Time: 10 days before Zoro's arrival at Sabaody Archipelago

Place: Somewhere between Sabaody Archipelago and the Fish-Man Island

The ship had submerged some time ago and everybody had already gotten used to the sea around them. For that, another issue was starting to bug them. Unfortunately, it was the kind that could create a really troublesome situation.

And it wasn't that long until one of the pirates gave in.

"So…," started Jennifer. "Why did you call the ship 'Flying Lucy', again?"

And everyone else followed.

"Jennifer!" exclaimed Maria.

"What?"

"Don't!"

"'Don't' what? I was just asking a question."

"Don't make excuses, I know exactly what-"

"Stop it, both of you!" Dimitri joined in. "Arguing won't accomplish anything!"

"Oh, don't you dare act like the good guy," Peter suddenly got agitated. "You are just as curious as her!"

"Well, maybe but shouting to each other won't solve anything!"

"You are shouting, too!" Jennifer told him.

"So are you!"

This shouting continued for a few minutes and during that time, no one noticed that neither the one who the first question was directed to, nor the captain said a thing. It wasn't until all of them lost their energy to shout that they noticed this fact.

"Won't you say something?" Maria looked at Chris.

"I have nothing to say."

For a few seconds he seemed like he had nothing to add but then suddenly started talking again.

"Personally, I don't see anything wrong with the name. And I can't understand why all of you are so concerned. Take it as you may, but it's just a name. And in case you still look for a reason, I'll tell you this: it's the name of a dear friend of all of us." Everybody was quiet and didn't dare to interrupt. "Weather you accept this or not, it's true. Lucy was part of this crew and I won't deny this fact. I also won't deny the fact that she wasn't who we thought her to be. But this… it changes nothing. And if any of you has any problem with the name of this ship, you can go talk to Captain. And yes, she approved of the naming."

For a few moments, he just stood there with an empty expression before going with a slow pace back to the boys' cabin.

Jennifer, being who she is, didn't wait for the mood to lighten up. She just went straight up to the next topic in her head.

"Speaking of which, where is Jane?"

"Now that you mention it, I haven't seen her since we submerged" Maria looked around with worry in the eyes. "And you, boys?"

Both the twins shook their heads.

"Well, that's just great" said Peter. "Christopher is angry and Mary Jane-san is who-knows where."

"Anyway, let's look for her. It's not as if she can get off the ship, anyway."

That being said, the brothers and Jennifer went off to look around.

Now that I think about it, the only one who can (probably) find Mary-san here is Chris-kun. After all, he's the only one who knows this ship well enough.

As Maria thought this, she chuckled and went to see how Chris was doing.

Meanwhile, somewhere around the ship, Jane was in deep thought…

"What is the meaning of this?" yelled the girl.

"Don't play dumb!" Jennifer was angry. "How could you?!"

"Like I said, what are you talking about?"

While on the other hand, the girl was confused.

"You know just well what I'm talking about!"

"No, I don't!"

"Please," said with a sad tone Maria. "Don't make it any difficult than it already is."

"Not you too…"

"Look, just tell us. Why?"

"Chris!" she cried.

She was deeply hurt by his words, by all of theirs' actually. And her confusion was slowly turning into rage, Jane noticed. She could see it in her eyes.

"If this is some kind of joke, I'll tell you this: it isn't funny!" she was getting really pissed off. "Where are those two idiots? This was their idea, wasn't it? COWARDS! Show yourselves!"

As she shouted this, she tried for the hundredth time to remove the handcuffs. But Jane knew better – the sea stone in the handcuffs was the ultimate weakness of all devil fruit users. If when she bought them, someone had told her that they would be used this way, she would've called him crazy… and a bunch of other uncensored names. And yet, here she was, watching it all happen before her eyes.

"Jane…"

The girl finally noticed that the captain was present. So did the others. Maria tried to say something but she shut her up with just one gaze. Jane stared into the girl with empty expression.

"Jane, please…" she cried.

Tears appeared in her eyes. She was looking at her long-time friend with pleading eyes.

"I-"

What she was about to say, no one could know. At that moment, the chest of the girl was pierced. And in that moment, something in Jane cracked.

"LUCY!"

Her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of Jennifer's voice.

"Jane! Where are you~?"

And with that, the time for remembering the past was over. She noticed the tears that were flowing from her eyes and immediately wiped them. As the captain, she could not let the others see her in such pitiful state. So she stood up and went out of the place she had hidden herself in.

"What? I'm over here!"

She put on the usual 'I-dare-you' smile and went over to her friend.

"Jeez, where were you? I must have searched the whole ship! If Chris had helped, it would've been so much easier and yet…"

"Did something happen?"

"No."

"Yeah, right. I know you. What did you do this time?"

"I swear nothing! By the way, I wondered, what happens if one day you hide and forget how to come out?"

"What do you mean 'what'? You'll come and save me, of course!"

"I thought so."

"But seriously, what happened?"

"Well, that's…"

As they continued talking, everything seemed to be back to normal. But in the depths of Jane's consciousness, the pain of what happened four years ago was locked. And as she had irresponsibly let the thoughts of Lucy overtake her, it awakened. Now, it was slowly unlocking the door it was shut behind and was flowing into Jane. Who knows what the after-effects would be?