Author's Note: I'm glad for those of you who enjoyed "Innocent Question" with Ace/OC that I wrote. Here is the second more mature part to "Innocent Question". Once again, completely AU portraying to my story "Get Back Home" [Ace/OC/Akainu and 2YTS!OC x Trafalgar Law]. So here is what you've all been waiting for, please enjoy.

It's rated 'T" for Teen right now due to this chapter, however when the next chapter is published it will changed to "M" for mature!

The ship rocked back and forth almost as if a cradle that was trying to tell her to go to sleep, close her eyes and let the darkness take over her. Emma yawned as she drifted across the waters on the Strawhat's crew ship. Dinner had gone rather well she thought, she had gotten the chance to give Ace some well deserved pay back as she allowed him to handle Luffy in telling him where it was babies came from. Emma snickered, knowing that Ace wasn't ever one to explain how stuff like that worked out.

"What are you laughing about?" Emma became silent, she hadn't even heard her bedroom door open. Glancing over as she heard footsteps making her way to the side of her bed, she caught a glimpse of Ace from the moonlight that shone in through the portholes of the ship. She chuckled again, slightly wiggling around on her bed to become more comfortable.

"How did telling Luffy where babies came from go?" She teased, causing the slightly older man to blush and sit on the side of her bed, his back to her.

"That was a dirty trick, squirt." She rolled her eyes and shrugged, not really caring since she always use to have to put up with Ace's crap when they were little.

"Think of it as payback then." She heard Ace make some type of noise, snorting is what it sounded like but she couldn't be for sure. Her eyes turned over and looked at the large purple tattoo on Ace's back. To Ace's surprise, he felt her calloused fingers running up long the back of his back causing him to turn his head and gaze at her from behind. There was something about the way she looked right now, perhaps it was the way her red hair was sprawled out and down for once, since it was always up in a bun or pony tail and only leaving her bangs down. Then again, maybe it was the way the moon light caused her eyes to look more lightening blue than her normal deep blue. Whatever it was, it drove Ace crazy.

"Whatever happened to us, Ace?" The soft whispering question made Ace have to do a double take, wondering if Emma had actually really spoken to him or it was just his imagination.

"What do you mean?" He questioned, not really sure what she was talking about right now. He shivered, her fingers running down his back slowly as she started tracing the outline of his tattoo. She frowned and her brows fro as her finger's skimmer came to a stop from his question. Her graze left her fingers and went to his deep eyes.

"That day that I left with Garp to join the Marines, something changed between us. We promised we would always be there for each other, but I feel as if I haven't been willing to hold up my part of the promise." Ace's eyes widened slightly, why would she say something like that? Pulling away from his back, she sat up on her elbows and looked down at the sheets of the bed as her eyes narrowed.

"I feel that because I'm a Marine, I can't keep my promise. If I had become a pirate instead I-"

"Emily," Ace's hand reached over and cupped her cheek, causing her to look back up at him. His normally hardened gaze was now a soft one, a very rare look for Ace and one that Emma herself had only ever seen once in her whole life that she had known Ace. Adjusting himself better on the bed, Ace leaned down over her, causing her to lay back down onto the bed as Ace's face inched closer to hers.

"Don't think about that right now. Think about what's happening here and now, and not what could have been." Ace's lips landed softly on hers, causing her eyes to shut instantly as she kiss went from soft to a fight for dominance within seconds. Emma found her fingers wrapped up behind Ace's neck as her fingers were laced in his thick raven colored hair, tugging lightly on it from the fire she felt shoot through her body from Ace's right hand that rubbed around up and down her side. Ace griped onto her hip before he had to break for air and pull away from her enough to look down into her eyes.

"Live your life to the fullest, and never regret anything." He told her, causing her lips to part as she gazed up at him from underneath his body. She took a moment before her hands reached up and grabbed the sides of his face, pulling him back down onto her lips.

If he wanted her to live her life like that then she would start living her life like that tonight, starting with Ace.