Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece, the characters and this is an AU.
Sorry guys that this one is so short and sorry I haven't been on in ages but I wanted to at least put something up even if it was short. I'll be starting my classes again soon for the Spring semester and yes I'm surviving Nursing but just barely haha. XP
Chapter 3
Zorro stayed in his chair that night, the front legs of it in the air as he tilted it back. His arms behind his head and his feet resting on the table as he drifted in and out of sleep; waking each time the girl in his bed shifted. He was on alert around her but more for the fact that she wasn't sleeping, a restless annoying bundle of energy even with the healing wounds that must have been making her suffer and cause her a good amount of agony for all of her movement.
Though, Zorro couldn't blame the girl for being restless. She was in a stranger's hotel room, in his bed and they had only had a short conversation since they met. None of those things exactly called for an open, trusting, and safe relationship that one should feeling completely and naively comfortable with.
Yet sooner or later, later more than sooner actually, she grew still and stayed that way. Her breathing became deeper and more natural. Zorro opened an eye to see that she had fallen asleep facing him with the blanket tucked all the way up to her ears and he couldn't help smiling at the picture she made. In her sleep she really didn't seem like the dangerous assassin and skilled fighter that he had witnessed her to be.
He knew all too well that appearances were deceiving but in that moment while he was alone with his thoughts, he was content to see her for just a girl. A pretty girl, but just a sleeping girl that was named Nami. He yawned widely, stifling the sound with the back of his hand. His eyelids began to droop of their own accord.
Without the motion and sound Nami created the feelings of sleep were returning as his on edged nerves were soothed. Leaning his cheek against his palm as he drifted off. The last thing he saw before sleep took him was Nami's sleeping form.
