Kalinda dropped to her knees the emotion battering against her own mental blocks. She very nearly screamed herself as she struggled to keep her blocks up, constantly rebuilding over and over again.

This was what she was afraid of. Raw, passionate human emotion. His was what she was doomed to end up with. 

If she kept on allowing herself to feel that is.

She forced herself into a sitting position, keeping her eyes on Devika

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Connor said goodbye to Austin, heading to his dorm to pick up a few things. At least, he hoped Kijani was still up for the chemistry afternoon. Maybe it was too nerdy. When he reached his dorm, he sighed.

Connor needed to talk to his father. So he took out his phone, failing his fathers number.

He couldn't believe it. He was actually calling up his father to talk about [i]girls[/i]

Since coming here. He had had a number of awkward encounters with girls. Sue being one, after all he had called her cute! But she was. 

And Kyra. He had given her a flower that first day of school. 

And then there was Kijani. For some reason, he just couldn't be around her without a)attack her-remembering the simulation there, or b) getting her into trouble or c)blushing like a school boy. 

His fathers voice distracted him from this train of thought

"Con!" Tony stark said, "what's up?"

"Not much" got into a. Fight "had to modify the suit" not that he could remember that "got too tall for it"

"Dear god boy, if you keep on growing, you'll be taller than a mountain! A good gust of wind will knock you down!"

"Whatever old man, I can still take you on" Connor said, this easy banter he had with his father coming naturally.

"So what's up?"

"Uh...well um...the thing is, I need some advice..." He trailed off embarrassed

"Could this be? My own son, Connor, asking me about girls? I should crack out the champagne. Finally!" Tony said laughing

"Don't make me regret it!" Connor berated him

"Maybe that schools better for you than I thought. You're brown!"

Connor laughed "the sun, apparently it's not poison like I thought"

"So girls?" Tony said bringing the topic back around to it.

Connor felt himself blush, "uh yeah. I just seem to get all geeky around them"

"Aw con, you just need to be more confident in yourself. You have money. You have smarts. You have the suit!!" Tony said "pretend you are teaching them. I've seen if, you get all...well, confident and sure"

The fact that Connor had money, smarts hadn't helped him with girls before. And the suit, well the guys here had other powers.

"The girls here are bimbos like high school. They're something else" Connor said

"Just be yourself. They will love you for it" Tony said "besides, you're my son! When I was your age, I had any number of girls-"

"Dad!" Connor practically screamed "I don't want to hear this! As far as I am concerned you have been with mum and that's it"

Tony chuckled.

They said goodbye, and Connor sat there and sighed "well that was helpful" at least he hadn't mentioned the fight. 

He grabbed what he needed, and headed out the dorm to find kijani.