Y/N: Omg, Shape of water is so amazing! The asset was so adorable with his cute sideways blinking eyes and adorable bird-like head tilts. Why are fishmen so cute???
Abe is shy at first when meeting you. He thought you were fascinating though. He wants to get to know you better since you’ll be working together, but also because he thinks you can be friends.
Abe, though he feels guilty about it, would watch you from afar, paying attention to things you might like, hoping to use them to maybe start talking to you.
You’ve been eating chocolate, he mentions chocolate; you mention a favorite color, he mentions a favorite color.
He doesn’t know how to initiate conversation, he’s a baby.
When you two do end up talking though, he ends up rambling a little, not knowing what words are going to come out of his mouth, staying slightly on topic. Others would roll their eyes and stop listening but you couldn’t. He speaks so passionately about things it’s hard not to.
“You don’t understand! “Bootylicious” isn’t a word but it’s ended up in the dictionary, and people keep calling me that!”
You had to hold back that whoever’s been saying that is not wrong.
Fish man’s got a nice booty.
Abe doesn’t like to touch you with his hands without his gloves on. He’s had too many incidents of finding out private information that way.
You understood this, but you wondered what his hands felt like. I weird thing to wonder, but you couldn’t stop wondering.
Abe likes to listen to you ramble as well as he does, returning the favor for you listening to him but also because he loves to learn new things or here another side of things.
“Did you know that about vampires? Don’t worry, at least I do. Good thing I was the weird vampire kid growing up.”
It was after your vampire ramblings that Abe knew that he had kinda fallen for you.
Cue Barry Manilow’s “I Can’t Smile Without You”
Whenever you two would go on missions together, he didn’t know how to mediate being too protective and being too uncaring. If he was too protective it was suspicious, if he was too uncaring it could result in you dying.
If fish men could sweat, he would be, profusely, nearly the entire time you two would be on a mission together.
Abe likes when you come into the library. Slightly because you’ll turn the pages for him in the books he’s reading, also slightly because you’ll give him some extra rotten eggs. But mostly, he liked seeing you. He’d never admit though.
Even if he got so awkward when you’d come in.
He’s like a twelve year old boy seeing his crush that’s a high school senior.
One time, you ask if you can read in the library with him and he gets so excited. He wants to spend time with you, and this may be one of the most comfortable ways he can, even if you weren’t speaking to each other.
You end up mumbling along with your words one time, and Abe asks you if you can speak up, he wanted to know what you were reading and he was interested.
This ended up with you and him having almost nightly meetings of you two reading to each other. You bonded a lot when you did this.
It was during one of these nights that you realized you’ve fallen for Abe.
You had glanced up from the book you were reading to see that he was watching you with such admiration, so happy and content to listen to you read when he could definitely read it faster and better than you did.
Upon realizing that you’ve fallen for a nerdy fish man, you went an old fashioned route of finding different egg recipes you could get him to try instead of eating plain old rotten eggs.
Abe is a big fan of egg sandwiches now.
You two really should’ve known that you were in love with each other but you two are dorks so of course you didn’t.
When you did, however, find out that you were in love with each other, it was by accident.
It was during a mission and Abe had his gloves off to do his job. As the mission went on, it escalated, ending up with people firing their guns at each other and everything was a blur.
Abe had pushed you behind him to help shield you, and he accidentally finds out that you’re in love with him.
“YOU’RE IN LOVE WITH ME?!”
“YOU’RE JUST NOW FIGURING THAT OUT?!”
Of course, you couldn’t really talk then since you were in the middle of a shoot out, but you said that you’d talk later, if there was a later.
There was a later.
You two spoke on the ride home, figuring out what you wanted to do.
Abe brought up how he’d understand if you didn’t want to be in a relationship, but you immediately shut him down, telling him you’d love to date him, you just needed to lay everything out and think.
You two ended up dating and the BPRD handled it well, almost ecstatic for Abe.
Hellboy likes to tease Abe about his new lil friend.
