"I know I said it wasn't a good idea, but desperate times call for desperate measures, besides... maybe it wasn't that bad of an idea."

Eliza smiled, "You know I'd be more than willing to, and if you say Mr. Miller has no objections to letting me onboard I will gladly do it... but remember you also made a good point."

"Right, right, the kids..." Hawkeye began thinking, hoping a solution would come to mind. "I don't know... I'm sure we'll think of something, or someone who can watch them."

"What about Ms. Withers?" Eliza suggested.

"Our old teacher?"

"Yeah!"

"Eliza, do you even know if the old woman is still alive? She was like sixty at least when we graduated."

"Believe me Hawkeye, she's the kind of person who'll probably live to see the end of the world. Besides, I think you're just worried that she'll remember that we were the ones who egged her house all those years ago."

Hawkeye chuckled, "While that might be true, do you know if she still lives in Crabapple Cove?"

"We can always find out."

/scene/

To their relief it wasn't locked. Hawkeye and Eliza both opened the front gate of the fence with the two kids trailing behind. It was the same old fence the two had climbed over nearly fifteen years ago after egging the same old home that the same old Ms. Withers lived in.

Once they reached the concrete steps to the home and the small concrete porch, Hawkeye rapped his hand against the door to see if anyone was home.

It didn't take long for someone to answer.

The little door swung open from its metal frame, and Hawkeye had to quick jump out of the way as not to get smacked in the face.

A small but peppy old woman stood in the doorway to the home and peered at the two adults and their children standing infront of her.

After a moments observation, she pushed up her glasses and addressed them.

"You two haven't come back to egg my house again, have you?" She said with a bite of sarcasm.

Hawkeye and Eliza both winced, having hoped that she would have forgotten about that by now.

"Now, now, come inside already and tell me why you're here," she said, returning inside and leading them on.