And here we are again! I kinda let myself fall off the wagon with these, but now I am going to climb back on that wagon and give you guys something hopefully pretty great. :D

Day 16: BROTP

"Okay, Odd…"

"Yeah, William?"

"I know I said I'd be up for anything, but I like to think I'm a guy with at least an ounce of brains in my head." William paused. "We're gonna die if we get caught."

"Shh, not so loud!" Odd held a finger to his lips, then turned back to face their target. Jim was asleep on the rec room sofa, his body heaving with every snore. One of his hands was dangling from the edge of the bed, and Odd was holding a can of whipped cream just above it. "Steady…" he whispered. "Steady…"

After a few seconds hesitation, he pressed the trigger, releasing a gob of whipped cream into Jim's hand. "Yess!" he said. "Okay, now for the tricky part…"

"Hey, you had your fun, now it's my turn," William said, grabbing the feather from out of Odd's backpack.

"Your turn?" Odd held back a chuckle as William crouched by Jim's head and ran the feather across his nose. "After all you said about getting caught? I thought you were scared."

"Scared? Don't patronize me," William said, glaring up at Odd. "I'm just saying, I don't plan on dying. I got things to do. So you'd better get us out clean."

"We are not gonna get caught, William. Even if we do… I've got connections." Odd tapped his watch. "If you know what I mean."

William scowled. "I don't know if I trust your connections," he said. "Besides, the Supercomputer isn't even on right now."

"That's…" Odd paused. "That's a fair point. Two fair points. 'Sides, Jeremie probably wouldn't do a Return to the Past for this anyway…"

"Shh, he's waking up!" William pulled himself out of Jim's line of sight as he started to sputter and cough. For a second Odd was afraid that it wouldn't work - but then, with a satisfying squelch, he pressed his hand right up to his face.

They couldn't celebrate their victory for long - they hightailed it out of the rec room without a word. But they were hardly across the quad before they heard a yell, clear as day: "DELLA ROBBIA!"

"He definitely didn't see you," William said, looking back. "He's not even out of the room."

"No, I think he just made a guess." Odd grimaced. "RUN!"

- Carth