My perception is blurred. Everything aches my head is heavy and my knees feel like cracking toothpicks. The only thing I don't feel is my hand. It's like it's not even there. I gaze down my suit, below my torso, I'm leaking. Pulling myself away from the sludge I throw myself onto the hard cold floor. I try to get up but my legs give out collapsing to the ground. Slowly lifting my eyes I scan around.

Nora

I try to scream but my voice is cracked and broken. Shaking on the ground I begin to weep.

You were perfect. When I came back I wasn't right. You fixed that. You and Shaun fixed that.

I can't get up. The lump in my throat is pounding now.

There gone. How canI can't...I want to die.

I close my eyes hoping and praying this isn't real that this didn't happen.

Maybe it didn't.

I pull myself up.

I manage to slide across the corridor ignoring the pain. I look to my left and see a room surrounded by cold tile. I roll into the room and am surrounded by shower heads towering over me. I crawl next to one of the taps and try grasping for it. My fingers fumble across the tap until I get a firm grip. I then slowly begin to twist.

I'm feeling a waterfall on my face. I open my mouth wide desperately drinking all that I can. I let it wash over me until I am fully awake.

Turning off the tap I start to crawl away, discovering a different room in the vault. In the room there is a bed, a computer and many shelved cupboards. I'm so hungry. I desperately swing open all the cupboards until I find a single can.

"ha ha...ha"

Cram, of course it's fucking Cram.

Being as starved as I was I lift the metal tab off the container and consume the precooked canned meat whole. Swallowing it down I slugged my way across the room and collapsed onto the bed. My eyes are forced shut and I cradle back to sleep again.


I'm awake. My eyes are crusted shut. The air around me is putrid

I stink.

I slowly rise from the bed leaning on the wall for support. I head back to the showers, there I slowly peel the ratchet spandex off my body and crawl under the shower head. I turn the tap, I turn it and turn it until everything is steaming. I sat in my sweat for a long while and started choking up. I pathetically slather a bar of soap all over my body. I stay in that shower until I'm a shaking mess. Satisfied I reach up and turn the water off. Naked I stumble back to the main room.

Sitting on the bed I run my hands through my hair beat tired.

What happened again...Nora, oh my god Nora. She's...dead and Shaun he's...Who the fuck steals an infant! How long were we out. What were they trying to do us. The other survivors howdidthisallhappeneverythingvaultteciknewitwastoogoodtobetrueffuu…

"Fuck Fuck FUCK!"

My hands are clawing at my head trying to recollect what has happened. I bite my lip and pull at my hair in frustration. I become and an animal. I start screaming at myself.

"How could I let this happen!"

My migraine is crashing against the rocks over and over again.

BREATH, just...breath. This isn't real. It can't be real.

I rise from the bed as fast as I can and stumble down the halls reaching the entrance of the decontamination chamber. The sliding door opens and everything is clear. My wife, a rag doll is slumped in her chair like every other sorry bastard here.


It's been two months since I've awoken and now I finally have endurance. I'm finally fucking able to leave this damn place and actual start looking for Shaun. I don't know what's out there but it has to be better than this fuckfest. My skin doesn't look like grandma's corn and my hand doesn't hurt like a son of a bitch if you must know. Though I'm guessing you Vault-Tec bastards don't really care, do you. Now I actually don't know if it was you guys who had my family torn apart but when I do think of what I'll do when I've found them...there dead.

I pull away from the computer and immediately start packing. Storming around the vault I grab the backpack I found and stuff it with all that I can. I reload my handgun and start heading to the exit.

I've done everything I can dowell not everything, there's... Nora. I don't want to just leave her down here but seeing her likeI've made it.

The exit is gray, dark with a huge door metal door blocking my path. I don't think I'll be able to pick this. I look around and see a skeleton lying in front of a control panel, I walk towards it. What's that attached to its wrist? I lean down to get a better look, a Pip Boy that's the key.

I take the Pip Boy off its wrist and attach it onto mine. I take the wire off the end of the bulky device and plug it into the control panel. Looking down at the control panel I see a bright orange button and push down on it.

"Vault door cycling sequence initiated. Please stand back" A recorded voice warns me.

Looking at the exit I see the geared door begin to turn and open. I back away, It's so bright. Walking through the gear shaped hole I walk out the door leaving Nora behind. Everything is damp and very rusty. I see an elevator come down before me, the gate slowly lifts and I walk in.

"Enjoy your return to the surface and thank you for choosing Vault-Tec"

Yeah it's been great.

I step into the elevator and it takes me up.