A surprising powers discovery occurs by the lake. Jeanne-Marie is pleased to have a willing experiment subject, and Damon is awfully satisfied to have a good meal too.( You do have that 'holy light' thing about you, don't you, Flying Nun? ) That it tasted good? That I wasn't really taking your light, but something beneath it? That's about all I know. I'm not the scientist here. Hell, I'm barely passing my classes."
Of course, that was mostly because he only attended them as much as he had to not to fail.
Though she was typing away, Jeanne-Marie was also listening carefully--carefully enough to wonder if this really was making him uncomfortable. She had thought he was teasing her because he usually was. But maybe not?
"I am not a natural scientist, either. But I want to understand myself, and how I might affect other people. This is the only way I know how." She bit at her bottom lip, typing a few more things, and then, "That it was not actually the light is a very good thing to know. I wasn't sure before if it was that, or something else that made people feel what they feel. Warm, they usually say. Energized, but also relaxed."
Damon stood, skipping the stone low across the water with a sling of one arm. "There was that. It was hard to tell, what with me wanting to drink you all up," he answered, but forced himself to concentrate more on what he'd felt. "Whatever it is...whatever your power does, it was doing something else too. I don't know if it was the light or what was beneath it, but it almost felt like it...healed, in a way."
Jeanne-Marie made a note, then stared at it, wondering. Then looked back up at Damon. "Maybe it is something--the way our powers interact. No one has said that before, certainly. It must be..." She stopped herself there, though. She wanted to say it must be amazing, to be able to feel that in someone. To feel their energy like that and to know what it was and how to use it, like he did naturally. It was just why she'd hoped he might be able to tell her more, though she hadn't articulated it quite like that before.
But she knew too much to think he would look at it like that. Maybe sometimes. But not really.
"Thank you for that." She blushed again as it suddenly hit her that what had just happened had been oddly intimate. But she hadn't thought of it, since it was her powers and not... her person? It had been nice, though. "Answers only make more questions, but at least they are new ones."
He glanced over his shoulder, looking her up and down, though not in a leer. More...cautiously, like he wasn't sure if he could trust her to keep her mouth shut or not. But he could, because he'd made sure of <em>