Billy didn't like this situation, not one little bit. Here she was, the woman who had called Katara and Lash nasty names. Made blustering death threats at Renne. Angered Allen so much that he'd tried to ban her from the department right before he disappeared.

But it wasn't in Billy's nature to be unnecessarily combative, so he was here to stay out of her way and treat her as civilly as he would anyone else.

"Did you find everything all right?" There he was looking up from his own project, as suspicious and falsely over-helpful as a store clerk who thinks they've found a shoplifter.