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Chapter Three

"I'm telling you I think someone or thing lives underneath us." Sabrina was telling Dr. Beckett about her encounter a few days ago. He like everyone else did not believe her.

"Look you haven't seen it since so maybe you were just overly tired." he said slightly amused at her because she seemed to believe she really saw something that no one else did. Maybe it was the effects of the wraith. He thought. It was the only explanation.

"Why doesn't anyone believe me?" she questioned irritatedly

"Maybe because you're the only one who has seen this head." he pointed out.

"You're right I need proof." she said as she walked over to her bag she had brought in with her.

"What are you doing?" he asked curious as to what she was digging for.

"A camera I'm going underneath us to prove that there is a head with blond shoulder length hair and ocean blue eyes." she said as she grabbed her camera and walked out followed by Dr. Beckett.

"You can't." he said

"Why not?" she asked as they headed to her room.

"Because you'll need a diving tank which you don't have." he said trying to convince her not to do this crazy thing.

"Yes, I do. I've had for almost a year it still has about an hour worth of air in it." she said as she pulled out a diving tank.

"You'll need a mask and a suit." he said thinking of something she may not have.

"I've got a mask and I don't need a suit when I have a bathing suit." she said as she pulled out a dark red two piece bathing suit.

"We don't know what's underneath us." he said

"I'll be fine. I survived the wraith." she added

" Barely." he said knowing he wasn't going to be able to talk her out of it." Then I'm going with you."

"If both of us go we won't have enough air to get back to the surface." she said as they walked toward the edge of Atlantis.

"Then I will stay here if you are not back before the hours up I will go find Major Sheppard and tell him." he vowed" Then I will give you the strongest sedative I have and commit you as being mentally unstable." he added seriously

"I won't fight you." she said as she tied her camera to her wrist and dove into the water.

Dr. Beckett sat down watching the water waiting for her to come back. He gave her an hour.

Sabrina looked around at the water that surrounded her. It was beautiful. A blue, purple, and light pink fish swam by her. Then a huge orange fish swam along beside her. It had green eyes and it's fins where feather shaped. She swam downward toward the bottom of the ocean the fish stayed beside her the whole time. She took a photo of it. Then a bright blue fish swam up in front of her. She snapped a photo of it as well. She swam into a cave where all these different colored fish swam around her. She was half way in side the cave when she realized she could stand and there was no water. She carfully took her mouth piece out of her mouth. It was breathable air. She walked around the cave. She took a few photos of some strange marks on the wall.

"What are you doing here?" a voice from behind her asked causing her to turn around

"It's you." she said as she saw the head that popped up out of the water at her. It's lower half was human as well." The head that made everyone think I was crazy."

"Well, I'm sorry your people think you're crazy." he spoke in a sexy deep voice." It's just been so long since I've seen a human female that I had to make contact with you." he reached out to touch her hand. His skin was cool, and soft

"How can you breath underwater?" she asked curiously

"I have gills like a fish. Because I am part fish." he said to her surprise

"Oh my god your a mermaid I mean man." she blurted out" You're a merman." she reached out and touched his face.

"What is that you have there?" he pointed to her camera.

"It's a camera." she explained" It takes pictures see watch." she took a photo of him.

"But I don't see anything." he said.

"They're here look." she showed him the back of the camera where she had the photos at.

"Oh, I have never seen this camera before." he said as he looked at.

"You should come back up with me." she suggested as they heard this loud noise.

"I can not go with you, but you must get out of here before the others see you." he said as he glanced around them.

"There's more?" she asked excitedly

"Yes, but they do not like humans." he said as he shoved her toward the water.

"Wait I have to put this in my mouth or I can't breath." she said placing the mouth piece in her mouth.

"Hurry before they find you." he said as she went back outside the cave.

She swam back to the surface and still had thirty minutes to spare. When her head broke the surface she felt the sensation of being jerked out of the water and back to Atlantis. She took her mask off to give Dr. Beckett a piece of her mind, but she saw Major Sheppard instead. He looked pissed at her as she removed the diving tank.

"What the hell were you doing? No, you know what I don't care." he was furious with her.

"I have proof now that I'm not crazy see look." she said holding the camera out to him.

"You went out in search of this head you saw. What the hell were you thinking?" he yelled at her.

"Just look." she insisted

"Fine, but if there isn't a head I am ordering you to confinement in your room." he said as he looked through the photos. Then he saw the man she had been talking about." OK fine so you're not crazy it still doesn't excuse you from going out in that water without anyone to back you up. You could've been killed all because you wanted to prove something to us." he gave her a lecture that she wasn't listening to.

"He's a merman." she informed him.

"What did he say to you?" Weir asked

"He said that there was others, but they do not like humans. He was in a hurry to get me out of the cave I was in before they came back. I believe he was trying to protect me." she informed them. " He said it has been so long since he has seen a human female that he had to make contact with me."

"So, you're not crazy." McKay said as they walked inside.

"So, what else did you see under there?" Dr. Weir asked curiously

"I saw brightly colored fish and seahorses. It's so beautiful there, but I am sure that danger lurkes with in the mermaids and mermen down below." she said softly as she thought of the merman that she had made contact with.

"You shouldn't go down there again. Dr. Beckett came to inform us that you had gone down to try and find this merman that's why John, McKay and my self were standing there when you resurfaced." Dr. Weir said

"I thought so." Sabrina said" John would do anything to keep me safe just as I would him, but I need to know more about this merman. He could help us in ways that no one else could."

"But the others don't like humans what if they attack us." she said cautiously

"They won't if they don't know we're here." Sabrina said

"Then you must not go back below." Weir said

"I know." she said softly Thinking of the guy she met. She'd never see him again because to do so would mean to endanger everyone around her.