Mordecai let her go and walked over to the pipe. It seemed to spray faster as he stared at it. He slumped down on the wall. He put his head back on his knees, which were bent. Danielle started to scrape the floor with her pocket knife she kept in her boot. Mordecai saw her do it. "Wish I had known she had that before," he thought.
Danielle started to plug up the pipe with her elbow again, and she growled at the pressure. "Stop, it's no use. We're gonna die either way and who really cares?" Mordecai complained. "Mordecai, we can get out of here."
"Mordecai?" She said. He grunted. "Mordecai, cut it out." Danielle sat next to him. Mordecai just tuned his head. Danielle put her hand on Mordecai's knee. The water rose to her waist when she sat down. Mordecai looked at her now.
"What are you-"
She rose her fingers to his lips.
"We're gonna escape. You were right."
She slipped her hands under her mask.
"Danielle?"
She took off her mask, revealing metallic purple eyes. Mordecai widened his hidden eyes. "Danielle, your eyes are...beautiful..." Danielle blushed. "Wish I knew what yours looked like."
Danielle stood up. The water was up to her shorts. "Dammit," she grumbled. Mordecai stood up too. It was only passed his knees since he was a bit taller than her. Danielle backed up, and bumped into Mordecai. He felt her,
and how warm she was felt good. The water was the freezing weather and Danielle was his fireplace. He wrapped his arms around her and rested his head on her shoulder. "Don't leave me here, promise?" He said. "I promise,Mordecai. I promise."
The water rose to Danielle's waist, and she started to panic. "Mordecai, we need to get out of here, now!" She yelled. She started to slam bricks and tried to cut through the adhesive holding them together. Mordecai was getting a bit frustrated with her, wanting her to calm down. She was driving him nuts with all the noise she was making. She finally lost it. She screamed. At the very top of her lungs. Then, she fell backwards, and Mordecai caught her. "God damn, Danny."
Mordecai settled her down in the corner. He walked over to the other, which was partially broken. He picked at it for a while. The water was around his neck when he sat down. "Shit." He mumbled. He took the pocket knife from Danielle's boot, and started to strike at the corner.
Eventually Danielle woke up, and she saw Mordecai had made a small crack in the wall with her knife. "What are you doing?" She questioned. "Using your knife."
Pieces crumbled off he wall, and Danielle's face lit up. "Mordecai! It's coming up!" The pieces from the wall floated in the water, which was now up to her stomach. Mordecai started to strike the corner with the back of the knife, and pieces started to break away.
It took a while, but Mordecai was able to create an inch wide hole the water was slowly draining out from. "Danielle. We're gonna make it out if you help me." "You got it , Mordy."
Danielle took the knife out of Mordecai's hand and folded the blade back inside of the crease. She took a stab at it and cracked pieces into the water. The corner was draining the water a bit faster now, but it rose up to her chest. She took a deep breath and stuck her two fingers in the corner hole, and broke off a bigger piece. Mordecai stepped in. He swung at it, and managed to break open the hole to about two inches around. It still wasn't enough to drain the water. Danielle kicked the hole with the metal tip of her boot, creating a bigger hole. It didn't break through the other side. It was a brick they got in the middle of.
In about ten minutes, the water was past Danielle's neck, and she struggled to keep her head above surface. Mordecai was ok, but he couldn't move correctly. Danielle stumbled, and finally fell below water level.
