When Lance sticks his foot in his mouth, he drags his friends into a baby
sitting nightmare.

Disclaimer: The characters from Voltron are NOT mine! I just want to borrow them and make them dance like puppets until I'm bored.
Lance knocked on Jenna's door. "Time for school." He hoped that she was ready and wouldn't have to go through another two hour screaming fit. Jenna was only a toddler, but was a picky about what she wore more than any high school senior. After five minutes, Jenna walked out of her room carrying a fish bowl. Interestd, Lance asked her, "What's that?"

"Turtle." Jenna walked into the kitchen and put the fish bwl on the table and sat down, waiting for breakfast. Lance followed her and looked inside the fish bowl. To his surprise, it was empty. Hoping for the best, he asked her, "Where is your turtle?"

"Turtle go bye-bye."

"Where is it?"

"Went bye-bye." Eyes widening in horror, Lance grabbed the phone and yelled over his shoulder, "GUYS! WE'VE GOT A PROBLEM!" He dialed 911 and nearly jumped out of his skin when the operator answered, "911, what is your emergency."

"I'm not sure how to say this, but I think the little girl I'm watching swallowed her turtle."

"I beg your pardon."

"I agreed to watch my friend's little sister and I had no idea that she had a turtle but when she came out of her room this morning, she had a fish bowl that she said had her turtle in it when I looked it was empty so I asked her where the turtle was and she said that it 'went bye-bye' and when I asked her again and she just repeated what she said I think she may have sawllowed it."

"Sir, you're going to have to calm down and repeat that."

"No time, I'll take her to the hospital myself. It might be faster that way." Lance hung up and turned. The others were staring at him as it he had grown an extra head. Returning the stares, he simply said, "She swallowed her turtle." Pidge yelled in shock and stared at Jenna, as if waiting for her to turn into a turtle. Hunk grabbed the phone book and started looking up 911. Keith and Sven watched the trio as Lance, Hunk and Pidge continued to panic. Sven picked up Jenna, who was enjoying the noise, while Keith yelled over th noise, "It would be easier if we took her to the hospital." After a moment of shocked silence, the others agreed.

In the Emergency Room waiting room, Lance paced non-stop. "It's been two hours, wouldn't they know something by now?" Pidge looked up from the magazine that he was reading and shrugged. Lance continued pacing. "What if she gets sick? What if they can't get it out? What if she ends up poisoned by it? How big was it? How could she have swallowed it? I didn't know that she had a turtle." Hunk and Sven walked in, returning from the snack bar. Looking up from the magazine and seeing their looks of question, Pidge shook his head. Lance turned and asked Hunk, "What did I do wrong?"

"Nothing. Most kids her age swallow something. I mean, most times it's loose change, watch batteries, worms, bugs, the clippings from a lawn, marbles..."

"HUNK!" Lance yelled in horror. "I didn't want to know that!"

"I'm just saying that a two year old can and will do a lot of strange things. when I was her age, I swallowed a marble."

"I'm not going to ask." Lance stopped pacing and said out loud, "If she's okay, I'll take her out for ice cream. I'll buy her as much of it as she wants." Keith walked in at that moment, with Jenna. Smiling, Keith said, "I have great news. She's going to be okay." Sven picked up Jenna and asked, "What ws it? What did she swallow?"

"Nothing. Jenna gave her turtle away weeks ago. I called the teacher to double check after the x-ray came back, showing that she was fine. Jenna was pretending tht she still had one." The others sighed, thankful that it was over.

After a four hour trip to every single places that Jenna wanted to go, they returned to the apartment. There was a message from Becka waiting for them. She would be back in three days.