The Fisherman's Mermaid

Chapter 7

You can see the sun starting to set in the distance and you know Jack will come up to bring you food soon.

For the past hour you've made up your plan to escape and you've gone over every possibility where the plan could fail and you've corrected it.

First, your going to somehow seduce him (you know this part won't be hard if he claims to care about you as much as he lets on) and when he's distracted you'll start to slip out of the tank. Second, you'll make him carry you to somewhere more.. private.. but you won't get there because, thirdly, you'll use the knife he'll give you for dinner and stab him then make a jump over the side of the boat straight into the sea.

You were terrified in case something went wrong but you had to do this for your father. If he was in your position he would have already saved you.

You start to hear footsteps and you know Jack is coming. You quickly swim up to the surface and lean against the top waiting for him to come over to you.

Surprise flashes in his face when he sees you waiting for him and he smiles in delight. "What's the occasion, my beautiful little mermaid?"

You lean closer to him when he makes it next to your cage. "I'm terribly alone up here, and I want to apologise.." you see him tense up and his eyes grow with suspicion, "you've done nothing bad to me.. I've been ungrateful and while you've been working hard to provide a new comfortable home for me away from the dangerous sea, I've never even had the courtesy to say thank you"

He doesn't reply and you see distrust flickering in his eyes. I'll have to be more convincing you think to yourself.

Before you can say anything else he suddenly crashes his lips to yours. You try to move away but his kisses along to your ear and whispers "show how sorry you are then, my love"

You hesitantly nod your head and he pulls you out the tank and you kiss him again as he walks away but he's too gullible to see you stole the knife from dinner.

He starts to kiss down your neck leaving dark bruises as he walks closer to his room below deck. You know you have to act quickly so without thinking you stab the knife straight into his side..