"Rivet City? No, too far. Little Lamplight? For children only. Arefu? A bit far." Amata paused. "Big Town? No just off of Arefu. Well, I guess I just stay in Megaton." she sighed then looked up to the bar. "Can I get another drink, Gob?"
"Sure thing." the ghoul replied, handing her a whiskey then returning to checking the stock. Amata took a drink and then turned back to her pip-boy. It had been a week since she had last seen Alice, but she wasn't about to give up waiting. By now, she knew a lot of people in Megaton, and they were really quite nice.
The door to the saloon opened and Butch entered, walking over to Amata. She turned and the whiskey fell from her hand, hitting the bar and spilling everywhere.
"Butch? I...why are you here?" she asked, shocked. She knew he traveled with Alice from time to time, but why was he here in Megaton, in the saloon, and right in front of her?
"Amata. There are a few Brotherhood of Steel guys here who want to speak with you." he told her with a shrug. "About what, I don't know and I don't care. Said it was important or some shit." Amata was on her feet in moments,she exited the saloon and ran down the ramps, past the disarmed nuclear bomb and up the hill to the entrance of Megaton. In front of her were five Brotherhood of Steel Knights.
"Are you Amata?" the leader one, a woman with blonde hair done up in a messy pony-tail, asked. Amata gave a nod and the woman held out a holotape for her. "I am Sarah Lyons and I bring news about Alice. She...she is dead. I am very sorry."
"What? I..no! She can't be dead. She promised me she'd come back!" Amata cried, tears beginning to form in her eyes and stream down her cheeks. Sarah blinked slowly before indicating the holotape.
"In the limited time we had before she died, she made this for you. She knew she was going to die when she volunteered to do this, and she...just listen to this." Sarah told her. Amata reached out, her hand shaking, and took it.
"Thank you for bringing me this." Amata said. Sarah nodded then turned and left. Amata stood there for a moment longer before slowly going back to Alice's house. She opened the door and Dogmeat greeted her but for once, she ignore him and sat in a chair in the corner of the main room. She put the holotape into her pip-boy and listened.
"Amata, I don't have much time for this. I have to enter the code to start project purity. Radiation and pressure is building up in the control room and the only way to stop it is to enter the code. It was me or Sarah Lyons, and I know it has to be me. I will finish what James and Katherine, my parents, started. The radiation is so bad, I won't make it out alive, no radiation suit, power armor, rad-x or radaway can change that. But enough about that, I want to tell you something more, something more personal. Amata, you are my best friend, you always have been and will be. You have been with me through everything since we met. But you are more then that, or that's what I want to think. If we really do love one another, would you be my girlfriend? No...not girlfriend, but my wife. Maybe it doesn't matter because I am a dead woman anyway, but...I have to ask because I love you. I...please take care, I have to go. Tell my friends good-bye. And Amata, always fight the good fight, no matter what. Be happy, love. I will wait for you even when I am gone. Good-bye."
The recording ended and tears fell down her cheeks, dripping on to the floor.
"Yes, Alice." she whispered. "I would be honored to be your wife. I love you with every breath I take." Dogmeat gave a whimper and Amata smiled sadly at the dog. "Alice isn't coming home, boy. But don't worry, I'll stay with you. Because she saved us both, and now, we'll stick together with the others she's saved. She saved D.C. boy, let's honor her like a hero, because she is one."