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"I'm quite sure that I will," Jacen replied with a grin. He could only imagine what to expect from Penance. But, almost instantly, the waitress was asking Jacen what he was wanting to eat.

"I'll have a steak as well, ma'am. Though I think I'd like mine well done."

"Well done?," Penance teased, "That'd be like chewing through a tire patch...."

"For one, I wouldn't know anything about chewing through tire patches," Jacen said nudging her with his elbow, "And for two, this comes back to my initial point, alot of us don't have healing abilities to fight off foriegn bacteria."

They kept on talking for a second when Jacen heard someone say, "Hey guys."

"Hello...," Jacen said, not really recognizing the girl. Obviously she had to be one of the X-Men if she was just walking up like the way she did and saying hello. That was still strange to him, being considered benevolent and generally accepted by the X-Men.

"That's Danielle," Penance said, letting Jacen know who the girl was that had just arrived.

"Ok. Danielle," Jacen said as he relaxed a bit in his chair. "I'd ask if you were willing to join us for this grand feast known as lunch.....but I see you've other plans," he said will gesturing towards her surfboard.

"See, not only can we fight off villains by land now. If we give her one of our new weapons, we will have a naval fleet too," Penny waved to the waitress and told her to include Danielle in on their lunch. She also thought it was funny the amount of items they had strewn against the wall behind them. She was curious about Danielle, though while she was talking she slid a peice of ice into her palm, "Do your abilities help you surf or do you do it a natural?"

"Does it matter?" Jacen said and grabbed her hand before she got him. Penny dropped it on the floor. She already knew that wasn't going to work but she was blatantly flirting because it was fun to do.

"Nope, I was just curious," She said and watched the waitress dole out their salads and soup... which wasn't really soup. It was broth with a few green onions floating around it, "I swear it really is good. It doesn't taste like a tire patch, I swear."

"Do you really know what a tire path tastes like," Jacen asked her as she sipped some of the soup off her spoon.

She stopped eating and said the following to see what rise she got out of it, "There is almost no dare in the world I wouldn't do..."

"You aren't serious," He looked her dead in the eyes.

"Ha, I am serious but no, I really don't know what a tire patch tastes like," She smiled. Their chef pulled up to their table with his little cart of knifes, cooking oils, seasonings, and their raw food. She pushed away the empty soup bowl, "Time for the show."

*insert a Japanese accent here*

"Hello, I am your cook today," The man said in a quite pleasant voice. He got their attention immediately by lighting a line of oil on fire on the grill. After making sure all of their orders were right, he started cooking rice and slicing up vegetables making sure to use incredibly fast movement and tossing his knives in ways that really shouldn't be humanly possible. But it was fun, it was part of the show, and the people usually tipped well.

Who would play along today? He sliced the tail off of a shrip and cooked it. He balanced it on the end of a knife and made a tossing motion to see who would catch. Most of the group pushed it off with a 'no way'. The girls, they seemed to be having fun. The older one leaned towards the grill and said she'd take the bait. He put spatula on the grill and flipped the shrimp up and she caught it in her mouth. He tried to get the others to play along, the crowd seemed to start having more fun with the dinner tricks. One of the boys caught a shrimp too for sport.

He sliced and diced their chicken, fish and steak and served their plates of vegetables and rice very carefully. He must be sure not to drop their food on the table. That made for a bad show and bad service. Overall, the crowd seemed pleased so he did another fire trick with some chicken before serving the last of their dinner.

Cleaning up, he thanked them and pushed his cart away onto his next customers.

"About a year now." Danielle replied. "It's really not that hard." She smiled at him.
Danielle started to think about her and Kevin, then the smile went away.

Danielle was laughing and having a good time with Penny, when she happened to look across the restraunt and see that guy that was at the beach this morning. He was standing in a corner and no one seem to notice him but her. "Uh, sorry guys I gotta go." Danielle said, and ran out the door forgetting her surfboard.

"I don't know." Danielle said sounding a bit shooken up.

"No it's not you. I don't want to talk about it." Danielle said, her eyes were starting to tear up.

"I-I can't, I just need to be alone right now." Danielle got up and walked off towards the beach.
She sat down in the sand, and let the water come up and splash on her feet, and roll back out to sea. 'Could he really be back?' She thought, and looked down at scars that were on her arms, and stomach.