Can You Believe It?

By Akari Van Halen

Rating: PG

Disclaimer: HA HA! You don't own the characters or the rights—wait. Neither do I. Darn.

"Where's Lennie?" Ed asked Lieutenant Van Buren.

"He said he had some thing to go to tonight," she replied, "But that's all he told me."

Meanwhile...

"And they were no longer little girls," said Lennie to the orphans, sniffling. "They were little women."

"Mr. Lennie?" one asked.

"Yes?"

"Why are you crying?"

"I'm not crying. Something's in my eye," Lennie replied, wiping the tear off his face.

And outside, Ed and Anita stood, laughing like crazed hyenas.

"Little Women???" Ed laughed hysterically. "That is not Lennie. He would've picked Tom Clancy instead!"

"Lennie Briscoe," said Anita. "You gotta love him."