The Coldfish Date

[Ariel]

Ariel kept playing with the water… it would shut off then on off-on-off-on! Finally she turned to look at Strange Whale man. He was once again saying things she didn’t understand.

“Can I go with you?” She asked him. Ariel wanted to see more of this world and if Whale was willing to show her she would let him.

She followed him back out to the huge room with the fish while he went to change or something. She walked into the room with another silver bowl and the thingy that makes the water… oh but what was this… she turned it watching it fill up in a few moments it was pouring on the floor but Ariel was on to her next project.

She opened a drawer and it was full of dinglehoppers.. How exciting! Now where could she put them? She looked around and saw a box with a small window perfect. She opened it and placed a dinglehopper inside and then pushed a few buttons it lit up like a fireworks she saw once before.


Still further in to the room there was a huge white box it lit up when she opened it and was full of many things.. it was also cold.. how odd. The one above it had a button she pushed and it created ice cubes that spilled over the floor… amazing Ariel turned back to the box that was glowing it was now engulfed in flames inside..


Ariel was starting to not like it… she went through a doorway to another room there was a huge bed…bigger than anything she’d seen with a mirror above it…she went over to it and touched it. It moved like water she squealed in delight and jumped right on the bed. There was a loud pop! As she looked down her dinglehopper was still in her hand and now it was sticking out of the bed. So much for brushing my hair she shrugged.

Her eyes were drawn to another white room… He has two rooms like this? In the distance she heard a beeping noise.. She got up and went into the white room was a seat full of water how odd she tried the handle the water went down and made a woosh sound.. She stared at it.. Magic? What else can it do? She began looking for things to make vanish.. by the fourth or sixth item things stopped going down..


The ringing got louder it was hurting her head

[Dr. Whale/Victor Frankenstein]

Whale couldn't believe it. She actually wanted to GO with him? He smiled broadly. "Okay then. Let's just have you wait out in the living room," he ushered her out to the open area. "...And I'll just grab a few things. I'll be right back. Don't go anywhere." He kidded.

He then dashed the hall to his bedroom, opened a drawer in his dresser and pulled out the essentials: Hospital ID, comb, breath mints, and condoms...a few of them. He grabbed his coat off of his desk chair, shoving the items inside the pockets, and was just about to head out whenn he ran his tongue over his teeth.

...Eh... felt fuzzy. Maybe a quick brush? He darted to his bathroom and fetched a toothbrush and toothpaste. He could hear water running out in the kitchen sink. What was with this chick? First his tub, now his sink. He quickly finished scrubbing his teeth and spit out into the sink. He smiled at his refection for a whiteness check, when the overhead lights flickered with a power surge... as a loud pop and bang sounded from the kitchen.

Whale stood for a beat. What could she possibly be doing out there...

He heard that bang again, but more loudly, and accompanied by the smell of overpowering smoke. Whale skidded into the kitchen and his eyes almost popped out of their sockets. "HOLY SH**!"

The refrigerator was open with ice spilling out on the floor, his silverware drawers had been ripped out of their places and ransacked, the sink was overflowing and flooding the place, and the microwave was simply ON FIRE. Whale tore the fire extinguisher off the wall and set about smothering the fiery inferno.

After a few good minutes of clunking about, and a few colorful swear words foreign to Victor, Whale shuffled to his bedroom...to see Ariel sitting on on the edge of his now FLOODING waterbed... combing her hair... with a fork.

The fire alarm above his head came on, belated. He took the butt of the extinguisher and bludgeoned the damn thing off of the wall. He then took the melted fork wrapped in a towel out from his back pocket and tossed it to the floor. "Forks... don't go... in the microwave." He never thought he'd have to say that to a full-fledged adult.

"And where the hell are my fish?" He then noticed the little buggers swimming about in the flooded bed. "Ah..." he sighed. Exhausted. "...okay, let's go." He dropped the extinguisher and made it to his door, dragging his feet.

...at best this chick was getting a foreplay-less quickie on a gurney...

[Ariel]

Ariel looked up from her place on his bed. Strange Whale man looked upset and he hit the beeping thing on the wall until it stopped.

"whats a microwave?" She asked him. He looked sad she got up and put her arms around him in a hug.

"I got to explore so many great things.. thank you" She broke the hug "Where are we going now?" She looked back at the fish on the bed.. now the water was on the fuzzy soft floor it felt strange between her toes.

"OH! The Fish will die!" She ran over to pick up the fish... maybe they should go back into the tank in the other room.. she ran past Whale and dropped them back into the tank.

"There safe and sound.." She turned to Whale "Your not going to eat them are you?"

[Dr. Whale/Victor Frankenstein]

"..."

"No. I will not eat my pet fish." This woman really WAS from another world. And not just the fairytale world. Even Victor was able to figure out the functionality of appliances... as well as flammability, by using mere common sense. This woman... HAD NONE.

But then she hugged him. Her toned, curvy body pressed up against his for an instant. Oh, for Darwin's sake...THINK WITH THE HEAD ON YOUR SHOULDERS, for once!, Victor bellowed. The Woman is CLEARLY a walking disaster...

Whale just grinned like an idiot. Dude, you touched boob...

Whale snapped out of his trance. "Right... well, to the hospital. Back to car!"

Once they where in the car, Whale flinched every time she reached to touch a button on his dash. She finally found the radio.

[Ariel]

The car filled with music it was the best part of the night.. She left it on and hummed a bit.

"So are we going to a place where you heal people?" She asked him.

"Also where is this music coming from? Are there tiny people singing in here?" She pointed to the front of the car.

"I'm sorry.. I know I ask a lot of questions.. I've never been human before and your world is so different from my own..." She looked to him he seemed.. she wasn't sure upset maybe? Tired?

She turned back away and sang a bit with the radio the words were very repetitive and it was easy for her to follow along. Who cares how it worked it was amazing

[Dr. Whale/Victor Frankenstein]

Every time Whale went to answer a question, she interrupted with another. He couldn't get a word in edgewise even if he wanted to. A curious mind seeking answers, Victor thought. My kind of of woman...

She talks too much, Whale supplied. If she keeps this up, we may have to push her out of the car.

"WHERE are you from, exactly?" He finally asked, once she had stopped bombarding him with questions. "Who were you in... yah know, OUR world..."

[Ariel]

"Oh I was a mermaid until about 2 days ago, when I was given a chance to be human." She told him.

"So I guess where? I am from would be the ocean." She smiled at him.

"Oh so can you tell me more about your world.. I want to know everything.. like what makes a car work.. and those lights in your house.. and why your bed has water in it..or what makes water come from no where right in your home?...or.."

Ariel was getting a little excited at the thought that Whale could tell her all she wanted to know and more about this amazing place.

[Dr. Whale/Victor Frankenstein]

A mermaid. Victor almost guffawed, but seeing the indisputable fruits of a MAGIC CURSE...he could hardly criticize the existence of something as mythical as a mermaid. Whale supplied a large amount of sexy mermaid visions, but they were pushed aside.

"So... you really haven't been here that long." Hence, no false memories of how things work. He sat back into his seat feeling a little at ease. So she wasn't INSANE... she was just...new to it all. "Well... really a lot of this stuff we just KNOW how to use, not how they work." Victor disputed that point, finding it an insult to his intellect, but Whale continued on. "So I don't know if I can help put your curiosity to rest." And neither did he WANT to. Nothing to kill the mood like going into a long explanation about the fundamentals of water pipes and electricity.

"Ah, here we are." Whale parked his car in his reserved spot and got out. He turned back towards her. "Perhaps it would be better if you wait here. It's pretty boring inside..." In truth, there where just a lot of buttons and switches that people's lives DEPENDED ON not to be pushed and pulled. He didn't want to chance it. "And then I will tell you all that I can about this world, okay?"

[Ariel]

Ariel Beamed at him "Really you will tell me all about the world? Okay then I will wait here. You promise your not going to be gone that long?" Ariel asked him.

She wait only if she had to... but Ariel was never good at being still for very long.

"But are you sure I can't go with you.. if I promise not to touch anything?" She looked at him with her teal eyes.. pleading she really wanted to see how he healed people.

[Dr. Whale/Victor Frankenstein]

"Believe me... it's better if you stay in here..." Whale said. He might be there for over an hour, he forgot to mention, but it would be tremendously better if she stayed her in the car, away from where she could cause damage. He even locked the car doors for good measure.

He then jogged up to the hospital doors and walked in as they slid open.

[Ariel]

Ariel nodded disappointed.

She watched Whale walk into doors that opened for him.. Ariel watched from the car she tried the door but it didn't open..

She crossed her arms and waited for him to return.

[Dr. Whale/Victor Frankenstein]

Whale had never been happier to be pried away from from a hot date before. That couldn't be a good sign...

But when he thought about lovely Ariel and her curious teal eyes... he assured himself that this night would end well. He accepted a chart from Gretta, when he arrived. Now he needed to focus... despite the small nagging feeling in the back of his head that things were about to go awry.

I mean, there's no WAY she could figure out the locks to the car and get in here..., Whale thought to himself, while Victor was mentally preparing for the medical procedure at hand. No way at all...

[Ariel]

Ariel sat in the car waiting..This was getting to be way to long.. She began pushing every button.

Suddenly there was a click.. the same click that happened right before Whale would open a door. She tried the door and it popped open.

Finally She climbed out of the car and went though the doors that opened for her. Inside was a place she couldn't imagine everything was white and clean. People were inside rushing about.

Where was Whale this place looked huge.. she never find him.

"Hello Miss can I help you?" A women from behind a huge desk asked her.

"Umm I am looking for..what did he call himself again..doctor..that sounded right... Doctor Whale." Ariel told her.

Then before she knew it she was put in a room to wait.. it had a box with moving pictures Ariel couldn't stop watching it.

[Belle/Lacey]

Belle sat in the waiting room watching the strange red head look at the TV. The women watched it with a fascination on her face.

"Are you knew to experiencing this world? I was once where you are it gets easier" Belle told her. She was learning to accept this world and if she could help someone else not be so confused then she would be happy.

[Ariel]

Ariel was torn from the box when she heard a voice asking her a question. She turning seeing a pretty women with brown hair she had a kind smile.

“Actually I just got here.. myself I am learning about this place though. Its quite amazing. Did you recently get here as well?” She asked her.