"Was I better than her?" "I love you and that made it more intense," he answered. Sabina nodded her understanding and they lapsed into silence. He cou...d tell the exact moment she fell asleep and he listened to her soft even breathing for a while before sleep dragged him under. The next morning he woke again long before Sabina and he began to worry that he might have developed a sleep disorder but his alarm at his continuous short nights was temper by the fully resting feeling he always woke. Liz and Julia were decked out in floatation vests and metal helmets. They were peering out the porthole trying to make sense of the battle going on around them. "I feel like the best man in the honeymoon suite" grumbled Josh.David laughed. "First you tell me you hate ships and subs and now you want to get out there and go hand to hand with a submariner!"The ship lurched again and depth charges could be heard splashing into the sea. "Better than being stuck in here!"Liz turned around. "You find. I was not a particular pretty girl when I was a teenager, but I have always been athletic and blessed with a tight little body. I was always one of the shorter girls when I was in school, but I unexpectedly grew almost five inches between my eighteenth and nineteenth birthdays. People looked at me differently after my growth spurt, which also came with an unexpected cleansing of my skin. It took me a while to understand that I would have to carry myself a little differently. A girlfriend. I know I have to be honest with her. I can’t deny it now. "She is the reason I have my ability, and why contact with you magnifies it." I explain to her about the dormant gene, and she takes it better than I would have expected."Why are the aliens activating this gene?" She sounds genuinely curious. “Is it so they can autopsy us later?”I laugh before answering. "No. Little aliens that I call demons, are on their way to Earth, and should be here in less than six months. They will likely kill us.