Concept: Like When a Fox Falls written by akurosa
Title: A Shared Moment of Weakness
Characters: Robin, Luffy
Genre: Family, Hurt/Comfort
Author's Note: When akurosa presented Chapter 5 of Like When a Fox Falls, I read through the whole thing again and my muse demanded I write a little something.
I attempted to mimic the writing style as well, not sure how good a job I did.
It is late when Robin returns and everyone is asleep. Or so they should have been. She is met with a pair of eyes, full of tears as cold and lonely as the stars she walked beneath on this moonless night. After a pause she goes to sit by Luffy and she silently keeps him company. Though it is contrary to her ways, Robin does not question it, does not fight it, and merely does whatever she feels to be right for this boy for whom her heart has made an exception.
It is, Robin recognises, a moment of weakness. One she identifies as being of an ever-increasing number.
She finds that she does not mind it so much right now, in the dark, away from the world where nobody will see. Besides, she tells herself, she is not the vulnerable one here. Robin's musings are brought to a halt when Luffy joins her on the floor and wraps his blanket around the both of them. She does not object to it, does not resist it, and simply allows him to do whatever he feels to be the right thing to do.
It is, Robin recognises, a moment of weakness. She cannot bring herself to care, however, because it is not hers alone.
It is their moment of weakness.