Law started regaining consciousness at some point.

There wasn't anything to tell him how long he'd been lying in the dark for or what had happened beforehand. It was just black but strangely enough, he felt rather at peace there. He could hear voices from time to time but for a long while, they were too quiet for him to decipher or recognise.

For some time, he was just there, thinking about random things without being plagued with his usual worries concerning Doflamingo. Then the voices had begun to distract him as they began to increase in volume.

Chopper's voice was the one he could hear at the moment. It seemed like he was doing homework of some sort, maths maybe if his mumbling about functions was anything to go by. Perhaps that was what helped to start grounding him back into reality.

Instead of just floating, he could tell he was lying on a bed and at some point, he managed to move a finger. Law tried again and succeeded.

Opening his eyes seemed to be a good next step. His right one opened and then shut right away, the light a little blinding at first. He tried again and got better results when he opened them only by a sliver and then gradually widened them so that they had time to adjust.

Obviously, the first thing he saw was the ceiling. Glancing over to the window, the sun had almost completely set. He blinked, and then flicked over to Chopper.

It took Chopper a while to notice him but once he saw a pair of yellow eyes watching him, he got very excited.

"Mr Law?" He grabbed his hand. "Are you awake? Squeeze my hand if you are."

Kinda sounded like a weird question but Law complied anyway and that was all it took to send Chopper dashing down the corridor, trying to find someone.

Law spent the waiting time trying to gain a bit more mobility. He managed to move his arm up slightly when he concentrated hard enough.

He was examining the get well gifts on the table beside him when Chopper came skipping back in with Doctor Kureha in tow.

"Ah so you're awake you lil bastard," she cheekily said, laughing when Law rolled his eyes at that comment.

She removed his breathing mask and helped him into an upright position. He cleared his throat. "Thanks." His voice was a little raspy from lack of use.

"What's your name and how old are you?"

"Trafalgar Law. 24."

Kureha grinned at him. "You've been in a coma for two weeks so you're actually 25 now but that's good enough." She got more serious then as she asked, "What's the last thing you remember?"

That was a hard question. Sure, there were lots of random moments he could remember but for some of them, he couldn't figure out whether they'd actually happened or not, never mind put them in some sort of chronological order.

In the end, he just went for the one that seemed most realistic. "I can't remember too much but I was in Sharley's at some point. The barista at the counter was acting really weirdly and kept insisting I drink one of his martinis."

Kureha frowned. "So that would explain the urine samples."

"Did-"

"GHB. There was lots of it so I'm guessing this barista may have overdosed you. That and being thrown off a building and hit by a car is probably why you went into a coma."

Law muttered, "Bloody hell."

"You should rest up," she said, sniggering when she patted him on the head and he glared at her. "The police are probably going to want a testimony from you."

She left then so it was just Chopper and Law. "Y'know, they've already arrested a suspect."

"Really?"

"He's called Bellamy or something."

Law glanced at the side table. "Have you seen my phone anywhere?"

Chopper shrugged. "You didn't have anything on you apparently."

Great, so this Bellamy person was a thief as well. That meant his knife was gone too.

Chopper got an article up on his phone and showed Law the mug shot of the suspect. "Recognise him?"

"Yeah. He was the barista." Law frowned as he saw the text saying he worked at DFC. He was starting to get suspicious that someone else was behind this.

000

Kid was the first person to get around to visiting him but Law could tell instantly that he was pissed off somehow. Chopper seemed to get the idea and he escaped the room so he wouldn't get caught up in whatever was going to happen.

He didn't even bother with a 'hey' and just went straight into, "What the hell did you think you were doing?"

"I was meant to be meeting someone dumbass."

"Sure~" Kid said with a healthy amount of sarcasm. "Are you a fucking idiot?"

Law replied, "I didn't know somebody would pretend to work at Sharley's just so that they could drug me and kill me off. You don't go into bars worrying if the bartender's drugged your drink do you?"

"Yeah but then again, I don't have people after my head do I?"

"Oh gee, I'm so fucking sorry for not knowing if someone wants to kill me or not, I suppose that means I can't be trusted by myself just because of one mistake."

Kid burst out, "That mistake almost got you killed!"

"So what?" Law retorted, "I'm still alive aren't I?"

"Yeah but who knows what they did in between you getting drugged and getting thrown off a building? You can't remember anything well can you?"

"Well what do you expect from someone who got an overdose of GHB?" he said in a dry tone. "Apparently my clothes were still relatively in place when I was found so it's perhaps unlikely that I was actually," he shivered, "sexually assaulted."

"Well it doesn't matter if you were or not, you're still alive."

Law snorted. "Do you even realise what you're saying? So you'd rather I'd been psychologically traumatised and alive than dead?"

"What the hell!? I didn't mean it like that!" Kid exclaimed.

"You come into my room and start blaming everything that's happened on me," Law continued, his voice low and dangerous. "If you're so hell-bent on making me the one in the wrong here then how about you just fuck off and get out!"

He turned away and didn't say anything else.

"Hey…"

"I said, get out."

Seeing that he'd done something wrong, Kid did as he was told and walked away. He skipped work just so he could see him but evidently that all went to shit.

000

Someone was hovering around the doorway, apparently unsure of whether they should go in or not. They did eventually decided to when they noticed Law was watching them.

"Baby 5," Law said curtly when the woman came in.

"Law." She took out a pocket knife and phone from her bag – Law's pocket knife and phone now that he could take a closer look to recognise them – and crossed her arms expectantly.

He picked his knife up and turned it around slowly in his hands. "Where did you get these from?"

"Bellamy had them. I guess he removed your important things when you got knocked out."

Law narrowed his eyes. "Was that something Doflamingo told him to do?"

Baby 5 sighed, tousling her curled hair. "Believe me, Young Master didn't order him to do anything. It was all an act of insubordination."

"I'm guessing he wanted to be Heart executive didn't he?" The Heart executive was the position Doflamingo only gave to his most trusted subordinate and technically speaking, they would be his right hand man. It was heavily coveted so no wonder there was competition for it.

"Buffalo was part of it too." Baby 5 added, "Young Master didn't give him too bad a punishment though."

"I heard about Bellamy. Did Doflamingo decide it'd be ok to lose him?"

Baby 5 said nothing. Law guessed that meant Bellamy wasn't all that close to any of them. Well, it wasn't any of his business anymore whether they had internal feuds or not.

He looked pointedly at her. "You look like you're bursting to say something."

She sighed, "I didn't think you'd remember what happened so I came to tell you."

Law was getting tired of people constantly pointing out the gap in his memory but he said nothing, waiting for her to get on with it.

"I got Young Master to let me come with him, said maybe I could help convince you but we came face to face with Buffalo when we came in. He had you slung over his shoulder and… and he turned back and started going back up the stairs and we chased him up there. Then we were on the rooftop and Young Master tried talking him out of it but he refused to hand you over."

And thank god he didn't Law thought. I'd probably kill myself if I woke up out of a coma and found out I was back with that awful bastard.

"He kept shouting that he couldn't understand why he continued to wait for you instead of letting Buffalo have the position instead and and-" she paused. "Even when Young Master said he'd change his mind if Buffalo kept you alive, he didn't believe him. Said that he didn't feel safe with you as competition and then he just threw you over the edge like a ragdoll."

"Than splat I got hit by a car."

"Ah- well basically yeah."

Baby 5 stared at him intensely for a moment as she considered her words before she said, "Are you ever going to come back?"

Law stared at her incredulously. "Are. You. Fucking. Kidding. Me."

"I don't understand!" she wailed. "Law, just… you're like the rest of us. He took us all in when we had nobody and let us gain happiness when we had nothing. All we had to do was support him but then when he really needs you, you turn your back on him."

Obviously, Baby 5 didn't know what had happened that night but even then Baby 5 must have been really blind to not see all the manipulative things Doflamingo did before then. "I think you need to get some fucking glasses Baby 5 because you're not seeing what I'm seeing."

She started banging on the bed like she was having a tempter tantrum. "You've had a long enough break already, come back!"

"Break?"

"Yeah, Young Master said you needed a break from the family so that's why you disappeared."

There was a few seconds when Law looked like someone had just slapped him before he started laughing at what a fucking joke this was. "God I didn't think you were so naïve that you'd actually believe when he feeds you bullshit like that."

Then again, this was the girl who was so needy, she'd do anything anyone asked her to even if it was to kill herself.

"T-then why?"

"Why?" He sighed and covered his eyes. "Do I have to go into a fucking rant about-" Law stopped abruptly. "You know what? Fuck it, I'm not wasting my time. Get out."

"B-but…"

"Get out."

He shot a heated glare at her, one of the ones that always made Baby 5 cry and this time was no exception. Law felt no remorse seeing her sob her little eyes out as she scrambled out of the room to get away from him.

Law wanted to sleep after all the aggravation he'd had in the past 15-30 minutes – he'd shouted way too much for someone fresh out of a coma – but of course there was someone else lurking around the corner.

"I don't know why you're back again but you might as well come in so you don't look like a stalker."

At least Kid had the mind to look awkward as he walked in, clearly hiding something behind his back. He stopped beside his bed stood stock still, not making eye contact.

"What do you want?" Law demanded. "Say something."

Kid dropped a packet of flower seeds on the bed – purple hyacinths by the looks of it – and stammered, "Sorry."

Law examined the packet bewilderment. "What sort of present is this? Usually people get chocolate or something when they're trying to ask for forgiveness…" His sentence trailed away when he looked up and saw Kid's really awkward expression.

"Uh…Franky's wife, she uh, said purple hyacinths meant forgiveness so I wanted to get a bouquet of them but they don't sell them at the supermarket," Kid admitted, looking incredibly flustered when he whispered, "they only had them in seed form."

He started laughing. "I would seem incredibly mean if I didn't forgive you after that." Law gestured to a chair. "Sit your ass down before you die from embarrassment."

"I'm sorry, I get hot headed sometimes…"

"Eustass, it's fine. You just worded things badly and I got a bit too touchy. No big deal."

Kid still looked extremely awkward and it was so out of character it was making Law uncomfortable so he just tossed box of chocolates on his lap and told him to eat. If he was lucky, maybe he could get Kid to just plough through the huge pile of chocolates that had accumulated on his bedside because Law certainly wasn't going to eat them all.