A/N: 21st chapter! Lol, I should really stop that…okay! Down to business! THIS IS IMPORTANT: I WANT TO MAKE SURE ALL OF YOU GUYS GIVE A HUGE THANK YOU TO MARRIL96! SHE CAME UP WITH DAFINA'S SECOND POWER! YAY! Okay, off of the caps, I need to give a second thanks to Marril96 for the second power idea! Make sure you all thank her!

Disclaimer: I do not own H2O.

Visiting

I took a deep breath and walked into the awaiting hospital. The clean white sight was enough to twist my stomach in knots.

I went up to the front desk and asked the receptionist where my mother was staying. Of course the lady recognized me, and gushed on and on about how she thought I wasn't truly back. I just kept my smile up and said, "Well, yeah," and, "Mm, hmm."

Once she was done and I finally got the room directions, Dafina and I raced down the hall to make up for lost time when talking to the receptionist. About halfway there, we didn't realize that in the hall we were in was waxed, so we started slipping and sliding down the hall, which ended in us laughing and sliding down the hall until the janitor shooed us away, which made us break out in giggles.

"Okay," I said once I made it to the outside of the door. "You stay put, okay? I want to talk to mom alone."

Dafina scowled and crossed her arms. "Well," she said in a huff. "Someone's moody."

I opened the door and entered. I turned back and waggled my finger at Dafina, who was now sitting on a chair in the hallway. She made a face as I closed to door behind me.

I turned around and slowly entered the room. "Mom?" I asked in a shaky voice.

"Dafina?" A voice came from further into the room. I stepped in to see my mom holding a book beneath her clasped and fragile fingers. She hadn't looked like she'd changed a bit.

She gasped when she saw me, and I broke out into a smile. I went over to her and gave her a hug, but not too tight.

A year. A whole 365 days. 8760 hours. That's how long I'd been separated from her.

"What are you doing here?" she asked once I settled myself in a seat.

"Feglio," I said simply. "Gotta love that guy."

"Ah," she said nodding. When I had said his name, here eyes sort of lit up with something. Love? I sure hoped so.

I decided to explain exactly where I went and how I survived, which took me a long time. After some silence, she asked, "So are you still a mermaid?"

Her statement sort of shocked me. Any other person who brought it up would have probably have stated it like this: "So…are you still a…you know…a mer…mermaid?" But my mother stated it loudly, and if not, proudly.

"Yeah," I said, and thinking quickly, I added, "Dafina is one too. She…um…accidentally fell in the moon pool last night, during a full moon."

"Dafina is a mermaid?" my mother asked, stunned.

A sudden voice beside me said, "Yes, but don't be mad at Aysel. She didn't do anything wrong, I swear. If you want to be mad at someone, be mad at me for falling in."

My mother jumped just as Dafina suddenly appeared. I shot her a look, and she looked guilty. "Sorry. I heard you explaining where you came from, and I, I ah…got interested?" she said, as if it was a question, not a statement. She looked to mom, and said, "And sorry for scaring you. Disappearing is my mermaid power."

"Yeah, but how'd you get in? I shut the door, and would have seen it come open," I said, glancing at the shut tight door.

Dafina's sad eyes lit up like a Christmas tree. "Oh, yeah! I got bored in the hallway, and discovered a second power! Watch!" She stuck out her hand in a weird position, and then thrust it at my stomach. I prepared myself for the pain, but instead, I screamed. Dafina's hand was going right through me, as if I was a ghost!

She smiled. "It's so fun. Watch this." She spun around and thrust her hand through the wall. A few seconds later, a scream was heard at the other room, with a, "There's a hand sticking out of my wall!"

"Dafina!" I scolded, and pulled her arm out of the wall. But she kept her smile up.

"I bet it would be fun with my face through the wall. Imagine someone shouting, 'A face! There's a weird looking face in my wall!'" Then she doubled over laughing. "I walked through the door to get in here, by the way."

I just studied her and her quirky behavior with a weird expression on my face. Then I turned to look at my mom, who was staring intently out the window. Little flakes of snow were falling down from the sky. I sucked in my breath at the magical sight. Usually it didn't snow on our island, it only got a little chilly. But there was a rare snowing once in a while. I only saw snow on the island when I was four, and another when I was eleven.

"Pretty extraordinary," my mom muttered, turning back to us. "You'd better go and enjoy it. Just don't get wet." Then she smiled.

I smiled back and got up to hug her. I said, "I love you," just before walking out the door with Dafina.

Dafina ran through the hall, obviously eager to go into the snow. Once we were at the front door, it was still snowing. I held back Dafina, and told her the snowflakes would probably get us wet if we stepped out. So we waited there for it to stop.

It must have been snowing our whole visit, because a fresh, light white blanket of snow was already laid down on the grass. Soon, after it had snowed and my sister and I were free to leave, the snow was a good height, but not that high, because it hadn't snowed for a while.

So Daf and I ran all the way home just to find Emma, Cleo and Rikki in a heated snowball fight on my yard.

"Guys!" I shouted. All heads turned my way. "What are you doing?"

"Don't worry!" Cleo said, running up to me, her cheeks red. "We know snow is water. That's why we really packed on the clothing. And the rules for the game is that we can't hit each other that's not covered up by clothing, like our face." Just then, a snowball came whizzing through the air and hit Cleo's back, which was covered with a thick winter coat, and who knows how many sweaters inside. Cleo turned to see a smirking Rikki behind her.

"Oh, it's on!" she cried, and balled up a snowball using the light covering of snow on my lawn. I wondered how much snow would be left after our little snowball brawl.

"Count me in!" I cried, and headed inside to put on heavy snow stuff. Once I was done, I emerged outside just to be met with a snowball on the front of my coat, seemingly coming from nowhere. Dafina then appeared about a few feet ahead of me. I gave her a death glare, and rewarded her by throwing a snowball at her.

The snowball game was pretty close, but we finally got so tired and cold that we went inside. We all simultaneously agreed that it was probably Rikki who had won, since she dodged most throws aimed towards her and hit people so many times I lost count.

"Hot chocolate for everyone!" I declared, and made them all a steaming hot mug of hot chocolate.

We all settled around a wooden table, and I took a sip of mine. "Ugh, it's too hot!"

"Really?" asked Emma. She took a sip of hers. "Tastes fine to me."

"Not to me," I groaned, but took another sip of it. That too burned my tongue. All the others tasted theirs, and said it was fine.

I guess I complained so much that everyone got so fed up with my grumbling, that Emma froze my drink. "There," she said, replacing her hand back on her cup. "Cold enough for you?"

I shot her a glare and looked pleadingly at Rikki. She rolled her eyes and balled her fist over my iced drink, and slowly warmed it. I tasted it every few seconds to see if it was hot enough. I finally said 'stop' when it reached its designated degree.

"Speaking of powers," Dafina said, placing her warm mug on the table, "Me and Aysel figured out my second one."

"Really?" asked Cleo. "What is it?"

She smiled and concentrated. She then took her hand and put it through the couch. Everyone gasped.

"Neat," said Rikki. "Can you, like, reach into a box and grab something?"

"I don't know," confessed Dafina. "Why don't we try it out?"

So I went upstairs and grabbed my jewelry box, and filled it with necklaces and bracelets and jewelry miscellaneous. I brought it back downstairs.

Dafina used her power and put her hand in the box. She fished around for a while, and grabbed something. Unfortunately, once she grabbed it, her hand lost power and was stuck in the box lid.

"Um," she said, shaking her arm around. "This feels weird." She used her power to get her arm unstuck.

After a few more times, she finally got the hang of it, and got out a few pieces of jewelry. After a while, she had out every piece that was in the box.

"Nice work," I said, and piled it all back in the box. "Pretty useful power, if you ask me. And, if you don't mind, there is one more thing I want to see if you can do."

We practiced what I had in mind, and finally, I was able to get her to turn other people invisible, and have them stay that way until she turned visible again, even if she stopped touching us. She was able to turn us all (Emma, Cleo, Rikki, and I, including herself) invisible at a time. I think that was her limit, though.

"This is going to be fun," she said. "And I have to admit; I kind of like being a mermaid." I smiled and hugged her, satisfied that she enjoyed it.

"See if you still feel that way in a month when ten mad scientists lock you up in a cage," said Rikki, and we all pelted her with pillows, laughing.

A/N: R&R.

Rikki's Random Question of the Day: What is your New Year's resolution? (My fanfiction resolution is to review people's stories more often. That, and to update more often.)