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Journal title: I need to keep...

April... April

The core Vergil gave me wasn't 100% filled. I had about a core in a half of juice between the one I was given and the one in my suit. It's getting hard to move, and I can't think straight. We're stopped at this old lookout tower about 50 feet outside the glowing sea. My suit's Geiger counter and blood tracker shows I've soaked up roughly 500 rads.

Valentine keeps shooting off my vertibird signals, but I don't think anything is getting through with a storm bearing down on us. John... I meant what isade...give...pipboy to Preston.

Audio Recording 4/27/2788

Initialising

Program running

Time: 9:16 AM

Detected Voices: Error, Unknown. Paladin, Danse

Danse: Knight-Captain Cade, please stop playing with Knight Gibsons Pipboy; you turned on the recording program

Error: I did? Oh, would you look at that? I was unaware they could do that

9:18 AM Voice registered " Captain Cade."

Danse: Not all do; her's has been updated to do so. How is she, by the way? Woken up at all?

Cade: She's stable but no

Danse: Give me the pip-boy

Cade: right, right, sorry, Paladin

Danse: Thank you, and good. I need another favor regarding her.

Cade: What now?

Danse: I'm bringing her two friends onboard. The Synth and the ghoul.

Cade: WHAT WHY

Danse: Because they are worried about her and are her friends. Just need to cover them up

Cade: Paladin Danse that is against protocol

Danse: Yes, but many of the brothers and sisters won't care. She's our friend as well.

Cade: What about Elder Maxson and Captain Kells?

Danse: We'll have to be careful, won't we? Come on in, you two

Cade: THEY... they are here now??

9:33 AM Detected voice "Hancock, John" "Valentine, Nick."

John: Oh baby... What the hell did you do? Why in the world did you do that?

Nick: she's stubborn as all hell. Hey, doc...

Cade: Knight-Captain Cade

John: Whatever, DOC, is she going to wake up? Will she be okay?

Cade: she will eventually; I've had to flush her system. But she will eventually wake up. Whether or not she'll be okay? I don't know

Nick: is she going to...

Cade: end up a creature like him? I don't know. I ran many tests, but turning into a ghoul isn't something we can test for. Though I did find something, the radiation did destroy

John: What?

Cade: her ovaries were fried. Nothing more than shrivelled up, radiation burned stones. Though... give me my notes....there ... from the looks of the burns, it seems to be an older problem.

Danse: what do you mean?

Cade: They've been destroyed for... about 3-4 months now. I'm assuming she hardly kept up with her radaway and radx.

John: So she can never...

Cade: nope, no longer an option for Knight Gibson here.

Valentine: I wonder if she knew

John: I think she did; she never asked me to pull out

Danse: I'm going to be sick

Cade: I'm sorry ?

John: Nothing, never mind, but it isn't my fault it hasnt been that long.

Danse: Oh, that's nasty

Nick: Don't tell me you didn't know Danse, I've only known her a short time, and I could tell something was between these two cats

Danse: yuck

Nick: stop it; she's been through a lot. She deserves to be happy

Danse: I

John: Exactly, so can it, tin can.

Cade: I'm going to assume non of you want that in my report

10:00 AM detected audio "overlapping yes."

Cade: right... Okay, I think it's time for all of you to go. Paladin Danse, would you kindly get them off the ship. I'll let you know when she wakes up so you can get them

10:30 AM Nick: Danse, is there anywhere we can hideout, so we don't have to be far

Danse: why not just go to the castle? It's just across the way, and I can vertibird to get you guys; you can also use the radio there to let everyone know what's up.

John: I guess, and give me the pipboy. I don't trust your people with it.

Danse: understood

Recording process terminated

Ending log

Journal title: still alive... again.

April 29

I'm a really lucky son of a bitch. What, this is the...3ed time? I'm pushing my luck too much. Thank you, John, for having Valentine tail me and thank you, Valentine, for getting us out of there. I woke up in my room on the prydwin, Cade in the room with me, filling my drip bag. When I moved, he said

"About damn time. Let me get Initiate Wright and Paladin Danse."

Though they weren't the only people to show up, everyone I've made friends with came as well... and Elder Maxson. That was fun. He ordered everyone out of the room and wanted to know what had happened. The only info they had was a vertibird was called, and I was found next to my PA tied up, half dead. Valentine, you are a genius. So the story he got was

"Yep thats what happened. I respond to a distress call, it was a raider trap. Thats what happened"

He accepted it thankfully and left me with Piper and Danse, who damn near crushed me when they hugged me. Piper said I wasn't getting out of telling them the truth, that Valentine said it was for me to tell... So I told them... after they agreed to sneak John and Valentine onto the ship so I could see them.

Everyone was super pissed at me. Which I get I do aha. But even if they agreed, none would have let me go if they knew. John though, oh boy, even though he had a feeling about it, he wasn't just pissed. He was extremely disappointed and hurt. He even pulled away when I reached out to grab his hand, saying.

" I can't believe you broke your promise and lied to me."

That stung, being mad at me I can handle but being disappointed in me? That hurts. I read the audio recording( thank you, John, for taking and not deleting it). I was mad that they knew I was infertile now, but no one would have ever found out if I didn't take the risk I did. So it's my fault, they know. I'm ready to get back out there, but I'm sure no one is going to let me alone for... shit for a long while.

Journal title: Free to leave

April 30.

Short update today, but I've been cleared to leave by Knight-Captain Cade, about damn time. Preston says he has the Minuentmen under control, and Jakes says the settlements are fine, so we're going to GoodNeighbor, to relax as I've been ordered to "take it easy" by... everyone.

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