Carry Me Home Tonight

Prologue

"Rachel." King Hiram growled at his daughter, "Where were you?"

"Daddy, I can explain."

"Can you, Rachel?" Hiram glared at his daughters. "All your sisters were here, where were you?"

Rachel chewed on her lip and looked down at her fin, "I think I've caught something, Daddy. A sickness or something. I can't explain it, but… I can't stop it either."

"What is it, Rachel? Just tell me." He father yelled at her, making the crabs hide in their shells.

"When the sun is up… I have legs, and I can't, uh, I can't breathe under water." Rachel finally spill, worry attacking her face. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you before, Daddy. But, I didn't know what else to say or do."

"Oh honey, what are we-" Hiram looked at his daughter and realized what she had said, "Wait. What do you mean 'before'? Rachel, how long has this been happening?" Hiram glared at his daughter.

Rachel looked back at her friend who nodded for her to tell her father the truth, "Two weeks, maybe?"

"TWO WEEKS?" Hiram's voice belted across the ocean floor and Rachel frown, feeling the sobs shaking her chest. "We must go to the wizard. We have to go see what William can do."

"No, Daddy."

"No?"

"She met a boy." Kurt chimed in, his fin shaking nervously.

King Hiram shot both Rachel an incredulous look, "A boy? A human boy?" His voice was steady but booming with anger. "You will not go back to the surface, Rachel."

"With all due respect sir, she has to." Kurt chimed in with a snotty remark. No one would ever speak to the King that way, but Kurt was a different breed. "She'll die down here in the morning."

King Hiram glared at Kurt, "Well I'm going to seek out William, Kurt you are under my orders to stay with Rachel until I come back, if she must go to the surface she will stay… on that sandy area right next to the water. Do you hear me?"

"You mean the beach?" Kurt asked with a raised eyebrow, surprised at their Kings ignorance to the world above him.

Rachel grabbed her father's hand before he swam away, "But Daddy, I love him!"

King Hiram turned around swiftly, a growl escaping his lips, "You don't know what love is, child. You are forbidden from seeing that boy again."

"You don't even know his name." Rachel cried, her brown hair flowing around her as she screamed.

"Get ahold of yourself, girl. You belong in this ocean. Not on the sand with some human."

Rachel whimped at his words, "but…"

"No buts, I am your father, I am the king and I make the rules. I don't know what you've done to get yourself into the mess but I have made it my business to get you out." He said before looking at Kurt, "You have my direct orders, and you know as well as I do what will happen if you do not follow them."

Kurt gulped and nodded before watching King Hiram swim off, she turned and threw herself into Kurts arms, "What are we going to do, Kurt?"

Kurt shook his head, "I don't know, Rachel. I just don't know."

A/N: Shout out to Candice for the idea. This will be a shorter fic but still full of Finchel goodness.