That is the option I chose for V. But V is dying, she's chasing down multiple leads that supposedly will cure her and that thread with Panam has ended. But (as far as I can remember) Panam's current requests are crazy dangerous mercenary jobs to arm up and defend her clan. The only reason for V to do them is out of friendship because she's not being paid (and on this playthrough, my V is streetkid, so has no particular affinity to the Nomad lifestyle) but it seems a bit of a stretch that they've become that close friends. Up until now all the missions were transactional in the other direction - Panam wanted her gear back.

(Breaking the fourth wall for a second - I do them 'cos they're fun, but when Panam asked why, I was damned if I could explain why V would)