Full Summary:

A bunch of 'One Shots' concerning certain pictures. If I could add the pictures into the story, I would. Different characters and shows/books/movies will be involved. Like my 'Halloween, Thanksgiving & Christmas' Stories.

The Mermaid & The Dragon:

She sat in under the waterfall. The chained dragon lay over the arching waterfall. As she looked up into its eyes, she understood the need to be free. It like her was trapped but the forces that surrounded them. She had been turned into a mermaid by the cruelty of the life she had lived. The dragon was imprisoned by the man that had tried to kill him. Both were of a different life. Both had lived human lives before they were turned into mythical creatures. The dragon had been a young boy who'd been hunted down by his father. The mermaid had been a young girl about to graduate high school when her life had come to a screeching halt.

The Mermaid: Callie Adams-Foster. She'd had it all; a loving family with three brothers and a sister. She'd been about to graduate high school. She had a job and wonderful friends who cared for her deeply. She'd made promises to her family that she had ended up breaking on that fateful day. You see, Callie's ride had fallen through and she'd missed the last bus home. She'd started to walk home when a car had pulled up alongside of her. She had ignored it at first but when someone had called out her name, she'd turned around only to come face to face with Liam, the guy that had raped her all those years ago. She thought that he would still be in jail for stealing her identity and that of Sarah's as well. But as she looked at him, she knew that something was about to happen and she had no way of stopping it.

Liam's friend jumped out of the car and forced her into the back at knife point. She wasn't even able to scream for fear they would kill her; though that's exactly what had happened anyways. They'd taken her out to a secluded part of the beach that set on a cliff overlooking the ocean. They pulled her out of the car and proceeded to beat up on her. Liam and his friend raped her over and over again until they were tired of her and then they continued to beat up on her. When they were done, Callie barely had a pulse. They left her on that secluded cliff overlooking the ocean and drove away. Callie had barely woken up to realize that she was going to die alone. She crawled to the cliff and pushed herself over. If she could float to a nearby beach, maybe help would arrive in time to save her life.

She hit the water a little too hard, and it knocked her unconscious. When she woke up, she was in a cave and the water rushed outside. She tried to sit up only to realize that she no longer had legs. Instead of legs, she had a tail. She looked down at the rest of her body and realized that she had turned into a mermaid. When she looked around, she realized that she was not alone. There was another creature nearby, but even it shouldn't have existed. She didn't understand why she had been turned into a mermaid. She didn't seem to understand that it was a good thing and that if she hadn't been turned, she would have surely died. She waited for the creature to wake up. They would have to figure out their new predicament together.

The Dragon: Carlisle James Forester. He'd been on the run for half his life. The man hunting him had been doing so since he survived him at the age of ten. At the age of twenty, Carlisle was now a cop. He'd graduated from the Rookie Academy in San Diego and had joined the police force. His training officer had been Mike Foster. So he had worked on the missing person's case of Callie Adams-Foster. They'd found nothing that could connect anyone to her. They'd found nothing that could show them where she had disappeared to. In fact, they were running down a lead when Carlisle had seen the man that had been hunting him. There was no indication that Callie had come in contact with that killer so Carlisle had kept that bit of information to himself, hoping the killer wouldn't recognize him. He'd been wrong, but he hadn't known that until it was too late.

Callie Adams-Foster had been missing for nearly two months when a lead had come in. A drunken man had been pulled from a bar with an interesting story. He'd been talking up a storm on how he'd helped kill an innocent young woman and left her on a secluded cliff over-looking the ocean. Now, he had to tell the police what he'd done and answer for his crime. Police, including the young woman's own mother, headed for the secluded cliff to see if they could find anything of hers and make sure she wasn't still up there. There was a good possibility that the young woman had survived somehow, but by the way the drunken man had been explaining it, there was no possible way.

And it was true. The only things they found of the young woman were her purse, with everything still inside. Nothing else was found. Then again, two months had gone by. She could have fallen over the cliff and nobody would have known what had ever happened to her. The case wasn't closed as there was no body to be found. But the case did become a cold case and the family did eventually have to move on, though nobody forgot about their lost sister. And life went on for Carlisle, though he couldn't get Callie out of his head. He couldn't shake the feeling that he would see her again.

As he got ready to leave for work one day, a knock came at his door. He lived on the outskirts of a small neighborhood that only had one road in or out that was actually accessible. The other road led into the woods and down to the beach that ran along the outer edge of the neighborhood. He had to be into work very early this morning so when he opened the door to see who had knocked, he wasn't expecting the killer to be standing at his door. When he saw his face, fear and shock crossed his face before a knife to the heart ended his life. The killer picked his lifeless body up and walked through the woods and down to the beach where he threw Carlisle's body into the water, hoping he wouldn't wash up on any of the popular beaches nearby. He had no idea that he was being watched from the water.

After the killer had left, the mermaid swam up to the dead man and pulled him out to sea. She watched as he transformed into a dragon, something she had only dreamed about as a child or watched in movies with her family. She wouldn't remember helping this man as it was in the wee hours of her own transformation that she helped him. She'd survived in the cave for two months before she was transformed into a mermaid. She didn't understand why she was allowed to live and then transform into something so beautiful. But she did understand that this man who was now a dragon would be able to help her get back to her family. She hoped that beyond everything else that was going on, they would be able to communicate with each other and learn each other's stories.

She took the dragon back to the cave and waited for him to wake up. They would need to decide what to do together and decide how their future was going to go. They didn't yet know that they would be able to visit with their families or that they would once again be human. But they did know, that at the moment, they were alive when all else was against them.

Photo by: © Perla~Marina

AN: Let me know if you wish for me to continue any of these 'one shots' into actual stories and I will.

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