Gene was sitting in his room, quietly thinking when Jim burst through the door. He turned to look at him, but knew something was wrong by the look on Jim's face. "Gene, Aisha has been turned into a teenager," Jim told him, gasping for breath. Jim had run from Aisha's room to find someone, but Gene was the only one in the Outlaw Star. Gene jumped up from his bed, and followed Jim to Aisha's room. He took one look at Aisha, and burst out laughing. "Hey, that's not very nice Gene," Jim said next to him, walking in to sit next to Aisha, who had started crying. "What happened Aisha?" Jim asked, looking over Aisha quickly. She stopped crying, and looked over at Jim. "All my life I had been ridiculed because I was a Ctarl-Ctarl princess who had been banished from her home planet. I finally decided to transform myself into a terran, but it went completely wrong," Aisha said between sobs. Gene stopped laughing, and walked into Aisha's room, and sat on her bed. "Is that what this is?" Gene asked, pointing towards the potion. Aisha nodded, and started to cry again. "I followed all the directions in the book, but something must have gone wrong," Aisha said. Jim remembered what he did to the potion, thinking it was soup. He began to back away from Aisha, when she turned to look at him. "Aisha, I know what the problem was," Jim told her, trying to find a way to escape her wrath when she found out. "I put some salt in it because you told me it was soup, thinking that you had forgotten some," he continued, waiting for his impending doom. Aisha gasped, and flung herself into his arms, and continued to cry. "No Jim. It's my fault. If I had told you what it was in the first place, this would have never happened," she said between sobs. Jim was frightened at first, and looked over at Gene. He was chuckling to himself, and motioned for Jim to try to comfort her. Jim slowly raised his arms, and put them around Aisha's shoulders. "It's okay Aisha. We will find a way to change you back," he told her softly. He was surprised at the tone of voice he used. It had more caring in it than he had ever used on anyone else. Aisha stopped crying and looked up at Jim. Jim smiled, and Aisha smiled lightly too. "The thing is, I really don't want to return to normal Jim," she told him, putting her arms around his shoulders. Jim wondered what she meant, but had already realized that she cared for him. She placed her head on his chest, and sighed slowly. Jim opened his mouth to say something, but Gene stood and left the room.

Gene left the Outlaw Star, and began to search for Melfina. He wanted both Aisha and Jim to be alone with each other, knowing that they would find that they both cared about one another in more ways than they thought they did. He knew that Aisha had cared about Jim when she was older, but so did Suzuka. He guessed that it was because he was still a kid. What he didn't realize was that Aisha had sometimes wished that she had someone to love her in the same way that Gene loved Melfina. Gene walked into Clyde's bar, and walked up to the counter. "Give me the usual Clyde," Gene said as he sat down. Clyde chuckled, and slid him a glass. Gene took a sip, and almost choked when someone put his or her arms around his shoulders. He turned to see Melfina staring back at him. Gene smiled, and beckoned for her to sit on his lap. She smiled and sat, as Gene put his arms around her waist. "Where have you been all day?" Gene asked, wondering where Suzuka was. Melfina giggled slightly, and looked at Gene. "Shopping for food and other things," she told him. Gene smiled, and kissed her lightly on the lips. Melfina kissed him back, stood, and walked towards the door. "Gene, is anyone on the Outlaw Star right now?" Melfina asked, turning to look at him. "Yeah, Aisha and Jim are there. I wouldn't go there for a while though. Aisha tried to turn herself into a human, but is now as old as Jim is," Gene told her with a smile. Melfina looked at Gene closely, and shrugged. "Oh well," she said to herself. Gene stood and put an arm around Melfina's shoulders. "What say you and I go get something to eat, just the two of us?" Gene asked her. Melfina giggled, and nodded slowly as they walked out the door of Clyde's bar.

Suzuka slowly walked through the alleyway, wondering what to do. "I could go collect another bounty on some poor sap," she thought to herself, in her normal, unrevealing way. Then she thought about Gene and Melfina. "I wonder what they are up to," she thought to herself. She slowly made her way to the Outlaw Star, and walked through the door. She walked past Jim's room, but stopped. She turned back, and walked to the doorway. Inside, she saw Jim laying on his bed, and what looked like a younger Aisha was lying next to him asleep. Jim turned to look at Suzuka, and smiled slowly. Suzuka entered the room, and sat cross-legged in front of Jim. "Who is that?" she asked, adjusting her sword so that she was comfortable. "It's Aisha. She was turned into a teenager because I put some salt in a potion that I thought was soup. She wanted to be a terran I guess. I helped comfort her, and she just fell asleep a few moments ago," Jim told her, filling her in with the details of what she missed. Suzuka smiled and stood slowly. "It would appear that she has become attracted to you, young Jim," she told him as she stood. Jim began to blush, but nodded. He ran a hand through Aisha's hair, and yawned slowly. Suzuka bowed to Jim, and left the room, closing the door. She exited the Outlaw Star in the same way she had entered it. She sighed as she walked down the street, but stopped as she passed Fred Lou's shop. She blushed to herself, thinking about the man she had once been hired to kill. "Why do I always think about him in this way?" she thought to herself. She was the only member of Gene's crew that didn't have someone to love her. Otherwise, love was finding ways to bring people together. Gene and Melfina had been together for a long time, and now Aisha and Jim had found love in each other. She wondered if she would ever find the right person for her, and continued to walk past Fred's shop.