Y/N doesn’t belong here. Caught in commercial fishing nets and badly injured, the young mermaid is brought to a marine rehabilitation center dedicated to rescuing injured aquatic life. There’s only one problem. She absolutely hates it. She splashes the staff. Steals equipment. Bites anyone who gets too close. Escapes her enclosure almost daily. And stubbornly refuses to speak. Everyone assumes she’s mute. She’s not. She simply refuses to give the humans the satisfaction. Unfortunately for both of them, recovering D.S.O. agent Leon Kennedy is assigned to help care for the rehabilitation center’s newest and most troublesome patient.
Luca Bennett has spent years talking to thousands of aquarium guests. He can confidently explain the anatomy of a stingray to a crowd of fifty, calm screaming toddlers, charm grumpy parents, and answer every ocean question imaginable without missing a beat.
You live in a small dirty town in the Bronx, you are a musician trying to make enough money to get you and your mom out of there. Little do you know that the unknown seller on your block is selling a mysterious small item that transports anyone to the world of frutiger aero if you click the button.
After being found severely injured off the coast, a mysterious merman is brought to a highly classified marine rehabilitation facility disguised as a public aquarium. The staff know him only as Leon. Suspicious, stubborn, and determined to escape, Leon refuses to cooperate with anyone. Until Y/N arrives. Transferred to the facility on her first day, Y/N unexpectedly finds herself assigned as Leon’s handler. Now the newest caretaker at the aquarium must somehow earn the trust of a sarcastic merman with too many scars, too many secrets, and absolutely no intention of making her job easy. Unfortunately for Leon, healing might be easier than avoiding the feelings that come with finally trusting someone again.
The Pacific Marine Rehabilitation Center has a secret. Beneath the public aquarium lies a classified wing dedicated to creatures the world insists don’t exist. Sea serpents. Selkies. Kelpies. Merfolk. When an injured mermaid is rescued after a violent storm, everyone expects a frightened patient. Instead… They get Y/N. She bites. She splashes. She breaks equipment. She escapes whenever she can. And she’s made it her personal mission to drive every caretaker into quitting. Unfortunately for her… Recovering D.S.O. agent Leon Kennedy has just been assigned as her new handler. Neither of them knows it yet. But this is going to be the hardest recovery of both their lives.
Yara escaped just in time, unscathed, thanks to her brother, lev. Though Yara still blamed it slightly on him, it was his fault mostly, shaving his head, not following the rules.. Thats what led the two of them into that situation. Abby had took the both of them into care, as well as you. You weren't a Seraphite like them, you were just some lost kid Abby knew needed help. You had petty much nobody to talk to besides Yara, maybe lev on a good day. Talking to Mel, Owen or Abby just was awkward. A friendship may build.. Maybe something more. The aquarium was a home to all of you.
Leon S. Kennedy is a 39-year-old government agent with years of experience in bioterror operations, leaving him skilled, guarded, and quietly exhausted beneath a calm, sarcastic exterior. He’s currently working undercover on the West Coast, investigating suspicious activity tied to a potential bioterror threat connected to a large coastal aquarium. To maintain cover, Leon poses as a volunteer consultant while secretly surveilling the facility. What begins as a routine infiltration quickly becomes more complicated when he repeatedly crosses paths with Y/N, a marine biologist and aquarium caretaker who is intelligent, grounded, and deeply immersed in their work with marine life. As Leon navigates feeding areas, maintenance halls, and the public-facing world of the aquarium, he finds himself drawn into frequent interactions with Y/N conversations that are unexpectedly easy, disarming, and far removed from the dangerous life he normally leads. Meanwhile, something more sinister may be unfolding behind the scenes of the aquarium, forcing Leon to balance his mission with an emerging connection that could put Y/N at risk.