Bioluminescent Vampire Squid

AU in which Marvel Comics writer Zayn Malik has a phobia of water so intense he can’t even get in a bath. Of course, he’s willing to reconsider that statement on the condition that ridiculously attractive Marine Biologist Liam Payne is in the bath with him.
Which probably won’t happen. They may have been exchanging increasingly flirty emails for months, and Zayn might be half way in love with him and he may have named the main character in his new comic series after him but that doesn’t mean anything. They’ve never met and they’re not going to.
That is, until his meddling agent Niall organizes a ‘research’ trip for he and Zayn to go on a deep sea expedition with Liam and his deranged scientist colleagues Harry and Louis.
Zayn thought he couldn’t possibly be more afraid of the ocean.
He was wrong.