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Eventually the explosions stopped. They must have cleared enough of the rubble in order to make it down the tunnel.

Chloe was relieved the shaking had stopped, but she was still tense. She hadn't realised before how trapped they were down here. If something went wrong, they couldn't exactly run away.

It wasn't long after that the shouting started, in the tunnels nearest them.

Shouting gave way to gunfire.

In between shots and screams she could hear something else. Something... shrieking.

"Mom?" Emily asked, fear evident in her voice. "What's going on?"

"I don't know," Chloe said, trying to sound calm.

Then they heard the footsteps of people running. They were getting closer and closer to the room she shared with Emily.

Suddenly, the door was wrenched open, and a blood splattered guard was standing there, out of breath with a gun in his hand.

"Come on," he said, gesturing for them to follow us. "We have to go-"

He was cut off as a feral ghoul slammed into him, sinking its teeth into his neck.

Emily screamed before Chloe could stop her, and the ghoul's head snapped towards them before it shrieked and lunged at them.

Chloe pushed Emily out of the way and braced herself as it swiped at her, slamming it's hand into the side of her head.

She heard two shots and it fell on top of her. She pushed it off and stood up, panting. Jesse was in the doorway, his gun still pointed at the ghoul.

People were running down the corridor behind him, desperate to get away.

"We need to go now," he said. Sweat covered his forehead and he was pale and shaking, but his voice had no fear in it.

"Mom I can't-"

"Yes you can," Chloe said, turning to face her. "If you don't, we'll die." Her voice was stern and left no room for arguing. "You can do this," she said, a little softer.

She reached down and pulled the gun from the dead guard's hand.

"Stay close to me," she said to Emily, echoing the words Beca had once said to her.

"Come on," Jesse said, urgently.

They moved down the corridor, Jesse taking the lead with Chloe at the back. Emily was sandwiched between them.

They soon came across more bodies, both guards and ghouls, and Chloe wasted no time in picking up whatever ammo and weapons they had. She thrust a gun into Emily's hand.

"Just point and shoot," she said. "Go for their legs if you aren't close enough for a head shot."

"But I've never-"

"There's a first time for everything, Em," Jesse said. "Listen to your mom."

Jesse lead them through the rabbit warren of corridors and tunnels until they were almost at the stairs out.

The normally heavily guarded door had been flung open. Daylight streamed down the bottom of the stairs.

Emily stopped in the entrance way, between the stairs and the room they'd just come through.

"What happened to the others?" She said, looking back through where they'd came.

"They either got out, or they didn't," he said. Emily looked at him, tears shining in her eyes.

"What about Benji? What about-"

"Em, we need to leave now, okay?" He said, his voice strained now. "Benji didn't... He didn't know how to shoot. I tried but..."

"We need to go," Chloe said. She could hear the sound of the ghouls getting louder. She had met Benji a few times while she'd been down here. She had liked him. Emily had really liked him. "I know you're scared," she said to Emily. "But we don't have time to wait. I need you to be strong for me, okay?"

Emily nodded and wiped her eyes with her sleeve. Chloe put a hand on her back and started leading her up the stairs.

The ghouls had made it to the entrance way and were close behind them. Chloe felt a hand close around her ankle and pull.

She slammed into the stairs and she felt herself getting pulled down them.

"Mom!"

"Run!" She shouted up and Emily and Jesse, as she tried to kick the ghoul that was holding her. Her foot made contact with a head but it still didn't let go.

More and more ghouls were pouring through the door, so many that they began getting stuck.

Chloe fired blindly, and managed to shoot the one holding her. She only manged to scramble up two or three steps before she was grabbed again.

Her gun was knocked out of her hand.

Back in Sanctuary, Beca and Aubrey were arguing.

"You are not going out there!" Aubrey shouted, as Beca began loading ammunition into her guns.

"Aubrey," Beca said, trying to keep her voice calm, "there is a Deathclaw twenty minutes from our settlement. If that thing gets near us, everything will be destroyed and we'll probably be killed."

"Then we can call the Minutemen!" Aubrey said.

Around half an hour ago, a person from a near by settlement had come running into Sanctuary, warning them that a Deathclaw was headed in this direction.

"With what radio?" Beca asked. Their radio had been damaged by the radiation storm and Fat Amy was currently trying to repair it.

"We have the flare gun," Aubrey said. Beca didn't reply. "We do have the flare gun, right Beca?"

"I gave it to Chloe," she said. "In case she ever wanted to come back."

Aubrey pinched the bridge of her nose and sighed. "Right," she said. "Well then we'll wait for Amy to fix the tower and then we'll call."

"We don't have time to wait," she said.

"Beca, why does it have to be you who goes?" Aubrey said, feeling desperate now.

Beca didn't answer.

"You're being reckless. I know you miss Chloe, but that doesn't mean you should just throw your life away trying to fight a fucking Deathclaw," Aubrey said.

"I'm not throwing my life away," she walked over to her power armor. "I'm trying to save all of yours."

"Beca," Aubrey said, with tears in her eyes. "That thing will kill you."

Beca hugged her, before she climbed into the power armor.

"Stay safe," Beca said. "If you see it coming... Just run." Dogmeat ran up to her, his tail wagging. "Not this time boy," she said. "This time you have to stay behind." Dogmeat cocked his head.

As she walked away from them, she wished she'd taken a second to say goodbye to everyone.

She was under no illusions.

This thing would probably kill her.

"Mom!" Emily screamed again, as she fired wildly into the mass of ghouls. Jesse began shooting too.

Chloe tried to shield her face as the ghouls on top of her died.

She felt two pairs of hands pull her out of the pile.

"Go, go, go!" Jesse said pushing them up the stairs.

Eventually, they reached the top, and they threw themselves through the door. Jesse slammed it behind them.

Chloe lay on the ground, breathing heavily. Her ankle was swollen and everything hurt, but she was beyond relieved they'd made it.

"Did they bite you?" Jesse asked, standing over her. Chloe shook her head and made herself sit up.

"They hit me a few times but no bites," she said, checking herself over.

"Good," he said, finally putting his gun away. He took off his backpack, and removed a stimpak from it. "I managed to get some supplies before I came to get you," he said. He handed it to her and she stuck it in her arm, grateful as the pain began to recede.

She could still hear the ghouls throwing themselves at the door, but there was no way they'd be able to break through.

She looked over at Emily, who was yet to say a word.

She was standing, holding onto the side of the station, looking up at the sky.

"It's so big," she said finally. "How can it be so big?"

Chloe pulled herself to her feet and limped over to her daughter.

She removed the fare gun from her holster, and fired it into the sky.

Emily gasped as they were suddenly bathed in red light.

"What are you doing?" Jesse asked, rushing over to them.

"Signaling to the Minutemen that we need help," she said. "They'll need to know there's an infestation of ghouls, and Beca said they'd take us to Sanctuary."

"Why would we go there?" He asked. "It's a two day walk out in the wasteland."

"Do we have anywhere else to go?" She replied, turning to face him. He was looking afraid again now that the adrenaline had worn off.

"I want to go there," Emily said. For the first time she didn't sound afraid.

Jesse accepted defeat and he sat down, his back against the wall.

"What happened down there?" Chloe asked him as they waited for the Minutemen.

"Turns out that tunnel was blocked off for a reason," he said. "All that dynamite must have woken them up. Hundreds of them. All those people died because I wanted to know what was in that tunnel."

"It isn't your fault," Emily said.

"Then who's fault is it?"

They didn't speak for a while as they waited.

All Chloe could think about was that in a few days, she would see Beca again.