I Love You, So I'll Stay
A/N: This has a happy ending FYI. Read the book Seven Tears Into The Sea (by: Terri Farley) first!
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Gwen's POV (in 3rd person)
(Quotes: Chapter 14 ~ pg. 274-275)
"I could try to stay," he said. Desprate excitement edged in his tone. "Hide my skin. don't tell me where you put it."
I went still, holding my breath. I thought of those woodcuttings that showed selkies wives staring out to sea. Children clung to their skirts, but the selkie wives turned their longing faces to the waves. Could I do that to Jesse?
Yes, I could, a voice vowed in my head.
He'd offered to stay. I hadn't forced him.
"But I love you." I was crying now for real, and my hands were shaking.
"And so I'll stay." His chin jerked up, but even as it did, his eyed too in the ceiling, the walls, the closed door, and the windows.
I love you.
And so I'll stay.
So simple and so wrong.
........
Before I could speak, Jesse clenched his fists
"Burn my skin," he demanded. "That way I could never go back."
(Ending quotes)
"No, Jesse, I can't!"
"But I love you."
"But you belong in the sea."
"I'll tell you what, I'll go down to the grotto, and put my skin there."
"Will you come back to me?" I was worried.
But of course, since Jesse could read my mind, he heard that.
"Silly Gwennie, of course I will. I always will."
"I'm giving you five minutes," I said in mock-ferocity.
"Alright." Then he kissed me.
I could feel my control slipping. I knew that if he didn't leave soon, I would burn it. That just made him deepen the kiss.
I had to break away - for air. he chuckled.
"You really want me to burn it?" I asked.
"I'll be right back," he said, avoiding my question.
And I trusted him for that, and waited for him.
