I awoke with a handsome blonde doctor hovering over me. I had just come out of surgery, and all I saw was his blurred face. He seemed to be almost otherworldly, as if he was glowing.

"Are you alright Miss Hikawa?" The Doctor said.

"Y-Yes Doctor..."

"Wyatt. Leo Wyatt." Leo said. "Most just call me Leo though."

"So, um...Leo. How does it look." I asked.

"Your surgery went well." Leo said. "In a bit you can go home. Do you have any questions?"

"The light...what was that light?" I asked him.

He smiled. "Many people experience strange dreams due to the anesthesia."

"Right..."

Xxx

Leo closed the door to Kuri Hikawa's hospital room.

She was his next charge, a future priestess.

He never thought he'd have to operate on her, to touch her skin, to know her body like that—he had to stop thinking about it. Be professional. He was a doctor! Or he had been once.

He gazed into her window. She was asleep.

He entered her room, quietly closing the door, and tried his best at something he had never before attempted: he was trying to heal her mind.

She stirred in her sleep, gripped his hand, and rolled over.

"Leo.." Her eyelids fluttered as she said his name.

Leo stared at this mesmerizing priestess. He had never met one before. Though he had been informed by other Whitelighters about them.

Jiro, a Japanese Whitelighter, had explained that they were allowed—actually encouraged!—to marry their Whitelighter. A priestess would call the Whitelighter her "kami" and it was a very sacred relationship approved by the Elders.

Leo shook his head, watching the woman sleep.

It was too much to ask for—to want love—after he had been given a second chance, a new calling.

"Leo..."

Still, his heart leapt when she said his name.