Inspirational quote: First they will ask you why you are doing it. Later they will ask you how you did it. Let them.

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As soon as Kieran had left the scene, that was when Dr Kozak sighed gravely as he watched Kieran walk out and slam the door.

"Wow... you really hate Kieran don't you?"

Dr Kozak didn't say anything- he just muffled something unknown as a response, if that counted as one anyway.

"Hate is a very strong word, Cynthia," he whispered back, once again using scissors to cut his nails instead of a nail clipper like a normal person would.

Except Dr Kozak wasn't normal. He was crazy. That was the thing.

"So...." Cynthia trailed off. "You don't hate Kieran."

Dr Kozak shook his head.

"I wouldn't say hate."

Cynthia Rose didn't reply.

"I would say I dislike him."

Pause.

"Strongly dislike him."

Cynthia Rose was downright confused.

Cynthia Rose: Strongly disliking someone and hating someone are technically the same things, sir.

Dr Kozak just shrugged as he choked on orange juice, regurgitating it but then threw up.

Cynthia: Ooh wish I could un see that.

Dr Kozak: Yeah same. Either way Kieran and I aren't talking to each other. End of story.

Cynthia: So you're not friends?

Dr Kozak did a facepalm in disbelief.

Dr Kozak: No!

Cynthia: You're enemies?

Dr Kozak paused for a while before saying anything else.

Dr Kozak: We're not enemies either.

Cynthia: So what are you then? Frenemies?

Dr Kozak: Uh. No. Not frenemies either. Kieran classified our relationship as "acquaintances".

Cynthia: Did Kieran really kill your niece?

Dr Kozak just took a quick glance at her. He wasn't smiling. He wasn't frowning either. Was just emotionlessly examining her face.

Dr Kozak: Yes. And he said some very malevolent stuff about me earlier as well.

Cynthia: Listen.

Except Dr Kozak wasn't listening. Was just drumming his fingers on the table in absolute boredom.

Cynthia: Why do you care so much about what Kieran says about you?

Dr Kozak intently fixed his eyes on her in surprise.

Dr Kozak: Keep talking....

Cynthia: Like. Why does Kieran's opinion of you even matter to you in the first place?

Come to think of it... Dr Kozak didn't know.

It just did.

Caring about what other people had thought about him was hard to forget about.

Same for Kieran too, that was also hard to forget about, especially how he didn't really like him and everything.

Dr Kozak: I really don't know. Come to think of it.

Cynthia: In your crazy little brain- *she taps his forehead continuously, Dr Kozak smiles*- why do you think Kieran has been saying all those mean stuff about you?

Dr Kozak: Because he can't control his anger.

Cynthia: Why do you think he killed your niece?

Dr Kozak: Because he's messed up like that.

Cynthia: *is shouting* You don't get the point do you?

Didn't seem like it.

Dr Kozak: I don't know what you're talking about.

Cynthia: *facepalm* Kieran's jealous of you!

Then it clicked.

In Dr Kozak's crazy little brain, it clicked.

How could he not have figured it out earlier?

Dr Kozak: I highly doubt Kieran's jealous of me, Cynthia.

Cynthia: What's your proof?

Dr Kozak: I don't know.

Cynthia: Well why else would someone be rude to you and deliberately kill your niece for no reason?

Dr Kozak just shrugged.

Dr Kozak: I don't know. Jealousy I guess.

Cynthia: Exactly!

Dr Kozak: Although I have been reading Kieran's mind lately...

Cynthia: *eyes widen* What has he been thinking?

Dr Kozak: I can't say. Honestly. It's too rude. He thought something so rude about me once that it made me cry. Like twenty minutes ago.

Cynthia: Awww...

Silence.

Cynthia: Kieran's jealous of you.

Dr Kozak: *says this really slowly* Kieran's jealous of me.

But then Dr Kozak was jealous of him too.

Mainly because his handwriting was so freaking angelic.

Cynthia Rose: It's probably because of your amazing superpowers as well.

Dr Kozak: Yeah I was thinking the same thing.

Cynthia Rose didn't reply until Dr Kozak did that for her.

Dr Kozak: Anyway let's change the subject. I don't like talking about people I don't like. Kieran and Lauriel are two of them.

Cynthia Rose just stood up mainly to throw something in the bin, Dr Kozak's eyes watching her intently and doing the same thing again as she sat back down again.

Dr Kozak: So welcome to KOZAK HQ.

Cynthia Rose smiled.

Dr Kozak: Although there are a few rules about this place which I need to tell you...

Cynthia: *beams* Sure! What are they?

Then Dr Kozak had a full on lecture for precisely twenty minutes about things to do and not to do at KOZAK HQ.

And unlike something that Kieran and Esperanza would do, Cynthia was actually full on paying attention, taking notes and not sleeping at all.

Cynthia: *slams her purple journal shut* Okay so what happens next?

Dr Kozak: What happens next?

Cynthia: Yeah!

Dr Kozak: I need to allocate you to your room of course.

Then saying that, Dr Kozak went to do something rather unknown then came back two minutes later with his- Well Astera's really- blue coloured iPad.

Cynthia: So where am I going to be staying?

Dr Kozak: I'm thinking about it.

And he thought hard....

Dr Kozak: I just realised something.

Cynthia Rose: What?

Dr Kozak: You can share a room with Maria Grace.

Cynthia: *slightly confused* Who's Maria Grace?

Dr Kozak just ignored her question entirely, changing the subject completely.

Dr Kozak: Her partner for the mission died about two hours ago. I forgot his name, but it rhymed with Maria Grace's. I think his name was Jace but obviously I can't remember as I never really spoke to him.

Cynthia: So... I'm sharing a room with Maria Grace?

Dr Kozak: Yes. That's room 26,373. Out of 50,000.

Cynthia: Is Maria rude?

Dr Kozak: No. I've known her for ten years. She's really nice.

Cynthia: Oh.

Dr Kozak: *stares at her* Why did you ask me that? Why would you ask me that?

Cynthia: Because apparently she's Esperanza's cousin so I was kinda thinking-

Dr Kozak: Nah. Maria's nice. She's the kind of person that sorts out every problem.... when there is one anyway.

Cynthia: So how are you going to tell Maria about me?

Dr Kozak: I'm texting her right now. She has just finished her mission and is on her way inside KOZAHKISTAN HEADQUARTERS.

Then after he said that, Dr Kozak switched on his CCTV camera that had let him see everything that was going on outside of his laboratory, smiling when he had heard his favourite song come up at the corridors as many many many people were simultaneously roller skating.

Cynthia Rose: *points to someone in the CCTV camera with black and blue hair and looks Chinese* Is that her?

Dr Kozak looked up, doing something on his phone (text ranting to his cousin Agent Sylvester about something) then smiled.

Dr Kozak: Yes that's her. How did you know that?

Cynthia: I think I've seen her somewhere before, but I don't really know where.

Dr Kozak: From where?

Cynthia: Can't really remember.

Dr Kozak didn't say anything as he watched Maria Grace enter the scene, and using the microphone located right opposite him, he deafeningly screamed the words:

Maria Grace Sanchez! Get your butt over at Dr Kozak's laboratory right now!

Loudly enough for everyone in KOZAK HQ to hear.

Then he put the microphone away, then realised he was currently receiving a confused stare from Cynthia Rose, with one eyebrow raised as well.

Dr Kozak: Why the confused stare, CR?

Cynthia Rose: You could have at least tried being more formal?

Dr Kozak: And how was I supposed to accomplish that?

Cynthia: I don't know. Maybe by saying: 'Maria Grace, could you please roller skate over to my laboratory?'

Dr Kozak just stared at her, Cynthia Rose doing the same thing back with him, but then he rolled his eyes comically and after that proceeded laughs from both Dr Kozak and Cynthia.

Dr Kozak: Either way she's coming over here.

Then both of them then watched Maria Grace stand up, smiling when she realised something.

Maria Grace; through the CCTV camera screen: Who said that?

Dr Kozak waved at her, Maria Grace noticing almost instantaneously.

Maria Grace: Oh hey Dr Kozak! I'll be over at your laboratory right now.

Then Dr Kozak and Cynthia Rose stared at Maria Grace as she put her roller skates on- however because she couldn't really roller skate, she collapsed head first into the floor.

Dr Kozak realised this.

Cynthia Rose didn't.

Dr Kozak: *gasps* Oh my gosh!

Cynthia: What just happened?

Dr Kozak: Maria Grace... she just fainted about one metre away from my laboratory. I have to save her!

Cynthia Rose didn't say anything as she quickly watched Dr Kozak instantaneously put on some turquoise coloured roller skates- and the thing was one had to roller skate down the corridors- If they went in bare feet or in normal shoes then your feet would pretty much melt into the floor.

And nobody really wanted that.

So therefore they had to roller skate, whether they could or wanted to or not.

Dr Kozak then rapidly left the room, Cynthia Rose watching everything that had happened next via the CCTV cameras.

He then roller skated professionally over to Maria Grace who was now lying down on the floor unconsciously.

"Maria Grace?" Dr Kozak echoed, seriously looking at her.

People roller skating past were just staring at Dr Kozak, Dr Kozak doing the same thing before he had turned back to Maria Grace again.

"Maria Grace..." He placed something on her chest, checking to see if she was still breathing or not.

"Oh my god she's not breathing. I think she's dead."

Dr Kozak was huffing and puffing for a while, hyperventilating uncontrollably but then stopped once Agent White majestically entered the scene.

"Dude, are you okay?"

"What does it look like, Fernandez?"

Agent White then gasped once he realised something.

"Oh my god is that..." he trailed off. "My sister?Maria Grace?"

Nah, bro.

It was Septimus Prime from Transformers.

Yes it was your flipping sister.

"Yes! She just fainted. Please help me take her to my laboratory!"

And hearing that, Dr Kozak and Agent White roller skated backwards to Dr Kozak's laboratory, carrying an unconscious Maria Grace.

Then Agent White left because he had to attend to something.

Cynthia Rose: Hey sir.

Dr Kozak: Don't hey me, Cynthia.

Cynthia Rose: Why not?

Dr Kozak: Maria Grace.

Cynthia: What about her?

Dramatic pause.

Dr Kozak: I really think she might be dead!

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Moral of chapter: What have you done today to make you feel proud?