"Okay...0kay..." the officer nods his head absently as he bends down to pick Jennifer up. As he does, several clumps of her hair fall out and he can see the beginnings of a dorsal fun growing out of her head.
"Mt brother in law has a private beach, I'll take you there, okay?" he steps onto his motorcycle and positions her behind him. "Hold on tight."
She grabs him tightly about the chest as he switches on his siren and tears off down the highway, understanding that this girl's life is in his hands. Fish or not, he wasn't going to let a girl die.
With the policeman's help, the trip to the ocean is quick. He stops at the house he mentioned and quickly snags Jennifer off the back of his bike and runs to the shore. The rest of her hair had fallen off and her dorsal fin now stood straight up about seven inches high on her head and down to the middle of her back. Her eyes have enlargened some, and instead of a nose, she has two slit-like nostrils in the middle of her face.
Unsure of what else to do, he keeps going into the water until he's about knee-deep and places her carefully in. With a surprising burst of energy, she tears off her shirt to free the gills along the sides of her chest and takes a deep, gasping breath of water. After a few moments getting used to breathing water, Jennifer stands up and tests the air, taking a breath. She's relieved that she actually can breathe air as long as her gills are wet.
"Sir," she says, slowly, as if unsure of how speaking would work in this new body, "you saved my life, and I... I don't know how to thank you for that."
"Um, don't worry about it, ma'am, it was my job."
"Can I ask you one more favor?"
"Yeah, I suppose."
She steps up to him. "Do you have a pen and paper? I need you to call someone for me and let him know where I am."
"Uh, sure," he answers as he pulls out a pad and a pen and hands them to her. She quickly joys down the number and hands the pad and pen back to him. The pad's a but wet around the edges, but the number's legible.
"His name's Kyle. It's important that he come here tonight. I need you to tell him where to go."
"Sure... Mind my asking what the relation is? Boyfriend?"
"No, GOD no. He's the monster who did this to me. I just want to repay the favor, somehow."
"Just don't do anything you'll regret, ma'am."
"Oh, I won't regret a thing. Thanks again for saving me," she nods her head sharply and turns around, diving into the water, kicking off her sweatpants in the process.