At The Precipice Of Something New

Something Buried

Diamond City
October the 18th, 2289
21:11

While money from a particularly suave Cat got some talking and another halfway sympathetic enough to consider letting out the woman held in the eponymous 'Piper Suite' after far shorter a time than she was meant to be held for, it was the return of the young woman's father in law to the city which set her free after only eight days behind bars.

The return of the former soldier to the city he had, with his wife and their children, called home for a few years shy of a decade did not, on its own, bring about her sudden release; it was the look of cold fury on his face when he purposefully strode to the lockup, having gotten a frantic and upset message on his Pip-Boy from his second eldest almost as soon as he had, with the detective, the detective's secretary, and his youngest, re-entered the Commonwealth proper and with it their range of communications. His youngest rather excited to be able to get her hands back on her own Pip-Boy (a few games of Red Menace, at least, were occupying her mind) which she had left at home, former Knight Captain of the Brotherhood Of Steel Derek Jonathan Branson took one last look at his messages (one new from his wife, who had gone at the request of Sturges to Sanctuary Hills and another from his eldest to inform him that his youngest was happily up in her room and his second eldest had begun to calm down after he had replied to tell her he'd ensure her wife was let out) and walked into the lockup with shoulders squared. The heavy metal door slammed shut behind him with a hard, metallic thud. A few officers who had been playing cards at one of the desks near the visitor's entrance looked up at him. It was only when he went past the sign in desk and right up to where the leader of the Atom Cats was himself arguing with the warden that more of them took notice. When they did, and at the sound of approaching footsteps, Zeke turned around on his heels and let out a long, low whistle, sliding off his sunglasses and stepping away from the warden. The warden looked between the two men for a few seconds when the both of them were in close reach but, eventually, shook his head.

"Mayor McDonough's ordered her to stay behind bars for at least two months," The warden said, though he took a half step back from Derek, whose eyes narrowed behind his glasses. "She –"

"I don't give a damn what Piper has done this time, you are going to let her out," Derek said curtly. "I'll pay to do so if I must, but I'd much prefer you make this better for everyone by letting her go and not dragging this out."

"Didn't find any evidence she was anything other than drunk and stupid when you went and searched her office either," Zeke added with a swipe of his hand against his thickly gelled hair. "And you wet rags have been keeping her in here for over a week."

The warden frowned. "Piper is a troublemaker, and –"

"Be that as it may, I'm sure she has been in here long enough," Derek said uncompromisingly, taking a step towards the warden, his tone darkening. "Let her go."

A few seconds passed in silence but, trembling a little at the ever darkening visage of the former soldier, the warden relented, handing over the keys which Zeke promptly snatched up to, barely a moment after his hands wrapped around them, walk over and unlock the jail cell Piper had been being kept in. A heavy sigh of relief finally escaped her when Zeke came over to let her out, Derek not far behind him. She gave her father in law an awkward smile when he stepped over to unlock the lock. When it clicked, he handed the keys over to the bored, tired looking guard standing next to it. At being handed the keys, the guard slipped it into one pocket and pulled out a lighter and cigarette from the other, walking away and running a hand through over her hair. Almost ripping the cell door open, Zeke all but leapt into the cell to smack both of his palms against Piper's when she stood up. Bumping elbows and then hips before smacking their palms against each other's again, Piper shook herself out, stretching a little but more than happy to leap out of the cell door she had been more or less confined to for a week and into freedom.