Two for one!

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1) [It's early afternoon, and crashing sounds are coming out of room 319. The door is wide open, but it may not be patently obvious what's going on - Catherine bought herself some tools after remembering her aptitude for making repairs and is taking apart her Pip-Boy to make a few upgrades. Also she is swearing loudly.]

Fucking goddamn it all to hell, I knew I should've bought a flashlight!



2) [Later in the evening, Catherine remembered some more - though what, she's not saying immediately. She's taken to pacing the first and third floors, taking the stairs, walking around, but freezing up at doors before scurrying backwards.]

Outside. Outside. Oh god oh god oh god I'm really outside...

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Because I don't know how you damn surface dwellers live! And it's not radioactive, huh? It's not?

[Flippin' the Pip-Boy open, hitting a small switch, and now there's a steady ticking noise.]

Explain that! Explain the Geiger counter going fucking crazy!

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...How can I explain something when I don't know what that is?

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...a Geiger counter. It measures radioactivity in an area?

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It...WHAT?!

[Ruby grabs the counter in an attempt to read it as well as quickly asks questions..]

How bad is it? Are we in danger right here? How do you even read this thing?!

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Hey give me my arm back! I don't know! It's hovering at the middle here! I don't know what that means! You're the surface dweller, you tell me!

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But I've never been in a place that was radioactive before! Just places where outside was safe

...I don't want to start glowing green!!!

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...what? There's nowhere outside that's safe! It's all supposed to be like this!

Well, neither do I! I mean, maybe we won't! We've been here a while and we're both fine, right? Right?

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But if that was true then why aren't I deathly ill or something? I'm pretty positive I played outdoors a lot when I was a little kid.

I feel fine, but how would I know if I don't show symptoms until it's too late?!

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I don't know, I don't know, I don't-

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What is it? Is something wrong?

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It's me.

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What do you mean?

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I mean it's me, it's me, I'm the radioactive one.

I was... chased out? Why? What did I do?

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Wait, what?

[And he's torn between inching away and to not be rude.]

....Well, you feel okay, right? I'm sure if you were really bad off the lab guys would've done something for you.

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[It's okay, she's doing the inching away herself, going right back to muttering to herself in an oblivious fashion.]