"What happened to her?" Kay asked as he landed and hurried over to X and Elle along with Jay.
"We were checking out the disturbance in the lake and something grabbed her and pulled her in," X told them as he stared down at his partner. She looked incredibly bad, even for a human. He quickly shoved her into Kay's arms. "Here! Help her!"
"Is she okay?" Jay asked as Kay lowered Elle to the ground and knelt by her side, carefully checking her.
"I...I didn't hurt her, did I?" X asked anxiously.
"Hurt her? Exactly what did you do?" Jay demanded when he heard that.
"Well, it wasn't my fault! I'm not the one who made her so small, not to mention fragile," he muttered under his breath. "I was trying to help her! Is she alright? There was this popping sound and...."
'Not breathing really well but she is breathing," Kay said as he finished checking her. "Slick, better call and have Zed get a medical team out here."
*******
"What happened?" Zed demanded as he came over to Jay and Kay. To their surprise, he had arrived with the medical team. They were now working on Elle with X hovering anxiously in the background. It seemed that his partner's near-drowning had managed to scare the alien agent to death.
"We aren't exactly sure but from what we saw something that looked like a mermaid...."
"A nasty mermaid!" Jay added.
"Something that looked like a mermaid was apparently in the lake and was responsible for the whirlpools, including the one that injured Elle. When we spotted her, she was chasing one of those girls. Then the stuffed animal that Jay reported seeing took my icer and went after it with the other girl. By the time we got here, the creature was gone and the girls were making their escape. I went after them but then X brought Elle over and I had to stop."
"Just great," Zed muttered. Now these kids were running loose with an icer, as if the video camera wasn't bad enough, especially considering the fact that they had X on tape without his mask. He could understand why Kay hadn't gone after them though. The safety of agents came first. "I want you to talk to the twins and see about running that stuffed animal and the mermaid through our databases. Maybe we'll get lucky and find something."
*****
X hesitantly pushed the door to the drug store open and entered. It had been two hours since the incident in the park and they had finally got the news that Elle would be just fine. Apparently when she had drowned, something had closed in her throat, keeping most of the water and unfortunately the air as well out of her lungs. The popping was whatever had shut coming open when he had breathed into her hard enough. Thank goodness it had turned out to be something good instead of him hurting her!
He hurried over to the greeting card aisle and glanced at the rows of cards. He didn't know why in the world he was here. He wasn't even sure what sort of card he was supposed to be looking for. Finally he spotted one that looked promising, with a nice rainbow on the front. He picked it up and hurried over to the cash register to pay for it, stopping along the way to pick up a bundle of red roses. Maybe they would make her feel a bit better.