Galactica Point -- Thursday Night

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe sat on the rock next to Spinster and watched the waves lapping at the shore. The pull of the ocean and the call to dive into the waves and just swim away was extremely strong tonight and that unexplainable tie to this island seemed to be fading. She knew she should dive into the water and go home, but something inside her just wasn't ready to do that.

She sighed and let her tail flex a little.

People had been talking to her about things today that she wasn't understanding. And they didn't seem to understand what she was trying to tell them. Well, a couple did, but for the most part it was difficult.

Many people had been swimming with her that last few days and it had been fun to explore things and show people the things she had been finding.

She leaned her head back against the rocks and stared out to sea.



[[OOC: Come play with the Mermaid. This is probably going to be the last big post to play with her in as sometime tomorrow after morning workshops she's going to be turned back into Phoebe. Also, Phoebe is close to being a full mermaid and she has started forgetting things as her heart is hiding from her and she's lacking human emotions and understandings.]]

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[demonbelthazor]

Bel shimmered to the shore. "Phoebe!" he called, then spotted her lying on the rocks. "Phoebe."

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe looked up. "Hello."

[demonbelthazor]

"I've got something for you," he said, pulling a shiny object from his pocket.

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe forgot what she was going to say when her eyes saw the shiny bracelet. "For me?"

[demonbelthazor]

Bel handed her the bracelet with the shiny silver bells. "I thought you might like it."

[sensethevisions]

"It sings!" she said as she turned over in her hands. "Thank you."

[demonbelthazor]

"I don't suppose you'd consider letting me shimmer you to our room, would you?" Cole asked casually.

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe dove into the water. She stayed nearby, but not near enough to be grabbed.

"You lied. You said I'd like the bathtub like the ocean. There is no ocean in a bathtub."

[demonbelthazor]

"I meant the pool," Cole said. "Not the bathtub. You'll have plenty of room in the pool."

[sensethevisions]

"Do you like to swim?"

[demonbelthazor]

"Yes?"

[sensethevisions]

"Everyone else has swam with me and talked to me. No yelling, though."

[demonbelthazor]

"I don't want to yell at you, Phoebe," Cole said. "I just want you to come home."

[sensethevisions]

"I keep trying to explain to people about home but no one understands. The ocean calls to me and sometimes I end up swimming out further than I had thought to. It wants me to come home... but there is a small rope anchoring me to the island. I don't know what the rope is but it's fading." She seemed confused as she talked to him and then she looked out over the ocean. "I swim out, but someone always calls out and I come back... but it's... it's not working as much."

She didn't know why she was telling him this, and hr expression told him that she didn't understand a lot of what she was saying.

[demonbelthazor]

Bel crouched by the shoreline. "Phoebe, you're a witch! You're a Charmed One! You aren't supposed to be a mermaid. Your place is here, with your sisters...with me. Don't I mean anything to you anymore?"

[sensethevisions]

"Yes." She said softly. "You're Cole. You're my... my..." She couldn't think of the word she was looking for and her tail slapped the water in frustration.

[demonbelthazor]

He held out his hand toward her. "Soulmate," he said softly.

[sensethevisions]

"Soulmate," she repeated. She started to lift her hand towards him, and then it dropped to the water as she watched him.

Phoebe watched him for a long time.

"Would you like to meet my dolphin," she asked quietly. Her eyes were full of thoughts that she was trying to process out.

[demonbelthazor]

"I'd like you to come out of the water again," he said softly.

[sensethevisions]

"Are you going to try to trap me again and take me away?"

[demonbelthazor]

"....no?"

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe came a little closer but still stayed out of his reach.

[demonbelthazor]

"Phoebe, I love you," Cole said.

[sensethevisions]

"You do?"

[demonbelthazor]

He nodded. "Yes. I do."

[sensethevisions]

"Then why?"

[demonbelthazor]

"Why what?"

[sensethevisions]

She looked a bit startled and then there was sadness in her eyes for the briefest moment before she looked at him, trying to make him understand.

"Why can't I remember the right words?"

[demonbelthazor]

"Phoebe, you have to come out of the water," Cole pleaded. "You're losing your memory of what you are."

[sensethevisions]

"But this is where I live... it's what calls to me... I'll be lost if I do..." The was hesitation in her words, like some part of her wasn't quite sure.

[demonbelthazor]

He stretched out his arm, reaching for her. "Phoebe, please...before it's too late."

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe was staring at him and then his arm for a long time. It looked for a moment that she was going to reach for him to come out, but then something clouded her face and she turned and dove bacjk under the water.

[demonbelthazor]

"Phoebe!" Cole called after her.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana came by that evening as she had promised. She had the feeling that unless something drastic happened this might be about the last time she saw Phoebe.

She stood out on the rocks and called for her friend.

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe surfaced some ways away and then came up to the rocks where Lana was. "Hi."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"I came. Like I promised." Lana tried not to let her sadness show. Then again, she wasn't sure it would mean anything to Phoebe now anyway.

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe came close to where Lana was.

"Cole came to see me," she said quietly.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"How did that go?" Lana asked.

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe shook her head. "I don't know."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"It's really hard for you to stay here, isn't it?" Lana asked.

[sensethevisions]

"Will it make your chest hurt if I tell you?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana shrugged. "Maybe. But it's okay. I'd rather know the truth and feel a little pain."

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe's tail moved through the water as she stared out over the sea and then turned back to Lana.

"It's hard... but I try..." She ran a hand through the water. "Cole says I'm forgetting."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"You are," Lana said quietly. "Are you happy at least?"

[sensethevisions]

"I... I... Lana..." Phoebe sighed, horribly confused. "I am and then when I think that I hurt your chest... it hurts mine."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"I'm sorry, Phoebe," Lana said. "That happens sometimes when you care about people."