The Pacifier

Sewage Swimming and Ball-pit Diving

We had about forty-five minutes left to go before we could go home. It's been a long day. From a big man thinking he was all that, to Dimitri and Alex giving me crap; I'm just done. "Hey."

I turned to look and there was the Principal coming up to me. "Hi."

"Rough day?" She asked.

"You have no idea, but I don't think it can get any worse." I told her. I looked at Peter seeing a crayon rolling off the table, and quickly caught it. I handed it to him, and smiled.

"Yea, I hope it gets better for you." Something then caught her eye behind me, causing me to turn and look.

There walking towards us was Clint. "Hey, you." He said once he was close enough.

I stood up, and he grabbed me in a hug. "How was your day? Did the kids give you a hard time?" he asked.

I pulled away and sat back down. "Not near as much as they have been. I said something to them in Russian this morning, and since then they at least respond to me now. I actually exist again. I take it you kept up with the Russian lessons. Are Lulu and the boys getting them also?" I asked.

"Oh, yea? We've been keeping it up with all of them but Peter is still learning and Sebastian hasn't really started yet. Although, now that you're here again you can take it back over I never was that great at it. It was usually Laura, Steve and Bucky who would speak it around them. I just heavily supported it. What was..." He was cut off by the GPS beeping.

I grabbed it quickly and pulled it up. The Red 1 and Red 2 monitors were going off, and moving fast. I glanced at Clint. "We'll take my car its faster. Plus, I can call Steve on the way to get Lulu and the boys. Claire, emergency you have the kids; until Steve or Bucky gets here." Clint said and then we ran toward his car.

We jumped in, and sped off. Clint calls Steve as I holler out directions. "Steve, hey man. Nat and I had an emergency, don't worry everything is ok. Just a little problem, but I'm going to need you or Buck to pick up Lulu and the boys. Yea, ok. Thanks man. Bye."

"Um, Clint, stop. It went off road, but it still says to go straight." I told him pointing at a wall that had construction on the other side.

"Hold on, we are going through it." He said then floored it once again. He drove straight into the wall.

When we came out the other side the monitors just stopped. They were still beeping, but stopped moving. We jumped out of the car, and followed the signal to a manhole. Clint and I muscled it up, and off to the side. He jumped down; then held his arms up to me. I jumped down as well and he helped steady me. I looked around, and motioned forwards. We jumped down in to the knee-high sewage. Then followed it to the red light beeping from below the surface. We both took a deep breath, and jumped down into the bigger, deeper area. When we both came back up for air, we held onto a bracelet each that had the words "Haha," taped to it.

I sighed, "Well that was fun."

I then swam to the edge, and climbed up. Looking over myself, and seeing and smelling nothing but sewage. "Come on, I need a shower. Maybe we can get some trash bags from the construction workers to protect your car's seats." I finished saying as Clint climbed up the same way looking and smelling the same as well.

Once we were both out of the manhole, and got some covers for the car. We headed back to the house. We went ahead and got the covers out of the car and threw them away, and then walked inside. I walked in first, hearing Steve, Bucky, and the kids in the living room. I started that way with Clint right behind me.

"Ew," everyone stated. I'm sure seeing and smelling us.

I held up the bracelets, and smiled, "Haha!"