Seven: There Goes The Neighbourhood. Part Two.

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Later, Buck, Ashleigh, Harry, and Bobby sat at a table after eating...

"Dinner was great, Ash. You should cook for us more often." Harry says.

"Thanks, buddy. Appreciate that. Uh, you should go finish your homework. It's on the bed upstairs." Ashleigh said.

"I can do it tomorrow morning at home. Or not." Harry mumbled, standing up and walking upstairs.

"He's right. Dinner was great, truly." Buck said.

"Thank you, Ash." Bobby tells Ashleigh.

"Yeah, I think you can thank Athena for forcing you to bring yourself over here." Said Ashleigh.

"She didn't force me." Bobby said.

Ashleigh gave Bobby a look.

"Okay, Buck and Athena think maybe you could use someone to talk to

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"Okay, Buck and Athena think maybe you could use someone to talk to." Bobby said.

"Well, uh, I have Buck; I have Albert, Chim, Hen, Eddie, you... and three therapists. I think I'm good, Bobby. I'm fine, really." Ashleigh says, grabbing their plates.

"Well, Buck mentioned your new hobby." Bobby said, standing up from the table.

"What?" Ashleigh asked, putting the plates down on the table.

"Your new hobby." Bobby muttered, standing in front of the telescope.

"Wait, it's not... it's not..." Ashleigh mumbled, stammering softly, and walked after Bobby. "Uh, you know, it's really not; it's just a way to pass time when I'm not working."

Bobby looked through the telescope that was pointed at the shady guy's apartment.

Bobby pulled his eye away from the telescope, staring at the apartment.

Bobby pulled his eye away from the telescope, staring at the apartment

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Bobby looked back into the telescope.

"But, you know, now that I think about it, there is something seriously weird going on across the street." Ashleigh tells Bobby.

"We don't know that, Ash." Buck murmured.

"You mean the guy? The guy with the women? With all the women young enough to be his daughters?" Bobby asked, staring at Ashleigh.

"There's so much foot traffic. I mean, younger women, older women, and a few men, in and out all the time every day. Like clockwork." Ashleigh said, staring out the window.

"Yeah, you don't obsess over this, Ash." Said Buck.

"Buck, I'm a young woman, and you are a young man. Okay, I'm taking precautions. I mean, look what happened to J..." Ashleigh muttered, stopping mid-sentence and getting a flashback to what Jeffery had done to her. "I mean, I've seen some of 'em with bruises, and a couple of them have bandages."

"I think she just gave him money." Bobby says.

"What?" Ashleigh asked, staring at Bobby, shoving Bobby away slightly, and looking through the telescope. "Let me see that."

"So what do you think? What, personal injury attorney?" Asked Bobby.

"What if he's stealing their organs? Oh, my God." Ashleigh muttered, standing there with her mouth open.

"We don't know that, Ash. That's just you thinking the worse. And you've still got all your organs." Buck tells ashldifh.

"Underground boxing instructor?" Bobby asked, staring through the telescope.

"Still doesn't justify all the trash, Bobby." Ashleigh tells Bobby.

"The trash? What about the trash?" Bobby asked, turning around and looking at Ashleigh.

Buck signed, shaking his head. Bobby was supposed to be talking Ashleigh out of this crazy thing, not encouraging her.

Back with Hen and Athena, they were sitting on the couch...

"She's spoiling them rotten." Hen says.

"She's their grandmother. I think that's her contractual obligation." Athena said.

"Athena." Hen mumbled, laughing softly. "I walked into the kitchen yesterday, and she was squirting whipped cream into their mouths like they were baby birds."

"All right, well, the unnecessary sugar aside, has it really been that bad having her back in town?"

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