"Valdez!"

The scream could be heard around the apartment. Granted, it was a small apartment, enough for two people and that could have been part of the problem, but neither of its inhabitants had thought about it or was bothered by it at the beginning.

The problems came when they couldn't go out daily to do their jobs.

"Yes, Sunshine?" Leo Valdez knew that no matter how much sweetness he put in the nickname, his girlfriend was going to still be mad at him.

"Don't 'Sunshine' me!" Calypso frowned at him, arms crossed while standing in the middle of the hallway that connected the small living-room with the spare room. "What is the meaning of all of these?!" She pointed around, and Leo could see what had made her so angry.

The entirety of the hallway and most of the floor had been covered by boxes and space pieces of Leo's repair jobs. And covered meant exactly that, one could barely see the floor. In fact, Calypso was standing in the only space not occupied by the gears and it kind of looked like she was trapped in that small spot.

"I'm sorry, babe, I haven't had time to arrange all of these properly." Leo knew it was not a great excuse but sadly it was all the truth: while the lockdown had made it impossible for hundrends- if not, thousands -of people to go to work, Leo was lucky enough to be able to carry his work home.

Enough to say, this was the aspect that Calypso didn't like.

"Please, do so soon... I don't want to stumble with all this when I want a glass of water in the middle of the night and you come rushing thinking a burglar broke in..."

"You have to admit, it would make a great security system-"

"Leo!"

"I know, I know! I'm organizing right now!" Leo knew that no facts nor jokes would not suit well on his girlfriend about this. It kind of wounded his ego, but Calypso was right, it was a danger for them to have the apartment as disorganized as it was. Leo, in his own obliviousness, could walk into something and either damage himself of the gears.

And that's when Calypso would have his head.

He immediately placed away the gear he was repairing on a table and started to move the boxes inside the spare room. Now, he knew he had to place them better inside the spare room but for now, around the room would be freeing the hallway.

"Please, tell me you realize that there are too many of these things around..." Calypso pointed out, not as angry as she was before. Leo looked around and chuckled.

"All these?" He gestured the room, smirking. "Sunshine, these are only two days work! The only thing I have to remember is delivering it on time, but there would be weeks in advance!"

"You mean to tell me that every two days our hallway will look like a dumpster because of all the junk you have to fix?!"

"How dare you?!" Leo mocked her, dramatically. "This is not junk! These scrap pieces are only small parts in a bigger creation-"

"Are you preaching to me?"

"Glad you caught the joke early on, sweetie." Leo beamed at her before kissing her cheek and locking himself in the spare room. "Yell at me when lunch is ready!" He shouted from inside, leaving a perplexed Calypso behind.

During the rest of the morning, sadly for Calypso and the occasional neighbor that would be paying attention, the noise coming from the spare room seemed to be endless. The bangs of hammers, of dropping tools and the more-often-than-not swearing word was the background noise. Calypso had actually began using cancelling noise headphones because of that.

At the end of the second day- the day that Leo had promised that all the gears and scraps would be finished -, Calypso found out a very passed out Leo, sleeping against the wall and surrounded by scraps and gears.

"How do I...?" The question was left hanging in the air. A maze would have been easier to navigate than the scraps and Calypso was considering shouting again just to wake him up. But she didn't want the neighbors to think she actually hated Leo. So she tiptoed-slashed-surrounded everything to get there. "Leo. Leo, wake up!"

"Two with extra cheese!" Leo opened his eyes, not surprising Calypso with his choice of words. "Sunshine...?" Leo squinted his eyes, trying to wave away the sleepiness but the only thing that he managed was to knock over a pile of scraps and make an incredible about of noise for eight a.m. "Hehe... Oops?" He scratched the back of his neck while Calypso raised an eyebrow at him.

"Don't 'oops' me, Valdez... This, effective immediately, is a junkyard!" She gestured around the room and Leo had no extra excuses. He had no defense. "You won't work today, in fact, please start organizing, cataloguing, I don't know, but the mess has to disappear... Leo, you slept against the wall because there was either no room on the floor or you couldn't walk out without knocking something!"

"Fine, fine!" Leo finally admitted, sighing. "Yeah, I know I'm not the most organized person out there but at least I'm doing something..."

"I'm not questioning you work. I'm questioning your mess." Calypso hugged hi and rubbed his back. "I know is difficult to not be able to walk out any time you want, but please help me out... I don't have a beach for you to spread your things around and I don't notice..." Internally, Leo tried not to wince. He didn't think what a lockdown could do to Calypso.

To be trapped again.

"How about you help me? You always had a knack with organization..." He proposed to her, gently. "In return, I'll be your tester with that cuisine you'd been dying to try, what about it?" That pulled out a smile of his girlfriend.

One day at the time.

3/4 update. A/N at the end.