man had been checking her out. "I'm looking for my father, apparently Moriarty has some information that can help me."
Another nod came from Jericho and he took another swig. "And let me guess, the slacking peice of crap is on another break and Gob wont help you?"
Eva chuckled lightly. "Well I don't know if I would put it like that but, ya pretty much."
It was then that Jericho figured out that this woman wasn't just gonna give herself to him at the cost of a couple capps and some macho bullshit like Nova or Silver. This one was different, this one was gonna require a little effort. Jericho smiled. "Well, I happen to know for a fact that Moriarty takes his breaks just outside. What do you say we go deal with that."
Eva's eyes lit up and she smiled. "Really?"
"Sure thing. Always up for helping out a young lady like yourself."
"Well thank you, its good to finally meet a nice person out here."
There was a slight pause. "Right, right." Jericho responded through a smile as the two stood from there seats. "Lets go see if our friend Moriarty has any useful information."
Jericho opened the steel door of the saloon and found Moriarty leaning over the railing. observing his town as always. "OI Moriarty." Jericho said as he held the door for Eva.
Moriarty turned from his observations and covered his face with a smug smile. "Well ello there Jericho. As much as I enjoy the company of washed up raiders, I would prefure not to be bothered on my breaks." as he finished he took a drag from his cigarette.
"Its not a break if you don't actualy do any work before hand." Jericho responded in an intimidating tone.
"Ey," Moriarty raised his free hand and pointed at Jericho. "I don't tell you how to do your job, don't tell me how to do mine. Now what's so important that you need to bother me?"
Jericho put his hand on Eva's shoulder. "Eva here is looking for her father. Apparently you have some information she needs.
"Yea," Eva said "He's middle aged, wearing a vault 101 jumpsuit like me..."
Moriarty smiled and put out his cigarette. "Oh, yea I think I saw your father, passed through not long ago."
"Here it comes." Jericho muttered.
"Yea I did see him. Question is lass," He paused for a moment and rubbed his middle and index fingers against his thumb. "How many capps you got on ya?"
Eva stammered. "um, er"
"Let me handle this." said Jericho as he pushed passed Eva. "Moriarty, I am not gonna let her pay a cheap corrupt asshole like you for information, start talking."
The Irishman laughed. "Or what you gonna talk in your macho bullshit tone again?"
"No." Jericho grabbed the man by the neck and leaned him over the railing. "If you don't start talking I'm gonna throw you off this ledge and feed your corpse to the bramin."
Moriarty looked down and dreaded the lengths of rebar sticking out of the ground under him.
Jericho was about to push the man slightly farther in an attempt to get his point across, but a hand on his shoulder and a worried look from Eva stopped him.
Jericho let out a curse and reluctantly pulled Moriarty back off the railing onto the floor. "Now tell the girl what she wants to know."
Moriarty let out a few strained coughs. "Your a lot of things Jericho, a natural born people person is not one of em."
Jericho would have kicked him in the head had the circumstances been different. "I will not ask nicely again." he paused for a moment and put his hand on the grip of a .32 pistol at his side.
"Alright, alright." Moriarty stood to his feat and dusted himself off, before diverting his attention to Eva. "your father went east, said something about GNR and a guy named three dog." He looked back at Jericho. "Happy?"
"Yea, thank you for the help. Now go back inside you worthless peice of shit." Jericho responded.
Moriarty reluctantly walked back into his saloon, muttering negative comments about Jericho all the way.
As the man dissapered through the door Jericho turned to Eva. "Sorry you had to see that."
"Its alright," she responded hesitantly. Despite the mans violent behavior and intimidating presence, Eva couldn't help but be intrigued by this man. Why she did not know for sure, maybe she was subconsciously attracted to him, she had hallway's favored the 'bad boys' so to speak. "Anyway, thanks for your help, I've better get going if I'm gonna catch up with my dad." Eva began to turn but stopped halfway as she remembered Stockholm's words as he spoke about the raiders.
"A clean, pretty girl like you? Those lunatics would probably rape you to death, cut off all your limbs, and eat your flesh."
"Hey um, Jericho?" She said
"Yes?" He responded, holding back a smirk. He knew what she was thinking.
"Look, I'm not very experienced out here. I mean, I don't even know what or where GNR is. if I'm gonna get there in one piece Im gonna need someone with experience to help me."
"I see." Jericho said as a smile spread across his face. "So you want me to go with you?"
"Well, yea, I mean, I don't have anything to offer you but."
"Hey relax. I was planning on heading over to rivet city later anyway. I don't mind helping you out."
"Really?" She said excitedly.
"Really. But first I would recommend you get a room here at Moriarty's for the night. Your gonna need a nights sleep before heading out tomorrow."
Jericho led the woman inside and bought her a room. He would get this woman, and if that meant dropping some time and money, then so be it.
"Well," Lance remarked as he bent down to observe the bullet ridden corpse of Jakob. "I did not notice during our little standoff but you have a really nice hat." as he said this, Lance pulled the old west style hat from the corpses head and placed it on his own. "What do you think?" He said as he turned to his partner.
"I think your batshit insane." Responded Reaver as he looked up from his own looting.
"For what?" Laughed Lance as he removed and examined the hat again.
Reaver rolled his eyes and returned to his task. "Your talking to a corpse for one."
Lance chuckled and put on the hat. "Oh lighten up."
Reaver mumbled something under his breath and stood up. Whatever. So apart from that hat, did you find anything over there?" He asked.
"No, fraid not." Lance said as he looked at a piece of paper in his hand. "All he's got is our extermination form."
"Well that's not much good to us."
"Guess not. Anyway, lets go. I would prefer not to be out here when tha yao gaui show up."
there finaly some stuff with Eva in it. thanks for reading leave a reveiw!