closed; everyone i hold holds me strangled; jasper & jean

[feargach]

Who: Jasper Hades (chthonicscion) and Jean Moreau (seredresser)
What: First meeting, a trade.
Warnings: Mentions of humans being treated like property, crime, potential abuse references

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[chthonicscion]

[Today was the day that Jasper Hades had just about the strangest meeting of his life. For everyone else involved, it was supposedly normal; they kept referring to it as the handover and constant discussions of contracts. To Jasper though the entire thing was completely surreal, to him this wasn't simply a contract they were discussing the same way you bought real estate, this was a person's life. He couldn't quite belief that a life was about to be transferred to him that day, a boy's life not much older than his own. They kept referring to him rather simply as number three and it was only today that he'd woken up and got his first glance at the actual contract and found a name for the boy: Jean Moreau.

This guy, Jean Moreau, was being given to Jasper as a gift from the Moriyama family to welcome him back as the Hades scion. He hadn't been in these particular circles for long but his presence alone was making waves. He'd stepped up to a throne that had long been abandoned and already started to build his empire from the ground up with the help of the youngest Kerberos son. Days like these? They were the days that he found it almost surreal that his life had taken these particularly strange turns.

He felt strange when they eventually lead Jean in, the way he barely got a look at the guy, head bowed akin to an obedient dog, paraded around and left in a corner of the room, never being left to speak. The deal, however, went off without a hitch, the Moriyama's paying the appropriate deference to the powerhouse that was the Hades name and Jasper managing to make it through the entire meeting without seeming like the teenager completely out of his depths that he actually was, thanks to some subtle prompting from his advisers at least; a sudden hand biting into his thigh here or a kick to the shin there to remind him of the way he was meant to act compared to his natural attitude.

Eventually though, the two of them were left alone; the Moriyamas leaving first and Jasper subsequently dismissing his own people in order to get acquainted with the new member of his household. He crossed quickly around the large conference table to plunk himself down in the chair closest to Jean, the clipped tones he'd been using in the meeting suddenly replaced by something closer to a drawl, quieter and less forceful than the business voice he used.] So... Jean, right? That's what they call you?