Whitney - July 11, 1947

I haven't stopped to visit Elizabeth at the Cortez yet and it has been about two weeks. The reason why is because I have been busy filming for my new picture "The Woman with the Golden Mask". I really hope that I can see her soon because we have a lot of catching up to do. Especially, since I haven't seen or spoken to her in over twenty years.

Cal decided to take me to a horse race at Santa Anita Park because one of the horses we owned was participating in the race. I knew we were really going there for another publicity stunt, so Cal make himself look good for his senate campaign and he thinks by taking me with him, he will be able to do so because I am a famous actress and people would definitely want his attention if I'm there. I don't particularly like these publicity stunts because all this actress business really isn't me and who I am. It is just a disguise in my way of gaining power and feeling in charge, but what I really am is a scientist who is always looking to make a difference in the world, but nobody would really like that if they were would find it because I'm woman. My husband runs and owns a lab called Isodyne Energy, but what must people don't know is that way nobody suspects that I'm actually brains behind most of it's success. Especially during the war.

There is this substance I discovered two years ago called zero matter, which I discovered while testing an atomic bomb during the second world war. I noticed that this substance can actually suck up humans and vehicles whole. I saw it with my own eyes. Anyway, the matter is safely secure in the lab until I could do furthermore with it, but that wouldn't happen until Cal talks to the Council of Nine, a group of elite older businessmen, that are looking to change the world and with me being a woman I have to of course use my husband, who is a member, to be able to do that.

While at the horse race, Cal and I had bunch of photographers taking pictures of us and a bunch of fans screaming at me and asking for me for my autograph. I started to become very overwhelmed that I could no longer hold a smile on my face because I really didn't want to be there, Cal however tried to get me smiling again by pulling me close to him and kissing me. As we were trying to giggle and to have a good time meeting people, a man and a woman wearing a red dress came up to us looking to speak to us.

"Excuse me Miss. Frost, Edwin Jarvis head of Stark Pictures." said the man as I shook his hand.

"Ah, charm." I said in response not sounding so thrilled because let's face it, I've had a really long day and all I really wanted to do was go home.

"Might I have a word?" he asked me. I looked at Cal for approval and he nods me the okay and Mr. Jarvis takes me to the side.

As I walk away, I noticed that the woman in red began to speak to Calvin. We look around a bit and then Mr. Jarvis finally began to speak to me.

"You would be perfect for the lead role in the new Stark Pictures production." He announced.

"Really and what's the picture?" I asked trying to sound interested.

"The movie?" he asks.

"Yes." I said quietly as I nodded my head.

"The movie that Stark Pictures is...is currently casting...is...called…" he paused and I gave him a look. I knew that this whole thing is a distraction just so his friend in the red dress can speak to Calvin.

"The British are coming!" he said uncertainty which makes me definitely believe now that this is a distraction.

"Um, I am tired of costume dramas to be quite honest." I said as I try to get away from him. He however, pulled me back.

"Oh, no, no, this would be a spy picture, no you would be playing a female agent. Tough as nails." He told me to make it sound more interesting.

I had to admit even though he was making the whole thing up, it did sound quite interesting.

"Now, I'm intrigued," I said trying to sound interested yet again. "So, she doesn't have a love interest?"

He looked at his friend in the red dress who was still talking to Cal.

"Um..," he thought. "We haven't found the right actor yet."

He tried to convince me some more, until Cal finally came over after finishing his conversation with Mr. Jarvis's friend.

"Hello, love." he greeted me.

"Mr. Jarvis our horse lost." said the woman in the red dress who happened to have a lovely British accent.

"Oh no," said Mr. Jarvis. "We'll be in touch Miss. Frost."

Cal and I looked at them as they left very suspiciously because I think we can both sense that they are up to something and I would like to know what it is.

A woman that work at Isodyne Jane Scott and a mistress to Cal just died. I'm sure that's what the woman in red was asking him about. Miss. Scott died while she touched the zero matter, which she shouldn't have done because she ended up freezing herself to death. So, Cal hired a homicide detective, Andrew Henry to dump the body into the lake, to make it it look like the Lady of the Lake killer, a serial killer that has been killing women for the past two years did it. Henry had the SSR (The Strategic Scientific Reserve), a federal agency, investigate this case with him to make him look like the good detective.

Since he betrayed Cal, I suggested to Cal hire a Rookie cop to take Henry out. So, we are now parked out in front of a restaurant late at night, so Cal can give him money if he got the job done that is. The cop pulled up on the opposite side of the road and lined up his car with Cal's by the window.

"The job is done." announced the cop as Cal he got ready to hand him the envelope with the money in it.

"Good man!" Cal praised him as he handed him the money.

Once he gets the envelope, the cop drove away and Cal began to speak to me.

"See Hon," he tells me happily. "You figured out how to fix it all."

He turns to me and I smile and chuckle at him.

"And that's the last time we should have to dirty our hands. Hmm?" I asked him. "Just because you dirty other parts of your anatomy."

I said that to him a little disappointed because I was a bit mad at him for having an affair with Jane Scott but, I have to get over it real soon for the sake of Cal's campaign.

July 12, 1947

Today Cal was going to a meeting with the Council of Nine to discuss the atomic energy of the zero matter. I hope that the council will proceed in wanting to use the zero matter because it's energy is much stronger than that of regular atomic energy and it will make it look very outdated. I am however, at the studio filming my newest picture, "The Woman with the Golden Mask" and I wouldn't have been able to have a say on this matter because I am not a member of the council. The filming for the picture has been going pretty smoothly. We are already are already halfway done with filming and we rarely had any breaks.

During one of our breaks, our director Kenneth or Ken as I liked to call him came up to me and announced to me, "Miss Frost."

"Yes?" I asked.

"Great work!"

"Thank you!" I said with enthusiasm.

"Just a few adjustments. Can I get makeup over here please? Thank you let's go, let's go!" He shouted as he guested for the makeup man to come over.

I smiled at him to show him that I was proud of my accomplishments, however what he said next turned my smile into a frown.

"Let's see if we can try and get rid of the lines around her eyes. Can we do that? Great!" he said to the makeup man. Then he turned to me and said, "Let's talk about your wardrobe, uh, could we bring it in anymore?"

"No," I said in disgust. "I can barely breathe as it is!"

"Well, then I guess someone is going to skip lunch today isn't she?" he asked me as I reached for the hand of the makeup man in order for him not to fix my makeup.

"You're my trooper, you're my girl." He told me as he began to walk away.

He then went to the guy who was incharge of the lights, Ralph and asked him, "Hey, Ralph can we throw a few more lights on her?"

"Yeah." answered Ralph.

"I thought you said men liked older women?" Ken asked him. After that he called wardrobe to come over.

Since, I became so offended by him calling me old, which honestly I think thirty-six is still quite young. The worst thing for Cal and his campaign was for the studio to let go of me after this movie. Tears began to roll down my checks. I then stormed off to my dressing room before wardrobe could get to me. Once I got there, I found Cal in my dressing room sitting on the chaise. He must be here to tell me the council's opinion on the zero matter. I sat down at my vanity and began dry my tears and fix up my makeup.

"Well?" I asked Cal.

"They're scrapping it," he told me. "The zero matter, the experiments, everything."

"We have at our fingertips the means to change the world and they just want to throw it away. Zero matter can make atomic energy as obsolete as the steam engine."

"I told them that," he answered me as I sighed. "They think there's too much risk, what with all the press...surrounding the lab right now."

"Press we wouldn't have, if you had been better at choosing your mistresses." I informed him

Honestly he shouldn't have had a mistress right now to begin with, it looked very bad for his senate campaign, let alone the fact that Miss. Scott worked the lab and her death was likely the reason why the council didn't want anything more to do with the zero matter in the first place.

"I did what I could," he told me. "They had made the decision before I arrived."

"Then why didn't you just stop them!" I shouted. "Instead of letting them walk all over you always do!"

He sighed and with that out of anger I broke my comb that I was currently using to straighten up my hair in two.

"Honey, I am sorry," he said to me as he began to walk toward me. "The council was adamant. They're scrubbing the lab tonight. As of tomorrow the zero matter will be gone."

I really felt like crying again, now. I can't believe that the council was actually going to clean up the lab and dispose of the zero matter, something I was looking forward to study more closely and experimenting with. Cal then came up to me and said, "Listen, the council, they really want me to focus on my senate campaign. In the long run, isn't that better for the both of us?"

It really wasn't but, I didn't want Cal to know that. I really didn't want to be used as something pretty to catch the eyes of voters. I instead wanted to focus on what I wanted to accomplish, but that didn't necessarily mean that I didn't want him to become senator, I just didn't want to be used like this anymore. I then nodded my head in agreement.

"Yeah," he said as he began to smile at me. Then we both laughed. "Oh."

"I'm sorry," I said as I turned to face him. "You're going to make a wonderful senator!"

With that Cal smiled and leaned in to kiss me.

"I love you." I told him

"I love you," he said back. "That's my girl."

He then pulled me into hug and when doing so, while I was looking away from him I had a sad look on my face because I was still very upset about the zero matter experiment and not being able to do.

After we finally finished filming, I got changed and called my driver to come pick me up. I asked him to take me to the Hotel Cortez to pay Elizabeth a visit. Maybe she would understand how I feel about the zero matter project. Either way, I can't stay that long because if have to get lab and retrieve the zero matter before the council can get their hands on it, first. I plan on taking the matter home to conduct my own experiments and I don't care what anybody else has to say about it!