Note: Okay, y'all... I wrote this in highschool my freshman or sophomore year after the movie came out. I might finish it, I might not. Be gentle, please. I graduated in 2007, so I wrote this a long time ago haha!
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"We found her and it's obvious she belonged here. Though she is more salt water oriented she can survive in fresh water. Abe, we thought you could talk to her. She is terrified and won't listen to us. Not to mention she is hurt badly. We try to help but she bites..."
"I will try my best." The aquatic man nodded, curious as to what the men were speaking of. He watched as something was gently dropped into his tank. When the bubbles cleared he saw it was a woman, a naked human woman. Surely this was some sort of joke Red had come up with to mess with him...
Abe watched as her legs fused together and fins grew off of her hips and now tail. Over her breasts and legs formed scales of beautiful pastel colors, mostly blues. Her long white blonde hair began to float up above her so he could see her clearly. Abe saw her eyes were pastel blue with no pupils. She was pale white almost the color of snow, a very slight blue tint giving off a frozen look. So, this wasn't a joke. He was thankful for that.
"So mermaids really exist, huh? I always thought the story tellers were full of it." Hellboy crossed his arms, shifting the cigar in his mouth, "What's her name?"
The mermaid turned and looked at the demonic man, arms crossed over her chest as she slowly shifted to the far right corner of the tank. She was terrified and refused to say anything.
"Are you afraid?"
Was she afraid?
Really?
This was unfamiliar territory, of course, she was afraid! She had been taken after she thought she was safe on an abandoned beach. Boy, was she so wrong...
She should never have come to shore to check her wounds from that God forsaken fishnet she was trapped in.
The creature known as Abe moved closer to her but she hissed, still not trusting him.
"Do you have a name?" Abe asked her gently, still slowly moving towards her, "It's alright, you are safe here. Nobody will hurt you. We are the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense."
She looked at Abe with her ocean eyes and studied him, looking almost like she would speak.
"Make her say something, can she speak English? Can she even talk?"
The mer turned to Hellboy and a soft growl escaped her throat. Abe recognized it as a warning.
'Leave. Me. Alone.'
"Just... Give her time," he said, "She needs to adjust, to see that we are not a threat to her."
Abe moved closer and saw the wounds, it seemed she had been stuck in a strong fish net and her struggling only made it tighten more. There was no surprise she had wounds from such a thing. After all, the oceans were drowning in human litter. It was easy for even divers to get stuck in trash.
'By the dieties, where am I?'
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A few days passed and she was silent. The mermaid seemed lonely and was obviously depressed. She would not eat anything that was offered to her. She just sat there in the far right corner of the tank, she seemed to get pale and sickly as each day passed. Her wounds were healing and almost gone but she was starting to become ill.
Abe was starting to worry about her but she wouldn't let him or anyone else near her and he couldn't get anything mentally.
"Are you alright?" He asked gently.
She turned around and looked into his eyes but didn't growl this time. It seemed as though she were too tired to growl.
"I can help you if you will let me..."
She had been in here for several days and not once did he try to harm her. His voice was kind and his movements were gentle, elegant. Perhaps he was trustworthy, at least. He was a creature of her element, after all.
"Oh my God, is that a real mermaid?" A feminine voice asked, the mermaid turned and saw a beautiful human woman standing on the other side of the tank, "As a child, I always dreamed of meeting one, I think every little girl does. I used to pretend I was one at one point in my life. I just never thought... Is she alright?"
Abe saw Liz when he looked to the other side of the glass and gave her an uncertain look, "I'm not sure. She is having a very hard time trusting us right now."
"I was that way when I first came here. But I realized after about a week that everyone truly cares. I was always the outcast, the freak but here I was accepted with no questions asked."
"We are a very caring group, we look after each other." Abe turned back to the mermaid and swam closer, "Can I ask your name so I can call you by it?"
Her eyes still looked up at him.
"My name is Abe, you can trust me." He knew he had told her his name more than ten times now.
She was quiet then after a moment of thinking she spoke in a soft voice, "Mika... My name is Mika."
Liz smiled, "My name is Liz. Are you able to live out of water?"
Mika nodded, "My cuffs..."
"Cuffs?"
"They help me to stay human when I get wet."
Liz nodded, "I'll talk to the others and ask them about it." Then she walked off.
Abe watched her eyes turn back to him and he held out a hand, "May I?"
Mika sensed his abilities so was a bit hesitant. He didn't try to hurt her before and seemed like the gentle type to treat other creatures with respect. The woman seemed friendly, he seemed friendly. Maybe she could try making friends. She reached out and took his hand.
He tried not invade her mind without her permission, he was just trying to figure out why she was so sickly.
"I'd know that feeling anywhere." He said, "You're starving and scared, a bit claustrophobic as well but your wounds are healing quite wonderfully."
She looked at his hand holding hers. It was almost as if she was waiting for him to hurt her.
"We just want to help, the others were just trying to help you when they brought you here."
Abe was still and held her hand until Liz came back.