Senses of Friendship

by SplitRemedies

Robin's feelings as she's desperately hanging onto her chance of a future with her crew, and her realizations about her life with them. I'm hoping it's a lot better than my summary, so just give it a go! And please no flaming.

The smell of coppery blood as it tricked out the various gashes all over my body from the constant abuse Spandam has shown me. The taste of salt that had been thrown up from the raging waters below and slowly accumulated on the edge of the bridge. The sound of my teeth as they scraped against the concrete as I was biting down desperately for the life I now owed to both myself and my friends. The feeling that I was going to lose my grip on my last chance at life as that bastard who had the nerve to call himself a marine tore at my hair over and over and over again. And the sight of that gate, that damn gate, out of the corner of my eye. The gate that I knew was going to be the end of me if I didn't give this all I had.

I owed it to all of them. Miss Navigator and Mr. Swordsman. Mr. Cook and the Doctor. Mr. Sniper, and most of all, the Captain.

They came all the way here, to a place that no pirate - no, that no person, regardless of who they were - would dare venture to. And they did it for someone like me. They believed that I deserved to live, even when I myself had come to believe death was all I deserved. Even when the whole horrible, dark world prayed each day that I would be found dead! They made me believe, finally, that I was allowed to live, and that I was allowed to enjoy every day that I was living.

Thanks to them, I no longer have to believe the world and what they say about me. Thanks to them, I know now that I'm not a sin, or a monster, or a burden. I am their nakama, their family.

I messed up, and now I have to do everything in my power to make sure that their efforts to fix my mistake won't be in vain. So as I'm clinging to this bridge, I won't stop fighting. I will never again give up, because I know that no matter what happens, they never will. They will never give up on me, on themselves, or on their dreams.

They, they are my nakama.

It's Nami, not the navigator.

Zoro, not the swordsman.

Sanjii, not the cook.

Ussop, not the sniper.

Chopper, not the doctor.

And Luffy. Never again would he be just the captain.