Disclaimers: I only own Maria, everything else I sadly don't weep .

Just changed a spelling in this that Tricia pointed out. Thought I should mention, I'm a little dyslexic, and have each chapter proof-read by my sister to check spelling and grammar points. She hadn't noticed it either... thanks Tricia!

Chapter 6

They had staying at the Baxter building for about a week, and were in and out of Reed's laboratory for tests. Reed said it was best that they stay in the building while me monitored their changes, which Maria didn't mind so much as she got to spend a lot of time with Johnny, rather watching TV with him anyway.

So far, Maria found out that she could heal herself, because her skin was 55 liquid. Like when you break the surface of the water it goes back to normal after a while, that's what her skin was like now.

She also discovered she no longer needed to take a bath as she was self-cleaning, and she was also soluble in water, so she wouldn't be able to take a bath even if she needed to. She also couldn't drink anything, and she didn't really need to as she was always hydrated. The only down side was that she couldn't touch Johnny, in fact she couldn't touch anything hot or she'd burn herself. Which she was soon to find out…

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"What you listening to?" Maria heard Johnny's voice over her headphones. He'd just entered the living room and found her lounging on the sofa chilling out listening to music.

"Michael Bolton," she said simply, waiting for him to make a comment about her liking boring people, but the comment never came. "What? You're not going to take the piss out of me?" she asked surprised.

Johnny shook his head, "Nah, he's cool!" he replied simply picking up the remote and changing the TV channels.

Maria shook her head and pulled off the headphones, that was when she noticed popping coming from the hand that wasn't holding the remote. "Is that…?" she began to ask, but the young male knew the question.

"Pop corn?" he finished, "Yeah!" Putting down the remote, he ripped the top of the package open, "You want some?" he offered it to her.

"Sure why not," she went to take some, then "OOOOWWWWW!" she yelped clasping her hand back and rubbing it.

Johnny dropped the popcorn on the floor and rushed to take her hand to look at it, "Let me see," he took her hand in his and examined it, but that made Maria cry out in pain even more and yanking her hand out of his. "What did I do?" he asked, afraid he'd hurt her.

Maria quickly blinked away the tears that had stung her eyes, she looked at he hand and watched as the burns slowly faded. "I should've know the popcorn would be…" she began, then explained, "I can't touch anything hot."

Johnny looked down at his feet, "You mean you can't touch me, don't you?" he asked quietly. Maria nodded her reply. Johnny forced a grin, "Good job we're not dating then, huh?"

Maria forced a little laugh 'How can you be so insensitive!' she wanted to scream at him, blinking away more tears that had formed in her eyes. She dared not let them fall, they'd burn her like hell, but she also didn't want Johnny to see how much his words stung her.

Maria though quickly to change the subject, "Dad's really mad about the shaving foam, I'd sleep with one eye open if I were you!" she warned.

Johnny chuckled, "I got him good!" he boasted, making the young girl smile a little.

It was true, he had got him good, and got him really annoyed that he'd stormed off into the night. Maria had watched him from the window, and was tempted to follow him, but she knew better than to follow Ben Grimm when he obviously wanted to be alone.

"I'm gonna go catch some z's," Maria told Johnny, but the truth was she didn't really want to be in the same room as he was at that moment.

But Johnny didn't hear her, he was engrossed in some motorcycle sport programme on television.

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End of chapter

A/n, sorry this one wasn't very good, but I needed some kind of interaction between the two. Hopefully the next chapter will be better.