Ouch, that sucks. Knowing you're under extra scrutiny because of your parents, even before it turns out that you have a very loose relationship with the law. Hope it didn't make things too tense at home, or between the two of them both at and after work.

[Ash gets complicated, ambiguous relationships, really! As long as they involve love triangles, hesitant murder attempts, unconditional trust between enemies and emotional pre-death speeches involving a lot of touching.

...Whether or not he gets what Fred meant by that, however, is a mystery.]

Yeah, it's when you need to pay for everything yourself that you start missing having a club budget. Even if you had to fight to get anything approved because the school didn't want to spend too much money on a four-people group.