So this was initially a two-shot, except now it's three, which might actually become four... -hides- And it occurs to me that when this was first requested, it was a "Law ravishes Luffy" fic not "Luffy trying to jump Law's bones at every turn"... oh well, as long as it's still LawLu, I think I'm good... And there's no smut in this chapter sorry, sorta. There are some parts where that I worry might not make sense, mostly scenery and background. It's hard to get the setting I have in my head down right sometimes. And I swear I'm not trying to make Ace the bad guy, he and Luffy are just fighting because they're family and they do that. Also Law is a show off... I'm thinking about throwing Buggy in here, cuz you know, zombie clown. Idk though... Enough of me, please read and review. Love ya'll
~Rat~
Kidd remembered the first time he saw the raging being of carnage that was Killer. Long blonde hair trailed behind him as he charged through crowds of survivors. The city had been crowded with refugees only a month after the initial outbreak. He had been awestruck by the scene. Terrifying, but eerily beautiful.
He remembered Bonney and Apoo yelling at him to get a move on. They only made it a block before Killer caught up with them. It was then that Kidd realized something was wrong with this one. He wasn't feeding, just killing.
He yelled at Apoo to take care of everyone as he shoved Bonney into the car Heat was stealing. The screech of wheels and her screams echoing in the back of his mind as he turned and punched Killer once before the blonde could make it to the vehicle's open door.
Bonney had been the only family he could save. Sometimes Kidd found himself wondering about her. Was she still alive? Was she safe? Did she still think about him? Did she think he was dead? A zombie?
She wouldn't be wrong...
Kidd watched Killer stand back up. He didn't bother to draw his gun. Just waited for what he knew, he thought, was inevitable. A blink and Killer had vanished from in front of him and a sharp pain blossomed through his neck. He was vaguely aware of Killer pulling away as his body crumpled to the floor, his blood splattering both of them
Kidd blinked awake. Killer was curled up against his side as they laid back in the roots of the big tree. He looked down at the blonde, pushing some of his bangs out of the way. Why he was so intent on hiding his face, Kidd would never understand. "Hey," He nudged Killer awake.
"What?"
"Those teens are back. Want to hunt?" Kidd pulled himself up. He could hear the group of morons they had scared off yesterday. Loud and obnoxious, how had they managed this long?
"Should've gotten rid of them yesterday." Killer muttered, sliding on his mask. He stood as well, following Kidd down the path to their morning entertainment.
Law wasn't surprised to find the farm he had left Luffy at empty. It was dangerous to stay in one place for long periods of time. It had only been a few days since his last black out and run in with Kidd and Killer. He wondered if what they had said was valid. Strange as it was though, it made sense.
Law sighed. There was no sign as to where Luffy and his friends had headed. Only a warning on the fence where to stay away from. There were tire tracks leading down a dirt road out of the farm. After studying them for a minute, there were more than one set and fairly recent, maybe a couple of days, Law decided to head in the direction they led. He didn't have many other options.
"Can't a dude beat off in peace?!" Luffy screamed out to the world in general.
This caused Sabo to scramble in an attempt to keep Ace from harassing their younger brother any further and the group sitting near the road to let out a community sigh.
"He's really hung up on the guy, huh?" Usopp said.
"I feel a little bad for him." Vivi said over Kaya's shoulder. She was trying to braid up her hair since they lacked a proper pair of scissors to cut with.
"He's totally smitten with the guy. And I don't even know if mystery man is worth it because freaking Luffy won't tell me anything!" Nami said exasperated, throwing her cards down in frustration, at both Luffy and at the fact she was losing this game of Rummy to Usopp.
"Well, it doesn't help that asshole here," Sanji kicked Zoro in the shoulder blade. "Keeps saying he's probably dead."
"Hey!" Zoro turned and swatted his boyfriend. "It's not like I want the dude dead. I hope he isn't. Maybe he and Luffy will run into each other again." Zoro sighed. "But let's be honest. He's traveling by himself. How hard has it been for us? How many times would most of us be dead if it weren't for another?" The group nodded solemnly.
"Just hope we don't run into his zombie. That would kill Luffy." Vivi said sadly.
Luffy sat beside Koala as they drove down the road. He refused to be in the same vehicle as Ace, so he went with the girls in the four door compact. Vivi yawned from the steering wheel and blinked tiredly. They had been driving for two days now in search of somewhere relatively safe. But everywhere was either crowded with the dead or had been completely ransacked of supplies.
"Hey, think we found some place." Marco's voice buzzed over the CB radio.
Nami shook Vivi gently as Koala reached for the radio up front. "Kay, we're going to pull over so I can switch with Vivi."
"Sorry..." Vivi let out a sleepy whine. She pulled off to the side and the truck behind them moved around to keep going forward. Usopp and Zoro waved from the bed as they passed. Sanji and Kaya were in the cab.
"Come on, you can sleep in the back." Nami helped Vivi out of the car while Luffy and Koala got out from the back.
Luffy moved to the side and held the door open so Nami could slide Vivi in. Vivi stumbled a bit leaning heavily on Nami.
"Sorry you guys." She said again.
"Don't worry about it. Just let us know when you're getting sleepy. Me and Luffy can't drive but Koala's here and we can always switch the groups around if we have to." Nami reassured her. Luffy grinned and nodded.
Vivi smiled shyly. She stretched back trying to dispel her sleepiness a little longer. The ground beside the road was soft from rain and Vivi leaned back a little too far. She slipped and let out a yelp as she tumbled down the slope.
"Vivi!" Nami gasped. She went to follow but Luffy held her back.
Instead, he eased his way down the slope toward where Vivi was struggling to right herself and not fall farther. He got about half-way to her before he saw what lied at the very bottom of the incline. Looking at Vivi, he harshly whispered, "Don't move."
Vivi's eyes widened at the sound of a twig snapping beneath her and distinct moan she had come to recognize over time. She bit her lip, holding her breath. She looked past Luffy up to Nami. The late afternoon sun bathing her in a glowing blaze, making her hair seem brighter than it really was. It would've been a beautiful sight if it weren't for the look of absolute terror in her eyes. Her gaze shifted over to Koala, who was yelling in to the hand radio, probably telling Sanji to turn around, then back down to Luffy who was close enough to reach her now. He held his hand out and she reached up for him.
Then a wet hand clamped around her legged. Vivi kicked out behind her, hands scrambling for purchase in the wet grass. She was dragged back. Luffy screamed and lunged forward closing the distance. He rolled into the zombie, making it let go. But the force also caused both of them to fall the rest of the way down. She heard Koala yell at Nami. As Vivi looked up, she saw Nami sprinting down towards them.
Nami was grateful that Luffy was oddly silent. The look he occasionally gave her was making her feel like an idiot. That annoyed her, she was the smarter of the two. Maybe not so much right now, but she was. She sighed and stroked Vivi's hair. The slightly taller woman was trying not to cry in her lap. She wasn't succeeding very well. Nami hushed her, telling her this wasn't her fault. This caused Luffy to look at her again.
'Why did you follow us?' She was glad he didn't ask it out loud.
Luffy looked up through the trees at the setting sun. They couldn't stay here. "You want me to carry you?" He asked.
Nami looked glumly down at the ankle she had twisted coming down the slope. It was too steep and slippery to attempt to climb back up. They would have to find another way back. "I can walk for a little bit."
Vivi sniffed a bit as they stood. "Lean on me of you need to." She offered her arm to brace Nami around the waist.
"Which way do you guys want to head?" Luffy asked. He had no sense of direction, it was best to let Nami lead, or at least decide the path.
"We should try and go in the direction we were initially headed. But..." Nami trailed off. Luffy and Vivi waited for her to continue. She looked up the incline, then at the trio of zombies piled at the base of a tree. "Let's go back. I saw a walking path a few miles back when we were driving. We can use it to get back to the road."
Luffy let the girls take the lead, hanging back and watching the underbrush for any unwanted attention. Night was falling fast and the air was humid; the wet ground sticking to their shoes with every step. He tried to stay focused, pick up every noise, notice every rustle, but with the heat bogging down on them and nothing to occupy his mind, his thoughts began to drift randomly. Until they settled on someone he had been thinking too much about.
"Torao…" He whispered. He wondered where his mysterious savior had gone. How was he doing? Did he feel this same aching pull in his chest that Luffy did? He thought glumly at their kiss goodbye and all the regret he felt for not asking him to stay. Luffy shook his head. He shouldn't be thinking like this. He might never see Torao again. He couldn't stay hung up on him.
Luffy stopped next to the girls. "What's up? We almost there?"
Nami shrugged. She was leaning a little more heavily on Vivi than she had been when they first started off. "I think," She scanned over the trees. "Yeah, because it was right before that drop there." She pointed up at rock facing that ran parallel to the road. "So we should only have a few more yards."
"Kay, here." Luffy crouched before her. "It'll be faster for me to carry you." Nami sighed in defeat and let Luffy pick her up piggy-back. Vivi walked side by side them as they carried on. The sun was almost gone in the sky when they rounded a set of pines and found the path Nami had mentioned. Vivi stifled her gasp and stepped back. The trail before them was full of at least a dozen zombies.
"Shit," Nami swore next to his ear. "Now what?"
"We could make a run for it." Even as he said it, Luffy knew that wasn't really option. He bit his lip. "Vivi, I'm going to put Nami down and try to make them follow me."
"No, you're not!" Nami hissed.
"Well, you can't come with me."
"I meant, you're not acting as bait." She thumped him lightly.
"She's right Luffy, we need to stay together."
"We don't exactly have a lot of options. It's not like with the last three." They had been lucky with the zombies that had pulled Vivi. Luffy and she had landed on two, smashing their skulls, and Luffy hit the last one over the head with a rock before it had noticed them. There were too many zombies before them for an attempt to pick them off one at a time. Not unless they had help from the other end of the trail.
The trio's focus was pulled away from each other and toward the zombies when one stumbled too close. It stared at them with empty eyes as it started to trudge its way to them. As though they had some way of communicating, the other dead slowly began to turn and head in their direction.
Luffy dropped Nami and shoved her to Vivi. Crouching low, he darted out in front of the zombies over to the other side of the path, stepping on as many branches and dead leaves as he could to attract them. It worked for the most part. They followed him in their slow gait, the few farther up the path were still headed in a general downward direction. One particular zombie was moving too fast for Luffy's comfort. She pushed past her fellows toward him, a crazed look in her glassy eyes.
Despite that, Luffy waved his arms at the girls, signaling them to head up the sloping trail. He watched as they hesitated. Finally Nami started limping up the path with Vivi fast behind her. He turned back to the corpses before him. The crazy lady was only a few feet away from him. She lunged forward, arms outstretched, lips pulled back in a strange half grin, half snarl. He jumped back out of reach, his back colliding harshly with the bark of a tree. He hopped over her sprawled form and headed for the path.
Luffy ran by about five of them before he noticed something was off. He stopped short the oddly still zombie. It and all the others were stock-still. They stood a little straighter as they stared blankly ahead. Even the one right in front of Luffy looked as though it was staring past him than at him. Luffy took a step forward. The zombies didn't react. He inhaled deeply and stretched out his hand waving it an inch from the zombie's face before snatching it back. Nothing.
"Luffy!"
He shook his head. With a glance behind him, he ran the rest of the way up the path to safety with Nami and Vivi. He could still feel the hot muggy feeling of the zombie's breath on his hand. Luffy thought back the motel when he had been seconds away from death and the zombie just stood up allowing him to escape. What had caused that?
"Are you fucking insane?!" Nami screeched. She had noticed the sudden and strange behavior of the dead as well. But as curious as she was she wouldn't have waved her hand within biting range of them.
"Sorry." Luffy gasped. He laughed and Nami resisted the urge to punch him.
"Let's just go you guys." Vivi pulled Nami's arm over her shoulder and they headed up the road.
Law watched from his high perch on the rock facing. He wondered if Luffy had looked up would he have seen him. Smiling to himself, he stood and headed back the way he came up the wall. It would take longer to catch up this way but it wasn't as though he could just jump down to the road below. Undead was not immortal by any means.
"I hate it when they do this." Koala said, referring to the boys. The four ladies sat with their three vehicles on the other side of the blockade waiting for Usopp or Sabo to give the ok signal for them come inside.
The cul-de-sac they had found seemed promising despite the initial glance over. They had already passed up three other places since Vivi, Luffy, and Nami had rejoined. Yet another night on the road and in the cars before they happened on this out of the way little neighborhood. There were only three medium sized houses around the loop but someone had already done the arduous task of fortifying the back fences and starting up a blockade on the street that would've made the fence circle around the entire area. One of the houses had a huge hole in the front of it where someone had probably crashed a car, but other than that, it looked like a well put together place. Which is also what made the group so suspicious.
There was no one here. No one living anyway.
It was possible that whoever had started here had either ran out of supplies or found somewhere else to live. It was also highly likely that this was an earlier set up and the people here had tried to house an infected. The end result being the numerous zombies about the place. It was out of the way enough to be hidden from other survivors. Maybe they were just lucky.
"Do you want to be in there with them?" Nami asked. She was sitting in the bed of the truck while Kaya rewrapped her ankle.
"Kind of, yeah." Koala crossed her arms with a huff.
Vivi shook her head. "They have a system to how they do it. Let's just leave them to it."
"Were those always down there?" Kaya asked after a moment of silence. She pointed down the road toward the T where they had turned into the area.
"No, they've been making their way over slowly. I was kinda hoping they would go the other way." Nami tone was bored. It was a little unsettling how the sight of a zombie mob could either scare you or seem so very uninteresting. She sighed and reached behind her for the shotgun and tossed it to Koala. Vivi helped Kaya into the bed with Nami before crooking her pinkie finger and using it to let out a sharp whistle.
It was a minute before they heard a long whistle back.
"Damn," Nami muttered.
"We'll be ok." Kaya reassured her. The zombies were still a ways off. Usopp had whistled back that there was still zombies in the area and no one could get to them immediately. Koala handed the gun off to Vivi. She climbed up the compact to its roof and pulled out her own gun.
She didn't fire though. Lowering her aim, she squinted into the distance.
"What is it?" Nami asked. She hoped it was something good that had caused Koala to drop her stance.
"Do you hear that?" She held up her hand with a tilt of her head. In the distance you could hear the rumble of an engine.
"It sounds like a motorcycle."
"I think it is." Koala went back to squinting down the road. "They're headed this way."
The noise grew louder until even Nami could see the bike nearing. "They're not slowing." She commented. If anything, it seemed as though they were going faster.
The loud noise caused some of the corpses to turn around. But if they were going to crowd the bike, it was too late. The rider came at the group at an angle and as they neared, they jumped off the motorcycle to the side of the street. The motorcycle slid sideways from the push off and smashed against the mob, slamming them all into an already wrecked van.
Nami had to stop herself from applauding. That sort of thing only happened and actually worked in the movies. But she had just witnessed it and the stranger was standing up and walking toward them while brushing off their pants.
Koala sat down on the car, her handgun in her lap, and observed the man coming toward them. Occasionally her eyes would glance back up at the wreck to check for and zombies that might be that extra bit of stubborn.
"That was probably the craziest thing I've done in a while." He started conversationally rubbing his sore shoulder and readjusting his bag.
"It was still really cool." Koala offered. She smiled as she saw tattoos that Luffy had described more than once on his hands. Nami had also noticed and nudged Vivi with her foot. "Mind if I ask what you're doing out this way?"
"Hm, this may sound a bit strange," He began. "But I'm looking for someone." He already knew Luffy was with them but decided to play it off anyway. "I'm looking for someone."
"Luffy?" Kaya guessed.
Law was a little a shocked. "Yes, how did you know?"
"He's a smitten idiot who never shuts up." Nami grinned openly now.
"Don't worry." Koala hopped off the car. "We approve." She circled around Law nodding her head approvingly. "You might have to fight with his brothers though."
It actually took Law a moment to realize what she meant. More specifically, how she meant it. 'If you really knew, there'd be a bullet in my head.'
"TORAO!"
Speaking of…
Luffy barreled into Law from his jump over the barricade, bloody pipe dropping to the ground. Law caught himself and hugged Luffy back. A strange pull made his half-dead heart beat a little faster. He found himself nuzzling his nose in Luffy's hair, breathing him all in again. "I've missed you." He whispered so only Luffy could hear. There was a collective "Aw~" from the girls anyway. Law wasn't one for sappy lines but now that he had Luffy again, it really did feel like a part of him that had been missing was where it belonged again.
A hand on his shoulder and one on Luffy's forced them apart. Luffy was pulled back against the chest of a blonde with burn scar across one eye. Law looked over his shoulder at the freckled face man digging his nails into his shoulder.
"Older brothers I presume." Law said with a smirk.
"Ace! Sabo! Would you two knock it off?!" Koala lightly punched the blonde.
Law held up his hands in a non-aggressive manner. "My apologies for coming unannounced. The phones don't exactly work anymore." Ace released him but didn't lessen his glare in the slightest.
"C'mon Ace." Another blonde came up. The man's presence seemed to calm Luffy's brother down a little. "I assume you're Luffy's friend back in Dressrosa? You're welcome here if you wish to stay. We owe you for saving his life."
Law nodded. "Thank you, though I'm not sure how long I'll stay." He didn't miss the way Luffy pouted as he said that.
"Luffy calls you Torao. Is that your name?" Sabo asked, knowing his brother had a habit of nicknaming things and people on a whim.
"Trafalgar Law."
"It's Torao." Luffy corrected, his smile coming back.
The cul-de-sac had been put together by some local doctors. The intent being a kind of way station clinic. But too many infected had been brought in at the same time and everyone died or ran away. It was still stocked with food and had portable generators.
"Jesus, this place is a gold mine!" Usopp declared happily after finding out that with a little fiddling the hot water heater also worked too.
They had moved everything inside the circled, done some quick repairs to the fence and closed it up. All the corpses had been tossed out and were now burning together in heaps. By nightfall the horrid stench of burning rotted flesh was almost gone and they could eat with settled stomachs.
"When was the last time we had a decent shower?" Usopp asked nudging Luffy in the side as he sat by him on a couch.
Luffy laughed. "I have no idea. The water back on the farm was so freaking cold." They had it set up so that a generator was hooked up to only one of the house's heaters. Water could be heated elsewhere for cooking and cleaning. Luckily there were several tanks of gasoline stored for the gens to run off.
"This is a nice place. I can't believe no one else found it."
"May be there were too many zombies crowding the road." Luffy shrugged.
Zoro stomped into the room with Marco behind him. "Come on Usopp, let's go take a shower." He headed up stairs without waiting to hear a reply from his friend.
"They're fighting." Marco said softly. Usopp nodded and headed up after him. Luffy followed his brother's lover back to the kitchen where Sanji was preparing dinner.
Sanji and Zoro rarely fought. They argued and had scuffles that bonded their relationship. Sometimes they would get on each other's nerves too much. Sanji normally felt better after an hour or two of venting and Zoro would meditate or punch something. Sometimes both. So Luffy and Marco listened and helped Sanji as he busied himself about the kitchen.
"You take your shower yet?" Sanji asked after a heavy sigh.
"No, guess I'm taking it with you." Marco shrugged. They showered in pairs or groups to conserve water.
"The girls already got theirs, I was going to wait until after dinner." Luffy said fiddling with a can opener.
"You didn't take it with your brothers?" Marco asked.
Luffy made a face. "And let Torao take one all by his lonesome?"
"And miss out on seeing him naked and wet?" Sanji teased.
"Luffy stuck his tongue out. "Yeah, that too. Don't be jealous."
Marco looked up and saw Law standing in the doorway. He smirked and nodded at him before taking his leave.
Law came up behind Luffy, leaning close to whisper in his ear. "You know, you only had to ask." Luffy squeaked and dropped the can opener.
"Not in my kitchen." Sanji said sternly even though he was smiling.
Law sighed under the spray of hot water. He hadn't a hot shower since before he turned. Nami kept bars of soap in the supplies for when they did managed to find a decent place to clean up at. He reminded himself to thank her for it later.
There was a rustle of clothes and Luffy slipped in beside him. He felt Luffy's stare as the teen took in the rest of his tattoos. "You ok?" There was an angry mark already disappearing on his cheek that hadn't been there fifteen minutes ago.
"Yeah," Luffy shook his head. He hugged Law. "I'm glad you came back…"
Law paused. He looked down at the top of Luffy's head. "Me too." His voice was tight in his throat. He still didn't know what to do about the situation. Killer had told him that having Luffy near would keep him sane. But eventually Luffy would turn just like him. And he wasn't sure if he should let it happen naturally or kill Luffy himself.
He brushed his fingers through Luffy's wet hair causing him to look up. He thought back to when they had been looking for a vehicle in Dressrosa. An awning had snapped as they were passing under it in the market. Law had reacted first grabbing Luffy and shoving them out of the way. They ended up against a wall, Law's hand protecting the back of Luffy's skull from the impact with the bricks. They had probably spent a little too long catching their breath and staring at each other. If not for the sudden zombie, they would've been dangerously close to kissing.
And now Luffy was kissing him. Pushed up on his toes with his arms around Law's neck to pull him down. He caught it, just before Luffy's eyes shuttered shut, the tiniest spark of red on the edge of his iris. Law pulled him closer. He was already infected, already a step closer to being a zombie just like Law.
Luffy locked the door to the room he was sharing with Law against his brother's wishes. He wasn't speaking to Ace again because of it and at the moment he was fine with it staying that way for a while. He was beginning to get really pissed off with how the two of them were treating him. Mainly Ace, Sabo was manageable.
He cuddled up next to Law under the covers. "Still cold…" He muttered to Law's amusement.
"Funny, I remember you telling me how warm and comfortable I was last time." He watched as Luffy blushed.
"You were. It probably just takes a minute. Like one of those heating blankets." Luffy rolled over just enough to turn off the lamp. He laid his head down across Law's chest, running a finger over.
"I seem to be causing some problems with you and your brother." He ran the back of his hand softly across Luffy's cheek. The red mark was now gone but he had learned from Sanji that it had been Ace who had punched Luffy before their shower.
Luffy breathed in deeply. "He called me desperate."
"Desperate?"
"For your attention." Luffy's fist clenched. "I mean, I get it. I don't really know you but… You're different. I just feel better with you around. I love them. And my friends but it's not the same."
Law placed a kiss his crown. "Humans are companionable creatures. We don't do well alone. This is a strange thing we've been thrown into." He dropped his hand down to hold Luffy around the waist. "You were kind of an odd man out in your group. Does Ace realize this?"
"I bet not. I'm not even sure what you're talking about." Luffy admitted.
"Ace has Marco. I assume Zoro and Sanji are together and you told me Usopp was Kaya's boyfriend. Sabo and Koala. Vivi and Nami."
Luffy looked up at Law as he turned it over in his head. It was true. From the very start they had been a group of pair plus him. "Oh."
"It's not a bad thing. Situations like these, it's good to have someone with you. Someone you can go to no matter what. Fundamentally, it's how humans work." Law took a moment to let Luffy hear it all and think. "Your actions probably do make you seem desperate in your brother's eyes."
"You know, it's funny you say that." Luffy pushed himself up a little. "Sabo and Koala weren't dating before this happened. She probably wouldn't even be with us if they hadn't been in class together at the school. And Nami and Vivi…" He tilted his head. "I'm not sure if it's the same but they are always there for each other now. If it weren't for Vivi, we'd never have gotten her out of East Blue."
"Was it really bad?"
"Something bit or stung her older sister. They thought she was having an allergic reaction to it so they're mom took her to the hospital. I remember Nami telling me about the text. I went with her to go see how it was because they had been there so long. We even bought some flowers to tease Nojiko with because she never gets sick or anything." Luffy stopped for a moment. "It had been really packed when we got there…" He trailed off and Law already knew how this story would end.
"The day of the outbreak?" He asked.
Luffy nodded. "We found her. She had already killed their mom and several others in the same room." He choked over his words and pressed his face back into Law's chest. Law sat up and pulled Luffy to him. He got the weird feeling that Luffy hadn't ever talked about it with anyone. To concerned with Nami at the moment, he hadn't had time to do his own crying. "I don't know how I dragged Nami out of there." He finally whispered after a moment. "I hate this. I hate it all."
Law shushed him, running his hand up and down Luffy's back. He didn't blame Luffy. He hated it to. He would give anything to have life back the way it was. Even give up ever meeting Luffy if it meant the world was normal again. So Luffy and his friends could laugh and be normal again. So he could continue his schooling and be a doctor. They might've never met but they wouldn't be living every day in hell. Law almost laughed bitterly. Well, he didn't have a problem with other zombies and neither would Luffy if he became one. He pushed the thought aside. "I'm sorry. Let's stop talking about it."
Luffy shook his head. "It's fine." He pulled back to brush away his tears. "Did… did you lose anybody?"
"No. And I can't believe I'm about to say this but, I'm glad my family died when they did. I wouldn't want my sister to see this." He had never really thought about it. How different things would've been if he had had a family to protect. "I don't know what happen to my friends. When I went by their apartment they were already gone."
Luffy nodded. He sniffed a bit, feeling a little less sad. "I watched Usopp shoot my ex in the head." He had no idea why he brought that up but it made him a feel a little better and even made Law smile.
"Wish I could say I'm sorry about that."
"I'm not." Luffy laughed and he pulled Law back down. "He was a self-absorbed jerk. We didn't last a month." He sighed. "Sometimes I wonder about Gramps. He's in the Navy, was in the Navy. I wonder if he's out at sea or if he's leading his own group against the zombies"
"The government's collapsed as far we know though. Do you think he might be trying to look for you?"
Luffy shrugged. "He might already be dead. He'd do that. Take out a whole horde with him so someone else can get away be safe."
"He sounds like a good man."
"He was a pain in my ass." Luffy laughed. "He'd never be a zombie though. Too proud for that. He'd pop his own head. Or strap some explosives too himself and take out a whole bunch."
"Would you be able to kill a zombie who was family? Like your brothers?"
"Yeah… I'd have too." Luffy sighed.
"What if…" Law paused. "What if they came back different?"
"Different how?" Luffy turned to look at him.
"Like, still a zombie but still there." He poked Luffy's head. "Up here. Still a person."
Luffy furrowed his eyebrows. "I… I don't know…"
"I don't either. Never mind. Let's go to sleep."
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