Midnight Sun

'fricken piece of-" Jake cursed the broken water filter, only to be hushed by a sharp glance from his partner's ghostly light blue eyes. Whatever her name was, Natalya or something, had somehow managed to scavenge beside him through the long, dreary weeks. Not like he didn't owe her anything, after that near escape from death a while back. Like it mattered, she didn't really take too much food, and could get into places he couldn't..with a few nice surprises over the days.

Like this water purifier. If only he could make it work, it would supply him with fresh, clean water until..until..well, until it broke that is. Grumbling to himself, he tossed the case over to the girl. "see if you can fix it"he sighed, turning back to the three or four pieces of spoiled food he had collected in the afternoon: an overripe apple, a rotten banana and a slice of cake that could do for food if they couldn't find anything else to eat before dark. ripping the cake in half, he turned back to Nat, only to find her holding out a perfect, in-tack water purifier out to him. he looked around, trying to find the other one she had obviously thrown away. With a shrug, he traded her the water purifier for the slice of cake.
"i fixed it for you" the young girl squeaked after devouring her food, with a curious glace from Jake.
"Really?? Huh". he finished his food, and with a quick sip from the purified water, looked at her again. "Your a scary, scary child, you know?"

She beamed her angelic smile.

I think i actually got through my writer's block on this (wahoo!). i'm thinking on naming the next on either Iron Lotus or Ragnarok.