A fine bead of perspiration broke out across his forehead."It's okay," she said to him in a shy manner as she looked down and away from him. "You are ... good man, Jimmy, and I can trust you, I know I can." In almost the same breath she asked, "Please, would you help me out to the outhouse?" Oh, I got all indoor plumbing, including a shower in the bath tub." He wanted so much to seem important and capable to her. He wanted to impress this beautiful little thing that fell, literally, into his. “Professor Greene, Kristen, is my thesis adviser — I’m working on my M. Ed. in curriculum design, and when I shared my story with her she was certain you would be able to help us.”I recognized the professor she was referring to immediately from working with her several years earlier when I accepted her stepson as a client after the death of her husband, and the boy’s father, a few months earlier. Professor Kristen Greene was a young woman who recognized her dominant nature and was a believer. I asked why. She replied that she wanted to teach that day. All this while she kept licking her lips as if to arouse me. I asked her what she meant and was she joking. She said she was serious. I asked her to explain a theorem. She naughtily said that she was serious but not about theorem. I asked, what? She remained silent and came near me and held my hand. She said, you are my guest today. Today I want to take your test. What test, I asked. She said buddhu mat bano mai janti hu tum mujpe pe. "That's, that's, that's the same woman who was killed at theintersection earlier today?" the Colonel stuttered. "How, how, how?" All part of the life of a superhero, Colonel," Gaby said, with falseconfidence. "We've got a plan to capture Sali and get our partner back.Cat, why don't you give the Colonel his prisoner and I'll tell him ourplan."Cat sneered, then tossed the terrorist into the arms of the startledsoldiers. She turned and walked back to her bedroom, allowing theColonel's men a shot.