𝐢 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟

v. SECRET SPY CODE

    

ROBIN, DUSTIN and Icarus stand across from Chris who sat down, sighing. "I want to know everything first.. Last year, that was crazy, okay? All those things down in those fucking tunnels. Henderson, start from the beginning." He says and Dustin sighs. "There is no ti—" "Dustin.." Icarus cuts off Dustin, looking at him.

Dustin huffs, looking at Icarus. "We have to solve this first!" He exclaims and Icarus crosses his arms. "We're telling him first, he's right, he was totally confused last time.." He says.

"F-Fine.." Dustin says and glares up at Icarus before sighing and sitting down across from Chris. "Okay.. so as Max has probably told you, I went to Camp Know Where." He says, smiling a bit.

"She has not, but go on.." Chris nods and Icarus rolls his eyes, glancing at Robin. "Anyway, I got back yesterday, we went to set up a radio, Cerebro, I was trying to contact my girlfriend, Suzie, who I met at the camp. Anyway, so, when my friends all ditched me," Dustin said, emphasizing the end and then rolling his eyes in annoyance.

"Dustin, continue," Icarus scolded and Dustin sighs. "When they left, I intercepted a secret Russian communication." He says and Chris raised his eyebrows. "Oh-ho-ho, it might have been me and my Russian girlfriend." He teased.

"Christopher," Icarus scolded, his hands on the chair Dustin was sitting on. "This shit is serious and if you're just here to fuck around, get the hell out of here." He says and Chris sighs, staring at him for a fee seconds before looking down.

"I want a milkshake first." He says and Icarus looks at Robin. "It's on me.." He promises and she sighs before walking away. His usual was always a vanilla milkshake. "Continue, Henderson," Chris says and Dustin rolls his eyes, sighing.

"We think they might be plotting against our country but we can't translate it because we didn't realized they use a completely different alphabet." He says and Chris slowly nodded his head.

"What's in it for me?" He asked as he looks up. "Uh... credits for translation?" Dustin offered as he smiled at him. "Fine... But I want the milkshake first." He says and Robin walks back in with the milkshake in her hands, holding it out to him.

He grabs it but she wouldn't let go. "Robin, let it go." Icarus says and Robin just glares at Chris. "Robin!" He says and Robin sighs, letting go of the cup. Chris slowly sips the milkshake through the straw before looking back over at Dustin and Icarus.

"Why couldn't I have been fluent in Russian too?" She whispers as she sits down onto one of the chairs and Icarus gives a look to Chris. "Can you please just translate this shit already?" He asked and Chris sighs, putting the milkshake down.

He grabs the tape recorder from the table and glanced up once again. "Full credits." He says before pressing the play button. He sat there and listened before looking up and repeating the same exact words with a stupid grin on his face.

"Wow, speak more Russian to me.." Robin said in a monotonous voice to be sarcastic. Chris looks at him then looks back up at Dustin and Icarus. "What the fuck does it mean, Chris?" Icarus says as he sat down onto another chair next to Dustin.

Chris sighs, putting the tape recorder down. He repeats the words again, "means the week is long." He says and Icarus nodded. He says another sentence in Russian, "The silver car feeds." He says and both Dustin and Icarus share a look.

He says another sentence, "when blue meets yellow in the west." He says and Icarus furrows his eyebrows together. "That's all?" Icarus asked and Chris shakes his head. "Let me listen again, I could be wrong.." He says and Icarus sighs.

"Are you sure he knows Russian?" Dustin asked and Icarus looks at him with a look. Chris spends a couple of hours working on the tape, he writes down the words in Russian and then another hour he spent translating all of the words.

"Okay.." He said as he finally finished writing it all down. "So, I finally got it all, took a while but I did it.." He shrugs and Icarus nods, smiling. He looks at Dustin who gave him an annoyed look. "The week is long. The silver cat feeds when blue meets yellow in the west. A trip to China sounds nice if you tread lightly." He says, looking up.

He holds up the paper he was using to translate all of it. Icarus and Dustin both look at it and Robin rips it from his hand. "I could've done this!" She exclaims. "Would've taken longer.." Chris said with a smug smirk at her and she rolls her eyes.

After their shift was done, the group all leave the shop which Steve locks up as he spoke, "I mean.. it just can't be right." Steve says and Chris looks at him. "It's right.." He says and Icarus looks at Steve. "Yeah, Steve, he got it right." He says. "Honestly, I think it's great news." Dustin says.

"How is this great news?" Steve says and Icarus looks at him as Dustin, Chris and Robin walk ahead. He chuckles, looking at Icarus, "I mean, so much for being American heroes." He says and since no one is around, Steve grabs Icarus' hand.

"It's total nonsense.." He says as they continued walking. "It's not nonsense. It's too specific. It's obviously a code." Dustin explains. "What do you mean, a code?" Steve asked.

"Like a super secret spy code?" Icarus asked and Steve looks at him right away. "That's a total stretch." He says and Icarus moves closer. "You like when I stretch." He whispers and Steve sends him a glare. "Is it though?" Robin asked.

"You're buying into this?" Steve asked her and Robin sighs. "Listen, just for kicks, let's entertain the possibility that it is a secret Russian transmission. What'd you think they were gonna say, fire the warhead at noon?" She asked and Chris nods. "She has a point, Harrington." He says.

"And my translation is correct." He adds and Icarus nods his head slowly. "The silver cat feeds.. Why would anyone talk like that unless they we're trying to mask the true meaning of their message?" Robin asked them and Icarus nodded again. "Exactly." He and Dustin say at the same time.

"And why would anyone mask the true meaning of their message unless the message was somehow sensitive?" She asked. "Exactly." Dustin and Icarus say again causing Steve to mock them. Icarus pulls his hand away, smacking his arm.

"So I guess that confirms your suspicion." Robin says as she looks at Dustin then Steve. "Evil Russians." Dustin says and Robin looks back at Steve and Icarus. "I can't believe I'm about agree with this strange child, but, yeah, totally evil Russians." She said as she started to smile widely.

"So how do we crack it?"

"Well, I guess we try and see if there's a pattern." Chris says as he looks at them. Icarus realizes that Steve stopped so he turns around to see him standing at the kid's rides. "Steve.." He whispers as he walks over and Steve looks up at him.

"Quarter?" He asked and Icarus hissed air through his teeth. "Wanna ride that tonight but not m—" "if you say me, Rus, I swear to God.." Steve says and Icarus sighs. "Okay, jeez.." He says as he reached into his pocket and the other three realize and walk over to them as Icarus takes out coins.

"Sure you're tall enough for that ride?" Robin says in an amused tone as Icarus hands Steve a quarter. He drops it into the coin slot and it starts playing music. Daisy Bell. "You need help getting up, little Stevie?" Chris asked and Icarus shoves him as Dustin and Robin chuckle, both amused.

"Would you shut up and listen?" Steve says to them and sure enough they stay quiet. Dustin soon realizes, "holy shit." He says. "The music. The music!" He takes off his backpack and takes out the tape recorder to start playing the Russian code.

"I don't understand." Robin and Chris both say. "It's the exact same song on the recording." Icarus says and Dustin nods. "Maybe they have horses like this in Russia." Chris tried to explain. "You think so? You really think so, Chris?" Icarus said in a sassy tone to his friend who rolls his eyes. "This code, it.. didn't come from Russia.." Steve said then looked up at Icarus, Robin and Chris. "It came from here." He says. They all look at the horse.

authors note hopper at the restaurant watching the other couples while drinking alcohol and eating breadsticks is a mood