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~Livv
You both went in with a large splash, and the feeling of Jack holding you disappeared. You both resurfaced, Jack coughing and spurting out water while you watched him warily from several feet away.
"How'd I end up in the water?" He looked around, holding up the water in his palm like he's never seen water before.
"You don't remember?" You narrowed your eyes, maybe he really wasn't himself.
"No, I remember I was wringing out my jacket, and next I was underwater." He glanced over at you, his eyebrows furrowed in thought. "What happened?"
You wanted to tell him that he acted like he was possessed and you pulled him into the water with you, but you didn't want to admit that. Instead, you quickly thought up a lie. "I moved to go back in the water but accidentally tripped you, sorry."
He looked questioningly at you, but didn't say anything. Instead, he swam back to solid ground and pulled himself up, you following closely behind. As you both pulled yourself up onto the ground, water now covering the floor in a large pool, North came striding up, a smile played on his lips, partly covered by his snowy white mustache.
"Well, it seems we have a siren on our hands." His hands went to his beard in interest, his eyes spacing out in thought.
"A siren?" You and Jack asked simultaneously, looking at each other in confusion. You remember something about sirens in history class when you were alive, about beautiful women or mermaids luring sailors to their death with their voice or their singing. Maybe that's what happened with me and Jack just now. Now that the idea was in your head, thoughts and information suddenly came rushing at you. Knowing a part of who you are had unlocked the knowledge about your new self, about all the powers with your mermaid form, and the new information flooding you caused a headache. Holding your hand against your forehead, you looked back up at North.
"Wait, how did you know this?"
Snapping out of his thoughts, he winked at you, and bended down to touch the tip of your wet nose. "I had a little help."
"From Man in the Moon? He talked to you?" Jack piped up eagerly, his eyes lighting up.
"Ahh, no," Jack immediately began to scowl, "but he did show me through the choosing of another guardian." He turned to you, smiling, "You."
They both turned to look at you, and you only stared, surprised and scared, Jack's expression only seemed to mirror your own. "How? I only just became a spirit, how could I be a guardian?" You knew about how Jack had been a spirit for 300 years before he was chosen as a guardian, and you only assumed that the other, current guardians had to wait before they too became guardians. You knew what a guardian meant, 'protecting the children of the world', as Jack had said in his stories. Finding his center, and the centers of all the other guardians. What could possibly be your center? Apparently you were a siren, and sirens had a historical reputation for killing sailors. Your center was lust? Temptation? Murderous tendencies?
"Maybe Man in Moon has big plans for you. There has been a disturbance lately, I can feel it," He placed both hands on his stomach, "in my belly!" You giggled at his catch phrase, hearing it from descriptions Jack had told you.
"I don't know, what could a 'siren' do? Kill him by drowning him while he's 'under my spell'?" Sighing, you looked depressingly at your slightly webbed hands, stretching the thin skin as you spread your fingers. Man in the Moon had to go and make you a siren, without any kind of help whatsoever, and expects you to be a guardian. You sent a silent curse to him.
"There is still much to learn about who you are, and what you can do. Do not lose hope, little one, the answer will come when it is ready." North kneeled down and put a hand on your damp shoulder, causing you to look up at his reassuring face.
"Thanks, North." With a smile, he pulled back and turned to Jack.
"I have to go talk to toothiana, don't get into trouble." With a wink, he walked up the staircase to the diving-board balcony, and he left, walking back through the hall to the main room, leaving you and Jack alone in the steamy, warm room.
You both looked at each other, and not knowing what to do. Because you weren't busy with anything else, your eyes traveled down from his face to his chest, which was outlined by the soaking, white shirt which was plastered to his pale skin.
You looked away quickly, a blush coming to your face, and your tail twitched around in nervousness.
Suddenly, a weird feeling overcame your body, like insects were crawling around on every inch of your skin. Looking down, you saw the tail splitting in half, two distinct leg-shaped forms coming apart from one, and the scales which covered your body slowly sunk back into your skin, like they were being absorbed. The webbing on your fingers slowly merged back with your hand, becoming more human-like, and the gills on your neck closed.
You watched, mesmerized at your slowly transforming body, and you saw more and more of your human self.
"So I guess I can turn that on and off, like a light switch." You flexed your toes and stretched your legs out, feeling the separate movements instead of one single part.
"Man in the Moon said I had three different forms, if human counts as one, then what's my last-" You had looked up, and Jack's expression on you was absolutely dumbfounded, his face as red as North's shirt. "What?" Jack looked away quickly, looking in the opposite direction of you.
"Uhh, well… you uhh… might want to check for… something." He stammered, like someone who had accidentally walked in on two people making out in a closet.
You looked at yourself, not seeing anything wrong. You had legs, a shirt, and… pants. Right.
When you had transformed into a mermaid, your pants had ripped off in order for your legs to mould together. They were now floating on the surface of the spring, and that left you sitting on the ground, in front of Jack, half-naked.
A/N: Ahhhh! You're naked! In front of Jack! Well that's embarrassing! Don't worry, he won't go after you, he has some decency, and he even helps you out during this... predicament.
Ok, SO, on with the voting!
Sex w/ Jack? y/n?
