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"𝐴 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠."
—𝐴𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝑇. 𝐻𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑘𝑠

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— 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑎 —

𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐄𝐃, 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 next to Five against the building as she heard Allison speaking softly into the receiver of a nearby phone.

She squinted her eyes as she looked at Five, who had a frown on his face as he peered down at his stomach.

"Five," she said, causing his head to whip up to face her. "You okay?"

"I'm fine," he said stiffly.

She was about to question him further, not believing him in the least, but couldn't as Diego rounded the corner.

Her attention quickly fixated on him as Five raised his eyebrows, seeming glad for the topic change. "So?"

Diego, who had a bright blue folder in his hand, gave a mocking smile to Five. "You're welcome."

Allison snatched the folder out of his hands, her eyebrows furrowing as she opened it and flipped through. She paused at one of the pages, and her eyes widened as she breathed out, "Holy shit!"

Mara's worried gaze changed over to the woman as she questioned, "What?"

Allison turned the folder for them to see the mugshot of what seemed to be the boyfriend that had been accompanying Vanya that morning. "Harold Jenkins is Leonard Peabody."

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— 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑎 —

They arrived outside of Leonard Peabody/Harold Jenkins' house only twenty minutes after that, and Diego parked on the side of the road before the four of them got out of the car and headed up the lawn.

It looked to be a pretty nice, two-story, brick house with well-taken care of grass and nice shrubbery. Nothing you'd expect from a murderer.

"Be careful, okay?" Mara warned as they squinted the glaring sun out of their eyes. "We don't know what Peabody's capable of."

"Yeah, he didn't seem dangerous when I first saw him," Diego commented as he scrunched his nose. "Looked kinda scrawny."

"Yeah, well, so are most serial killers and mass murderers." Allison shrugged before pointing over at Five. "I mean, look at him."

Five gave her a mocking smile as he replied, "Thanks."

"Good point." Diego nodded, not seeming to notice as Allison veered off towards the side of the house while he and the other two walked up onto the porch. "So what's this guy want with Vanya?"

"I don't know. How about we ask him after we kill him?" Five responded venomously.

"Whoa, whoa. Hey, look, I'm gonna burst through . . ." He paused, then realizing that Allison had gone a different way, and a look of exasperation crossed his face. "You know what? It would be nice for people just to stick to—"

Five teleported away.

"—the plan. Great." He looked over at Mara, who was watching him with amusement. "This is why you're the only one I like."

"Yeah, I know." She shrugged, putting her hands on her hips. "So, what's your plan, big man?"

Diego only gave her a quick grin in return, which instantly worried her.