That One Time You Met a Fish Man Dude
Pairing: Namor x Female Reader
Summary: Your parents are presumed dead. Suddenly you have the chance to find out what happened all those years ago, all you have to do is go on a deep sea dive. What could go wrong?
Note: this was a complete fever dream writing session. Not beta’d, possibly many gramatical errors. I am not a diver so let’s pretend what I wrote makes sense. Please be kind. Mind the tags, this is just the start.
“They’re gone” the officer says with a gentleness that you hadn’t expected.
After the seemingly countless phone calls and case updates over the past few weeks he’s kinder than anyone else they’ve sent.
Either that or your memories of the Marine Corps and the Military’s reputation are very very wrong. Perhaps it’s both. Still, his voice is steady and his expression sure. “I’m sorry for your loss” final
The compassion in his voice is terrible to hear.
You focus on the buttons of his uniform, desperately looking away from his knowing gaze so full of compassion, or worse, pity. You’d known that hope could sometimes be a cruel thing. You hadn’t expected a stranger’s kindness to be just as sharp.
After the clinical one sided conversations and pitying looks you’ve grown used to over the last couple of months, this is somehow worse. You have to take several deep breaths before finally looking up and praying that your voice doesn’t break. “Thank you”, you focus your gaze somewhere left of his shoulder.
Several long seconds pass and eventually you have to accept that he’s said all that he will. By the time you bring yourself up to look at him and say goodbye he’s already walking to his car.
—————————Seven Years Later———————-
Parker, the Lead Researcher stood, or at least he tried to, at the front of the briefing room. He was giving the final update for today’s dive.
The forecast had promised clear skies and calm seas, the perfect weather for a marine exploration. Just then, as if the sea had been listening to Parker droning on about water pressure safety protocols and god knows what else, a huge wave crashes against the side of the ship sending him skittering half way across the room.
With a deep sigh and an air of resignation Parker calles the meeting off and instructs the team to be ready in exactly one hour.
“If you could please stay for a moment?”
Parker’s voice rings out as several wolf whistles echo through the hallway. You can’t help the smile that blooms across your face.
As you start to walk to the front of the room Parker sits down and starts to fidget with his glasses, a nervous habit he’s had since you were kids.
It’s endearing, the way he still acts as if he’s about to ask you out for the first time, as if you hadn’t woken up in his bed this morning.
“Hey, why are you nervous? I’m the one whose going down there you know” you say with a teasing smile as you move closer, resting your hands on his shoulders.
Instead of answering he tilts his head to look at you expectantly. You’d been expecting this, you had, in fact, been avoiding this very same conversation since you’d signed up for the expedition. “I have to know” you say in a low whisper.
“I have to try. Maybe if I go down there and I find what’s left of them I can move on, I can stop searching, I can stop wondering”
Instead of answering Parker places his hands on your wrists and slowly traces them up your arms leaving a trail of goosebumps in their wake, stopping at your shoulders to gently guide you down onto his lap. “
It’s been 7 years, there might not be anything down there, we’re not even sure this is the right place”
Logically you’ve known this all along, but you can’t stop believing, feeling that what you’ve been looking for is down there. When Parker had shown up at your apartment a year ago with news that part of the military ship your parents were on had been found you’d been furious.
You’d tried so hard to move on, to forget. But it was no use, you couldn’t stop thinking about it, obsessing over finally finding out what happened, or even just seeing where they disappeared. It was like they were calling you. So, you’d called Parker and told him you wanted to be part of the exploration team and now it was finally time.
“Hey” Parker’s voice pulls you out of your thoughts and back to the present. “You know, I was thinking that maybe after this we could take a break…”
“Yeah, maybe find a house near the beach somewhere so you can swim to your heart’s content and I can try and do more than pink up”
Parker’s smile as he talks is warm like the sun. “Maybe we can get a dog, lay about till we’re tired of it”
“I’d like that” you say and you’re surprised to find that you actually mean it. It’s been so long since you felt like you belonged anywhere, with anyone.
“And what else would we do?” You say ass you slowly lean in. It’s a distraction, you know it and so does Parker.
But that’s the thing about Parker, he’s always known what you needed even when you didn’t.
“Oh I’m sure we can think of a couple of things” Parker whispers into your neck as he moves his hands down your chest and around your back to cup the swell of your ass and pushes you down into his already hardening cock.
Even through your clothes you feel him pushing up just into the right spot making you groan into his shaggy hair. You have hold onto his shoulders as he starts to rock up into you, he’s so much taller than you, it’s one of your favorite things about him.
He makes you feel like he could hide you from the whole world.
Soon Parker starts to trail kissed down your neck, lightly biting down where your neck meets your shoulder just like he knows drives you crazy. You can feel yourself getting wetter by the second, soon Parker is picking up speed and sneaking one hand under your shirt making you desperate to feel him on you and in you. You start to claw at his shirt, wanting to feel his skin against yours
“PARKER! We need you to come inspect the diving equipment!”
You both freeze looking directly at the door holding your breath.
“I’m not coming in there!” Matt’s voice sounds like he’s trying very hard not to laugh.
You can’t help it, you really try but you just end up giggling into Parkers shoulder. “Yeah! I’ll be right there!” Parker yells back looking down where you’re still seated on his lap “in five minutes!” This time you hear Matt laugh as he walks away.
————————when it all when tits up———————
Parker’s voice comes through your helmet and you smile.
The descent down is a slow one, you’re the only one in a regular wet suit. You’re the only one who doesn’t need the protective equipment. Instead you’re tethered to Matt’s heavy duty deep sea diving suit so you can save your energy during the descent and the trip back up to the surface.
“250 meters, your vitals are steady, heart rate is staring to drop and your oxygen levels are rising”
Parker has always been fascinated by how your body adjusts, always wanting to monitor and understand.
It’s a bit annoying to be honest.
“366 meters, pressure is approaching 550.5 PSI. How are you feeling?”
Parker sounds worried, and you can’t blame him.
It’s not that you can’t feel the pressure building, because you do and it’s fucking uncomfortable. The thing is that soon your body will adjust and it wont seem so bad anymore. You’ve had enough of not feeling like you don’t fit in without having to explain to people what your body does, how there’s this one thing that makes you different than them.
So you simply say “I’m fine Parker, Matt is dropping us like a rock”
“Hey! I’ll have you know that I am at my optimum weight and we’re descending at the appropriate speed” comes Matt’s reply through radio.
Soon what little light was able to filter through the ocean is gone.
For a moment the only lights are those of your team’s suits. You can feel the pressure building, your lungs fighting to expand, your pupils contracting and expanding to try and adjust to the darkness.
“488 meters” this time it’s Matt who speaks, signaling that you’ve reached your destination.
Slowly things start to come into focus, darkness starts to become shadows, the pressure around your chest eases and it’s like you’re finally able to exhale.
Soon you’ll be able to see and breath as if you were in the surface. And maybe soon you’ll finally have at the answers you‘be been looking for.
“Ok team, you have 20 minutes before your ascend” Parker speaks through the radio.
Matt turns in his suit to look at you and signals before he unlatches the tether attaching you to him.
You have 18 minutes, 18 minutes to maybe find out what happened. At first there’s nothing, just the ocean floor, as you swim around and your eyes start to focus you can see a shape ahead, it looks like a box, a huge box.
“Matt, look to your left, 50 meters up, there’s something there” you say through the radio.
Soon the team is heading up with Matt in the lead. “Parker, are you picking this up? It looks like some kind of machine” Your heart feels like it might be beating out of your chest, you swim faster, you’re almost there.
You feel it before you see it.
It’s like the entire ocean went still, if such a thing were possible. You’re about to radio for help when the third team member screams and the lights of his suit shut off.
You look ahead, you can still see Matt’s lights ahead when suddenly a huge shark appears out of nowhere and is swimming straight toward Matt. Your screams cuts short as the tether connecting you and Matt pulls with such forced that you’re jerked forward before suddenly snapping back sending you in a dizzying spiral.
You’ve barely stopped spinning before you see the shark swim toward you, except it’s not a shark, it kind of looks like a man? A giant man with a spear in his hand? What the fuck?
You’re still trying to make sense of what you’re seeing when you realize that the shark man thing is swimming straight at you at a speed that shouldn’t be possible.
The last thing you remember is lifting your arms to try and shield yourself before pain explodes everywhere and everything goes dark.