A Human Won't Stay in the Ocean, Ariel
Title: A Human Won't Stay in the Ocean, Ariel
Fandom: KH
Characters/pairings: Leon/Ariel
Rating: PG
Summary: Ariel has a growing obsession. Sebastion tries to talk her out of it
Warnings: Crack.
Notes: Old writing, from way back in the day, in it's mostly original format (very minor corrections may have been made)
o o o
"He don't belong here, Ariel."
Sebastian, speaking behind her, but what did that matter? He was coming. And she needed to see him.
"Ariel, dis is lunacy! He's not some human from the surface, he's from anotha world! He needs to take his fins back where he came from, and leave you alone!"
He was just going to watch. Nothing more. Watch her and maybe let her come close enough to talk and maybe let her hang around enough to make him smile.
"What if da worlds are closed again? What if he gets stuck here?"
Watch her swim, his eyes a brilliant blue that put the ocean to shame, and slowly relax in her presence, nothing overt, nothing blatant.
"What...if he tries somethin', and you end up hurt?"
The slight pause is what gets her and she turns to the crab behind her. A teacher, a friend, the one who taught her to release her voice and charm the very sharks of the ocean. Not her closest friend, he was too much the teacher for that, but there was a bond between the crustacean composer and the mermaid princess.
"Oh, Sebastian, all he does is swim around and watch us. And he's Sora's friend, so I don't think he'd hurt me."
He's trembling in her hands she realizes that he's furious. Furious with her, furious with the stranger that had stolen her attention, furious with her father not noticing the stranger in the midst, furious with Sora telling him about the underwater kingdom - I told them about this place, but I didn't think he'd be the one to actually try it out.
"But he'll jus' keep coming!"
And he would, she knew. And she couldn't stay away. Something about the scarred man called to her, and she was powerless to deny the feeling. The human she had rescued from the storm, he had warmed her heart, but the man with the flame colored fins, oh he made her heart pound. But he was shy, and the first time she approached him, he swam away. So she took her time, always patient, always gentle, can you help me lift this? We need someone to judge the race, will you?
"He keeps coming here, and he keeps staying longer each time!"
She knew that he didn't belong. She knew he was from another world. And she didn't care. She still smiled at him and let him hover on the edge of her activities and she hoped that maybe he'd open up to her a little before the worlds were closed again. And if they did close, well, the Trident had many wondrous powers. She would find a way.
"He don't belong here. It ain't his world."
Maybe it was a case of opposites attracting - she, so young and inexperienced, he, obviously older, with experiences she could only dream of. She, a girl of the cold oceans, he a man of the warm outside world. How had this happened? Why had he come in the first place? Why was it so hard to tell herself that it was wrong?
"A human won't stay in the ocean, Ariel."
No, he wouldn't stay forever. Every time he came, he had to leave again. And every time, there was the chance that the sea king would catch him and banish him from the kingdom for good.
"I know."
A final kiss to his head and she leaves him, a flip of her tail propelling her through the palace walls out to the open ocean. He watches her, despairing, but she turns her eyes towards the cave where the outsiders enter the world. She knew what to watch for, a flash of light, and a glimpse of fins that were the shades of the coral that stung and the flames she knew from water-logged paintings.
Maybe this time, Leon would ask her to come back to Hollow Bastion with him.
Maybe she'd say yes.
Fandom: KH
Characters/pairings: Leon/Ariel
Rating: PG
Summary: Ariel has a growing obsession. Sebastion tries to talk her out of it
Warnings: Crack.
Notes: Old writing, from way back in the day, in it's mostly original format (very minor corrections may have been made)
o o o
"He don't belong here, Ariel."
Sebastian, speaking behind her, but what did that matter? He was coming. And she needed to see him.
"Ariel, dis is lunacy! He's not some human from the surface, he's from anotha world! He needs to take his fins back where he came from, and leave you alone!"
He was just going to watch. Nothing more. Watch her and maybe let her come close enough to talk and maybe let her hang around enough to make him smile.
"What if da worlds are closed again? What if he gets stuck here?"
Watch her swim, his eyes a brilliant blue that put the ocean to shame, and slowly relax in her presence, nothing overt, nothing blatant.
"What...if he tries somethin', and you end up hurt?"
The slight pause is what gets her and she turns to the crab behind her. A teacher, a friend, the one who taught her to release her voice and charm the very sharks of the ocean. Not her closest friend, he was too much the teacher for that, but there was a bond between the crustacean composer and the mermaid princess.
"Oh, Sebastian, all he does is swim around and watch us. And he's Sora's friend, so I don't think he'd hurt me."
He's trembling in her hands she realizes that he's furious. Furious with her, furious with the stranger that had stolen her attention, furious with her father not noticing the stranger in the midst, furious with Sora telling him about the underwater kingdom - I told them about this place, but I didn't think he'd be the one to actually try it out.
"But he'll jus' keep coming!"
And he would, she knew. And she couldn't stay away. Something about the scarred man called to her, and she was powerless to deny the feeling. The human she had rescued from the storm, he had warmed her heart, but the man with the flame colored fins, oh he made her heart pound. But he was shy, and the first time she approached him, he swam away. So she took her time, always patient, always gentle, can you help me lift this? We need someone to judge the race, will you?
"He keeps coming here, and he keeps staying longer each time!"
She knew that he didn't belong. She knew he was from another world. And she didn't care. She still smiled at him and let him hover on the edge of her activities and she hoped that maybe he'd open up to her a little before the worlds were closed again. And if they did close, well, the Trident had many wondrous powers. She would find a way.
"He don't belong here. It ain't his world."
Maybe it was a case of opposites attracting - she, so young and inexperienced, he, obviously older, with experiences she could only dream of. She, a girl of the cold oceans, he a man of the warm outside world. How had this happened? Why had he come in the first place? Why was it so hard to tell herself that it was wrong?
"A human won't stay in the ocean, Ariel."
No, he wouldn't stay forever. Every time he came, he had to leave again. And every time, there was the chance that the sea king would catch him and banish him from the kingdom for good.
"I know."
A final kiss to his head and she leaves him, a flip of her tail propelling her through the palace walls out to the open ocean. He watches her, despairing, but she turns her eyes towards the cave where the outsiders enter the world. She knew what to watch for, a flash of light, and a glimpse of fins that were the shades of the coral that stung and the flames she knew from water-logged paintings.
Maybe this time, Leon would ask her to come back to Hollow Bastion with him.
Maybe she'd say yes.