After leaving Stingray's with no proof to lock Silver up, Molly drove Demetri and Bert home, then drove Eli and Miguel back to her apartment complex since Eli was planning on staying at Molly's for dinner with her moms and to dye his hair.

Eli tried out green the day before, but he wasn't too big of a fan and luckily since it was temporary dye, he washed it out by nighttime. When he finally decided he wanted to go back to blue, he asked Molly if he could dye his hair at her house since his mom told him he wasn't allowed to dye his hair at home anymore after he stained the bathroom red.

So here they were, Eli sitting on the toilet seat of Molly's bathroom as she stood in front of him, gently massaging the dye into his hair.

It didn't take long for Molly finish covering his hair in dye since it was still pretty short. Once they were done, the two just stayed in the bathroom, not wanting Eli to leave dye over things in her house.

Eli still sat on the toilet seat while Molly sat on the edge of the bathtub beside him when both of their phones beeped. Molly was in the middle of a rant about the announcement of Robert Pattinson becoming Batman in a new movie. Molly was actually pretty excited for it. She had seen Robert Pattinson in a handful of movies and it was obvious he had range, but a lot of people were giving the movies announcement backlash.

Her rant was cut short when their phones on the counter beeped. They both leaned over to look at their phones and saw Sam texted the groupchat that was primarily their main friend group: her, Molly, Eli, Miguel, Demetri, and Robby.

"Everyone meet at the apartment complex in 15"

In seconds, she texted again.

"Demetri bring your work gear"

Molly's eyebrows furrowed, she looked down at Eli with a confused smile. "What do you think that's about?" She asked as Eli got comfortable letting Molly dye his hair again.

His eyes closed was he melted into her touch. He would've shrugged, but he didn't want to risk getting dye on his clothes so instead, Eli just hummed.

"No clue."

"Good thing you need to wash this out in 5." Molly giggled out and Eli let out an amused huff, tilting his head up and nudging Molly's hands away from his hair by moving his head side to side. Eli blinked at her, looking up through his lashes like as he subtly started to lean toward her.

Molly smiled, immediately catching on. She tightened her fingers in his hair, gently tugging him toward her. Hawk let out a soft noise—something between a sigh and a hum—and Molly felt the way his body instantly melted into her hold.

Their lips met, and Eli's hands instinctively found her waist, thumbs brushing circles against her skin as he leaned in, deepening it just slightly. The faint scent of hair dye lingered between them, but neither of them cared.

Molly grinned against his lips, pulling back just enough to be able to speak. "Was this what you wanted?" She murmured against his lips and Eli barely managed to nod before chasing her lips again, stealing another quick and lazy kiss as he hummed in agreement. "You're good at taking hints."

Molly rolled her eyes playfully. "Yeah, well, you're not exactly subtle." She teased and she could feel Hawk smirk against her lips.

Suddenly, Sam texted again and when Molly looked over to the two phones, her heart dropped when she realized Sam had only texted her this time.

"I'm sorry"

Eli, not noticing Molly's demeanor change, pressed one last kiss to her cheek and as he pulled back, he finally noticed the way Molly's breaths became just barely uneven.

His eyebrows furrowed and he leaned over the counter again to read Sam's text. Eli turned back to Molly and gently rubbed his thumb against her hip. "You okay?" He asked, his voice finally pulling Molly's gaze away from her phone.

She blinked, panic starting to bubble in her chest as she tried to think of anything Sam would be apologetic for. After a few seconds, Molly found a way to smile. "Yeah, um..." Molly breathed out before her eyes moved back to her phone, this time, looking to the time.

Molly turned back to Eli and took a small step back. "Go rinse your hair. We have ten minutes and you still have to style."

Eli playfully groaned but obeyed. He didn't want to leave Molly nervous like this, even if she was going to be right by him helping rinse the excess dye out of his hair. Molly leaned forward, her lips that were twisting into a smile meeting his to stop his complaining.

When they pulled away, Eli was grinning like an absolute fool as he moved off the toilet seat to kneel in front of the bathtub, Molly following after to turn on the water.

...

When they headed downstairs, Miguel, Robby, and Demetri were already huddle together. Molly wrapped her sweater tighter around herself as a breeze hit the courtyard. She let out a small shiver, making her and Eli's presence known for the three.

"So, uh, what's the emergency? Why'd you have me bring all my gear?" Demetri asked, looking between his four friends as Molly and Eli moved to stand on his right, Eli wrapping an arm around Molly to pull her into his side.

Molly, still hugging her sweater tightly around herself, shrugged cluelessly and Miguel mimicked her, shaking his head. "You know as much as we do. Sam told us to meet here." Miguel muttered, looking between him and Robby before he turned back to Demetri.

Molly squinted. So Eli didn't get the text and apparently... Miguel and Robby didn't either? They didn't bring it up.

"Wait, wait, wait." Molly blurted, shaking her head wildly. When Miguel, Robby, and Demetri all turned to her, Molly licked her lips nervously. "Did no one else get a really cryptic text after she told us to meet here? Sam texted me 'I'm sorry' and it's honestly freaking me out." Molly muttered, shivering from stress and the cold.

Why the hell was it so cold out? It's still summer!

Miguel was about to answer–tell Molly he didn't know why Sam would send that, but just before the words could pass his lips, Demetri's eyes nearly shot out of his head when he saw who was walking into the parking lot with Sam.

"I think I know why no one else got that text..." Demetri muttered, his eyes glued on the two girls walking toward the group.

Molly didn't turn right away, too busy giving Demetri a confused look while the three boys turned to see what Demetri was talking about.

"Tory?" Robby breathed out and Molly was sure her stomach sank to the floor.

Her head snapped to the side before she could stop herself. She hardly even processed Sam walking beside Tory because she was too focused on the aching in her ribs.

Her hands shook as they raised up and around her chest. Every step Tory took toward her felt like a strike. The cut to her face, the weight on her wrist, the kick to her ribs.

Eli didn't even need to look at Molly to know she wasn't going to react well seeing Tory. He stepped in front of her and put himself  between her and Tory.

Robby looked Tory up and down, when he saw her hand, he straightened up. "What happened to your hand?" He asked and Molly's eyes finally moved from Tory's face, down to her hands.

Molly's face softened when she saw it bloodied and wrapped. Tory opened and closed her mouth in embarrassment at all of the eyes on her. She looked down at her hand before she looked back up at Robby and moved it behind her back. "Uh, training accident. I'm okay."

"We think we have a way to prove Silver assaulted Stingray." Sam said, her eyes mainly on Molly than anyone else. The inner corners of her eyebrows lifted and her eyes softened as she looked at Molly, silently pleading with her to just hear her and Tory out. Molly only bit her inner cheek, her finger tapping against her arm rapidly.

"If the attack happened at the old dojo, Silver installed security cameras." Tory explained, and Robby quickly shook his head. "But that place was cleaned out." He brought up, but Demetri quickly butted into the conversation, shaking his head.

"That might not matter." He blurted, turning everyone's attention to him. "The systems that we sell at TechTown all save the footage to a central server. Silver probably took the whole system."

Tory started to smile, nodding her head excitedly at the thought of finally taking Silver down. "I think he did. There is a server in his office at the flagship dojo." She said and Molly took a deep breath, readjusting her stance to step further into the conversation.

"If we access it, we can find that footage. We could post that Stingray clip to their YouTube channel." Molly finally spoke, forcing her voice to be louder and not sound freaked out with Tory being there.

Everyone turned to look at her, but Molly's eyes stayed on Sam across the circle, who was also slowly starting to relax knowing Molly was staying for the plan.

Sam's smile turned into a smirk as she looked around the group. "Get ahold of everyone else. Let them know that we're taking down Cobra Kai tonight."

...

Molly trailed behind the group with Demetri as they slowly walked up the steps of the Cobra Kai dojo. Tory was leading the group and frankly, Molly would prefer to be as far from her as she could.

"If it's the same alarm system, I should be able to bypass it." Robby said from the front of the group, side by side with Tory.

Demetri snickered, making Molly finally look away from the dojo doors and turn to him. "Spoken like a man that's done this before." He chuckled out and Robby shrugged his shoulders.

"Karate wasn't my first hobby. I fractured a law or two before we met." Robby explained. Hawks eyes widened and Demetri's eyebrows raised, neither of them hearing this before. While Eli turned to Molly with furrowed eyebrows, Demetri leaned toward her ear, an amused smirk on his face.

"Oh, look at that. One boyfriend fractured a law, the other fractured an arm." Demetri muttered. Molly, keeping her eyes on Robby, smacked Demetri arm to shut him up.

Tory pulled a card out of her pocket and walked in front of Robby. "Or we could just scan my key card. So that those of us on probation keep from, you know, violating it." She said, her eyes on mainly Robby as she unlocked the dojo doors.

"Sorry we're late." A voice said from behind Molly. She quickly turned around hearing Chris' voice as he and the rest of Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang started to walk towards  the seven.

"Someone took forever to get ready." Chris said as he side eyed Mitch from beside him.

Mitch shoved his hands into his pockets at all the eyes on him and shrugged defensively. "It's the middle of the night." He grumbled and Molly shook her head, giving him a small smile.

"It's alright. You guys are here now." She reassured. Everyone standing in front of Molly turned to her and Nate's eyes widened as his eyes moved past her and to Tory.

"What is she doing here?" He spat, glaring daggers into Tory. As soon as Chris noticed Tory by the Cobra Kai doors, his back straightened and he took a protective step toward Molly, ready to step in front of her to block Tory from reaching her, but Sam shook her head crazily, stopping him.

"It's fine. She's with us." Sam defended. Molly swallowed a lump in her throat and pressed her lips together. "For what we're about to do at least." Molly blurted with a huff, her eyes on her teammates that just showed up instead of Sam, Tory, and Robby's eyes all staring into her.

"So what are we doing? All your text says is that we're gonna take down Cobra Kai. But how exactly?" Bert asked, looking down at his phone to Hawk's text to him and the others. Hawk turned back to Bert, a big smirk on his face. "Gonna show them who their sensei is. We might have proof he's a criminal."

"We're going upstairs to Silver's office. We need you downstairs as lookout." Molly said, looking back toward the building before she turned back to the huddle of teams in front of her and everyone nodded.

With that, Tory let all of Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang inside Cobra Kai, her, Robby, Demetri, Eli, Molly, Miguel, and Sam going upstairs to Silver's office while the others stayed downstairs for lookout.

"Pulling the clip off the server is first day of computer camp shit." Eli said as they walked into Silvers office. Molly chuckled, rubbing her hands together. "Move! This is my specialty." She said, pushing Demetri out of the way for the seat in front of the computer.

Demetri stared at Molly in shock as Eli unashamedly took the seat beside her, everyone else crowded around the two of them. He leaned down in the small between Molly and Eli and squinted at her.

"Uh... Eli and I beat you at the coding competition." Demetri said, his voice a little higher, but Molly just scoffed.

As she started to work, she looked over her shoulder to Demetri and rolled her eyes. "Yeah, by 0.1 seconds. That's nothing." She muttered, turning back to the computers

Demetri sputtered, opening and closing his mouth as he tried to come up with some defense. Before he could say anything, Eli turned his head and gave Demetri a small look. "Just let her do it." He whispered, and Demetri backed off.

Eli turned to Molly, his face softening as he leaned closer to her. "Got it?" He whispered quietly even though he knew Molly was just fine.

Instead of answering, the computer that the she was hacking opened to its surveillance page, all the days and logs right in front of her.

As Eli turned back to Molly, his smile turned into a smirk and he leaned closer to her. "Wow, I love you." He murmured, pressing a kiss to the edge of Mollys jawline. Molly felt her face heat up and she smiled when she heard Demetri cringe from behind them.

When Eli pulled away, Molly leaned toward the computer and continued to type. "We just have to upload the clip to the YouTube channel, and Cobra Kai is out of business." She muttered, typing in the morning after prom after remembering Stingray bring it up at their interrogation.

It didn't even take two minutes for Molly to find the clip. She perked up, looking just barely over her shoulder to look at everyone behind her before she looked back to the screen.

"I got it!" Molly yelled over their talking. Everyone immediately shut up and leaned toward the computer to see the attack.

"You wanna be Cobra Kai. Oh. So you wanna be Cobra Kai, huh?" Silver slurred, his words coming out with a drunk chuckle. He turned his body, almost as if he was ready to throw a punch at Stingray, but just before he could, the screen froze.

"Shit." Molly grumbled as a new window popped up over the surveillance footage in big red font.

"ERROR: FILE DELETED"

Then, the footage disappeared from the computer entirely. Molly opened and closed her mouth in shock and Miguel leaned down on the other side of Molly to look at her.

"What happened?" He asked and Molly threw her hands out to gesture to the computer. "That's all there is! The rest of it's been erased." She shrieked.

"There might be other footage we can use." Tory said and Molly sighed. She turned around to face Tory, ignoring the lit in her stomach looking at the blonde as her eyebrows raised. "Do you know the date and time?"

Instead of just telling Molly the time, Tory took a step toward her and leaned down to type it in herself. Molly flinched at how close Tory was, her entire body freezing as she waited for Tory to finish typing the information and back away.

When Tory finally stepped back, Molly looked back to the computer and Eli turned to Molly. From under the table, he reached his hand out and gently rubbed her thigh as Molly searched for the footage.

Molly quickly looked away from the computer to give Eli a grateful smile. When she turned back to the screen, the footage was there.

"Okay. I think I got it." Molly muttered as she clicked on the video to make it bigger. "Is this the clip?" She asked, not turning around to face Tory.

Tory leaned down to get a better look at the footage and Molly held her breath. Once she knew it was the right piece of footage, she nodded. "Yeah, that's the one."

"What are you doing here?" A voice echoed from the bottom of the stairs. Molly's head snapped to the stairs at the sound of Kyler's voice. She turned back to her friends and saw Miguel already looking down at her, Eli, and Demetri.

"We'll check it out. Stay here. We need that footage." Miguel whispered and the three nodded. As everyone else started to head downstairs, Demetri crouched down to Eli and Molly's seated height so he could look at their computers better.

"Do we think I can have a try at this at some point? Or are you just gonna hog the computer?" Demetri asked genuinely, breaking the comfortable silence that had grown since everyone left.

Eli rolled his eyes, but he was struggling not to smile as he looked to Demetri behind him and Molly. "Dude, can you just let her do it?" He asked, gesturing to Molly beside him, who was working at downloading the video as fast as she could.

Demetri stepped back, opening and closing his mouth defensively. "I'm just saying! I can help out!" Demetri complained and before Eli could fight back, the three of them heard footsteps coming towards the room.

Molly and Hawk jumped out of their seats. Molly gently pushed Demetri into the spot she was just sitting, her eyes glued to the office does. "Keep working on the download, yeah?" Molly muttered and Demetri quickly sat down in Mollys old seat as Eli and Molly stood in front of the table just as Kyler and two other Cobra Kai's walked in.

"It's just the nerd squad." Kyler complained with a groan. He turned to just Eli and tilted his head tauntingly. "You heard Kenny when he dropped your ass. Just a Faux-Hawk now."

Molly clenched her jaw as Eli rolled his eyes and shrugged. "You know what? That's life. You win some, you lose some, but you gotta move on." Eli looked Kyler up and down and snickered. "You never did. You're still pulling the same old bully act. Even though everyone you bullied has kicked your ass."

"I haven't." Demetri blurted, still staring at his computer. Molly raised her eyebrows and crossed her arms over her chest as she glared at Kyler. "Me neither. Even after he made that comment at the waterpark."

Eli's nostrils flared at the reminder of Kyler's comment. He had to admit, he wanted to fight Kyler about seven more times just for that one comment toward his girlfriend.

Eli looked to Molly and smirked. "Oh, don't worry, baby. You'll get your turn." He reassured before he turned back to Kyler. "Kyler's too stupid to ever learn his lesson."

Kyler's jaw clenched as he stepped forward, ready to throw the first punch, but before he could, Molly stepped forward. She grabbed his fist mid-air and. "Oh, no you don't." She muttered, throwing a punch right at his nose.

Molly punching Kyler set the two boys running at her and Eli. Molly focused on Kyler while Hawk dealt with the other two. She got a handful of punches on Kyler, and when he tried to get the upper hand, Molly grabbed a fistful of Kyler's hair and yanked him towards the table where Demetri was working.

She thought back to all the comment he made toward Eli and Demtri when she and Eli first started dating in sophomore year. Her sweet, poor Eli. Molly's jaw clenched as she slammed Kyler's head onto the table and dragged his face across its surface. Demetri quickly lifted the computer to avoid it getting knocked to the floor, his eyes on the screen instead of the fight.

As soon as Kyler's face reached the edge of the table, Molly let go of him, raised his head by his hair again and kicked his stomach. Kyler went flying backwards and he crashed into the wall right beside Demetri, who had just finished downloading everything he needed onto his iPad.

As Kyler started to get back up, Demetri stepped in, wanting a chance to finally fight Kyler.

Molly looked behind her to check on Eli and saw him still fighting the two boys.

Molly was quick to jump in on the fight, grabbing one of the boys fists just as he went to punch Eli in the face. She used her free hand to punch the boy in the gut and then the face. As he bent down in pain, Molly grabbed the back of his head and pulled it down just as she raised her knee.

The boy collapsed to the ground after getting kneed in the face just as Hawk and Demetri won their own fights.

Molly took a deep breath and tiredly put her hands on her hips as Demetri chuckled. "Man, that felt good!" He cheered, looking down at the three boys in the floor. He smiled wider when his eyes landed on Kyler. "Bitch!"

Molly watched Demetri with an amused look, her lips twisting up into a smirk. When he turned back to her and Hawk, Molly raised her eyebrows. "You feel better?" She asked and Demetri, still smiling, nodded his head.

Hawk patted Demetri on the back, making both him and Molly turn to him. "Great. Now, let's go."

The three of them ran out of Silvers office and down the stairs, Eli holding the tablet and Molly holding tightly onto Demetri's hand so neither of them tripped from how fast they were going.

"Miguel, we got it!" Eli yelled and Molly pulled her eyes away from the stairs just to see Miguel fighting Mitch.

Mollys entire face scrunched and she started to walk down the stairs a little faster. "Mitch, what the hell are you doing?"

Miguel barely looked away from his fight with Mitch to look at Molly, shaking his head wildly. "He's with Cobra Kai!" He yelled and Mollys eyes widened and her steps down the stairs so how got even faster. "What?!"

Just as they reach the bottom of the stairs, Kyler and the two other Cobra Kai's came up behind them from the top of the stairs and pushed the them to the ground.

Molly groaned as her body hit the ground, her knees and forearms rubbing against the linoleum so hard, it burned.

The iPad flew out of Eli's hands and slid across the floor—right at Anthony's feet. He grabbed it instantly and when Kenny noticed Anthony holding on the iPad, he pointed at him and screamed.

"Get him!"

The Cobra Kai kids immediately stopped their individual fights to circle Anthony. Molly's eyes widened and she scrambled up to stand as fast as she could as she thought back to their class with Chozen. "Protect the egg!"

It seemed like the rest of her team knew what to do because in seconds, they were all circled around Anthony, Molly next to Miguel and Eli.

Molly couldn't even see who was throwing punches at who. All she saw were fists flying toward her face and she frantically blocked them.

But as she continued to fight off the punches coming her way, Molly noticed that everyone in Miyagi-Fang was getting sent back a couple steps, cornering them together and making it harder for them to fight. Molly let out a small breath of air and looked over her shoulder. They all backed up so much, they were all practically standing on Anthony's toes. 

"We're not gonna be able to hold them!" Miguel yelled, and Molly nodded in agreement, wincing as fists hit her in the jaw.

"Fuck! There's too many of them!" She groaned and Anthony frantically looked down at the table.

"Ninety-five percent!" He screamed and Molly cursed to herself, trying to continue the fight, but could taste the blood in her mouth and there ache in her arms and legs. She kept fight though. They were so close to Cobra Kai being done. She could hold off a little longer.

Molly and get team started to get so squished from being cornered by Cobra Kai, she had no room to lift her arms and defend herself anymore.

"They're trapped. Don't let 'em out!" Kenny yelled when he noticed not just Molly, but also Robby, Eli, and Demetri also struggling.

Molly finally was able to start putting faces to the fists getting thrown at her and her eyes widened as Big Red raised his fist, ready to throw a punch her way. Molly shut her eyes and turned her head to the side, her arms trapped by her side from how many bodies were cramped around her.

Just before Big Red threw his fist at her, the sound of the TV being turned on made everyone in the dojo freeze. Molly relaxed when she realized a fist wasn't gonna come at her. She slowly looked up at the TV across the room and watched as Tory walked up to Silver on the screen.

"I need to talk to you." Tory said and Silver chuckled, turning all of his attention to her.

"Nichols. What's on your mind? Excited to take things to the next level?" Silver asked and Tory scoffed.

"What's the point? You'll just pay to make me champion again." Tory spat with a shrug and Silver straightened up at her words. "So you know about the ref..."

Molly looked around the room at all the Cobra Kai kids. She watched as their faces fell and slowly, they started to back away from her and her friends.

'Have you told anyone else?" Silver asked, his eyes on the ground.

"So you don't deny it?" Tory asked and almost instantly, Silver answered. "Not at all. I paid him off to make sure Cobra Kai won. It was an insurance policy. You still won the fight."

Molly's face fell at Silver's words and her hands formed fists at her side. Anyone with eyes could've seen that she could've won that fight. She should've won.

"That's it?"

Everyone jumped at the voice behind them and Molly had to hold back gasping at the sight of Silver, his shirt untucked from his pants messily and his ponytail falling down.

He let out a laugh that was almost villainous. It sent a chill down Molly's spine as he turned to Daniel. When the hell did he get here?

"That was your big plan, LaRusso? Breaking into my dojo to steal some footage that changes nothing?" Silver laughed out and almost instantly, Robby and Tory stepped forward.

"It wasn't his plan." Tory interjected. Silver turned around to face her, his eyes wide and the rest of his face fallen.

"It was ours. And it changes everything." Robby added and Silver just stared at the two before he blinked and looked to the rest of his students. "Our enemies... think they can keep attacking us with no repercussions." Silver breathed out as he walked towards his students.

The kids in Cobra Kai parted their crowd to let Silver stand in the middle of them. He smiled, looking around at all of the teens in front of him. "And what does the enemy deserve?"

When none of his students responded and he was met with silence, Silver's face faltered slightly. "You think I'm the only one willing to go to these lengths? Their senseis broke into my home tonight." He seethed as he pointed at the Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang students.

"My home!" He screamed, making a couple students jump. "Attacked me, unprovoked. But here I am. The only one left standing." He chuckled out the last sentence.

Molly looked back to Daniel across the room. It was only him, Stingray, Carmen, and Amanda. No Johnny and no Chozen. Molly gulped, a chill went down her spine as she took a shaky breath.

"They think they're entitled to victory because their way is right and our way is wrong. But that's not how it works. There are no morals to the story, no happy endings. Life isn't a fairy tale. It's a competitive sport. Right and wrong, there's no such thing. There are only winners... and losers. Cobra Kai builds winners, because we're willing to do whatever it takes to come out on top." Silver continued on before he turned around to Daniel.

"Everything you did to try and stop me amounted to nothing but pain. You got your ass kicked, Danny-boy. Now, you can either accept that... or I can kick it again right now." Silver taunted with a big smirk, almost encouraging Daniel to come up and fight him.

Amanda took a small step toward her husband, pressing a hand on his shoulder. "We're all with you, Daniel. Do what you have to do." She whispered and as if that was all he needed, Daniel immediately took a step towards Silver.

Silver rolled up his sleeves as everyone else moved to give the men the space to fight. "First, I took care of Chozen. Now you. This is where Miyagi-Do ends." Silver said as he circled Daniel before finally stopping in front of his students.

Molly felt a hand grab hers and she jumped a little. She pulled her eyes away from the two men to see who grabbed her hand and she instantly locked eyes with Eli.

"Miyagi-Do existed before any of us. It'll be around long after we're gone. The roots are strong, so the tree will survive." Daniel breathed out, getting into his fighting stance. Silver chuckled, looking back at his students before he turned back around to Daniel, attempting to sneakily punch him.

Daniel blocked every punch Silver tried to send him and even when Silver swung his leg around to kick him, Daniel ducked and dodged it. He got back up and smack Silver across the face, knocking the tall man to the ground.

Molly gasped, taking a small step back, pulling Eli with her. They watched as Silver got back up and tried to punch Daniel again, but Daniel grabbed his fist and spun Silver around.

Once Silver was in a spot where he couldn't hit Daniel, Daniel brought his hand up and hit Silver under his arm. He pushed Silver to the ground, still holding onto his arm that had gone limp.

Silver tried to break free, but Daniels grip was too strong. Silver found a way to maneuver around and kneel onto one leg. He brought his hand out to punch Daniel in the chest like Kenny had to Eli a couple nights prior, but Daniel blocked it with his own knee and punched Silver in the face.

Silver got back up and looked angrier than ever. Molly was almost impressed by his commitment.

He stood in front of Cobra Kai's collection of trophies and grabbed onto one of the trophy stands to support his weight as Daniel lifted his knee, ready to do the crane kick.

Suddenly, Silver grabbed a hold of a trophy and turned back to Daniel. Just as he was about to use the trophy as a weapon, Daniel kicked him in the face.

Silver fell back into the glass Cobra Kai light, the logo shattering under his weight.

Daniel stared down at Silver on the ground as Cobra Kai students started to walk towards Silver. They all took off their Cobra Kai merch and threw them on top of him, all of them finally giving up on Cobra Kai.

...

The ambulance and police showed up around ten minutes after all of the Cobra Kai students quit. A lot of people apologized, Big Red came over with Little Red trailing beside him to apologize to Molly. Apparently Little Red threatened his brother to apologize to Molly for all the shit he's pulled.

Now, Molly sat on the back of an ambulance, wrapped in a blanket she was sharing with Eli as she curled into his side. She was completely knocked out, drained from everything that's happened the past couple days and honestly, still a little drowsy from all the weed she had the night before.

On the other side of Molly was Demetri and Anthony. The three boys all talked quietly to not wake up the girl. They watched as Silver got arrested and Johnny and Chozen came back to the dojo in a limo.

After checking on his dad, Robby walked over to the four, Tory trailing behind him.

"Hey, my dad's getting checked up right now, but once he's done, I think we're all gonna head home in the limo. Do you guys want a ride?" Robby asked, nodding toward the limo parked on the street. It made sense for them to take it—he, Johnny, Carmen, Miguel, and Molly were all heading back to the same apartment complex, and none of them had a car except Molly.

Eli followed Robby's gesture until he saw the limo. After a moment, he shook his head and turned back to Robby. "Nah, we're good. Molls drove here anyway."

He glanced down at Molly, still asleep against his shoulder, and he absentmindedly ran a hand up and down her arm. A soft smile tugged at his lips as he watched her. "She wouldn't want to leave her truck here." He murmured.

Tory's gaze moved from Hawk to Molly, lingering on the fresh bruise across her cheek, right over the scar from the school fight.

"Is she okay?" Tory's question slipped out before she could stop it, her voice cracking just slightly.

Demetri's head snapped up, startled by her concern. Even Eli looked up at her, masking his surprise better. He turned his attention to Molly and nodded.

"Just tired." He said simply, then looked back up to Robby. "Thanks, though. We'll probably get there around the same time as you guys." Eli said and Robby finally looked at Molly, his expression shifting. His lips pressed together, and his nose scrunched a tad, but Eli didn't notice. Robby blinked, pulling himself from his thoughts, and nodded.

"Alright. See you." His voice was quieter now. Eli gave a nod in as a goodbye. He turned back to Molly as Robby and Tory walked away. He shifted a little closer, careful not to wake her and then pressed a gentle kiss to her temple.

Demetri, however, was still staring after Tory and Robby with comically wide eyes. "Tory worrying about Molly. That's new." He muttered sarcastically.

Demetri turned to Eli, expecting him to agree, but instead, Eli had a small frown on his face. He was still watching Molly as he shook his head. "Not new. They were really close in Cobra Kai." He muttered and Demetri's smirk faded. He knew that they used to be friends, but after everything that happened... it was easy to forget.

Before he could say anything else, Eli gently shook Molly's shoulder. "Baby, wake up." He whispered. Molly stirred, letting out a soft groan as she curled further into his side.

Eli chuckled, shaking her a little more. "It's getting late. Do you want me to drive you home?" He asked and still half asleep, Molly nodded, blindly tugging her keys off her belt loop and holding them out to him.

Eli took them, wrapping the blanket they'd been sharing fully around her before helping her to her feet. He shot Demetri and Anthony a small nod before leading Molly toward her truck.

"Do you wanna sleep over?" Molly mumbled sleepily as they walked. Eli scoffed playfully, looking down at her with a grin. "Is that even a question?"

Molly hummed, blinking up at him—only to find him already looking at her. A slow smile spread across her face just before Eli leaned down, pressing a kiss to her lips.

emily speaks...
hot take: i may hate writing the season 5 finale more than ANY fight scene throughout the series (i have to do this four more times)

BUT WE ARE OFFICIALLY ONTO SEASON 6!! VERY EXCITED WE ARE IN FOR A TREATTTTT