Coming soon, just in time to be too late for MerMay;
" If I Could Tell You" by MarieCuriosity, based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid!
If I'm going to post something on time might as well stay on theme anyway and make it about something that is going to be late right? xD
You can keep an eye out for the first chapter right here! https://archiveofourown.org/users/MarieCuriosity
Here's a little teaser!
He blinked the fog from his vision and then scanned his surroundings. He was sitting on a large flat rock flanked on three sides by a horseshoe cliff face. The rock he sat on was surrounded by boulders on all sides, no doubt fallen from the cliff's face ages ago. Kelp and barnacles clung to the boulders, suggesting that the tide was low. To his left, under the great shadow of the rocky cliff above, was what his impaired consciousness initially took to be a swath of reddish cloth the colour of clay bricks, possibly a coat or a tattered flag, undulating in the early sea breeze. He shielded his eyes against the morning light and focused on the shade. No, it was not cloth. It was hair. Red and wavy and tumbling down against a thread-worn tunic that looked as though it was once black, but was now smoky grey from a life at sea. A tear in the fabric had been curiously pinned closed with three gold hoop earrings. From beneath the plume of a lantern sleeve peeked a set of long svelte fingers planted flat against the rock. The tunic’s collar was open and Aziraphale could see part of a pale freckled shoulder, thin and wiry.
