Unlikely Lovers

Where am i..?

Finn pov

I can feel myself start to wake up, slowly being able to feel the environment around me.. first i feel water surrounding me, a huge relief on my skin and scales I then draw my attention to the feeling of sand against my tail.

I keep analyzing everything that I'm feeling when I suddenly remember how I ended passing out,the last thing I remember is that guy, I think his name was Quinn, that's when I realize that my head is above water and there's a pair of hands holding me up.

I take a sharp breath in as my eyes shoot open, darting around to look at my surroundings frantically, I'm met with the sight of a guy hovering above me, he seems to be the one holding me up, I panic more as thoughts race through my mind such as who is this guy  is he helping me-  is he planning to hurt me  where am i

I start to struggle and squirm,not wanting to hurt this guy but readying my claws if i need to, but this guy drags me up onto land and sets me down, so it's harder to escape though that doesn't stop me from trying. I'm much to focused on my escape to notice the guy had left me for a moment but I was aware of his position once more as he started to approach me again.

I look up at the guy and growl defensively as a warning. Now that I get a good look at the guy I have the urge to cower at his large size, he appears to be a snake person of sorts but I have no idea what kind as I don't see land snakes very much

-but I do have a slight pit in my stomach as my mind flicks back to that tales of snake people killing and eating merpeople as well as sirens that pops would tell me as a guppy.

I never thought they were true- but it could be- afterall people usually try to kill me or get rid of me the moment they realize what I am, so what would I know- I shake my head a little to get rid of those racing thoughts and focus, those tales were just that. Tales. No need to worry and I need to focus right now.

I growl louder and unhinge my jaw enough to show my bottom row of teeth fully, for the intimidation, though it seems to fail as the large man gets closer, a mostly stoic look upon his face as he does. My breathing gets a little heavier in turn as my panic just spikes. The snake person drops a small container in front of me before turning and moving away from me once more. I take this chance to try escaping again, pushing myself backwards to get to the water, it only gets me so far though as the snake comes back over. He's dragging another guy over

I stop in my tracks and look at the two, it takes a moment of looking at the two for me to realize I recognize the smaller one. I point up at the one I remember to be called Quinn "hey! You're the one that got me out of that stupid ass net!"

The Gecko just nods looking away his tail wagging slow the whole thing curling back and forth "Yeah.. you could say that."

"I'd say you did, if I didn't get out of that net I might have dried out or been killed by something up here" I tilt my head as I try and figure out why he has such a bothered expression "...why do you look like that?"

His face turns into a disgusted one curling his lip

I tilt my head more at his expression, not really understanding why it's like that now, but I see the snake guy a look as if he was reprimanding Quinn silently before he looks at me

"Don't mind him, he's just grumpy. Anyway, my name's alp" the guy introduces himself

"Oh. Huh. Well my name's finn " I reply back, still a little weary as I don't know what alps motives are

Quinn growls at the word grumpy and turns away from them

The one known as alp lightly punches quinns arm "Oh hush. You're just proving it"

I try crawling a bit closer to Quinn. He's oddly captivating and I want to get a better look at him

Quinn lets out a grumble his hair covering his eyes and up, his taill wagging still

I keep crawling till I'm only a few feet away before plopping down and staring up at him i notice that he's got a Lotta different spots all over him now that I can get a good look at him

He just quietly answers looking at the ground with slight harshness that might come out in a moment "It means a couple things."

"Like what?" I roll onto my side to look up at him a little easier

"Jesus why so many fucking questions." Quinn spits rudely

My ears go down and I frown a little at that "I'm just curious. I haven't really seen any beings like you that haven't tried to kill me immediately and I want to know more"

"I'm a leopard gecko. Its not that hard to tell." He looks further away looking honestly disappointed at the fact

"Oh. Isn't that a type of lizard?"

"Obviously" Quinn nods "Thats why i have spots."

"Ohhh. That's cool! They're really pretty." I say as I point at some of the spots. I think they make him look really neat

He pauses for a moment a bit taken back before he mumbles once more "Well thats easy for you to say, you don't have any permanent markings."

"What do you mean? I'm covered in permanent markings!"  I curl my tail and grab it to hold it in place as I point at my scale patters "all of these are permanent"

"Those are different! You don't have spots and bumps all over your body! Sirens are different." He says with a bit of venom in his tone

"Okay, that's true. But that doesn't mean your spots and bumps aren't pretty! They're definitely prettier than my pattern, so yeah, it may be easy for my to say but thats only cuz its true" I say a little defensively in response to the venom in his tone and then, Quinn's tail starts flicking once more. Noticing, I look at his tail again and point at it "What's that mean?"

He growls out and grabs his thick tail making it stop

I tilt my head "why'd you do that?"

He starts to ingore me looking aggravated from all the questions, they didn't seem offensive did they?

I puff a little at being ignored but shrug it off and opts to just stare at Quinn

Quinn sighs letting go of his tail then looking back before spacing out a slighty rude "What."

"Nothin. You're just really weird. But it's a good thing"

Quinn sighs and looks at alp "Does this really have to be a full WEEK here?"

Alp looks back at Quinn "yeah. Now cope with it Quinn and learn to enjoy this, it's a nice beach and the weathers supposed to be good this time of year."

Quinn groans and face plants into some sand landimg pretty soft for the most part and groans in the sand

I watch as alp slithers over to a chair before coming back over and throwing a towel on top of Quinn

I watch as alp then slithers between me and Quinn, laying down on his stomach, so, despite my better judgment I crawl up a couple feet next to him, looking at him as I still have questions I want answered.