Bab 524: Royling Emotions
"Jesus Christ, he did a number on you, didn't he?" Dean mutters, actually feeling sympathetic to his fellow victim's plight... It seems a if she'd got the short end of the stick, having been shoved into this Auto-Doc and forgotten.
The woman herself looked utterly exhausted, but despite that, her blue eyes scanned each of them as if trying to find a threat.
Veronica scans the woman emaciated form with a look of horror, they wore a patients gown and nothing else, however, her words get caught in her throat when she notices a small mole on the woman's knee... "C-Christine?" she stutters out, taking off her helmet and shoving it into Dean's arms for a moment.
The woman's blue eyes widen at the tone and voice of the person, even more so once she sees the armoured person's face. She tried to open her mouth but finds no voice coming out, scared, she raises a hand to her throat and trails a finger along the vicious-looking scar running over her jugular.
Veronica, realising who this is sends an alarmed look to Afton, "Quick, she needs Med X and a Stim... We need to stop her bleeding before she loses any more blood."
Afton, nodding, jabs a Med X into the woman's neck fast enough for her to not react. She seems to be very well trained, but too weak and exhausted to put up much of a fight... Not that she really wants to, Veronica's presence has put her to ease pretty well.
Next, he stabs her with a Stimpack, injecting the materials and letting it do its work... She'd be more exhausted as it comes into effect, but better tired than dead, right?
Once he was sure Christine wouldn't drop dead he walks up to a nearby chair and sets her down in it, afterwards removing his own helmet. "Remember me, sis? I hope you do, you did abandon us after all." he says, his eyes focussing on her collar.
Nyx, already knowing what he wants stops Elijah's connection to it for a moment as he begins trying to fiddle with it.
Christine tries to push his hands away, but Veronica restrains her for now. Trusting Afton to remove any leverage Elijah has over Christine. It takes a couple minutes, but his prior experience with Deans collar allows him to easily remove all the explosives. He pockets the C4, just in case he might need to use it in the future.
Once done he gives the duo a thumbs up, "Job done, Elijah won't have any hold over you anymore..."
Veronica gives a smiling nod and looks back down at Christine, "You know how much I want to slap you silly for leaving me? But I'll leave that for later... Are you okay?" she asks.
Christine looks up at her former lover and slowly shake her head, pointing at her throat while opening her mouth soundlessly.
Afton raises a brow and retrieves some papers from around the room, handing it to Christine, "Can you write?"
...
After glaring down at the paper for a moment, Christine attempts to write something, it starts off an A... Probably? But the letters eventually devolves into spirals, backtracked lines and scribbles. It looked like the start of a Picasso painting, potentially pretty, but not helpful at all.
Christine crushes the pencil she was using and throws it away, clutching her head in her hands while tears dripped from her eyes. Veronica takes her up into a tight hug, not letting Christine suffer alone.
Afton just looks on with rage slowly building, Elijah and Dala had done this to Christine, he had no doubt in his mind. Christine had always been a strong person, and he'd never seen her cry aside from a couple particular moments, seeing her like this now made him want to run through the Cloud and piledrive Elijah into the concrete floor.
He wanted to snap that old piece of shit like a twig, seal him in a concrete box with a tiny hole to deliver air, and wait until he starved to death. Or maybe feed him to the baby Deathclaws? That'd definitely be slow and agonizing enough... Or maybe just toss him into the Cloud for the sheer irony of it.
He feels a tap on his side and is about to attack whoever it was in response when Dean's voice tears him from his thoughts. "I'm sorry to say, but you look as if you are about to tear apart and eat us." the ghoul states.
...
Afton shakes his head and looks at him, "Sorry, just thinking about things..." he admits, taking a glance at Christine and Veronica who were still comforting one another. He nods his head at Dean and escorts Anja out of the room, so the duo could have some privacy.
"W-what happened?" Anja asks after they exit the room.
Afton sighs, "We found Christine, but she's been... Tortured... She can't speak, and she seems completely unable to write or formulate words. I doubt she is even able to read at this point, though, Maths is another thing to test. Brain injuries like the one that she's currently afflicted with are notoriously finicky things..." he solemnly says.
"Will she be okay, sir?" Anja wonders aloud, feeling sympathetic due to her past experience within NCR hands.
"I don't know... I hope so, but, it's hard to tell." he admits, beginning to pace along the hallway to ease his anxious feelings.
Inside the room :
Veronica continues to hug Christine as if her life depends on it, though, still making sure to be gentle for the frail and tortured woman.
After the group leaves the room she looks up at Christine's almost unrecognisable face, "W-why did you leave us...? The only reason any of this happened was because you left, who knows what we could have been doing now if you'd only stayed!?..."
Christine just slowly shakes her head, still unable to say anything... Even if she could, she doubted it'd soothe Veronica's roiling emotions.
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Bab 525: Restlessnesses
Christine had felt herself slowly dying inside since she left her family all those years ago... Her parents completely and utterly rejected her relationship with Veronica once it'd come to light, and the rest of the Brotherhood looked at her with complete disgust whenever they saw her.
Nobody attempted to hide their feelings towards her, that's just the way it was supposed to be... To be honest, she was actually lucky she was lesbian, compared to what happened to Homosexuals, the look of disgust and suffered isolation wasn't much when compared to execution...
That's why when Elder Elijah offered her a position among an outside group of the Brotherhood, a fresh start... She accepted, not knowing at the time that he was the one responsible for orchestrating the whole debacle concerning her and Veronica.
The man was obsessive in everything he did, wanting to be in control of everything... Which is why, when his apprentice started going off on her own, skipping work, and coming to work looking dishevelled, he started to intervene.
Hints here and there, directing people where Christine and Veronica would be, starting rumours... Of course, Christine only realised this many years later, when she was given the order by the Circle of Steel to track down and assassinate Elijah...
She had been trained as an elite assassin for many years, capable of killing someone for so far away they looked like an ant... So, when she received Elder Elijah as a target, she did as she would always do, gather information.
As she had been in close contact with the man for many years, it wasn't difficult to question everything that involved him and go through her own memories with a fine-tooth comb. This is how she eventually came to the conclusion that everything bad that occurred back then, was solely due to Elijah, just to get her away from Veronica.
...
She hadn't acted like the trained assassin when she realised this... More like a child having a tantrum. She spent two full days destroying dummies and training herself into the ground, and only stopped due to direct orders from her seniors.
Soon enough, she had numbed those feelings towards her former 'friend' and elder. She was sent off to hunt him, tracking him all over the wasteland... From California to Big Mt, to the Sierra Madre in Mexico. Her journey had been long and arduous, and only got harder when she was captured by those mad scientist, creatures...
Even now she could feel the effects they had on her, making her completely unable to read or write... Yet, even with her injuries, she continued to hunt Elijah, following him all the way to Mexico, to the Sierra Madre where she was ambushed by some sort of Super Mutant...
Which is how she ended up in the Auto-Doc... She didn't know how long she'd been there, but it had to have been months at least, occasionally she was taken from the Auto-Doc and forcefully fed, before being shoved back inside to continue her torture.
She was prepared to die, yet, the next time the Auto-Doc opened it wasn't the scarred face of the Nightkin that greeted her, but instead a strange helmet atop an even stranger suit of Power armour...
She almost had a panic attack when she saw the Big Mt logo displayed across the person's chest piece, but she quickly calmed herself, realising that the logo was dramatically different to what those creatures use.
Then, the next surprise... Veronica... And Afton? Had she died and gone to heaven? Did that mean Veronica and Afton were already dead? Had she finally lost her mind?...
Back with Afton, he, Dean, and Anja had been waiting outside the room for around thirty minutes now and were all wondering what they should do now...
Afton knocks on the door a couple times, and slowly opens it when he doesn't get a response... Inside he could see both Veronica and Christine still holding one another, however, the latter had fallen unconscious, most likely due to sheer exhaustion.
Veronica puts a finger over her mouth, indicating for them to be quiet.
Afton nods, "I think it's best for us to get some rest... Hopefully the Cloud won't drown us while we're asleep." he states, beginning to use furniture to block the doorway to prevent Ghosts from entering.
After all that's done, he walks over to the wall opposite the door and rests his back again it, not daring to leave is armour in case he needs to immediately jump into action.
Veronica on the other hand strips out of her armour and gathers up any scrap clothing, cushions, or paper to create a makeshift bed for her, Christine, and Anja.
Once the three are comfortable and falling asleep, Dean drags a chair over to sit next to Afton, his revolver never leaving his grp, "You know, as a Ghoul, the hardest thing to come by around here is sleep. I don't really need food or water, but sleep was always tough..." He spins the wheel in his revolver for no particular reason, "With you in that armour, I think I'll sleep like a baby." he says with a quiet chuckle, propping his legs up and he slumps in his chair, eyes closed as he holds the revolver close to his chest.
Afton just shakes his head at the ghoul, Dean had obviously been living here since before the war, and Afton couldn't really imagine how that would feel... Living for two hundred years would probably be tough enough in a paradise... But here? In the hellscape called the Sierra Madre? He wondered if he had the willpower the Ghoul had.
Regardless, despite his regeneration, it was best for him to get as much sleep as possible before they have to move again... Who knows when next they'll get to rest.
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