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OKAY, SO MERMAID           »                anxietywon‌.

         They are running. Before she can even process that she just laid her secret on the line to save them, he’s got her by the arm, hauling her out of there. As he yanks her towards the exit, she contorts her body so that she misses the water   (  after all, she wouldn’t be much of a help if the tail came out right now — in fact, she’d be dead meat.  ) However, as they are running, she can’t help but roll her eyes at the mention of water works. Kind of a offensive to the overall picture.    ❝    Mermaid.  — Sorry, it’s not just water works… Alright, I gave you an answer. Time for me to get one. Do you know who the hell that was?    ❞   There’s another pause as she hears moving from that room. She whips around & suddenly there’s water clinging to the door knob… & with sudden jerk of her hand, it’s frozen, locks & all.      ❝    That should have bought us some time.    ❞

             he lets go at the brittle sound of forming ice. fingers falling away from warm skin in favor of raking a hand through his disheveled fringe. & apart from the high pitched ringing in his ears, or the heavy thudding of his rabbiting heart, it’s quiet. with one skeptical glance toward the frozen lock, he steps away — steps further into the room they’ve absconded into. “yeah, some, but not much.” rolling out the tension in his shoulders, stiles edges further inside, examining the room for all it’s worth. “—- honestly?, you’re asking the wrong guy here. but if i had to put money on it, i’d say he’s connected with that group — you know, the one with the body count.” there’s an absent wave & turn of his hand as he checks out the back wall. it’s funny though, he hadn’t come across any evidence that had even suggested there had been actual humans involved, but here they were so to speak. stiles stills then, his gaze snapping back to her like a whip as the gravity of her revelation finally sinks in.

              “wait, did you say mermaid?” 

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        Gut reaction. It had been such a gut reaction. She’d helped, but at what cost? Now her identity was crushed. The tail could no longer be hidden. Sam looks down at the assailant who was now passed out on the ground, soaked with water from the pipes — water that she’d commanded to attack. Finally, Sam looks up to the other’s eyes as she keenly steps out of the way of the liquid.      ❝   You can’t tell anyone about me. Please. No one can know.   ❞

              “—– okay.”  the word is drawn out, a slow screech on the proverbial train-tracks that is his mind in this particular moment; where the downpour of water has lessened to a trickle, and the puddle that’s still stubbornly growing until it’s had the glory of soaking into his shoes. okay, because he can’t think of anything else to say as his gaze racks over the unconscious man before promptly jumping to the girl. 

                                          the girl who looks just as shocked as he feels. 

              it’s a precarious moment, one that shatters when the guy at their feet GROANS, & stiles is LAUNCHED back into the here & now. “okay, okay okay. secret’s safe with me, we’ll talk about it later —- or we won’t. we probably won’t.” he’s rambling. a near constant frenzy of words as he lunges forward & hooks his arm around her forearm & starts to  tug & pull her towards him. towards the exit. 

              “yeah, i’m not worried about the water works, or what you are, all i’m worried about is that we GET out of here NOW before his friends show up. c’mon!!”