Hank walked back over to his table as as he stepped closer, their conversations lowered to murmur. Their eyes watched him cautiously. He ignored them and went over to Dory. She was talking with Nemo until he put a hand on her shoulder. She looked up at him slightly confused at his somber expression.

"I'm sorry, Dory." he said softly and she looked at him with an expected blank expression.

"Sorry for what?" Hank softly scoffed and shook his head.

"Right… I'm sorry about earlier. You were asking me something and I got mad. I snapped at you and I'm sorry." He saw her face change as she began to remember.

"Oh yeah… It was about that girl.." she looked over at the girl who was silently sitting at the booth, talking to Sam every now and again.

"I'm going to go talk to her." Hank said and began to walk off.

"Wait, what?" Dory quickly reached out and grabbed his arm. Hank looked down with slight agitation and confusion. "No."

"No? What do you mean no?" Hank asked as he pulled his arm away.

"I mean you shouldn't." She said and pulled her arms away.

"And why not?"

"Because… just because! I don't know. I don't trust her." Hank scoffed and crossed his arms.

"You don't trust her? Dory, you trust everyone."

"So!" Dory was now the one beginning to snap. Marlin held a hand out to her across the table.

"Dory, why don't you trust her?" he asked and Dory, without making eye contact, looked back at him. Her eyes searching around aimlessly for an answer.

"I, uh, I'm not sure. I just don't.." She thought for a minute, almost forgetting what she was thinking about, but then shook her head and turned back to Hank. "Why do you need to talk to her?"

"Because… because…" he looked at Marlin then back to Dory. "Because I have a lot of regrets in my life, and I don't want to add to the list."

"But-"

"Dory." Marlin said with some strictness.

"Uh…. Okay.." she gave in and turned away and back at the table that now had their food. Hank gave one last look at Dory, one that was sincere (as sincere as Hank could be.) He then looked to Marlin, who gave him a nod and finally, he looked over at Evelyn. He took a deep breath and headed over to her.

The walk seemed to be miles long. His shoes hit the floor silently as he tried his best to keep his head high. Once there, he placed a hand gently on the booth and cleared his throat.

"This, uh.. is this seat taken?" he tried his best to not sound awkward, but somewhat failed. Regardless, it was met and a soft chuckle as Evelyn looked up from the menu that lay on the table.

"I thought you'd never ask." She looked up and gave him a sweet smile. "Hey, Hank."

"Heh, um, hi." he smiled and say down across from her. "How, uh, how are you, Evelyn?"

"I'm fine, you?" She asked and took a sip of her orange juice.

"Good, I'm good. Sorta tired, but I'm good." He looked at her admirably at her face and her hair that seemed to shine.

"Yeah, I heard you were up late." she said and glanced over at Sam.

"Oh, yeah. Is she a friend of yours?" Hank followed her glance and found Sam beside a counter.

"Sisters, more like. We've known each other for years now. She's quite the, uh, character."she said and scoffed with a smile. "I love her, but she sure can be a handful sometimes." There was some silenced and so Hank cleared his throat again.

"So, uh, how is it that we keep running into each other?" He asked as Sam brought over his coffee. He thanked her and she grinned at Evelyn who then shooed her away.

"The amusement park you all went to yesterday? I work one weekend of every month there. They have m do random jobs, but most importantly, they have me sing. It's always a long weekend, but the pay is a good one." Hank nodded then gestured to the restaurant.

"And how'd you end up here?" he asked. She looked around in response and chuckled.

"Every time I'm in town, I eat here. Sort of like a tradition of some kind." she shrugged and took another drink of the orange juice. Hank drank his coffee. The features of his face were much softer than usual. Evelyn noticed he looked different than when she first met him, but didn't say anything of it. Instead she chuckled and took another sip.

"What?" He asked and she shook her head.

"Nothing, nothing at all." they're food came and Hank began to eat, but Evelyn closed her eyes for a while with her hands together. Hank watched her then realized what she was doing, so he, out of respect, stopped eating and waited for her. She then opened her eyes and then smiled at him.

"I'm sorry, I didn't realize-"

"No, it's- it's fine. Are you-"

"No, I'm not really into all that. I really don't have an opinion on any of that so… Yeah." Evelyn nodded in understanding, her expression never hesitating once. She then went to eating and they continued to talk in peace. But what Hank didn't notice was Dory stealing glances of them with a suspicious look in her eyes.