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“You have to run separate water lines for that,” she said.
“Yeah… and?”
“And… maybe they started the line and then just plopped it in wherever it would fit when they had to sell the house. Turned off the water so no one would know.”
“They would have to be running a pipe into the basement and into the sump pump.
She shrugged. “I mean, did you check for that?”
“No. Because that’s asinine. No one would do that.”
“Will it hurt to check that before you go hiring an expensive plumber and eating into your profit?”
“I guess not…” he trudged through the water and knelt down over the drain. “Guess you’ll get to hold the light for me after all. Just train it right here…” He positioned it where he needed it, squinting down into the flooded chamber under the drain hole.
“They’d have to be stupid to…” he trailed off when he saw it. A pipe he’d just assumed came from somewhere else in the basement. Except the only drain down here was the one he was currently kneeling over. “What the actual… where doesthatgo?”
“What?” Teagan asked. “Where does what go?”
“This pipe… there’s no laundry sink down here… it’s just this drain.”
Teagan raised her eyebrows. “Well, well, well.”
“Wait here…” he splashed to the stairs and up them two at a time. He found the thing he was looking for in his tool chest upstairs. A seal for the end of the pipe. Reaching down, he screwed it on. “Go turn on that water for me.”
The previous owners couldn’t be that stupid, right? It wasn’t this simple of a fix.
“I swear if this fixes it…” Teagan began.
“I will kiss you,” he finished for her.
He heard her pause on the stairs, only for a brief moment, before continuing up.
A few moments later, he heard her in the backyard. “Now?”
“Yes, now!” he called.
The pipes groaned to life, and he heard the water flow through the pipes. And…
Nothing.
Nothing bubbled up from beneath him. Nothing at all.
“Holy shit.”
“What? No good? Want me to turn it off?” she asked through the window.
“No, no, it’s fixed! I fixed it. We fixed it!”
Jaxon wondered if he sounded as surprised as he felt. They’d fixed it.
Teagan really had, but he wasn’t about to admit to that.
“No kidding?” she replied, sounding like she was grinning. He turned to look up at her face in the window.
“No kidding.”
“Woo!” she whooped, leaping to her feet and disappearing from the window.
