Carry Me Home Tonight

Chapter Three.

Rachel found out that she liked kissing, a lot. She and Finn kissed for hours, they kissed in the kitchen and on the couch and on his bed, and on the way to the store. Finn bought Rachel a couple of new dresses and these weird things she had to wear under them. Finn called them 'undies' and 'panties' but Rachel didn't like either of those terms.

"Why do I have to wear these?" Rachel held up the underwear and bra in front of his face when they got back to the apartment, "What are they going to help?"

"I don't know, I'm not a girl. But you just have to." Finn tried to reason. "You can't just walk around naked."

"You seemed to like that." Rachel pointed out and Finn laughed. "Well, yeah, I did. But I don't want other guys seeing that and liking it too."

"What is that emotion you're portraying right now called?" Rachel asked with wide eyes.

Finn gave Rachel a funny look before thinking about it, "Uh, I think that's jealousy."

"We don't have that in the ocean. We have anger. But not jealousy. My Dad said that is what sets us apart and makes us better." Rachel tells him with a grin, "I'll put them on if it will make you more comfortable." Rachel tells him with a grin.

"It does." Finn nodded, "Plus then when we're making out I won't jump away when you open your legs."

"Yeah… why do you do that?"

"I don't know. I feel weird about it." Finn admits with a shrug.

"About what? My weird wound between my legs?"

Finn can't help but laugh, "It's not a wound, it serves a purpose. But, it's a really intimate purpose that I don't really want to force you into."

"Intimate? Like close? I want to be close to you, Finn." Rachel beams. "I love kissing you. Your tongue tastes really good, and nothing like salt."

Finn laughs, "Go put those underwear on, Rach." He laughs.

"Underwear is a much better name then 'panties'." Rachel points out, before walking into the bathroom. Finn shakes his head with a chuckle.

He goes to the window and watches as the sun begins to go down, and wondered how this girl dropped into his life.

In minutes Finn heard a scream and he sprinted to the bathroom, opening up the door swiftly. He saw Rachel lying on the floor, her legs replaces by a fin. "Rachel!" Finn shouted knelling beside her.

"Finn!" Rachel called, "You have to get me back to the water. I can't be out for too long or…"

Finn racked his brain and saw the bathtub, "Does it have to be the ocean?"

"No, just any water, please Finn." Rachel begged and he turned on the facet on the bath.

"Warm or cold."

"I prefer warm." Rachel told him. He touched the water and turned it up a little, putting the plug in the drain, "Finn, will I fit."

Finn shakes his head, "You're pretty little." He tells her before lifting her up surprised at how not slimy her scales are. He assumed they would be slimy.

He set her in the tub and she releases a sigh, "Thank you, Finn." She tells him.

"What happened?" Finn shakes his head.

Rachel shrugged her shoulders, "I was trying to put on those underwear things and then I just collapsed."

Finn touched her cheek, "What else do you need?"

"Some salt?" Rachel asked. "My fin likes salt water."

Finn nodded and kissed her cheek before making his way to the kitchen and grabbing a shaker of salt and bringing it to her. He watched as Rachel sprinkled it all over her fin and in the water and then poured a little in her mouth and giggled.

"You like salty things."

Rachel nodded, "Yes, they are nice. I like you though too. You're sweet."

Finn couldn't help but kiss her again, "What do you say I bring a TV in here and we watch a movie. Does that sound good?"

Rachel laughed, "Yes. I don't know what either of those things are, but I like watching things. We watch plays in the sea."

Finn smiled, "Television is like a play but it's recorded and then played back to you, instead of live."

Rachel clapped her hands with excitement, "That sounds even better."

Finn woke up with his head on the cold tile of the bathroom floor to the sound of the water draining, he sat up quickly in alarm to see Rachel's legs had returned and she was standing in the bathtub fully naked.

"Can I have another dress?" Rachel asked sweetly, "The red one is all wet, since you insisted I keep it on in the tub."

Finn laughed and stood, "So you have your legs back, I see."

Rachel nodded, "Isn't it spectacular? Now you can teach me how to be more intimate with you. Right?"

Finn gulped and nodded, "Yeah, soon." He promised before pulling her still wet body into a gentle hug. "I'm grateful your legs are back."

Rachel grinned, "Me too. Now I can do this." Rachel picked up her legs and threw them around Finn's waist, "Like that pretty girl in that movie did to her boyfriend." Rachel beamed.

"Yeah," Finn looked down at her with longing in his eyes, "I like that a lot." Finn admitted, "Though you shouldn't do it to me naked, you're really turning me on."

"What's that?" Rachel asked, bright eyed.

Finn laughed a little and brought his lips to hers, "You know when Allie and Noah were naked on the floor in the movie? First they got turned on and then they did that."

Rachel clapped her hands, "I have that effect on you?" Rachel was absolutely giddy. "This is fantastic. Now we can be like them. They are so romantic."

Finn kissed her again, rougher this time, Rachel moaned into his lips as he deepened the kiss, pushing her against the wall. She gripped her hands into his hair and he ran his hands down her back. When Finn finally broke for air Rachel whispered, "I think I know what getting turned on feels like."

Finn didn't know what was going on, but he loved it.


Over breakfast Rachel pondered whether she should go home at night, "Well if I only get to me a human during the day, maybe you should take me to the ocean at night."

"Do you know why this is happening?"

"Not one bit." Rachel admitted with a frown, "Why?"

"I'm just worried it will stop happening." Finn told her honestly.

Rachel shook her head, "No way, it wouldn't stop. It couldn't." She said in obvious denial. "I love my legs." She told Finn.

Finn smiled, "I love them too." He promised her, "I wish we knew what you had to do to keep them all the time." Finn looked at his watch, "Okay, sweetie, I have to go to work."

"What's work?"

Finn struggled to explain, "Well, it's where I go to make money."

"What's money?"

"It's our currency. It's how I keep food on the table and how I pay for this place."

"You have to trade money for this place. Your parents didn't give it to you?"

Finn shook his head in confusion, "No, of course not. Once you're an adult you have to pay your own way."

Rachel scrunched up her face in confusion, "Well, what do I do while you work?"

Finn shrugged, "I'll only be there a couple hours, I just have to feed all of the fish."

"You work in the ocean?"

Finn chuckled, "No, I work at an aquarium, I'm the assistant to the marine biologist and we do studies on all of the different typed of sea creatures. "

Rachel gasped, "You won't tell them about me? Will you?"

"Of course not, sweetie." Finn told her seriously, running his fingers through her hair, "Why don't you come along. You can see what I do." Finn urged.

Rachel clapped her hands again, getting used to the sound, "That sounds magical."

"You're magical."

"Hey Finn?"

"Yeah, babe?"

"Would you say I'm your girlfriend? Like with Allie and Noah?"

A large smile appeared on Finn's face, "I think it's safe to say you are, as long as I can be your boyfriend."

Rachel nodded furiously before throwing herself in his arms, "I can't wait to tell all my friends back home about you." She told him in his ear and he kissed her neck as she gripped him tightly.


A/N: Thanks for all the reviews and messages about this story. I love Mermaid!Rachel she's so innocent and sweet. I just love her. Finn loves that about her too. We'll see more Mermaid!Rachel's ocean life in the next chapter.