It was her second day working off her community service hours at the Police Station, and Kai was presently trying to fix her type writer. She was digging around for a flathead screw driver and all she could find was Phillip's head. "Ah, flat?" Lu asked her as he walked up to her desk.

"Just as the spirits' made me," she quipped easily as she continued to dig around her desk area.

"Are you always this persnickety?" the tall, thinner man she was the secretary for asked her.

"Sometimes I'm even persnickety-er." She told him as she finally found a flathead screwdriver.

Kai went about fixing her typewriter, and as she did so she felt Lu through his arm around her. "So, Kai, can I call you Kai," Kai looked up at the man she was a secretary for with a raised eyebrow. "I consider you a friend, and a valuable asset to this station–"

"Well then, I hope we're still friends after I Taser you," Kai told the lousy detective.

"Lu, keep your hands to yourself." Chief Bei Fong snapped as she walked by. Kai tried to hold in her laughter as the man that was significantly older than her quickly pulled his arm away from her.

"I was hoping you could cover for me and Gang if snuck out left early." The man with bad facial hair asked.

"It'd be Gang and I," Kai corrected, "But sure." she told the detective and then went back to fixing her typewriter.

"Thanks sweetheart, now could you go get me this file from the cabinet over there?" he pointed to a cabinet all the way by the door that led out to the courtyard connecting the station to the Metalbending Academy.

Walking over to the filing cabinet, Kai walked past a group of boys in the Metalbending Academy uniform trying to be cool and turned the corner. As she rounded the corner, though, the feeling of someone squeezing her backside assaulted her body. She glanced around and saw one of the boys that she had just walked past. Her eyes quickly flitted to the name embroidered on his vest 'Wong.'

Kai gritted her teeth behind the lips she had started to press together. Instead of kicking the kid in the nuts like she wanted to, Kai turned back to the cabinet she was supposed to be going through. She pulled out the specified file and began walking back to her desk. As she did so, she heard the Academy students snicker as she walked past. Kai tried hard not to let her anger show, silently planning on how she'd get them back in her head.

X

Lin watched from her office window as Kao walked over to a filing cabinet close to the door that led out to the Academy courtyard. As the girl did so, a member of a group of boys that were standing in the doorway reached out and groped the girl's backside. Lin waited for Kao's attack on them, but was surprised to see the girl ignore the perverted action and went about going through the cabinet's contents.

Finding what she had come for, Kao turned back around and began walking back to her desk. Lin saw the movements of the group of boys snickering as Kao walked by. Lin saw Kao's struggle to keep her anger in check on the girl's face. Yet, the young girl was able to do so as she walked up to the station's detectives' door and knocked. Lu opened the door and she handed him the file before quickly turning around and sitting down at her desk. A pensive look was on the girl's face, and Lin assumed the dark haired girl was planning her revenge.

Lin made a note in the back of her head that the girl was fiery, but calculative. She knew when and when not to strike in situations like this one. Lin couldn't help, but wonder if her – No! You are not going to think about that. Lin watched the girl working off community service hours for a few more minutes before turning back to some paper work she needed to finish.

X

Kai was on her way to the bathroom when she saw Lu and Gang looking extremely shady. Against her better judgment, the nineteen-year-old earthbender followed the two men she was acting as secretary for. They quickly looked back and forth around them as they headed towards the door that led out into the Academy courtyard.

She rolled her eyes, unamused. She snuck her way behind a filing cabinet, and just as they were about to open the door she made herself known.

X

"So this is sneaking?" Lin was heading to the restroom when she heard Kao at the exit to the courtyard.

It had been about three hours since the incident with the Metalbending Academy students, and Lin was wondering if the girl was speaking to her assaulters or if it was someone else. Lin walked to an area she was able to see to exit door from, and saw Kao standing across from Lu and Gang who were trying to sneak out early.

Kao stood before the two men she was acting as a secretary to, her arms crossed and her visible eyebrow raised. This was when Lin took more of a notice of the nineteen-year-old's side fringe that hung covering her right eye. She made note to ask the girl about it later.

Lin noticed Lu and Gang looking as if they were creeped out by something, Lin furrowed her brows.

"You said you'd cover for us, girlie." Gang retorted to Kao's rhetorical question. Lin raised an eyebrow, turning to see Kao's reply to the accusation of sorts.

Kao held her chin between her thumb and forefinger, tapping it, giving off a faux pensive look. "You see," Kao remarked, "I don't recall ever having agreed to anything like that."

"Then what exactly did you agree to, Kao?" Lin spoke, finally walking over to the discussion.

"To lock the door to their office if they were able to sneak out early." She told Lin. "Meaning, I was only required to do anything if they were successful in sneaking out early."

"My office you two," Lin demanded of the two detectives, "Now." Lin heard Kao snicker as two men walked by. "It's five o'clock Kao, you can go." Lin told the girl.

"I have a first name you know," Kao told Lin.

Lin raised an eyebrow at the girl, "It's Kai," she told Lin slowly, "Kai Kao." Lin just rolled her eyes at the girl and walked back to her office.