Questions: Law to Doflamingo
When Law was younger, he idolized the bane of his existence. He wanted to be able to bend, to manipulate and to destroy. He would have done anything to be like Doflamingo. He would have done anything to make the bird proud and to show his worth. Law could almost shiver at what he could have done. And the ironic thing is, the man he despised at the time was the man who saved his life, who saved him from becoming evil (but sometimes, Law wonders what the differences are between himself and the bird).
They're in Dressrosa; Law can feel the years of anger mixing with excitement that spells out from the tingle in his fingertips for his Nodachi to the rush through his veins at that familiar promise of destruction as he looks at his surroundings. Straw-hat's here with him and that demon, and Law has this feeling that - seeing those black eyes that are actually brown and that signature straw hat - Law has a feeling this isn't going to go as planned (but with the man who's a breathing miracle, and who challenges the world and wins, how do you get someone like that to follow a path?)
In some ways, Law hates the fact that he spoke his true name which prompted Corazon to help him. He knows that's probably the only reason he and Cora-san bonded, and he wouldn't give up that bond over anything. Though sometimes, Law thinks it would have been better if Corazon never warned him, never bonded with him.
(The fact that Law seen his second father die doesn't even make him flinch; It makes him wish it was himself instead of a blond-haired man with the love for cigarettes and his brother. The two most lethal things for a person to love.)
He's fighting Doflamingo, and he's losing. All he can think is 'I'm failing you all over again, Cora-san' and another flash of pain hits him, making him grit his teeth and tighten the grip on his sword. Doflamingo mocks him with a laugh and all he can see is red.
When Law was kidnapped by this clumsy blond-haired man with a smile painted on, and the constant smell of cigarettes, with feathers always behind him, the then morbid-eyed boy was pissed. With each month that passed, with each hospital that denied him, all Law could do was look at this man and think 'Why are you doing this?' and his mind came up with all the wrong things.
Law briefly wonders over the pain and each jab of his Nodachi at the bird, while thinking about Corazon, if Straw-hat's okay and his initially thought was that 'It's Straw-hat, he's fine'. But the operation he performed two years ago haunts the back of his mind. Doflamingo gets in another successful hit; this one more painful than the last.
When Law fluttered his eyes open after hearing the clumsy fool behind him stumbling, he prepared to shout about how it's late and how the moron should be more silent. But every sentence was cut off when he heard that always smoking and tattooed on smile man sob, and after the confession of the reason the why's that's haunted him all those months, Law sobbed after realizing and not wanting to believe and think - 'Why?'. And there were so many questions after that, and all Law could come up with was the right things.
Law can feel the dull pain shooting all through his body. He stares at the gun directed at him and all can think is 'This is it', though very vaguely he wonders where Straw-hat is, until his eyes meet glasses-covered ones that stare at him with hatred and Law wonders why this man hates him so much.
After the bullet goes off and tattoo his chest in four places, he hears Straw-hat shout and all he can think is 'Give up on me'. Then everything sounds fuzzy, his vision filled with black spots go completely black, and he can smell the faint trace of cigarette smoke and not just any kind - his kind. And Law can see, he can see this smile, his smile, and he wants to sob, to ask and to spew stupid words - and all he hears is 'Not yet, Law'. He wakes up with a gasp, staring at Dressrosa's sky with a bitterness in his throat and stinging behind his eyes, and all can think is 'Why?' He receives no answer, only the battle cry of Straw-hat but maybe that's an answer all on it's own.
When that blond-headed man lied to his face and locked him in the chest, with tears streaking down his face and his ears peeked for the sound outside, after he hears the protest then the shot, all he can think, amongst his sad rumbling of thoughts, is 'Why?'
After Straw-hat finds him, defies him and lugs him all around Dressrosa, and they reach the top, and after seeing Straw-hat fall and his will is regained enough to fight, he sees the absolute hatred; All Law can think about is 'That's why'. Because Law realized, Doflamingo is jealous of him; not over power or anything else, but because Corazon loves him.
(Could he even think that Corazon loves him more than Doffy? But if even Doflamingo noticed it, isn't it true? Instead of hopelessness and paranoia, he was trying to find an answer.)
Doflamingo's beaten and Law can actually breathe. His arm's gone, leaving a full throb which gushes blood if he moves too much. Everything aches, from his head to his toes but he's never felt so relieved. It feels like a weight being picked up from his shoulders as he takes a fresh breath that breathes into his oxygen deprived lungs (even though he's been breathing for years, it didn't feel like he was actually breathing). If he's honest with himself, it's like he's been holding his breath since the time sucked the air into his lungs waiting for the outcome of that certain night with Corazon and Doflamingo. All his questions from all the years flood his mind, questions for that stupid bird, and after each question, he himself has the answer.
'Why did you shine to me so much?' …. Because he had the same look of destruction that Doflamingo could manipulate.
'Why were you like this this?' …. Because of the world and because you couldn't be saved, even though Cora-san tried.
'Did you care about anyone, you stupid bird?' …. No, he didn't; everyone to him is expendable.
'Did you even feel anything over Corazon's death?' …. No, he didn't; Law remembers the coldness in that demon's eye. Doflamingo hasn't been Doffy for a long time.
'Why did you pull the trigger?' …. Because that was the only way to forgive him in his mind and because he felt like it - because Cora-san defied him. Law, if he had the energy, would grit his teeth.
'Did you ever love anyone but yourself?' …. No, and if he did, he didn't love them enough. It's been proven too many times in Law's mind; first with Corazon, then with Vergo, and Monet.
Law looks at the clear sky, bird cage shattered and Doflamingo beaten with the gun out of his own battered hand. And him with a lost arm, Straw-hat is in the same shape but with an arm (somehow Law finds that funny in a time like this) and passed out. All Law can think before he closes his eyes is 'I have no questions because your answers never mattered, only his'. Law closes his eyes, a faint smell of cigarette smoke lingering with him. Law smiles unconsciously as relief becomes a dark abyss of sleep.
A/N:
Next is Doflamingo to Law then I go to someone else with an different question, I accept requests which are really welcome to me, it helps me know what characters and question's people are interested in reading about.
-Anea
