It was Monday again.

The eight members of Team Seven were seated in their chairs in the conference room.

Seven pairs of eyes – three blue, two green and two brown – sheepishly met grey.

"Well, Darlin'," Buck tried. "We coulda got a mite carried away…"

"Seven hundred dollars," she told him. "Two hundred dollars over the limit and you all paid every cent."

Buck could feel Chris staring at him. "Well, now, I can explain."

"It's not my business to ask why you spent seven hundred dollars on someone assigned to you in the first place. What I want to know is why you think I'm worth seven hundred dollars."

"Everyone is worth something," JD argued. "No matter the price."

AJ didn't look like she believed him. "You could have let Agent Westover win."

"No, we couldn't," Buck insisted.

"Brother," Josiah frowned at him. "You did seem determined and I have to wonder at the motivation behind it."

Buck winced as everyone turned to him, grey eyes turning pensive. "Er, well, I…" he couldn't figure out how to put in words what he felt, at the risk of sounding jealous of Arnie.

"I think the better question," Chris added, "is what are we planning to have her do for us?"

Vin gave him a frown, knowing Chris had to be suspecting something if he changed the subject that fast. His suspicion deepened as Buck shot the blond a grateful look.

But this brought on the problem of now that they had her, what were they going to do with her?

Technically, they all bought her, so she had to do each of them a favor. This, they hadn't thought through when helping Buck.

Chris sighed, studying them each in turn. "Give me something to work with before you leave and we'll work on details later."

There were a few more things to discuss, but they were soon turned out to their own devices.

"You boys are still helping out with the garden, right?" Vin asked, leaning back in his chair.

The section of Denver he lived in – affectionately called Purgatorio – had a vacant lot across the street from his building. After the building on its other side had to be torn down, Vin saw that it was big enough for a community garden.

Sure, they planted some flowers and trees, but the three other buildings on his block had agreed that vegetables would be grown in building groups.

In the garden, there were six long rows broken into sections according to floors. Each family on that floor was responsible for that floor's patch. When it came time to harvest, the building that garden was assigned to was expected to share with each other equally.

"Sure," JD assured. "You can count on me."

The others chimed in with their own confirmations.

Vin nodded thoughtfully. "We can make a team day out of it."

"She's been resistant to all other team activities," Nathan mused, glancing at the door. "If we manage to make it so that our favors get her to hang out with us, maybe we can get her out of her shell."

Because they were sure that she had a personality hidden in there somewhere, but she kept it under lock and key. Even the most stoic in their building had some kind of personality.

"What do you think she's like off the clock?" Josiah asked.

"Josiah, me and Buck saw her Saturday at that Star Struck hair place," JD told the others. "She's even a regular there with her own dresser and everything."

"We don't know what kind of flowers she likes," Buck pointed out. All of the women in the team's lives had a preferred flower. If the guys felt that they needed to apologize for some reason, a dozen of that lady's favorite flowers was a good place to start. Buck didn't know what AJ's favorite flower was and he wanted to rectify this in case they needed to buy her flowers.

One thing the boys all agreed on was that women could get upset over things that guys wouldn't find any problem with. It was a given that they were bound to send AJ in a huff over something and Buck wanted to be sure that they would be ready to make amends.

In order to start getting information about their sole female, they needed to spend some time with her and if they played their cards right, then their favors would ensure that.

Ezra whipped out a small notebook that he used sometimes in the office and wrote down Vin's name and the garden visit on Saturday.

Since they had until the twenty-third – and two weekends -, they needed to knock this out of the way so they could concentrate on work. And they anticipated hanging out with AJ into the future, so they wanted to make sure they had a good friendship with her so that they could all be friends and not feel like they were blackmailing her into hanging out with them.

Nathan took out his small desk calendar. "I have an event Thursday night that Rain can't make it to. I can ask AJ if she'd like to go."

"That new exhibit, right?" Josiah nodded. "I've been meaning to ask you boys if you'd like to volunteer at the Battered Women's Shelter that I help with."

Josiah and Nathan's names went into the notebook along with their plans.

"That leaves Mr. Larabee, Mr. Wilmington, Mr. Dunne and myself," Ezra announced.

"Ain't sure," Buck frowned. Well, he did have one idea, but telling AJ to stay away from Westover would be both near impossible and probably unnecessary as AJ didn't seem to be all that taken with the man in the first place.

"I don't really have anything, either," JD sat back in his chair.

"We got some time," Vin told them, "until she goes."

As they got to their usual routines, none of them saw the thoughtful look on Ezra's face.