Chapter 85 - 85

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"You alright Salvatore?" Adam called out as he slowly got up from where he was laying on the concrete floor. In his haste to escape the room he had dove face first onto the concrete ramp used to load and offload barrels of beer. He had thrown himself hard enough that he was in some pain, though the urgency of the moment was superseding any damage he might have taken. "Yeah… I'm fine…" Salvatore said a bit shakily from the other room. Adam got up and walked back in, seeing the destroyed and smoking husk of the Sentry Bot slumped over upright as it sat in the middle of the room. It was beyond a doubt destroyed, probably irreparably. But that was not his focus, it was Salvatore who was standing up against the wall, lighting a cigarette and nursing a wound on his arm. "Don't give me that look kid, it's not that bad." He said as he picked out a bullet from inside his arm and tossed in onto the ground. "Nothing a skinny dip in a pool of radioactive waste wont cure." He grinned, Adam frowned. Adam then reached into his bag and grabbed one of his stimpacks, throwing it to Salvatore right after. Salvatore caught it in his hand, pausing to look at it for a moment before speaking. "Kid, I don't need this, I'll be fine, save it for yourself." He then pointed at Adam's shoulder. "You got hit too, you need it more than I do." He said, trying to hand it back. Adam looked down at his shoulder and did see that the laser shot had burned right through the leather and scorched part of his shoulder blade, though the fact he didn't have a hole in him or far worse damage is thanks to the leather too, so it served its purpose. Still it was not the nicest looking wound. The only reason he hadn't noticed until now was due to the adrenaline of the fight. "Keep it." Adam insisted. "I got one for myself." He said as he reached into his bag and pulled out the second stimpack and stabbed it near his wound. Instantly he felt relief as the pain of the wound disappeared and the blood immediately began to clot, the singed skin began to slowly repair itself. Truly, stimpacks were like Magic. Who knows how they worked. Salvatore sighed and shook his head but stuck himself with the stimpack too, the wound on his arm healing shortly after. "Right as rain." Salvatore grinned as he flexed his arm a bit, showing off how he could ignore the fact his wound had not yet closed. "I apologize for putting you in danger." Adam said. "Nah, don't even start, kid." Salvatore said as he pulled the cigarette out of his mouth to speak. "You hired me, it's my job to do dangerous things, don't even dare worry about me. It's my job to make sure I live, and my job to make sure you live too." He said sternly. "But-" Adam began only to be cut off by Salvaotre . "No. Drop it." He said sternly again. Adam opened his mouth to argue but then sighed and looked at the sentry bot. "Where did this guy even come from? What happened after I ran?" "Ah, well after I threw the grenade, I started taking some shots at the robobrain while it was stunned, hoping to take it out before it chased you, but then this big guy here came bursting out through that door over there and I was forced to change targets." He pointed to the left side door, still wide open. "Luckily this guy was not in great working order when it showed up, otherwise I would be dead." he grinned. "His rocket arm wasn't working and there was enough cover to hide behind for his other gun." Adam nodded slowly. "Still, surviving a sentry bot is a feat." "I know right? Think I'm gonna brag about this all week." He put on a cocky smile. Adam chuckled and shook his head. He then went over to inspect the Sentry bot. "Yeah…" Adam muttered aloud to himself as he inspected it. "This guy is toast. I don't think I could repair him even if I had the desire too." He said as he then reached inside the Sentry bot and pulled out a few of the components that survived, namely a military circuit board, one of the requests he had gotten. "You good to explore a little to find this chest, the whole reason we are here?" "You bet." Salvatore said as he picked up his shotgun that was on the ground, assumedly dropped during the flight with the Sentry bot. The two of them spent less than 5 minutes wandering before they found what they were looking for, on the second floor of the building, in what was probably an officer's barracks, once a handful of office rooms now turned into proper bedrooms, was the chest, a metal footlocker about 3 feet long, Adam would need to carry it home, he couldn't shove it in his bag. "You sure this is it?" Salvatore asked suspiciously. "Yeah…" Adam said while he looked at his pip boy to check the GPS signal, it was definitely the chest in question. "Well then, I guess we can go back now." Salvatore said as he walked over to the window on the side of the building that overlooked the outside, still smoking. Adam remained silent for a moment while he considered his options. "Salvatore…" Adam began slowly. "Yeah? What?" He asked, turning around again. "What would you say to staying here for the night?" Salvatore looked at him incredulously. "What? Why?" "Because there are 4 turrets in this building that are all deactivated, if you give me some time… I think I can reprogram them all so that we could come and go and they wouldn't harm us." "And… why would you need to do that?" Salvatore asked, stomping out the butt of his cigarette. "To make a safe house." Adam offered. "Think about it, if we ever need a place to hide, or somewhere to go temporarily when we are out and about having a place so well defended would be nice no?" "Well…" Salvatore began, seeing logic in Adam's plan. "There are beds here, and who knows what else, we can head back to town tomorrow and that will give me all the time to loot this place properly. I have no idea what I will find." Salvatore sighed and then shrugged. "Alright, whatever, if you want to stay out here, who am I to tell you no?" He then walked over to the bed in the room and sat down. "Just don't expect me to join you in your escapades as you run yourself ragged around here." Adam chuckled. "Don't worry, I got this much." He grinned.

Chapter 85 - 85

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