A/N: So this idea has been just sitting around for a while, so I decided to publish it. It is obviously an AU. I have this, A JohnKat I might publish, a Glee/Homestuck crossover, and 2 other Glee fics, so they might not always update each week, but I will try my hardest!

Disclaimer: I don't own Homestuck


It was noon again.

The time when the day peaked; flowers began losing their morning freshness; the tide began pulling back. It was absolutely beautiful and Feferi loved it. She loved the way the ocean foam misted across the sand in the heat of the sun when it was at his tallest. She wasn't used to seeing much sunlight, so when she did, she lapped it up, not caring that her sensitive skin started to dry out, she could cleanse and moisturize it later.

It was also the seventh day that the most attractive creature Feferi had ever seen came down to the beach from his hive and sat on the sand. The girl swam silently to the surface and hid herself behind a rock, listening to the human talk to himself. Today marked an entire week since Feferi began lurking hind the large rock, watching the unnamed boy. It was as if it was a ritual. Everyday at noon he would come and drop a bottle with a rolled up piece of paper inside of it into the ocean and began talking, chatting, to some unseen person.

She flicked her elegant tail eagerly, waiting for him to start their daily routine. The fins on the mermaid's face fluttered gently by the ocean wind and she pulled herself on to the flat rock, hoping to get a better look at the other.

"Hey again, Aradia," he started. "Thingth have been kind of hectic again. KK came over for the firtht time in a while."

Feferi scuttled higher on her rock, cursing her fish tail for being unable to aid her in the ascent.

"I think thomething happened with John. He didn't tell me about it of courth. He doethn't talk to anyone anymore, but you knew that," he muttered, trailing his finger in the soft sand and sighing.

Trying to shuffle even closer Feferi slipped and tumbled over the rock, landing herself in the shallow water in plain view. The human boy jumped in surprise and Feferi turned her back to him, hiding her numerous fins and gray skin behind her voluminous black hair. There was a moment of silence with Feferi wishing the other would just turn away so she could swim down deep into her hive and try to forget this whole ordeal. She soon hear the water shifting though, and she knew she wasn't so lucky.

"Um, are you okay?" the human asked, his voice closer to her than before. Feferi panicked and ducked behind the large rock out of view before slipping into deeper water and darting as fast as she could back to her civilization under the sea. She navigated through the familiar trenches back to her kingdom and hive.

Her heart was pumping her pink blood through her body faster than the quickest fish in the sea. Did that just happen? Did the human boy see her? She hoped he hadn't. Land dwellers were always scorned in her superior society since they only believed they were fake. It was dishonorable and disgraceful to their intellectual civilization and it was decided they would keep themselves separated and the underwater existence was to be kept secret. Because of this, she had never talked to a human and one hadn't ever talked to her. She didn't understand why after so many years, her people couldn't just let it go. Humans and merpeople looked similar and could even communicate! They had emotions and the human boy treated her nicer than her own people would. Asking if someone was okay isn't something that went on in their society.

She swam over and sat on the lip of her recuperacoon. A swarm of small white beings surrounded her and her black lips curved into a gentle smile. She gestured for one of her precious cuttlefish to come closer. She weaved her fingers delicately through its small tentacles and giggled. She always loved her precious cuttlefish. She picked it up and held it to her face, the mollusk's W shaped eyes peering into hers.

"Do you think Aradia is his lost matesprit? He sea-med reel-y attached to her," she pondered as if she were having a conversation with the smaller organism.

"Wwho are wwe glubbin' about?" Feferi shrieked at the intrusion and moved away from her window. The cuttlefish surrounding her began to angrily swarm to the man who snuck up from the opening behind her. She calmed them down and sighed.

"Oh, it's nothing Eridan," Feferi responded flatly. Eridan huffed and swished his powerful tail, closing the space between the two.

Feferi had been lucky to be adorned with such elegant fins. They were wispy and lovely, in a glittering shade or magenta where a few scales would rest, and her tail was magenta as well, standing out against her gray body. Eridan, however, was more angular. The fins on his face and arms were sharp and the scales that covered them were rough and deep purple. His tail resembled that of a trout and his tailfin didn't fan as much and was grittier than Feferi's.

"Wwhere wwere you today? You'vve been actin' real fishy lately," Eridan said, huffing and batting away a cuttlefish who came too close to him. Feferi copied his huffy attitude.

"It's none of your business, Eridan. You don't have to grub-sit me all the time!" She swam from Eridan's reach and entered her nutrition block.

"Wwe're goin' to be wwed soon, so I wwant you to tell me wwhat the hell it is you do all day," Eridan replied snarkily, following her. Feferi gritted her teeth.

She hated arranged marriages. She always did and she always will. She hated them in the storied her lusus would tell her, and she hated it when she was told Eridan was to be her husband. Eridan, being the second highest blood color in the kingdom, however, was more than happy to have Feferi as his wife. The strong, intelligent and agile merman had proved worthy for any seadweller, but because of his self-centered and egocentric ways, he had few colleagues, let alone a potential matesprit. Feferi had nothing against Eridan but she wasn't flushed for him and in fact, she didn't even hold pale inclinations towards him. She really didn't like his snobby attitude and how demanding he was. He was so theatrical and dramatic and only cared about himself and it drove her insane.

"I'm not marrying you, Eridan, so stop saying that!"

The room filled with a stifling silence. Eridan broke it as he scoffed and narrowed his violet eyes at Feferi. He wasn't in the mood to deal with her immaturity. Fixing his purple cape, he swam through the window and left a now weary Feferi alone.

"Why can't he be as chivalrous as Mr. Human?" she pouted, thinking back to the landweller she had been spying on.

She swam back to her respiteblock and nestled herself within the green slime of her recuperacoon.


First chapter! What do you think?