#singin

They caved eventually, just in time really, and Coomer led them back over towards the base, peeking through the windows carefully as he passed them. Gordon hissed at him to stay back, but he knew the Human’s schedule by now. He wasn’t here. That meant he was getting close to the pool, and Coomer grinned, swimming off rather quickly, suspending himself underneath it. 

Gordon huffed, holding Joshua with one arm and dragging him along as he followed, Benrey clinging to his tail as they went along. Darnold shifted behind Forzen, who was simply floating in whatever current had him, and flicked his tail to send the pryosomes over closer, where Benrey grabbed at his shoulder to stop him. Forzen looked over, raising an eyebrow at them, before looking upwards at the light of the pool. 

“How did they manage this...” Gordon asked softly, and Coomer shrugged his shoulders, shushing him carefully. Any moment now... 

The door was pushed open, and the Human’s voice filtered through, slightly muffled by the water.  

“Yesterday... All my troubles seemed so far away.” Coomer floated up a bit more, having never heard the Human sing this one, such a calm melody when he usually favored something louder, brasher. “Now it looks as though they're here to stay...” 

Gordon shifted one hand up, catching the end of Coomer’s tail to tug him down as Coomer listened carefully, a faint smile coming to his face. Tommy frowned slightly, leaning over to Darnold. “Does it sound... sad to you to?” He asked quietly, as not to disturb Coomer’s trance, and Darnold nodded slightly. 

The Human continued to sing, and Coomer stared upwards towards him, the water blurring his perception just a bit, but even so, Coomer was glad he had kept the schedule the same, still sung even after seeing his eyes, which... he should probably tell the others that had happened. 

“Love was such an easy game to play... Now I need a place to hide away.” The Human seemed to be finishing with whatever it was that he had to do in this room, and Coomer shifted just a bit closer again, though Gordon didn’t seem to notice as Joshua had slid from his grasp for a moment. “Oh, I believe in yesterday...” The song trailed off, as the Human turned, and glanced towards the water, just as Gordon finally spotted Coomer and yanked him back down. 

The Human stared down into the water, looking almost disappointed, before turning and humming something a bit more like his usual style, upbeat and loud, and the door shut behind him, cutting off the music, and Coomer grinned upwards, having watched him until he couldn’t see the Human any longer. 

Gordon watched him sink slightly, and sighed, shaking his head. “Coomer you’ve gotta be more careful! He almost saw you!” 

“Oh, he already saw me once, I don’t think it’s too much of a big deal.” 

“He what?!” Gordon’s various fins flared for a second, and Coomer looked over. 

“I have been around down here longer than you have, Gordon, you know that. He just saw my eyes, if anything, and I was gone, and he didn’t see me the next time, so he probably just brushed it off as his own imagination. He is alone down here you know.” 

That brought a pause, before Tommy piped up behind him. “No... no school?” 

Coomer shook his head sadly. “None that I’ve seen, in the windows or down here. He’s the only one.” 

“Maybe that’s why he sounded so... sad.” Darnold spoke up, and Coomer frowned at him, thinking about the song for a moment. It had sounded a bit sad at the beginning, sure but... 

“No, it ended on a hopeful note. Maybe he has a school up top and that’s why it sounded so hopeful?” Coomer hated the idea of loosing his human, but... well the human wasn’t his, and he really should stop thinking of him like that, but... He’d miss the music if the Human left.