The pipe was an easy fix thankfully, twenty dollars in parts and the problem was fixed. All the water was a different story, that solutions was almost two hours away. His mind rattled off different thoughts and possible ideas before settling on one.<br/><br/>"I've got an old water pump we can use to get some of the water out of here while i get a new pipe and parts. I'll grab it...  I brewed some of your favorite mead, I was going to bring it over later but you could definitely use some right now. Would you like to chill in the basement while I get this taken care of?" she'd always loved that basement. It was a brewery, workshop, and man cave all in one. The mead he'd mentioned was a recipe he made her for her birthday, he wasn't really sure why he'd made it for her.<br/><br/>Maybe it was nostalgia, maybe it was in the hope that a bottle of happy memories would soften the many blows this year was dishing out in her direction. Four deaths in one day, all of his oldest friends. Her father made him promise to protect her, that had been a long time ago. He decided in that moment, after the big meeting tonight he was going to confront her about what happened between them and get everything out in the open.