Monday, December 18th, 2287:

Today, I used it all day to make the water purification system work. The stream water passes through the coarse sand filter and places the water in one of three settling reservoirs, where the water rests and then gravity passes through a thin composite filter. A sensor prevents all water from a tank from passing through the filter, so most of the fat in the water is left behind. Then in a unified reservoir the water is mixed with chlorine. It is then pumped into the water tank, there it goes through another purification process. And finally it flows into the water boxes of the houses. At the end of the day I put my shower to work. I took a really cold shower, but I could feel the freshness of showering with clean water.

Tuesday, December 19th, 2287:

It has been a while since I checked what is east of the neighborhood. Last time, I went to some satellite antennas and ended up facing some raiders, so I decided to follow the same path, for once to check if there were no more raiders clustered there. When I arrived at the place I had to restrain myself from vomiting! There were parts of human bodies and mole rats everywhere. It looks like something exploded during a recent confrontation. As there was no threat to the antennas, I decided to go further east and found a scavenger in her shack, she was quite hostile to me and so I decided not to approach her and leave her alone.

I turned and went south, saw the ruins of a house, and went to investigate. As I rummaged through the remnants of furniture, I saw something approaching. It was the alpha and its pack. I didn't even try to resist, I took off my clothes to prevent it from being torn and let him ride me.

Then I got dressed and went back to the neighborhood. On the way I saw that there was something different in the quarry, I approached carefully and saw that it is infested with raiders! This is terrible! The quarry is almost on the neighborhood side! If they decide to attack, we're screwed!

Wednsday, December 20th, 2287:

I took courage to follow me toward said Diamond City. From the directions on the map, I was close when I was kidnapped. Unfortunately, that's exactly why I can't take the route around the city, as I would have to go through the base of my old captors. Either I would have to take a longer route, or pass through the dense urban ruin area.

I left early, so much so that the sun was rising when I arrived at Trudy in time for my breakfast. Later on I saw my old neighbors humming, I managed to avoid them. Arriving at the edge of the city perimeter I found a working protectron. I was cautious, after all, this machine must have been there for 200 years and the programming may have been corrupted, but fortunately it did me no harm, instead it helped me get rid of some raiders.

 Then I heard shouts, a male voice shouting orders, a horrified female and the noise of several zombies. Even without knowing what it was, I ran to help! I pushed my way through a pile of ghouls until I came to a police station when I stopped in amazement at what I saw: a man in one of those military armor! This moment of astonishment was enough for a bunch of ghouls to approach me and I had to fight a close fight.

The zombies grabbed and tore at my clothes. In the middle of the fight even the straps that held my armor pieces came loose. I managed to finish several and knock one down. He couldn't get up with the weight of my body and I stood on him while on my knees fighting with others. Of course, the Ghoul used the dirty trick of penetration, but I endured while fighting the other enemies. The guy in the armor was clearly trying to help me, but he couldn't shoot the Ghouls that were near me. After the fight, I was already wanting to leave, embarrassed, when he came to talk to me, thanking me for his help.

Despite this he seemed suspicious, asked my origin and intentions and after a long conversation, I learned that they are from a group that calls itself the brotherhood of steel and that aims to collect technology and prevent its misuse by humanity. They offered to fix my armor and offered me some robes they took from some raiders. Danse, who is the name of the guy in the armor, offered me a mercenary service to help him get a transmitter from an ArcJet factory. I accepted. The factory wasn't empty, there were humanoid robots, Danse referred to them as synthetics, but they definitely don't look like the synthetics I've seen before. After the job was completed, Danse handed me a laser rifle and offered to enter as initiate on his order. I accepted, I need training after all and they seem to be a very strong group, besides, from what he described, it's not like I'm going to get stuck in a corner, I still have a lot of freedom of movement to find my son.

Thursday, December 21, 2287:

I think today it can be summed up by the fact that I ran from a bear to a pack of dogs, then ran from the dogs to Trudy's restaurant, where I had lunch. At night I put on a few clothes after the shower and relaxed.

Friday, December 22, 2287:

Today my robot butler offered to accompany me on my expeditions. It may seem strange that he offers himself just now, but on second thought, I never told him about my misfortunes out there. Apparently he heard about some of the things that happened to me from conversations between Hanna and Beatrice and that triggered some kind of sense of duty in him.

But I took his help in removing some heavy scraps like car debris from the streets. I also washed my neighbor's mattresses, now we all have clean beds.

Saturday, December 23, 2287:

I have suffered from nausea and am still well divided about an abortion. My biggest fear is being born a human baby, this indicates that the father would be one of those raiders, besides, a pregnancy would hinder me in the search for my son. On the other hand I feel a little attached to the creature in my womb, he is ultimately not to blame for anything.