Luffy was dragged this way and that. Down hallways, around corners, up flights of stairs, down the stairs, so many twists and turns Luffy thought they would never find this Marco guy. Until they stopped at an old wooden door, that hag a golden plank that read "Marco". Thatch opened the door, without even nocking, and walked right in with a huge smile on his face. Luffy looked around the small office, it was clean with decretive plants lining the walls and a small desk in the back. The man at the desk had an open shirt that showed off his abs, and some old worn blue jeans, but the first thing Luffy noticed about him as his blond hair.
"Wow, mister are you a pineapple?" Luffy asked with wide eyes. The man behind the desk raised an eyebrow then looked at thatch.
"Why did you bring a snack in to my office, if you want to eat something don't be a pedo a grab some random kid off the street." Marco explains while looking at Thatch with an annoyed look on his face. He steps closer to the two and Luffy kinda looks worried at first, but then looks up at Marco with trusting eyes. "you probably didn't even have to use your hypnotic eye on him. He already clings to you like a small duckling and its mom." Marco adds while reaching out to pat Luffy on the head. "but he is cute" Marco inputs while patting the boy on the head. Luffy blushes a little senses he was called cute.
"I didn't go grab him off the street, Ace brought him in." Thatch adds, while pushing Luffy closer to Marco. "Hey, wait a second, how did you know he was a human? And why'd you call me a pedo?" Thatch questions. Marco rolled his eyes.
"I can smell him smart one. Why did Ace bring a human in here?" Marco question like Luffy isn't even there.
"Ace asked me if I wanted to see his job and I said yes." Luffy buts in. Marco looks down at the small boy and smiles.
"I forgot to ask what your name is." Marco asks in a polite voice.
"Luffy" the smaller boy chippers. Marco pats his head once more.
"Well Luffy, did Ace want to see me or something?" Marco asks.
"No he told me to hang out with you until works done" Luffy beams at Marco, who half smiles. Thatch feels like he's been ignored long enough and grabs Luffy by the waist, which causes the boy to squirm and try and wiggle his way free. "Hey stop it" Luffy pouts, seeing that there's no way of freedom gives up. Then the older man picks Luffy up and runs from Marco.
Thatch runs while yelling "remember if anything happens to his Luffy it's on you." Marco gulps at this; he knows how scary Ace can truly be.
Once Thatch knew that Marco could not see them he sets Luffy down behind some boxes. Luffy stretches happy to be on his feet again, Luffy trusted Thatch as long as Ace trusted him.
"So Luffy what do you want to do?" thatch asks happy that he could finally talk to the boy. Luffy smiled up at him.
"How about we play a game" Luffy asks in a hopeful voice, he did not want to be stuck all day siting around doing nothing. As soon as Thatch heard the word play and he smirked, a small blush showed on the pervs cheeks, but Luffy didn't see it. But Thatch knew the boy didn't mean it like that so he moped a little.
"Ok how about we play hide and seek?" Thatch offers Luffy nods eagerly. "Ok Ace and Marco are it, so stay away from them till then end of work. Got it" Luffy nodded and jumped excitedly.
"Do we have to hide separately?" Luffy asked that away he would know where to hide. Thatch smirked.
"We have to hide together." Thatch adds proudly. Luffy nods, strength in numbers Luffy guessed. They walked around for a bit, hiding behind barrels and logs when people passed by. They kept at this till Luffy got hungry, then Thatch would fix his something. They seemed to have no trouble hiding from people. Occasionally people would stop a sniff by where they were hiding. Luffy didn't like that to well, he felt like he was going to be eaten.
It was almost the end of the day and they saw both Marco and Ace walking towards there hiding spot. Luffy wanted to jump out and give Ace a hug, but he was playing a game so he couldn't. Luffy and Thatch were behind a whole bunch of crates, and Luffy had the idea to try and climb on top of one of them to get a better view. The boy slipped and was going to fall so Thatch grabbed his waist to keep him from nocking everything down.
The crates fell and Thatch pulls Luffy close to himself to protect the boy. Ace goes towards the sound and finds a horrible sight that makes his blood boil. Thatch had Luffy's face toward the ground with his upper body over the boy. His hands pulled Luffy's hips closer to his own, Luffy was on his hand and knees (fixing to get up, but that's not what Ace saw.). Ace was furious, and worse he was very protective by nature and to see this killed all sanity Ace had in his body.
"ow.." Luffy groaned. Ace looked at Luffy who just know noticed him. "Hey Ace!" He yells while trying to get up, but is stuck. Thatch has froze, he noticed how awkward they looked the moment the dust cleared. "Um. Thatch can you please let go, I can't move" Luffy asks and after 30 seconds Thatch registered what the bot had said and lets him go. Ace runs up and pulls Luffy behind him.
"You damn pervert! What do you think you were doing to Lu!?" Ace questions furiously. Luffy just looks up at him in confusion, what does he mean by pervert, all they did was paly hide and seek. Ace lit his arms on fire, getting ready to kill the cook.
"Ace?" Luffy asks softly. Ace turns to Luffy and his fury softens and his fire almost disappears. "We were just playing hide and seek, Thatch wasn't being a pervert." Luffy explains. Ace sighs, hs fire now gone and glares at Thatch.
"You got lucky that Lu, defended your ass. Because if he didn't you would be babe Q." Ace growls with a protective arm around Luffy's waist. Luffy waves back a Thatch.
"Maybe we can play some other time" Luffy yells as he walks off, Ace just snorts. Marco walks passed Thatch with a smirk.
"You shouldn't mess with Ace's lover, you know he's very protective" Marco adds as he walks away.