Down By The Docks [Eli, Jason, Kennedy]

[littleredsiren]

 She'd been worrying about this all week. It was one thing for her friends to say they wouldn't freak out at her siren-ness, and another thing completely for them to actually see it. She'd set up three different times for them to meet, figuring one-on-one would probably be a bit easier to handle.

Iris flitted around her kitchen all morning, putting together a picnic basket with different treats inside. It all quickly started to get out of hand and she was glad she'd set up a plan with Jason to provide meals for the other homeless people in town, because she had way too much for just four people right now.

A quick glance at the clock nearly sends her into another fit of panic. Throwing on a bathing suit under a cover up and grabbing her basket, she makes her way to the beach nearest the docks in a hurry.

No one's there when she gets there and she breathes a sigh of relief, setting down the basket and hauling off the cover up, heading into the surf to swim off her nerves until someone shows up.

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[littleredsiren]

"I am," she giggles. "You can sit back down now."

Shutting her eyes for a second, she lets go of her grasp on her powers, feeling them retreat back into her. "Was that weird?"

[jasonwright]

He feels her will leave him and takes a deep breath. "A bit weird, yeah."

[littleredsiren]

She tenses up, biting into her lower lip before she realizes what a bad idea that is with fangs. "Ow. I didn't make you uncomfortable, did I?" she worries. "Or make you do anything that you didn't enjoy?"

[jasonwright]

"No, no, I mean just weird as in a different feeling. Like, I felt compelled to do everything even though I thought "This is just silly of me." You didn't make me uncomfortable," he smiles.

[littleredsiren]

Iris shivers slightly. "All right. Good. That would freak me out a bit though. I think I've spent too much of my life doing what everyone tells me already," she says wryly.

[jasonwright]

His smile falls just a tiny bit. He's always made his own rules and literally no one ever told him what to do with his life. That must have really sucked for Iris, and he has a new appreciation for the fact that she up and left, striking out on her own. "True. But you don't ever have to do that again."

[littleredsiren]

She notices his smile wilt and immediately feels bad, brightening her own smile in response. "I don't! I have my own home, more friends than I've ever had before, a pet..." She practically wriggles with happiness. "And my relatives don't even have a way to contact me right now so they can't convince me to come back! Or tell me off!"

[jasonwright]

Jason smiles again. "Good. I'm glad everything's working out for you and you're making a life for yourself."

[littleredsiren]

She grins in response, laying back on the sand happily. "Yup. Now I've just gotta get these silly powers under control, and everything will be wonderful."

Iris pauses a moment, just soaking in the happiness in the air before rolling onto her stomach to look up at him. "So, what about you? Are things working out well for you so far?"