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Showdown

Basil walked over to the set of "Showdown." He had changed into his clothes and was just visiting the set of one of the westerns. Lee was in costume: hat, jacket and all. As for Brandy she was dressed as a… well, she was a… she was costumed as something of low respect.

Lee was in a scene with a gunfight. If you've seen one western starring Lee Ping and Brandy Silver then you've seen them all. What was Brandy doing? She was standing there looking frightened. This was it. A bunch of nonsense, gunfight Lee and Brandy kiss.

The scene ended and then it was time for a break. Lee walked over to Basil and threw the guns at him. Basil just looked at the guns hoping he could have such fun roles!

"Basil, I can't take much more of this! I wanted to be an actor like Fred Astaire instead I'm probably going to be trapped doing westerns until the day I die!" Basil rolled eyes. Lee wanted to be like Fred Astaire, Cam wanted to be like Clark Gable, Biffy wanted to be like James Cagney, Tina wanted to be like Katharine Hepburn what about him? Who did he want to be like? He wasn't sure. "The worst part of this job is when I have to kiss Brandy. I'd rather kiss a tarantula!"

"If I were you I'd choose a cobra." Basil then looked over at Brandy. "But I'd just love to know what its like to be kissed by a girl. I'm always playing the villain of the serials, the guys I play pretty girls don't write to!"

"Maybe you'd be better off with Dick's job." Lee looked over at Dick Andrews. He always ended up playing the guy that Lee killed in the climax.

Basil just nodded. "At least he gets to kiss girls!" He then started to take a sip of water.

"So can you give Tina a message?" Basil once again rolled his eyes. Why did he have to be the messenger? The messenger always got shot and Brad would probably use that knife Zantar the Lion Man used to kill him! Finally, he nodded and started to take a large sip of water. "Okay, tell her to meet me at the Wurst Café for our date." And then Basil spat out the water in his mouth in surprise. The water ended up hitting Brandy just as she walked over.

What did Brandy do? She ended up angrily hitting Basil with a parasol. This went on for about ten minutes. Even if Basil retreated still Brandy was there to beat him with the parasol! She just kept following him. All across the lot of A. Nigma Studios, Basil fled and ever Brandy was there!

Once the beating was over, Basil returned to Lee. He was absolutely surprised. Lee and Tina were dating? When did this start happening? Biffy was planning to get Lee and Tina together and they were already dating?

"Let me get this straight…" Basil held up a finger. "You and Tina… are dating…" Lee nodded. "Does Brandy know about this?"

"No, Basil. Brandy does not know about this."

"Does Tina know about this?" Basil's question just caused Lee to raise an eyebrow. Basil then nodded in understanding. "Right, stupid question."

"Basil, just go and give Tina the message. What's Brad gonna do? Put a bomb in your car?" Basil sighed and then left the set of "Showdown." Better to get it done.

As soon as Basil left, Brandy walked over to Lee. And now came the moment Lee always dreaded. Brandy's delusions of their love on the screen being a reality was what made spending time with her agony for Lee.

"Did I hear you talking about another woman? That woman?"

"Leave me alone you rattlesnake!" Ah, love. The false love of the screen, not the true love of reality. There was no love between Lee and Brandy. Lee loved Tina. Brandy believed that Lee loved her. This would make things complicated.

"Lee, I love you! You love me! Everyone knows it!"

Lee stared in disbelief. "Have you been reading those fan magazines again?

"Of course!" That answered so much! That talk in the fan magazines of them being engaged was complete nonsense! Lee and Brandy weren't engaged! Lee would never marry Brandy!

He walked away from the set. He had to talk to Barrage about this co-star thing. He could not keep having Brandy as a co-star!