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WHO: Euterpe & Padraig
WHEN: Boxing Day afternoon
WHERE: Dublin, Ireland
WHAT: Swimmings!

Meet me at the pool in a half hour? I'll be inside already!

She'd sent the text in the early afternoon of Boxing Day, knowing that Padraig would be back from London and relaxed from his Christmas activities with his brothers. True to her word, Euterpe had gone to Christmas services to hear the singing and always felt like she was on a high for a few days after. It didn't matter that it was Christian and not Greek. All that mattered was that it was music, and that everyone listening and singing truly felt it.

And today Euterpe was going to feel something else: the excellence of swimming in a warm pool in the middle of winter with a new swimsuit. She did laps to start with, disappearing each time beneath the water and letting the heavy water muffle the loudness above. At the end of the lane she saw Padraig come through the door and grinned, pulling herself from the pool and trotting over towards him. (Certainly not running because that was against the rules. A tiny jog only.)

"Hi!" she said, pushing her wet hair back over her shoulders. "Merry Christmas! I'd hug you, but I'm a bit wet."

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Padraig laughed at Euterpe and he smiled widely. "Merry Christmas!" He pulled his shirt over his head and stowed it in a cubby with his bag which left him clad only in his trunks. "That suit is impressive!"

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"Nice, isn't it?" Euterpe asked, hand on her hip as she cocked it to one side and smiled at him. "This is it's first outing and so far it's not tried to expose me to the other swimmers. But the day is still young, so you might have to protect my modesty."

Not that Euterpe had much modesty. She was well aware of her good looks and enjoyed flaunting them.

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Padraig laughed and he glanced out over the pool at the other swimmers. "I'll do what I can, we bishops try our best to protect modesty!"

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Euterpe dropped her pose and slipped her arm arm Padraig, getting her pre-dampened for the pool. "I really want to push you in," Euterpe admitted, "but I think we'll get kicked out."

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Padraig laughed and he turned to his friend with a wicked grin. "And here I was thinking the same thing! I suppose we'll have to settle for acting like adults, but I plan to throw a tantrum about it later."

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"Come on," Euterpe said, dragging him towards the pool with a grin. "You should be as wet as I am." She let go of his arm and then jumped into the pool - half-dive, half-fall - and then swam a few long strokes underwater before surfacing and looking for Padraig.

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Padraig followed her, his own entry to the water much more controlled that her own. He lowered himself in using his arms, until he could let go and dip his head under.

He loved water and swimming was one of his favourite pastimes. When he surfaced, he grinned widely at Euterpe.

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Euterpe did a lazy breast stroke over to her friend, ducking her head under the water so that she could get her hair back off her face again. "How were your brothers?" she asked him, beginning to swim in circles around him.

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"It was wonderful to see them," Padraig replied, turning as she circled him. "George couldn't stop cooing about the Duke and Duchess' unborn child though."

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Euterpe made a little face at that. "I'll let him take care of the baby-cooing," she told him. "I've never been all that maternal."

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Padraig cocked his head to the side and then he said, "me neither, funny that," and he grinned a little impishly. "So are you going to make me play water games? Marco Polo? Pool volleyball? Shark and minnow?"

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"The only Polo I know is Marco," Euterpe said, still swimming in her circles with a grin. "Shark and minnow," Euterpe said, pausing to tilt her own head in question. "Don't know how to play that one, but I can be an excellent shark." She bite her teeth in the air, diving at Padraig to push him under.

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Padraig gulped in a deep breath as the muse suddenly propelled herself towards him. Then he was under water and trying not to laugh because then he might drown. When he surfaced, he laughed and shook his hair, sending water flying everywhere. "That was very sneaky and evil," he informed her.