16 Courier

" Hmmm ... I haven't heard that title in a bit or at least directed at me " the man chuckles " So kid I know your here for your switchblade but first I want you to hear what I gotta say ... okay?" The man says

Harkon sitting there just nods and stays silent as he wants to hear every word that this legend has to say and to him of all people. The courier looks Harkon in the eyes and says " kid ... I have walk many paths and made many choices, made many friends and enemies ... but all of those decisions I've made weren't mine or at least the orginal me kid, the old me died when I got shot in the head at goodsprings ... the person who came out was that legend. After I left the Mojave I wander for a bit thinking and doing whatever I felt was interesting to do ... like help building all of this. But I'm going off topic, with all that thinking I always had one question that I couldn't answer... would the same thing happen if a different person in my place went through the same flip of the coin situation... would they change the fate of nations ... what I'm guessing I'm saying kid is when I seen you that day as you kill those two men, you reminded me of long dead me and so I decided to give you a ... soft second life just to test if you had the skills needed. Now that your here I want to test this theory out to the fullest."

Harkon sitting through this all just listens and as the courier stops talking he just sits there and thinks ... he thinks for a long while before he whispers out " that's a interesting theory old man ... but to be honest I never really had a pass ... most of it just seemed like a blur ... I barely remember anything so I had nothing to really lose by having that life die ... but this one ... I have my three friends ... but even that is pittance for 8 years ... what will happen if I go along with your theory ... I mean with you, you had Benny, the man who shot you and screwed you over, you had vengeance powering you but I would have nothing to motivate me"

The courier just sits there and says " kid, don't you even hold the slightest bit of anger at me ... I lead the attack on your pathetic town ... I told those men to kill everyone unless they think that some would make good as recruits, I indirectly got your pathetic daddy killed as he was to weak to even protect the town he sworn to protect or shit even you, and to die from those two fucking idiots that were so called raiders only speak volumes about how not only was he was pathetic but was also weak and stupid, shit he probably failed to defend your mom to, did she die that day because of your pathetic daddy?"

Harkon just sits there, first surprised but then a mixture of sad and angry as the feelings he had about that day were never really analyzed and dealt with. Eventually Harkons body starts to shake and as the courier finishes what he's saying he decides in his mind that this bastard was right, he took everything away from him ... no matter what little it was and put him in the position to have to kill two other children with a horse dildo ... without a seconds more of thought he stands up and pulls his gun out of his holster but before he could raise it he hears a loud bang and looking up he sees the entire situation almost in slow motion... the courier... a old and dangerous man who has taken everything from me was standing up with his chair pushed backwards has shot first with a unique looking 9 mm pistol and before he could think of anything else he blacks out as the 9mm bullet has enter his skull.

The journey of a new legend may have just begun.