Author's Note: Sorry for taking so long to upload, I'm being invaded by exams and either not getting the time to type this up or being too idle. Then when I finally did decided to do this story, I came down with ultra writer's block, so please forgive me if this chapter sucks.
I know this is a short one, but hopefully, I'll have the next chappie up very soon for you.
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Wally woke up early and looked down at Kuki, who he had cradled in his arms. She was still fast asleep.
Wally smiled and tightened his grip around her then carefully let her go as he sat up. He stretched a few times, stopping in pain as his arm was still extremely painful. He then grabbed the oars and continued to row. Gazing at Kuki to keep his mind off the pain of his arm. as he kept rowing at a steady rhythm.
Kuki woke up about an hour later, she looked up at him and beamed, he smiled back at her.
She sat up and sat onto the bench opposite.
They sat in silence for a while, then Kuki broke it.
"Do you know which way we're going?" She asked.
"Nah, not really. As long as we reach land, we'll try and figure something out from there." Wally replied with a shrug.
Kuki stretched and gave a yawn.
"How's your arm?" She queried and nodded at it.
"Hurts like hell." He replied, slowing his rowing action to lift his arm and look at it.
"Ouch, that's swelled even more, it looks real bad." She got up and squeezed into the small space on the bench next to him. Gently taking hi9s arm, although that still really hurt.
"Maybe you shouldn't row anymore." She suggested. "It might be what's making it worse."
Wally sighed and put the oars down.
"Well, what do we do now?" He asked bluntly.
Kuki just shrugged, and placed her head onto his shoulder lightly. He rested his head on hers and closed his eyes, relaxing in the silence.
A sudden beeping noise made them both jump. Wally then realised that is was his transmission watch. He pressed its button and watched the screen as Nigel's face appeared on it.
"Numbuh 4? Where are you?" He asked.
"We're in some sort of lake or ocean or something. I don't know." Wally replied.
"Well, what are you doing there?" Nigel asked, sounding rather agitated.
"It was the delightful and another one of their new gadgets. Long story." Wally sighed.
"Okay...Is there anything that you can see or recognise, a landmark or anything?" Nigel tried to figure out where they were.
"No..." Wally shrugged.
"There was that Weeping Willow thing!" Kuki interrupted.
"Oh yeah, It was like a small island with some tree in it." Wally remembered, "We're away from that now though."
"Hmm, weeping willow." Nigel thought aloud. "Of Course! You're on the reservoir!"
"The what?" Wally was confused.
"The reservoir...It's just outside Cleveland, just made the papers because of its size, it's said that it's bigger than our town." Nigel explained.
"Well, can you come and get us or something." Wally groaned, not really caring about Nigel's boring facts.
"Fine, I'll have Numbuh 2 go and search for you. End transmission!"
When he'd disappeared, Wally looked back at Kuki, who was giggling hysterically.
"What?" He chuckled, her laugh becoming contagious.
"You had your transmitter the whole time?" She said between laughs.
"Yeah! Come to think of it...I did!" He laughed.
They sat in fits of laughter and the time passed quickly before Hoagie managed to find them.
"He lowered the steps of the C.O.O.L.B.U.S. so that Wally and Kuki could get on and smirked as they boarded the transport.
"I'm not even gonna ask what you guys got up to alone." He teased.
Wally glanced at Kuki and subtly held her hand as they began to lift back up into the air.
"Na, you wouldn't be that interested." He grinned, she beamed back.
