AN/ Here's the second chapter already. I couldn't keep myself from continuing the story right away, since I really, REALLY ship this nowadays. Hope you like it. If you have time, please write a review :)
Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece. Not even one piece of it xD
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"What on earth is this, Baby 5?" Law asked from the black haired woman who was standing next to him. Most of the officers had left the massive entrance hall by now, and Law could now question the woman he knew was behind this. He really hadn't expected to receive such a welcome when returning home. To think that all the Donquixote officers had sung him the birthday song and many of them had even given him birthday gifts, Law was flabbergasted.
"The young master has always forbidden us from wishing you happy birthday, and this year too he said `It'll only bring Law trouble´. But I just really, really wanted to congratulate you for coming to the age of adultery, so I told the young master to come and pick you up from school so you wouldn't unintentionally skip this." Baby 5 explained, smiling brightly. Law's eyes immediately darted to Doflamingo, who was currently chatting with Diamante on the balcony above the entrance hall. 'So that's why you picked me up... And you didn't forget...' Somehow he felt utterly relieved about the fact that Doflamingo had only pretended not to remember his birthday. He was also grateful to Baby 5 for not arranging a party or anything too big. It was already troublesome as it was now, and anything more would surely have made Law feel unbearably uncomfortable.
"Adulthood." Law stated when his eyes returned back to Baby 5. The woman fluttered at him confusedly before flashing a bright smile at the boy who was somewhat like a little brother to him.
"Ah yes Law, this is it." Baby 5 spoke, and Law stared at her for a moment before he chuckled at the obliviousness of the woman. He laughed enough for Baby 5 to frown at him.
"No, I meant Adulthood is the correct word to use. Not adultery." Law emphasized the last word in a meaningful way.
Baby 5 continued to stare him, looking puzzled. Law couldn't help but burst out into a loud laughter. 'How can she be so clueless?' This time Baby 5 squinted her eyes, and Law realized that a more precise explanation was in place unless he wanted the woman to hit him. Baby 5 was like Nami when it came to arguing. Both women used their fists to fight. The only difference was that Baby 5's fists hit the sensitive places, and with so much more force that it actually hurt.
Law collected himself together to keep from laughing anymore. He still couldn't help the small smirk that was tugging at the corners of his lips as he spoke in a very serious voice:
"The last time I checked I wasn't married nor had I committed fornication."
Baby 5 flushed deep red as the realization hit her a few seconds later. It was hard for Law to stay firm when he saw her baffled state, but he valued his life and somehow managed to keep his composure. Even though Law himself hated being teased, he couldn't help but tease Baby 5 occasionally. She was such an easy target, and it was amusing to follow her reactions when she realized what she had done or said wrong.
"Tha... That... haha... Yes, certainly... hahaha..." Baby 5 managed to stutter a few reasonable words before she shifted to pure gibberish. She was someone who was easily embarrassed, but when it came to sex or anything of the like, she was almost ready to faint. The best moments were like this when she said something that had a different meaning that she though it would have. She would probably come back to her senses after digesting her mistake for a few minutes. Until then, she would not move even an inch nor would the redness be erased from her face.. Law knew very well how Baby 5 acted during moments like these. She was like a big sister to him after all.
"Oi, Law. What did you do to Baby 5?" Buffalo, a big -half muscular half fat- man asked. Buffalo was paired up with Baby 5 during their missions, and he thought of her as an important friend. Seeing Baby 5 reduced into such a state where she could only talk gibberish to herself, would of course get him worried.
"She'll be fine after a moment." Law said, chuckling to himself as he walked past Buffalo.
"But now, if you'll excuse me." The dark haired boy was in a bit of a hurry. Law knew better than to stay near Baby 5 when she came back from her embarrassed slumber. While she was the one who had made herself embarrassed, she would still blame Law for pointing it out. And an angry Baby 5 wasn't something you wanted to confront. She tended to get pretty violent, and Law didn't exactly crave to hit women, at least not Baby 5. So for the next few hours, until Baby 5 would calm down, Law had to find a place where to hide.
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"Playing hide and seek with Baby 5, eh? Should I tell on you?" A sudden voice next to his ear startled Law. He almost fell down from the chair he was sitting on, playing with his smartphone.
Law stood up quickly and backed away from the person who was absolutely too close to him. This person had a tendency to get too close every time he spoke to someone, and Law wasn't exactly fond of the enormous figure getting on his skin. For some reason, everyone found the nearness of this person unpleasant, almost gross.
"Trebol!" Law exclaimed as he came face to face -fortunately from a good distance- with one of the four Elite Officers of the Donquixote family. The enormous figure once again started to move towards Law in a way that reminded closely that of a slug's movements. Law was quick and farsighted enough to take a good few steps backwards so that Trebol couldn't get close to him. This made the large Elite Officer pout.
"Joker asked for your attendance in his room." Trebol said curtly, not bothering to chat anymore as he disliked chatting when he was this far from his companion. He left the room, leaving Law behind, not aware of the boy's shaken state. Joker was the word some of the officers used to call Doflamingo, but that was also his alias in the underworld. People in the underworld, whom had never even seen Doflamingo, trembled in fear when they heard the name Joker. Law was also trembling now, but not because of hearing the name. He was used to hearing many people call Doflamingo 'Joker'. No, he was trembling because he had tried to push the punishment from his head for the whole day, occupying himself with homework and his phone.
Law swallowed noisily and got out of Diamante's room, where he had been hiding from Baby 5.
Doflamingo's words echoed through his mind as he made his way towards that man's room. "We will talk later." Just what kind of confrontation was it going to be? A lecture? Torture? No... If he was going to be tortured or beaten, Doflamingo would have done it already. Or would he ? Maybe Doflamingo cared about Baby 5's feelings enough not to ruin her surprise by beating Law into a bloody mess, and he was going to beat Law afterwards, meaning now.
Law shook his head. He couldn't afford himself to let his imagination run wild. He was sure that the latter quess of his was correct. Doflamingo almost never left punishments till later. If someone was to be punished, they would be punished right away. Yeah, so no need to worry.
Unless... There was something more important that needed his attendance, or, in this situation, a surprise event that would be ruined if the target of the surprise wouldn't show up. No, false statement. Doflamingo wouldn't care less if the surprise event failed, but what he cared about was Baby 5's feelings. Even though he didn't show his affection with sweet words, anyone could see that Baby 5 was someone very important to him. He went to the extreme when it came for making Baby 5 and protecting her from any disappointments. He would even cease his own rage and save it for later if it would make Baby 5 happy. Yeah, he definitely would.
By the time Law had reached Doflamingo's room's door, small drops of sweat were lingering on his temples. He swept them off, counting slowly to 10 in his mind before he opened the door. The quiet creak sounded many times louder now than it had sounded any other time when Law had opened it before this.
Only upon entering Doflamingo's room, did Law realize that it had been a few years since he had last been there. Had it been three or four years already? He couldn't even remember what had he done there the last time he had visited Doflamingo in this room, but he could tell that everything was still the same as when he had last visited.
Unlike what you would expect, the room wasn't full of pink. At least that was what Law had expected when he had been summoned to Doflamingo's room for the first time. The king-sized bed was covered with a black bed-cover, and zebra-striped decoration pillows were all over it. The curtains covering the 10 feet high windows were black, and all the carpets were white. Most of the room – which was the size of a small house by the way – was actually coloured in black and white. Actually the only pink thing in the room was the feather coat Doflamingo always wore on his shoulders.
With a quick glance over the room, Law could tell the owner of that hot pink coat wasn't in there. His eyes met with the bathroom door and he came into a quick conclusion that Doflamingo was probably in there. This made Law feel slightly more at ease: He had some extra time to calm himself before confronting Doflamingo.
Law's eyes fell on the most familiar thing in the room, the pink feather coat. It was laid on the back rest of a throne-like armchair, resting there like it was a huge, living bird. Law could remember what those feathers felt like against his cheek when Doflamingo had comforted the younger him in the middle of the night when he had had nightmares. He remembered how warm it was inside that coat, when Doflamingo had taken the younger him inside it in the middle of a snow storm. Or had the warmth been Doflamingo's chest against Law's back? He wasn't sure.
But one thing Law couldn't remember, was the odour of that coat, or more like the odour of it's owner. He had the mental image that it was a very sweet one, but he wasn't completely sure about it. Law decided to check it by sniffing the coat, and he made his way quickly over to it. He wanted to be quick so that Doflamingo wouldn't catch him in the act. It would surely be hard to explain that he only wanted to remember the odour of the coat. No, he wouldn't even dare to say that. He knew what embarrassment it would lead to.
Law ran his fingers through the feathers, smiling as the familiar softness was again under his touch. He looked once more towards the bathroom door before he grabbed the coat with both his hands and buried his face into it.
First Law wanted to only rub the soft feathers against his cheek, feeling his insides calm immediately like they had done when he was a child. Soon enough he was daring enough to sniff the coat, curious to remember what it smelled like, and so he buried his face in the feathers.
Law inhaled through his nostrils as deep as he could and let himself be succumbed in the sweet, flowery scent. It came up, like if the coat was drenched in illegal substances. It was so alluring. His faint memory was nothing compared to the real scent. It was like comparing an artificial flower and a real one. Law had had no idea how much his memory had dimmed when it came to this scent. How could he have forgotten how sweet and delicious it was. One could really become addicted to this scent. It was like a drug.
"Entering my room without knocking, touching my stuff without a permission... And here I thought acting arrogantly towards your superior was the only bad manner you're guilty of." A whispering voice said behind him, very close behind him. The coat slipped through Law's fingers and he swung around, eyes wide open.
Doflamingo stood there, his two or three times bigger figure bent over Law's slimmer one. A creepy, wide smile was once again dividing the blond's face in half, as he looked down upon Law's frozen frame. In addition to not wearing his favourite coat, there were no other clothes sporting his upperbody. His muscular back was just as naked as his chest usually was.
Coming face to face with a half naked Doflamingo right after being found out sniffing his feather coat sure wasn't easy on Law. And when he had been so nervous about the punishment as well. Mixture of embarrassment and fright dwelling in his stomach. The bare, tanned skin in front of him was a good distraction from all the unpleasant feelings though.
"My scent isn't even nearly as strong in that coat as on my bare skin. Wanna try?" Doflamingo asked, his smile growing even wider -if that's even possible- as he took a step towards Law. The dark haired boy responded by quickly taking steps backwards until he collided with Doflamingo's throne-like armchair. He grabbed the back rest of the chair to maintain his stance, and pressed on it with his knuckles all white. Embarrassment and fright were replaced by irritation. How dared Doflamingo mock him when he had come here to be punished for his wrong-doings? Like it wasn't already a shitty enough situation. The other half of his brain refused to embrace the irritation, and instead told him to step forward and give Doflamingo's suggestion a try.
"Not really. I came only to receive my punishment." Law breathed his words out, but still managed to maintain the arrogance in his voice. It felt to him like he had ran the marathon. He was breathless and is heart was beating so fast it felt like it would jump out of his chest. He wanted to run, feeling uncomfortable in his current position under the shadow of Doflamingo's enormous figure. If only it had helped. Law couldn't have managed to escape from the clutches of the most dangerous man in the underworld. And even if he had, sooner or later he would have been found and the punishment would have been probably death. There was no escape from this situation.
Doflamingo stared at Law with sheer surprise painting his face. For a moment the older man only stared at the boy, who was tensed and obviously ashamed. Then he started to guffaw, leaving the young boy dumbfounded.
"Fuffuffuffuffu. Punishment you say?"
Law's eyebrows rose at Doflamingo's sudden burst of laughter, and small part of his tension went away. He could see the man wasn't angry at all, if anything, Doflamingo seemed pretty content in the current situation. This confused Law greatly. When was he going to get hit? Or lectured at least? This wasn't how he had expected things to proceed when he had entered the room.
After a while of laughing, Doflamingo quieted down and settled just to flashing his trademark smile, a very frightening one. The older man sure did not know what emotion to stick to. Law was constantly going between fear, embarrassment and confusion, not knowing if he was safe or not. He hoped to be released from his anxiety soon.
"Punishment sounds good." Doflamingo whispered in a tone so dark that it made Law flinch in fright, but at the same time Law was confused.
"Wasn't punishment why you called me here in the first place?" Law asked. He wasn't sure what to think of the situation anymore. Half naked Doflamingo hovering above him, telling he wasn't summoned for punishment. Before Law could occupy his mind with other possible options of his summoning, that very same half naked Doflamingo bent down to Law's level, their faces only a ten centimeters away from each other. Law's heart was seriously going to stop working if things went on like this. Now it was already beating in his throat.
"Are you a masochist, or why are you so keen on getting a punishment? I don't mind giving you one though, but I'd like to know the reason." Doflamingo asked, his breath tingling Law's face as he exhaled slowly on purpose. Law's body started to tremble and he forced himself to turn around. He couldn't stand Doflamingo's gaze on his face anymore, nor could he keep his arrogance o if he didn't focus his eyes on something else. It was way too overwhelming for him to handle, not like he admitted it to himself though.. 'Fuck, Law. Concentrate.'
"But back in the garage you said-"
"I said we will talk later, for the fucks sake." Doflamingo cut off Law's words before the boy could finish his sentence. Doflamingo started to get slightly impatient because Law believed his own assumptions more than his words. Though it managed to amuse him how the proud and arrogant boy had came to him to seek for punishment without even putting up a fight. It seemed like the boy had already submitted to his fate, which was a confirmation of the fact that Law respected and feared Doflamingo more than he revealed.
Realization hit Law. Yeah, there had not been any talk about punishments back there. Law had just made an assumption because Doflamingo had been mad at him. 'Oh god I want to die.'
"So what the fuck did you call me here for then? I already said I'm sorr-" Law started but was again interrupted by Doflamingo's hot-tempered voice. It was a dissatisfied grunt, and it made Law immediately regret that he had, again, returned to a too cocky attitude in front of the older man.
"Go to hell with your apologies. I want you to correct what you said before." Doflamingo said, his lips suddenly against Law's ear. The boy darted away from the man, startled about the rash closure in their distance. Law forced his mind to calm down as he asked:
"Correct what?"
Doflamingo clicked his tongue in disapproval and started to walk towards Law. The boy started to panic as the distance between them grew smaller again, not knowing what would happen when he was caught. He was careful not to let his panic show on his face though. He didn't want the man to think he had an upper hand in this situation.
"Doflamingo?" Law asked when his first question was left unanswered. Soon after his question, everything passed by in a blur, and for a moment, Law felt like he was flying.
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Reviews please! ^^ I hope you guys liked this chapter. The third one will be written soon, and you'll get to know what Law's flying meant ;)
