Burke stepped through the large gates of Freeside; he rolled his eyes as a couple of Kings walked past him. "Search this place, every building and every business." The mercs nodded and walked away. Burke looked at the buildings as he walked down the streets of Freeside; he pulled the old buses door open and stepped through. He smirked when he saw The King's building, they seemed to be the muscle in town and if they were the muscle then they had surely ran into Aida. "You got a boss?" He nodded to one of the young men leaning against the building.
He nodded for Burke to follow him. The man looked over his shoulder at Burke as he led him towards the stage where The King sat. "He asked to see you."
The King waved the man away. "Please sit." He smiled looking up at the well dressed wanderer. "Headed for the strip?"
"Maybe." Burke sat down. "I was wondering if you've seen this girl." He reached his hand into his pocket pulling out the picture of Aida and Butch.
King tapped Aida smiling. "That's Dedric's girl, quite the looker."
"Dedric?" Burke raised his eyebrow.
"Yeah the Courier freed the strip… Independent New Vegas."
"So she's here with this Dedric?"
"Nope" The King shook his head. "They left… I'd say a week ago, for the Capitol."
"The Capitol!" Burke growled balling up his fists.
"Yeah too many wanted Dedric dead so the two left."
Burke stood up quickly, knocking the chair back in the process.
The King waved Pacer over. "Tell Veronica someone came looking for Aida."
"She's at the God damn Capitol!"
"That's impossible! We would've encountered her!" Andy shook his head.
"Sir!" A merc came jogging towards them. "There's a man at a gun shop that has seen the girl. She's traveling with a Courier; they aren't very fond of him."
"Who are they?"
"The Van Graffs, they use to run a high end energy weapon store until the Courier came through and wiped them out of the area."
"I think we just found new friends." Burke smirked.
"Veronica!" Boone called flagging her over.
She hurried over to where Boone stood. "Yeah?"
"The King sent me; a man came asking for Dedric's girl."
"Aida?" Veronica wiped her hands on her jeans. "What did he look like?"
Pacer shook his head. "Tall, dark hair. He was wearing a fancy suit."
Boone looked over at Veronica.
"It sounds like that's the man she's been running from. We need to get a message to, Dedric."