"Well the main idea is to keep her from hurting anyone more than she has to. If she needs to use her strength its useful to know how to use it with control so she can disarm rather than disable someone permanently." Greg was serious but smiled, closing the phone and making that last call for Justin, thinking it was all about waiting then.<br/><br/>-----<br/><br/>Nick had finally reached home, and closing the door behind him he sighed and walked hurriedly past the livingroom, even with his aching foot. The ankle was sore from his tripping, but he didn't want to spend time with his father. The man was writing a document at the nearby table, but ever since his mother had left him for being a workaholic things had gotten progressively more and more tense at his home. His father hated women and had actually suggested it was better if Nick was gay to not have his heart played with by a man.<br/><br/>Nick couldn't bring himself to hate his mother though, she had left him and his father because his father was never there for her even then, though his workaholic attitude only got worse after she but the fact she had cheated on his father had hurt Nick. Still, he felt that women ought to be protected where possible, though he didn't think they necessarily needed that. Just, it was good behaviour. He wondered passingly if he was chauvinistic, all that coming to mind again as he made his way upstairs.<br/><br/>It took a bit for him to finish up going through what little homework there was before he headed for the shower, only to notice something was missing. His talisman.<br/><br/>"Oh no. Oh no, no, no." He groaned. It was one of the few things his mother had left him, something she had passed to him after she and his father had tried time and again to have a daughter, but having only a son. His mother had wanted to pass it on to a daughter not a son, but given no choice he had inherited that thing, and now... he had lost it.<br/><br/>"Maybe its at the store.." He cussed a towel around his hips as he moved to snatch a cellphone, dialing the video rental store's number, hoping Susan or boss was free and that the talisman was there.