Chapter 68: He Didn't Belong With Water Fairies

Brennan tried his best to get into a new routine but it was difficult because everywhere he went he was reminded of Talori. He hadn't had this problem before because he had always moved. Being in a new environment had helped. 

He was doing the same things with fae that knew Talori and asked him questions about where she was at first. Pretty much everyone he knew and interacted with regularly had met her. 

The worst came from his human coworkers. They all whispered about how he must have broken up with his girlfriend because he didn't text anyone on his lunch breaks anymore and seemed much gloomier. 

He didn't seem gloomy! And Talori had never been his girlfriend. 

It was hard to describe what she was. She was definitely his best friend by the time she left but she had started out as his charge and roommate. 

She had taken on a lot of roles in his life. And now she was gone and they were nothing more than long-distance colleagues. They would be working together in the future but who knew what that was going to look like? 

Harmony and the rest of the witches were hard at work on magical communication devices but they had a hard time testing it since they couldn't exactly send anyone out into the ocean. All they could do was test distances above ground. 

That was where Brennan came in. He spent a lot of his weekends out in the middle of nowhere diving down to test things out. 

When he wasn't doing that he was with his water fairy friends, feeling more left out than ever for some reason. He couldn't explain it. Wasn't spending time with other fae supposed to make him feel less alone? 

He supposed it was partly because of how they had reacted to Talori leaving. Some of the younger ones had been disappointed but the older ones thought it was for the best. They had found it strange that he spent so much time with fae of other races anyway. 

Why were most of the fae so prejudiced? What was wrong with being friends with other types of fae?

"We need to find you a nice water fairy to settle down with," Aqua said cheerfully. "That ought to perk you up. I know someone looking for a blind date who lives closer to your end of the Miami River." 

Brennan wasn't interested in being set up but couldn't help but ask who it was because he thought he knew of all the fairies within a hundred miles of Miami. He doubted anyone who knew of him would be willing to go out with someone generally considered to be an oddball. 

"Maya Rafferty." 

He had met Maya but didn't have much of an impression of her. He remembered her as being very quiet and also in a relationship with someone else the last time he saw her. 

"Wasn't she dating Cove Jordan?" he asked. 

"Nah, they broke up nearly six years ago and she's ready to dive into the dating pool again. What do you say?"

Brennan had no desire to date anyone but felt it would be rude to refuse since Aqua knew better than most how open his schedule was these days. He could go on one date to placate his friend. 

"Alright. Give me her number and I'll set something up."

Aqua shot him a satisfied smile. "This will be great, you'll see! Maya is a sweetheart."

That remained to be seen. He wasn't in the market to date anyone but at least he hoped whatever meal they shared wasn't too awkward. 

Brennan ended up reaching out to Maya at Aqua's insistence a few days later and they set something up for the following weekend. He was busy with Harmony's experiments on Saturday but had time Sunday. 

The experiments were slowly but surely getting somewhere. He was willing to be they would have it figured out before the deadline, which came as a relief. The last thing he wanted was to show up for his very first official visit as liaison empty handed. 

They kept all of the witches pretty busy though. Castian didn't seem very happy about that and had to drag Harmony home to get some sleep more than once that Brennan saw. 

She was always pouty about it but let him anyway. Brennan couldn't help but wonder what on earth her feelings were toward him since her behavior was harder to read than his. After knowing her for so long it seemed unlikely that she would be romantically interested in anyone but you never know. 

Harmony seemed used to having Castian around at the very least. Maybe that explained her cryptic comment from the day they headed back to shore. 

Brennan couldn't worry about other people's relationships though. He had more than enough to worry about on his own. Like being set up by well-meaning friends despite really not wanting to be. 

When Sunday rolled around he showed up at the restaurant they had prearranged and found Maya waiting for him by the entrance with a shy wave. "Hi, Brennan."

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"Hi, Maya. Long time no see."

"It has been a couple of decades," she agreed. "How are you?"

"Keeping busy. You?"

"I'm alright. What are you keeping busy with?"

And this was where things got dicey already. He hardly saw Maya so she might not know how weird he was in fairy circles for being close to a witch. Throwing a mermaid into the mix would only make him seem weirder. 

Brennan didn't want this date to go anywhere though so it might be for the best. He had no reason not to be honest. 

"I've been helping the witches out with experiments a lot lately. They're trying to create a long-distance communication method to better get in contact with the merfolk." 

Maya's eyes widened. "How did you get involved in that?"

"I was recently appointed as the official liaison between the surface and a merfolk settlement out in the Bermuda Triangle. That happened because of my ability to survive underwater for long periods of time and the fact that the merking owes me a favor for helping out his sister."

"…but how did you get involved with mermaids in the first place?"

"Merfolk. They aren't all women so they like to be called merfolk," Brennan said automatically, though he used to be under the same misconception before meeting Talori.

"Merfolk then."

"I'm a marine biologist and ended up swept out to sea during a storm. I would have been able to breathe on my own fine if I hadn't been knocked out from hitting the water so hard from pretty high up. One of them saved my life and it all kind of spiraled from there."

"You're a marine biologist?"

"Yes. The ocean calls to me," Brennan said simply. 

This was generally how he managed to get other water fairies to think he was weird. It ought to keep her disinterested enough not to want a second date. 

"And it doesn't scare you?" Maya asked in disbelief. 

"Not at all. Even after the whole thing with the storm I still love the ocean and want to protect it. I'm actually really excited about my role as liaison because I get to make more of a difference that way."

"…you're a unique water fairy, Brennan Trent."

And there it was. Brennan had successfully scared her off already. Aqua couldn't even complain because all he had done was be himself. 

Despite being one, he didn't belong with water fairies. He didn't belong anywhere. He wasn't like Harmony, who would always have a place in any witch coven she went to, or Talori, who belonged in the ocean. 

Brennan had no family and no home to return to. He did his best not to let that bother him but it was difficult sometimes. He kept going by staying adaptable as possible. 

That was what he was doing right now. Adapting. Once again getting used to things changing on him and losing something he had known wouldn't be consistent anyway because nothing ever was. 

He would get used to his new normal eventually. The one where he traveled back and forth between Talori's home and Florida on a somewhat frequent basis once they figured out the communication devices. In the meantime he had to keep busy. 

The problem was that he didn't know how he was supposed to keep busy without involving himself with other water fairies. They were half of his social contact these days. 

Brennan supposed he could try to hang out with wind, earth, or fire fairies but he would  fit in with them even less because they were so different. He couldn't exactly invite himself to any of their gatherings anyway. He would have to wait for an invitation. 

The only ones throwing those out tended to be fire fairies, as they were a rather friendly bunch, but they had far too much energy for his taste.. He still hadn't forgotten the clubbing incident and doubted he ever would.

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