Heroes, and Vampires, and Mutants! Oh My!

Fandoms: Smallville and H2O: Just Add Water

Pairings: Chloe/AC

Words: 857

Prompt: #23 Swim.

-- Aquagirl Part 2 --

Few hours later, all the Justice League members, besides AC and Chloe left Gold Coast, Australia. AC decided to stay behind to hang out with Chloe. He wanted to see just how fast she was as a mermaid.

"Let me guess," Chloe started, standing up. "You want a race between me and you?"

AC laughed, "and just how do you know that?"

"I've been around you guys, I'm pretty sure I know how you think." Chloe stated, smirking. "Come on, we'll race to Mako."

"Cool," AC stated, but he highly doubted Chloe knew how he felt about her. He knew she was off limits though, she was all for Clark… despite the fact they were not together nor probably ever would, but he knew Chloe had feelings for him.

Half an hour later, they arrived near an empty part of the beach – since most kids were in school still, there was no one except maybe a few random older men who were fishing. But they were further down the beach and out of site of Chloe and AC.

"On the number three?" Chloe asked, smirking towards AC. He laughed and nodded.

"One!"

"Three!" Chloe shouted, running as fast as her legs could carry her towards the beach. She could hear AC shouting at her for being a cheater, but all she could do was laugh as she dove into a large wave. Ten seconds later, she was a mermaid and quickly swam towards Mako Island.

Surfacing a few minutes later, she found AC surfacing right after her. She grinned, "I beat you."

AC laughed, "I let you win."

"Right," Chloe said, laughing. "I want to show you something, follow me." And without another word, Chloe dove underwater and swam towards the channel of the cavern where she had received her mermaid powers.

Surfacing, AC glanced around the cavern and smiled. "It's beautiful," he said when Chloe surfaced beside him.

Chloe nodded, "this is where I got my powers…" She moved towards the ledge and climbed up it. Moving her tail over the ledge as well she moved her hand in front of her tail and heated it until she was human again. AC sat beside her, watching curiously.

"Do you like it?" AC asked finally, Chloe glanced over to him in confusion. "Being a mermaid?"

"Are you kidding? Yeah I do, I mean it sucks I have to be really careful around water, but I love being a mermaid… it's kind of silly but I feel like I'm free when I'm a mermaid." Chloe stated, grinning. "It's kind of funny though, Splash (1) was always my favorite movie… and now I'm practically just like Madison." Chloe added softly, "You know, I don't think you ever stated if you were a merman or not…"

AC let out a laugh, "I guess I am… however I'm still not entirely sure why I don't have a tail like you do."

"I guess we women are just so lucky then…" Chloe stated sarcastically with a smile.

Before Chloe or AC could say anything else, three young mermaids surfaced. Chloe smiled over to them, and they returned it until they caught sight of AC. Crap, Chloe thought, I lost track of time and now they think I betrayed them.

"Wait! Cleo, Rikki, Emma, meet Arthur Curry, he's my friend. Trust me; you don't have to worry about him telling our secret." Chloe stated before any of the girls could say anything. They glanced wearily towards AC who nodded.

"You can call me AC; it's nice to meet you." AC stated, he turned towards Chloe, "you didn't mention them… so what happened to you happened to all of them?"

"Yeah, except each one received a different one of my powers." Chloe stated as the girls got out of the water. Rikki quickly dried herself and Emma, while Chloe helped Cleo. AC nodded.

"Not to sound rude or anything," Rikki sarcastically started, "but who is this guy? Why didn't you tell us you were going to tell him?"

"I'm sorry Rikki, but I couldn't tell you about him because I didn't know if he would want you to know about himself." Chloe explained, "He's like us… only not."

"You could call me a merman, I guess, but I'd rather you didn't. I was born to Atlanna and Atlan (2) of Atlantis."

"No way!" Shouted all three girls, Chloe stared at him in surprise.

"You're kidding right? Atlantis is a myth…" Emma started only to be interrupted by Rikki.

"So are mermaids, Emma… and yet here we are." Rikki stated to Emma, before turning her attention to AC. "So you turn into a merman like we do?"

"No, not really. I don't have a tail like you guys, but I do need water to survive or I could die with the lack of it." AC stated, "I can communicate with sea life, breath underwater, and I can create balls of energy underwater as well as a little extra strength underwater. I can also apparently swim just as fast as you guys."

"This is so cool," Cleo stated causing Rikki and Emma to nod in agreement.

THE END OF PART 2.

1 - Splash (1984 film) stars Tom Hanks as Allen and Daryl Hannah as Madison.

2 – Although his background is never really explained in SV, I'm using pilot episode of Aquaman (aka Mercy Reef – starring Justin Hartley) as a guide with of course the comics.