A/N –Hi everyone! Sorry to need so long between new chapters. However, my dear Zoja, I know it must be hard for Jack to look at Sue last time in a beautiful ice skating suit and now in a colorful swim suit, but I really think he needs a boost and I really hope this will work, because he will need his focus in the next story, so he should become aware of his feelings before then. In the meanwhile the show should be not so bad. Enjoy!

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'Thoughts' – sign – "dialogue"

"Okay ladies and gentlemen, ready to start? Well, let's jump in that swimming pool, just to start moving in the water, alright? It's not really deep, so don't dive."

Lucy and Tara aimed for the ladder, while the others, included Sue, simply sat on the side and slid into the water.

Myles hissed, making the other guys silently laughing; Sue, however, being her usual hyper observant self, noticed the rapid movement of Jack and Bobby's shoulders.

She reached out to tap on one of them when suddenly she thought about them being in swimsuits, therefore naked over their belt. She could not avoid it, her hand was already in the air, so she chose the lesser evil: Bobby. Her touch startled him and that caught Jack's eye.

Trying to be discrete, since they were both staring at her, she opted to sign:"What happen?"

Jack could not let this chance pass, so he used his still improving signing skills: "M-Y-L-E-S cold water", adding his signature rolling of the eyes for good measure.

Sue could do nothing to suppress a shy smile. Jack could do nothing to make himself stop gazing at his blonde colleague, her smile and her eyes had such a powerful pull on him he was not sure he could do anything different from what he was doing at that moment. Sue felt Jack's dark chocolate eyes on her and immediately felt the urgent need to break their eye contact. She reached for the band on her wrist and quickly went under the water to soak her hair. She came up for a quick breath and then she went under again. Jack was there, patiently waiting for his mermaid to come out. And a mermaid came out. Her face cautiously emerged, letting her hair to show its entire length before reaching behind her head to collect and form a ponytail.

Even if Sue had started to comb her hair with a shell, Jack's thoughts could not have been more obvious. Bobby was the one who again came to the rescue and shook his friend awake from his daydreaming.

"And she can sing, too, but don't drown, I don't want to be the one doing mouth to mouth to you, but I'm pretty sure Leonard is not your first choice either, right, Sparky?"

The deep red shade that colored Jack's face was answer enough for Bobby, who moved to help the other ladies in the water, one way or another, since they were still taking their sweet time getting used to the temperature of the water.

"Alright, before starting with the rescue techniques I thought we could swim some to warm up and at the same time to test your water skills. So we'll do some simple exercises. But first I would like to see you swimming. Ladies first, of course, so get ready and reach the side of the pool on my right. When I whistle, well, er, right, well I lower my hand start swimming." Leonard slapped his forehead and gave Sue a brilliant smile to apologize for his lousy memory. However, Sue just nodded her head to confirm she had caught everything necessary.

"Are we going to race each other? And D, would you allow to place some friendly bet? Just to spice up a bit this thing, you know." Bobby was already getting comfortable on the long side of the pool to enjoy the show of the girls swimming in their little competition, having even chosen the one in his head that was going to win.

Myles and Jack moved toward the tall Aussie, while Demetrius confirm that Sue and indeed got the message and was going to wait for Leonard's hand to signal the start of the 'race'. Then D moved also near the other guys, being the boss meaning he was the one getting to set the rules.

"Okay, then what are we playing for? Lunch, paperwork? I refuse to play with vile money, besides, it's quite illegal, so what are the stakes? And how do we play? Just a name or the complete classification?"

"If I may speak my mind, I have to admit that I was thinking that lunch, or better, early dinner, since I suppose we are not eating too much if also in the afternoon we are going to get in the water, could be on the worst couple at rescue techniques, so any physical advantage could be balanced by the importance of the things we are going to learn today, right? So, just to start we could play for the coffee of the break, at least the one I hope we will have before midday, otherwise I fear who could be the one in charge of bringing me back to consciousness, because with the almost nonexistent breakfast I had this early morning I am likely to keel over."

"Well, Harvard, you surely have put quite some time and thought on this thing, so I agree with you; I am inclined toward the whole classification, 'cause just one name could be too easy and frustrate the whole bet thing."

"Alright Bobby, I surely hope that your over confidence just bring you to Crash your wallet, however, I'm game. Jack? Jack, you with us?"

Demetrius' words sparked again the interest about Special Agent Hudson. "Oh man, you could not possibly be again in your own world! Would you mind so much just pay a little, teeny, tiny bit of attention to us? The world is not spinning around one single person, even though you seemed to think yours does. Jack, are you okay?"

When Bobby waved a hand in front of Jack's eyes he finally focused his gaze on the men around him.

"Well, who wants to play, names out, the girls are ready to go!"