Chapter 4
A/N: Here's chapter 4, sorry for the delay and thanks to Dawnspirit for making me realize I was behind on the story.
Back in the underground hideout.
"Man, this place just get crappier by the minute!" Carter complained.
"Shutup and move," Lee said, grabbing Carter by his necktie.
"Hojun," Thorn said.
"Nice to see that you're still alive Thorn, for many people it has been an impossibility to escape Leaboo," Hojun turned around.
"Believe me, it wasn't easy," Lee returned.
"Shutup!" Carter said.
"So, what've we gotta do until Leaboo's caught?" Thorn asked.
"You have to keep an eye on the emerald, wherever it is, you know very well why Leaboo's after it," Hojun told her.
"Got it, I know where it is and it ain't leaving," Thorn replied.
"Thorn, go with Marie for a moment, these two will catch up with you in a minute," Hojun said.
"Shoot, what's up Hojun?" Carter asked.
"A word of advice Carter, try and keep your patience with Thorn, she does not like strangers and will normally do anything to get them out of her life," Hojun advised them.
"Hojun, I have been around many a children before, they always act that way," Lee said, "it's part of being a juvenile 'deliquence."
"Yeah, they always do that," Carter said.
"Not like she will, I know, she attempted anything and everything when I watched her to get rid of me," Hojun explained.
"You watched her?" Lee asked.
"Shortly after Leaboo disappeared the last time we saw him, that was several years ago, and through times, she has just gotten worse, so I wish you good luck. The both of you will need it after you get back with her tonight," Hojun said.
"You really think so?" Carter asked.
"I know so," he replied.
"Yeah? Well I think I can handle a 14-year-old girl by myself, without your help, let's grab the kid and go, Lee," Carter said.
So, they grabbed Thorn and took her back to the apartment, however, it appeared that Hojun was wrong about her. She fell down on the couch and dozed off.
"About time too, she's been getting on my damn nerves all day," Carter complained.
"If that's the case, then just think of how she'll be tonight when she wakes up," Lee said.
"By the time she wakes up, I'm going to be so dog gone tired I won't be able to hear her," Carter replied.
Want a bet? Within an hour, Thorn got up, went over to the sterio system and shook up the entire building.
Carter and Lee came out of the bedroom with their forefingers in their ears, Lee started yelling, but his voice couldn't be heard over the music.
"Thorn! You've gotta turn that music down, it's too loud!" Lee yelled.
"What?"
"The music is too loud! You've gotta turn it down!" Lee repeated.
"Sorry Lee, I can't hear you, I've gotta turn the music down," Thorn replied. "Now what is it?"
"Thorn, do you ever rest?" Carter asked.
"Sometimes, when I feel like it," Thorn answered.
"Yeah whatever, look, if you don't mind we'd like to keep things down to a dull roar," Carter said.
"Don't worry, you guys won't bug me," Thorn replied.
"That's not what we meant Thorn," Lee said.
"I know, I know, but hey, I gotta have a sense of humor you know," Thorn returned.
"Look, we've gotta go talk to the police for a few minutes, can you stay out of trouble for a while?" Lee asked.
"Sure, and if I'm lying, may I be your next partner in the LAPD," Thorn said to Carter.
"I guess we can trust you with that promise," Carter said.
Lee and Carter left, and Thorn cranked the music back up again.
"Listen Captain Turmoil, Thorn is anything but normal," Carter explained at the office.
"She's also anything but stupid Carter, you check her police record, she hasn't even gotten one yet. But if she did, it would be marked with arson, disturbing the peace, robbery, domestic behavior, and weapon possession. She has burnt down 68 public schools, 56 police stations, 11 homes, 27 hospitals and 38 buildings all in the past four years. And all because there were people she didn't like," Captain Turmoil said.
Carter took out a pad of paper and a pen, he decided to do the math.
"11 homes
+27 hospitals
+38 buildings
+56 police stations
+68 public schools
=200 properties destroyed," Carter said.
"And each place's owner had filed $100,000 for the damage," Turmoil added.
"What? $20,000,000 for what a teenager did?" Carter asked.
"And that's not all of it, then there's the medical bills of all the people she's injured. She's thrashed and choked and slapped 70 cops, 85 schoolteachers, 275 gang members, 38 college jocks, 48 irresponsible parents, and she attempted shooting one man just for smoking," Turmoil said.
"That's just crazy! Truly psychotic," Carter said.
"Exactly what we said," Turmoil replied.
"Look, Captain, I don't know if I can have a destructive delinquent in my house," Carter realized.
"Carter, you remember what Hojun said, if we do not take this case, we're fired," Lee said.
Carter sighed, they agreed to keep an eye on Thorn, so they rushed back to the apartment and found a note on the door. It read 'Looking for me? Try the exact door down the hall'. Taking the note seriously, Carter and Lee checked out the apartment across the hall from them. Lee started knocking on the door, but then he wound up knocking on Thorn's nose.
"Hey! What is it?"
"What is it?" Lee asked.
"What is it? Nothing," Carter looked behind him.
"Nothing, we'll see you later," Lee said.
"Hold it!" Cater said.
"What?" Thorn asked.
"What are you doing over here?" Lee asked.
"Shoot, I'm staying over here until Leaboo's butt is in jail, I figure, two---six years max," Thorn said.
"Thorn, the whole reason why we were looking for you's because you've gotta stay with us," Carter asked.
"Allright, just give me some time to move my stuff back in," Thorn said.
"Good, and in the mean time, Lee and I'll bamboozle some grub, Lee, go get a bottle," Carter told him.
Lee started off on one foot, but his other one stopped immediately.
"You know how hard it is to get a bottle in these towns," Lee said.
"Soda you dumbass," Carter said.
"Ohhhhhhhh," Lee replied.
"You get the soda, I'll get a pizza," Carter said.
"And I'll get a frying pan ready for Leaboo's men when he sends them up," Thorn added.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever, let's get going Lee," Carter said.
By the time they got back, it had gotten extremely dark, Carter opened the door a crack to get his hand through. He felt for the light switch, he found it, but it was dead. He and Lee stomped in and looked around, the rooms were dark, and everything had been trashed, but then they saw a light in the back room, they decided to check it out. Thorn was in the room with a gun in her hand, she had it cocked and was ready to fire.
"Hey, what's going on in here?" Carter asked, walking in.
Too late, Thorn had pulled the trigger, Carter fell to the floor as a suction cup dart hit the wall, Lee came in laughing at Carter's misery.
"Tha's funny, you scared of a toy gun," Lee laughed.
He wasn't laughing for long either, when Thorn pulled the trigger again, he dropped to the floor too, another dart hit the wall.
"Thorn, what is the idea of this? We thought someone had broke in here," Carter said.
"I decided to have a little fun, so I took out my dart gun," Thorn replied.
She took it out, it was a bright green plastic dart gun with a black lever in the back for installing darts. Carter was starting to get fed up with her, and blurted out the first somewhat bright idea he'd had all day.
"Thorn, go take a bath," Carter said.
"Allright," Thorn put her gun away, "where's the washing machine?"
"Over there," Lee pointed.
"That's gotta be the cleanest juvenile delinquent I've ever seen," Carter said.
"Maybe, I think we better keep a close eye on her tonight," Lee added.
"Yeah, I suppose, hey that reminds me, when we came in, what happened to the anchovy pizza?" Carter asked.
"Uh Carter," Lee looked up.
"Don't 'Uh Carter' me, I want an answer and I want it now," Carter said.
He got it, the pizza fell off the ceiling and onto him.
"Man, I hate anchovies in my hair!" Carter complained.
After Carter spent half an hour getting anchovies and pizza sauce out of his hair, Lee decided to find something else to do, so he went to do his laundry. He took his dirty clothes out of the basket, and opened the lid, he realized that the washer was already full of water and suds. He reached down into it and felt something, he pulled the object up and realized it was Thorn!
"Thorn! What are you doing in the washer?
"I'm taking a bath just like Carter told me to do, what're you doing?" she asked.
"I'm trying to do my laundry," Lee yelled.
"Well then you'll have to wait a while, I'm on a light load at the moment," Thorn replied.
"No kidding, Carter!" Lee yelled.
"What is it now, Lee?" Carter asked, rushing in.
"You told Thorn to take a bath, and she's in the washing machine," Lee exclaimed.
"Yeah, and these razor blades are dull," Thorn added.
"Thorn, step out of the washer right now, right now!" Carter told her.
"Fine," Thorn stepped out in a baggy T-shirt and large surfing shorts, with flippers on her feet.
"Well now ain't that a sight to see?" Carter asked.
"I don't know, is it?" Thorn asked.
"Thorn, get out of this gear and get ready for a whooping," Carter said.
"Forget it, I'm not going anywhere and that's that," Thorn replied.
"Oh really?"
"Yeah."
"You two need a room?" Lee asked.
"Shutup, Lee!" they said.
"Allright, that does it, go put on some regular clothes, and I'm going to see to it that you ain't going anywhere, do you hear me?" Carter asked.
"Yeah, I understand," Thorn replied.
"Good, now get," Carter said.
Thorn took off like the wind, of course it helped once she got her flippers off.
End of chapter 4
A/N: Here's chapter 4, sorry for the delay and thanks to Dawnspirit for making me realize I was behind on the story.
Back in the underground hideout.
"Man, this place just get crappier by the minute!" Carter complained.
"Shutup and move," Lee said, grabbing Carter by his necktie.
"Hojun," Thorn said.
"Nice to see that you're still alive Thorn, for many people it has been an impossibility to escape Leaboo," Hojun turned around.
"Believe me, it wasn't easy," Lee returned.
"Shutup!" Carter said.
"So, what've we gotta do until Leaboo's caught?" Thorn asked.
"You have to keep an eye on the emerald, wherever it is, you know very well why Leaboo's after it," Hojun told her.
"Got it, I know where it is and it ain't leaving," Thorn replied.
"Thorn, go with Marie for a moment, these two will catch up with you in a minute," Hojun said.
"Shoot, what's up Hojun?" Carter asked.
"A word of advice Carter, try and keep your patience with Thorn, she does not like strangers and will normally do anything to get them out of her life," Hojun advised them.
"Hojun, I have been around many a children before, they always act that way," Lee said, "it's part of being a juvenile 'deliquence."
"Yeah, they always do that," Carter said.
"Not like she will, I know, she attempted anything and everything when I watched her to get rid of me," Hojun explained.
"You watched her?" Lee asked.
"Shortly after Leaboo disappeared the last time we saw him, that was several years ago, and through times, she has just gotten worse, so I wish you good luck. The both of you will need it after you get back with her tonight," Hojun said.
"You really think so?" Carter asked.
"I know so," he replied.
"Yeah? Well I think I can handle a 14-year-old girl by myself, without your help, let's grab the kid and go, Lee," Carter said.
So, they grabbed Thorn and took her back to the apartment, however, it appeared that Hojun was wrong about her. She fell down on the couch and dozed off.
"About time too, she's been getting on my damn nerves all day," Carter complained.
"If that's the case, then just think of how she'll be tonight when she wakes up," Lee said.
"By the time she wakes up, I'm going to be so dog gone tired I won't be able to hear her," Carter replied.
Want a bet? Within an hour, Thorn got up, went over to the sterio system and shook up the entire building.
Carter and Lee came out of the bedroom with their forefingers in their ears, Lee started yelling, but his voice couldn't be heard over the music.
"Thorn! You've gotta turn that music down, it's too loud!" Lee yelled.
"What?"
"The music is too loud! You've gotta turn it down!" Lee repeated.
"Sorry Lee, I can't hear you, I've gotta turn the music down," Thorn replied. "Now what is it?"
"Thorn, do you ever rest?" Carter asked.
"Sometimes, when I feel like it," Thorn answered.
"Yeah whatever, look, if you don't mind we'd like to keep things down to a dull roar," Carter said.
"Don't worry, you guys won't bug me," Thorn replied.
"That's not what we meant Thorn," Lee said.
"I know, I know, but hey, I gotta have a sense of humor you know," Thorn returned.
"Look, we've gotta go talk to the police for a few minutes, can you stay out of trouble for a while?" Lee asked.
"Sure, and if I'm lying, may I be your next partner in the LAPD," Thorn said to Carter.
"I guess we can trust you with that promise," Carter said.
Lee and Carter left, and Thorn cranked the music back up again.
"Listen Captain Turmoil, Thorn is anything but normal," Carter explained at the office.
"She's also anything but stupid Carter, you check her police record, she hasn't even gotten one yet. But if she did, it would be marked with arson, disturbing the peace, robbery, domestic behavior, and weapon possession. She has burnt down 68 public schools, 56 police stations, 11 homes, 27 hospitals and 38 buildings all in the past four years. And all because there were people she didn't like," Captain Turmoil said.
Carter took out a pad of paper and a pen, he decided to do the math.
"11 homes
+27 hospitals
+38 buildings
+56 police stations
+68 public schools
=200 properties destroyed," Carter said.
"And each place's owner had filed $100,000 for the damage," Turmoil added.
"What? $20,000,000 for what a teenager did?" Carter asked.
"And that's not all of it, then there's the medical bills of all the people she's injured. She's thrashed and choked and slapped 70 cops, 85 schoolteachers, 275 gang members, 38 college jocks, 48 irresponsible parents, and she attempted shooting one man just for smoking," Turmoil said.
"That's just crazy! Truly psychotic," Carter said.
"Exactly what we said," Turmoil replied.
"Look, Captain, I don't know if I can have a destructive delinquent in my house," Carter realized.
"Carter, you remember what Hojun said, if we do not take this case, we're fired," Lee said.
Carter sighed, they agreed to keep an eye on Thorn, so they rushed back to the apartment and found a note on the door. It read 'Looking for me? Try the exact door down the hall'. Taking the note seriously, Carter and Lee checked out the apartment across the hall from them. Lee started knocking on the door, but then he wound up knocking on Thorn's nose.
"Hey! What is it?"
"What is it?" Lee asked.
"What is it? Nothing," Carter looked behind him.
"Nothing, we'll see you later," Lee said.
"Hold it!" Cater said.
"What?" Thorn asked.
"What are you doing over here?" Lee asked.
"Shoot, I'm staying over here until Leaboo's butt is in jail, I figure, two---six years max," Thorn said.
"Thorn, the whole reason why we were looking for you's because you've gotta stay with us," Carter asked.
"Allright, just give me some time to move my stuff back in," Thorn said.
"Good, and in the mean time, Lee and I'll bamboozle some grub, Lee, go get a bottle," Carter told him.
Lee started off on one foot, but his other one stopped immediately.
"You know how hard it is to get a bottle in these towns," Lee said.
"Soda you dumbass," Carter said.
"Ohhhhhhhh," Lee replied.
"You get the soda, I'll get a pizza," Carter said.
"And I'll get a frying pan ready for Leaboo's men when he sends them up," Thorn added.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever, let's get going Lee," Carter said.
By the time they got back, it had gotten extremely dark, Carter opened the door a crack to get his hand through. He felt for the light switch, he found it, but it was dead. He and Lee stomped in and looked around, the rooms were dark, and everything had been trashed, but then they saw a light in the back room, they decided to check it out. Thorn was in the room with a gun in her hand, she had it cocked and was ready to fire.
"Hey, what's going on in here?" Carter asked, walking in.
Too late, Thorn had pulled the trigger, Carter fell to the floor as a suction cup dart hit the wall, Lee came in laughing at Carter's misery.
"Tha's funny, you scared of a toy gun," Lee laughed.
He wasn't laughing for long either, when Thorn pulled the trigger again, he dropped to the floor too, another dart hit the wall.
"Thorn, what is the idea of this? We thought someone had broke in here," Carter said.
"I decided to have a little fun, so I took out my dart gun," Thorn replied.
She took it out, it was a bright green plastic dart gun with a black lever in the back for installing darts. Carter was starting to get fed up with her, and blurted out the first somewhat bright idea he'd had all day.
"Thorn, go take a bath," Carter said.
"Allright," Thorn put her gun away, "where's the washing machine?"
"Over there," Lee pointed.
"That's gotta be the cleanest juvenile delinquent I've ever seen," Carter said.
"Maybe, I think we better keep a close eye on her tonight," Lee added.
"Yeah, I suppose, hey that reminds me, when we came in, what happened to the anchovy pizza?" Carter asked.
"Uh Carter," Lee looked up.
"Don't 'Uh Carter' me, I want an answer and I want it now," Carter said.
He got it, the pizza fell off the ceiling and onto him.
"Man, I hate anchovies in my hair!" Carter complained.
After Carter spent half an hour getting anchovies and pizza sauce out of his hair, Lee decided to find something else to do, so he went to do his laundry. He took his dirty clothes out of the basket, and opened the lid, he realized that the washer was already full of water and suds. He reached down into it and felt something, he pulled the object up and realized it was Thorn!
"Thorn! What are you doing in the washer?
"I'm taking a bath just like Carter told me to do, what're you doing?" she asked.
"I'm trying to do my laundry," Lee yelled.
"Well then you'll have to wait a while, I'm on a light load at the moment," Thorn replied.
"No kidding, Carter!" Lee yelled.
"What is it now, Lee?" Carter asked, rushing in.
"You told Thorn to take a bath, and she's in the washing machine," Lee exclaimed.
"Yeah, and these razor blades are dull," Thorn added.
"Thorn, step out of the washer right now, right now!" Carter told her.
"Fine," Thorn stepped out in a baggy T-shirt and large surfing shorts, with flippers on her feet.
"Well now ain't that a sight to see?" Carter asked.
"I don't know, is it?" Thorn asked.
"Thorn, get out of this gear and get ready for a whooping," Carter said.
"Forget it, I'm not going anywhere and that's that," Thorn replied.
"Oh really?"
"Yeah."
"You two need a room?" Lee asked.
"Shutup, Lee!" they said.
"Allright, that does it, go put on some regular clothes, and I'm going to see to it that you ain't going anywhere, do you hear me?" Carter asked.
"Yeah, I understand," Thorn replied.
"Good, now get," Carter said.
Thorn took off like the wind, of course it helped once she got her flippers off.
End of chapter 4