Author's note: Welcome to the final part of this fanfic! I hope you are enjoying it until now! 

I hope this chapter doesn't feel rushed since it's the last one ( but I wanted this to see a small history so...) 

Just a warning that this chapter after the bold letters turnes into a M rated fanfic eheheh meaning that contains a bit of a sexual content between Norman and Emma! So if you dislike or feel uncomfortable with it don't hesitate to skip! 

Enjoy the last chapter! 

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When the helicopter came, Emma was crying. Crying in the bathtub as her tears joined the great sea of water in which she was swimming. The fly devise emitted a  quiet, silent sound. A sound of departure and longing, a sound that carried painful good news. 

She pressed the necklace Norman gave her as he left one day ago, the blue shell still shining in her watery eyes. She could feel his sorrow and suffering. Norman was in pain and so as her. Breathing the same air, sharing the same water, feeling the same longing pain 

She wanted to use magic and make it all go away 

She would do anything to see him smile so dearly and sadly like he always did 

But they shared the same heart and his intense pain on his chest was also hers 

" I'm so sorry....Norman, please forgive me...." Emma said as she coughed beautiful blue flowers from her lungs

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" So this is where you were hiding? Nice place! Here in the middle of the rocks with that secret passage! How did you know about this place, Norman?" - Don asked as they entered the house, followed by Gilda and the rest of the crew who were transporting Ray into the tank he was placed in after the escape.

" Do you think the government will go after us? " - Gilda added as she looked over into the old house. Norman took a deep breath and concentrated in this toughs, an objective look on his face  " Well...this place was found by Yuugo and...Lucas when they were young. Sometimes we used to go here for some holidays" 

Norman smiled as he raised his eyes...he didn't want to cry anymore. Yuugo and Lucas were probably calling him a idiot already for crying so much over them, he was sure " Well, the first time it was different cuz we took one mermaid, but this time, it's a complete failure of the government forces. Vincent is unconscious, the government agents are dead and all the mermaids are free so I don't think they'll come after us" 

" Yeah...if they leaked this to the media and all it would be a great scandal and besides, the common people are in our side, and the government can go against the public will " Gilda reflected as they went upstairs with Ray's tank 

After all, Emma had to see her brother right?  

" Wait...there is no need to come with the tank - Norman said as the crew started to put it on the first step - " If Ray doesn't mind, I can carry him and bring him to Emma " as Norman finished his words, Ray looked at him and waved his head up and down in a affirmative sign. Norman smiled at the confirmation: he understood human speech thanks to Don's and Gilda's hardwork 

" Ok, so I'll be right back! You guys rest and take a break! There's food on the fridge! There is also a spear room where you can place Lucas" Norman said as he stared going upstairs, the sound of the wood breaking and  creaking under his feet 

" Don't worry! We'll be fine! Take your time! " - Gillian waved back at him with a smiled as he disappeared into the up floor. In his way up, Gillian and everyone wished that Norman would never fall 

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" Emma! Emma! Are you ok?" 

When Emma watched the door creak her emerald eyes turned violently into the direction of the sound, the sorrow sound, the longing sound. Her lungs were full of flowers...she was hurting, and Norman he looked so hurt and sad... still there was a reason for her to breath out again and move on

Ray   

"RAY! BROTHER! " She screamed as Norman placed Ray inside the bathtub along with her. How unusual, Norman tough, two mermaids hugging in a lovely little bathroom. As he placed Ray slowing the time seemed to stop in his arms. In slow motion, Ray raised his arms to hug Emma and she reached out for him with her arms hide open, tears in her eyes and a trail of blue petals from her smiling face 

It was warm, so warm and so familiar. That gesture, that love, that longing and pleasant pain. He had been destined to be abandoned and alone but two pairs of arms opened and took him in just like that, making his pale and cold skin warm, human: Yuugo and Lucas 

" Emma! I'm so glad you're save sister! I'm sorry...I'm sorry for all " Ray teared as he hugged her back without let go " Don't be brother...It's not your fault! I'm ok and you'll be fine as well " Emma said as she placed Ray's head in the pit of her neck to catch all Ray's tears 

As Emma looked up, she found Norman siting on the ground with a large sad smile on his face, looking at them in a tender way. He was so broken and so sad but still he was in joy for her happiness

And that was breaking her heart...she was to blame but no. Blaming one of them was pointless, They knew the risks, they took this step of of their selfishness and the time was merciless not letting them go back, try again, try better

" Come here Norman " 

" What?"

When Norman realized Emma was jumping at top of him, using her arms to give herself balance in her jump. She crashed violently on top of him, leaving both Norman and Ray speechless. On the ground, on the wet blue tiles she crossed her arms around his neck and placed her face close to his heart, crying in a silent melody like she always did 

Norman closed his eyes and placed his free hand in her ginger hair, drawing circles on it and brushing his hands in her wet and shinny green scales, her soft sensible skin and gills. He missed her and feeling her against his chest once again made in heart 

A bit less heavier from the height of the world and its circumstances

He smiled into her embrace 

" Norman...I'm so sorry...I'm so sorry for your lost! There is nothing I can do to fill the emptiness you are feeling right now, I know but at least - " 

" Sing to me, Emma " Norman whispered as a tear of both sadness and love travel from his ocean eyes into his sore mouth, as he placed his finger on the tip of her bright red lips 

" I love your melodic hypnotizing voice... please sing to me, Emma. So that my heart can be at peace, so I can rebuilt everything up again. Sing for me as if it is the first time, Emma my dear "

" Sure, Norman...my love " 

In the lovely bathroom a lonely melody sounded. Still, holding on to him Emma moved her lips in a cry out that Norman couldn't understand, her scales shining even more with the reflection of the light of the little window. When Ray joined her in a sorrowful song at only they could understand, all the colors that they created with their scales reminded Norman of that time Norman said goody to Emma, back at the lab   

That moment when she created to Northen Lights he so loved in a dark empty room 

She always did that with such low effort

Wound him and open up his wounds, close them and heal him fine  

Closing the hole of his empty heart, taking his frail arms into her her and careless him 

Her song was beautiful like a poem, mysterious like a maze he was willing to be lost in 

He opened his sad eyes to see the whole world in his arms. Ray closed his eyes and Emma smiled down at him, tears in the corner of her smile and a trembling hand. He opened up his lips and asked that he already knew: 

" What was that that song about, Emma?" - His eyes reflected hers and she saw her in himself

" About the prohibition of being alone" - Emma whispered to him as she touched his hair 

" Love? " - Norman said braking those four words. Everything he needed

" A good pain, everything and nothing, whatever you want to call it " - Emma replied closing the space between them, close enough to hear his breath and his heart beating. He was hurt but he was alive and she bough her her greatest misery and luck  

" I would call it selfishness " - Norman said as he cooped her close red cheeks

" I would call it..." - She paused as she placed a hungry yet gentle kiss into his sore, wet and sweet lips. Norman closed his eyes as she brushed all his pain away with her gentle touch of her skin. Slowly she would close the wounds of his heart, but not completely: he wanted to turn his sad sorrow into...a good kind of pain 

Into his own legacy of dreams, selfishness and love filled with sad tender smiles 

" I would call it you, Norman. Love is you and everything you do " 

Even if wasn't late, Ray fell asleep on the salty water of the tub as Norman and Emma remained in the floor smiling to each other. They may had to departure soon, but right now only each one of them could fill that original emptiness, make the pain a little easier with a lullaby

Norman kissed her deeply and she hugged his shoulders tight. 

Were they destined to be with each other? 

Emma didn't care as long as she could unbutton his shirt, dive into his skin and feel his sent, his spine arching from the pleasure of her touch.  

Were they so perfectly broken that they needed each other's comfort? 

Norman tough as he caressed her chest, brushed her scales with his long pale finger and explored her mouth with his own tonge. No that wasn't right. They didn't find each other and they didn't belonged together. They didn't struggle because they were meant to. 

They arranged a place for one another 

They forced their way in into each other's hearts 

They forbid each other from being alone 

And they decided that that feeling that they shared was called "Love" and if love was everything it was their sorrow and longing, their pains and smiles, their tears and laughs, their best and worst moments, departments and encounters, wounds and bandages, life and death.

It was all part of them and that they were

" Norman...I love you! Please don't ever leave me " Emma said between gasps as Norman touched and licked her neck " But you know that you don't belong were, right? " He paused: Emma belonged in the ocean, after all she was a mermaid and she needed to return home, return to the water " You have to go back to the ocean eventually...see? your scales are getting dry! You must go into the water right now!" 

" No! Wait, Norman! " - She shouted as he grabed her ready to place her in the tub, by Ray's side - " Please, I have an ideia! Can you take me somewhere, outside the house I mean " Norman gave her a smile and a confused look " Of course...where do you want to go?" 

" I want to see the ocean close " Emma whispered looking into the window " Like you said I want to go to the ocean again, but this time...I don't want to go alone or with only Ray...I want to go with you " Norman was opening his eyes wide: what was that all about? " Sorry I don't think I understand that you - " 

" Don't worry, just take me there, please. You will understand" 

When they got out of the house everyone was sleeping and Don and Gilda were curled at the old sofa with a peaceful look on their faces. They barely sleep last night and everything was so intense that it didn't wonder they would be tiered. As Emma and Norman walked silently not to wake them up, they looked at each other and smiled: they were blessed with the best friends they could have asked for 

As they walked down the beach, strait into the endless wide sea, Emma looked over Norman and he smiled back at her " Do you like when I carry you like this, Emma ?" He flirted " I do...it makes me feel save" she replied with a smile 

" Even knowing that I might droop you anytime because I'm weak " Norman joked as Emma laugh " Your parent sure didn't think you were weak, Norman" As Emma finished her sentence Norman widen his eyes

Emma was now pointing at a spot, the most bright place at the beach, full of golden and blue shell. In the fluffy and hot sand with a beautiful stone in each side were craved the names " Yuugo" and " Lucas" Norman wanted to cry, cry out of laugh because what was craved below each one of their names was so true 

and so dear to him and Emma 

" Yuugo " Norman read with a smile on his face looking at Emma " Here lies Yuugo the scientist who's greatest discovery was how to be pure as a child " Norman laughed as he continued to read " And Lucas...the man which love was a feeling to much greater than death itself " 

" Do you like them? I asked your friends, and Don and Gilda to make them when I heard you had come back, Norman. Now your parents can be together in the beach they loved so" 

" I think it's lovely...it's perfect they would love it, thank you Emma. You don't know how much this means to me " She tied herself closely around his neck and looked at his silver pale face " Now let's us go into the ocean! Do you want to swim with me? " 

" But Emma you can't - " Norman just stood there...what? What was going on? Was...was Emma walking with, two legs? WHAT? " EMMA!? Since when do you-what!?" She smiled as he tried to form some words failing miserably in the process 

" Ahahah, have you ever wondered why the government kept me aside from all those mermaid you saw that they didn't informed you about, Norman? " He was speechless and even more in love " Because the more I understand and get close to humans I can transform and imitate their body members as my own" 

" What? I did my research on you and never find about that? How is that possible? What did I do wrong in my studies? " Norman said with a funny exaggerated panicked face and violent hand gestures " Do you realise that you're making me look bad here as a scientist, Emma? How dare you? " 

" Because I wanted to surprise you " Emma smiled as she glanced at Norman " and because Ray reminded me I was able to do what since I was a kid, which I had long forgotten " Emma paused in front of the sea and stared at it for a long time.

Norman just stood there, watching her back and her beautiful legs. Just like love, Emma could be everything and that made him bealive in the impossible. They could be together and they could move on from where they started. 

Just like the ocean, they could start again, wipe off their tears and smile because they loved each other and those around them the best they could: They couldn't had loved them better right? This was just another start 

" So...you haven't answered me, Norman! Do you want to swim with me? Or are you afraid of losing even when I'm still not used to these legs? " She dared him, kissing his cheek as she ran in a clumsy way towards the clean ocean, clear like those eyes who watched her 

" Bring it on, Emma! I won't lose! "

By the sea the love of his life was calling his name and smiling with her shinny ginger hair and the blue shell necklace he made for her tied around her heart 

Someone, many people were watching over them, someone needed him 

And he needed her and the feeling greater than deaf they decided to named after

" Love " 

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Well, that's it! This is the end of this fanfic! Thank you very much for taking your time to read my history and work! I'm actually proud of myself because I wanted to write a 20 chapters history and I did it! ( usually I say I want to write 20 and end up writing 50 wtf ) 

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