Darion's focus was completely on the Deathclaw Alpha for those seconds, thus he didn't even take notice of Emma behind him going all spazy and doing her version of begging to be let loose.  And he was glad as he saw the double penetration for his last shot cause the explosion of Gore from the Deathclaw.  Loretta was safe, and it was the first time he had ever been successful in saving someone, both the trio at the bottom of the canyon, and Loretta herself.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“YES!  Eat that Bitch!”</span>he yelled out in celebration, throwing up a fist quickly.<br/><br/>That didn't stop him from watching everyone through the scope, at least until he heard the helicopter again, this time much closer.  He had forgotten about that helicopter, and now they were landing now.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“Shit...”</span>he muttered as he pushed himself quickly to his feet, leaving the sniper rifle where it was on the ground, instead pulling the assault carbine from his shoulder and checking to make sure he had it loaded.  Of course the thing was, he always kept a full mad in the weapon, and a round in the chamber, but it never hurt to check.<br/><br/>When Loretta came back, and began a slight apology, it finally hit the man how close he and the others had come to death, and how foolish he would have called it if he hadn't seen that one woman down in the canyon.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“He, yeah, well... Sorry for starting the whole must rescue the idiot trio from mauled to death by a deathclaw that's tripping on three bottles of Buffout foolishness to begin with.”</span>he said, his eyes only following her until she started to untie the Tuncoat.  His hand came up and pulled his hat down to hide his eyes for a moment in embarrassment.  As soon as the deathclaws showed up, he had completely forgotten that it would likely be a good idea to have her untied.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“Woops... we forgot about our little bounty head.  Thanks for remembering.”</span><br/><br/>Darion watched cautiously as the first people began to climb out.  Of course he opened his mouth a bit.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“Oh, I hope these people are not as violent as those deathclaws... I've had enough with things trying to kill me... and I really hope they aren't after you.”</span>he said to emma specifically, though his voice was flat, he being in too professional of a mode after Loretta untied Emma, and obvious he hadn't heard what insults she aimed at him earlier.  Instead he was going to be very weary of the people in the chopper, he had found emma, and had not had the chance yet to see if she had the information that he wanted, but if these people planned on taking her, Darion couldn't allow that.<br/><br/>One of the first people to depart the chopper though caused darion to whistle a little, a rather attractive woman carrying what looked like medical supplies.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>