Elisa and The Asset teacher their daughter to sign.

"Because this world, the world that I'm a part of and that I helped shape, will end tonight. And tomorrow, a different world will begin that different people will shape." -V, V For Vendetta

Everything has changed. Zelda carries on.

Alone for years, an amphibious creature longs for companionship. His risk results in his capture, imprisonment, and torment at the hands of a research laboratory in 1962 Baltimore. One woman is able to see the intelligent being under the chains, but will she be able to save them both? Complete.

In the flurrying midst of that howling and immeasurable demiurge, Giles looks up with squinty eyes.

Like the rest of her, her throat is dry. Anticipatory, nervous, suspenseful. Every time one of those scaled hands glides over the row of colors, that vision that rocked her being returns, and she presses her thighs together to keep the thump thump thump of her arousal from making her shake.

Strickland stares at the now still water, waiting for that gory dance partner he knows is gone.

In the hole where record players, signs, and saltwater stains used to be, Giles puts art. Apologies for the shortness, this is best read while listening to the track "The Shape of Water" from the movie's soundtrack.

In anguish and reassurance and lust and death, they shine. Oneshot.