It looked as if Nathaniel was about to say something against what ISIS has just said about him, but his mouth was open for a moment before he closed it again remembering his ex that he had dumped.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“Right…. I knew dating that crazy girl would come back to bite me in the ass…”</span>he groaned for a moment, bringing his hand up to cover his eyes and shake his head.  Yeah, he wouldn’t have put it past that woman to have made a recording of one of their nights to try making some money off it, or just putting it on the internet to try hurting him after he dumped her before his last deployment.  A camera was something he didn’t remember seeing any of those nights, but it was quite possible.  In the end, he knew he was going to dump her eventually because his military life didn’t suit her…  plus he found out she was cheating on him, so it made it easier to dump her.<br/><br/><span style="color: SeaGreen">“ISIS, you really do need to have a mute button.”</span>Was the last thing he said, making a point to try ignoring the computer past that, especially after her finishing with what appeared to be such a long hesitation for a supercomputer.  It helped that watching what everyone else was doing was a good distraction, especially Jenny’s reaction to Mimi rubbing up against her like a cat, and the obvious arousal that she was feeling. And then there was the rather shy sounding question from Diego.  Nathaniel looked over to see him moving closer to Sarah with that question.<br/><br/><span style="color: SeaGreen">“No Diego, you don’t scare me.  That thing hovering around you is creepy though.”</span>Nathan answered the open question before looking at Sarah, and remembering her description of her power.  Now it made sense the sudden obvious arousal that he saw by the evidence at her chest.  Sarah was using her power on Jenny, and for some reason he was what she focused on, other than Mimi who had gotten close to Jenny.  Nathaniel gave Sarah a glare before sighing and shaking his head again.  This couldn’t end well if she was using her powers on other team mates.<br/><br/>The discussion about food, made Nathan’s stomach growl some.  But most of the talk was about cereal between Mathew, Sarah, Diego and Nicole.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“Please tell me I am not the only one who can cook, even basic food.”</span>He said under his breath, but not too quiet.<br/><br/>At least when Jenny started talking to him, and stuttering nervous obvious in her voice, it gave him a reason to not focus on everyone else, and not on Sarah.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“… Yeah, that’s fine.  I prefer it to my full name.”</span>He said after a moment pause, debating id he really should be mean or not.  In the end e put on a small smile, forcing himself not to look at her chest, though glancing down at Mimi every now and then but mostly still looking at her face.  It was impossible to miss the sudden bright red blush, and he couldn’t help but feel his heartbeat increase slightly watching her.  The shyness that she was showing was actually cute, it was possible to completely ignore the tentacles.<br/><br/>Seeing her erratic looking around, it was like she was expecting someone to jump out of nowhere and attack her after her question about his crystals.  At that question, he lifted his left hand to his right arm over the crystals.  They all seemed to pulse a little at his touch, a little faster pulse in time with his heartbeat.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“… it’s fine, I don’t mind the question… I do not like remembering it though.”</span>He said, pausing again to pull his eyes from Jenny to look at the crystals.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“… I was in the wrong place at the right time to see an alien ship crash.  And my curiosity got the better of me…”</span>he stopped again to give himself a sarcastic nasty sounding laugh.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“I guess the saying ‘curiosity killed the cat’  is true in my case.”</span>He said, not really answering the question fully, but then he did say he didn’t like remembering it.<br/><br/>Forcing himself to stop looking at his crystals to look back at her and Mimi and then looking around the room, Nathaniel studied the rest of the group.  It looked like those who had alien contact, or were aliens seemed to be gathering together, while the special humans seemed to be gathering together as well.  Just great, they were segregating themselves from each other.  But he forced himself to not care about that, instead just focusing on Jenny and Mimi.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“So… How did you get your… You know?”</span>he asked back, not really sure if he should just blurt out about the tentacles.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“At least if you don’t mind answering.  We have time to talk while we wait for Helga to stop being a coward and actually show us her real powers.”</span>He didn’t sound as nervous as Jenny, but that comes from having to talk in front of commanding officers, and calling airstrikes while in combat.  It helps you hide your nervousness after all that.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>