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Peggy's plan was going to work, she knew it. While Lily had been terrified when that pig woke up and ran away, Johnny did what Peggy knew Johnny would do. He comforted Lily. By experiencing holding and tending to her, that put him a little closer to her. By focusing on Johnny when they were out, Peggy knew he liked holding Lily. Johnny had finished their walk with Lily, not even realizing he held her hand as they walked. On the surface, things like holding her hand, comforting her when she was upset, these were little things. It was like the small strings that rope or cable was made of. One tiny string didn't do much, but many tiny strings made strong bonds. She planned more strings in the very near future.
It was getting late afternoon, Johnny would be arriving back with Lily soon. Going from the workday to dinner at the Connor's house, Peggy had their clothes ready so they could clean up and change before they left. She also put their clothes in the tub room together. She just had to distract Johnny at the right time for things to go like she wanted.
Seeing them coming back, hand in hand, Johnny not realizing it (though Lily was, very much). Peggy got the water going to the big bath. There was room in the round tub for the three of them.
The moment they entered the house, Peggy was right there to start talking to Johnny. "I got all our things ready and the bath is ready," she said and tugged him towards the tub room. "Suitcase is packed with swimsuits and towels for tomorrow," she told him as she guided him and Lily inside where the big tub of hot water was ready and shut the door behind him. "I even got our swim fins in," she went on as she took her clothes off, and behind her, Lily did also. "I thought about one of those tails, but I don't think I have the strength to use those properly."
JJ listened to Peggy going on. He had to grin, she was sounding intent, but this was a pretty normal thing. Was she that excited to go swim in the lake? He remembered when she was afraid to get in water that she couldn't stand up in. Moving around as she got him in and sat down, She reached over to grab the washcloths and soap, then setting in on his right. She handed him a washcloth and said, "do my back for me." He didn't even thing about it until she passed a washcloth to his other side. To Lily.
Lily? JJ nearly snapped his own neck spinning to see her sitting on his other side. Naked in the bath. With them.
"Johnny, come on we're washing backs, Me or Lily, pick one," Peggy said.
JJ snapped his head to her. His "What?" came out in a squeak.
"Pick one," she said again, then added, "ohhh, just turn towards lily. I'll do your back, you do hers."
JJ felt her pushing on him. He turned to Lily, Lily turned a little towards Peggy. He wondered if his face was as blushed as hers was. Peggy began washing his back. JJ raised is washcloth and swallowed, was this really OK? He did wash Lily's back. Lily was washing Peggy's.
Thankfully, they each did their own fronts. Peggy then turned to face the wall of the tub and leaned back. "Hold me so I can do my hair."
JJ had no problem with that. Peggy leaned back arms over her head to dip her head backwards in the water and washed her hair. Yeah, nice view. When she was done, she turned back round and Lily faced the wall of the tub. "Hold me up," Lily said.
Uhoh. This close, with her arms over her head. JJ tried desperately NOT to look. He was also holding her up. She was right there, stretched out arched backwards. Scrubbing her hair, her lovely mounds seemed to wave at him. Although he swore he didn't look, Lily was smooth and slim. Great looking. He stared at the wall, or tried to. His eyes had a serious case of the bounces. He wanted to stare at the wall, his eyes wanted to stare at Lily.
It wasn't until after Lily was done that JJ realized their towels were on a rack, and someone had to get them. Normally, he'd grab then. Having to stand up to do it, he didn't want to.
"I'll get the towels," Lily said and got up. He quickly washed his face off. He still saw way too much.
Peggy giggled and got up. JJ stood and got his towel and could not divert his eyes anywhere and not see naked female. He focused on Peggy. Just then he realized something. "Peggy, why are we in so much of a rush?"
"We don't want to be late." She said it matter of factly.
JJ had noticed she usually wasn't overly concerned about things like that. They were only bringing a few items, Peggy took the time to inspect their bags to make sure Lily had her clothes too.
"Ummm, aren't we hurrying?" he asked.
"We are," Peggy assured him.
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Jackie sat with JJ on one side Daniel on her other and across from Nana at dinner. It was a good thing Joan was a pack rat, Nana found some of Joan's old clothes that fit. Even shoes, Joan had every shoe she ever wore since she was 6. Nana found a pair of sneakers that fit her. Jckie had never seen anyone eat lik every bite was a delicacy.
"This is soooo goood" Nana announced to Cameron and Delilah. "Nana loves Far Away!"
"Nana, the place we live in is called Driftwood," Cameron told her.
Nana looked at her and blinked. "Your house moves?"
"Driftwood is the name of the town we live in," Delilah told her.
"So, the town moves." Nana concluded.
"No, it's just a name for the town. The town doesn't go anywhere," Delilah said patiently.
Peggy giggled at Nana. "She thinks the town moves because it's called Driftwood."
Lily studied Nana. "Nana is much younger than she looks."
Nana looked at Lily and smiled.
"How do you know that?" John asked.
"She's too big to be around eight or nine," Lily told him.
"Lily's right," Peggy added. "That's about the age I'm getting from her too."
"How can you tell?" Louise asked.
"Our senses of others are very sharp," Peggy explained. "As people mature, they change slightly. Nana is a simple soul, yes, also younger."
Cameron asked, "Nana, how old are you?"
Nana frowned. "Nana doesn't know. Do you know how old Nana is?"
"We don't. Lily thinks you are eight or nine years old."
Nana took on a concerned look. "Nana is old enough to be here?"
"Yes, Nana."
"Oh good! Nana was worried."
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After dinner, not being able to talk to most of the people here, Nana stayed with Delilah, the fish girls and Peggy to do the dishes and clean up. Cameron went up to check on her China snoops. JJ and Lily went out to give the alligator some leftover snacks. Actually, JJ fed the alligator some leftovers, Lilly stayed close to him, watching.
"You sure she won't bite anyone?" Lilly asked.
JJ replied, "She will, but only if you are aggressive to someone. She's seen you a couple times now, so you should be safe around her."
"Not all alligators are like her?"
JJ shook his head. "No, this one is real smart for an alligator. Her DNA had been modified. Normally, alligators see everything smaller than them as food. Even things that are bigger, it they are hungry enough." Giving the alligator the last piece he turned to go inside. Lily stayed tight to him.
Meekly, Lily asked, "Can I sleep with you and Peggy again tonight? That was warm and comfortable."
"I think Peggy is going to insist on it," JJ replied.
Lily walked along side up in silence for a moment, then asked, "Johnny, do you think I'm..."
She didn't finish. JJ stopped, which made her stop. "I think you are a nice girl, and pretty. Is that what you wanted to know?"
Lily didn't quite look at him. "I was wondering, do you think you can love me?"
That was his next guess at what she wanted to know. He motioned to the porch steps. "Sit with me, please?"
He helped her sit then sat down close beside her. "I feel a conspiracy going on here," he told her. "With Peggy wanting me to, make that ensuring I spend time with you, especially that bath we had, she's all but saying 'here she is take her." Leaning closer, he asked, "Can you tell me why?"
Lily played with her hands in her lap. She gave him a long, big eyed look. "It may be strange to you. But when we feel strongly attracted to someone, when we feel in our heart that there is only one for us..." She stopped briefly, like she was forcing herself to go on. "I won't try to generalize this. I feel very strongly we should be together. You, Peggy and me. I have from the first time I met you. I know Peggy is, and always will be your first love as you are hers. If I can put it properly, I guess I'm saying your bonding is much more intimate than anything I've seen. You show in actions and feeling, that you are totally devoted to Peggy. I really like that. I am desperate to have just a bit of that."
JJ watched her tear up as she gazed at him.
"You aren't just friends who got together and decided, it's time for sex and kids. I want someone who loves me with all the passion I can love them back with! I don't want someone who says," she flung an arm up and added, "Sure, take her for the night! I want someone as devoted to me as I am to them. Back in the cave city, I cheered for Peggy when you hit that guy for trying to claim her." She then started crying.
JJ winced. "Aww, don't to that," he begged and put his arms around her.
Sobbing, she choked out, "I will be a good wife, I promise!"
JJ looked over to see the alligator watching them. "Come on, let's go inside, we're making the alligator nervous."
They got up and she hugged him. He hugged her back automatically. "I promise," she said in a soft, rough tone.
JJ rubbed her back. "It's OK, calm down." he offered.
The alligator came up and rubbed it's snout on the back of her leg. Lily turned her head to look at it.
"See? she's even trying to comfort you," he told her.
For some reason, Lily thought that was funny. she giggled which made it sound like she was giggling and sobbing at the same time. JJ wondered how she could do that.
"We should go in before she tries to hug you," JJ said.
That made Lily laugh. JJ led her up the stairs and inside. JJ saw the kitchen work was done and Peggy was coming towards them. Peggy looked at Lily who had tears on her cheeks but was giggling.
JJ waved a hand at Lily. "She was making out with the alligator," he explained.
Peggy stared at him in disbelief. Lily laughed and said, "Johnny made that up."
At least she wasn't crying any more.
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In searching through Dana's files and notes, Julie came upon a spiral binder containing notes about the Connors. She read about a 'rumor' of violent 'protesters' coming to burn down Driftwood just because they could. There was a bus headed into town with a news van. The vehicles were found a few miles south of town, the bus a burned out wreck, both the bus and the van had multiple bullet holes in them, everyone was dead. on board the bus weapons were found and the fire was caused by combustible agents on the bus. The attacked was never identified. At the same time to the north, some 'thunder' was heard, and smoke rising in the distance was seen. The area was closed off, and afterwards, an area of ground had been plowed up / turned over and leveled. No reason was ever given.
There were also a couple strange coincidences. Cameron and Delilah had to go on a trip. While they were gone, a Chinese freighter blew up in a nuclear explosion in the Arabian sea. Dana had heard Delilah tell John, "They wanted to know for sure of there were nukes, we showed them."
Another set of notes showed that before the South China sea battles, a group of men came to the Connor house and were doing what looked like drills, and took at least one midnight swim in the lake as a group. When those battles with China started, Cameron and Delilah were gone again, along with those men. Going to see Cameron when she returned to update her on her progress, Dana happened to see a citation from the Japanese Imperial head General to Cameron. The citation awarded Cameron the title of Samurai for destroying 3 Chinese airfields with all aircraft on the ground, six ships, and killing or capturing a division of enemy troops 60,000 strong, and their defenses and armored support using her small force numbering only 33. Cameron also had the sword, a real Samurai Katana blade resting on pegs on her wall, the handle and the sheath bore gold inlays Dana was sure was real gold.
"Holy shit," Julie breathed.
"Find something good?" Deek asked as he looked up from Dana's notes on Chomper.
Julie shook her head. "I had thought the Connors were a little aggressive in their security due to the Mers here, but this, what I'm seeing here makes them look like, I don't know, super warriors. The level of destruction they can cause seems endless! They aren't just dangerous, they are extremely deadly, to anyone! That Chinese ship that blew up in a nuclear blast? THEY did that! In that short conflict against China, they took out 3 airfields with all the planes, 6 ships and wiped out a Chinese division of 60,000, and they only had 30 troops with them. It's like they are unstoppable!"
"So, the Connors work for the government," Deek said. "I can see that. They probably live here to ensure no one messes with the Mers."
"But, they're beyond dangerous," Julie stressed.
"Then I suggest we don't piss them off," Deek said firmly. "Don't forget, we're going to the float party tomorrow to see the Mers who arrive."
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JJ was talking with Daniel when Peggy told him she and Lily were going up to bed. She kissed him and whispered, "Don't be long."
Daniel tried to hide his smirk.
"What?" JJ asked.
Daniel waved a hand at him. "Nothing. Just make sure you do get some sleep tonight."
JJ pursed his lips and said, "I'll try my best. I should probably get to bed too."
"Yeah, me too," Daniel agreed. They went upstairs to see Peggy and Louise in their house robes, talking in the hallway. They stopped upon seeing Daniel and JJ coming.
"Later?" Peggy asked.
Louise grinned and said, "I'll think about it. She waved at the boys and went in her room.
Daniel went in his and Jackie's room. Peggy held her hand out to JJ with a crooked grin.
Clasping her hand, JJ said, "I'm almost afraid to ask what's up."
"Hopefully, you. You and Lily had a talk outside earlier?" Peggy asked, eyeing him.
"I take it you already know we did," JJ told her.
"Tonight, you let me lead," Peggy said, "OK?" Seeing and feeling apprehension from her love, she added, "Please Johnny, you must trust me on this."
"Lily's going to be joining us, isn't she? Not just in bed. In, ah everything." he said.
"Inside," Peggy said and towed them into the bedroom. Only a single small night light was glowing low on the wall between the entry door and the bathroom door.
Peggy put an arm around JJ. "Johnny, you were raised and learned to give total commitment to whomever you chose as a mate. We on the other hand, were raised to find ones we liked to join them and then learn about them..."
"I know," JJ interrupted.
"Let me finish," Peggy admonished. "I have been thinking hard and long about both concepts. I don't think either is correct. Let me tell you what I believe. Love, as we know it is a combination of familiarity, physical and mental attractiveness, and comfort level. You and I are very compatible in all those areas. I want you to forget about any, shall we say learned expectations. Here, now, they don't matter. I've seen you with Lily. You do hold her as physically attractive, do you not?"
"I do, hon but that doesn't mean..." he felt a finger on his lips.
"Mentally, you do hold her welfare as important, and you do like being around her, do you not?" she asked.
"Yeah, but..." Again the finger to quiet him.
"You are becoming familiar with her, and more and more, you are becoming comfortable around her?" she asked.
He wanted to explain more, but just said, "Yeah."
"Lily is my friend, Johnny. I want my friend to be happy. Despite fighting it as hard as you can, I know you are attracted to her. That's fine, I want you to be. You don't know how special I've felt that you are so dedicated to me. I would do anything for you, you know that. Just as you would do anything for me. I know that as fact. Lily also knows that and she wants to be part of it. All I want you to do is to forget about the familiarity you think you need before you could accept Lily into our family. I know you will become very familiar with her and love her, trust me on this. Will you do that for me?"
Getting closer to the bed, he could see a form under the covers. "You aren't going to feel jealous, or left out if I do?" he asked.
"Nope. All I will see is that your heart is big enough for both of us," Peggy said softly. "You do know we are empaths, right? We get close to each other, and we can feel the emotions of our mates. If the emotions are strong enough, I guess you could say we share them."
JJ looked at her, "You mean..."
"If you and Lily are having a fantastic time, I will be also. Same as if we are, Lily will be quivering in joy."
"You ... wow," JJ breathed.
"Yes, Johnny. Even when I'm not physically nearby, I'm still here with you," Peggy explained. "Like I said before, Lily needs us. I need you to give her a solid chance."
JJ got up and sat on the bed. "This is a bit scary," he told her.
"It is, we all feel it," Peggy replied. "Come to bed, we take it nice and slow and see how it goes."
JJ chuckled, "Have I ever told you how wonderful you are?"
Peggy giggled. "Many times, but I still love to hear it."
"You are wonderful," JJ said sincerely. He pulled her into a hug and kissed her.
In a sensual tone, Peggy said, "Let's get these clothes off."
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As JJ undressed under Peggy's close attentions, they were both naked before he knew it. Leaning back, he felt Peggy over him. They got more or less laid down, and he felt another hand pet his chest and an arm around his head. Another soft but intent meeting of lips in a hungry kiss. But he also felt Peggy kissing his neck.
Peggy said 'slow' but her hips were over his, her groin rubbing up and down slowly on his shaft. The generous kiss on his lips stopped, a hand gently moved his head to the side, and he had a larger breast with a hard nipple right before his face, the nip brushed his lips. He suckled on it.
"Oh yes," Lily cried softly.
JJ was in carnal bliss. Nursing on this soft, warm globe, fondling one of Peggy's soft breasts and feeling her rub up and down on him. A kiss on his head, Cup the breast he was suckling on and knead Peggy's like she was aching for him to do. He could stay like this forever.
He was kissing Lily again as Peggy raised up enough to slide him inside her. She came down all the way, mashing their groins together. Lily gasped and held him, Peggy kissed him deeply with passion as she rode him. A few minutes of this and Peggy gripped him hard as she slowed her movements. Lily pulled his head into her chest. Peggy let out a long moan of relief, Lily let out a moan of pure want.
JJ kissed Peggy ass she flopped down beside him. Lily threw a leg over him and took her place.
"Take her," Peggy said breathlessly from beside him.
Lily rubbed his shaft a few times with her groin, but soon lifted up to sit on him, taking him full inside her. He fondled the globes right in front of him, kneading and suckling on one nip, then the other. Lily was gasping in time with her strokes up and down on him.
JJ wanted to orgasm, but lying here on his back it was harder. And he was hard, so hard it hurt. Lily was slowing and panting out. He wanted to go faster. He flipped her over and drove into her hard. Lily gripped him tight, her gasping pants now came out as squeaks. Forget form, forget 'slow', he slammed into her again and again. Lily gripped him tight, meeting his thrusts and squeaking out her breaths. He swore her fingers were trying their best to dig into his back. She stopped breathing and just let out a long moan.
Feeling her juices wash down over his shaft, that set JJ off. He tried even harder to drive deeper into her as his orgasm wrecked his senses and shot everything he had into her.
"J..Jhoooony," Lily cried weakly, clinging tightly to him.
JJ slipped to the side, still holding her as she kept her grip on him.
"Wow," JJ said in a breath.
"Yeah, wow," Peggy agreed, feeling her own portion of that lust explosion. She cuddled up behind him and kissed his cheek.
Holding on tight, Lily said in a dreamy voice, "Please, let this be my home. Here with you."
JJ kissed her and said, "As you wish." With Peggy curled up on one shoulder and Lily on the other, JJ had to admit this felt very nice. It also made him feel pretty studly.
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In the morning, Delilah found Nana was up early, in the small lounge where Cameron had her computers set up. Standing behind and to the side of Cameron, Nana watched what she was doing.
"What did that do?" Nana asked.
Cameron brought up a satellite image of the Maple inn and expanded it. "You know this place, Nana?" Cameron asked.
Nana pointed and said, "Yes, that's the Maple house where Kouta, Lucy, Yuka and Mayu live! But, why is it so small?"
"I'm looking at it from far away," Cameron explained.
"Nana is surprises we can see it from Far Away."
Cameron panned the view a little closer. In the yard, two figured hugged and kissed.
"That's Kouta and Lucy!" Nana cheered. "Can Nana say hi?"
"Let's call and see if anyone is inside," Cameron offered. She called their number on the phone. A female voice answered.
"Mushi, mushi,"
"This is Cameron, Nana would like to talk to Kouta and Lucy."
"They aren't here right now."
"They are out in the yard making out, go out the front door and look to the left," Cameron instructed.
A screech of "WHAT!" sounded, then Cameron heard the phone drop.
On the screen, another figure ran outside and advanced on the couple, arms flailing as the couple separated. Kouta stood in front of the pink haired figure while the brown haired figure yelled at him, punched him, then ran back inside.
"That didn't look good," Cameron noted.
"Sometimes, Yuka is mean to Kouta," Nana said sadly.
"She's jealous of Lucy?" Cameron asked.
"Nana thinks so."
Cameron closed up her phone. Lucy was kneeling by Kouta as he held his face. "Sorry, Nana I don't think you can talk to them right now."
Delilah had scanned Nana. She asked, "Nana, are both your arms and legs fake?"
Nana nodded. "They are! Papa made them for Nana after Lucy ripped Nana's arms and legs off."
"Delilah, I don't think we want Lucy or Yuka here. They both appear to be violent," Cameron said. "I don't think we should send Nana back there either."
"But Kouta's nice, so is Mayu," Nana quickly said. "Can Nana see Kouta and Mayu?"
"I will find out, Nana."
On a different track, Delilah asked, "Nana, your arms and your legs up to mid thigh are hollow. How do you move them?"
Nana explained, "Nana uses her vectors! Papa said Nana can do it, it just took Nana time to practice. Nana got good at it, nothing falls off Nana anymore."
This got Cameron's attention. She turned to look at Nana. "What are these vectors?"
"Vectors, at least that's what Papa called them." Nana said. Reaching over with her right arm, Nana took her left arm off with a small 'pop'. she then let it go to hang in mid air. "See, Nana can hold and move things, even cut them if Nana wants." The arm then floated back over and reattached itself to the socket on her shoulder.
"It's called telekinesis, Nana," Cameron explained. "You think about what you want, and then these vectors make it happen."
"Yes!" Nana beamed.
"That is a very useful skill to have," Delilah told her.
Nana cast them a happy face. "Nana is so glad Delilah and Cameron think so! Usually when people find out Nana can do that, they get scared and run away!"
"We've had that happen too. Nana, here we are all nice to each other. We work together," Delilah explained.
"Goodie! Nana likes being nice!"
"Glad to hear it. Now breakfast then we load the boat for our lake trip," Delilah told her.
"Let Nana help! Nana loves Far Away!" Nana said eagerly.
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Deek and Julie went up to the Connor house to see people going down to the dock where the boat was being loaded, and a few girls sat on the dock, putting their mermaid tails on. The alligator was watching them from the water. They also noted the sheriff was on the dock, talking with Cameron and Delilah, both in bikinis. With them was a purple headed girl, also in a bikini. They heard them talking as they approached.
The sheriff wrote something on his notepad as he said, "OK, Mrs. Connor I can get Nana Kurama registered as a foreign asylum seeker, seeing how she has prosthetic arms and legs, and how she lost hers. I'll put you down as custodian, and she will be attending special classes at the school, and here. When you get the time, I'll need you to come down to the office so I can get a picture of her for the file."
"That girl has horns on her head," Deek said as he stared at Nana.
"Hon, I don't think anything here is normal," Julie told him.
Seeing them, Delilah said, "Sheriff, this is Deek and Julie, they are our new Marine Biologists."
"Morning folks," the sheriff said with a wave. Nana waved at them too, wearing a smile.
Daniel ran to the end of the dock and said, "Everyone look, I want to get a picture!"
They all turned to him. Daniel snapped a shot, then got up on the back of the boat and took another picture. "Thanks!"
"We're ready, climb aboard if you're coming!" John announced.
"Sheriff?" Delilah asked.
"I have things to do today, you folks have fun," he said and gave them a parting wave.
Jackie, Louise and Cameron dove in the water and swam away as Deek and Julie got on the boat. Deek noticed Nana got on the boat and watched the swimmers.
The pontoon boat was fairly large, there was plenty of room on it. Julie went over to where Delilah was talking to Nana in a foreign language. "Mrs. Connor, is that girl from another country?" she asked.
Delilah nodded. "Nana is from Japan, that is the only language she speaks. At the moment, only myself and Cameron can talk to her."
Nana looked at Delilah and pointed out at the water as she rattled something off. Delilah frowned and replied. Nana nodded. To Julie she said, "Nana likes to watch the swimmers, she wants to swim also. I told her to watch them closely, and maybe she can do it too."
The boat moved out away from the dock. John turned it around and headed out into the lake. Ahead of them, Louise jumped up, clearing the water and dove back in.
Deek met Barnabas and Victoria, Daniel, The purple haired Nana, JJ, Peggy and Lily. As they jumped up to get a breath of air, He also saw Jackie and Louise. Cameron was under and hadn't come up yet. He asked John, "is Cameron all right? I haven't seen her surface since she dove in."
John shrugged. "Cameron can stay under for a long time, nothing to worry about."
"But humans do need to breathe," Deek said.
John grinned, "Who said Cameorn was human?"
"What?" Deek asked.
Frowning slightly, John said, "I guess it depends on what you consider, 'human'. If you mean, two arms, two legs, intelligent and looks like a base human, then yeah, Cameron can be considered human. We all can."
Deek eyed John. "As human, I mean human beings, Homo sapiens."
"Well then let's see. You, Julie, Daniel over there, Victoria ..." John looked around and said, "I think that's about it."
Deek noted all the people on the boat. "What is everyone else then?" Deek asked.
"Myself, all our kids are cyborgs. Delilah over there and Cameron, they are AI's with biological sheaths and organs, their brains are sentient computers, they have a mechanical skeletal structure and motion systems along with some muscle. Barnabas over there is a strange mix. He was human a long time ago, then he spent a couple hundred years as a vampire. We cured him of that but we had to make him into a cyborg too. Those white haired girls with JJ, they are aliens. I forgot the planet they came from. They can tell you if you want to know. Nana, the purple haired girl from Japan, she's a Diclonius. She has very powerful telekinetic powers. That's how she moves her prosthetics."
Deek eyed John. "You're not joking, are you?"
John shook his head. "You wanted to know." looking out over the water, he said, "It looks like Cameron met some Mers."
Deek looked ahead. Five heads were poking up above the water a distance away.
"Dad!" came a call from the water. Deek looked to see Jackie swimming close. She then dove down deep. When she came up, she jumped out of the water to grab the side rail and lifted up to hook her arms around it. "Mom said anywhere around here is good. No gators, and the mers have some fresh fish to share.
John throttled down, reversed to slow the boat and shut the motor off. "Ok, Tell Cameron I'm starting the grill."
"Kay, Dad." Jackie nodded. She pushed herself up and backwards to dive in and swim away under water.
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The whole time, Daniel was taking pictures. He tried to get as many shots with Nana in them as he could. Jackie had told him Nana was excited to be here, and he wanted to give her some photo memories. Going over to her he managed to relay through hand signals he wanted her to come over to the front of the boat so he could get pictures of her there. Delilah told her they would send the ones Nana wanted back to Mayu and Kouta. Nana happily agreed. He tried to get pictures of Nana with everyone, a few at a time. He got pictures of Nana pointed out at Jackie doing a tail stand, Cameron sitting on a corner of the railing, an arm around Nana, and Nana eating her fish, sitting beside a Mermaid. He got pictures of girls and Mers jumping off the boat into the water. Coming back, he got a picture of Nana in the yard feeding the alligator, and one of the alligator with Jackie sitting on one side of it, Nana on the other. He got a couple of Nana inside, in the kitchen and having dinner. He even got one of Nana standing in front of Christine, and Nana in Joan's room that showed Joan's gun cabinet with her rifles in it and the MVP football award on top of it and the sword hanging on the wall.
The Concert was in four days, and Daniel was going to get plenty of pictures there also. It was then Jackie found a spare video camera that Joan or Bob had left behind. They would make sure that Nana had a good package to show her friends back a the Maple inn that Nana was all right and had a decent live now.
