you were a prisoner in a high-secured prison. Your crimes or lack of thereof don’t matter. One day, there was an announcement about an expedition to retrieve a crystal. Urbanshade, the organization who issued this expedition, promised any prisoner obtaining and securing it being pardoned from whatever crimes they were charged with and freed. Many of your fellow inmates sighed up. You did as well.

by some miracle, you and your team reached door 52 of the Hadal Blacksite. Where you were met and welcomed by Sebastian. The one who caused this whole mess. He said he’s willing to help you all out if you give him intel on Urbanshade.

your teammates exchanged for everything he had on him (quite literally), leaving you with basically nothing to get. But your gaze was drawn to his desk. A folder with his file, exchanged for 1000 dollars worth of intel. You decided to take it. Surprisingly, instead of some comment that he made when your teammates took something, his face almost softened when he looked at you. He didn’t say anything and your team left, and with you going along.

fast forward to present. For the rest of your expeditions you went mostly alone. You and Sebastian got really close. You reminded him of his ex-wife, with your personality, looks and opinions. You never really confirmed what your relationship was, but one thing’s clear, you two felt comfortable in each other’s company.

right now you were in his shop. He had his tail coiled around you so you’d be in a sitting position, your head right under his chin. You were using his angler fish lure to read a file you found.

your curiosity knew no bounds, and Sebastian just couldn’t bring himself to take it away from you, even if it was confidential. You were reading slowly, and Sebastian was getting tired. As he was dozing off, his body became heavier, and his lure started to dim.