A/N: at the end!

Disclaimer: I still do not own these character!

In the hospitals small cafeteria Sabo and Anne sat in silence. Sabo stared off into the distance while Anne pushed her food around on her plate.

"I wanna go home."

Looking towards Anne, Sabo make eye contact with her only to look away. "Yeah me too… but I'm sure we'll be leaving soon. All of us. You, me, Shanks, and Lucy."

Silence claimed the siblings once more; both were too lost in their own thoughts about Lucy and that there was something wrong, but none of the adults would tell them.

For the two it felt like they were sitting for hours, so when Shanks came walking in Sabo breathed a sigh of relief as Anne jumped off her seat running up to the man asking if she could go see Lucy now. Thinking Shanks was going to say yes, Sabo got ready to head back towards the exit when he felt a hand on top of his head.

"In a little bit… okay? I promise, but right now I need to talk with the two of you about Lucy."

Hearing is words both Anne and Sabo glanced at one another feeling their hearts drop to their stomachs. Something was wrong! They were finally going to know what everyone has been keeping from them!

While Lucy sat on the bed drawing pictures of her family a knock at the door brought her back to reality.

Upon seeing the nice doctor lady, Lucy gave her one of her signature smiles. "Hello Miss Doctor!"

Giving the girl a gentle smile in return, she walked up to the bed and pulled up a chair so she could talk with her young patient.

"Just call me Kaya okay?"

"Kaya! That's a pretty name!"

"Why thank you. Lucy is also a very pretty name."

"Shishishi thanks! Shanks, Sabo, and Anne call me Lu for short most of the time though."

The conversation continued for a while longer until Lucy asked, " You'll help me get better… right?" it was barely a whisper.

Taken aback by the sudden question Kaya reached her hand out and held Lucy's hand.

"Yeah…" Kaya said, "we'll ty everything we can to make you feel better."

Shanks watched as the two children in front of him worlds crumbled.

Even though Sabo was holding back how he felt Shanks could tell his oldest was hurting just as much as Anne. Whom was currently letting everything out through anger; yelling at Shanks while Sabo desperately tried to pull his sister into a hug, but she wasn't having any of it.

Pulling herself free from Sabo she marched up to Shanks and started hitting him in the stomach repeatedly.

Asking why he let this happen. Even though deep down she knew it wasn't his fault. As she continued her attack on Shanks, Sabo had stopped trying to calm her down, he just watched as Anne yelled out her frustration.

Lucy was only six-years old! Why did she have to deal with this sort of problem?! Holding his head in his hands he shut his eyes, with all his might her tried to block out reality. Small tears slide down his cheeks.

"Why Lu?!"

Suddenly a strong arm wrapped around his frame, pulling him into a warm hug. Tilting his head up, he caught sight of Anne in Shanks' other arm, crying into his shoulder.

"It's okay to feel weak sometimes…" was whispered into his ear.

Sabo's eyes widened and finally he let his walls crumble. Wrapping his arms around Shanks he cried.

Once Shanks was able to get both children to calm down –more or less –the three of them went back into the main area where patients were located.

Seeing the two so quiet pained Shanks, especially Anne. She has always been so strong and protective of her little sister, but Shanks fears this is something she won't be able to face so easily even if Lucy looks or appears okay to the eye, Anne will be constantly aware of the problem happening within Lucy.

Perking up, Lucy looked towards the door when it started to open. Thinking it was going to be Kaya coming to see her new drawings, Lucy gathered up the pieces of paper.

"Miss, Look! I made –

Instead of Kaya she was faced with Sabo and Anne hand-in-hand with Shanks standing behind them. It was silent for a few seconds until Lucy lowered her hands.

"Anne… Sabo…" when she made eye contact with the two of them, she gave them a bright smile.

"You finally came back! Oh look! Look! Look! I drew a whole bunch of pictures of us!"

Fighting back her tears Anne let go of Sabo's hand, running towards Lucy and hopping up onto the bed and pulling her into her arms.

"Mhmm. You did a good job Lu." Sniffling, "But you still can't draw." A chocked sob mixed with broken chuckles slipped past her lips.

Patting Anne on the head Lucy giggled softly. "Yeah…" wrapping her much smaller arms around Anne's waist.

Watching his younger sisters, Sabo fidgeted until he was nudged forward. Shifting to his right he noticed Shanks motioning for him to follow.

Soon Lucy was in the center of a hug with Anne clinging to her, Sabo clinging to the both her and Anne, and Shanks running his fingers threw her hair. The quiet sobs of her big brother and sister were the only thing heard in the small room. Lucy was about to doze off, when she felt something being placed onto her head. Maneuvering around the extra bodies, she looked up at Shanks questionably.

"It looks better on you." was the simple explanation she received.

A/N:

Annnnnd there it is! Chapter… chapter 3! Ahhhh I just loving leaving things unanswered! But worry not! Chapter 4 will be my longest chapter so far and things will be answered!

I know this is early… like way early, but I realized my best friends birthday is Saturday and well there is a very low chance I'll be doing much of anything afterwards. So here it is ;3

That being said I graduate in a couple of week so things will be a little hectic for me so chpt. 4 won't be up for a while.

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-Roma