Hello, everyone! Happy Halloween! So this is a project I've been working on for the duration of October. So nothing much really to say; the main pairing is LawLu but there will be other pairings included.
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ONE PIECE NOR THE CHARACTERS WITHIN THIS FANFICTION. THIS STORY IS ONLY MADE FOR ENTERTAINMENT. ONE PIECE BELONGS TO EIICHIRO ODA.
He had only recently started working at the hospital as a certified surgeon. But work had been busy since the start, not that he was complaining; he'd needed the money to pay for rent.
Law rubbed his eyes tiredly and stood up with a stretch, time for another coffee before he left, although it would be his fifth, and hopefully last for the night. He knew he had an unhealthy addiction to caffeine but he couldn't help it; he practically lived on the stuff while working the graveyard shift every single night.
The dark haired man walked down the empty halls, looking into a few of the patients' rooms to make sure they were okay. As he continued on down the hall to the break room, the temperature seemed to drop even lower than what it usually was. He pulled his lab coat around him a little tighter, shivering slightly.
Finally he made it to the break room and immediately set to making himself a cup of coffee. As the dark haired man waited, a pair of interns walked in, chatting quietly. Law nodded to them, and with coffee in hand, sat down at the table with them.
"Law, why is it so cold?" Penguin, his intern, asked.
The twenty-six year old merely shrugged, taking a generous sip of coffee before replying, "Beats me, but it's unusual."
"Yeah, since it's a hospital, you'd think that it'd be warmer to keep the patients comfortable," Shachi, the other inter, offered.
Again, Law merely shrugged, ad finishing off his coffee, bid the two men farewell. He headed back down the hall to his small office and replaced his lab coat with his favored long black trench coat and white, fluffy speckled black hat. As he began his trek home, something compelled him to turn around and look back at the hospital.
He stopped however, when he noticed an unfamiliar shadow in the window of his office, seemingly looking in his direction. Law shuddered against the cool night air and turned away to continue his walk home, brushing the shadow off as Penguin probably leaving some files on his desk.
Jingling his keys, he opened the door to his dark apartment. As Law turned the overhead light on in the kitchen, he was met with the sight of his monstrous white dog sprawled across his sofa asleep.
"Nice to see you've made yourself comfortable, Bepo…" he murmured sarcastically as he refilled the dog's food and water bowls.
At the sound of water being poured, Bepo sat up and watched his owner, only going over to the bowl when the man had placed on the floor. Law ran his tattooed hand along Bepo's back before standing up and heading into his room and getting ready for bed. He literally collapsed onto the bed after removing his jacket, shoes, socks, and constricting work shirt. Work far from his mind, he drifted off into a bizarre dream.
Luffy wandered the halls of the hospital aimlessly, a little bummed that nobody was awake to talk to him or play with him. He stopped, however, when he noticed a light on in one of the offices. If he remembered correctly, it was one of the new surgeons, Trafalgar Law. Slowly, he entered the room and looked around, locating the surgeon at his desk. Luffy grinned and moved closer, ready to tap him on the shoulder and ask him to play.
However, Law turned around and looked straight at him. Well, not at him of course, but through him. The seventeen year old boy knew he was dead; he'd known for a while now. But there were a few people who were able to sense him and some even saw him, so he made sure to make them his friends until he found out why he was still lingering as a ghost.
Jokingly, Luffy made faces at Law, who continued to stare through him before turning back to his work. He floated around for a while, checking out the books the surgeon had, careful not to touch anything so as not to alert the human of his presence. Finally, he noticed the man standing up and decided to follow him around for a while, not really having anything better to do.
As he continued to follow the older man, he noticed that he seemed a little cold and wondered if it was his own presence doing it. He knew that sometimes his presence made places a bit cooler than normal but never usually so much that it would make a person cold. Luffy shrugged and followed Law into the break room and scrunched his nose at the strong scent of coffee. He ignored it though in favor of studying the older man, wondering if he'd soon be able to sense him.
Usually what happened was that a person slowly grew aware of his presence, rarely were there ever any who could see him within their first few days of encountering the young ghost. He wondered if Law would be one of those people; he hoped so, considering he didn't seem to mind to cool air surrounding him. Luffy sighed and played with his straw hat before leaving the room, settling for going back to the surgeon's office instead.
The dark brown haired ghost lazily walked around the office and sifted through a few files laying on the doctor's desk, not really understanding what was on it, but reading it all the same. Soon, the dark haired man came back and picked up his things before locking his office up, unknowingly locking the young ghost in. Not that Luffy was actually stuck per say; obviously he could phase through walls. But the straw hatted ghost stayed nonetheless, and wandered over to the window, staring out at the retreating figure of the surgeon.
As he turned away, a familiar scent wafted into the locked room and Luffy sighed; it could only be one thing. Luffy's frienemy, Eustass Kid. Kid was a fellow supernatural being, a hellhound of sorts. Though he rarely used that form unless he was trying to intimidate someone greatly. The teen turned to see the redhead leaning against Law's desk, casually flipping through one of the files.
"What're you doing here, Kid?" The ghost asked.
The humanized hellhound looked up, amber gaze meeting his own dark brown ones, "I should be asking you the same thing; where's Ace?"
Luffy shrugged, "Yanno, around. Probably out protecting that other human he likes, collecting souls, the usual."
Kid made a face, "What you mean that police officer that saved his life once? Why does Ace still care, he's dead now."
Luffy frowned, "How should I know?"
Kid rolled his eyes and tossed the file back onto the desk, "Back to the current topic, I was watching you and that weird doctor. He's new isn't he?"
The ghost nodded, "Yeah, only a few days. But he seems to sense my presence so maybe I can be friends with him."
The hellhound scowled, running a hand through his blood red hair, "Why are you guys so obsessed with the living all of the sudden?"
Luffy looked away, "It's something that's been bugging me for a while. I'm trying to figure out why I'm still around after all of my friends have passed on. Maybe if I get close to a human, they could help me; I don't want to be forced to the other side, I just want help."
Kid stood up and walked over to the window, staring at the still form of the surgeon; he wondered if the man could see him.
"And you think he can help you? He's only a human, what could he do?" The hellhound asked.
"I don't know… I just know that he'll be able to help me though," Luffy replied.
Kid sighed in aggravation, knowing that if he didn't help, the young ghost would be slightly upset, "Alright, want me to dream walk you to him?"
Luffy's face brightened up a little, "You'd do that?"
The red haired man rolled his eyes and grabbed the teen's thin arm, pulling him through the wall and landing softly on the ground, "Come on."
A/N: And so that is the first chapter! Hope you enjoyed! Please review, whether it be questions, comments, or advice, as long as its not flames, thank you for reading!