❝You're a mermaid!❞
❝Gee, what gave it away? The scales or the fricking fish tail that I have instead of legs?!❞
❝Um... Well...❞
❝That was a rhetorical question you idiot.❞
In which Jackson Whittemore's older sister is a mermaid who falls for the so...
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WAS BLEEDING black even possible for a normal person? Rikki had no idea why Jackson could be bleeding like that. And what does the bite and the unknown man have to do with it? Could it be drugs? A disease?
Rikki wanted answers. No she needed answers. The sooner the better. She remembered when she first became a mermaid and how scared she was though she would never tell anyone that. Rikki then thought of when Lewis, a friend of Cleo's who later became a close friend to her, would spend endless nights trying to figure out why the moon-pool had chosen the girls to become mermaids and how it even happened. It made her feel better when she got some answers but not the answer to the most important question of all... why her?
Of all the people that could have found the moon-pool, Rikki always wondered why it had been her. She wasn't that special. She was a loner. And she had always like it that way when she moved to Australia. Her friends she had a Beacon Hills before she left had always wanted to be around her since she had money. Rikki knew that but didn't care she just didn't want to be alone at the time.
She still would always ask that question from time to time even though she knew it will never be answered. But when she looked at Jackson all she saw was the fear in his eyes. He was scared just like how she was. Maybe if she could find answers she could help him.
So Rikki headed to the one place where she could start looking for those answers. The library. She was so focused on getting there that she didn't notice the Black Camaro following her.
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The library seemed almost like a ghost town. Not even the librarian was around. Rikki wouldn't say she was scared just creeped out by the fact that no one was around but had the feeling of being watched.
She made her way through the library at a careful pace. It was as if the blonde didn't want to startle anything that could be around. But it was a ridiculous thought for Rikki to have, why would someone want to follow her?
But it wouldn't surprise her all that much actually. To Rikki Beacon Hills hasn't really changed since she left. Specially after that night. Rikki had to take a deep breath to stay calm at the memories or as the doctors and therapists would put it, 'hallucinations'. It was a load of crap if you asked the mermaid.
Rikki sat down at a computer located towards the back of the library. She began to search for any possible answer for her brother's condition.
Why would someone bleed black blood?
Blood that you normally see after a cut is venous blood which has the lowest oxygen levels in the blood vessels. Occasionally in certain light, or if the oxygen level is very low, the blood can appear almost black. There are certain blood poisons that can cause blood to become a rust color, but usually not black.
