~ First part of Trafalgar Law Week, I'll try to get these all up on the day of. I threw in a little something Mother's Day too. Hope you all like it ~
Law remembers an old piece a paper his mother used to look at sometimes. He once asked her what it was, and she showed him.
"It's a letter to me."
She said it was self-reflection, a letter that she wrote to her younger self. At the time Law didn't really understand. What was the point if she couldn't send it? But looking at it seemed to make her feel better when she was stressed, and sometimes his father would sit beside her and read it over her shoulder before she caught him and tried to hide the letter away. It always ended with them laughing. A kind of medicine, he once concluded, because it healed her in a way and made her feel better.
Now at the age of twenty-six, Law sits on the edge of his bed as they sail for Wano ahead of everyone else. "A letter to me…" He muses. What would he say? How old would he be?
Probably thirteen, or just before his fourteenth birthday, when he removed most of the amber lead from his system, and his bitter anger began simmer into the plans he would act out in the years to come.
You're going to live.
He laughs. That was probably a bad start.
Cora-san wanted you to live and be free. And you do. You are. You'll meet a strange talking bear in a few years. He's part of the Mink tribe. He's your best friend. You'll work together with him, and you'll sail away from the islands you've been working on. You'll be become a pirate captain, and you'll have a crew who trusts you. A new family, new friends.
Law blinks at the floor he's been staring at. With a wry grin he falls back on to his bed.
His younger self would probably glare at him. He was so full of hope, even if it was hard to see. But why shouldn't he be?
Doflamingo falls.
He debates on if would actually tell himself that… He would. He'd let a younger Law know it wasn't for nothing. That Doflamingo fell, and he was still alive.
Law chuckles. At fourteen, he would've nodded and said of course. But as he grew older, he began to realize just who and what he was trying to destroy, how he prepared himself to die, and send his crew away to be safe. He thinks about himself two years ago.
That kid… no, Straw Hat Luffy, you'll meet him in an auction house on Sabaody. He's crazy. And probably one of the best things that could've happened to you. Don't let him die, whatever you do…
Law feels himself drifting off with the calm rocking of the waves. His chest is a little lighter, and he laughs, soft and low, to himself. It was a nice feeling. His mother always was a wise woman.