If you like Sam's character, read my co-op stories with Yinyang754 over on his page starting with Red Rain
"So you thought it was a good idea to hide in the truck?" Niko asked as they sped along doing 110kph in the Phoenix. He'd met Sam before, while Trevor had been in hospital. She seemed to be everything he wanted to be. She refused to kill, She never had killed and still had most of her innocence of youth. Sure, she'd been raped and stabbed but other than that, she made Niko want to be young again, to live her life...
"Honestly yes, I did" Sam said. She was a damn rebellious one and Trevor let her be, going on her own rules.
The Phantom was kicking up stones on both sides. The Phoenix just glided across them.
"So you're like... the lone ranger?" Sam asked, looking across to Niko.
"Ha ha... I guess I am in a way" Niko replied. How on earth did they not notice Sam this whole time?
"I love this car" Sam said. It was similar in some ways to the Ruiner which had been Brad's car. For four years, Sam had looked to Brad as her father only to discover eight years later that her real father was a meth addicted sociopath.
"Yeah, it's a nice car indeed" Niko said before picking up his CB.
"Johnny, Trevor, we just passed a sign, Liberty city sixteen kilometres" Niko said, looking in his mirror. Wherever the Sheriff had gone, he was nowhere near them.
"About damn time. It's been a long journey" Trevor said.
Alderney was the only part of the city that joined to the rest of the country so they stopped to let Sam get in the Phantom and Niko carried on to a house in Beechwood city, across from the Broker-Dukes expressway. As he stopped, tyre marks on the road, an old friend approached the car.
"My man Niko? Where the hell you been for these years?" Little Jacob asked, opening the passenger side door and sitting inside.
"That Jacob, is a long story." Niko said as he continued forward, heading to the deal location in Alderney industrial.
"So you been out of the city my bredda?" Jacob asked.
"I've been... nowhere. You notice how I look barely a day older than when we last met? I've somehow been thrown eight years into the future. I've no idea how but I doubt I ever will" Niko explained, Jacob lighting a cigar obviously loaded with weed.
"I might know my bredda. Time travel got thing to do with this thing we taking and ting" Jacob said before taking an inhale from his cigar.
"How's life been then Jacob?" Niko asked.
"There been ups and downs my man Niko. Badman disappeared and not come back for three years , then I got job at Roman's cabs and ting. He doing well my man Niko. He got a Limo and plane section too, Stretches and Luxors. Him and Mallorie be millionaires and ting, living in your old penthouse from that Playboy X" Jacob explained as a black newer model Cavalcade passed, Roman's cabs printed in yellow on the side.
"You won't see many of those yellow cabbies no more Niko, they been mostly run out of the money by Roman. He does cheap cabs and gets many users and much money. He making over ten thousand a week right now my bredda" Jacob said as they passed one of the last yellow taxis in the city.
"We be up here my bredda, time to get the load and ting" Jacob said as they reached the meeting point in Acter industrial.
"Have we met?" Johnny said as Jacob approached him.
"Johnny K, Little Jacob" Niko introduced.
Two men, both dressed in black with advanced assault rifles on straps over their shoulders, pushed out a Dune Buggy. This was more than a regular Dune Buggy.
It had wooden planks around it's engine bay, a piece of corrugated metal on top. Either side of the engine were two raised jet engines constructed out of garbage cans. Above those were two poles pointing forward, neon strips coiled around them. On the front, some sort of electrical node between two green headlights.
"Cool!" Sam said. Niko looked over to her, thinking "yep, so youthful".
As the Space Docker was pushed into the trailer, one of the men approached Niko.
"I'm Carlos. Thanks for arriving for this. Your payment however, may be problematic." He said.
"Woah now, what do you mean problematic? We've just driven nearly a thousand miles, a cop on our ass who just wouldn't give up and you're telling me we're not getting paid?" Niko said.
"You promised me the twenty thousand and ting. I not sign up for this. Niko, I and I gonna do it?" Jacob said.
"Dad, it's the cars and Weston all over again" Sam quietly said to Trevor who was sat in the truck, still not able to walk.
"You got old faithful?" Trevor asked, his response being Sam pointing to her knife in it's leather holder on the thin belt around her waist.
Sam unbuttoned the clip on the leather pouch, pulling out her knife. She fixed the right strap on her white dress before running forward, preforming the attack she so often used. A stab through the knee, then another through the stomach. It didn't kill but did leave them in quite some pain. That was the one thing Sam refused to do in a fight, kill. She never had and never wanted to.
Niko, Jacob and Johnny all pulled their guns, firing at all the guards. One tried to sneak on them before Sam rammed her knife through his neck, precisely between the windpipe and spine, no blood spilt.
The three shooting moved to a triangle shape, each firing on a third of the area around them. When the fighting stopped, Niko went to Carlos who was still alive.
"How am I in the future?" Niko demanded.
"We ran a test on the Space Docker years ago in early development, you were... drunk and the beam hit you" Carlos explained
"Well thanks to your test, I've been dead to the world for eight years!" Niko shouted before standing up and firing at Carlos's head, Sam looking away. Not only did she not want to kill, she hated even seeing lives ending.
As everyone returned to the truck, Niko didn't.
"Niko... You're not staying are you?" Trevor asked.
"My family is here. Roman thinks I'm dead... I can't leave them in the dark" Niko said. Trevor opened his door and reached his hand down, shaking Niko's.
"Was nice knowing you. Have this" Trevor said, handing down a small black box.
"It's for the buzzard. Just remote fly it here" Trevor said. Niko waved goodbye as the Phantom pulled away, heading for the freeway out of Alderney with the Space Docker still in the back.
"So then, back home?" Sam asked through her CB. Johnny wasn't exactly happy that Trevor was allowing his 13 year old daughter to drive the Phoenix but they needed someone to divert the cops if they showed up and Johnny wasn't going to argue with Trevor anyway.
"You're not getting away from me Niko, I'm still in hot pursuit" Benson said through the CB
"No more Niko now sheriff, just little Sam here. And one question. Do the letters FO mean anything to you?" Sam said before changing channels and turning on to the main road to the south.