I need you to know that hearing and watching you play the song for me left me really torn. I didn’t know if I should be having heart eyes or turned on. It was a really weird mixture of both. @hcurly
I’ve managed to catch up and now have to wait for more Shelagh and Patrick being adorable weekly like a regular person. I don’t know how I feel about this 😂
“I flew here. On a bus. I literally told her that I flew here-- On. A. Bus. Look. I know I’m Kryptonian and bullet-proof, but I need you to at least try and shoot me. That was humiliating.”
Lee was 12 when he met the nymph girl in the river
He had been alone for a year, he had looked all around his modest sized lake but there was no one else. His parents… The other merfolk that had once lived here…
Strange, how you could lose so much in a night.
He knew enough by now to know how to feed himself, and to return to the rocks at the bottom of the lake when it got dark or when strange people with strange tools or long rods with something sharp at the end of them began to roam around the shores.
It was lonely, yes, but there were still fish and forest nymphs that likes to lounge near the edges of his lake.
The nymph girl was the first person he’d seen after everyone disappeared. She’d swam to the end of where he river met the lake and stopped. She called for someone, but he was under the water at the time and couldn’t make out the gargled mess of her words.
She drifted there for a long time, too scared to move past the edge of the river.
After a while, her face contorted and she ducked back underneath the water and swam away. Back into the river.
It was a long time before he saw her again. One of the forest nymph’s that likes to hang by the water was talking to her.
He saw them together a lot, talking, in the safety of nymph girl’s river. Sometimes the water nymph girl would splash water on the forest nymph and they’d laugh.
Nymph girl still came to the end of the river, a lot of he time. Usually alone.
Anyways, Lee kept to himself. He let his hair grow out. He had his mother’s hair, thick and messy and black. He liked to push his fingers into it when he was underwater, it reminded him vaguely of what it felt like when he’d handle his fingers in his mother’s hair…
Was Lee lonely? Yes, and no. He enjoyed being alone, often times he missed his parents but he never hung out with anyone, really. When anyone was still there anyway.
It was months before the nymph finally noticed Lee. He wasn’t paying attention, closer to the edge of the lake than he usually was. He had his back to the shore and was examining a shell he had found. It was a big one with ridges and he inside was a smooth and shimmery sort of pink when-
“Are you going to keep that?” Came a cheery, curious voice from behind him.
He startled so hard that the shell slipped from his fingers and fell with a splash back beneath the water. Spinning around quickly, Lee brought his shoulders up to his ears and began to back away but--
It was the nymph girl. She was looking at him with wide forest green eyes and her cheeks were round and she had the hint of a dimple high on her cheek and the faint splattering of cocoa brown freckles against her tan skin. Her hair was a strange combination of blonde and muddy brown. She wore the same messy and torn looking clothes that appeared as if they had been made out of a strange green blue fabric that hung down to her shins.
Lee, strangely, couldn’t help but blush.
At his utter clumsiness, obviously.
“Oh gosh! I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean to scare you.” She looked off to the side, and the mute merboy followed her gaze. The forest nymph smiled in a way that Lee couldn’t quite understand.
Before he could say anything, there was a grand splash and the water jerked him back as the nymph jumped into the water. Lee swiped at the water in his eyes before peering down beneath the clear water. He could just see the nymph as she raced to the bottom of the lake, but the image was messy and distorted, so Lee ducked beneath the water to see what she was doing.
He caught a glimpse of the pink inside of the shell as it was lifted from the bottom of the lake and the way she clutched it protectively to her chest as she swam back up.
Lee resurfaced at the same time that the nymph girl did, pushing his thick black hair back from his face and stared dumbly as she thrusted the shell at him. Smiling a wide and cheerful smile that was full of warmth and a thousand suns. Lee stared.
“I think you dropped this.” She said with a little laugh.
Lee stuttered, “O-oh- I-”
“Nymphadora!” Someone called distantly, and she spun around quickly, her dress following in a slower motion. “Let’s go, it’s getting late.”
“Okay!” She called back and turned back to Lee, cocking her head at him as if perplexed by his presence.
“Uh...” Lee started, unsure what to say. His tongue felt useless in his mouth.
“Well!” Nymphadora interrupted, shoving the shell into his chest so that Lee’s hands shot up to grab it and keep it from falling to the bottom of the lake--agin.
“I gotta go, See you around...” She trailed off, raising her eyebrows at the merboy.
“L-Lee.” He muttered shyly, feeling the warmth in his cheeks.
Nymphadora smiled. “Lee.” She clambered out from the lake, and Lee watched as she ran to catch up to the forest nymph.
Lifting up the hems of her skirts to avoid tripping, the gem moved with quiet, hurried steps towards her precious other half. There was no doubt that Sapphire was awful at pranks and sneaking up on people, but that would never stop her from sneaking up behind Ruby just so she may witness once more the surprised, joyful expression on the other’s face when she turned around and saw her partner standing there with arms outstretched and ready to capture her and hold her close.
