Elementary, my dear Watson

(V POV)

With Trauma Team picking up Sandra Dorsett from the balcony, Jackie and I begin to make our way out of the building.

"Sorry to ask, but can I borrow your wheels choom?" Jackie asks as we sidestep the scav corpses. "Gotta date with Misty?" I ask back.

"Yeah we're going out tonight and what else can I do, take the metro? How's that gonna look?"

"I got you covered Jack, but don't get used to it." I acquiesced. Jackie and Misty are good together. Can always help a choom out when he's a damn hopeless romantic.

T-Bug signs off the coms, promising to see us tomorrow. Don't know why, but I'm feeling off. Might stick with Jackie and have a check in with Vik, an old friend of Jackie's and a damn good ripper. Hell of a boxer too, far as I can tell.

"Mind dropping me off at Viktor's when you pick up Misty? Got a biomon signal telling me to get my software scrubbed." I ask.

"No problem, V. You can say hi to Misty too." Jackie replies.

As we reach the elevator, our fixer for the gig, Wakako, rings me up on the holo. "I trust the client is alive and well?"

"She was in pretty rough shape but managed to get her to Trauma Team. Platinum card holder. She'll live." I answer.

"Wonderful. You can pick up your payment any time but I assume the only place you want to be now is home. The NCPD is putting Watson on lockdown. You should hurry if you want to get in."

"Thanks Wakako. Professional as ever." I reply, ending the call. Jackie and I make our way back to my wheels. I get in the passenger side though.

" Man I am starving. Wanna grab something?" Jackie asks.

"They're locking down Watson, Jack. Gotta delta." I reply.

"Oh right….. fuucckk. Picked up a tail." Jackie warns. A van comes to pass us, doors swinging wide as two scavs open fire. Gonk move. You don't shoot from the front, way to easy for the car you're shooting at to fight back, like now.

"Take them down V!" I open fire with my Unity. Dermal armor taking the bullets like a chap while I zero the two scavs. Jackie swerves around the pedestrians while I take this opportunity to take out their tires. They don't manage to turn in time and as we speed away I hear their car crash and explode. Ouch.

"Sorry V, scratched your baby up pretty bad."

"It's fine Jackie. I really don't mind." I tell him, and I mean it. I got it from a decent seller, but I've been meaning to tune it up. Change the plating and glass to be sturdier. See if I can talk to El Capitan about reinforcing these wheels. Transport safety is one of the few things I miss about my old job.

We arrive at a police barricade, those scavs managed to slow us down so here's hoping we can talk our way through the lock down.

A female cop approaches my car. "Watson is being locked down. Turn around."

Jackie being the romantic bull he is tries to plead with the officer. "Sorry officer but I need to get to my girl."

"Your girl?" Wow, that's pretty harsh.

"Yeah we have a date tonight." Well he took that in stride. Maybe he's too excited to care. Lovable gonk.

"Sorry. Can't let anyone through." The cop shoots him down.

I jump in though. "Come on. Can't you see, he's a good kid."

"Alright let them through, but these are the last ones." The female cop waves us along.

"Thank you officer.. ma'am."