Kai’s brows furrowed as Danny started pacing his office. 

"Who in their right mind—" Danny said, holding up a finger, as if he was a professor giving a lecture. "No! NO ONE in their right mind, let’s a group of LITTLE KIDS- you get that don’t you? LITTLE KIDS?! Why would you- What made you think it was okay? Huh? To-to do the stuff that you did with those kids?" He stopped pacing to stare at Kai.

“What stuff?” Kai asked, “What are-”

“GUTTING a boar?! Throwing KNIVES!?” Danny said. “That stuff WAS NOT in the brochure, you were— that’s child endangerment!"

Before Kai could open his mouth Danny was talking again.

"El came here to make friends, okay? To learn how to, I don’t know, uh, do arts and crafts and sing fun campfire songs. NOT to undergo GI-JOE training! KNIVES!? GUTTING boars!?” 

Kai tried to speak up but Danny held up his hand. 

“No, you’re not talking, I’m talking, I’m not done yet,” Danny said with that same professor attitude. “What you had them do was reckless and insane. Elena spent a whole month here. I thought she was somewhere safe and happy! But now I’m learning that she was in harm's way the whole time! Let me ask you a question, do you have kids?” 

Kai waited a moment in silence, staring at Danny, before finally saying, "Oh, am I allowed to talk now?” then, before giving Danny a chance to answer, he added, “No, I don’t have kids.”

"Okay,” Danny said, “So you don’t have kids. So you don’t know the gut-wrenching feeling someone gets when they learn that they entrusted their child’s safety in the hands of some knife-throwing boar gutting lunatic madman!”

“For the record,” Kai said, “we didn't actually gut anything. We just had a Q and A on how to do it, in case the situation ever called for it. I demonstrated with a pillow.” 

Danny furrowed his brows. "When would the situation ever call for it?" 

Kai shrugged. "You can never be too careful." 

That was a statement Danny usually agreed with, but he realized he and Kai Kalani had very different ways of going about it. 

"Look," Danny said, in the calmest voice he could muster. 

Kai didn't hear the rest of what Danny said, too lost in his own thoughts to hear whatever accusations were being thrown at him.

Because seriously, what was this guy trying to do? Kai thought, trying not to get too irritated. He knew what he was doing, he’d been doing this for years. 

I may not have kids of my own, but the kids at my camp are my kids.

Yeah... now try communicating that out loud maybe, Kai scolded himself as he refocused on the new spiel Danny was throwing at him.

“-Ergo,” Danny was saying, “I think a lawsuit is in order! I know some pretty great lawyers so...” 

That refocused Kai, bringing him back into the conversation as alert as ever. 

“Woah! Woah! Woah!” Kai said, getting up from his chair, “How did we get there? Don’t you think you’re blowing this a little out of proportions buddy?

“Out of proportions? You think this is out of- ! This is my daughter's SAFETY we're talking about! IT. IS. NOT. OUT. OF. PROPORTIONS! You're out of proportions!” Danny yelled, slapping the back of his hand into the palm of the other one for added emphasis on how far out of proportions Kai was.

“Kai," a voice came from behind the door, getting both men's attention, "Is everything okay in there? It’s almost four... do I need to get security?” 

“No, thank you, Mrs. Voorhees, we’re good,” Kai shouted towards the door.

He took a deep breath as his eyes resettled on Danny.  Just a rattled parent, a caring rattled parent, he reminded himself. 

“Look. I understand your concern, I really do, okay,” Kai began explaining as he made his way around his desk towards Danny. 

Making sure to hold eye contact, he continued. “Yeah, I don’t have any kids of my own, but I understand your concern for their safety because it's the same one I have. Not only do I make sure these kids are having fun and learning valuable things and creating amazing memories, I make sure they all know that safety is the number one priority." 

He paused, standing in front of Danny, making sure that Danny understood the sincerity behind his words.

He took the fact that Danny didn't start yelling again as a good sign, so he continued. "I made sure they knew it was okay if they didn’t want to participate. I was with them every step of the way. And we did, as a matter of fact, do lots of arts and crafts. I played my guitar every night and we all sang around the campfire and roasted marshmallows."

He paused for another moment, then continued. "I tried my hardest to make sure that everyone loved being there. Now, if Elena didn't, then I’m truly sorry.”

Danny stared at Kai, not saying anything for a few moments before finally letting out a sigh. 

“No..." He said, voice softer than before, "El, she uh, she loved it here. I just— you get my anger right? You understand why I’m so upset?”

“I do, and El’s very lucky to have a father who loves her so much, not everybody has that." He held Danny's eyes for a second longer, then looked at the clock on the wall behind him. "Listen, I would love to keep talking to you about this. Maybe we can schedule a meeting for tomorrow?” 

“Are you kicking me out, Kalani? Do you really think that’s a smart choice considering our talk?” 

“No,” Kai said, keeping his calm and collected Camp director voice, “my intention isn't to kick you out, and I really do understand your concerns. I love speaking to parents, especially ones so involved in their kids' lives, like you. Unfortunately, I do have a meeting at four that I can’t miss.”

“Can’t miss?” Danny’s eyebrows shot up, “Well if these people are so important then maybe I should stick around, give them a piece of my mind on what I think of Camp So!”

“What?” Kai froze, staring at Danny, his smirk reappeared despite himself. “What did you call it?”

Danny narrowed his eyes, “Camp So...”

Kai’s smirk grew wider. “It’s… it's camp fifty," he said slowly, he opened his hand to show Danny five fingers and curled his other hand to make an o and put them next to each other, “five oh, fifty.”

“What?” Danny scrunched his brows and looked at a picture on the wall next to him. “So.” He said matter of factly, pointing at a banner in the picture. “That says so!” 

“No," Kai let the smirk overtake his face with a full-blown grin as he walked over to the picture. "That," he said as he grabbed the picture and gave it to Danny, "is a painted five next to a painted zero.” 

Danny stared at it. “Well, that’s a poorly painted five and a very round zero.”

“Well, it was painted by kids so…” Kai replied. He looked at Danny incredulously. “Why would it be Camp So? That doesn’t even make sense.”

Danny looked up at Kai. “Camp so… dangerous?”

“No.” Kai said flatly, shaking his head, his smile still on his face.

“Camp… Camp Secret Operatives, huh?” Danny said, holding up an index finger, “Camp S.O. You’re training a bunch of spy kids.” He raised his brows up at Kai as if to say I got you there. 

Kai's laugh startled Danny into a grin.

“Well, Danny," Kai said, huge grin still on his face as he led Danny to the door, "I look forward to talking to you again about your concerns. My card’s at the front desk, we can schedule another appointment for tomorrow and continue our talk.” 

“Oh,” Danny said, “right, yeah, yes. Tomorrow. Concerns.” He handed the picture back to Kai and walked out the door.