Remember the scene where Bartolomeo chains Cavendish when they are going to sleep? Well, this is what could have happened after that :D


"Cabbage! Come back here right now!"

"I don't want to, jerk!"

Bartolomeo cursed loudly while keeping running after Cavendish. Damn, he barely managed to keep his rhythm. In fact, he had been about to lose him in a couple of occasions when the blonde had suddenly changed directions, disappearing towards one of the multiple corridors of that ridiculous gigantic palace.

Seriously, how could he be going so fast with all those chains restricting his body? Although well, the fact that Bartolomeo had been hurt because of Gladius' attack was probably the cause of having such difficulties in chasing that high and mighty idiot, and surevly in any other situation he wouldn't have had the slightest problem.

Fortunately, it seemed that luck wasn't on the Pirate Prince's side because it didn't pass much time until reaching a dead end.

"HAHA! You have nowhere to run now, Cabbage!"

Cavendish clicked his tongue with frustration when hearing Bartolomeo's annoyingly triumphant voice closer and closer. He stumped in the nearest room and closed the door behind him, locking it after that since by then he had managed to free his arms.

Outside the room Bartolomeo rolled his eyes while interlacing the index and middle finger of both of his hands. He lazily created a little barrier that impacted with the door, breaking it completely. He smiled widely when hearing Cavendish's high pitched feminine cry. Scaring the bastard that had made him run nonstop for ten minutes felt incredibly good.

"Are you crazy?!", when Bartolomeo entered the room Cavendish had fallen on the floor and was glaring at him, "you almost hit my beautiful face by destroying the door like that!"

"Almost? What a pity"

Cavendish's glare intensified. He was about to insult the green-haired pirate once again but at that moment Bartolomeo straddled him and grabbed both of his arms with the clear intention of chaining him again.

"Oi, don't touch me like that, you animal!"

Cavendish tried to get free from Bartolomeo's grip but the man was way stronger than it looked at first glance so in a matter of time both of his arms were immobilized again together with the rest of his body.

"Sorry, Cabbage, it's nothing personal but I don't want to die on my sleep because of that monster of yours"

"This is totally outrageous!", Cavendish struggled during some seconds without success, "I, Cavendish 'of the White Horse', don't deserve to be treated like this!"

"Well, don't have a monster inside and you won't", Bartolomeo said with a completely non-impressed tone, digging his pinky into his ear absent-mindedly.

Cavendish exhaled a patient sigh. He should have known that Bartolomeo was too brute to understand his greatness, so he tried another method.

"Listen, I perfectly know how Hakuba behaves, all right?", Bartolomeo raised an eyebrow, skeptic, so Cavendish continued talking, "he only appears when he hasn't controlled me for a while, but since today he has fought quite a lot I think…"

"You think?"

"I know that he is going to be resting and he won't show up again"

There was a pause in which Cavendish believed that maybe Bartolomeo had listened to reasons but when the pirate simply snorted while standing up and grabbed him unceremoniously he realized that he had been wrong.

"Sorry, but I prefer not to risk to die before having the autographs of the Straw Hats"

Cavendish, who had been about to begin to shout again with indignation, shut up when an idea came to his mind. Of course! How hadn't it occurred to him before?

"Tsk, you are always talking about how fan you are but you're just a pretender"

"HAH?!", Bartolomeo grabbed Cavendish by the front of the chains and looked at him with an angry frown, "what have you just said?!"

Cavendish remembered in time not to grin. After all, even if it was obvious that Bartolomeo was really easy to manipulate when the Straw Hats where involved the man wasn't completely stupid, so he could be able to deduce that he was being fooled.

"That you are not a real fan. A real fan wouldn't be treating the person who saved Nico Robin like this"

"EXCUSE ME?! I was the one who saved Robin-senpai when I contained Gladius with my barrier! You just helped her to reach the top!"

"Oh yes? And who was the one in saving her when Doflamingo attacked her for being protecting Law"

Bartolomeo's grip relaxed a little, his angry expression turning into a confused one. Bingo.

"You…you saved Robin-senpai?"

Cavendish nodded eagerly. Maybe too eagerly.

"Yes, I did", he adopted a melodramatic tone, "and what are you doing to thank me? You chain this perfect body of mine and don't believe me when I tell you that I have everything under control. I'm sure that if Luffy was here he would believe me immediately and he would never…"

Clink clink clink

Cavendish's eyes opened wide when suddenly finding himself completely liberated. Damn, he had hoped to convince Bartolomeo at the end but he thought that it was going to take him more time.

But well, it was true that the idiot was obsessed with the Straw Hats. After all, he didn't care about anything and didn't make the least effort unless that crew was involved. The idiot had even risked his own life for them. He had been about to die for them…

…And wait, why had he just sounded as if that fact bothered him…?

However, just before his thoughts kept wandering through definitely awkward terrains Cavendish found himself inside a barrier.

"Hey, what are you doing now?!", Cavendish protested, banging with both of his hands the transparent wall.

"Just protecting myself", Bartolomeo sat down on the floor and leant his back against the barrier that he had just created, crossing his legs.

Cavendish stopped hitting the wall and stared at Bartolomeo (or better said at the back of his head) with his mouth completely opened.

"Wait wait wait, do you mean that are you going to sleep here?"

"Do you even remember where the main salon was?", Bartolomeo stretched his hands over his head and yawned, "because after our damn race I don't, and like hell if I'm going to be walking in circles at this time. I just want to sleep"

Cavendish blinked.

"So do you really plan us to sleep here?"

"Yep"

"You and me?"

"Yep"

"Alone?"

Bartolomeo shifted his body a little to look at Cavendish with a 'Seriously?' look.

"If you afraid that I attack you during your sleep I'm not going to do it", Cavendish blushed slightly but before being able to reply Bartolomeo continued, "I may be called 'the Cannibal' but I don't eat people. And don't worry, if I ate people I definitely wouldn't eat you"

"Oh?", Cavendish crossed his arms, suddenly offended, "well, better that way. I'm sure that my taste would be too good to waste it with people like you"

"People like me?", Bartolomeo repeated, obviously not liking the tone that Cavendish had used.

"Yes, people like you", Cavendish repeated, using an even more condescending tone than before.

"Oh?", Bartolomeo stood up again and confronted Cavendish, facing him with the barrier still between them, "do you want me to eat you to see if I'm able to enjoy your taste?"

There was a really uncomfortable silence during which Cavendish's cheeks got gradually redder while Bartolomeo finally realized the ambiguity of what he had just said.

"Umh…okay, that…", Bartolomeo coughed awkwardly, "that has sounded somewhat weird so…"

"Yes, let's forget it" Cavendish agreed, clearing his throat before maneuvering to sit down on the floor more or less comfortably, suddenly grateful of that until-now-annoying barrier that prevented him to be too close to that idiot. Because he didn't know why but Bartolomeo's innocent but at the same time not innocent at all words had made his heart race a little.

"Okay, Cabbage, you better get asleep fast and not to do anything funny", Bartolomeo said while adopting his previous sitting position, and Cavendish was surprised when the pirate didn't lie on the floor.

"Wait a minute", Cavendish began with an incredulous tone when seeing the guard posture that Bartolomeo had at that moment, "…are you planning to stay awake until I fall asleep?"

"Yep. That way I'll be sure that you aren't going to transform in that thing"

Cavendish rolled his eyes while turning around so his back was facing Bartolomeo's one.

"I've already told you that that's not going to happen", he insisted, curling his body while suppressing a yawn. He was more tired than he had realized.

"You better be right", Bartolomeo said with a snort, "because if it happens I'll use my barrier to squash your scary friend until…"

Cavendish who had closed his eyes already opened them again when Bartolomeo didn't continue.

"What?"

"I've just noticed, where is your coat?"

Cavendish was about to make a sharp comment about Bartolomeo's lack of observation but he remained silent. Considering that that brute wasn't one of his fans he couldn't expect him to have noticed it before. And of course that didn't bother him at all.

"I lent it to your beloved Nico Robin before, so I suppose she still have it"

Cavendish closed his eyes again, just to open them almost immediately with a surprised cry when suddenly something fell over him. Something relatively soft and warm that caused him to open his eyes wide in astonishment and his heart made a loud Badum when realizing what it was.

"Use this then. I'm sure that you are going to freeze your ass off otherwise"

Cavendish turned around with Bartolomeo's coat in his hands, and after spending a couple of seconds more than necessary with his eyes fixed on the pirate's non-impressive-at-all back he spoke with tone more high-pitched than usual.

"D-don't be stupid! It's you the one who is going to freeze is you sleep half-naked!"

Bartolomeo barked a laugh while turning around a little. Cavendish gulped. Damn it, why his eyes were trying to get fixed on Bartolomeo' worked pecto…tattoo. Yes. Tattoo. That was it. It was that tattoo's fault that his eyes almost diverted there. Not for any other reason.

"Don't worry, Prince, I'm not as delicate as you", he said mockingly sticking his tongue out, but when he continued his tone was more serious, "besides, that's my way to thank you for having saved Robin-senpai"

Cavendish rolled his eyes, but he didn't protest anymore and covered himself with Bartolomeo's coat.

"After you verify that I'm not going to turn into Hakuba remove this damn barrier and take your stinky coat back"

But when he woke up the next morning the coat was still over him.

And Cavendish' heart made Badum once again against his will.


I've recently discovered this pair and I'm in love with them :DD And Cavendish being in denial is totally the best. Hope you have liked it! =D