I'm mixing up a few events for my story. It's deliberate. Don't freak out too much, okay? Just thought it would be somewhat amusing, dontcha think?

Disclaimer: The only One Piece I own is the swimsuit... okay maybe I don't even own that, but you get the point.

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Saviour

Chapter 7.

Nervous.

That was how she was feeling, she hadn't seen anyone since her little outburst, Ace because he was banned from seeing her, it had already been a whole day but his banishment was lengthened due to some choice words he had used to describe the Doctor, not thinking she was within hearing distance. Spoiler alert: She was within hearing distance. April had been giving her sombre looks that made her avoid eye contact with her when she went in to check up on her. She kept trying to tell her she was fine, both mentally and physically but the doctor wouldn't take her answer seriously and kept her in longer, much to Amethyst' aggravation.

Now she was going to walk out on the deck and her heart was pounding, what if they treated her different because of who her father was? What if they treated her badly? What if they started giving her looks of pity?

She took a deep breath and mentally slapped herself for being overly-dramatic and to just get it over with already. She decided she was going to act completely casual as if nothing had happened, yeah! that was going to work.

She walked out on the deck and ignored the inevitable stares of surprise and jumped up on Pops' lap as he watched her with analysing eyes, she lay down on one of his legs and put an arm over her eyes, breathing out a sigh of contentment and Nervousness at feeling the stares.

"You okay Brat?"

She didn't say anything, just used her free hand to show him a thumbs up. She felt herself shaking only to realise Whitebeard was laughing. "About what you said before, I don't care about who your biological father is, man or monster, you are my child and that's not going to change anything."

She felt herself smile in relief "I know Pops, thanks"

"So what is this I hear about you killing a Celestial Dragon?"

Her eyes widened and she shot up and looked at Whitebeard. "Did Ace tell you?!"

He chuckled, amusement glittering in his eyes. "No, he didn't. He didn't have to" before she could question it, A newspaper was being thrown towards her, she caught it and gave said, person, a questioning look. They just walked away not saying anything.

She looked at the Newspaper and noticed a piece of paper was out of place, she grabbed it and looked at it, a bored expression on her face until she saw the picture.

The person was standing with their back facing the shot, a well-known mark showing off from underneath the ripped fabric that was no doubt covering their back before, their head was turned, looking back at the camera, eyes crimson red and half their body looked as if it was in the process of disappearing.

'WANTED:

*PIC*
ONLY DEAD.

DEVIL EYES AMETHYST'

Wait, what?

"You have got to be kidding me"

"It seems you've gotten yourself quite the bounty"

She sighed in exasperation and ignored the cheers of congratulation from the rest of the crew that was around. "Yeah, but a hundred and fifty million? and the whole 'ONLY DEAD' thing, they act as if he was some kind-natured person who I killed in cold blood and not the fucking bastard who tried to carve into my back while I was out cold and couldn't they have made a better nickname?"

She felt a light weight placed on her head and looked to see Ace, an amused look on his face as he placed his hat on top of her head and sat next to her. "Well you killed a Celestial and I'm assuming they've known you for a while, your powers and whatnot and also the fact you have no weakness like Devil fruit users and you being part of Pops' crew, I'd say it's a perfectly reasonable first bounty" he said matter-of-factly "name suits you too, but I'd take away the eyes and leave 'Devil' more accurate that way"

He dodged a swat to the head and laughed at her scowl.

"You suck Portgas"

She went to say more choice words when she felt a presence on the other side of her and she looked to the person, seeing Marco.

"Hey, Pineapple head"

He didn't make any reaction and she then noticed the guilty expression on his face. She sighed and leaned her head on his shoulder. "Stop with the look, it's fine really"

"I'm still sorry"

She flicked him in the side making him glower half-heartedly down at her. "I'm not, I probably would've never told you guys and let that out had you not pushed me with your annoying mother-hen-ness. And before you say anything, Pops has already informed me about not caring about all that life-before Whitebeard pirate stuff and how no one cares, so don't try and convince me cause I already know"

"So you're finally realising things faster now," he said, a lazy smirk on his lips.

She stopped leaning on his shoulder and shoved him away from her, rolling her eyes. "You sure bounced back fast from that"

He disregarded her remark and his smirk widened, making her cock her eyebrow. "You want to see something funny?" he whispered into her ear, leaning closer to her.

Her eyes narrowed. "What kind of funny?"

"Just watch... Hey Ace, you might want to read the paper, it's got news of your little brother"

She looked at Ace and watched him, seeing his expression light up and practically rip the paper out of her hand. 'He must really care about his brother'

She watched in amusement as he read over what was probably an article on his brother, multiple emotions flashing through his eyes, she was actually getting nervous at the severe expression that took over.

"THAT RECKLESS IDIOT!"

Pops who was reading the paper over his shoulder adorned a proud and delightedly amused look on his face. She looked to Marco and asked for an explanation.

"His brother broke into Enies Lobby to save one of his crew mates, Nico Robin and destroyed the place but not before firing at a World government flag and declaring war against them"

Her eyes widened and she felt her mouth fall open a tad. "He destroyed one of the three strongholds and declared war on the World Government?" She had come to the conclusion that the two brothers were crazy.

Ace had fallen into shock "I'm going to have a heart attack Pops, the rubber idiot is going to be the death of me, he's going to do something even more idiotic and I'm not going to reach twenty-one"

Amethyst had taken suit of everyone else and laughed at the fire-users 'pain'

"Who is this brother of yours? He sounds like more of a nutcase than you" she asked.

"His name's Luffy, he's seventeen and he's the captain of a crew called the 'Straw-hat pirates' he set sail a few months ago and he's aiming to become the Pirate King. I met up with him a little while before I met you when I was on an assignment, he was taking on a Warlord"

"As in the 'Seven Warlords'?" she asked in disbelief at the information of this younger brother that seemed like a bit of a handful.

He had ignored the incredulous question and leaned back against Whitebeard, resigned look on his face. "If you think we're protective of each other as a family, you have not even begun to understand the lengths that moron will go to for people he cares about"

"Wait, he's a captain? That's impressive" she said a fascinated expression on her face.

"Hey, I'm Second Division Commander of the Whitebeard pirates!"

"Yeah yeah, Mr.'third-in-command-while-my-little-brother-is-captain-of-an-already-infamous-rookie-pirate-crew'" he scowled menacingly at her at hearing her call his idiot kid brother more impressive than him.

"Brat has heart, I like him"

"Don't encourage it Pops!"

Amethyst couldn't keep the smile off her face as she watched him worry about his little brother. "You seem to love him a lot"

"He's my kid brother, of course, I do."

She analysed him a little longer and she could tell that there was more to it than that, he seems much too special to just be his 'kid brother'.

"He's a little slow and he doesn't always think things through" She watched as his expression turned soft and fond. "But he's your's once you have him and he'll give you absolutely everything"

She smiled tenderly at the thought of someone as amazing sounding as that, she vowed that she would meet this little brother sometime in the future.

"He's the first person to tell me he wanted me to live and I owe so much to him, I would've stayed in such a dark place without him. He was my light in the dark, an incredibly annoying, blinding, cry-baby light"

"It's official, I like this kid, I'm supporting his dream. Should be interesting to see him achieve it" she said making him smile softly at her.

"And now he's declaring war on the World Government, sounds more like a monster to me," Marco reminded, feeling satisfied at the expression Ace made, being reminded of his little brother's recklessness.

"Enough about Ace's weird family... Pops, I was meaning to ask, do you want me to heal you?" She asked, looking up at him. "You know I can return you to full health"

The crew who were listening in on the conversation perked up and started to press Whitebeard to let her heal him.

His chest rumbled as laughter spilt out of his lips. "Now, why would I want that?"

"Come on Pops, you should," Ace said, urging him to go through with it.

"There's no point in living if you take short cuts like that. We live and we die. Life is about living in the moment, conquering our dreams. We all grow old, my health is the result of my journey, now, why would I want you to take that away?"

Amethyst smiled in awe at the wise man that she was proud to call her father, some must've felt the same as they expressed their respect and reinforced their loyalty to Whitebeard.

"I don't know why you even asked, he was never going to go for it," Marco said in a voice that made it sounded like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Worth a try," she said shrugging.

There was a loud bang and everyone looked to the noise, finding a slumped over and sleeping man, face-planted on the ground.

"I'm surprised he doesn't have brain damage"

"I'm surprised you think the moron doesn't have brain damage, would explain a lot of things," Marco replied to the girl, making everyone there laugh.

"Where's bread-head? Haven't seen him"

"He's in his room, he got back from an assignment yesterday, he found a devil fruit and he's researching it"

"Devil fruit, huh? sounds good for pranks, hope he gets something good," she said, now lost in thought at the ideas of potential pranks to pull, she hasn't pulled a prank on Pops yet.

Everyone sighed as they could practically see the gears turning in her deranged and demented mind.

Amethyst was now lying in bed, hat still on her head, though now readjusted to be on her face. She was taking in the scent, calming her rising nerves, she had to leave dinner because she felt herself starting to fidget, she felt like something was wrong, very wrong, it's like she wanted to throw up because her gut was bugging her.

There was a knock on the door. "Come in, unless you're an enemy then I suggest you stay out"

She heard an exasperated sigh "Why do you always say that?"

She shrugged, not feeling well enough to say a snarky remark. Her stomach was being a real pain in her ass. She felt the bed dip and shuffled closer to the wall so that he could lie down next to her.

"You feeling alright?" he asked after getting comfortable next to her.

"Yeah, totally awesome," she said sarcastically, earning a jab in the side.

"Must be pretty bad if my hat is on your face, you never do that unless you're feeling overwhelmed"

She huffed, why did he have to know so much about her? "Mm, I've just got this weird feeling in my gut"

"Maybe it's called hunger," he said making fun of her.

"Shut up moron, I'm being serious here. The only thing keeping me from freaking out is your hat, hence the face coverage"

"Well then come here and get a whiff of the real thing," he said, grabbing hold of her so now he was lying on his side, holding her against his bare chest.

"What do you mean by 'a whiff'?" She asked, nuzzling her head against his chest and grabbing the blanket, throwing it over them, though with the fire-user there it wasn't really a need. She felt his chest move a bit jerkily and heard him let out a chuckle.

"You think I don't see that you sniff me? It's kind of hard not to notice"

She mentally berated herself for being so careless to let the idiot find out her embarrassing, borderline creepy habit. "Well, that's embarrassing" She felt him chuckle again as the vibration of it was felt against her cheek.

"Don't worry it's cute, like a wounded puppy"

she scoffed in distaste. "Cute? That's a first"

"First what?"

"The first time someone has called me cute, I've been called a lot of things but cute is not one of them"

"Well it's true, you can be cute sometimes,"

"Sometimes? and other times?" she asked, wanting to see what he would say, not that she was trying to test him or anything like that.

"and other times... you're not?"

She almost scoffed again, not feeling insulted, but far from flattered. "You make me sound like I'm hideous and you're afraid to tell me, is that why you always make snide comments about my looks?"

She felt him jerk a little and look down at her, she looked up at him and cocked an eyebrow at the conflict that was on his face. "No! no, you're far from hideous, I just didn't want to make you feel uncomfortable by commenting on your looks, in that way, thought you might be sick of hearing comments like that"

She felt herself smile against his chest as she looked away. So that was it, he didn't want to make her feel uncomfortable. He sure took a weird approach to that but he had good intentions. She placed a feather light kiss on his chest, feeling him freeze a little in surprise, her smile widening against his chest again as she felt his heartbeat quicken. "Thank you"

She sensed him relax and felt something on her head, soft, warm and tender. He placed a kiss on her forehead and whispered against it, breath fanning across the top of her head. "You're welcome"

There was a silence, but a sort of tension was in the air that was never felt before, or maybe it was always there but they never had a quiet moment to dwell on it. It wasn't uncomfortable but it was strong enough to make them want to squirm a bit.

"Ammy?"

Amethyst just hums, shifting slightly so that she could look up at him, meeting his gaze that seemed a lot more intense than before.

"I love you"

He watched her expression as it contorted in disbelief, she then avoided eye contact, not knowing what to say to that. She had different kinds of feelings for Ace than with anyone else she knew, she felt warm and calm and happy whenever he was near her, felt safe and content just seeing his face, her heart would beat faster and she would feel as if she came alive when he would smile at her, but did that mean that she loved him back? She wasn't sure, she's never 'loved' someone before.

"What does it mean to love someone?" She asked when she could finally look him back in the eye. He was surprised for a second at the question, what did it mean for someone to love another person. "Well for me, everything changed" she watched as his expression turned fond and thoughtful, she almost looked away at the intensity of his whiskey coloured eyes, boring into her pale ones.

"The sky was never the same colour, the moon never the same shape, the air never smelt the same, food never tasted the same. Every word I knew changed its meaning, everything that was once comfortable, familiar, stable and firm became as flimsy as a breeze because you came along, you made everything different... better. When I look at you I feel self-aware and my senses intensify and I feel complete... because you're beautiful, inside and out"

She felt her heart swell at those words, matched with the genuine and heartfelt emotion in his eyes and before she could process what she was doing, she buried a hand in his dark hair and met his lips with hers. Ace returned the kiss almost immediately, moving them so that he was half still on his side and half leaning over her, one hand underneath her and the other holding himself up beside her head.

She let out an unfamiliar sound of pleasure when she felt his body moulding to hers, she pulled away and saw him hovering over her with half-lidded eyes and she saw a new emotion in his eyes, one she's seen many times but this time, it didn't make her feel sick, she liked it.

"I think I'm getting sick," she said suddenly, voice sounding breathless and raspy.

"Why do you say that?" he asked, feeling himself get slightly worried, despite the want that he felt in his entire body.

"My face feels hot"

He chuckled lightly and placed a chaste kiss on her nose before pulling away. "That's because you're blushing"

She brought a hand up to her face and felt the emanating heat. "What's that?"

"It's when blood rushes to your face when you feel flustered," he said quickly before placing his lips back down onto her soft plump ones. She felt him lick and bite at them hungrily, making her let out sounds that were less than graceful but were music to his ears. She felt him move away from her lips and trailed kisses down her jaw, moving towards her neck and her breath hitched.

"Wait, Ace stop"

He stopped immediately at her voice and looked up to her eyes, seeing a twinge of fear that made him feel guilty for going too far.

"Are you sure, you want to do this?" she asked surprising him, why was she asking him that? "I'm used and dirty, I don't want you to do anything without thinking about it first"

He almost laughed at her but refrained from doing so and just kissed her again. She felt like her mind was being lit on fire and heat spread through her entire body before he pulled away. "I should be asking you that idiot, you aren't dirty in any way, shape or form, you're as pure as they come"

She beamed up at him and nodded her head a bit, earning a laugh from him, muttering something about being cute and she looked up at him, sincerity in her eyes, "I love you too and I trust you"

Her voice was lost as Ace closed the few inches and kissed her again more passionately, demanding and craving for her as the feeling of exhilaration bloomed in his chest at her words. And in the quiet stillness of the night, their Auras danced and twined in the darkness, coiling around each other until they merged to become one.

Amethyst took a deep breath as she came to, opening her eyes to see that it was still dark, she feels hot and sticky but surprisingly doesn't feel gross or perturbed by it, she looks to her side and see's Ace sleeping peacefully, a small smile on his lips, his hair sticking to the sweat that was on his face, he has an arm draped lazily over her bare stomach and she tries to suppress the bubbling giddiness she feels in her chest. She moves to adjust herself and the griminess finally gets to her and she decides to get up and take a much-needed shower. Carefully she removes the sleeping fire-users arm, making sure not to wake him up, feeling a dull pain in her lower region, she ignores it and gets up.

She grabs a towel and a jersey and a pair of shorts, walking out of the room with a towel around her, she walks to the bathroom, closes the door and lets the towel fall to the floor and jumps into the shower, turning it on and relishing in the warm water hitting her dirty body.

After she was finished and clean she got changed and walked out of the bathroom, watching steam mix with the air outside the room, like tendrils of smoke. She dries her hair and feels the hunger from skipping dinner. She walks out of the second division sleeping quarters where her room was situated and walks towards the kitchen when she saw Thatch's light on.

'Heh, I should scare him'

She walked quietly towards the door and peeked through the crack.

She gasped at what she saw and slammed the door open seeing Teach standing over Thatch who was bleeding face-first on the ground, a knife sticking out of his back. Teach had a chest in his hand, a smirk marring his features, confirming the feeling she had about him.

"WHAT THE FUCK?!"

His head snapped towards the door, a growl leaving his lips. "Amethyst, you shouldn't be here" he went to ram into her, seeing a knife in his hand, he was going to try and make her fall to the same fate as Thatch.

She ignored his advances and automatically made a hand gesture, eyes turning red as she slammed his body into a wall and held him there. He started making choking noises, dropping the chest and knife to the ground. He started to choke out words of help. She narrowed her eyes at him and choked him harder.

"You think you can call for help? After what you did? No one is going to help you"

She saw his eyes roll back, indicating he lost consciousness and dropped him harshly to the ground. She quickly ran and kneeled beside Thatch, eyes turning white and putting her hand directly where the knife entered his body, making to pull it out, so she could heal him when she felt an excruciating, intense pain hit her in the back, forcing her to the ground, she hit her head hard on the ground with a resounding bang and she lost consciousness.

Amethyst woke up, lying face first on a bed, she moved to get up, flinching when she felt an agonising pain shoot through her back.

"Don't move," a cold but familiar voice said.

"Marco? Where's Thatch? Is he okay?!"

She heard a growl of anger behind her and stiffened, now noticing the aura that was in the room, it was full of rage and it was so thick with tension that she felt her heart beating nervously.

"Marco? What's wrong?"

"You Amethyst," he started, a severe tone taking over his voice. "You are guilty of attempted murder of the Fourth Division Commander, Thatch and Second Division Member, Teach of the Whitebeard Pirates and are sentenced to banishment from this crew and this ship after you have healed"

She almost choked at the accusation, he can't be serious. "What the fuck are you talking about Marco?! Teach was the one that did that to Thatch, not me!"

She turned around, ignoring the pain in her back, sitting up and came face to face with an enraged looking Marco. "He did this to my back when I was trying to heal Thatch"

"No actually, our eye witness did that"

She narrowed his eyes at him now getting aggravated at the accusation of trying to kill her own family member, sure she did that to Teach but that was for obvious reasons. "And who exactly is this eye witness because they obviously need to get their eyes checked."

"It was Ace"

She froze, Ace was the one who did this to her back? and now he's saying that she was trying to kill Thatch and Teach in cold blood? "Where is he? He obviously misunderstood"

"ENOUGH AMETHYST! Your sentence has already been decided, now just stop making excuses. Pops has already agreed, you should be glad that we are banishing you and not killing you for your crime"

Her eyes were filling up with tears of frustration. "How can you not believe me? How can you all not believe me?!" she was losing control of her emotions, rage taking over and before she knew it, her eyes had turned red and she was forcing her way through the door of the infirmary, ignoring the blood she felt dripping from the burn on her back and she ran out to the deck.

"Where the fuck is Teach?!"

Everyone was on deck, commanders, crew and Pops, they all turned to the girl and she felt the wave of treachery and resentment that they felt.

"I didn't fucking do it! It was Teach! now where is he so I can kill that fucking bastard"

She felt a hand roughly grab her wrist and jerk her around to face them, coming face to face to Ace, his eyes cold and full of... full of hatred. "Stop Amethyst, I caught you red-handed, just stop trying to defend yourself"

She felt herself losing a grip on her mind, no one believed her, no one was even giving her a chance to explain what happened, everyone had turned their backs on her.

"No no no! Not you! anyone but you! You have to believe me... Please" she said, begging for him to believe her, to just listen to her.

She saw his eyes flash with conflict but soon melt back into hatred. "No, Thatch is in a coma and can't confirm it, but I know what I saw and it matches up with Teach's explanation, now get back in the infirmary, you're spilling your blood everywhere," he said, spitting venomously at the last part, making her eyes fill up with more tears but this time full of betrayal, full of desperation.

"No please, I-I need you guys, I need this please-please just believe me I-I" her mind went blank, expression turning blank, tears stopping immediately and her eyes became dead and glassy.

She kneeled on the ground, face still blank and she placed her hand on her knees, bending forward so that her head touched the wood of the deck. 'Don't leave me alone'

She broke.

Ace watched in horror as he watched her face turn emotionless and kneel into the same position she did with the Celestial and now speaking with the voice she hadn't used in so long. Why would she stoop this low to convince them? He knew what he saw, he had woken up to find her gone and went to search for her, hearing choked cries for help and running to find her kneeling over Thatch with her hand on the knife, eyes white and an unconscious Teach not far in front of her. So why was she doing this? WHY WAS SHE HUMILIATING HERSELF TO FURTHER HER LIE?!

"Amethyst, stop this now, accept your fate" a booming voice was heard. Whitebeard.

Amethyst then stood up, she felt betrayed, hurt and empty. She held the emotionless expression. She wanted to scream, to say something but she didn't, she was done.

She locked eyes with Ace, he felt his chest jerk as he could still see betrayal in her eyes through the emotionless mask on her face. She turned, not seeing him flinch when he came into eye contact with the wound he made. She ran at full speed and jumped off the ship onto the grassy field that was Sabaody Archipelago and clicked her fingers. Disappearing from sight.

Time stood still for everyone and no one bothered to go after the girl, there was no reason to anymore.

It went like that, staying docked in Sabaody, waiting for the injured to heal and the unconscious to wake up, it had been a week already and Ace was especially irritated with everyone and everything until he heard the news of Thatch waking up. He was now entering his room and looked at the Division Commander with relief as he sat on the bed next to him.

"Ace! Where's Amethyst?! Nobody is answering me when I ask, they keep giving me weird looks, did something happen, is she okay?"

Ace gave him a look of confusion "Why would you be worrying about her?"

"Okay, I get that she's strong and all but I can worry. Teach came into my room and started talking weird, asking about my devil fruit that I found and he took it, then stabbed me. After Teach stabbed me, I could still hear things and I heard Amethyst shout at him and throw him against a wall, she then touched my back, I think she was trying to heal me but then I fell unconscious"

"OI! has anyone seen Teach?! That moron left the infirmary without informing me and no one can find him, I'm going to wring his fat neck when I see him!" April yelled, bursting into the room.

Ace felt his blood run cold, he stood up suddenly and ran out of the room, ignoring the shouts of concern and confusion and ran straight to Thatch's room, begging that it wasn't true. He got there and his suspicions were confirmed, the chest that was there was now gone, nowhere in sight.

"Oh god no,"

He grabbed at his hair and bit his lip, drawing blood and kneeled on the ground, feeling his heart tightening in his chest, he made a mistake, a huge mistake. What did he do? what did he just do? what the hell had he done?

"What the fuck did I do?"

Flashes of Amethyst started to go through his mind.

"I was taught not to talk... but you people are different right?"

Her laughing and crying as she ran into his arms.

"Don't expect me to say this again but... I'm so glad you were born, without you, I would've been stuck in there for the rest of my life"

Her bright beautiful smile, that lifted her cheeks and scattered her freckles.

"Thank you for existing"

Her smile as she protected him and Marco.

Her body covered in blood as she struggled to hold herself up when she returned and whispering his name in relief.

"But I had people to protect! I had a family to protect for the first time in my fucking life and my freedom be damned! I wasn't about to let the world touch them just because I was some fucking mistake!"

"I like your father because without him you wouldn't exist, even if I don't know him"

Her face full of sincerity, passion, innocence and vulnerability as he hovered over her.

"I love you too and I trust you"

Her face covered in frustration and pleading for him to believe her.

"No no no! Not you! anyone but you! You have to believe me... Please"

Her tears running down her face, desperation and betrayal shining in her eyes.

"No please, I-I need you guys, I need this please-please just believe me I-I"

Her face turning blank and emotionless, her kneeling down in a sign of the last resort.

'Don't leave me alone'

And then her standing, looking him dead in the eyes, emotionless but eyes full of betrayal and broken trust.

Her running away, the burn on her back that he caused showing, the partially burned Whitebeard mark making the bloody, pink and fleshy, bubbling burn standing out against the purple and the honey colour of her skin.

He scarred her, he hurt her and he broke her.