So it's been quite a while since I've uploaded anything...surprise!

"You're a worthless piece of shit! No one could ever want you!"

"No! You're wrong! That's-" *SMACK* Robin went tumbling to the ground. She hit her head, hard. When she tried to open her eyes, everything she saw was hazy, blurry. Her head throbbed and she tasted blood.

"Don't talk back bitch!" yelled Spandam. "You're a worthless piece of trash. What makes you think that you are even allowed to live?" Robin glared back at the monster that was causing her pain. Her eyes bore into him cursing him. He was born from the source of all of her suffering. Spandime, Spandam's father, had summoned the Buster Call on her island of Ohara. He destroyed everything that ever meant a thing to her. In a single day he'd destroyed her family, friends, and hope for the future.

He grabbed a fistful of her hair and laughed as she cried out in pain watching the anguish in her face. "You look like a pitiful rat!" he yelled between bursts of laughter. Still pulling on her hair he dragged her toward the bridge that would carry her to her ultimate demise. She struggled against his grip hoping to loosen it, but all she did was only causing her more pain. She cried out with every tug of her ebony locks. Spandam continued to cackle.

They made their way to the top of the staircase. When they reached the top, he opened a door. The bright sunlight was blinding to Robin and she instantly closed her eyes to ease the pain to her throbbing head. He shoved her out the door and she fell onto the stone bridge. She fell like a sack of potatoes. He kicked her in the side while yelling at her. "Get up! Get up and walk to your death you stupid bitch!" She cried out with every painful blow and curled herself up trying to defend herself. With her hands handcuffed behind her back with kairoseki, she was helpless.

"That's it! I'm tired of your bullshit!" Spandam quickly whipped out his den-den mushi and called ahead to the Marines waiting with the battleship waiting for him and Robin. "There's been an incident." An eerie grin crawled onto his disgusting face. "The prisoner has committed suicide. The fool managed to escape my amazing grip for a moment and jumped off the bride into the sea." He disconnected the snail and dragged Robin to the edge of the bridge. "This way no one will ever find you. Nor will they see you again. Those stupid pirates invaded my tower, fought my agents, and for what? A piece of trash that will finally be thrown away, into the ocean where she'll never be seen again! Ahahahah!" He howled with laughter. He reached down and grasped Robin's hair again and began dragging her to the edge of the bridge. She struggled as much as she could to no avail. "Goodbye seawitch."

Spandam threw Robin into the unforgiving whirlpools below. She felt the wind whip around her. She could do nothing but scream helplessly as she fell to the sea where she would drown in a matter of moments. She hit the cool water and kicked as much as her strength would allow. She gasped for breath but only succeeded in taking in mouthfuls of water. She was choking. Her whole world was fading to black. She screamed as tears poured from her eyes. She screamed again. She felt something grasp her arm and she was pulled under the surface.

"Robin! Oi Robin! She could hear someone calling to her in her last moments of consciousness.

Her eyes snapped open and she sat up breathing heavily, gasping for air. "Robin!" She still felt the grip on her arm. "Robin. Hey!" She turned to face the direction of the voice and found herself looking into the face of the ship's swordsman.

"Swordsman…? Where are- How am I? What happened?" She panted trying to catch her breath. She was shocked. Why was Zoro in her room?

"You were having a nightmare."

"A nightmare?" She asked incredulously. "But it felt so real…" She whispered as tears began to drip from her eyes.

"Hey. It's alright." Zoro said in a calming voice. "You're on the ship."

He felt horrifically awkward. He'd been returning to his room from his shift when he'd heard her scream bloody murder and raced into her room expecting to see someone other than her. Now he was in her room attempting to comfort her. What had she seen to make her scream like that? In all their travels as a crew, he'd never heard her scream like that.

"It was Spandam." She said through the tension. You could almost cut it with a knife. "I was in Ennies Lobby. Spandam threw me into the ocean before anyone could reach me," she broke down. She began sobbing into her hands wildly.

"That never happened," he said sternly. "because you're here now on the Thousand Sunny with the psychotic crew that just defeated a freaking Shikibukai and an island full of zombies." He shakily put an unsure hand on her shoulder to try to calm her down. The woman was practically bawling her eyes out here! Her sobbing quieted and she looked up at him.

"You're right. We fought thousands of zombies without hesitation. Why should I be afraid of a stupid nightmare." She stated trying to put on her strong face.

"That won't work on me." She was taken aback.

"What won't work?"

"Your fake 'Everything's alright face'. Whether or not you believe it, I know you better than that." She was shocked. No one had ever seen through her. Not once in all her 20 years of running from the Navy.

"How could you possibly know that?"

"Hey! Give me some credit. I'm not a rock. I have some sense. Just because I'm not obsessed with books doesn't meant I'm not observant. A swordsman must be able to understand everything about his environment at a glance, even if that means understanding people and their emotions."

"I'm impressed."

"Yeah, whatever. So what happened?"

"Happened?" she was slightly confused.

"In your nightmare. What happened? Don't women usually want to talk about everything to make themselves feel better?" Zoro said rubbing the back of his neck hoping he wouldn't regret his statement. He felt awkward enough. He hoped this wouldn't make it worse. "So Spandam was there?" Robin shuddered remembering the horrific images playing through her head.

"Yes he was. He was dragging me to the battleship to Impel Down and decided it was much less work to just throw me off the bridge into the sea. I drowned."

"Yeesh." There was nothing he could really say to that.

"Yeah. I can still hear his voice echoing in my head," she said wiping the last of her tears away. The nightmare replayed in her head over and over. 'What makes you even think you're allowed to live?' "Thank you," she broke the silence.

"For what?"

"Everything. Taking out the CP9 and risking your own lives for that of a crew member."

"Well you did it first. Risked your life I mean. Nami heard it all from Iceburg back in Water Seven. You shouldn't try that again. We're a crew and if someone threatens one of us, they threaten all of us."

"Spoken like a true first mate," Robin said with a small smile. "Though sometimes I think you act more like a captain than Luffy does."

"Yeah well he's a knucklehead and someone's gotta pick up the slack." Robin chuckled.

"That's very true, but that's what makes him who he is."

"Yeah. Well you seem to be feeling better."

"Very much so. Thank you again."

"Alright, well I'm going to sleep. I had just gotten off of night watch when you screamed."

"Sorry about that," a small blush crawled onto her face as she apologized.

"Not your fault. Don't worry about it. Get some sleep. And remember what I said."

"I will. Goodnight swordsman-san."

"What did we tell you about the nicknames?" he said raising an eyebrow. She laughed.

"I'm sorry. Goodnight Zoro."

"Night, woman," he laughed as he closed the door behind him while Robin protested.

Zoro couldn't help but smile at her reaction. It was rare that she would ever react like that. It was just funny to able to mess with her. To him, it meant she was finally loosening up. Opening herself up to the crew for who she really was, instead of hiding behind a mask.

While Zoro walked down the hallway Robin couldn't help but smile to herself. She laid back down to go back to sleep and mumbled to herself,

"Stupid marimo…"

So, oneshot or no? I could continue with this if you want. Lemme know.