#security captain

Deputy & Security captain

Addi and her daughter Rosie in FC5/ND

He owed these people everything. He couldn’t remember his family. All his memories before the age of 12 were gone. Even his teenage years up to the collapse were hazy. They were blurry and difficult to recall. There were patches of clarity but never once did he ever remember a time when he was accepted like he was at Prosperity.

And yet, it was a lie. They didn’t know him. Fuck, he could barely say he knew himself. Sometimes it didn’t even feel like it was him living his own life. He didn’t feel like he knew himself or what he was doing. His life and actions confused him. Before the bombs fell there was a name for his condition.

Dissociative Identity Disorder or Multiple personality disorder as it used to be called. He shared his mind with two other alternate personalities or ‘Alters’. Well, two that he knew of. He always knew it was a possibility there were more but he never really put in the effort to find out.

It was hard to feel lonely when you always have two people sharing your body. Sometimes he would feel like a passenger in a car watching a movie of his life played by someone else and sometimes he woke up and he didn’t remember what happened at all.

All the so called help that doctors offered before the collapse did fuck all. Besides. All the medications were long gone now. No one could help him. No one tried. He was kicked out of many settlements before he accepted that no one wanted him. He picked work as a gun for hire. He had to travel constantly. Never stay in one place for too long. It was only him and his alters.

Until Rush. Rush found out almost immediately and to Elijah’s surprise he didn’t look at him with fear and disgust. He just offered a quiet room and shooed everyone else away. An unspoken promise. I won’t tell anyone; you’re safe with me.

Elijah looked back over to Prosperity. Rush liked them enough. Maybe this one time it would be different. Maybe this time he could stay. He picked himself off the ground and headed back inside.

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