"That won't do, you see since I'm their father I can have the girls as long as I want," Eric said noticing Ariel's expression, "Don't worry you'll get them back. I don't want to actually keep them because Anna doesn't want me too"

"You're despicable" Ariel snarled, "I want my girls back in a week"

Without waiting around for a response, Ariel and her father went back under the sea, on the way home Ariel started complaining about Eric.

"I can't believe what Eric's doing!" Ariel said, "He shouldn't be trying to use our daughters to hurt me"

"Calm down, Ariel," Triton said.

"I'm going to swim around for awhile, just to clear my head. I'll be home later" Ariel said swimming off before her father could say anything else.

Triton swam home thinking it was best for Ariel to be alone for a while.

At Eric's Castle

"Eric, make them stop crying!" Anna whined as the girls continued crying.

"I'm trying dear, but nothing is working," Eric said growing impatient as he yelled, "Nanny! Carlotta!"

The two elderly women came rushing in at once and immediately took the crying young ones.

"I don't want them here anymore, all they do is cry" Anna whined again.

"It's only been a couple of hours, darling -" Eric began before getting cut off by his wife saying, "I don't care if it's been only a couple of hours! I want them out"

Eric watched as Anna stomped away leaving him to make a decision.

Back under the sea

Ariel is too busy thinking about what Eric was doing with their daughters that she wasn't paying attention to where she was going and bumped into someone.

"Hey watch -" the merman said turning around only to see Ariel.

"Oh, I'm sorry Urchin. I didn't mean to bump into you" Ariel apologized.

"It's okay, what are you doing out here?" Urchin asked.

"Just clearing my head" Ariel responded.

"I was just heading to the Catfish Club, wanna come along?" Urchin asked.

"Sure why not? I could use a friend" Ariel said smiling.

"What has you so bummed out?" Urchin asked as they swam.

"It's Eric. He's trying to use our daughters to hurt me" Ariel said.

Before Urchin could respond, Ariel continued.

"He didn't even want anything to do with Rhapsody when she was first born and now he's acting all fatherly towards them! Like they don't understand, well technically they don't since they are so young but I do" Ariel ranted.

The duo arrived at the Catfish Club, swimming in they saw an empty table and sat down before Ariel spotted a familiar looking Mer-man that she recognized as Crill.

"What will ya have?" a mermaid with long blonde hair asked swimming up to them.

"Seaweed pizza," Urchin said.

"Coming right up," the mermaid said swimming away.

"Isn't he dreamy?" Ariel asked staring at the brunette Mer-man.

"He's a guard of your dad's," Urchin said a hint of jealousy in his voice.

"I know," Ariel said not taking her eyes off of him.

"So, he's probably here to spy on you on your dad's orders," Urchin said.

"You really think so?" Ariel questioned.

"Why else would he be here?" Urchin asked.

Ariel got up and started to swim over to where Crill was until she saw a beautiful latina mermaid swim up to him and watched as they embraced in a hug before she swam back over to Urchin.

"I'm sorry Ariel, I thought he was really spying on you," Urchin said.