Helping Hand

"Come in." Punk nodded, stepping to the side as she walked in through the door. He was surprised but he also suspected her to show up, "Are you ok?" He asked her, shutting the door over as she stood at the top of the stairs.

"Why wouldn't I be?" AJ asked him. She was an intense person. Whenever she looked at anyone, she stared them in the eye for almost too long, especially him. He wasn't uncomfortable around her. He just wasn't sure what to do with himself.

"Well you're sort of on the run." Punk said, walking down the stairs as she followed him.

"On the run? I'm dead." AJ chuckled a little, "I'm not running from anything."

"Well I assume those people in the government. You know the ones you know all about but won't tell us." He said as AJ turned to him, "I'd imagine they're pretty pissed about you killing Adrien." He nodded as AJ just waved her hand.

"They'll get over it." AJ said as Punk shook his head, walking into the office as AJ followed.

One by one, the rest of the group turned around. Dean just rolled his eyes whilst Seth gulped and Eve shuffled her chair away a little as AJ smiled and waved to them creepily.

"This is cosy in here." AJ smirked, looking around and noticing the board over in the corner, "Oh God, you couldn't have picked a better picture of me?" She asked, walking over to the board where she saw her prison picture up with other information about her plastered around. She could also see all the people she had killed up on the board, "Not too shabby, April." She nodded to herself as Dean shook his head.

"Just tell us what you know so you can leave." Dean said as AJ quickly turned around.

"No, I think I'll… I'll settle in first." AJ nodded, taking her coat off, handing it to Punk as she collapsed down on one of the whirley chairs, spinning around on it as she looked at them all, "How is the side, Eve?" AJ asked casually, acting like she really knew these people.

"Uh… it's ok." Eve replied.

"That's good." AJ nodded.

"You know what… we should kill you-" Dean stood up, charging for AJ who pulled out her gun from her back pocket and pointed it at him. Punk grabbed a hold of Dean anyway whilst AJ sat spinning around on the chair comfortably.

"You're an angry little fella, aren't you?" AJ smiled, "I like it." She nodded.

"Just tell us what you know." Dean hissed as AJ stretched tiredly.

"Let's get one thing straight." AJ stood up, still holding the gun out, "No one's gonna tell me what to do or I walk… or actually, I'll kill you all, and then I'll walk." She nodded, "We're also not friends so… I don't want anyone trying to be nice to me." She said, specifically looking at Punk.

"No one wants to be your friend." Dean shook his head.

"Next, I'll tell you things on my own term. I'll sit here and I'll make myself comfortable and if I wanna tell you guys something I will." She nodded, "If anyone says anything that annoys me, well… I think you gather what happens next." She nodded, "Ok?" She looked at them all, "That's pretty fair. Right?" She asked them as Punk looked at her, "Great." AJ nodded, sitting back down on the chair as it rolled over a little, continuing to twirl around on it whilst Eve watched her with fear.

"Well we're trying to… find names." Punk said, "Of other people who work under the foreign minister, just like Adrien did." He said as AJ just nodded, not really interested, "So if you've got any input." He said.

"I don't." AJ smiled to him, "But don't mind me. Carry on working." She nodded as Punk just nodded.

"Then why are you here?" Seth looked over at her, "To watch us work?"

"Yeah." AJ said, "Do you guys have snacks in here?" She asked them as Punk put his hands on his hips, "Is that a fridge?" She pointed over beside Eve who gulped and nodded.

She walked over, her gun still in her hand as she crouched down, opening up the small fridge whilst Eve looked at her.

"Those ones are quite nice." Eve pointed to the bag of chocolates.

"These?" AJ picked them up as Eve nodded. AJ ripped open the bag, putting a few in her mouth and nodding, "These are good." AJ nodded, standing back up, kicking the fridge door over with her foot as Dean looked over at her.

"You're an animal." Dean shook his head as AJ spat the chocolate out at him. He got back to his feet ready to go for her again as Punk managed to get in the way.

"Ok, this isn't gonna work." Punk admitted, "Just stay on your side of the room." Punk told AJ who put another chocolate in her mouth and smiled, making a kissing face to Dean who shook his head.

"I hate her." Dean nodded, "I fucking hate her." He shook his head, sitting back down on his chair whilst AJ sat back over in the corner of the room as Punk watched her, spinning around and throwing the chocolates into her mouth. He wasn't quite sure how this was going to go.

They spent the rest of the day working together whilst AJ sat in the corner leering at them all. There was no way she was just going to trust these people and let them know things. No way in hell. She liked watching them discuss things. They were smart and got leads on things rather quickly, she was impressed, but she couldn't help chime in whenever they said something wrong or stupid.

"I'm sorry but did you go to the academy? Did you go through years of training to get this sort of job?" Dean asked her after she had butted in again, "Or did you just work in a casino and get thrown in prison where you learned a few tricks?" He asked her as AJ smiled, continuing to spin around on the chair.

"She's got a point." Punk said as AJ nodded to herself, "Adrien couldn't have been working directly with the foreign minister. He had to have been working with other people on a lower tier." He said.

"Especially when…" AJ grabbed a laptop sitting by, typing into it as Punk watched her, "This was the week Adrien told me to wait on him contacting me because he was at a meeting with the so called foreign minister but…" She turned the laptop around, "He was joining the president on a state tour of America and South America." AJ said, "So he obviously wanted me to keep quiet until he spoke to who he was actually working for." She said, showing them the article.

"Did you question him about this?" Punk asked, taking the laptop from her.

"No. I never asked questions." AJ shrugged, digging her hand back into the bag of chocolates.

"You've almost ate two bags of them." Seth noticed.

"And what about it?" AJ turned to him as Seth just shook his head and put his hands up.

"So you think Adrien was really just working for someone else? Not the foreign minister?" Punk asked her.

"No, I think he was working for the foreign minister but he wasn't reporting back to him. I think it was someone else." AJ nodded.

"Who?" Dean asked her as AJ shrugged.

"How am I supposed to know?" AJ shrugged, putting her feet up on the desk.

"I'm sorry I have to ask." Eve shook her head, "Why do you wear the wigs?" She asked as AJ turned to her slowly, in the middle of eating a chocolate.

"Why do you think I wear them?" AJ asked her.

"She wears them to disguise herself. Are you dumb?" Dean asked Eve who just shrugged.

"They're good for the sex too." AJ winked to Eve.

"Sex with?" Eve asked curiously as AJ laughed.

"With… people?" AJ raised her eyebrows.

"Are you gay?" Eve asked.

"Eve." Punk shook his head.

"What? Like you all weren't wondering either." Eve shook her head as AJ just smiled.

"Girls are fun." AJ nodded, "I prefer dick, though." She said as Eve nodded.

"Good to know." Eve said.

"Can we stay on topic?" Punk shook his head, "Do you have any idea who else Adrien could have been working for? Did he mention any other names?" He asked.

"No." AJ shrugged.

"Where did you go when you reported back to Adrien?" Seth asked her.

"We'd either meet somewhere like a café or something. Or I'd go to his office but it was like a fake office. It was sort of like this. Just some building with a room in it." She shrugged, "No one else worked in it."

"Great." Punk groaned whilst Dean yawned and stretched.

"What time is it?" Dean asked.

"11." Punk looked at his phone, "You guys wanna call it a night?" He asked them.

"Yeah, I need pills." Eve groaned a little, getting to her feet as Seth helped her, whilst Punk looked over to AJ.

Once she had calmed down, she hadn't been much problem. She had her remarks which were often cheeky and self-obsessed but he figured that was just who he was. She'd actually gave them a lot of help already.

"We're gonna go for food in the hotel, you coming?" Dean asked Punk as they got their things together.

"Uh… yeah, I'll be there in like ten minutes." He nodded to them, looking over to AJ who was still sitting on the chair, spinning around on it.

"You got a gun?" Dean whispered to him as Punk scoffed.

"Just go." Punk shook his head, watching the three of them leave the office as he turned over to AJ, "Uh… where are you… where are you staying?" He asked her.

"Oh, I'll find somewhere." AJ said, getting off the chair.

"Do you have money?" Punk asked her as AJ laughed a little, putting her coat on.

"Probably more than you, honey." AJ nodded.

"I seriously doubt that." Punk nodded as she turned to him.

"I don't need you to hold my hand and walk me out." AJ scoffed.

"No, but I have to lock up." Punk said as she nodded slowly, feeling stupid, "Uh… I'd invite you to dinner with us but-"

"But your friends hate me and I make all of them feel uncomfortable." AJ finished for him, "I don't want to have dinner with you anyway. We're not pals. I don't want to be here. I don't know why I'm here." AJ admitted truthfully, "Maybe it's because you're pretty and I like looking at you." She said as Punk just scratched the back of his head awkwardly, "Do I make you feel uncomfortable?" She wondered, walking closer to him as he shook his head.

"No." He shook his head, "You're just… a little different." He said as AJ raised her eyebrows.

"Good different?" AJ asked him.

"I'm still trying to figure that out." Punk nodded.

"I thought you'd have a nice wife at home. Cute kids." AJ said.

"No, that's not me." Punk shook his head as AJ nodded, "I think we all gotta be pretty lonely to do the type of job we do." He said, "I'm sure you can relate." He nodded.

"Yeah, I guess." AJ nodded, "Are you… still not thinking about me naked?" She asked with confusion, looking up at him as Punk tilted his head and laughed a little, "What?" She frowned as he looked down at her. She was definitely hard to read, and she was very good at mind games, it was probably why she had gotten away with everything she had.

He didn't have an answer for her, so instead they just stared at one another. AJ wasn't sure what it was about him that made her feel… soft inside. She wasn't going to change how she was. She didn't know how to trust people. She wasn't sure she ever would. Her behaviour wasn't going to change. She liked making people feel uncomfortable with her inappropriate questions but he seemed to embrace them for some reason.

"I forgot my-" Dean paused as he walked back into the office, watching as Punk and AJ stepped back from one another quickly, realising how close they had gotten, "My wallet." Dean arched a brow at Punk, walking between them and taking his wallet from the desk.

"I'll be there in five." Punk nodded to him as Dean nodded suspiciously, walking out of the office as AJ grabbed her bag and began to leave, "When will you be here tomorrow?" Punk asked her.

"I'll be here when I decide to be here." AJ hummed, walking off out of the office as Punk shook his head and grabbed the keys to lock up.