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Started July 17, 2018 by Deleted user

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"There you go!" Erikos exclaimed, grinning happily while Fins did a few happy turns in the water. "Now try it a little faster, like this," he said, doing the same thing but a bit quicker now

Daus nodded, repeating the same strokes at a faster pace after he watched Erikos for a few moments. After completing a few small laps, he swam back towards Erikos, a bright grin tugging the corners of his lips up.

"Ay, you've got it!" Erikos exclaimed, beaming proudly as he watched Daus swim around. "You've probably got a lot of practice to do before you can swim around faster, but hey, you've got the basics."

"Thanks, Erikos," Daus answered as he attempted to do a slow, underwater cartwheel, though he gave up halfway and decided to float instead. "How long have we been here for?" He asked, glancing up towards the surface.

"Good question," Erikos said, shrugging as he held onto Fin's top fin. "A couple hours, at least. Time has a funny way of changing when you're around the water."

Daus nodded, stretching a bit as he watched Erikos continue to hang onto the shark's fins. "Should we head up soon?" He asked, part of him concerned that Vien or Erikos' dad didn't know where they went, but part of him also just wanted to stay with the other.

"Maybe. It's almost lunchtime, and Vien is probably going to kill us if he makes food and we're not there to eat it," Erikos said with a small chuckle. "Dad's gone until sundown today, so we've pretty much got nothing important to do."

"Your dad's a fisherman, right? That must explain your familiar, the Morgan Freeman fishing rod," Daus joked, recalling their conversation yesterday about Vien's familiar, which led to an odd one about Erikos' fishing pole.

Erikos rolled his eyes with a laugh. "You're such a weirdo. But yeah, dad's a fisherman and a merchant. There's a little town on an island about ten miles out from here, and he trades and sells out there."

"I'm probably the dorkiest god that you're ever going to meet, Erikos," Daus pointed out, chuckling a bit as he almost managed to catch a smaller, colorful fish. He nodded in thought at Erikos' next comment, trying to imagine the small town that his father traded in.

"Yes you are," Erikos said with a small laugh. He swam over to Daus, noticing he had caught a fish. "Ooh, can I see?" he asked while Fins swam over to them lazily

Daus opened the palm of his hand a bit, making sure to hold the fish with his other hand in a way that wouldn't harm the animal. It was colored in quite a nice shade of blended orange and yellow, with white dots lining its sides. "We should name it…Spot," he said, glancing up towards Erikos from the fish as he motioned towards the dots.

Erikos nodded, grinning widely. "I love it," he said, Fins seemed to like it too, and she went to nudge Daus' hand as if to be able to see the fish better as well

Daus opened his hand up wider, letting Fins take a look at it as he returned Erikos' grin with one of his own smaller ones. "Spot and Fins. The ultimate, dynamic duo," he joked, laughing a bit as he continued to watch the shark study the fish.

"Yep," Erikos said with a laugh of his own. Fins nudged a little closer to the fish, nearly sticking its nose inbetween Daus' hands. "Aw, I think Fins likes Spot."

"Likes? I think they love Spot," Daus teased, laughing as he felt Fins nudge himself into his hands to get closer to the fish. He continued to watch them, a small, dorky grin crossing his lips for a few moments.

"A fish and a shark, huh? What an interesting romance," Erikos said with a small laugh. Fins did a barrel roll in the water, which looked sort of ridiculous considering her nose was still halfway jammed between Daus' hands

"This kind of tickles," Daus answered, laughing as Fins rolled with her snout still stuck in the palms of his hands. He glanced down, hoping that the fish, Spot, hadn't been mauled or bitten by now.

Erikos laughed. "I would think so. Sharks feel like really weirdly soft sandpaper," he said. Fins eventually gave up, retreating a bit from Daus' hands. She hadn't eaten the fish yet, which Erikos was grateful for

Daus opened his hands up a bit more, allowing the fish to get out, though surprisingly, it stayed quite close to them. He smiled, turning towards Fins and patting her nose gently to see what she would do. "So you've lived here your whole life, right?" He asked curiously, wanting to learn more about Erikos/

"Yep," Erikos answered. He watched as Fins did another barrel roll in the water, seemingly enjoying the pat to her nose. "Born and raised. Never been out of the country."

Daus rubbed the flatter area between Fins' nose and 'forehead' area, chuckling when the shark rolled in the water once again. He hummed in thought at Erikos' comment, studying them for a few moments. "I'll have to take you out sometime, so you can see more than Portugal," he started, looking down at Fins for a few moments. "I'm pretty sure my friends Finley and Baz live around…somewhere near here. We could visit them sometime."

Erikos' eyes widened, and a faint flush began to tint his cheeks. "Take me out, huh?" he asked in a teasing way, suddenly feeling nervous. Did Daus mean take him out as in a date?

"Not hit-you-with-a-baseball-bat-and-put-you-into-a-body-bag-take-you-out…if that's what you thought I meant," Daus explained, rubbing the back of his neck a bit nervously as he looked up towards Erikos, before quickly glancing back down towards Fins and Spot.

"I wasn't worried about that, you dweeb," Erikos laughed. He looked over at Fins, who was now doing barrel rolls around Spot. Erikos grinned, thinking that it was kind of dorky and cute

"What were you thinking then?" Daus asked, his tone a bit of a mumble as he continued to watch the shark and fish, not daring to actually look up at Erikos.

"I thought you meant…take-you-out-on-a-date take me out," Erikos admitted quietly. He looked down at the coral, holding onto one of Fins' fins embarassedly

Daus leaned forward a bit to hear what Erikos had said, though as soon as the comment registered, he was almost sure that his cheeks had turned a faint shade of pink. "I mean, uh, that could work too…unless you don't want that, then, in that case, I can just, uh… forget I ever said that?" Daus stammered nervously, quickly burying his face in the palms of his hands at how stupid he must have just sounded. Surely, Erikos had never actually seen him in that way…or had he?

“I, um.” Erikos took a deep breath. He really liked Daus. He was funny, and cute, and it wasn’t like he hadn’t been with a few guys before. Granted they were all one night stands, but this couldn’t be any different, could it? “I…wouldn’t mind that,” he eventually said

"You wouldn't..?" Daus asked as he looked up towards Erikos from the new, multi-colored fish swimming around his legs. He was almost sure that there was some sort of pink tint across his cheeks, though at this point he didn't really care how flustered he looked.