Watson watches her sister over their table at the diner, unable to read her expression. "Joey, about the other day."

"Just forget it Georgie."

Watson sighs with disappointment. "Will you ever talk to me about it?"

Joey stares at her plate, "I don't know."

"Have you at least talked to someone about it?" Joey nods. "I suppose that's something."

"Can we not talk about it Georgie?"

Watson reluctantly gives up. "At least you didn't bruise," Watson says, pointing to her cheek.

Joey smiles wryly, "I'm surprised, considering how hard she got me."

"I really don't know why Charlie lost it like that."

"It's the Joey effect," Joey grins cheekily. "Guaranteed to piss off even the most solid and upstanding person."

Chuckling at her sister, "Even for you, getting slapped, especially by another cop, is unusual."

"So she hates me more than most do."

"I was really hoping that you two were starting to get along."

"As long as we don't talk about Rosetta, we're probably safe. Her problem is, she's too damn touchy about her precious fiancé."

"That's because I love him and I think you're being unfair to him."

Joey grimaces at the sound of the voice behind her. "Fuck, I hate this place," she mutters.

"Joey, be nice," her sister warns her quietly.

Putting a smile on her face that makes her sister roll her eyes, Joey turns to face Charlie. Trying to keep her lips from twitching at the ridiculous smile on the detective's face, Charlie stands there with her hands in her pockets, looking down at her. "Detective, we haven't really had a chance to talk about the other day."

"I think it's best if we don't." Pushing her plate away, Joey stands up, forcing Charlie to take a step back. "Is that to protect me?" Joey asks.

"I'm sorry?"

"Your hands in your pockets."

"Ah, no," Charlie says, embarrassed at the reminder of what she had done.

"Too bad, I was hoping to go round 2. Bye Georgie," Joey nods her head at Charlie as she walks past her, "Sergeant."

Charlie stands there watching her walk away. "Charlie, are you ok?"

"Sorry," Charlie shakes her head to clear it. "I didn't mean to break up your meal."

"We only came here because Joey likes to get up Colleen's nose; personally, I find it easier to eat without everyone staring at us. Are you going to stand there or sit?"

"Oh right."

"She really does get to you, doesn't she?"

Charlie grins a little sheepishly as stumbles into Joey's recently vacated seat, "I really don't know what it is about her Georgina."

"I hear that a lot."

"I try not to react to her, but," Charlie sighs, not really knowing what to say. "I'm still so embarrassed about hitting her."

"That really wasn't the smartest move Charlie; if Joey was as big a bitch as most people seem to think, you would have been up on assault charges."

Charlie drops her head a little, knowing she was one of those people. "It was unforgiveable what I did."

"Yes it was."

Charlie looks up at the harshness in her friend's voice. "Sorry Charlie, I didn't mean to snap like that; I'm just a little protective of her sometimes."

"It's ok. Any ideas on what I can do to make it up to her?"

"Forget it, that's what Joey does," Watson says, her words tinged with sadness.

Carrying her behind the bushes, he scans the area, seeing no one about, he turns Ruby around and pushes her up against the tree in the shadows. "You scream and you die," holding the knife in front of her terrified eyes. "You got that?"

Ruby nods her head as he removes his hand from her mouth. "Please let me go Robbo," her voice trembling with fear.

"Come on Ruby, you know you want it," he says as he presses himself against her. "Your mother was your age when she spread 'em for me, so how about it?" trailing the tip of the knife along her cheek, careful not to cut her.

"My mum never would have touched you creep," defending her mother despite the threat he posed.

"Sure she did, mummy dearest was willing to fuck anything that moved," he lies to her, "She really loved it when we took turns with her," reliving his memories of when he and Angelo played tag team with Martha, imagining it was Charlie he and Angelo were fucking as he rubs himself against Ruby. "She was a whore who was always screaming out for more," his hand squeezing her breast.

"Don't touch me!" Ruby cries out, tears streaming down her face.

Putting his hand over her mouth, he leans in so close she could feel his breath, "I'm going to fuck you Ruby, now it's up to you on whether you want it to hurt more than it has too."

"Didn't you hear her, she asked you not to touch her?" A calm voice comes from his left.

"Fuck off bitch," Robbo says, striking out, enjoying the feel of his fist connecting with something solid and the loud curse that followed. Feeling the hand grip his arm, Robbo spins, shoving the interloper hard. "I told you to fuck off..." Robbo suddenly finds himself face down in the dirt, his arm and wrist twisted painfully behind him, crying out in agony when he hears the snap.

"Oops, sorry."

"You fucking bitch I'll fucking kill you."

"Big mistake moron, you're under arrest for the indecent assault of a minor, child abuse, attempted rape, carrying a dangerous weapon and assaulting a police officer," she says, slipping the cuffs on him as tight as they could go.

"You're a cop!"

"Guess it's not your lucky day, now on your feet."

"I didn't assault anyone."

"That's not what it looked like to me."

"Ruby and I were just catching up with each other."

"She didn't appear to be enjoying it arsehole and she's 15, that makes whatever you planned to do rape, whether she wanted it or not." She pulls him to his feet. "And from where I was standing, she looked pretty terrified and upset to me, especially when you were waving that knife at her." Joey looks at Ruby, "You ok?" Still too scared and shocked by what had happened, Ruby can only nod.

"This is fucking bullshit, Ruby and I are old friends."

"Listen creep, you have two choices; 1, you can apologise to the young lady here and I don't charge you with assaulting a police officer, or choice number 2, you can continue to be an arsehole and I do you for assaulting the both of us and then after I tell the Sergeant what you were trying to do with her underage daughter, I'll leave you all alone in the room with her."

"Look I'm sorry ok, I was just fooling around with her."

"You don't sound very sorry." Speaking so only he can hear, "Make it convincing, or I break the other one," she threatens, squeezing his broken wrist until he cries out in pain.

"I really am sorry, Ruby, it won't happen again."

"You're damn right it won't." Joey marches him to the fence, handcuffing him to it.

"What the hell are you doing?" his wrist in agony as she yanks on the cuffs roughly.

Ignoring him, Joey pulls out her mobile and calls her sister, giving a quick explanation, she flips the phone shut. Pointing a finger at him, "You keep your mouth shut until the uniforms arrive to take your sorry arse to jail." Giving him a clip over the head for good measure, Joey heads back to the distressed girl.

"Are you sure you're ok?"

"I'm just a little shook up."

"Come on, I'll take you home."

"No!"

"Ruby, what is it?"

"I don't want to go home; he'll be there."

"Angelo?"

Ruby nods, sniffling, "Robbo is his best friend."

"Robbo as in?" Joey waves her hand towards him. Another nod from Ruby. "There's a surprise," Joey murmurs.

"What?"

"Nothing. Are you sure you're ok, you looked pretty scared."

"He's always made suggestions, but he's never touched me before."

"Have you told your mother about this?"

"No. It was just words," her voice breaking.

"Hey, come here," Joey pulls the trembling girl into her arms. "He's not going to hurt you again." Holding Ruby close to her, Joey feels her shirt getting wet from her tears as her trembling eases.

"I'm sorry about the drink the other day," Ruby sniffles.

Chuckling softly, "I think we can forget about the drink, Ruby."

"Thank you," Ruby says, finally feeling safe.

Joey looks up at the sound of tyres sliding on gravel as Charlie flies out of the car before Watson has even come to a stop, running over to her daughter, "Ruby!"

Still in the safe arms of Joey, Ruby turns her head toward her mother. "It's ok Ruby," Joey assures her, giving her a gentle nudge toward her mother as she runs to meet her. Charlie mouths a thank you to Joey over Ruby's head as she holds her daughter.

"He was going to rape me mum," Ruby says through her tears.

"I'm never going to let him anywhere near you again."

"I was so scared."

"It's over now."

"If she hadn't come by."

"Shhhh Ruby, don't think about that; she did come by and she stopped him."

"She was great mum, she had him on the ground bawling like a baby."

Charlie chuckles at the image.

"Mum."

"Yes."

"I kind of like her."

Charlie smiles at that, "Yeah, I kind of like her too," Charlie admits silently to herself as she glances over at the detective, now standing with her sister.

Joey stands next to her sister, the both of them glaring at Robbo like he was something they had trodden in. "Georgie, you might want to read him his rights before you take him in."

"It's not like you to forget to do that."

"I didn't forget, I just didn't want to use that sort of language in front of the girl."

"What are the charges?"

Repeating them for her sister's benefit, Robbo is furious when he hears them. "You bitch, I thought we had a deal. I apologise and you don't charge me for assaulting you."

"Did you really say that Joey?"

"You know Georgie, I don't honestly remember."

"You fucking bitch, I'm going to get you."

"Add threatening a police officer."

"Righto," Watson makes a show of writing all the charges down.

"That bitch deliberately broke my wrist."

"Joey, you didn't?" Watson feigns shock.

"Of course not, he squirmed at the wrong time."

"That's ok then."

"You lying, fucking whore," Robbo shouts out.

"He really is a charming fellow, isn't he Georgie?"

"A real gentleman. He's going to be real popular in jail."

"Especially if the other inmates find out he was done for child abuse." The sisters taking some pleasure at the sudden fear and worry on his face.

"I suppose I'd better get him to the station," Watson wrinkles her nose in disgust at the thought of touching him. While Watson leads him away, Joey looks back over to Charlie and Ruby, waving to Ruby when she catches her eye. Turning her back to walk away, Joey stops when she hears Ruby shouting her name. Joey turns and is nearly knocked over when Ruby flies into her arms. "Whoa."

"I just wanted to thank you again."

"You don't need to Ruby."

"Yes I do."

"You should be getting home with your mum."

"I owe you a drink."

"I may take you up on that." Hugging Joey again, Ruby heads back to her mother.

"You ready to go home Ruby?"

"Yeah mum." Charlie glances over Ruby's head, disappointed to see that the detective had rushed away.