Splash
A tourist boat is traveling around the island of Cape Cod. There are mostly families and couples scattered around the boat. Some of them are dancing to a music group, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs playing their most recent hit single "Wooly Bully". A young blonde boy with glasses is walking behind a group of woman looking over the edge of the boat with his hand in his pocket. Just as he is about to pass he takes out his hand dropping change onto the ground. He bends down to pick it up but only successfully gets one coin before moving to look up the skirts with a smile growing on his face. After a few minutes he is seen doing the same thing on the other side of the boat.
Before he could look up more than one skirt of another woman, one of the women farther down the boat noticed him. "Alfred!" she exclaimed walking up and gripping his arm as she pulled him away from the change.
"I dropped something!" he lied.
"Ralph talk to him!" she demanded of her husband as he walked over to the two of them. Ralph hit the smaller boy over the head. "Now listen to your father! Come on, come over here so we can see Cape Cod." she said pulling Alfred toward her.
"We were just on Cape Cod. We could have stayed there on the port." sighed Ralph shaking his head a little.
"Arthur sweetheart don't you want to see Cape Cod?" she asked looking over at another darker blonde boy who was concentrated on the water. Arthur shook his head eyes still focused intensely as if it would help him pierce the murky water and see what was in there. To him it looked like something was in there or calling to him. Everyone else was just seeing the water break from the small waves the tourist boat was creating. "Alright darling, you know where we are if you change your mind."
Arthur continued to look out at the ocean and something seemed to catch his eye. Suddenly he was overwhelmed with curiosity because something was in the ocean! The boy climbed up onto the rail and jumped over into the water. The boat exploded in sound as people began to shout about Arthur. He hadn't come up above the surface since he jumped in.
Under the water Arthur was smiling and he didn't even look like he needed to breathe. He was looking at something that was bringing him great joy. Arthur reaches over grabbing the hand of a girl that wasn't wearing any clothes. She had long blonde hair flowing in the water around her. They both almost looked like they knew each other for a very long time.
Back on the boat someone had jumped into the water. As soon as the man jumped the girl turned around swimming away. Arthur looked saddened and didn't even acknowledge the man that wrapped his arm around him pulling him to the surface. The Kirkland family was quickly running over to the ramp as Arthur was ushered back onto the boat. His father wraps a towel around him trying to warm him up and dry him off at the same time. He walks back over to the railing and looks out at the ocean longingly. "Why did you do that?" asked his mother.
Out in the distance the girl pops her head out the water looking sad as well. She watched the boat for a few seconds before going back into the water. A small tail appeared a few seconds above the water before disappearing again.
It was twenty years later now in New York City. Arthur had taken over the business his father had passed down from him. The produce provider business was very stressful and sometimes the Englishman blamed it on the fact that his father decided to stay in America and have his company build from there.
A balding man in a business suit catches Arthur as he is trying to walk by. "Where are my cherries?" he asked gritting his teeth.
Arthur sighs realizing that he would have to explain this to him before he would be able to get any more work done for the day. "Mr. McCaullen they came in but there was a fog up state and…"
"Where are my cherries? If I don't have my cherries, you don't get your money, and you starve and you die!" he exclaimed pointing at Arthur to the point he nearly hit him in the chest.
Arthur continues to look at him before he yells dramatically, "Jerry! Jerry, where the hell are Mr. McCaullen's cherries?"
Jerry walked over to Arthur the moment his name was called. "Well they're here but you have to take a look at this stuff."
"Mr. McCaullen, ah, be right back!" he stated looking back at the man for only a few seconds before taking off to follow Jerry.
"Where are my cherries?" the man yelled after him.
Jerry leads Arthur over to a dolly full of boxes of cherries and it only took a few seconds before Arthur was very displeased. He picked up a few of them and began to shake his head. "Ahhhh, where the hell do you grow these things under your arms? Bloody hell, snails with stems. Forget it, get them out of here."
"Roy! Get them out of here." smirked Jerry as he went back to his own work.
"You got it." nodded Roy as Augie frowned quickly taking off after Arthur.
Arthur walks over to the phone since he heard his name over the PA system and answers it. "Arthur? Yeah? Thank you. Hi honey, how are you doing?" he asked.
Augie comes up behind him and moves over to the side so he could see his face. "Oh you know we get a lot of rain and cherries get a lot of slime." he explained the situation not caring if the other was on the phone or not.
"Honey I can't hear you." explained Arthur as he tried to move away from Augie even trying to block him out by sticking his finger into his ear.
"You agreed to get these off my hands!" he exclaimed still following after him.
"When the bloody hell did I agree to that?" he snapped at the other angrily.
"Not you, your brother!" Augie answered right away.
Arthur had forgotten about the phone call at this point and realization struck him. He nodded smiling a little at him, "Ahhh, Kiku, I can't hear you. Look what I'm doing is important too, I'll call you right back." he assured the other as he hung up the phone. "So my brother bought your slimy cherries?" he asked clarifying that he had heard him right.
"Yeah, me and Alfred were playing poker and he had two pair and I had a flush, he had no cash, so uh… We worked this out." he smirked as he explained the situation and was blowing it off like it was no problem.
A red, what looked like a cheap sports car, quickly drove around the corner and toward the warehouse. The car decided on a parking spot right in front and in the process knocked over a pile of crates. None other than Alfred jumped out of the car with a glare on his face. "Who put this god damn food here?" he asked loudly looking around. "I'm alright if anyone's concerned!" he assured no one since everyone seemed to be used to this kind of thing happening every morning.
"Good morning Alfred!" shouted Arthur as he walked toward the car trying not to lose his temper completely.
Alfred looked toward the voice before a wide grin spread across his face. "Artie! Artie! Look!" he exclaimed happily reaching back into the car.
"Kirkland I want a simple yes or no." stated Mr. McCaullen so close to just throwing his hands up in the air and forgetting about his cherries all together.
"One more second Mr. McCaullen!" he nearly snapped back at him as he quickly walked over to Alfred.
"I made it! I made it! I'm in Penthouse Magazine! They printed my letter! They printed my letter!" he stated as he quickly lead the way back into the warehouse waving around two big handfuls of magazines.
"Oh listen I'm very, very happy." Arthur assured him knowing that his brother had been waiting for the Penthouse magazine to finally print something he had sent in.
"I'm in the Forum section. The story's entitled, 'A Lesbian No More.' They printed every word I wrote. It's a beautiful story." explained Alfred walking up to the counter that everyone had to check in and out for work setting the magazines down. "Here I want copies of this for everybody!" he stated happily before turning to see his friend. "Augie! Good to see you!" he said while they hugged for a few seconds and pulled away. "Great game the other night, we gotta do that more often."
Arthur grabbed Alfred's shoulder turning him away. "Can we talk?"
Of course Alfred nodded, "Great poker player. Cheats like a son of a bitch!" he said as they walked away but the second sentence had anger lacing the tone.
"Alfred, you and I have to talk." he started.
"Missing petty cash? It was the cleaning girl." quickly lied Alfred.
"I don't care about that."
"You don't?"
"No." assured Arthur.
Alfred decided different tactics with this, "Than it was me, I admit the whole thing."
"Well I still don't care about it Alfred."
"I love this guy! Do you hear me? I love him! Gimme a kiss." he shouted looking around the warehouse before giving Arthur a serious look.
Arthur frowned slightly shaking his head. "Oh Alfred…"
"Give your older brother a kiss." he demanded before he reached over capturing the Arthur's head under his arm and began to kiss his head repeatedly. Mr. McCaullen walks into the scene with a confused look. "I love this guy's head." he explained before reaching into his pocket and handing some money over to Mr. McCaullen. "Hey curly, here's a buck, go wash my car." he encouraged before walking away.
Mr. McCaullen glared angrily and threw the money to the ground. His eyes set on Arthur, "Kirkland, where are my…"
"Mr. McCaullen, your cherries yes. Ah believe me when I tell you that you won't be satisfied with what we have for you." he explained in a business matter even though he was just in an embarrassing hold seconds ago.
"Okay Kirkland, you're ruined. Everyone's gonna know how you left me dry. You're finished! You are a ghost in this business!" he shouted finally pushed over his limit.
Arthur took it calmly and when it looked like he was done he responded. "How'd you like some bananas at cost?"
"Deal!" quickly agreed Mr. McCaullen.
"Jerry! Set up our friend Mr. McCaullen with bananas at cost." demanded Arthur looking down at the clipboard.
"Arthur, wait a minute, I've got to get out of here early today, remember? " Jerry asked hoping that he did or it would be difficult.
"Oh gee, that's right, today's the big day!" he said nodding and knowing that he would have to tell another work now.
Jerry smiled widely glad that Arthur had remembered even though he did use help. "Oh and don't forget that Ushers have to be there early too." he also reminded Arthur.
"I'll be there yesterday."
"Okay." he nodded before quickly moving to get back to work since it would be better to have as much done before he had to leave.
First chapter of my UKFr edition of the classic Fantasy romantic hit Splash. It's an old movie so I don't know how many of you have actually seen it but it is a real life mermaid movie. 8D Best movie ever! Anyway –cough- I just knew that I had to do the pairing UKFr because Arthur has to be the one to fall in love with a mermaid! I have a feeling though this will lose interest into some of the readers because it isn't a yaoi fanfic. It will be Nyotalia with Fem!France. I'm sorry if you don't like it but that's how it is. Reviews will be greatly appreciated since this is the first chapter ^^.