Title: Waterscape

Prompt: "Routine"

Series: Book One

Timeline: None specified.

"What are you doing?" The tinge of amusement in her voice let don't hew he wasn't in too much trouble, yet he couldn't help but feel a tad guilty when she caught him standing knee deep in the Gapra River with a spear in his hand. Never taking his eyes off the flow of the river, Leo replied, "Fishing. How's your back?"

Kendrix walked nearer to the shore, hand on the sorest part of her back as she watched him move to the right. Lowering herself down onto one of the logs, Kendrix sighed, "Still a little sore. How about you, how's your back?"

"My back is fine, its my legs that are sore, but other that?" He shrugged. "I'm good."

Silence.

"You know, I'm pretty sure Maya said that's not you catch the fish around here," She said after a moment.

"Yeah, well, Damon broke my fishing rod, so-"

She went over the routine mental-list of possible candidates for fishing rods until returning to the obvious choice. "You could always ask Mike if you could borrow his," She interjected.

"Mike never lets me borrow anything of his, not since we were kids," Leo confessed, catching a glimpse of one of the fish swimming merrily upstream. He didn't get a chance to hear Kendrix's question, raising the spear above his head he charged forward into the water. Kendrix watched more than a little amusement as he stabbed the spear into the water like a Wildman, muttering angrily at his enemy as he did so. After a moment he stopped and the water calmed around him, Kendrix learned forward a bit in the vain hopes of catching a glimpse of his game.

Finally, Leo stood up and turned to face her. To her genuine surprise the fish was skewered on the spear, flapping around as if it could escape. "You wanted fish, so I caught a fish!" He declared, awfully proud of himself.

Kendrix shook her head. "You could've just gone to the store, Leo."

"I know, but what's the point of going the store when you live next to a river full of a free fish?"

And when he put it that way, it was hard to argue with his logic.