#helenas tone is cold and shes not like shes just.......whyd you lie man

[ultrastimpaks]

Helena starts noticing MacCready's lies as soon as they come in.

It's not like she was totally sure at first, randomly asking the same questions to catch him in one of his lies - he dodged them all, always answering the same vague line about a wife and a sick son and his regret of ever being a gunner. Well, at least the latter she could get behind.

But Helena catches him red handed when they're in the MedTek building. How come he never received a letter from whoever was taking care of Duncan? He never wrote a letter himself, and they've been working together for over six months now. The Capital Wasteland wasn't so far up they couldn't receive news about the kid.

She asks him more detailed questions she never thought her brain could think of - from details of the child, to questions about his relationship with Lucy, to the million dollar question: what is Duncan's location? She tries to dump them all carefully, after all she doesn't want him to turn on her - not in this building full of Gunners and a gas leak.

It is only when MacCready puts his hands on the small vial that Helena shoots in a cold tone "Duncan isn't real, right? This whole story... it's all made up to get some caps. And you lied your way in here, didn't you?" and he looks almost apologetic. Almost.

"Was the name that gave it away?"