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Koura-tas-Kai: I apologize for the characters being out of character. I watched it for quite a while, and I guess I still don't have the characters right. I am so sorry. I will try harder to make them right again. But, I do recall a few episodes where Jimmy said something similar about the kids, and I didn't mean for it to be rude as it may have sounded. And I just saw an episode last night, and Serena did slap that guy, so, I don't know. Maybe I'm confused? Anyways, please keep reading!

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Let It Out

She stared at me, waiting for an answer. I could only sit there, thinking of something to tell her. My mind was blank as I stared back into her eyes. She was waiting, and I couldn't wait any longer.

"Uh... I wanted to tell you that, uh, I had a, uh..." I looked down and fumbled with my napkin. I couldn't look at her in the eyes and say this. She could stare down a lion, and she was staring me down now. I felt my words come out quickly, and quivering. "A long time ago, back when we were little, I had a, uh, a crush on this girl... And, I still do, uh... it's just... I can't tell her... because, uh..."

"Jimmy?"

"I mean, it's not like I don't want to tell her... uh, it's just I can't..."

"Jimmy?"

"Because I'm in this huge case, and I, uh, don't want to endanger her..."

"JIMMY!"

I looked up and shut my mouth. She was looking at me, her eyes looking like they were pleading for me to say something. "What are you trying to say, Jimmy?"

I swallowed my fear, which was a whole lot, and I looked down at the table. "Rachel... if I tell you what I'm going to say right now, I could be endangering your life, and that would be the worst thing in the world."

"Would you just tell me?" She snapped.

I took a deep breath, "what you're about to hear, you may not believe. But... uh..."

"AHHHH!" Gunshot.

We turned our heads around and saw a woman lying on the ground, dead. Two tall men stood in the doorway, wearing black coats and black hats. I gasped, "oh no!" I turned around to face Rachel, whose hands were covering her mouth.

"Rachel! Get out of here!"

She looked at me, wondering what I meant. I stood up and pushed her off of the chair and away from me. "JUST GO!" I screamed at her, and then I turned around, catching the eyes of the two men in black. They were smiling, and they had another box with them in their hands. The rest of the people in the café were running away, screaming. I heard Rachel cry for me as the crowd pushed her outside, back into the rain. I couldn't let her get hurt. These men were after me, and I would kill myself if she was hurt because of me.

"Well, well," the taller one, with the bigger nose, said, an evil grin on his face. "Looks like we didn't take care of you. Well, let's just fix that."

"You guys sure tried, but it didn't work," I said, standing tall and putting my hands into my pockets. "Now you guys are right here, where I've always wanted you to be."

"Please, kid," the shorter, chubbier one snorted. "Spare us the dramatic details. You know what we're here after. Now, be a good little kid and take some more medicine."

"Where have you been hiding these few years?" I asked, ignoring his little comment. "After you tried to kill me, you go into hiding and you just happen to show up on the night I return."

"Well, we wanted to make sure we could get rid of you tonight," Big Nose said. "That's why we called your little girlfriend. We wanted her out of the way, because we didn't want to police on our hides."

Anger found its way into my heart. "So you were the ones that called her!"

Chubby smiled, "yeah, what are you gonna do 'bout it?"

I glanced around quickly, seeing a tin cup for a milkshake on the ground. I kicked it, bringing it into Chubby's face, knocking off his hat. Big Nose had a gun in his hand, and he tried to shot at me, but I quickly turned around, and ducked under the table.

"Just give up, kid!" Big Nose cried, as he kept firing at the table over me. "You're going to die tonight! It's just too bad you never got to tell your girlfriend how you felt!"

I let out a growl, and rolled out from under the table, and towards Big Nose. He had to reload his gun, and I took that time to swing my feet around his, causing him to fall on the ground. He hit the floor like a ton of bricks, and Chubby finally got right back up, putting his hat back on his head. He had a gun in his hand, as well, but I ran up to him, bending his hand backwards, snapping the gun out of his hands. With a massive blow where the sun doesn't shine, Chubby fell back onto the ground, and Big Nose stood across the room with a gun in his hand, aiming, where else? At me.

I froze, quickly thinking of something to do, some move of action to take. If he fired at me, could I move fast enough to dodge it? No, the gun he had in his hand was too fast to outrun. I sighed, and raised my hands in the air. I hated the idea of defeat, but if I didn't give up, I would be shot, and Rachel might be in more harm. He grinned at me as he came closer, still holding the gun aimed at me.

Flashing red and blue lights filled the room, and I glanced, without turning my head, to the window. A small grin was placed on my lips at the sight of Inspector McGuire getting out of the first police car and looked at me, then at Big Nose.

"Sir," a policeman said over the megaphone. "Put the gun down, and put your hands in the air where we can see them!"

Big Nose glanced at me, then did as he was told. I grinned and put my hands in my pockets. He was arrested and I walked out of the café, explaining the experience to McGuire.

"Just you wait, kid!" Big Nose screamed at me as he was forced into the police car. "You will pay for this!"

I just smiled and waved at him as he was pushed inside and the door slammed in his face.

"Jimmy!" Rachel cried, running over to me. "What happened? Are you okay?"

"Yeah, Rachel, I'm fine."

"Did those guys know you?"

I shrugged, "Who knows? I mean, I put a lot of guys in jail. They could have been some of those guys and just wanted revenge." Boy, that was a good excuse.

Rachel nodded, her eyes darting down to the floor.

"Rachel, what's wrong?"

"You could have gotten hurt, Jimmy!" She screamed at me. "Those guys had guns! You could have been shot!"

I laughed, "Relax Rachel, it's going to be okay. I didn't get hurt. I'm just fine."

She just looked at me, "Just promise you won't get in trouble like that again."

"I can't promise that, Rach."

"Why not?!"

"Because, I'm a detective. I'm going to get into trouble sooner or later."

"Fine..."

I laughed and grabbed her arm. "Come on, I still got a few hours before I need to return to my case. Let's go party!"