Title: WaterDemon
Chapter 1:
Author: JForward
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Summary: The Doctor and Rose have travelled to the borders of England but have a surprise to find a half alien living there. However when the authorities get involved there are only two choices; let them kill her or find her father.
CHAPTER 1: Louise's view.
She let out a soft sigh, sliding into the water. The swimming pool bustled with life, hyperactive children on the slides, screaming with joy. Old ladies and men relaxing in the Jacuzzi while middle-aged women and men swam in the main pool, a few younger children and parents splashing in the baby pool with toddlers. Just another teenager in the masses at the huge pool centre, a lifeguard reading a magazine sat upon his high chair, golden sunlight streaming in from the open roof while sunbathers outside surrounded the unheated outdoor pool, basking in the light on plastic chairs, while a few swum in the warmish waters.
Louise sighed with soft pleasure, watching those around her. Her bathing suit, a soft grey tone with a white diagonal stripe across and then one across her midsection, seatbelt-style. Then she felt a tingle down her legs, and a feeling like her legs cramping, going to stone, stiffening. She looked down and gasped out, people turning to look at her and many screaming. Leaping out the water, but her legs failing to turn back human. The cops, the FBI, everyone streaming in and she screamed out as they yelled insults and jibes, throwing her into a huge fishtank.
Her own cries woke her. Louise's brown eyes flickered open, deep brown flecked with gold. A light dusting of freckles across her fourteen-year-old face, now pale and soaked in cold sweat. Shivering, Louise swung her legs out of the bed, long brown blond-streaked hair hanging almost to her waist shining in the light coming through her window. She took deep, shaky breaths, pushing back the powder-lilac covers adorned with a mermaid upon a rock. She glanced at her swimming costume nearby, picking it up and leaving the house. Her mother wasn't home- probably still out getting drunk. Wearing her swimming costume, Louise walked slowly down the pier, eyes glinting bluish tones.
She had always feared her gift would be discovered, she would be taken, treated like an alien, a monster-creature, tested on, eventually killed and dissected. She slid into the water, awaiting the moment that, still after a few months of coping with it, gave her a shot of fear. The moment her legs began to melt together, stiffen and solidify- and then the soft feeling of gracefulness. The colours, shining tones of gold, silver, black and lilac with a touch of bluesy turquoise, shimmering beautifully, colours invisible in the darkness.
Sinking into the cold water, she was aware of a faint burning as her gills began to work and she shifted from lungs to gills. Swimming gracefully through the slightly murky waters, eyes now blue-green, like the sea. Top half girl in swim costume, bottom half mermaid. She sighed happily, a stream of bubbles rising to the surface as, with a casual tail flick, she rose once more, knowing she had headed away from the pier towards the cleaner beach, where she'd sometimes lay with her bottom half submerged, watching over the sea as the sun began to rise before she headed home.
She was just lying in the waves, near the shore, floating hands-behind-her-head, when a faint grinding noise broke into her thoughts. She glanced around, watching in shock, mouth open, as a blue box began to just… appear… on the sand, not too far away. Wind blew around it as, with the grating sound, it appeared in totality, flashing light fading. The door opened and a slim young man stepped out, brown hair tousled and flicked forward over his eyes, with brown eyes. He wore a pinstriped brown suit, a blue tie, a blue top and just visible underneath- a white vest.
He took a deep breath. "Come on, Rose!" He called into the box. "Come get a sniff of this sea air!" He hadn't noticed Louise. She stared, as if fascinated, all her mermaid instincts screaming to escape- yet she stayed, watching, as a girl with shoulder-length blonde hair stepped out, wearing a blue fur-rimmed jacket. "Alright, Doctor, I'm com-"She snapped off, staring at Louise. Their eyes locked for half a second and the Doctor turned just in time to see the flick of a multicoloured tail as the part mermaid vanished into the waves.
Rose's mouth hung open. "Doctor, what was that?" She whispered, softly. Just as the Doctor was about to answer, a shout rent the air. "OI! YOU! What you doin', leavin' great big blocks of blue wood on meh beach! Oi'll have youse done for flies-tippering, I's will!" Louise listened to all this as she swum through the waves, heart thudding.
A/N: NEXT CHAPTER TOMORROW!