HEYHEYHEY. How's life? Good? Suckish? (I'm sorry.) I'm here to make it better. And I think I succeed, most of the time.. Anyways, HERE WE GO! -ELWYNCLARK

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Thursday December 16 (really, really early in the morning.)

"You guys are idiots!" Lenore yelled at Britt and Kato."IDIOTS!" Alex sat between the two them on the couch as Lenore paced back and forth around Britt's office. "She's only seventeen and you guys, the biggest criminals in LA, were bringing her with you putting her life at risk! What the hell were you thinking?" No one answered. "Were you thinking?"

"Everything was under control. We wouldn't have brought her if we thought it was dangerous." Kato said as Lenore sat down on one of the nearby armchairs.

"And she never left the car once." Britt added with a nod.

"You were putting her in danger by bringing her along in the first place!" Lenore practically yelled. "That car is a rolling arsenal; someone can get seriously hurt if they press a wrong button."

"That's true I guess." Britt considered as he remembered the one time Kato asked him to drive and instead of firing the machine gun on the hood he turned on the flamethrower and nearly burned Kato to a crisp. Kato shook his head as if he was remembering the same event.

"I'm almost eighteen, do I get a say in anything here?" Alex asked.

"No." Everyone replied in unison.

"Jinks." Britt mumbled and Lenore and Kato both glared at him.

"You're almost eighteen, keyword, almost." Lenore emphasized and Alex rolled her eyes.

"Well, I have a good idea." Alex muttered. "I think I know why they want to kill me, but not that anyone here cares about well being."

"Wait, who do you think wants to kill you?"Kato asked.

"I don't know who exactly yet, but I have a theory." Alex started. Britt rolled his eyes, he hated theories. "Just hear me out. I believe that there is a hit out there for me. Back in October, the Hornet had chance to kill me but he never did. Someone out there in gangland must have interpreted it as a sign of weakness. So the first person to successfully kill me is pretty much more powerful than the Green Hornet." Everyone stayed silent as they processed this. Alex sighed then sat back into the couch. She flipped her phone back and forth in her hands. Lenore was absorbed in her thoughts when Alex glanced at her after a few minutes. Kato wrote a few things out on his mini notepad then crossed it out. Britt had a ridiculously dumb expression on his face like he always did when he was 'thinking.'

"I think she's right." Kato said after the long silence between all of them. Lenore nodded and Britt still looked confused out of his mind. He shook his head then started to talk.

"So everyone thinks that the Hornet is a wuss?" Britt asked. Alex giggled slightly and Kato fought back a laugh himself. Sure, Kato helped Britt with self defense and a few real punches but he wasn't really too good at it. He's gotten better, but still kinda sucks. Kato taught Alex a few things t but she already knew a lot from practicing for years at different boarding schools. Britt found it funny how she gave up dancing lessons so she could take more martial arts lessons. Alex responded by calling him a 'sexist bastard' then gave him a black eye.

"That's safe to assume." Lenore said.

"So, we have to find who put out this hit then?" Kato concluded.

"And definitely reestablish our power. I didn't realize that we were pretty much obsolete now." Britt added and Kato nodded in agreement.

"Britt when was the last time you read your paper?" Lenore asked and Britt shrugged. "The last Green Hornet related article that was printed would have been anything following up about that ridiculous kidnapping stunt on Halloween. And tomorrow's," Lenore glanced at her watch. "Actually today's paper, has this story about your Interstate 5 stunt."

"It wasn't a stunt. We were being chased." Alex started to say as if she'd been saying it for the whole night when it was just them around.

"Alex could have been killed." Kato said in her defense.

"You're the one who outfitted her car with weapons!" Britt fired and Kato scowled at him. Lenore sighed; they haven't fought like this in awhile. Not since Alex has been around at least.

"So? Only I can operate it." Kato responded. "Besides, you're the one who let her come with us in the first place."

"You built the car in the first place!" Britt responded and he stood up quickly. Kato stood up immediately and glared at him.

"You only started it with your hatred for your father and then you promoted it with this newspaper." Kato declared.

"That was then, but things are different now." Britt started and he glanced at Alex. Alex looked down; she didn't feel right being tied into this argument. "I have to be responsible."

"Really? You're gonna start that now?" Kato asked in a skeptical tone. "How the hell do you plan on being responsible?"

"Alex, I'm going to say something that'll seem preposterous." Britt said and he looked at Alex.

'Well that's nothing new." Alex trailed off.

"Preposterous for you, not really preposterous for me." Britt clarified.

"OK, enlighten me." Alex said with a shrug.

"You're gonna have to throw a party." Britt said.

"I'll have Maddy over on Friday." Alex said with a sigh.

"No, like a huge party, a really big ass party. Something that will get you mentioned in the news." Britt said and he sat back down next to Alex.

"Britt, I don't understand why I need to do this." Alex said.

"Ah Lenore , back me up here." Britt pleaded and Kato sat back down.

"Well, if I'm understanding this right, you're gonna try to get other media coverage about Alex besides stuff tied to the Hornet, right?" Lenore said in response.

"Exactly!" Britt said.

"Wait, so pretty much anything ever written about me in the Sentinel has been tied to the Green Hornet?"Alex asked. Lenore nodded. "And how is that bad? Anything I've ever seen portrays us as being enemies of each other because he nearly killed me."

"It's not necessarily bad, but it makes people jump to conclusions." Lenore said with a shrug.

"Like whoever wants to kill you." Kato said.

"So the only way I can get people to stop thinking that I'm supposedly working for the Green Hornet is to have a party?" Alex asked.

"Or you could actually stop involving yourself with him." Lenore said and Britt and Kato both made skeptical noises. "You should at least wait till she's eighteen, and then let her decide what she wants to do."

"That sounds reasonable." Britt said with a shrug and Kato nodded.

"I don't get a say?" Alex asked.

"No." Everyone said in unison.

"Jinks." Britt said with a grin and Kato whacked him this time. "Ow!" Britt yelled and grabbed his shoulder.

"So no going out with them any more on these adventures until you turn eighteen, got it?" Lenore asked and Alex nodded. Lenore stood up and left the office without another word.

"So, party on Friday?" Britt started. "I'm thinking maybe 3 or 4, maybe even 5."

"3 or 4, what?" Alex whispered to Kato.

"People." Kato said simply as Britt droned on. He stood up and walked back to his desk on the other side of the office.

"Oh, well that's not to bad." Alex mumbled as Kato stood up.

"Hundred." Kato said and started to walk away.

"What?" Alex said and she jumped up after him.

"3 or 4 hundred people. Maybe 5." Kato said with a smirk.

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