Note: I'm trying to make Mika cute x.x I'm having issues with it, though.

Poke poke poke.

Hellboy yawned and moved his arms behind his head. He had fallen asleep after reading random books on mermaids with Abe.

Poke poke poke.

Liz was on his mind, he was having a dream about her. They were at a restaurant that was full of people. Not one person was staring. He was starting to wake up so the dream was fading.

Poke poke poke poke poke

His eyes opened and saw Mika standing over him, poking the stumps on his head. Once again she was naked. He jumped up, books flying everywhere.

"Good morning?"

"Mika, clothes."

She looked down at her naked body and grabbed at the blanket Red had thrown at her, "I'm sorry! I forgot!"

The blanket was wrapped over and around her so only her face was peeking out.

Red sighed and sat back down, Mika flopped down beside him.

"Sorry..."

"You're okay. I just think its hilarious that you seemed ready to jump that guys bones the other night yet you are still so innocent and slightly clueless-"

"Hey! I was hungry! He was evil and killing people anyway! When I'm hungry I have to get people like him away from crowds somehow!"

"I'm not judging. We released the souls that were inside the vial. Apparently their bodies weren't dead, they were in a coma in the hospital. The bodies wouldn't die until the souls were consumed. Not sure how it worked but their souls are in their bodies and they are healthy again."

They sat there for a few minutes in silence and Red felt her eyes on him. She was staring at him. He hated it when people stared at him...

"What?" He asked, annoyed, "What are you looking at, Fins?"

"Your eyes."

"What?"

"Your eyes. They are beautiful like flames circling into a whirlpool of lava and stars."

This was a bit odd to him, "Thanks..."

"Liz has beautiful eyes, too. Hers seem like multicolored flames reflecting inside of gems or diamonds. You two are the perfect match."

Abe walked in the room and Hellboy smirked, "How many people have you have sex with?"

Blue nearly tripped upon hearing the question.

"I haven't, I'm still pure. I have kissed everyone I've ate but I don't exactly count that as a first kiss."

"Red! That is not appropriate to ask a lady!" He wanted to grab the heaviest book he could find and chuck it at him for asking such a personal question.

The two began to argue and Mika walked out of the room without either of them noticing.

...

Later Abe was walking through the area, book in his hands, reading while he walked. He entered the room where his tank was located and he put the book down. When he looked up he saw something he wasn't quite expecting.

"Where did the fish come from?" He asked.

There were fish in his tank. It wasn't exactly a bad thing, he was just a bit curious as to where the critters came from.

He saw assorted fancy guppies, male and female along with neon guppies and tetra. A few betta fish were swimming around, far enough away from each other that they wouldn't have to worry about fights. Several koi were swimming at the bottom as well as a small freshwater stingray. There were a healthy number of bottom feeders sucking on the tank glass, keeping it clean.

Silver veiled and gold veiled angelfish were in the mix as well as some goldfish. There was still plenty of room for Abe and the mermaid, he actually liked the thought of having little companions in the tank with them.

Though he did have the feeling if it was a salt water tank there would be even more critters.

"Aren't they cute?" Mika swam by with a smile on her face, "Myers bought them for me at the pet store!"

"He went into a pet store? He doesn't seem like the pet type." Abe laughed.

"He isn't, I ran in and he didn't have a choice but to go in with me." She had walked in behind him once they had come back, him with countless bags of fish in both arms and her holding the one bag with the sting ray in it, talking to it. Some of the guards had snickered behind their hands a bit at the sight.

As if on cue, John walked in and looked in the tank. He seemed shocked when he saw the fish, "Okay, so you did help them. They're swimming all over the place now. They were half dead and floating in the tanks at the store..."

"Because the pet store can't take care of them like they are supposed too."

"I could not figure out for the life of me... Why you wanted dying fish so bad. You managed to make them healthy within an hour of them being here?"

Abe handed John the book on Merfolk. He took it and held it up with a quiet 'thank you' and flipped through it.

"I see Raynah is doing better." He said, looking in the tank.

Abe was confused, "Raynah?"

"The stingray thing. She named them on the way back." John looked at the book again and bid a short farewell before leaving the room.

"Raynah needs to give birth soon!"

Well, it wasn't every day Abe could say he had a pregnant critter in his tank.

"The pet store took her barb but it will grow back. Their barbs are like fingernails for us. They do sometimes shed them. Raynah seems to trust me enough though. Would you like to meet everyone, Abraham?"

"Well, I have nothing else to do." Abe entered the tank and swam down to the stingray who still seemed rather calm as he came to swim over it.

Mika smiled and begin floating on her back, giggling when the stingray swam up over her head as if feeling her floating hair on its belly.

Beautiful fish and a gorgeous mermaid, Abe could get used to this...