"I offered you mine." She said and then led him onto the water. It took little to no focus, mostly because she'd been doing this all her life. "Tonight, I hope you have enough power to not mess with me but still be able to crawl into my bed." She said and kissed his jaw lightly, mostly because it would be awkward trying to kiss him while short and next to him instead of in front of him.

**

"You're not supposed to be here and you should leave. Now." He said and started packing up his briefcase. "Unless there's something else that's worth delaying my flight for?"

"There might be," Andy replied, waving a hand to the door behind her. It slammed shut, and she had to hide a wince when she heard Riley start fussing outside. She hadn't meant to scare him. "We need to have a discussion about Jason-Alexander Paxton."

---

"Well, lucky for us, I was taught to wait until my partner was good with it," Jason teased gently. Leaning down, he gave her a kiss. "I think we'll be okay... Unless you actually do want it?"

"I don't, but I also do. I'm 17 Jason, I want experiences, I want to be with someone and think everything will be alright in the end. I'm most definitely not a realist, but an optimist." She smiled sadly and returned the kiss, looking around, making sure there wasn't anyone following them. "I can't control emotions, no amount of water in the brain to be controlled can stop me from want and need and desire. No matter how much I wish it could."

**

The man glared, and looked at the girl up and down. She wasn't the first telekinetic person he'd seen. She was the first girl though. "What about him? We're going over to save them, if you'd just let me leave."

"Then we agree that my brother's probably done something idiotic," Andy said. "This doesn't surprise me. The thing is, I have a reliable source that tells me that it's a bad idea to storm out there right now. My brother might be an idiot sometimes, but he's not stupid."

---

Jason pulled her closer to him, holding her gently.

"Well, once this whole mess is over, you can come back with me," he said. "I'm sure my family would like you, and there won't be anyone to tell you what you can and can't do."

"I want to meet your family... Especially your sister." She said and smiled quietly. "They seem nice." She said and then grinned. "Are you sure you could deal with me for that large amount of time?" She asked and grinned, hearing men laughing. The village didn't have that many men, nor were they that happy. She grabbed Jason's arm and stopped moving. Shouldn't they all be asleep. Or... drunk? The hiccup and a burp and more chortling laughter. The enemy was drunk. She tiptoed closer over the water, barefoot as usual. Just about 7 guys. Surrounding a barrel of water. 7 water wielders. This was her enemy, really?

"We need to go back... We shouldn't be here." She whispered to Jason, and bit her lip. She couldn't take on 7 wielders at once, even if they were drunk.

**

The man stopped and frowned. "Your brother? That means... Please tell me your reliable source is Nathaniel Lee." He said and looked more relieved.

[[Going to work. TTYL!]]

Jason nodded.

"Let's go, then," he whispered back. He was willing to run them back, if she wanted him to. He didn't mind, though he wasn't sure if she wanted to take the river instead.

---

"He's out there, if you want to ask him yourself," Andy said, gesturing to the door. "He's looking after our son, since we had no choice but to bring him with us." Riley was mobile now, so it took both of them to keep track of him, most days. She wasn't about to inflict that on her parents.

She nodded and slid her hand in his. "What are we going to do?" She whispered, walking into the forest out of eye sight. She kept him close in case they needed to run. "And don't freak me out and say IDK... How are we going to take down 7 men?" She let her hair fall down, over her shoulders and yearned to brush it out. She really hadn't had much pampering time.

**

The man moved around her and looked outside and saw Nathaniel. "Hi. Why are you sending your wife to do your dirty work, Lee?"

"Girlfriend. And because she is much better at it than I am. And knowing Jason, you don't want to go in there with a load of troops. Just him is bad enough. But he will do his duty and protect the princess."

"Nathaniel, I can't leave a man alone out there."

"You can't let more men out there, though. Sweety, can you take Riley, I think he has to go to the bathroom. You have to let him stay. Alone. Drop off some food but don't let any men into the territory. And from what I know, they've been exiled. So they are there secretly. That means her family can't no, so let's do this quietly. At night."

Andy took Riley, levitating the diaper bag behind her.

"I'll change him, you take care of things here," she said. "And I'm annoyed that nobody takes me seriously unless I mention you."

---

"We'll think of something," Jason said. "We know which ones they are now, and if we have to..." he trailed off, not wanting to say it. He knew they would have to kill the wielders, eventually.

"Sorry Babe." He said and kissed her temple. "I love you, and if you'd just marry me, then you'd have the wonderful name of Lee, and they would listen." He said and then stuck his hands in his pockets, winking at Riley, then waved a hand at the males office. "If you won't call off the team, then I'll have to subdue you. And you don't want that."

"You are a seer. Not like your little girlfriend."

"I was trained to kill people, I can kick your ass and force your submission. Call it off." Nathaniel said and the male sighed.

"Come back to work with us."

"I have a kid. I'm not going to miss any more of that childs life."

"Nathaniel, I can't leave him out there."

"Trust me, you can." Nathaniel said and his chief groaned.

"I'm going to get shit for this. And you are going to pay. No international relations, but for this big of a favor, you're going to have to join. Become a commander for these men. Move to New York. You can have a real job."

"I don't need a job. And if you want me to move, talk to the girlfriend." The man sighed as they waited for her to come back.

**

"Don't say it." She whispered and bit her lip. "Fire won't hurt them, we're pretty much invincible if water is anywhere near us..." She said and then bit her lip. "We need someone who can... We need a flier. Or someone who can make them fly. There's not as much water in the air to condense to use. So... Where can we find someone like that?"

"The only one like that I know of is my sister," Jason replied. "She'd be able to do it, I know she would. She tossed me out windows and things like that before." But his sister had a son to take care of, there was no way she would agree to come to Japan...

---

"My brother isn't stupid," Andy said as she got back from changing Riley. "An idiot sometimes, but not stupid. He knows how to take care of himself. If he stayed, it was for a reason."

"Tell her." Nathaniel said and the man frowned.

"I want you and your boyfriend to move to New York so he can work with us and still come home everyday to you and your son." he said and then grinned. "It's the only way I will call off the flight."

**

"Your sister? She is telekinetic isn't she?? But she has a kid... I can't bring another kid into this. But Nathaniel. He could watch over him... Can you make a call for me? They need to know you're safe anyways. Nathaniel's name is in my phone." She said and glanced at him quietly. "Please, Jason?"

"I don't need his number," Jason said. "I know my sister's number, and she always has her phone on her." Taking the phone, he dialed the number quickly, almost too fast for the phone to register.

---

Andy was about to reply when her phone went off. Taking it out, she checked the number and raised an eyebrow. It wasn't a number she knew, it wasn't even an area code from the US.

"Hello?" she answered.

---

"Andy!" Jason said in relief. It took her so long to answer he almost thought he had the wrong number.

"Idiot boy," Andy snapped at him, "You did something stupid again!"

"I know, I get it, kill me later," Jason said rapidly. "Listen, I don't have the right set of skills for what we need at the moment and you do. Like, we really need your particular skills. How soon can you be here?"

"You're assuming a lot."

"I also know you want to smack me stupid."

"You deserve it."

"Probably. Ask when your flight is."

Nathaniel closed his eyes, able to hear the whole conversation from Andy's point of view in the past. He smiled and lifted Riley. "Don't stop the flight, just get her a ticket." He said and held his son in his arms.

"Her?!" The chief said and Nathaniel just rose an eyebrow.

"Don't start. Get her a ticket. Now." The man nodded and sighed. "4 years as a commander, no backing out now, Lee."

"As soon as college ends I won't back out, just get her there."

**

He was doing so much for Tomiko. She smiled and kissed his cheek as he spoke. She'd be able to talk with the woman, have her help her through her highs. If she left now, from New York, she'd be there in 13 hours. It was 10 am. She'd be there about 1 am. Right when the fires started. Not near long enough to even brief her. But she'd land in Tokyo. So there was still a drive out there. Everyone would be asleep by the time she'd get there. It was am eight hour Jason-Run. It was a 10 hour drive. Everyone would just be waking up. "Tell her to get in a private jet, and fly straight here, but arive at 4 am-ish if possible. We'll stay up for her. No one will even know she arrived." She said and smiled. She was going to meet a woman with powers. She'd never done that, other than a girl in the village with seer powers. But that meant little to her compared to what Jason's sister could do.

"You owe me big time for this one, Jason," Andy said. "Really, really big."

"I know," Jason replied. "Just try to be here by like midnight. That gives you three or four hours' grace time."

"That's cutting it really close," Andy warned. "I have to go now if I'm going to make that."

"I'll consider you gone." With that, Jason hung up. andy did the same slipping the phone into her pocket. She sighed.

"He's eighteen, I shouldn't have to be saving his ass anymore," she grumbled.

"If it makes you any happier, your saving a 17 year olds ass too, and an entire village of people." He said and kissed her gently. "Come on, we have to go to the airport."

**

"Midnight? People will know someone arrived unless you... go and carry her back. Now I know why I let you stay!" She teased and then drew him into the small shack. Ever since their kiss, she couldn't stop touching him. She was starting to think this was another side effect of her power. The inability to stop kissing and touching the male. Or maybe it was just stress relief. She still withheld the sex part, so what she wanted wasn't too wrong, was it?

"If she leaves within the hour, she'll land in Tokyo by midnight," Jason replied between kisses. He liked the attention she was suddenly giving him. "If I'm there by the time she lands, we can be back by five, maybe four if I'm really pushing it." He'd probably collapse when they got there, but he knew his sister could hold her own.

"The fight will be over by then, the fires will be put out for the night, but no progress will be made. On either side. I'll just be worn out for the day... I'm going to be tired when you get here, just so you know. We should stop and bring some river water back next time we go. I need some by the bed." She said quietly. "Now stop talking and take my mind off of all this for a bit." She whispered and wrapped her arms around his neck. "They won't say anything, they think of you as my Prince."

"I'm going to be tired when I get here, too," Jason pointed out as he wrapped his arms around her and held her close. "I'll make sure Andy knows that you need water. She's good about things like that, I think she likes taking care of people." Softly, he kissed her. He liked being close like this, he'd never felt this way about anyone before.

"Hmmm I like your kisses." She was trying desperately to get him off track. She wanted him to be consumed in thinking only of her for a few minutes. She wanted to forget about the outside world. It wasn't hard when she'd had her first real kiss the previous day, and at 17, was finally falling for someone unexpected. It was like a rite of passage that she'd missed when she was 13. She was way behind in normalties, but way ahead in maturity. "I'm not sure I like the idea of you leaving me. For any amount of time." She whispered and kissed him gently, moving to his neck. Any possible way to get him to focus on her was a good way.

"I'm glad you like my kisses," Jason replied. He could tell she was trying to distract him, and it was working, for the most part. Tilting her head up a little, he kissed her again. That was as far as he was willing to go without her explicit permission to go further. He wasn't going to take advantage of her.

She could read his eyes and sighed. "I'm up to anything but sex, Keep your pants on, but please just get my mind away from out there?" She whispered, kissing and nibbling on her lip. "I'll tell you to stop if I'm uncomfortable." She whispered and kissed him again. "Come lay down." She said and on bare feet she moved backwards until she found the cot and laid down on it. She wanted to explore her willpower. How much would she take?

Jason laid down on the cot next to her and pulled her close.

"I'll stop when you say so," he promised. He had to have that much self-control. He ran his fingers through her hair as he kissed her. He loved the taste of her lips, it was somehow exotic and familiar at the same time. "You're beautiful," he murmured to her between kisses.

This was what she wanted, she stopped thinking about killing men and her eyesight focused in on him. "And you're very handsome." She giggled between kisses. She pressed her hands to his chest, feeling the fabric gently. "Mmm" She whispered, moving from his kiss as she felt the hands in her hair. Everything was experimental, and she was glad she was experimenting. He was amazing.

Gently, he moved his hands down to her hips, feeling the lines of her back and waist as he did. She seemed so small and delicate, he wasn't sure how she was able to hold so much power.

"I don't think anyone would have ever thought that you'd go for an American guy," he said to her.

"Nope. Never." She said and laughed as she moved beneath him, breathing hard as she kissed random parts of his neck. "They were ready to marry me off to my brother for God's sake. I couldn't do that so... I chose to be with you." She moved to push her hands through his hair, so different from the Japanese normally silken locks. It was soft, almost fluffy through her fingers. "I love your hair." She said and grinned, moving to look him in the eyes.