Here's chapter eight. Personally, it's the one I like the most :)
Chapter 8: Eustass Kid
Kid was panting and his heart was beating fast when he closed the flat's door once he's entered, resting against the door made of wood and letting himself slide down to the floor. It had been over half an hour already, but he could still feel the adrenaline running through his body as the memory of the moment was replayed continuously in his mind: the man's incredulity, his anger and finally his fear when he understood what was really happening to him, something very real even though it defied all his scientific convictions. Kid could remember to the last detail the death of Caesar Clown, the first murder of his long list of victims, and hear the man's voice as if he was right in front of him.
That didn't make sense, this wasn't the first time Kid killed someone, he had got rid of his father a couple of years ago, but this seemed a whole different thing. His father's death had been something impersonal and Kid hadn't needed to witness it. But he's shot Caesar Clown and had stayed to watch as he slowly lost blood and how the man, unexpectedly, had been able to see Law once he reached the brink of death. Law had been shocked, but recovered quickly and started to talk as if he's had planned it all along.
A hand took his chin and made him lift his head, which he'd buried between his knees, and Kid was face to face with his flat mate, who looked at him with worried eyes.
"Are you alright, Mr. Eustass?"
"It's just the shock, it'll pass." Kid assured, resting importance to his state.
Not letting go, Law examined him.
"You sure?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." Kid insisted, trying to turn his head, but the man didn't let go. In normal circumstances Kid was stronger than Law, but it seemed he was too upset right now.
"Then, if you are fine, I guess I won't be taking advantage of you by doing this."
Not giving Kid the time to ask what he meant, Law leaned down and kissed him, demanding. Kid didn't really understand why, but he kissed him back, the kiss turning awkward while they tried to find a rhythm.
When they parted, Law smiled at Kid, satisfied.
"Haven't you ever been kissed, Mr. Eustass?"
Reacting at ('to') those words, Kid shoved Law off, making the man let go of him and fall on his ass.
"What's that to you? What was that for?"
"I like you, Mr. Eustass." Law answered as if it was the most obvious thing in the world, and before the redhead could react he was kneeling between his parted legs.
"What the fuck are you doing?!" Kid yelled, when Law began to kiss his neck and one of his hands strayed down to Kid's cock, inconveniently awake.
"Do you want me to stop? Because it doesn't seem like it…" Law squeezed Kid's member over his clothes to emphasize his words and Kid, biting hard on his lower lip, pushed him away again.
"Stop, you idiot, I'm not gonna fuck with you."
Law blinked rapidly.
"We just kissed."
"I don't care, fucking with a ghost would be too weird."
"But kisses are fine?"
Once again without waiting for an answer, in this case probably a negative one, Law kissed him and Kid, much to his annoyance, answered again.
But he stopped Law's hand when it tried to reach his crotch again.
Eustass Kid didn't consider himself as a nervous kind of person, in fact he refused to admit he'd ever even felt said emotion in his twenty one years of life, but in this particular occasion he felt as near as he would ever dare to admit to being nervous.
He was at the workshop, dirty working clothes on, getting out from under the hideous pink limousine that was Donquixote Doflamingo's vehicle, having Trafalgar Law sat on one of the other cars, looking straight at him the whole time; and Killer, unaware the whole morning of the ghost who'd spent the whole morning directing lewd looks and comments to his friend, had just left to get something to eat.
It was a matter of minutes before Donquixote Doflamingo and some unimportant thug, now that he had no one important left, came to pick up the car and, even though Kid knew the man couldn't see Law and no matter how many times the dark haired man had walked before his old boss making obscene gestures just because he could without Doflamingo knowing, Kid couldn't help but give Law worried looks every few minutes.
"Oh, please. Will you calm down already?" Law said, tired of the situation.
"Sorry for being worried about going to met with a guy I'm going to kill." Kid spat, glaring at him.
Law wasn't bothered and gave him another of those smirks he'd been directing at Kid the whole morning.
"Don't worry. I'll make it up to you, I promise."
Now Kid smirked as well.
"I'll get back to you on that."
"Do you think Mr. Killer would be affected if an invisible mouth was to suck you off in the middle of the workshop?"
"Go fuck your-!" Kid began to yell, but shut up when he saw Law lifting a finger to his lips.
Turning around, Kid saw a car stopping before the opened entrance, and how from the back seat exited Donquixote Doflamingo and some unimportant man dressed, not very originally, in a black suit.
"Hey, Kid!" Greeted the man wearing the extravagant pink coat, his lips drawing into that huge and apparently effortless grin Kid knew was only to keep appearances.
"Boss." Kid greeted as well, calling him in the same way everybody around there, working for the man or not, did.
"How's it going?"
"Great." Kid pointed to the car next to himself. "It's ready."
It took a great effort for Kid not to glare at Law when the man laughed, no doubt due to the double sense of that statement.
Doflamingo, grin firmly in place, ordered the other man with him to take the limousine out and then spoke to Kid again, repeating an offer he'd been giving ever since the redhead started to work there.
"Are you sure you don't want to work for me, Kid? A smart guy like you would do really well."
Kid shrugged.
"I'm fine with how things are now."
"Oh? Well, if you change your mind you know where to find me…"
Kid didn't miss the slight warning in those words nor, again, Law's annoying laughter. Doflamingo was losing his patience, nothing surprising given the circumstances, and was letting him know.
"I'll keep it in mind."
Killer came back just after Doflamingo had left, and Kid wouldn't be surprised to discover he'd been waiting for that, as his friend didn't like the man much.
Kid refused the beer his friend offered him and went to change from his work clothes.
"Hey, Killer." The blond man looked at him. "I'm sorry it's so sudden, but I'm quitting the job."
Killer stared at him, or at least that's what Kid thought he was doing under his bangs.
"Don't tell me you've accepted that guy's offer."
"What?! NO!"
"Then?"
Kid looked away.
"I have something to do, and I'm not sure how it's going to go or anything, so…"
"What have you gotten yourself into, Kid?" When he saw Kid's confused expression, Killer added: "You've been acting weird for a while, even more these last days."
Kid still refused to look at him, instead directing his gaze at Law, who passed behind Killer's back and gave the redhead a little sad smile before going out.
"You'll know tomorrow."
Shaking his head, Killer spoke:
"Be careful."
"Sure." Kid pointed to a bike that had just arrived that morning. "Can I take it?"
"If you don't break it." Killer answered, shrugging his shoulders.
The man tensed when Kid, without warning, walked to him and gave him a one-armed hug.
"Thanks, man."
Feeling uncomfortable, Kid separated and hurried to grab the keys and start up the engine, getting on the bike and directing a last glance to his friend before exiting.
Outside he stopped to let Law get on and accelerated.
He didn't even notice the police car they passed on the corner.
Arriving at that centric restaurant before Doflamingo's eccentric vehicle was easy, not only because with the bike they had been able to go faster and avoid most traffic, but because Kid had got the address on his phone the moment it was introduced on the GPS.
They stopped a couple of streets away and, once standing on the sidewalk, Kid took out from his pants' pocket the small bag he'd bought a couple of days before, from where he took four pills.
"I still don't agree with this." Law said for the thousandth time, crossing his arms over his chest.
"It's not your choice." Kid answered, swallowing the painkillers with no need of water.
Law sighed, shaking his head.
"Four are fine?" The redhead asked.
"Yes, if you take more you'll have trouble moving, but like this you will still feel it a lot."
"It's better than nothing."
They walked in silence until they reached the corner previous to the restaurant, where Kid made sure to be out of sight. Then he took two small, plastic objects out and put them in his ears.
Kid looked at Law, who was still looking angry and with his arms crossed. He smiled and opened his arms, inviting him. Though his expression didn't change, Law approached and hugged him, resting his head under Kid's chin and pressed as close to him as possible.
Kid didn't hear the car stopping, nor did he hear the men getting out of it; what he did hear, though drowned by the earplugs, was the deafening sound of the explosion, just as he felt the tremor that shook the street.
Stepping away from Law, Kid took the earplugs out and threw them, glancing at his companion before turning to walk away.
A hand held his wrist.
"Kid, please." Pleaded Law for the last time.
"No, I'm not changing my mind."
"It's just few years." Law insisted. "Nothing will happen."
"I don't care."
Freeing his hand and not looking at Law this time, Kid resumed walking, getting out of the cover the building provided and coming face to face with the devastated street, the burning remnants of the limousine as well as its occupants scattered through the asphalt. The driver must be dead already, but Doflamingo and his bodyguard weren't. They had prepared it so the car would explode thirty seconds after the engine stopped, so they were already out and the explosion wouldn't kill Doflamingo. No, the wounds and all the shit they had put into the bomb would take care of that.
It was a luck there had been no one else in that street, for Kid had already ensured the vehicle was in perfect condition to minimize the chances of them stopping before their first destination. It would have sucked if someone else had died due to the explosion.
Kid approached, decided, and stopped right before the tall man dressed in pink, who was panting and bleeding on the floor.
Doflamingo, whose glasses had fallen off, lifted his head, and his eyes opened wide when he recognized the redhead standing in front of him.
"Kid?"
"Surprise." Kid spat, glaring at him.
Doflamingo managed to laugh.
"You've got to be kidding…" And putting his hand inside his coat with some effort, Doflamingo took out the gun from its inner pocket, aiming and shooting just before his hand failed him and he dropped the gun.
Eustass Kid swayed, and the only reason he didn't fall to the floor after the bullet entered his chest, almost hitting his heart, was because Trafalgar Law caught him and lowered him slowly to the floor.
Ignoring Doflamingo's puzzled exclamation, Law wrapped his arms around Kid and held him, moving the man's head to rest on his shoulder and lifting a hand to cup his face.
"You're crazy…" Law whispered, ignoring the knot on his throat and fighting against the tears that insisted to well in his eyes.
"Look… who's talking…" Kid choked, trying to laugh and weakly circling Law's waist with an arm.
"Why didn't you listen to me?" Law said. "What did it matter to wait a few years?"
Kid tightened his arm around Law.
"To be… bored as fuck I-I'd rather go now…"
"L-Law?" Came Doflamingo's weak voice, and Kid moved his head to prompt Law to turn.
"C-Come on… You were waiting for this…"
Without letting go of Kid, Law turned his head to look at the blond man lying on the floor near them.
"Hello, Boss."
Doflamingo let go another weak laugh.
"So it was you…"
"I told you."
The man's following laughter ended in a coughing fit.
"Right… You did it even as dead… What balls you've got."
Turning to look at Kid again, Law kissed him on the temple.
"Kid?"
"S-Still here…" Kid mumbled right before losing consciousness in Law's arms, who hugged him tighter and buried his face in the red locks.
"…Your boyfriend?" Doflamingo asked.
"Yes…" In that moment, Law noticed the tears that were falling down his cheeks, but didn't do anything to stop them.
He had to keep holding Kid.
He was barely aware of the sirens that began to be heard in the background.
To be continued
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