Finally! The Action Starts! Be excited! Warning for J/V fans. There is a J/L scene! READ AND REVIEW! Thank You for your support!

Professor Zachary was in his office drinking a cup of tea, when he saw some blurred color through his door window.

It was a blob of bright red and he grinned knowing that it was Josie. He also knew that he probably shouldn't have taken a vacation because, without his classes to distract him, he was teetering on the edge of depression. The sight of Josie sheered him considerably. Even if she'd just come to ask about the weather, or better yet, the science lesson, he looked forward to leaving his dejection behind.

Josie raised her hand to knock on the door to Professor Z's office.

"Josie!"

She turned in confusion, "Lucas?"

Lucas was running down the hall toward her. He skidded to a stop in front of her and took a deep breath. "Can I ask you something?"

"Sure Lucas, do you have enough air?" Josie asked rhetorically with a small laugh.

"Ha ha," Lucas said then continued hesitantly. "Ummm…I was wondering…if maybe…"

"Spit it out Lucas!"

He blushed, "Would you go to a movie with me tonight?" He quickly looked down at his feet.

Josie froze. "The movies?" she said slowly, "Tonight? Like on a…date?"

Lucas looked up gradually, realizing that Josie wasn't going to refuse him outright. "Maybe like on a date. If you want it to be. Sure. Date is fine." He stopped, suddenly realizing he was talking almost too fast to be intelligible.

"I guess a date is okay…what time is the movie?" Josie asked, a slight flush in her cheeks.

"Honestly not sure, I just kind of decided to ask. We can look up the time on my computer though. Come on." Lucas started down the hall.

Josie glanced at the office door then back to Lucas who was waving for her to come with him. "I can talk with Z later. Anyway, how often is Lucas going to have the courage to ask me out?" Josie reasoned quietly, and then followed Lucas down the hall.

In the office, Z let out a breath he hadn't noticed he'd been holding. Then he sighed. He was happy for Josie and Lucas, but still disappointed in the lost conversation. He glanced at the newspaper on his desk and saw that the movie was playing during the Science Club meeting.

Noel sighed again and got up to stretch. He fanned himself with the newspaper, frowned and walked over to the thermostat on the wall. He turned it down a little and walked back to his desk, picked up his tea and swirled it around in his cup as he looked at the pile of papers waiting patiently to be graded. He then became aware of his mother's note, sitting on the corner of his desk and sighed a little deeper and turned his gaze toward the kite hanging on his wall. He tilted his cup to take a drink, and tilted it a little farther. And a little farther, until something suddenly fell out of the cup, hit his nose on the way to the floor and slid a few feet on the tiles.

"Ahhh!" Z exclaimed rubbing his smarting nose and squinting his watering eyes. After a moment, he looked around the room. His gaze fell on a small brown cylinder lying on the floor. He cocked his head at it, confused, and slowly moved forward.

He knelt on the floor, wincing as his knees cracked, and looked a little closer. He slowly reached forward and picked up the cylinder.

Noel took his glasses off as he stood up. All of a sudden, something dripped off the block. He looked down to where it fell, and then looked back to the block in his hand. He put his glasses back on, swiped his index finger along the cylinder and tentatively put it to his tongue. His eye widened in surprise. Tea?

"Fascinating." He murmured. Noel glanced at the thermostat but he knew it wasn't near cold enough to spontaneously freeze his drink. In fact, it still seemed a little warm. He set his block of tea in the sink in the corner of his office, and then went to his desk and sat down.

Ideas ran through his head about how this could've happened. "Obviously, it froze, but what caused it? It's not cold enough in the room; it hasn't been sitting out that long." He paused. "Or has it?" He shook his head. "Even if it's been out long enough to cool off, it wouldn't have frozen. Besides," he reasoned remembering, "I swirled it around just before I tried to drink." He rubbed his nose in remembrance. "Then what could've caused this?"

The professor realized that this was going to take more tea and he reached for the pot on the far corner of his desk. He looked up as his hand connected with the side of the pot instead of the handle. He let out a small yelp of pain before realizing it hadn't hurt.

He looked more closely at the remaining tea, only to find that it too, had frozen solid.

Zachary sat back in his chair, staring at his hand. After a moment his eyes flashed around the room landing on a half empty water bottle.

"Alright Noel, you're a scientist. Work through this scientifically." He got up from his desk and began pacing. "First thing. Question: Why did the tea freeze? Hypothesis: The tea froze when I touched it. Supporting fact: the tea was liquid before I touched it. Prove hypothesis…" He turned slowly toward the water bottle, took a deep breath and walked toward it.

Z hesitantly touched his hand to the plastic bottle. Inside, there was a slight crackling sound, and the water solidified. He stepped back, looked to his hand, then back to the bottle. He grinned.

"Hypothesis Proven."

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