Cover Songs
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Kerry calls after the Samurai reunion with Johnny’s name on his lips and a job offer ideal for V.
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- Part 1 of Cover Songs
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“Night, Ker.” A voice mocks in V’s head.
“Shut the fuck up.” V mutters, tapping the faux-nail of his cybernetic hand against his bottom lip. There’s no reply to the text he sent Kerry. No three dots. He listlessly scrolls up in the conversation, flings it back down to the bottom to refresh, and still, no new text. Fuck. V overstepped. He pushes his pillows down, gives them a few unnecessary punches before settling back in a huff in his bed.
“This how gonks flirt nowadays? That’s pathetic.” Johnny complains, “I told you. Kerry doesn’t go for that shit.”
“What? Selfies are…” V struggles to find the word. Romantic? Hardly. And the one he sent wasn’t sexy; he wasn’t working that mysterious angle, didn’t even pretend he was out and living it up to make himself look better. It was just him, his bed, and his own dumbass face staring back at him from his holo screen. V ends lamely with a, “fuck…”
“Send him your dick, bitch boy.” Johnny hoots.
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- Part 2 of Cover Songs
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“That’s a first,” Johnny says, “on your best behavior for Kerry?”
“Guess I gotta, because you seem to be on your worst. Feels like it’s 2020 or something,” V continues, “meeting up with Kerry, your panties all in a bunch about corpos, trying your best to ruin everyone’s night.”
Johnny’s expression curdles. He turns his head, shifts against the wall of Dark Matter’s elevator. V’s gotten under his skin. “Just got a bad feeling about this. Do me a favor?”
His gaze cuts over to the engram as he scoffs. “Seriously?”
“Yeah. Do me a favor.” Johnny insists. His smile is so tight it looks like a grimace. “Kerry likes celebrating in all the usual ways. You know— drinks, drugs. Sex.”
The bark of disbelieving laughter from V doesn’t stop Johnny, only makes his eyes narrow. He knows where Johnny’s going with this. So they flirted a little. So he sent a few gonk texts, a few selfies so chaste he could’ve sent them to Judy, even. As far as V could tell, that kind of low stakes flirting came natural to Kerry. Rockerboy persona and all. He didn’t think it was going anywhere.
“Don’t get in over your head, V.”
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- Part 3 of Cover Songs
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While Kerry tries to think up a plan to get back at Kovachek, he has to play along and go to some small-time MSM event; what better excuse to make sure he’s not around his manager’s lackeys than to hire that kleptopunk merc V as his personal bodyguard?
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- Part 4 of Cover Songs