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Prompt: "You, sir, need to calm the hell down. You're at a fifteen and I need you at, like, a seven."
This was par for the course for Jacoba. It was the first mission she had been paired with Doc on and they had gotten captured. Luckily, the people who had captured them had mistaken them for employees of the company that they had infiltrated. The "bad guys" (as she decided that she would call them) had shoved the two of them into a conference room by themselves and locked them in.
It would be fine if Doc hadn't been freaking out. She had gotten him to sit still for about five minutes so she could get a knife off him and cut the both of them loose. Ever since, Jacoba had been watching him pace back and forth while she twirled the knife (which she hadn't given back to him) in her hand. It was understandable to her, to tell the truth. Their comms had stopped working just before they'd been captured. He had to be reminded of being locked in prison for all those years. Jacoba could hear him muttering unintelligibly from where she was sitting on the table. She sighed.
"Doc, I need you to take a breath with me."
He didn't seem to hear what she had said, causing her to in hale deeply and let it back out. Getting off of the table (and tucking the knife into her pocket), Jacoba put herself in his path, holding her hands up in a surrendering way. That got him to stop and actually look at her.
"You sir, need to calm the hell down. You are at, like, a fifteen and I need you at, like, a seven. So, first of all, take a deep breath with me. Good. Now, this is not a new situation for me, so I've got some plans that we could utilize. But they all require us both to be as calm as we can be, alright?"
Doc took another deep breath and looked her straight in the eyes, nodding. "Alright, Amazon. We'll do this your way. What's out next step?"
Jacoba smirked as she pulled his knife out of her pocket and handed it back to him before pulling a hair tie out of seemingly nowhere to put her hair into a ponytail. Once that was done, she pulled a pair of small pistols, a big knife (Gunnar's, if one looked closely), and a lock-picking set out of random places on her body before starting to pick the door lock.
"You got anymore weapons or anything else hidden on your body, beautiful?"
"A woman never tells. Ready to go?"
"Let's do this."