Vern Harrison/Character Arc

==Character Arcs==
The Vault
When the bombs first dropped the citizens of San Andreas chose to either evacuate or hide themselves away in paid bunkers/vaults. Vern entered his local vault in Stab City and for the next seven years he would live within the confines of the vault until federal and local authorities deemed the surface of San Andreas safe to reinhabit.
He has implied that during his time in the vault he had many sexual experiences due to a lack of sex toys brought down in the vault. This ended up making him a very flirty man and a "fuckboy". The vault also was led by a person who referred to themselves as a "Governor", who attempted to maintain some sense of law & order within the vault. Despite the intention of the "Governor" figure, they were largely considered tyrannical possibly due to very controlling tendencies. 
In the vault Vern eventually became friends with a man named Daniel Wright who goes more often by Danny. During their time underground they became close and Vern refers to him as his "best friend" and has done so on many occasions. Danny is the only person from the vault Vern has met on the surface now that the state is reopen.
...And Beyond
When Vern first returned to the surface after seven years he got into flirting with as many women as he could as fast as possible. After awhile he began to slow down and try out the Tow Life. During this time he tried doing some work with various tow lots and people, eventually befriending a fellow tower named Ryan Rose. Eventually after an incident where arguments started arising with Steele Impound & Parking because of one of their employees, Gordo Pantalones, shooting Vern — he decided that Tow Life wasn't the life for him and gave up to pursue crime.
As Vern was getting into crime he began flirting with the idea of operating all of his major drug and gun deals within his apartment in the Infinity Apartments. During this time he met a criminal who quickly came onto him and began helping him out named Margarita Julio. After doing crime with each other for awhile eventually Ryan Rose joined up with him and assisted him in various things such as pushing joints on Vespucci and robbing people they found and flipping their guns.
Due to them operating out of Infinity in a gang-esque manner Vern coined the term "And Beyond" for their group when hanging out together. Ryan and Vern grew very close with pretty much every job they did being done together. At various points Ryan had an idea that he would consistently bring up when they got in trouble with the law, he thought that if the situation ever arose he would shoot Vern so that it would look like the crime he had committed had been under duress and that the hostage taker had came back to clean loose ends.
Eventually as And Beyond was developing, Vern and Ryan began to struggle slightly to keep up supply on marijuana. This was solved for them by a person they met named Zara Brooker who turned out to be a major drug trafficker who would make deals with them to off-load 100 bud at a time to their group. Eventually the bonds between And Beyond and Zara Brooker became much closer as she began joining them on their jobs, especially when Ryan was pushing without Vern. Eventually Ryan developed feelings for Zara and was beginning to open up a lot to her on their jobs.
Rumors eventually got to And Beyond that Zara Brooker had turned canary to the FIB and sung on the entire drug game, including And Beyond. Vern told Ryan not to believe the rumors but also to keep a distance from Zara. Eventually with all the rumors floating around and drama surrounding him, Vern decided to hole himself up in his room for 3 months and isolate himself from everyone.
Getting Sticky
After 3 months of isolation Vern finally returned to the city to find that Ryan was missing and had possibly been missing for awhile. Unable to keep up with And Beyond he dissolved the group and rarely returns to his apartment except for his storage and a quick change. He made up his mind and found a spot in the Subway Network under the city of Los Santos to make his new home, due to the inactive status of the Subway Network.
After a bit of trying to find work Vern eventually met a woman named Finn Lay who he had previously met on a chance encounter where he stole her mechanic van. After a few conversations they ended up doing crime together with another person named Fisher Pots, together they decided to rob multiple houses and ATMs with Vern getting his first Multi-Function Device from Finn as a gift. After a few houses he ended up grabbing some of the stolen furniture to decorate his Subway Home, which caused some jokes and discourse among the group as they debated if it was a subway or sewer. That night all but Vern ended up arrested and Vern got a warrant for shooting Officer Kylie Stokes.
After getting this warrant he ended up hanging out with the group more with them introducing him to some of their other friends such as Ivy Martin and Leo Baxter. During this time he was also developing a relationship with a doctor named Lilith Huron who he had previously met and given coke to during a time he was producing it with Poet. Eventually Vern started opening up again as he grew closer to Finn, Fisher, and Ivy. Finn at some point told a story of how her previous group had been mislabeled as the "Sticky Bandits" due to cop error and a joke made by Supreme Justice Ray Montag, to which Vern and Finn agreed to call themselves the "Sticky Bandits" as they did crime together.
The "Sticky Bandits" would do houses, atms, and carjackings together and slowly built up Finn's van and Vern's home at the subway. Fisher would sometimes cause issues because of his "inability to shut up" and his "yapping", but overall they became friends with each other.
One night after pushing for awhile, Finn and Vern were left alone and Vern decided to probably for the first time open up. He talked about all his worries about Ryan and wondering if he was dead, if Zara did it, and if it was all his fault. Multiple times he blamed himself for ruining Ryan's life and was fearful of doing it again to Finn putting most of the blame on himself but also blaming his willingness to trust someone like Zara who had government connections and eventually ratted them, possibly causing the death of Ryan Rose. Finn too opened up to him and talked about her previous group Oblivion and some of the trauma she still held over for the group. Vern continued explaining his situation with Ryan as he further delved into why he believed it was his fault, saying that these were people who had his back and he was supposed to have theirs ― he hated Margarita Julio for what she did sometimes but he would always have her back for what she has done for him, yet he let Ryan fall to the wayside and possibly die.
A New Home?
Eventually Finn began talking to Vern about a friend she had made earlier in the mornings. This friend was Winston Walker a man trying to start up a MC in Paleto. Finn went in more detail and explained that Winston was an ex-cop who had been in a previous MC but they ended up being forcibly dissolved after a RICO case was filed against them, and Winston had been let out a little early. This caused a lot of panic and worry within Vern due to his past with being near government affiliated people and the fact that when a RICO case happens that its usually because of a snitch. He told Finn that he was worried that if he's an ex-cop he might be the one who was the rat for the RICO case.
Vern put these worries on the back burner as he continued to hang out with Finn, and eventually one day Finn became patched in Winston's MC – Osiris MC. This didn't change much to start but various OMC associated and members began joining in on the "Sticky Bandits" antics such as Fauna Mori and Timmy Yougman. Eventually after various conversations Finn convinced Vern to at least have a meeting with OMC to see if he would be possibly interested. One day when Vern finally woke up earlier to align his schedule more with OMC he got a meeting with Gemma Knight, Ophelia "Fey" Dawes, and various other members/associates. Fey gave Vern a general run-down on the rules and values of the club, and after awhile of her explaining Vern was pleasantly surprised by how much the ruleset aligned with his morals. 
After the meeting with Fey, Vern was convinced that Paleto and OMC could actually end up his new home so he started more actively associating with its members when doing "Sticky Bandit" stuff. One day there were a lot of OMC awake so they split off into groups with the "Sticky Bandits" staying together since they had been together since much earlier in the day and some smaller groups leaving Fauna and Kiki Pendragon behind in Paleto to push. While doing crime together Finn got a notice that cops had seen Fauna & Kiki in Paleto pushing, so she called Fauna to warn her. Fauna still ended up arrested but because of the notice, Finn was able to go to Colorful Garage and clean out Fauna's stash Asbo. Finn decided to move the illegal stuff from Fauna's Asbo to her Printer Van, when she did she noticed someone had printed out a gun before she got the honors to do it herself. Fisher who heard her mention it there revealed that he couldn't wait and used her mats to make it and another Multi-Function Device. This led to an argument between Finn and Fisher about him not asking for permission, and at the end of it Finn decided to test the gun out then and there and popped off a shot in Colorful Garage, which is owned by Gemini Towing. This pissed off Vern who got mad that Finn was willing to do something risky and draw cops there when she was cleaning out a stash car for the club.
After everyone fled the garage the car ended up being Vern, Finn, and Ivy. They bought a house and it ended up being in Sandy where they broke into a house only three to four blocks away from the Sandy Shores Sheriff's Station. When cops arrived Vern fled into his stolen Sandking after stalling for a bit. When he escaped he went back to see if they had been caught, and found them already in cuffs. To help try to prove loyalty to his newfound club he decided to grab a gun from his apartment and go back up there and blast the cops and save Ivy & Finn. Vern however was too late and had to meet them back up in prison visitation. Eventually after they served their time Finn was let out and Vern started to drive her back into the city. While in the car, Finn got a call from Kiki who explained the cops on scene cut her some slack and didn't press charges yet because of her clean record and vet job, but told her that they might come and push charges later. During this conversation with Finn which was on speaker phone Kiki explained that she was related to Tommy Melarky, a cop, which freaked Vern out and made him stop the car and go to the side of the road and sit down to contemplate.
Ten minutes later Finn's phone call ended and she stepped out to ask Vern what was wrong. Vern got annoyed her for not knowing what was wrong with the conversation and pointed out that Kiki's related to Winston and also a cop, which means the club has further ties to the government. Finn got confused and said she didn't know that Kiki was related to Melarky which pissed Vern off more because it was her phone call he heard it on. They ended up driving up a bit more and sitting down to have a more private conversation. During this conversation Vern expressed more of his worries about how close the club was with the government in multiple ways. Vern once again expressed that he still had thoughts that there was no way Winston got out early without being the snitch, and also expressed how dangerous it is to associate with someone like Kiki who could turn at any moment. Finn told him he was being dramatic and paranoid, which hurt Vern due to their previous conversations about his trauma with Ryan & Zara. Vern ended up dropping off Finn and doing some solo carjackings before getting pulled over by Maisie MacPherson who Vern knew as Fauna's girlfriend and just then learned was a cop. When Vern escaped the following chase he called Finn and picked her up to once again express his worries about how intertwined everyone in the club was with government workers which led him to getting called dramatic again and being told "I don't know". Vern got further pissed off and just wanted to be away so he dropped Finn off at the Colorful Garage and sped off to go back to sleep in his Subway Home. 
The next day he woke up to drive to Paleto and tell the club his problems to see if they'll deal with them themselves. He met up with Winston Walker and Gemma Knight to tell him about his worries. After expressing them all to them they ended up to his surprise telling him the concerns were valid and they themselves had problems with much of what Vern talked about including Finn firing the gun off while moving Fauna's stash. Winston tried to ease Vern's personal concerns by revealing he got time off not for snitching but giving up uranium rods he stashed away while he was a cop. Vern was slightly relieved but still frustrated after the conversation with Winston/Gemma and as he was walking away from it, Finn came up to him to ask how it went. Finn after hearing a bit ended up doubling down that he was being dramatic about it all and it was all just paranoia, and was getting mad that even that conversation didn't fully end his worries. Due to his worries with Fauna's relationship with Maisie, Finn pressured him to talk to them until he eventually relented. After their conversation much to his surprise, they agreed with Vern and told him he was valid. Fey who had joined in on the Fauna conversation was adamant the whole time that she had similar worries and that he was very valid in his concerns and was overall very supportive of Vern. This seemed to make Finn angry which caused her to walk away from the situation.
After the situation and awkwardness with Finn, Vern began pushing her away and getting closer with various club members and associates such as Fauna Mori, Ophelia Dawes, Timmy Yougman, Simon Peterson, and Kenny Rickett. Primarily after he started having issues with Finn he grew a lot closer with Ivy Martin who is Finn's sister and knows a lot about Vern's issues with her as many have happened to her as well. This all worsened after one day when Vern went to prison he picked up the prison payphone to hear Nathan Soto on the other side. Nathan had been in Finn's previous gang, Oblivion, and told Vern many bad things about Finn and her personality as well as a previous relationship she had with Tommy Melarky who supposedly covered up a murder for her and nearly divorced his wife for her. This broke what remained of Vern's trust in Finn and made him push her even further away and him further into drugs. 
One day Vern's friend Daniel Wright from the vault days called him and he decided to hang out with him and Finn. During this all he ended up getting very high on various drugs and after Danny disappeared while they were pushing caused him to panic to Finn and accidentally reveal some of his thoughts of her as of recent with her seemingly manipulative conversations she had with him. Later that same day after the high had worn off and Vern was trying to go to bed, Finn found him and wanted to push him on why he was turning to drugs and being sad. Vern tried pushing her away bust she was persistent about it and trying to get Vern to come sleep in her apartment since he didn't have a bed in the Subway at the moment. He told her no multiple times but after she kept pushing he finally went to her apartment where she gave him a blanket left to her by her mother, when she went to lay down Vern crawled off the couch and out of the apartment before getting on his bike and going to sleep in his Subway Home.
Vern even with his worries and problems with Finn continued to do crime with them while growing closer with the club and also Lilith Huron who at that point had been texting him nearly daily. One day while doing crime together Vern, Ivy, and Fisher were pulled over by multiple cops and after foot pursuit with Vern and the pd, he resorted to shooting Lily Bloom to get away. During this time Ivy and Fisher were left with Winona Walker who was watching over them and questioning them, Fisher during this all ended up slipping up and mentioning "Fern" because he thinks saying "Fern" is different enough from saying "Vern" which led to the PD learning the shooter was Vern. They did not press charges at the time but they may still yet. Fisher later admitted this to Vern when pissed him off. Later the next day when Winston Walker and other members of OMC learned about this, they decided Fisher was a liability to the club and Paleto as a whole. Once Vern came back around he was told that Fisher would be removed from the club, robbed of his keys and phones, and forced to walk from Paleto back to the city. Winston also said Vern could do whatever he wanted with Fisher after and that if Fisher ever entered Paleto again he would be shot by the club. Vern said he understood and told Winston he was worried about Finn's reaction to the news. A day later when Fisher was finally around, they brought him up to a cliff on Paleto and told him about his removal from the club and excommunication from Paleto. They had him explain himself and even had Finn try to reason with him, but even then he wouldn't admit what he did wrong so they did as they said and took his keys/phones and forced him to walk from Paleto into the city. 
Vern was surprised and slightly impressed by Finn during the Fisher situation and how she was handling and was semi-trying to rekindle their friendship. They ended up doing crime together again and trying to reorganize themselves without Fisher. Eventually one day Danny showed up again with various weapons he had found across the state while he was exploring. He gave Vern a deagle as a gift which he stored in his apartment as a special occasion. Eventually in a situation at the Paleto Medical Center, Finn decided to test out a Firework Launcher she received from Danny on a few PD cars out front of the medical center parking lot and ended up popping their tires and started a shootout. At the end of the day Vern and them got away with Vern still having the deagle stored in his apartment.
Doing What Is Best For The Club
Four days after Vern rolled around with Finn and Danny, he woke up and did some coke before heading up to Paleto to hang out with OMC being told they had a meeting earlier in the day that made several previous hangarounds into prospects and introduced Paisley Scott to the club. After pushing weed for a bit in a pimp outfit, Vern received a mysterious text telling him to meet him in his home. Vern was partially paranoid that this was a member of The Families due to a previous event where he robbed one of their cars and nearly got caught for it, however the coke helped him push down his paranoia and allowed him to head down into the city.
When Vern arrived to his Subway Home, instead of the decorations his friends had gotten him after robbing a house, he found a rave had been set up in the area he had made his home for over a month. After trying to go further he was stopped by bouncers in red/black suits and white mask who multiple times told him to leave. He refused multiple times due to it being his home and a text inviting him down there. While arguing with the bouncers, Finn Lay and Fisher Pots arrived together. Vern even more confused could no longer take the argument and got very annoyed and frustrated. One of the bouncers was also getting upset and after making multiple vague "or else" statements kicked Vern off his kuroi. In response Vern pulled his gun out of his pocket and knocked the bouncer upside the head with it, downing the bouncer. After he left he received a phone call from Finn explaining she was the one who texted from a burner and chose the location because it was his home not knowing about the event. Vern became immediately melancholy and upset about them taking over his home and the spot potentially being blown and never being able to be used again. Finn told him that she was sad for him but needed to have a meeting with him.
After he picked up Finn and Fisher they put a GPS marker on a spot for them to go and meet. When Fisher got in the car, Vern realized that Finn and him both shouldn't be around Fisher because of his excommunication from the club and became confused/worried about Finn and being caught. Finn led him up to a roof with a pool on it explaining that it had previously been her old gang's (Oblivion) hangout spot and where she did "Sticky Bandits" stuff before meeting Vern. Finn soon asked if Vern had noticed anything different about her and after a few jokey/confused comments from Vern, she showed him a large scar on her neck and said she got shot by a cop. When asked which one, she responded with "Walker". When Vern asked if it was Winona and she said no, she began to also point out that she wasn't wearing a jacket and explained that it was Winston who shot her. She told Vern he was right, Winston was a manipulator and his history was too much of a liability. Vern immediately became even more distraught and started blaming himself to which she began explaining the reason for why she was shot even though OMC doesn't do blood outs.
Finn explained that it all had to do with her using the Firework Launcher that night. To which made Vern's heart drop and his worry that another friend's life being ruined was his fault once again. Finn continued saying that Gemma and Winston brought her to the cliff Fisher was brought to and asked to explain why she did what she did, and Finn tried her best to. She explained how she had been sad and after receiving something new like a firework launcher she wanted to try it out. This was apparently not enough of an explanation as Winston then pulled his gun out and shot her in the neck. After a few questions from Vern, Finn explained the reason for the shooting wasn't a blood out but was kind of a blood out because she "betrayed the club" by breaking their rules. Vern became confused as he had been told the "No Crime In Paleto" rule did not apply to PD to which Finn said they were still mad about it and had said she broken a rule. Fisher came in and pointed out to Vern that Winston had to be breaking his own rules to do this without calling a vote which both surprised and pissed off Vern. Finn then explained that she had learned after that he had been in the ICU room of Moxy Maddox, a member of the FIB while she was in ICU, and then she continued to explain how she thinks Winston could be a government plant and that Vern was right all along. Which made Vern both enraged and slightly jokey about being right. Vern soon also became personally worried about being blooded out himself for also being involved, to which Vern warned him not to be lured anywhere by Winston. The more information he learned the sadder and angrier Vern became with the coke amplifying his emotions. Vern yelled about how he ruined her life and how it was his fault which became an argument of whose fault it was and why everything turned out this way. It all ended with Finn saying she wanted to go back to being "Sticky Bandits" and Vern walking away not wanting to get them hurt by being involved with him.
Vern in his distraught and frustration began heading back to his apartment with a plan. When he got to his apartment he sent a few concerning texts implicating his plan to Kenny Rickett. Once actually inside his room he got into his storage grabbing his deagle out, now knowing what the "special moment" he had it saved for would be. During this he got a call from Lilith Huron who was worried about him and explained to him that the event that took over his home was The Red List hosted by RRH, who Lilith revealed after looking into them were the group who ocean dumped her months back and are the reason for her amnesia. After the conversation carried on and Lilith became increasingly worried and more texts from Kenny started coming at Vern, he ended the call telling Lilith goodbye and that he was sorry if she never saw him again. While Vern was walking out of his apartment, he made sure to have the deagle out the whole time and when he got to the door he ended up face to face with Kenny. Kenny was begging him to tell him what was wrong to which Vern mostly ignored him and told him to get out of the way. When Vern got on his kuroi and Kenny refused to get out of the way, he took the deagle and slammed it against his just knocking him down and allowing for him to drive away. Vern headed into Paleto and after learning from Fauna they were at the prison picking up Gemma, he got on a roof top to watch them with his deagle out ready to take the shot at any time. After a brief phone call with Fauna they lessened his worries about being blooded out slightly and revealed that the meeting earlier in the day had a subject Winston still needed to talk to him about. Eventually when they made it back to Paleto, Vern continued spying on them and got a phone call from Winston revealing that Kenny had recovered and told them what happened, and that all Winston wanted was a peaceful meeting.
He ended up coming down from the roof he was watching on and drove up to the Dream View Motel where Winston/Gemma were sitting near the road at. With his gun still drawn he stopped near them to talk. Gemma also had her firearm out behind her back and told Vern she would lower hers if he lowered his, so he did to allow for the meeting to continue. During this meeting Vern started at the very beginning of what he knew happened and asked questions pointed at Winston about why he didn't get the full story from someone actually there with her and why he lied about it to everyone. Winston revealed that he only withheld it to tell everyone at an official church what had happened and why it had happened. Further he explained that the reason it was such a betrayal was that they had done it in Paleto and at the hospital Winston had desperately trying to get doctors to work out of. Gemma then also pointed out that she was there when they made the rules so it was even worse that she had broken them. Vern asked once again about why they didn't get the side of someone there with her to which Winston explained that he had tried to get a good answer out of her and practically begged for one and all he could get was "I'm sad" and when pressed on why she didn't bring up her sadness to anyone to which she apparently said "I didn't trust to bring it up to anyone but Fisher". To Gemma this meant she broke a club rule entirely over a excommunicated member of the club. Vern understood it was a fuck up but was still confused on why it was a bullet and not a punishment or demotion, to which they began to go back and forth on as Vern clarified details of what happened they blatantly had wrong. 
After going back and forth for a bit Vern finally remembered a question he had never asked — how did they learn about it when none of the people there were awake? In response Gemma and Winston revealed that they had gotten in a police chase where "an act of domestic terrorism that happened in Paleto" was mentioned to them by a cop, afterwards they dug into to find more information. This internally and externally pissed off Vern, as once again OMC was working with a cop. After this Winston revealed how much this had saddened him because he and Finn had been seeing/sleeping with each other, to this Vern revealed her previous relationship with Melarky and Winston told Vern he had learned about it the day prior and was upset about it too. Vern soon became less angry and more obviously solemn as he broached the topic of rules since to his understanding cops were an exception and votes needed to be unanimous to which Winston/Gemma went over the rules including "Club First/Club is priority" to which they explained why they had to do what was best for the club when it came to Finn. The entire time they had been telling Vern he could stay and get prospected as all patched agreed he was ready or free to walk away, and after the part about rules it seemed like he was going to walk away so once again Winston/Gemma reminded him he was free to do so. In response he said "Club comes first right? Then I'm going to follow my gut and do what is best for the club" and drew his deagle out and shot both Winston and Gemma in the head, saying "I didn't want to do this to you" as he shot Gemma. When he shot he was immediately shot by various OMC keeping watch including Simon Peterson who claimed to get the final shot. Simon and Kenny brought Vern to the woods in Paleto and took his deagle and keys off of him just in case he had any keys to club cars. Before he left in a voice that sounded sad and close to crying Kenny told Vern "Why did you do this? We were supposed to stand on bidness together Vern!". 
Vern was found by Police and EMS, with Winona Walker being the cop to arrive on scene recognizing him. He was brought by them and had medical down to him both in the ambulance and in the medical center in Paleto. After a bit of basic medical was done to his neck where he had been shot he was moved back into the ambulance to be entered into ICU at Mt. Zonah Medical Center. While in the ambulance Lilith Huron arrived and entered to help watch over him sounding obviously upset. Lilith revealed to the unconscious Vern that a doctor witnessed the whole thing but might not be willing to tell the Police but had said enough for her to know what had happened. When he was admitted to ICU, Lilith took over and made sure no one wearing denim jackets were allowed into his ICU at all. During this time where LIlith was looking over Vern she became upset and after learning Gemma Knight was also here in ICU she told Vern's unconscious body "Do you know how easy it would be to go in there and change her IVs?" before leaving to presumably do so. When she came back she seemed still upset but ended up allowing both Finn and Fisher in the ICU room despite not being ECs for Vern, with her being his sole Emergency Contact. Lilith revealed that Gemma was also here in the ICU to Finn and that Lilith was unable to do what she wanted due to people and cameras. This information caused Finn to pull out her gun and Fisher to strategically locate himself in a spot to ambush anyone coming in. All three of them talked for awhile, and when Finn told Vern " I told you so" about Winston being dangerous to meet up with he had a sudden seizure from all the narcotics in his body. Various doctors came in and helped Vern out after Lilith did some basic medical and gave him a saline bag. After awhile of discussion and waiting for action from OMC eventually they all left allowing Vern to further rest in his ICU bed.
The One In Front Of The Gun Lives Forever
When Vern woke up from ICU, he woke up still very enraged by the situation and also fearful for the life of his friends and associates. He first tried pushing away his friends including Finn, Fisher, Ivy, and Lilith but this was fruitless. Knowing OMC would likely still be after him for what he did he became extremely paranoid and once he returned to crime with his fellow "Sticky Bandits" made sure to always watch over his shoulder or carry a gun in his lap. Eventually he would consider his previous grudges and what he wanted to do, and unburdened by the restrictions set by OMC he decided to move Patrick January and Maisie MacPhearson up on his list of things to deal with. January for snitching and not bringing guns to Vern within his set timeframe, as well as using his abilities as a doctor to protect OMC. Maisie for her time as a cop and Vern's lingering anger from when OMC continued allowing her around the club while also working as PD. This led him to spying on OMC in Paleto and eventually led him to go back into ICU.
When he woke up once again, he was met with Lilith being worried once again and they began discussing things as Vern's paranoia grew about their association becoming obvious. They promised a meeting at a later date and also reminded each other of an actual date that they had previously planned. Vern would then return to doing crime with the "Sticky Bandits" and while they were doing crime together they drove through Red Garage and saw that Patrick January was there at the parking station. Upon noticing it was January, Vern hopped out of the car and held January up asking him about his OMC associations and why he moved Gemma from ICU and after a bit of questioning Vern shot January down after shooting them directly in the eye.
After this, Ivy immediately became very freaked out. She was obviously panicked and later Vern would hear from someone that she had told them she was scared of what happened and didn't think Vern should of shot. Vern brought this to Ivy, apologized for doing it infront of her, and explained his reasons for doing it and how it wasn't just because of January's associations with OMC. During this Ivy implied to Vern that she didn't want him to directly go after Maisie and hurt her like he did to January. Vern agreed to this but would later meet with Mike Blox and pay him to rob Maisie for a gun. Mike Blox would later report that she didn't have a gun and when he told her it was Vern who ordered the hit that she wanted to pay Blox to get Vern for her so she could remove his hand.
Vern who was still in the car with the "Sticky Bandits" would decide to go have the meeting he promised Lilith in secret away from the "Sticky Bandits" as he was getting aggravated at how involved she was becoming with the group as a whole and how it may end up with her getting hurt. Vern's sudden leaving freaked out the "Sticky Bandits" slightly as he prefaced it by saying he wasn't going to go hurt Maisie which made them think he was going to. Lilith and Vern would meet on the beach and discuss how involved she was getting, which went back and forth. Various topics were brought up, but majorly Lilith discussed how she determined that Vern was claustrophobic and how once she learned she reached out to a Realtor so they can get somewhere he can stay that isn't in the Subway but also makes him feel comfortable ― together with her. They would briefly discuss labels but changed topic when Vern became uncomfortable, which led to them making a promise to each other, Vern wouldn't pursue or look into RRH for the ocean dumping they did to Lilith months back and Lilith wouldn't pursue or do anything stupid with OMC related things.
Vern would continue returning to his old schedule of crime with the "Sticky Bandits" and nothing major would happen again until one day at the "Sticky Bandit's" home base in Vinewood, he learned from Lilith that Ivy had been seen with Jessie "Nova" Gallagah an FIB Agent and was likely dating her since she broke up with her girlfriend. This further panicked Vern when he was told she might be trying to go clean to become EMS, which reminded him of Zara going clean and snitching out the drug scene. Vern got angry with Lilith once again for making herself involved but also thanked her before discussing Ivy a bit with Finn and Fisher. They decided to talk to her about it but also keep her out of the loop for anything major. 
Lilith and Vern would later have another meeting about their future house and how she wanted to change Realtors. It turned out that the Realtor she chose was Chad Houser, someone associated with OMC through Maisie. Vern freaked out and had a brief argument with Lilith before calming down and agreeing to helping vet Realtors to see if they were OMC-related. A few days later after Vern woke up to a notification sent directly to him by the Wool Blvd App. This notification gave out a set date for a prison transport and gave instructions to disrupt it and break a prisoner out from it. 
Vern wouldn't share this with the rest of the "Sticky Bandits" and went on to do crime with them while making sure they didn't figure out, in fear that they may discuss it too openly and ruin the transport assault. After doing crime with them for awhile he eventually got caught up and as he was in the hospital getting medical after going down he ended up getting treated by Lilith. While this was going on another criminal came in injured and was generally creepy and due to previous creepy experiences doing medical to him that made her uncomfortable Lilith refused to treat him. Winona Walker who was one of Vern's arresting officers also made comments on how the man had been creepy to her and some of the other women in PD. When Vern got to the cells at DPPD, he was already arguing with the creep who decided that Vern would be his "prison bitch". Vern decided to plead guilty so that he could be sent up faster to mess the creep up, to which Winona told him that her opinion of him would be raised slightly if he fucked him up with Brooker agreeing. 
When Vern got into prison he found the creep waiting to ambush him in visitation, to which Vern semi-expected and responded in kind. After a very brief brawl where Vern only threw a few punches and knocked the creep down, Vern decided to call 911 to get the creep medical. Brock Booker on the other end of the line encouraged Vern to test how injured the creep was by kicking him, to which Vern did before getting back on the phone with 911 and telling that the creep told him that he "kicked like a bitch" so he couldn't have been that bad. After hanging up on 911, Vern started to drag the creep out of visitation which led the creep to bite Vern's legs. Vern angered by the creep drug him out to the port-a-potties and stomped on his head until he stopped responding. When PD and EMS arrived the creep was dead and Vern was waiting in visitation covered in blood. PD was immediately suspicious of Vern because he was the only person in the entirety of the prison other than the corpse and was covered in blood, Vern continued even with their obvious suspicion to use the excuse that the creep had simply accidentally repeatedly fell on the door handle of visitation and beat his head into it before crawling away to the port-a-potties. Vern ended up requesting medical for his injuries from the creep and realized that Lilith was the doctor to arrive to treat both him and the creep. After getting medical he was sent on his way to serve the rest of his sentence with heavy suspicion from PD.
Later after Vern got out of prison while still drunk on prison wine he decided to call up Fisher and Finn to tell them to prepare for the prison transport. He explained it first to Fisher and asked him to explain it to Finn, however after realizing some telephone would happen if he did that he called up Finn himself. They had a brief and extremely flirty conversationClip: Vern/Finn convo which ended with Finn and Fisher picking him up and bringing back to his apartments. Vern explained what the notification said to them, when it was happening and that they all needed to prepare guns and various other things to hit the transport.
The day after he woke up again and began to help the "Sticky Bandits" in their set up while further avoiding Ivy. During this time Fisher had gotten arrested while they were doing crime together, but somehow escaped from the while not being watched. To save him they decided to rob a cop and grab handcuffs since none of the people they usually buy from were awake. The cop they found was Rob Mist who they took the phone, radio, and handcuffs of. Vern kept the phone and cuffs but dumped the radio. Later after uncuffing Fisher, Vern realized the phone was unlocked. Seizing the opportunity he slowly throughout the day sent various messages to people to fuck with Rob Mist's life. Texts such as retirement texts to his superiors, texts to his possible significant other to "take a hint" and that "they were done", as well as texts to Anna Peta his ex-girlfriend saying both "I miss you" and "I miss us" which would earn Vern the ire of Rob Mist.
Moe Problems
On August 17th, 2024 the Prison Transport of a High Value Target and other important prisoners being transferred into San Andreas' State Prison, Bolingbroke Penitentiary, was set to arrive at the Los Santos International Airport at approximately 7 AM EST. Vern woke up earlier than his normal schedule and began preparations to hit the transport with his crew. Ivy Martin attempted on multiple occasions to ask what he and the other "Sticky Bandits" were up to, but on each occasion Vern refused to tell her due to still being unable to trust her after everything that had came to light about her relationship with the FIB and want to go clean.
To prep to hit the transport, Vern gathered the remaining "Sticky Bandits" that he trusted; Finn and Fisher. The three of them got together and made a basic loadout for each of them; a radio, a bag of coke, a gun, ammo boxes, bottles of oxy, and a kevlar vest. Vern grabbed a pair of handcuffs he had received from Rellik Block nights prior after hearing from Sammy Sharkbait that other crews were looking for handcuffs - presumably to allow themselves to uncuff the High Value Target assigned by the Wool Blvd App and its associates. Afterwards they split into two groups with different goals; Finn and Fisher in their Hades and Vern on his Kuroi. Vern would go ahead and scout while Finn/Fisher stayed behind watching from a distance to play lookout and give comms. 
Ten minutes prior to the Transport landing, Vern received a call from a Mysterious Person who was obviously connected to the notification he received from the Wool Blvd App. The voice revealed the target of their transport assault would be "Moe Vercotti" an associate and relative of the Mysterious Voice. The voice gave a brief description of Moe; Bald, Facial Hair, Face Tattoos, and an Eyepatch. The voice reassured that those who helped them would receive great benefits and reminded him of the time and location of the Transport landing in San Andreas.
Once Vern finished the call he immediately headed up to LSIA with Finn/Fisher tailing a decent bit behind. Vern went further ahead and began scouting out the LSIA complex and called out areas where you obscure himself to watch for the plane landing down. While this was happening Fisher called comms over radio about the locations of other groups joining in and watching from afar including that of what they believed to be Osiris MC. Vern told them to keep close attention on the OMC group and to make sure they didn't try anything. Afterwards Vern find a decently obscured location and watched from afar as the plane landed down and five prisoners were escorted out with one of them matching the description given by the Mysterious Voice. 
Shortly after the prisoners were escorted out the Department of Corrections arrived in a convoy to load them into a bus. This convoy contained a number of DoC vehicles and was ended with a Police Escort. Vern and the "Sticky Bandits" followed the convoy out of LSIA planning over radio where they would set up to ambush it, so they would have the surprise on the transport. While they were doing this, the other crews followed suit in a much more obvious manner and eventually one of the groups began popping shots. This took the "Sticky Bandits" by surprise due to the timing and the seemingly lack of planning involved. The sudden shots put the convoy on guard and had them call in back-up units. As this happened Vern took multiple opportunities to do small drive-bys as the other "Sticky Bandits" attempted to get in positions where they would end up in front of the convoy. Eventually Vern pulled ahead of the convoy and got onto the roof at the Roach Motel and using his vantage point shot out the rear tires of the Transport Bus. 
Once he popped the tires the other groups involved took the opportunity and Vern made the call over the radio for the "Sticky Bandits" to come join and possibly also seize the opportunity. Following him making the call he went straight for PD and pistol whipped one next to theri car and as he was driving away pistol whipped another who assumed was a Motor Unit but turned out to be an involved member of the Lost MC who luckily took the brunt of the pistol whip without going down. The convoy and therefore Vern started entering the parking lot of the prison as Vern went under fire and made calls over radio for the "Sticky Bandits" to get there now. As soon as his calls went through shots coming from the Sniper Tower of Bolingbroke Penitentiary took out the tires of his Kuroi leaving him vulnerable in the parking lot as the Transport Bus was escorted inside the walls of the prison. Fisher attempted to pit the Bus on its way in while Vern fired on Corrections Officers stationed inside, but it was too late and the Transport Bus was secured inside. 
Vern started shooting into the prison trying to take as many out as he could while also watching back after seeing someone he identified as possibly Gemma Knight from OMC pulling up behind him. Eventually Vern made calls for a pick-up that were interrupted by Fisher saying "Finn's down" and then radio silence from Fisher. After popping a few more shots, Vern disengaged and stole a truck a few miles away to hopefully help him break back into prison to save their almost certainly failed task. When he arrived back at the prison he noticed the gates of the prison were unlocked and open...which caused him to have an idea.
He shot a cop guarding the gate and then grabbed a different truck from nearby to cause confusion. He took a few vantage points using his new stolen trucks and popped shots off on a few officers. Once again believing his vehicle burned he stole another truck, got new armor and using his new truck stormed straight in through the gates of Bolingbroke into the prison proper. In the prison proper his truck immediately got lit up from all sides causing the tires to pop, forcing him to exit it and make a stand using it as cover. During this stand and shootout he would down various Corrections Officers including Jay Skeeber who he recognized as she went down. He was then downed by multiple police officers including Stephanie Meyer who took supplies off of him to continue being able to support the transport protection. 
During this time the prisoners were able to get out of the Transport Bus themselves, with one prisoner Shang Liu, stealing keys from a downed officer that he used to unlock his and the other prisoners cuffs. Shang and a few others were shot down after they made escape attempts but Moe Vercotti pretended to still be in cuffs. When the guards weren't looking, Moe seized the opportunity and got into Vern's truck which had been left running by Vern. He was promptly shot down just outside of the gate just barely missing his chance at freedom. Vern at this point was cuffed and eventually brought to Zonah where he would be uncuffed and told that charges would be pressed at a later date. During all of this while Vern was down he was in and out of consciousness and eventually slipped into full unconsciousness and was admitted into ICU by Dr. Lilith Huron who during the transport had sent him comms she heard PD giving over radio while she was texting on her burner.
She Loves You
When Vern woke up in the ICU, he remembered the events that transpired to get him there and became wary of being arrested as soon as he walked outside of the ICU room, so he ripped out his IV and ran out as fast as he could. After this he ended up talking to his coke plug Vicki Valentine about her possibly being blooded out in the future from the Devil Dogs MC and how she wanted to get away. After this brief conversation he ended up back at the Red Garage and on the phone with Lilith expressing his fears for her safety due to his actions that most likely caused the death of Jay Skeeber.
They met in the Subways where Vern stays, and discussed the events prior involving the prison transport. Lilith told Vern about Finn and Fisher coming to the ER and Finn announcing his name to the room much to Lilith’s annoyance, before continuing to explain that after everything she had been suspended until further notice. To this point Lilith explained how her suspension was connected to when Gemma went into the ICU from Vern and how she hopes it blows up in Dr. January’s face. This led to Vern becoming worried that he was once again wondering if he was ruining her life and made him ask her “what happens next time”. This led to a conversation where Lilith expressed interest in abandoning her doctor work under SAMA to pursue Private Practice work and how she didn’t want to be Chief of Medicine when Q could be so easily swayed by outside sources. Vern continued his attempts to push Lilith away and express his annoyance at her hanging out with the “Sticky Bandits” who are liability with how much they leak.
They continued on arguing about Vern’s influence on her life with Vern looking at it as ruining her life and Lilith talking about how it’s been better since he came around. Lilith during this mentioned Ivy having entered ICU after taking a GSW to the head. Vern expressed his frustration over his inability to walk away from them and Lilith expressed to him how she didn’t want him to disappear and how she liked having him in her life. Lilith told him that he had shown her more respect than any other man in the city and how she wanted to get the house so he could have a place to rest at night. They continued arguing as Vern continued to tell her why he didn’t deserve what she was giving him because it had all been great, while Lilith continued to talk about the house. Vern continued asking for examples of why she cared about him this much where she continued to express that he is the only person who doesn’t ask for things from her and when she encountered him after incurring amnesia he didn’t take advantage of her and tell her that they slept together/dated. Vern got frustrated at how low her bar was and Lilith pointed out that it was just how the city they live in works.
Their argument continued as Vern pointed out he may have two Felony A warrants coming down on him that he wants nowhere near Lilith, which she kept finding ways to navigate around and pointing out the lacking nature of his current company. She vocalized her opinion of the “Sticky Bandits” which was that they time and time again proved a liability for him and constantly are unable to keep up with him. Vern pointed out if not for them he wouldn’t know where he would belong in the city. He went on to point out while solo he got more done then he ever could with them and Lilith told him that he should go solo then if he really wants that, but he also shouldn’t her push her away in the process of it. They once again went back into arguing over Lilith’s involvement and how much she has already done, with Lilith making sure to point out that most of the time other groups were dragging her into it not the other way around. They went on to talk about how the current situation didn’t work and it needed to change, and how Q believes they are dating most likely because of Patrick January. Vern in response to this told Lilith she was mostly likely going to be removed from his Emergency Contacts to put up a divide between them from others perspectives.
Lilith then began to explain things about the transport that Ivy had told her about, including Ivy’s involvement. She had tracked Finn and Fisher and found the transport break happening and got them medical in an attempt for them to get back on their feet and save Vern. This frustrated Vern as she was not supposed to get involved at all. They then eventually ended up back on the blame game argument of whether Vern was the causation of Lilith’s suspension and Vern began rattling off things he is to blame for in her life. Lilith told him she didn’t want to let go. He told her there was no way he was outrunning the HUT warrant so she was going to have to, to which Lilith told him she would wait. This frustrated Vern more as he couldn’t figure her ideal outcome in all of this. They begin to discuss their ideal outcomes and fairy tales of how they get out of this free and still together - sleeping together. Vern then asked her if she was really willing to risk charges for harboring him if they go in on the apartment plan. She immediately replied yes that she was ready to risk that for him and when Vern tried to bring up her losing her medical license making it not worth she immediately exclaimed that “Believe it or not, yes it is. It’s a job I can get another one”Clip: Believe it or not.
Further she went on to point out that she found a new realtor and that leasing the property would be $51k. They once again get in the debates of ideals which leads into Vern arguing about not being able to provide money towards the $51k and Lilith just telling him to wait it all out. Vern went on to explain that he plans to try to outrun the warrant no matter how futile it is and that could mean if they wait it could be up to a month before a single bit of progress is made - which Lilith said would be completely fine. Vern told her that he just needs to think about everything and she told him that was fine. When she asked Vern if he is going to leave forever when he leaves the subway, he responded saying that he doesn’t know.
Before he can attempt to leave, Lilith begins bringing up how she probably scares him. To which Vern admits she does with all of her unpredictability. She then further points out it may be because of how much she understands him compared to everyone else around him. She then begins to once again bring up his claustrophobia and how she is willing to be there for him and support him, and that he shouldn’t get rid of that just because he thinks he is a bad person. Vern tries to bring up his murders to which Lilith brings up he isn’t the only one to commit murders. After a brief exchange following that he leaves.
After leaving he goes on to do solo crime to pass the time and ends up getting calls from the “Sticky Bandits” who expand more on Ivy knowing about the transport and how it was HVTU people, specifically Laz Gold, who informed her. They then discussed Martin Pierce who wanted to use the “Sticky Bandits” for crime and how he wanted to meet Vern. Fisher expanded on this explaining that he and Finn think that Martin is too coincidentally important to be a nobody and could even possibly be the mysterious boss behind the Wool Blvd App. They discuss the transport and the “Sticky Bandits” admit they weren’t ready for that type of thing and need to learn more before doing something of that size again. They begin to talk about various subjects including Ivy, the transport, and in general how ready the “Sticky Bandits” are for quite some time while Vern does crime by himself.
After a little while of solo crime he receives a message from the Wool Blvd App saying that they weren’t pleased with the performance of those involved in the failed transport assault, however they would have another chance at getting Moe out at a later date. Vern relayed this to the “Sticky Bandits” and they linked back up to do stuff together.
Eventually Vern got a call from Rambo Block who wanted to invite him to a meeting. During this meeting a man of the name Tlacaelel Gándara or Dr. T began to explain that he had been approved for a private practice. Each person there were given the run down of Dr. T’s responsibilities, which weren’t much, and were given a general estimate of prices and told when and when not to use the practice.
Vern then went off to do crime with the “Sticky Bandits” for a few hours before splitting back off on his own. During this time he decided to pickpocket the local tourists at LSIA, and was promptly rolled up on by two bikes with three bikers total being there. He gave the excuse of his car being blown up and being stranded, which led to them making some small talk. They discussed various things such as findom, bridges, and the existence of two Verns before delving into more interesting topics. While talking Vern got a call from Fisher about OMC being at the hospital and being worried about them doing something which led to him telling Fisher to handle if it needs to be. This caught the attention of the bikers from HVTU who began to in return discuss their problems with OMC, as well as Devil Dogs MC who they were at war at. After a bit of talking they tell Vern that Vicki from DD was a snitch which freaked him out because she was his coke plug and he had trusted her. They began to talk about the gangs in the city focusing mostly on OMC as Vern divulged his personal issues with the group as he experienced them. The bikers didn’t seem impressed with OMC and had apparently had problems with their existence as a “motor club” and their cling to the MC name whilst not participating in much of the actual tradition. At some point they mention their status as ex-cops which freaks Vern out, despite this he still tells them about his possibly two murder warrants which leads Johnny Divine to tell him they will allow him to use the back of HVTU as a spot for repairs when he’s giga wanted. They go on and continue discussing various topics while also joking around a bit and eventually let Vern go without doing anything to him.
He afterwards called the “Sticky Bandits” about the information he learned, primarily about the group down there claiming the Airport as well as Vicki being a snitch. They discussed this for awhile before Vern went off and continued doing things alone. While doing shit alone, he got a text from a number he didn’t recognize with the only words being “tunnel”. This freaked Vern out and he drove immediately to the tunnels on his kuroi with his gun drawn. When he got to his bedroom setup in the tunnels he found a note lying on the ground.
“She loves you
But she’s going to run Red
You hate the color Red, don’t you?
Stop her
The past always catches up to us.
Use caution, be covert
Or don’t
She loves you”
This freaks out Vern and immediately makes him call Lilith to check in on her. On the phone she says she is good and talks about her day. Vern still being paranoid drove up to Zonah and began watching her from afar, trying to see if he could spot anything going wrong. He does this for awhile before returning to crime and eventually going to sleep at Lilith’s apartment.
A few days later Vern wakes up to see the number which had texted him “tunnel” had also accidentally sent him a message about a drug deal with Marabunta Grande. Vern tries to call the number but gets no response. Vern gets a call from Lilith and they begin to talk where Vern revealed that he had begun to start saving money to put towards their potential shared house, while Lilith reveals that Dr. T may let her join his private practice.
At some point during this while checking his apartment, Vern found a pair of medical gloves left outside of his room. Thinking the worst he assumed something happened to Lilith and called her. Becoming confused and relieved when she answered completely fine he began to think it was a warning and connected either to OMC hunting them or the mysterious note. He made Lilith aware but did not express his theory about the note. Coincidentally at this moment Vern sees a man at the street near the exit of the apartment in denim like OMC wears. Quickly, Vern went down to press the man on if he left the gloves to find that he was unaffiliated and unaware as he landed in the city that day. Slightly amused and dumbfounded Vern contemplates with himself and the “Sticky Bandits” about how he almost shot a random old man out of paranoia.
After finishing their conversation, Vern goes on to do crime by himself while sometimes reaching out for updates with the “Sticky Bandits”. Eventually after a bit of running around both Vern and the “Sticky Bandits” began noticing that cars containing Osiris MC members were hunting/following Vern. The group immediately became paranoid and would make each other aware each time they spotted one of the three hunting parties.
After quite a few hours of being hunted, Vern got frustrated just running and made a decision, a rash one but a decision none the less. He decided to roll up into Paleto to shoot up Gay Bay Autos and possibly get Timmy Yougman. After a few attempts where he found no one, he went back up there alone and rolled in shooting down both Timmy and Izzy Knight, who at the time he assumed was Gemma. As soon as he downed the other two, a rain of bullets came down on him rendering him unconscious, down and bleeding.
Vern while downed is scooped up by the Osiris members who shot him and brought into the back of a mechanic van, which after numerous issues with getting keys sorted began driving away. While driving away it immediately got cops on it with them having plenty of time due to the issues with keys OMC were having. While in the back of the van with Vern, an Osiris member named Thomas began poking and prodding one of Vern’s eyeballs trying to see if he could stir a reaction. These attempts were unsuccessful as Fauna began to explain more gruesome methods they could do.
During all of this they are running from the police, which eventually leads them to do a risky jump. This jump is supposed to go over a pool, however due to their overall weight in such a heavy vehicle they were unable to get the speed to make it and ended up crashing into the pool itself. Osiris had to leave the van as well as Vern behind as they made their foot escapes.
Police then brought Vern to the hospital when everything was clear. During this he was in police custody and arrested which caused the “Sticky Bandits” to become worried. While he was in the ER the “Sticky Bandits” arrived and attempted a shootout to save Vern from the few cops that were in the ER at the time, but due to a clear lack of aim no cops went down and the “Sticky Bandits” were quickly and swiftly taken down.
After finally becoming stable and awake he wonders why he is in cuffs and even more why the “Sticky Bandits” are in there with him. Despite this confusion he is brought to MRPD and arrested in the cells there where Veronica briefly brings up that she needs to talk to him in depth but is too tired in the moment to do it.
While in prison Vern gets visited by a pissed off Lilith. She quickly tries to get him to tell her why he did it. To which he told her that he felt that maybe if it was just him up there they would get what they wanted. This pissed Lilith off more and made her ask him if he really thought that would make them stop. Lilith then revealed she’d given over her main phone to Veronica for her investigation to be co-operative. Vern reveals what Veronica had said about wanting to have a conversation with him later. During all of this they also go back and forth talking on the subject of her suspension skirting around the blame game they had been playing for awhile, while Lilith is telling Vern that she thinks her job is done no matter the results of any investigation and that Q has made up her mind.
Eventually the other “Sticky Bandits” make their way into visitation with Vern and are followed by a member of the Marabunta Grande named Wolf Haley. The MG member seems to get along with the group. Eventually as their joking around goes on for a bit and Vern gets out of prison he asks Vern to call up Clee Torres or any member of MG to come down and crack shit with him, and in return he would get one of the MG to pick up his kuroi out of Paleto. Vern after getting out and going with Lilith does end up calling up Clee who goes to confirm what Vern is saying and also pick up the kuroi for him.
Clee ends up having Vern and Lilith meet up with the Marabunta on Fudge Lane where they crack jokes and talk. The MG seem to know Lilith so the conversation goes smoothly, as they talk about general topics and eventually get to the topic of OMC being after Vern. While talking about it Vern brings up how close MG are said to be to OMC, which Clee says isn’t necessarily true. He explains that they’ve been working with Gemma for months and are just continuing that relationship, it isn’t a relationship with OMC it was just their pre-existing one with Gemma. They made sure to point out they wouldn’t shoot for OMC. After the talks began to wane Vern left on his kuroi which they had kept true to their promise and collected.
Vern, Lilith, and the “Sticky Bandits” return from that point to their “base”. There they find a tag carved onto a wall that says “See you soon SB”, which alerts them to someone knowing where they operate out of. They discussed who it could be and decided that somehow someway that OMC knew. After Lilith arrived they began discussing the details of the day in depth. As the topics became more tense they dispersed with Vern talking to Lilith for some time and Fisher/Finn going off to another part of the roof.
While talking to Lilith, Vern notices Finn sitting in a very obviously depressed manner. He ends up going up and sitting down next to her asking about her problems. He tells her she can tell him what is wrong or she can keep it to herself. She thanks him for not pressing on it but decides to explain. She similarly to Vern feels at fault for everything, since she introduced the “Sticky Bandits” to OMC and got them in. She lamented how easily she had been charmed into a relationship with Winston and how much it had affected her so quickly. Fisher and Vern begin helping her feel better, talking her through it all.
Eventually after consoling Finn to a much better emotional state, Vern breaks off to continue his conversation with Lilith. Once again Vern brings up the idea of somehow in someway giving himself over to OMC and letting them deal with him and leave everyone else alone. Lilith once again tells him how dumb that is, and how they would almost certainly not stop with just him, even if he did die. After this continues on for a bit of time where Lilith tries her hardest to reinforce how much she is there for him and has his back, they decide to go to bed. Saying their goodnights to the “Sticky Bandits” they go up to Lilith’s apartment and sleep together.
The next day Vern wakes up in Lilith’s apartment with Lilith gone having borrowed/taken his pink skull jacket. After getting fully awake he went off and did solo crime for a bit before linking up with the “Sticky Bandits”. When they linked up at HVTU they went off and had a meeting with Marabunta Grande discussing various things. After a bit Vern went off to do solo crime again.
While doing solo crime he suddenly got a request for a video call, and after answering was met with the face of Gemma Knight with Lilith in the background. Gemma told Vern that “Number One had a few questions” in reference to Winston being there, but due to a poor connection Vern was unable to hear him.
“How much do you care about the one we got back here.” was the question Gemma prosed after asking Winston what he would have asked. Vern immediately quipped back that he “Cared about her as much as they cared about FIB Agents”. Gemma told him that means he doesn’t care at all and began to ask Vern what he would do to save her. Once again he quickly replied with “idk how about you ask Winston there what he would do to save Moxy. We can play this game but its not one I’m interested in though.”. Gemma asked him why he was going after unrelated people then, to which he replied asking who he had gone after and why had he been stalked by three OMC cars. Gemma named Patrick to which Vern pointed out it was over him snitching not at all involved with OMC, but maybe that’s why they cared because “I know how much y’all liking talking to the cops.”.
Gemma told him that was the second time he implied they were in bed with the feds, and a third would be the end of this conversation. Vern continued after explaining the situation with January more while also trying to remember the details himself. Gemma tried bringing up some report to Vern that he had mentioned to which he became confused on “which one” and received remarks of “you know which one.”. They continued on bickering about whether Vern knew what report was being referred to. Eventually Gemma brought up it was a medical report to which Vern still denied and told Gemma that even though he doesn’t expect her to believe him, that he refuses to use Lilith to see medical reports or do anything with her government powers and also hasn’t done so in the past.
Eventually they sort out the connection and get the video call working where everyone on both sides can hear each other so there isn’t a game of telephone while quite literally on the telephone. Vern’s first question with everyone being able to hear him is “why her and not just me.”. Vern pointed out that January had caused Maisie to get her arm removed by a serial killer which caused him and Gemma to go back down the line of who should of targeted who. Eventually they brought up Kiki who the day prior while being hunted Vern made a small attempt at luring to the DMV to prove a point to OMC but gave up after failing. After a while things got heated again causing Vern to bring up OMC listening to cops when they blooded Finn out, which Gemma considered a third strike and hung up the phone for.
Vern immediately panicked and called 911 to get in contact with EMS to send search parties up the mountain for Lilith, who had almost certainly been hurt as soon as the phone call ended. He then for a long period time helps in the search himself scaling mountains with his kuroi looking while in a relatively manic state. During this time he also updated the “Sticky Bandits” about the situation over the phone.
At some point he decided to check Zonah to see if she had been found to which Director Quimbley Hayabusa denied and said she had no idea what had happened to her and that she hadn’t been found. While doing this he began asking random doctors if they were Kiki Pendragon to which they all denied including a doctor who had near resemblance to her MDW profile picture except for a few details. Vern would afterwards such up and down the hospital before leaving.
Later to Vern’s surprise he got a 611 message saying that Lilith had been found and was in the Mt Zonah ICU ward. Vern in his manic state was beyond furious and went straight to Zonah with his gun drawn the entire time. When he got to the hospital he entered without holstering his gun to receive the shocking news that he was being told he was NOT allowed in the ICU ward what so ever despite receiving messages to come to it. This pissed him off further, causing him to keep the gun drawn and rush the elevator to get to the ICU ward. By the time he got to the ICU ward he was being chased by multiple cops, but still yet he made it there and was able to enter Lilith’s ICU room. In her room all he did was confirm she was there and safe, before touching her skin and deciding that was enough for him to leave.
He somehow made it back outside Zonah and on his Kuroi despite police attempting to catch him. While fleeing he contacted the “Sticky Bandits” on radio confirming things for them about Lilith and while he was talking Finn informed him that she had decided to go up to Paleto alone. She was alone in Paleto and being talked to by OMC who she told Vern almost certainly knew it was her and were going to do something, which Vern said “Don’t worry they’ll be focused on me”. True to what he said, as he was being chased he drove himself up into Paleto and shot at OMC he found causing their attentions to divert if they had planned to attack Finn. He downed one and caught some PD in the crossfire before being downed himself.
When he woke up he was once again pissed and in the hospital finding himself in police custody. Much to his surprise Fisher and Finn were also in police custody as they had attempted to save him by shooting the PD arresting him down. After talking a bit with PD about what happened he was sent up with the “Sticky Bandits” who had a meeting on the roof of Bolingbrook discussing everything that was happening and the dumb decisions everyone was making.
Vern ended up waking up in the Prison where he would finish off the rest of his sentence before making his way back to his apartment. After a bit of conversations with various people, Lilith asked him to meet her in the tunnels. Before they began to speak to each other, Vern satiated his addictions by doing a bump of coke off of the barrel of his gun. Immediately Vern apologized for getting Lilith hurt, to which she told him he was not at fault for. Vern continued to blame himself as Lilith continued to tell him it wasn’t his fault, before both agreed there wasn’t nothing that was gonna stop Gemma from doing that.
He told her he came to visit. Lilith then revealed that Q lied when she woke up and told her that Vern didn’t even try to visit, and also that she lied about not knowing that Lilith was the one who came in. Vern was confused what she had to came from that, and Lilith told him she was under Osiris’ fingers. They talked about the night before where Finn went into Paleto alone. Immediately Vern started to blame himself which Lilith shut down with “She can make her own decisions Vern”.
While the conversation continued on, Vern needed to sate his addiction again and did another quick bump off of his gun. Lilith explained when and where OMC picked her up. Lilith told him she still didn’t want him to push her away and he explained to her that OMC weren’t done, that he wasn’t done.
During this they began to once again go down the rabbit hole of Osiris and what to do. With both of them talking with each other about backing down and provoking them less or full sending it because it was inevitable. This conversation led Vern to spiral and at one point call Lilith a different name, Ashley. This spiral of a conversation continued until Lilith made a comment of Vern not needing to be a martyr and let his world crash around him because he’s worried that they’ll pick her up, to which made Vern suddenly shout “BECAUSE I’VE SEEN IT HAPPEN BEFORE”.
During this he told her they’d kill her and she told him that death wasn’t the worst thing sometimes. Lilith then told him she talked with the “Sticky Bandits” and told them she’d do it again if it meant they’d stop hurting Vern. He called her a hypocrite for saying the same shit he was and she responded with “And?”. Vern told her he wouldn’t let it happen and how he blew any chance of them stopping. They began discussing solutions which led Vern to spiral back onto martyrdom before a discussion of “Let’s break the cycle” caused him to say “Okay, let’s” and storm out.
While out and about high off his mind he went straight to HVTU to make a deal with Enrique, which ends up causing Lilith to be able to find him in under twenty minutes. She told him she wasn’t leaving him and he knew that this wasn’t what she meant about breaking the cycle before he ended up once again storming off in his Walton high off coke. While wandering high off of his mind, Pat from Steele Tow calls him and warns him that Gemma and possibly Osiris were down in the city doing crime and he should watch out for white stratums.
After wandering for a bit till the coke begins to wear off he decides to check his messages with Lilith to see that she was begging him to come back and at least talk, and at one point sent pictures of her driving up to Paleto as a threat and had ripped her stitches. Vern called her and Lilith told him all she wanted to do was talk. They began to argue about cycles and who meant what and how Vern was being selfish letting Lilith be in his life for so long. Lilith told him he was scaring her and that she wanted them to talk in person. Vern told her that they could meet if it was in a hospital so she could fix her stitches. Lilith pointed out he’d walk in with a gun and get arrested.
They eventually met up at the hospital where he found Ivy downed next to a tow truck with Jackson Archer downed next to her. He assumed it was OMC and stormed off before being called by Lilith and being told that it was not OMC but the tow truck driver that was there in the red mask. They ended up arguing over going to the Paleto hospital so Lilith could get her stitches done until Lilith convinced him to ride in her car. By the time they had agreed and Vern got to her car to take her up there, half of Lilith’s shirt was soaked with her own blood.
Vern immediately called 911 telling them he would come into Paleto hospital with a gun to get Lilith medical. During this Lilith got a message saying “Tunnel - or your boyfriend” very similar to the message that Vern had got when he received the note. When he got to the hospital cops were already there but he didn’t care and he still drew his gun and kept it out as he made sure Lilith was receiving medical. After a bit he was forced to leave by PD but called Lilith to make sure she stayed and got treated telling her he was good and PD wasn’t following.
While on the phone Lilith revealed Archer had been brought there too and it was looking like he might not make it. Vern told her that it sucked but she needed to take care of herself at the moment. No one could give themselves medical because Fish the dog was clocked onto to EMS which pissed Vern off and caused him to call 911 to solve it.
Vern and Lilith ended up making small talk with each other while they waited for her to get medical. Lilith began talking to a doctor about what needed to be done and Vern told her one of his demands while he had his gun out was that once shot got medical she would get a police escort back to the city which should stop OMC from getting her, so Vern was heading to the tunnels to check it out.
 
Fisher called Vern about Ivy and Archer and how they got stabbed. He then revealed that he got them medical and demanded they all get rides back to the city. Vern told them to stop heading up to Paleto because they were paranoid. After this Lilith called him back and told him that Jackson Archer had been declared dead and they were leaving. Vern got sad and talked about how much it sucked and how he wanted to stay on the phone with her. During this he was at the tunnel and found nothing.
Immediately he called Ivy up and told her they needed to meet. After he called the “Sticky Bandits” up and told them that while it sucked that he was dead and how Vern too had personal connections to him, they could spin Archer’s death on OMC to pull some sort of advantage against them. When he got off the phone he immediately spread the news to the guys down at HVTU and blamed it all on OMC while they discussed it and other information.
Later on Ivy called him and revealed that Gemma had told her and Malcom, who was with Ivy, that they could visit Archer in Paleto if they wanted. After this and a few other minor conversations Vern, Ivy, and the “Sticky Bandits” met to discuss things. Vern began to explain his plan to turn this on OMC until Ivy revealed that Malcom knew what really happened and had been staying down in Paleto.
Vern sped off on his Kuroi deciding that the plan was ruined and that it was over. While this was happening Fisher called back and tried to convince Vern there were still ways to do it and how he really liked the plan. Despite Fisher trying to convince Vern he remained in his belief that the plan was now impossible that OMC likely knows what really happened.
Later at the Blocks’ Block on covenant Vern figured out the red masked tow worker was Abner Vaca and was sort of associated with the Blocks. Abner claimed Archer pulled on him while he was holding them up and they began discussing what happened. During this Vern told Abner what his plan to shift the blame on OMC was.
During this Vern got another message saying “Tunnel” from the number who sent him the original one. Vern immediately drove down to the tunnels again this time to find another note. This one saying the following;
“She loves you
Moving closer to the edge
Time is ticking
She looked so appropriate
Lying in a pool of her own blood
The color Red
The distraction of northern dogs
Will keep her on the path
And keep you from stopping her
Maybe Red is her color
Or maybe
It will be the last color you see on her”
Vern fed up with the cryptic shit immediately called Lilith and asked he who she was hanging out with from TurboMax. She responded with a list of names saying she was closest with Antonio De Leon, Alfie Pepperdale, and Manny Soto. He then asked her to give the names to him in the order she trusts the most which was: Alfie; Atonio then Manny. When asked who cares about her the most of them she responded with Alfie. Vern continued to try and ask clarifying questions to see if it was any of them until he got fed up and decided to just meet her in person.
On his way to meet her he did a bump of cocaine while driving his kuroi. Vern picked up Lilith from where she was talking to Peggy at Up-n-Atom and began driving her around in her car. He tossed the note he had received in the glovebox for her to read which she immediately said “What the fuck is this Vern” after noticing them. Her follow-up question after reading them was “Was this what was in the tunnel”.
Vern told her it was obvious someone who knew about him, where he lived, and cared about Lilith was doing this and wanted her to stay away from RRH. Lilith noticed Vern’s demeanor and asked if he was high which he eventually answered saying he done some coke. Vern decided to say fuck it and grab the other note from his apartment to show it to her too.
Vern told her the notes were right and she was trying to go back to the RRH. He then told her the second note is right that the “northern dogs” were gonna keep attacking her. Lilith told him she wasn’t going back and then Vern told her that maybe she should because he was failing to protect her with his current crew. Lilith told him even if they could offer all the protection in the world she wouldn’t go back to him, and when he tried to ask what she would do if it was for the best she told him it wasn’t. Vern told her he figured she should see so she could know. They continued to argue for a bit about RRH before Vern tried leaving and Lilith told him that she wouldn’t go back, couldn’t go back. As he was leaving she told him “I know you think you’re some kind of black stain on my life but you are not okay. Maybe you should read the first part of that note again”.
Eventually he met up with the “Sticky Bandits” a few times before eventually meeting back up with Lilith after downing cops at Zonah for not meeting his demands to bring Lilith to the city after she got medical. They began talking about this and how Veronica told Lilith she didn’t believe Vern would bring a gun to the hospital. They talked for awhile joking and making small talk with each other over various subjects of the past few weeks as Vern let Lilith make an outfit for him at the clothing store.
After they parted ways Fisher would try to get Vern back in on the Archer/OMC Narrative plan but Vern told him it was done and went off to do solo crime. After a bit he met up with Finn and talked for awhile. It was during this conversation that she revealed to him that Lilith had been removed from the Medical groupchat which most likely meant she was getting fired because they didn’t usually do that just for suspension. On that note Vern went to his apartment and began responding to message Jay Skeeber who he thought he killed were sending and during this she confirmed there was a report involving him being at the prison transport. After checking the rest of his message he went to sleep in his apartment.
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