"Bruce?" Mr. Hawkins asked him during their usual Saturday morning coffee the next day.

"Yes Robert?" They had started these weekly meetings to get to know each other when they had decided to tie me down to a family.

"Why did you tell Andrea that she should go?"

Bruce shrugged, "Who am I to tell her she can't learn more about herself?"

"True." Robert nodded and then went back to sipping his coffee.

Unfortunately, Bruce started thinking, "Although, I'm not too keen on her spending the summer with Johnny Storm."

"Why not?"

"He's a Don Juan, and she's a fresh face. He's probably going to hit on her, and she'll fall for it cause he's dreamy. If he breaks her heart, I swear I'm gonna kill him." He nonchalantly took a bite from the scone in front of him.

Mr. Hawkins only nodded. "I'll hold him down."

That caused Bruce to laugh, which only made Robert laugh. "It's a deal." Bruce said as the two shook hands in agreement.

"How much longer?" I asked with almost no breath as I ran at full speed on the treadmill.

"Just a few more seconds." Reed was staring at the stats on the large screen in his lab. "Okay," he pressed the STOP button. "You can stop."

I sat down on the treadmill and closed my eyes while Reed came over and checked my pulse. "So what's the diagnosis?" I panted.

He just gave me this uncertain look. "Your heart rate is normal."

"Agatha Christie," I groaned as I laid back against one of the hand rails. I took a breath, sat up and opened my eyes. "Where do we go from here?"

When he saw my eyes, got really close to my face to examine them. "Dr. Richards, you're in my personal space." I warned him.

"You're eyes have turned green." He was spooked when they melded back into brown. "Holy Moses, they went back to brown."

"They turn green when I heal. I don't know why." I pushed him away slightly.

"But you're not healing." Then Reed sat back and thought. "You said that the vines were a result of the gas, and that you control them?" I nodded. "And when they come off of your arms, they just become regular plants?"

And then I hopped onto his thought train. "And plants have photosynthesis-"

"-And your heart rate was normal because they make energy-"

"-I was just using up the extra energy-"

"-That's why you can heal-"

"-Because plants make cells! YES!" We high-fived each other with huge smiles on our faces.

Reed was practically breathless. "That was exciting." He stated plainly.

"Yes it was."

Johnny came running into Reed's lab. "We got trouble in the Bronx."

"There's always trouble in the Bronx." I answered for Reed.

He rolled his eyes. "It's bigger trouble."

"I'll be right there." Reed said to him, and he left us. "Look, we have to go."

"Do I have to go?" I really didn't feel like fighting someone right now.

"Nope. You can stay right here." He finally got up and helped me to stand. "We'll be back in a little bit, okay?"

"Yeah. Go have fun with that." And then Reed followed Johnny.

Bacon, olive oil, lean beef, flour, salt, pepper, mushrooms, celery, onion (chopped), beef broth, barley, carrot (chopped), potato (sliced), peas. That didn't sound too difficult.

Following the recipe, I threw the beef pieces in a large sauce pan along with 3 tbsp of flour, ½ tsp of salt, 1/8 tsp of pepper and stirred it. After, I added the already cooked and diced four strips of bacon along with 1 tbsp of olive oil, 8 ounces of chopped mushrooms, 1 cup of sliced celery, and 1 ½ cups of chopped onions. While I let that cook for forty-five minutes on high, I chopped up the potatoes and carrots.

Why was I making the dinner that Sue had planned to make me? Cause I got bored. They had been gone for hours, does it really take this long to take care of trouble in the Bronx? I threw the rest of the ingredients in, stirred it, and let it sit for another fifty minutes. While I waited for dinner to finish, I watched the last hour of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum on AMC; yay Michael Crawford.

Since I was still the only one home, I set the table for five, and started eating my serving. Where in Zero Mostel's name were they? Fortunately enough, I didn't have to wait for another life form any longer, because Johnny came through the door soaking wet.

"Don't say a word!" He shouted as he stormed towards his room. I just rolled my eyes and kept eating as if nothing had happened. A few minutes later, he came back (changed into a pair of jeans and a blue t-shirt) and sat down at the table with me. He helped himself to the stew in the middle of the table, and his bad attitude melted away when he tasted the warm food.

"This is good." He mumbled to me.

"Thank you."

"Sorry I yelled."

"It's okay." I looked up from my bowl and looked at him. "Wanna tell me why you were mad?" I said softly, so as not to set him off.

"They deserted me." He said into his bowl.

"What do you mean?"

"Reed, Sue, Ben, and Alicia went on a double date after the fight with that skrull Paibok.. They left me to fly back here, and it started raining." Poor Johnny, he's pouting.

Oh jeez, it's turning into a puppy face. "Would you like to have a stay-at-home date with me?"

He scoffed. "I don't need a pity date."

"It's not a pity date," I reassured him. "I just want to get to know you better."

He thought about it for a few minutes. "What did you have in mind?"

"How about a movie?"

"What kind of movie?" Yay, he was interested.

"Any genre you want."

"Comedy."

"Fabulous! I have comedies coming out the wazoo." I stood up from the table and reached my hand out towards him. "Come on."

"What?"

"Grab my hand." I smiled at him, and he reluctantly got up and took my hand. I teleported us to my house, and led him to the cabinet by the entertainment center and opened it to showcase all of my movies. "Take your pick."

For the second time that night, I watched the last hour of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum. Johnny picked it, not me. But non the less, I still laughed at the nonsense.

"Where did you get this movie?" Johnny chuckled at the absurdity of the character's lines.

"We watched it in Latin, and I liked it. I got it at FYE."

"Nice." He whispered as if he wasn't paying attention.

He was completely engrossed in the movie, I was actually kind of surprised. I took that opportunity to finally give him a good look that wasn't territorial. Good looking, great eyes, nice hair...he definitely had potential.

He chuckled again. Great Caesar's Ghost he had a beautiful smile. Alright, I'll admit it, he was so far perfect. But I would never tell Bruce. God only knows what he would do if he found out.