Mercy knew that she had to let Bitteroot pick what information he had deemed was worthwhile to share with her. And she didn't really press him for details either about his past, because she is learning more about hers as well.
As each day dawns anew, the two are becoming fast friends as they help each other learn more about their pasts, and they arrived at Primm, and they agreed to help get some more able bodied men to Lieunetent Hayes from Camp Alpha up north from the town. Once they did that, the NCR included Primm in it's protection from the Powder Gangers.
That night, the two opted to get as far as they could go before setting up camp. Which they did after clearing out some Viper gang members at the Nipton rest stop and well, they returned to Nipton for the night. Before heading back to Camp McCarran near New Vegas. Because the clinic idea Mercy had was a bust all the way around for her.
The young sniper felt like he owed her the rest of the story of how he ended up being raised by his mother as a single parent. "Mercy, my parents never really talked to each other much, save when it was time to get ready to work and shit like that, he often beat my mother and I was far too young to stop him from doing it. And she always told the doctors that she saw that she fell while dealing with some books and hit the table or something like that. But they never truly bought it until one day I came in with an arm fracture that caused it to be completely out of shape for months. My father was also the town drunk and when he had gotten pissed over something, he would break a bone or two. But by then, they knew that something had to happen, and soon it finally came to light that he was raping me because I was just a scared 10 year old kid who needed to be taught a lesson, and my mother had finally had enough of it and killed him. Now, though even though the bastard's long since has been dead, I've never truly felt like the man that I wanted to be when I joined the NCR as a sniper. But until you came along, I guess, I never have even felt what true love is."
She felt her tears beginning to fall as she said. "Bitterroot, the hell that you and your mother went through, no one else should have to be forced to go through as well. That's the main reason why I wanted to open up a clinic, to make a safe place where beaten mothers, children who have lost their innocence, and young women who were forced upon and became pregnant, they all would have a person to talk to about what had happened to them. And even though your father was an evil man, he made you into a better man than he was going to end up being my love, because he took everything from you when you were just ten years old,and yet, you grew up knowing that your past does not define the man that you have become since then."
The two shared their first kiss that very night before going to sleep near each other for the night. Both feeling happier than they would have ever thought possible if for not one little fact. Vuples has kept the Legion off of his niece for as long as he could and he knew that had to warn her somehow, without getting himself killed in the process.