The Guardian —One Piece— 2 —
-At the inn-
Abigale woke up from her long slumber of sleep and looked at the clock that was hanging across from her bed; she soon realized that she had woken up a lot earlier than she had anticipated. She quickly got off the white cotton sheets on the fluffy double sized bed, and walked up to the window that was located about a meter to the left. Due to the stuffiness that was caused by the heater, the short blonde lifted open the white painted double-hung window to get some fresh air in the room. She looked down and noticed that the workers of the inn were shoveling snow from the night before.
Silently, she stared out the window and looked towards the horizon, where she could see the early sky getting brighter while the cold winter sun slowly ended the dark sky. From her room, a lovely aroma could be detected from afar, as the workers of different businesses hurried to prepare their products for opening hours. Slowly drifting off again, the girl recalled the event from the previous day where she had met the man.
-Flashback-
"Abigale Leroy de Lourie et Astelle", said the short blonde-haired girl with big green eyes, "or...just Abigale... is fine."
Trafalgar Law was quite surprised after hearing the female's name due to how uncommon it was. This was the first time that he had met someone with such a long surname. The tall male began to question the girl's true identity, but most importantly, the Surgeon of Death, had taken an interest to this girl. A smirk appeared on his face as he adjusted his brown, spotted, fuzzy hat.
"That's a rather uncommon last name you got there, Miss Abigale", he said smoothly to the girl that was now looking up at him. "You must be someone foreign to North Blue, am I right?"
The girl seemed shocked by the man's logical deductions and capability of pinpointing the fact that she wasn't a native of North Blue, especially when she had only given him her name. She decided to toy with the male and question his reasoning. "And why would you say that?" she asked in a monotone voice, in order to hide any signs of emotions that could reveal the fact that she was messing with him.
"Well..." said the man with another smirk. "Considering the length of your surname and the fact that this is the first time I have ever heard of someone with a name such as yours. The citizens of North Blue have a rather short last name which does not consist of that many words regardless of their status or wealth. You on the other hand, have a very long surname."
"But... But that doesn't mean that I can't be a resident here, right?" Abigale stuttered, as she tried to redirect Law's logic and attention towards another direction. Unfortunately for Abigale, her attempt failed and the man continued to proceed into the matter.
"I saw the owner of the inn helping you with directions... You were also holding a map in your hand when you were leaving the inn earlier today." He said with a smile.
"Were... were you... stalking me...?"
"No!" Law replied immediately, almost shouting. "It wasn't like that... it was just a coincidence that I was walking pass the inn when the workers there shouted at you since you were going the wrong direction."
The girl's face slowly began to turn pink as she listened to the man speak about her earlier mistakes.
Amused by the girl's facial expression, the man looked to his left and stared at the children playing in the snow in the far distance. He took off his hat and exposed his short black hair that was hidden under. He ruffled his hair and then placed his hat back on where it was before. Narrowed his eyes and slightly glanced over to Abigale and saw her staring at him intensely, again with her famous expressionless face.
As he finally decided to recover eye contact with her, he felt a freezing breeze blow towards his face; causing his eyelids to squeeze shut. When he reopened his eyes once again, he saw the petite girl charging towards him.
