deep in the ocean • sebastian solace x reader

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"Yeah... It's a really good thing..." I muttered.

We continued on our path until door 50. The room was dark except for lamps that were turned on to face a vent door that suddenly popped off.

"Psst, Over here" A voice called through the vent.

My teammate trusted this strange voice and walked past me to it, opening it and going in ahead of me. Mumbling something about not wanting to be the next person who gets their windpipe crushed. I followed in after, the room dark aside a couple of glowing blue and red vials. When suddenly a bright light shined above us. I stared up at whatever it was in awe.

"You seein' what I'm seein'...?" My teammate whispered to me.
"Mhm"

"Welcome, welcome! Don't be afraid, i'm not gonna hurt you, despite what you have seen, heard, and/or been told. My name is Sebastian. Your only friend." Sebastian" said. He took another breath and continued his lengthy introduction as me and my teammate stared in awe. "If I am correct, your supervisors have told you to secure 'loose assets'. Documents, vials, whatever. However, if I can make it worth your while, i'm gonna ask you to cut a deal. You give me any research you might have on you, and i'll give you some of these items I've scavenged. Here, you can just, pick it off my tail." He gestured to his tail. "These would be far more useful to you, compared to some 'silly data', no? If you don't ask questions, I won't either. You get yours, and I get mine. And if you already have anything that might be running low on juice, you can buy batteries on the table next to me. Whenever you wanna get going, the keycard to the next zone is by the radio. Free of charge! No strings attached~" He finished.

"Woah... Uh, okay... Uhm..." I took careful steps closer, eyeing the medkit on his tail. "How much you want for this?"
"200!" He gleefully responded.

I counted the assets I had collected. Not knowing his personal value to each item. Accidentally giving him far more than I needed to.

"Hm? You know this is way more than 200 right?"
"Uh yeah, it's uh... A tip. Thanks for your service, Sebastian" I nervously responded.

He squinted at me and shrugged with a smile. Setting all his new data down with the rest of it on the table next to him. I glanced at it briefly, seeing a classified document.

"What's that?" I said pointing at it from afar, careful not to get too close.
"A useless piece of paper. But it could be yours for 1000 research... Too bad you wasted it all on a tip, no refunds!" He smirked.
"Oh no that's fine. You'll probably have more use out of it than me." I paused and looked at my teammate who still seemed in shock.

He gripped my arm and whispered in my ear. "Why are you talking to that monster so normally?! You can't trust it! What if it's just playing you to kill you!"

Despite him "whispering" it was clear that Sebastian had heard him based on his expression. I turned to my teammate with a scowl.

"Are you stupid...? He's much MUCH bigger than both of us, if he wanted to kill us he would. It'd be easy and he'd get that research he's asking for much easier. " I told him, and Sebastian nodded. "Also he told us his name, hes not some it. Whether or not I can trust him, I'm not gonna be rude about it. So you gonna get anything or are we gonna move on" I responded without whispering. My agitation with him was clear as I snagged the keycard and stood by the vent. I leaned against the wall.

I held the keycard in hand, examining it as if I'd never seen one before. But really it was just boredom.

My teammate bought something, I glanced up seeing him holding a handheld work torch of some sort. It was all black with a small square head. He looked at the square part and then held it out in front of him, using it. The room flashed a bright white light in a second. Flashing Sebastian and me with blinding white light.